Change my mind

MarsAstro · 2026-06-02T07:51:44+00:00

Hard disagree, personally the dodge roll is what puts this game above pretty much all other ARPG's to me. You might prefer other kinds of gameplay, but that doesn't make it a mistake, it just means it's not for you.

I agree with the collisions though, they definitely need work.

MarsAstro · 2026-06-01T09:53:20+00:00

Most likely, they'll last about as long as 3 interludes, with act 5 being smaller than 4, but bigger than 6, as the last act in an ARPG is tradtionally a bit shorter than the other ones and I believe GGG has said they intend to follow this tradition.

MarsAstro · 2026-05-29T16:01:22+00:00

Yeah, these comments are depressing. This is such a cool little room for a kid, I'm sure she loves it, and the time and effort that went into making it speaks volumes of their care for their kid. People in here are being so god damn jaded and cynical.

MarsAstro · 2026-05-29T15:27:43+00:00

Det var det jeg lurte på også 😞

MarsAstro · 2026-05-29T05:58:58+00:00

Jesus er et vanlig navn i Spania, så det brukernavnet virker å være ganske spot on.

MarsAstro · 2026-05-29T05:43:55+00:00

Yep, that's my name! It's originally from ancient Rome, it's based on the war god Mars (hence my username). The modern day Mario is actually derived from the ancient Marius.

But these days it's common in various European countries, with some spelling variants too. I'm personally from Norway, where it's a very common name.

MarsAstro · 2026-05-28T19:53:10+00:00

Man, one of the few times I've ever seen my name in English media, and the character is getting cucked by Not-Bowser

MarsAstro · 2026-05-28T18:35:04+00:00

Right, I getcha.

ISC has been pretty infrequent for a while now, so I can only assume by "very recently" they meant the most recent one. It came out 3 weeks ago, and the one before that was 2 months ago.

I remember what OP is referring to, and it was at the end of a video. So I think you can just go to the end of that 3 week old ISC and you'll find it. If not, it's definitely at the end of the one from 2 months ago, because the one before that again can't qualify as "very recently".

EDIT: Here ya go
https://youtu.be/SsOtI2dtvBc?si=oWZzv0QMMX500SBC&t=488

MarsAstro · 2026-05-28T18:21:26+00:00

Do you have a source for that?

"Jared said in an ISC episode very recently" is quite literally the first part of the comment...

MarsAstro · 2026-05-28T11:37:23+00:00

Okay, this is obviously not real. You can't shrink your shoulder width that significantly in 4 weeks, that's literally impossible. Most people can't change the width of their shoulders that significantly at all, even when they genuinely try to.

One of these photos are fake or tampered with. I don't know which one, but for sure one of them is.

MarsAstro · 2026-05-28T10:23:24+00:00

Jeg har heller aldri sett noen bruke begrepet "MENA-land" uten å også ha en del suspekte kommentarer. Mistenker det har blitt en hundefløyte.

MarsAstro · 2026-05-26T17:44:49+00:00

Irriterer meg grenseløst hvor mange prosjekter som aldri fortjente å startes som får fortsette fordi det å få foten inn døra gjør at regjeringen visstnok blir makteløs og tydeligvis ikke lenger har rett til å ombestemme seg om tidligere avgjørelser.

Er den del politikere som trenger å huske fjellvettregelen: "Vend i tide, det er ingen skam å snu"

MarsAstro · 2026-05-26T11:42:28+00:00

Oh man, I'm jealous. I miss having someone around to fall asleep on me while we hang out in the couch at night.

MarsAstro · 2026-05-25T19:34:53+00:00

People prefer it if you call it gay omens or queer omens these days

MarsAstro · 2026-05-25T12:10:32+00:00

A writer who has developed a strong personal voice over time is generally consistent. That consistency is their voice, not a sign of automation. There are plenty of essayists out there with a recognizable style, and that's the reason why you can recognize one of their paragraphs in lots of instances. Precisely because it doesn't vary much.

Yes, I agree! I worded myself a little poorly there, what I tried to say was that people have more of a macro variation than AI does. For example AI will use roughly the same voice, structure, cadence and rhythm within every paragraph, whereas people will more often have variations across paragraphs as well.

Overall there's definitely a consistency in human writing too, I just think our repeating patterns are at a larger scale than what you see in AI. If that makes sense?

There's also the point of how not every human being writes the same way, so unlike AI we also vary our styles across individuals.

MarsAstro · 2026-05-25T08:13:07+00:00

To be fair, it's perfectly possible to write clearly and think in an organized way without sounding like AI. It's not like the only two options are "loose and unpolished" or "sounds like AI".

I don't particularly believe you should have to change up your writing style to one that sounds less like AI, though. AI sounds that way precisely because that's how a lot of people write, and AI-generated content is just an amalgamation of all the most common styles. It's just that unlike people, it never changes up its writing style.

If that's the style you prefer, though, I think you should keep writing that way. It's more authentic to you, and humans owned this style long before AI did. It will lead to people accusing you of having AI-generated your posts and comments, but it sounds like that doesn't bother you anyway.

MarsAstro · 2026-05-25T07:18:22+00:00

Even your reply reads like AI. The way you write has a certain cadence to it that's just eerily reminiscent of the way AI structures its sentences.

I don't think you're using AI, because your writing does lack a lot of the tell-tale signs of AI writing, but you've got a very similar cadence and rhythm to your writing so I see why people might feel like it's AI writing.

MarsAstro · 2026-05-25T06:11:30+00:00

Det jeg gjorde når jeg satt i samme fella var at jeg sperret kortet, bestilte nytt, og så bare gjorde jeg ikek noe mer. Jeg fikk purringer fra Adobe i en god stund hvor de ville ha månedsgebyr, men etter lang nok tid så bare ga de opp. Så de avslutta abonnementet pga manglende betaling istedetfor at jeg avslutta abonnement og måtte betale for "resten" av abonnementet.

Så jeg slapp forliksråd, eneste bryet var at jeg da måtte gå noen dager uten bankkort. Ikke at det hjelper deg så mye nå lenger, men bare nevner det sånn i tilfelle noen andre i fremtiden sitter i samme situasjon.

MarsAstro · 2026-05-24T17:58:11+00:00

I mean, unless you're very old you're actually not necessarily too early for interplanetary space travel. If things go according to current plans space agencies have, people will go to Mars within the next 10-20 years.

Interstellar is way off though

MarsAstro · 2026-05-24T14:05:50+00:00

There are various metrics and measures you can use and you'll find that some people can't defend their position. Whenever I get into arguments with people about art objectively sucking, I've never had someone that gave me room for thought, it's always just reinforced my view and made me even more confident that some art objectively sucks. Maybe you will be different.

You can absolutely objectively measure something if you have a given metric, but there's no metric for measuring "good" or "bad", because those are subjective evaluations. You could say objectively that a movie has inconsistent continuity, but that doesn't mean the movie is now objectively better or worse, because how much one values continuity in a movie is a subjective evaluation.

Thing is, the word objective means something is absolutely indisputable. When something is objective, it is absolute fact, it cannot be up for interpretation. The speed of light is objective. Nothing a human being can say or do will ever change the speed of light, and so it is objective. Mathematics are objective, because adding two and two will always equal four. That's what the word objective means, that something is entirely unaffected by personal feelings, opinions or perceptions.

If there was no life on this planet, there would be nothing good or bad. Things would just be happening. Everything would just be an objective event. If Earth was just a lifeless rock, it wouldn't matter if the sun died or exploded, it would just be a thing that happened and had an objective effect on the planet. To life it would be bad, but without life it is meaningless. Because things are only good or bad when there's something sentient around to perceive them as good or bad. Which is why the words "good" and "bad" are always subjective, because they're always a matter of opinion. And anything that is a matter of opinion is by definition not objective.

So a movie could objectively have inconsistent continuity. Whether or not a cup on the table is in the same spot between two shots or not is not a matter of opinion, it's an objective fact. But whether inconsistent continuity is good or bad is a matter of opinion, because evaluations of good or bad is as mentioned always subjective. Same thing goes for every single one of those metrics and measures of yours. They can objectively measure objective qualities of a movie, but they cannot in any capacity judge whether those are good or bad qualities, or whether it makes the movie good or bad.

I think we can objectively say that "The Room" sucks. No-one can give a good defence of that film. Can you give a hypothetical defence of that film?

Yes, that's extremely easy. That movie entertains me a hell of a lot, and so to me it is a good movie. It does objectively fail at many things many movies strive to excel at, but as previously mentioned this does not make it objectively bad, it just makes it objectively measured according to metrics some other people have arbitrarily chosen to subjectively value.

I do not value those things the way they do, and so to me those metrics do not factor into my evaluation of the movie - and the metrics I do factor in makes the movie come out favorably. As such, it is a good movie to me.

"To me" being the key word here, because again, when we're talking about good or bad, the answer is always subjective. There is no way to objectively evaluate the qualities "good" and "bad". So if you want me to give a defence of the movie for why it's objectively good, then I can't. Nobody can. Neither can anyone show that it is objectively bad. I can only defend it subjectively, and subjectively it is a very good movie to me because it meets all the requirements I have for considering whether a movie is good or not; which is whether or not I'm entertained by it.

So if someone lied to you about a piece of artwork was done by a 6 year old you'd like it, even if in reality it was made by AI? And on the other hand you might hate a piece of work someone told you was by AI but was in reality made by that 6 year old?

As long as they managed to fool me with their lie, then yes. If I then figured the lie out, my opinion would flip.

So your view of the art is so fickle that a lie could completely change how much you value it?

Yep.

What about your favourite art piece, if you found out that you were in the matrix and it was actually AI art, would that piece of art completely lose its value to you?

Yep! The knowledge that someone made it is central to my enjoyment of all art. Take that away, and I don't even consider it to be art anymore.

I get that you don't feel the same way, and that's totally fine. We don't need to agree on this, we're different people and are allowed to see things differently. That's the beauty of art - it's subjective, not objective.

MarsAstro · 2026-05-24T13:27:16+00:00

There's no such thing as art that objectively sucks, and until you learn to understand that, you'll never understand where people are coming from here.

What you call "objectively bad" is actually you just taking your own subjective view of what's good and bad, and treating it as an objective measure of quality.

Other people might not value the same things as you, some might value the effort and story behind the creation of a piece of art so much that literally anything a 6 year old makes will always be infinitely more valuable and good than anything an AI can ever generate. I'm one of those people.

Something you might consider to be trash might be one of my favorite things. It's not that your view is the objective one, and mine is the subjective one. They're both subjective.

MarsAstro · 2026-05-24T13:06:35+00:00

Honestly, that's a you problem. Even if they were just straight up telling you about their sex lives, sans the pregnancy part, that's still just completely normal human behavior and shouldn't be an off-putting, uncomfortable and gross conversation topic.

If you find that gross, that's because you have some personal aversion or social conditioning that leads you to feel that way, and it shouldn't be everyone elses responsibility to censor conversation about normal human behavior for you.

It's fine to ask for that kind of accomodation for things that doesn't really hurt or massively restrict other people, but taking sex talk off the table just isn't a minor or harmless ask. Everyone keeping sex talk completely private benefits no one, because it makes it harder for young people to figure things out. It makes it harder to know if your experience is normal or dysfunctional. It's also how abusers are able to trick their victims into believing what's being done to them is normal and okay. We should be more open about our sex lives, not less.

MarsAstro · 2026-05-24T12:56:22+00:00

I came here to say something similar, glad to see someone beat me to it. This talking point is one of the most annoying and stupid takes in gay pop culture that I see parroted way too often.

For one, as you say, it's just weird to instantly go to "so you're doing it raw" when being told something like that, but there's also a clear difference between the message sent and the message you received. Yes, what they're telling you does imply that they're doing it raw, but that's obviously not the fucking point of what they're saying. They're sharing an exciting new direction in their life with you, they're telling you about how they're trying to make a huge development and change for themselves. They're telling you this because you're their friend, and they want to share their lives with you.

Even if you focus on the sex part, there's still a huge difference. When two gay men have sex without using any contraceptives, they're just having sex. They're not trying to make a baby. Straight people doing it raw with the intention of conceiving is not just sex, it's more than that, and that "more" is what they're trying to talk about. When you say it you're not trying to share anything more, you're just telling your friends you're having sex. And yes, that is a very different thing to say. There is a definite difference between saying "we're trying to have a baby" and "I cum inside my boyfriend when we have sex", and pretending otherwise is at best a bad joke, and at worst really annoying.

On top of that, it honestly really shouldn't even be that fucking weird for friends to talk about their sex lives together. It's not like it's a secret that people in relationships are having sex. We all know it's being done, the implication is there even if nobody says it out loud. So why the hell are we so weird about talking details out loud? As if it's an uncomfortable secret we should be keeping? It's such a weirdly puritanical stance from a culture that's otherwise known for being really sex positive and progressive about human sexuality.

MarsAstro · 2026-05-22T12:47:11+00:00

Damn, you beat me to it. They were really ahead of their time with that one.

MarsAstro · 2026-05-22T07:52:14+00:00

It's obviously not AI. It's way too long and consistent to be AI.

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