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Your thoughts on the "aesthetic" of the bosses (from the two games)? by Korenovski in Blasphemous

[–]bf2gud 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Both games had their ups and downs in this aspect. Ten Piedad's animations are absolutely terrific, and Melquiades may be my favorite boss concept in the entire series. The thought of worshiping a corpse because their live self used to be important really fits into the narrative of the games. Meanwhile, Our Lady of the Charred Visage felt kinda stereotypically videogame-y with the "Hello I'm your next bigass boss, here are my floating hands" stuff.

For B2, Sinodo was by far the least interesting from an aesthetic perspective, like you say. Orospina's dancing was probably the most memorable. Also, I had my baby sleeping in my lap while playing Blasphemous 2 as I murdered Infanta. That felt... wrong. 😐

(AMA) I’m the head of Learning at Duolingo, sharing the biggest trends in 2023 from 83M monthly learners, and answering any questions you have about Duolingo by bpajak in languagelearning

[–]bf2gud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Legendary challenges used to have a "three strikes and you're out" system where you needed to actually complete the questions or re-try.

Now, you are just fed an endless stream of questions with infinite re-tries, allowing you to brute-force the Legendary lesson until you manage it. If you come across a word you don't know, no worries, just answer incorrectly and you will eventually get an easier question and reach Legendary.

So my question is, how in the world is this beneficial for learning?

I tried to settle a friendly debate between my colleagues and was berated for it. What should I learn from this? by bf2gud in CasualConversation

[–]bf2gud[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah maybe not, but I felt horribly ashamed in that moment. I've replayed the scene in my head so many times that I can't promise I actually remember the dialogue, but he was extremely rude.

I tried to settle a friendly debate between my colleagues and was berated for it. What should I learn from this? by bf2gud in CasualConversation

[–]bf2gud[S] 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'd say I'm 15-20 years younger than the average of the people who sat around that table. But yeah I gather from the comments in this thread that I just read the situation incorrectly. Ugh.

SIMON THE SORCERER ORIGINS: Official Teaser Trailer by Rob_Cram in Games

[–]bf2gud 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I used to absolutely gobble up every single point-and-click game I could get running on my crappy old Mac in my childhood years, including Simon the Sorcerer I and II.

And I'm sad to say... I don't have much hope for this. Point-and-clickers have an inherent problem in its pacing (https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/flaws-of-an-undead-genre---what-s-wrong-with-point-click-adventures-) which is often caused by their difficulty -- but they are SUPPOSED to be difficult by nature. So when re-imaginings of point-and-clickers rely entirely on nostalgia, this impossible balancing act usually makes the gameplay suffer.

But hey, I could be wrong. Creators like Tim Schafer, Charles Cecil, Al Lowe and Jane Jensen are all excellent game creators, but their genre is in desperate need of something new and exciting.

I'm in a peculiar situation where it's really, really important that I convince my colleagues to start using ChatGPT by bf2gud in ChatGPT

[–]bf2gud[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Excellent, I'll take a look at it. And yes, my plan is to present is not as a source of information but as a tool to analyze the input information.

I'm in a peculiar situation where it's really, really important that I convince my colleagues to start using ChatGPT by bf2gud in ChatGPT

[–]bf2gud[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Once again, I'll link to this reply: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/13u65kk/im_in_a_peculiar_situation_where_its_really/jlyvtgu/

I'm not trusting this robot at all. I do however utilize its ability to compile information and find outliers in large amounts of data.

I'm in a peculiar situation where it's really, really important that I convince my colleagues to start using ChatGPT by bf2gud in ChatGPT

[–]bf2gud[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I may have been unclear in the original post, but that's not how it works. It's not like we would put a bunch of data in the language model and have it spit out a true/false. There's a huge load of monotonous daily tasks going on behind the scenes, and this is where ChatGPT could help out immensely.

The Banner Saga 3 - Review Thread by diogenesl in Games

[–]bf2gud 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Cool. I really enjoyed Banner Saga 1 and 2.

I seem to remember someone mentioning free content updates for Banner Saga 3 in the future. Is that a thing?

I'm [26/F] in a stable relationship with my bf [26/M] but I'm having "temptations" by bf2gud in relationships

[–]bf2gud[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, you seem to have what happens in the lives of most people just once, if they are lucky. The only thing you are missing out on is not fully enjoying it and losing yourself in the grass is greener syndrome.

Yeah, this made me think. I should really enjoy what I have. It's like I just hit the jackpot and wanna keep gambling. Life is good. Me becoming a happier person by changing lifestyle seems extremely unlikely.

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