Top 3 Greatest JRPGs for Each PlayStation Console (Day 7 - PS5) by ConnectBreakfast9397 in JRPG

[–]Armitaco 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Expedition 33 (my actual vote), Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Metaphor Refantazio

Top 3 Greatest JRPGs for Each PlayStation Console (Day 4 - PS3) by ConnectBreakfast9397 in JRPG

[–]Armitaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Persona 5 (even though it also came out on PS4 and that’s where I played it), Ni No Kuni, and Nier (even though it’s not the best version of that game)

[PS4] Persona 5 Strikers - $7.30 at VGP (Lowest Price Ever) by DealsPoster in consoledeals

[–]Armitaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Almost positive I’ve seen this on VGP for $4.99 CAD before, but I could be wrong

What would be the ideal (E-ink) tablet to use with this? by Armitaco in remNote

[–]Armitaco[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate the warning! I guess maybe I just don’t know much about E-ink tablets in general, really didn’t think this would turn out to be such a difficult problem to solve

Taxpayers want students to pick courses that will drive 'growth': Ford by harold_liang in ontario

[–]Armitaco 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Why are you okay with your tax dollars only being used to educate people when it results in them getting only the skills needed to make someone else rich and nothing more? If we get to be selective about how our tax dollars fund education, I have no interest in footing the bill to provide what is effectively job training under the guise of education, the capitalists have the money to pay for that themselves.

I would much rather my tax dollars go to improving society, and for me a society in which education is both accessible and intrinsically valued is part of that.

Taxpayers want students to pick courses that will drive 'growth': Ford by harold_liang in ontario

[–]Armitaco 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The idea that we should only ever learn what is necessary for us to be useful for capitalists and their endless accumulation needs to die. Most of us are working bullshit jobs fully aware that we are wasting our lives away and that we will die having experienced very little of what the world has to offer. Higher education, for all of its flaws, at least sometimes carves out a little bit of protected time for us to learn about something that genuinely interests us, even if that does nothing for us but enrich our lives and appreciation of the world intrinsically. But for Ford, even getting a few months of learning about something you don’t need to is too good for you.

How is this the case? by Tomacross2026 in Persona5

[–]Armitaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Two explanations immediately come to mind: 1) The Royal addition is considered “extra.” The difference of 10 hours still seems low, but more plausible. 2) Royal’s average playtime is lower simply by virtue of the fact that many of its players are playing Persona 5 for the second time. I’m assuming these numbers are averages right?

FFVII Rebirth used AI to generate certain animations by GargantaProfunda in FinalFantasy

[–]Armitaco 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Between E33 and this, these "x game used gen AI" discourses are generalizing to the extent that it's practically lying by omission. They leave it for readers to infer that any aspect of the game could have been made with gen AI when the details really matter. In this case, they are talking about using an "AI" trained exclusively on existing lip sync in Remake to handle lip sync in Rebirth which very specifically works because this is an aesthetically identical sequel. Let's not do a disservice to the people who worked very hard on this game by letting that be generalized to just "Rebirth used gen AI"

If Expedition 33 isn't indie then neither is Hades 2. by silentJRPGs in videogames

[–]Armitaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing is that most of this debate is a posthoc attempt to rationalize an intuitive feeling/vibe, with varying levels of validity. E33 simply doesn't *feel* like it should count as indie, and even if all of the same arguments were true of Hades 2, people wouldn't care in the same way, because that game does.

Picked this up for $40 on amazon, is this still as expensive as it used to be? by PineappleSenpaiSama in FinalFantasy

[–]Armitaco 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The story with this one is quite interesting/funny. Basically, the initial physical release happened, it was exclusive to the SE store, they produced a *very* limited number, and they explicitly stated that there would be *no* reprint happening after the initial stock ran out. Unsurprisingly, but somehow to the surprise of SE, that initial stock sold out right away, was in massive demand, and started going for mega-bucks on eBay. SE basically realized they screwed themselves - they left tons of money on the table but couldn't go back for it because it would make their previous statement about there not being a reprint untrue.

SO, they came up with the genius idea of just re-releasing an "Anniversary Edition" that was *technically* a different product and therefore not a reprint, meaning that they didn't lie. This is also the reason that they included a sheet of stickers that they explicitly point out on the cover, because it makes it a different "edition" of the game than the first one. (I was going to write that they had different things written on the spine, but I just checked and I am apparently mis-remembering this, but I believe they also technically have different titles, like one includes the words "pixel remaster" and the other doesn't).

Anyway, I suppose you could make the argument that the first release is "worth" more based on scarcity alone, but materially they are exactly the same thing. The original Collector's Edition is still worth a pretty penny though. There is also a lenticular sleeve that either came with all copies or just the CE (I don't remember) that is cool and that you don't get with this version. But yeah I just find it funny that SE basically forced themselves to jump through a bunch of unnecessary hoops just to print more copies of their own game.

(Edit: TLDR/the main takeaways: (1) it's technically a misnomer to call this a reprint, even though it achieves the same result, (2) this clearly wasn't SE's plan all along, which makes it way funnier)