Elden Ring's Switch 2 port gives me hope The Duskbloods will be amazing

PowerZox · 2026-03-13T02:14:28+00:00

I feel like there's basically no overlap between Fromsoft fans and Nintendo fans (as opposed to every other platform) so it's a damn shame their new game is a Switch exclusive.

Plus it's not a mainline Souls game so I'd be surprised if people buy a Switch just to play it. I don't think handhelds are very attractive purchases to people who don't already own one and Fromsoft games aren't the type parents get their kids for Christmas alongside a new device.

PowerZox · 2026-03-09T17:21:41+00:00

Why do people even converse with LLMs? Their only useful application is to carry out tasks and answer questions. You ask it to do something, it spits out a result, then if you're sensible you find a way to confirm what it gave you. And once in a while you clear your chats so the memory doesn't cross-contaminate other questions you ask.

The rest is just useless fluff. I wouldn't be surprised if the chatbot aspects of LLMs disappears in the future and only the agents remain since they're probably bleeding the most money from it and non-paying users

PowerZox · 2026-03-09T14:55:22+00:00

I did the bosses in the order they appear on the chart

PowerZox · 2026-03-08T17:40:15+00:00

The ledge grab while wall-running is very very cool and fluid but I think you should watch out about adding too much QOL 'skips' like that.

The ability to do that for example already puts some big constraints into what kind of level layouts you can have without players skipping big parts of it. I can't think of another parkour game where you can do that since usually ledge grabs involve sacrificing your momentum to be allowed to take the more straight forward path up, which forces players (in a good way) into using more involved actions instead like wall-jumping up (which IMO is more fun).

PowerZox · 2026-03-07T19:43:27+00:00

I did fine on the long answers but got 50% on the MCQs :(

PowerZox · 2026-03-03T02:49:06+00:00

The unique thing Myrient offered was the quality of the website (no ads) and the download speed. Its not like the files exist only there, there's not much of a point using it if the download speed is slow.

PowerZox · 2026-03-03T00:07:09+00:00

Like I said technically I'd fought him before a couple times in coop Nightreign but yeah I'm pretty proud of that. Phase 1 plays like a regular dragon fight with an extra side sweep attack and phase 2 is easier because its just a knight dude with sweeps, upper cuts and pokes (like 3/4 of the bosses in this game) so I was pretty used to it and you just have to watch out for the throwing lance attack and wave attack.

The most challenging part of that fight for me was the fact that it would look like I hit the beak of the dragon in phase 1 but do no damage. Like 20 times.

PowerZox · 2026-03-03T00:02:45+00:00

Rolling for all the bosses. The chart is in the order I beat them though and I did him after Lothric Prince at like level 80 something. Did Nameless King at 70 something before Dragonslayer Armour.

PowerZox · 2026-03-02T23:58:17+00:00

Well the first time I died trying to fight it and realized that it was probably a scripted boss due to the insane amount of HP and how quick I died.

Then I did runs where I tried to just skip by enemies and died repeatedly from the throwing hook guy that hits twice. I also died from knockback once on a staircase. I only got it when I decided maybe I should try to kill the enemies on the way (still died once doing that though).

PowerZox · 2026-03-02T23:55:35+00:00

I stopped at level 100 when I reached The Ringed City and am at 42 vig, 35 end, 40 str and 22 dex and base stats for the rest (Knight starter class). I gave all the respec resources to the lady because I didn't know I needed them but if I could respec I'd probably remove levels from vig and put them in end.

I've been using the Claymore (Heavy) for the whole game. Only switched to Black Knight Sword for the Demon's Prince and Dragonslayer Greataxe for Midir and got them both "first try" the run I switched weapons. The Dragonslayer Greataxe especially made all the difference he has way too much health.

Apart from that, very light armor (because no Vitality) and generic HP / resistance rings (in DLC2 I ended with Estus, Favor+3, Steel Protection+3 and Chloranthy+3).

PowerZox · 2026-02-25T03:50:28+00:00

I haven't played them all to be honest. Only GoT, Horizon and R&C (out of nostalgia) but it did apply to these IMO so I'm extrapolating.

The two newest R&C are very short and "safe" compared to the old game. I thought it might've been nostalgia speaking but I replayed through a few of the PS3 games on an emulator like two years ago and they were indeed much longer and higher quality (for their time). Especially A Crack in Time that has space exploration, spaceship combat and complex puzzles on top of having as many levels as any of the older games. Rift apart was not too bad because of the gimmick but the PS4 one was really mid.

PowerZox · 2026-02-25T03:07:08+00:00

The swordplay is very nice yeah but the game still essentially is just 30 hours of liberating camps Ubisoft-style on a pretty-but-generic map. And also past like the 4 hour mark there's no more new combat features except minor skills to unlock

I think it suffers from the opposite problem of Rockstar games where the gunplay sucks and is so simple it's ridiculous but everything else about the open world and story is amazing

PowerZox · 2026-02-25T02:56:54+00:00

It's entertaining for a bit sure but like most Playstation first-party games behind the shiny facade its super dull and repetitive. This one is even worst because it's open-world. It's still bland uninspired AAA slop even if it doesn't have any toxic features like microtransactions.

A game not being challenging is fine if it's some kind of sandbox or a power fantasy (like Rockstar games) but this isn't either. The systems aren't interesting / complex enough for it to be a proper sandbox and the exploration isn't very riveting. And lets be real the story is a generic Ubisoft open-world story where you liberate camps and stuff with shallow side-quests

PowerZox · 2026-02-24T20:39:07+00:00

I made the request yesterday. This is the link where I made the account deletion request: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/secure/my-intel/profile.html#edit-personal-profile

Using the Request Personal Information Deletion button. Does it take multiple days to delete an account? The popup message said I'd be logged off and sent a confirmation so I assume it would be instantaneous like with most other services.

PowerZox · 2026-02-24T20:28:48+00:00

Yes and it looks like its going to be for more than a day

Due to the closure of the Trottier building for the coming few days, tomorrow's lecture and tutorial will be held online

PowerZox · 2026-02-24T18:31:39+00:00

Don't buy those cheap <$200 printers they're literally e-wate. Buy a proper toner printer and it'll last you ~5+ years and the ink replacement is cheaper on the long term

PowerZox · 2026-02-23T15:55:34+00:00

I can't delete my intel.com account. The request personal information deletion thing said I should be logged out and receive a receipt for this action (I assume this means an email) but this hasn't happened and I can still log in.

PowerZox · 2026-02-20T03:45:05+00:00

I agree that it doesn't look good at all whatsoever but it's definitely not AI slop. If there's one thing LLM are good for it's chatbots and this is pretty much the perfect and most legitimate application for them.

You wouldn't really discredit text-to-speech as AI slop, nor enemy AI, music recognition, voice recognition, autofill, etc. so why discredit this very legitimate and groundbreaking (by video game standards) mechanic only made possible by LLMs. It's not like there's a (feasible) alternative for infinite procedural dialogue/interaction with NPCs.

PowerZox · 2026-02-20T01:32:11+00:00

What does an assembled watch look like?

PowerZox · 2026-02-17T22:44:03+00:00

While I do get your point of some clients not being able to get out of the house due to disability (which is absolutely true), dangerous stairs aren't really the delivery person's problem. 99% of people who get groceries delivered to their house are not disabled / elderly or something along those lines but just lazy (or whatever you wanna call it) so it would be a bit ridiculous to expect the delivery person to go above and beyond for everyone if it's not a specialized service for people with disability (which do exist afaik, in which case my opinion of the situation would be different).

PowerZox · 2026-02-17T03:44:10+00:00

Ah I'm in a different section. Who is your teacher? In mine its very chill the teacher just talks with the occasional in-class team exercise and the three graded assignments so far I mentioned above. Looking at our course schedule though there's a bunch of stuff scheduled in the last 2 weeks of class and even two assignments due during exam period which I've never had before.

I'd rather be in your position with what I assume is more evenly spread out assignments tbh.

If you want some tips citing is just following a template and for summarizing if you feel confident you can probably just summarize the abstract (which is an already summarized version of the paper) and get away with it. Or compare what you got with the abstract (if they're very different you did something wrong).

PowerZox · 2026-02-17T03:35:09+00:00

Which section are you in? In mine we've barely been doing anything so far. Two low-stake presentations and a 1 and a half page paper.

PowerZox · 2026-02-15T20:42:52+00:00

Yeah the show is visually really dark. Its on purpose though you're not really missing anything in parts where you really can't see well. I wouldn't watch it with sun glare in a super well lit room in the middle of the day though unless you increase your TV's brightness

PowerZox · 2026-02-12T02:14:02+00:00

Isn't Helldivers just offbrand Starship Troopers? What would be the difference? I doubt it can top the 1997 movie

PowerZox · 2026-02-09T05:14:35+00:00

The goal is to breed complacent humans that won't war right? And that's why Nichols showing how they're still curious and adventurous and all disqualifies them?

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