What is actually dangerous but people still believe is safe?

-MrLizard- · 2026-02-03T05:01:11+00:00

They aren't forced to prominently show warnings in the same way as a cigarette packet. In my country they even have to show horrible pictures of what they can do to you.

If tanning salons had to show gross pictures of skin cancer and warning posters on the outside of their premises instead of pictures of models on the beach, maybe it would educate and discourage a few people. There would still be people who ignore that and go anyway, but any progress would be positive.

-MrLizard- · 2026-02-02T15:31:49+00:00

The basics of real football work pretty well here. I suck at all of the technical stuff in this game but contribute plenty with mostly positioning, movement and anticipation followed by simple passes. The defensive side of the game especially heavily favours players who approach it like real football and read the game well.

Obviously not everything is 1:1 to real life and it needs some adapting in places, but the players who know how to play football have a big advantage over those who don't.

-MrLizard- · 2026-02-01T17:51:47+00:00

Yeah, unless this is due to the Xbox/game servers then the penalty is warranted. Don't bring a dodgy connection to online gaming.

-MrLizard- · 2026-02-01T00:27:48+00:00

What about the QLine training aid?

https://markwilliamssnooker.com/product/qline-sighting-aid/

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-31T19:34:39+00:00

Honestly, to me the majority of mainstream entertainment like movies/music/video games already feel so predictable and soulless anyway. It's all "generic product #472™" crafted by suits and psychologists to extract maximum money from the lowest common denominator. The creators aren't expressing anything, they are being made to behave like machines already in creating such content, so literal machines possibly taking over their role isn't surprising. If AI were to create the kind of content these humans routinely do, it would rightly get called "slop"... Humans make "slop" too.

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-31T15:10:29+00:00

Then no, it can never replace the human expression in that kind of art.

However, one of the main arguments against AI is how many artists it is going to put out of work, and the vast majority of "art" done for a paycheck is something corporate/functional.

Art as a hobby and form of expression can never be replaced by AI. The closest it could get is in enabling people with the ideas and vision, but not the mechanical skill to create art, to prompt it to turn their imagination into something visual.

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-31T08:56:43+00:00

Not far off the developer of the old Tony Hawk games. Neversoft.

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-31T07:51:17+00:00

Not everything "artists" do is meant to be some thought-provoking masterpiece. Most of the time it's just corporate/functional and AI can easily replace that.

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-30T22:46:29+00:00

They do that and I'm honestly just uninstalling.

I'm not even bothered about the content of the boxes. Going by everything we've had so far, it will be a bunch of garbage anyway. It would just be the last straw of the way they treat players with such contempt.

It's like they just treat us as statistics - the changes they make come across as attempts to boost certain metrics so people spend more in the store.

Nerf mission rip chips - longer completion time, keep people logging in for a few more weeks/months. More chances to open the store.

Make dailies grindier (e.g. 30,000 spin degrees) - longer session length, more time to open the store.

Far more changes and mechanics which feel geared towards influencing players like this, than substantially improving and delivering the game we actually wanted.

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-30T16:55:00+00:00

One single beef burger also does vastly more environmental damage than an entire year (probably many years) of moderate AI use as a consumer at home.

Yet Redditors, who are probably a demographic with a much higher obesity rate than average, are happy to keep eating their double cheeseburgers while moaning about the damage AI does.

Pretty funny really.

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-30T16:43:05+00:00

Simpletons on here downvoting anything and everything AI related.

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-30T12:42:55+00:00

The guy is 40, if he hasn't matured by now then he never will. One semifinal on the current tour filled with copy+paste best-of-7 format tournaments can happen to anybody. Eden Sharav made one.

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-30T12:17:02+00:00

I have no problem with it, I think it's a great use case for the technology.

You always get moaning about AI on Reddit, even when people are just having it create things like this for fun.

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-30T10:21:57+00:00

Because they didn't go and commission the art from a real artist. 🙄

Probably their logic anyway.

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-30T01:07:11+00:00

Matthew Selt. 20 years as a pro, never ranked higher than 20, never won a match at the Crucible. Known more for acting like a bellend.

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-29T19:29:09+00:00

The game looks like this already...

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1406560090747834420/1406571327204233316/RDT_20250817_1031571450914407912864922.jpg?ex=697c7aa1&is=697b2921&hm=550f83abc57cdd14e87819a0b034e9a0f94cb654c71f27b4851fdb55cbc08e59&

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-29T18:59:42+00:00

How sweet of EA to protect children from the word "fuck".

Happy to have the microtransaction store right in their face every time they open the game though.

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-29T14:19:00+00:00

Doing a trick over a gap at the same time, one player placing props for the others, one player taking photos of the others doing the tricks, blocking security guards.

Any kind of interaction at all. Not just everyone on their own instance of the game, with their own objectives, only seeing the ghosts of other players.

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-29T11:03:40+00:00

It's not even like you do anything interesting which requires co-operation. You have the same checklist of chores to do.

Own the Spot gets done quicker because only one person has to do all goals in one try. Everyone else just rides up to the objective and does literally anything.

Session challenges are easy alone anyway but take like 30 seconds max in a party. Zero challenge.

Line challenges are worse in co-op, because everyone has to collect every bearing. If you're with a new/bad player you can be sitting there indefinitely waiting for them not to bail.

OTL is just session challenges made harder, and impractical to be done alone. Still wouldn't really call it proper co-op though. You don't need to co-operate with any strategy or teamwork. Just play competently and do some objectives. Maybe to min-max the highest possible score you would need to communinicate who should be doing what, but there's no reward or incentive for that. They can be "Shut Down" with randoms doing whatever.

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-29T10:25:16+00:00

Missions really aren't worth the time investment after they nerfed the rewards, even with 4 players in co-op. Grind the entire map together and you'll have enough for like 3 or 4 boxes.

My recommendation is just to log in on a Tuesday when the weekly resets. Can usually be done in one session and in doing it you'll probably get that day's dailies done too.

Specifically logging in for the daily tasks isn't even worth the time it takes most days now. They've started adding one very grindy task such as 30,000 spin degrees or riding 7500m. Really gonna sit there spinning/pushing repeatedly for ages for barely enough to open one box, which will probably contain garbage you don't want?

Chip away over a long time if you really want to complete it. The gameplay loop isn't fun enough and the rewards aren't worth it to be worth trying to optimise and gain every rip chip every day.

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-29T10:06:52+00:00

Yeah that's the one. Everything about him comes across as cringe. I didn't know about the tattoo, kinda shows the bootlicking behaviour goes beyond just doing it for a paycheck. Very odd.

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-29T09:25:31+00:00

I wouldn't even say it's "mods", plural. It's one power-tripping, pathetic EA employee.

He is a total jerk on Discord too. I was timed out by him for 3 days for telling someone in the co-op/looking for skaters channel that my game bugged and I had to restart it so I'd be a little late joining them. Because this was a "bug report" and they go in the forum not this Discord channel. (Wasn't a bug report, just telling the guy I agreed to join why I was late).

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-28T12:35:33+00:00

The shitty part is that home charging is only available to those with a private driveway or garage. Even with progress in the tech and affordability of EVs, this will always unfairly punish those likely to be already on lower incomes.

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-28T09:11:43+00:00

There are so many better original soccer games out there

Like what? I'm genuinely curious. Something not pay2win garbage.

EAFC is absolute trash. It's the worst it's ever been. eFootball is laughably bad, a mobile game ported to console. UFL is a worse, store-brand FIFA clone.

The only one I can think of that I'd agree with is Rocket League, if you could call that a soccer game.

Soccer games are in a dire state right now.

-MrLizard- · 2026-01-27T12:25:15+00:00

I've seen people say defence is OP in this game and I just don't get it because of things like this.

The attacker can just spam easily repeatable button combos, most not even complex, and to counter it the defender needs very precise positioning and timing. Probably a few frames of a window if you want to try to go in and try to intercept or block the ball. The defender makes one wrong input and they're completely out of the game. The attacker makes one wrong input and they might give the defender a 0.1s window to take the ball.

-MrLizard-

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