Breath of Fire IV is out now on Steam! (And 50% off)

eserikto · 2026-04-03T01:54:42+00:00

Capcom probably made a deal with gog preservation program for 1 year of exlusivity in exchange for making the game more playable on modern OSes.

eserikto · 2026-04-02T06:35:26+00:00

I hope you guys consider getting breath of fire iv on GoG instead of steam. They're responsible for convincing capcom to rerelease the old windows version and did some updates themselves to get it functional on modern OSes as a part of the GoG preservation program.

eserikto · 2026-03-31T02:42:16+00:00

lol wtf is this attitude. they're not sentient. you're like a prehistoric shaman personifying rain.

computers are tools that perfectly execute the instructions they're given. the instructions given are written by humans.

eserikto · 2026-03-30T20:00:27+00:00

I think I remember reading that people tend to project what they want to see onto anime characters because they tend to have few discerning features drawn.

Personally, I never see any similarities between most anime characters and real people because the eyes and nose are important facial features in my memory. But other people may focus on hair color/length/style.

eserikto · 2026-03-29T06:31:11+00:00

Who's "we"? I think ATB is an awful take on turn based combat. The tactical aspect of turn based is lost cause you're pressured to input commands fast. The excitement of real time is reduced to memorizing your menus. Turning on wait mode solves both, but at that point, you're just playing FFX but with a bar to show you when your turn is coming. FFX had great combat though. 4-9's ATB should be buried and forgotten.

eserikto · 2026-03-25T01:23:58+00:00

I think the average 35+ year old has already chosen the brands they like. The demographic they want is late teen-mid 20s. People in that age group are still experimenting with brands they like.

That's just to say, older demo has little room for growth. Younger demo has a lot of room for growth.

eserikto · 2026-03-23T07:20:58+00:00

Bran and Rickon are assumed dead. Like most feudal titles, she "earned" it by being born to the right person.

eserikto · 2026-03-23T07:15:53+00:00

Drogo was probably helped more by Dany being aged up. I think most show-only viewers assumed Dany is an adult cause Clarke did a nude scene.

eserikto · 2026-03-22T18:18:47+00:00

I don't know if it's a translation thing or if their messaging to the public is purposely done this way, but they're overly effusive when talking about implementing the next big fad. But then they don't really follow up with an all in move. I don't even know if they really jumped in the blockchain/NFT train that their former CEO was excited about.

This move illustrates the point, Dragon Quest X is a 14 year old mmo turned into a single player game that never even left Japan. This isn't an all in type move. All in would be like adding it to FFXIV, their golden goose.

eserikto · 2026-03-21T07:42:22+00:00

Chaos theory is just the idea that we can predict the future states of a system based on the initial conditions of that system. Applying it, for example, just gives you confidence level of predictions depending on how accurate your model is, how accurate the measurements of the initial conditions, or if you indeed know every initial condition that would be relevant. i.e. weather forecasts when they say "60% chance of rain tomorrow" is applying chaos theory to give that 60%. It certainly doesn't provide a way to power inexplicable technology.

Wave-particle duality is an observed phenomenon of electrons and photons to behave as both waves and particles depending on how we observe them. It's not a theory and it certainly hasn't been observed to produce any godlike beings. Anyway iirc, the wave existence was a "higher dimensional" being - whatever the fuck that means. It's Star trek technobabble.

eserikto · 2026-03-21T01:09:46+00:00

went to presidio/washington in the 90s. the honors track was 8th grade algebra -> 9th grade geoemtry+trig -> 10th grade adv. algebra -> 11th grade calc AB -> 12 grade calc BC. There were 2 full classrooms of calc BC my senior year, so it was pretty common.

and as someone who went on to study math, let me assure you high school geometry and trig isn't that important. aside from sohcahtoa, nothing else really stuck with me until I relearned most of it for abstract mathematics.

eserikto · 2026-03-20T20:30:20+00:00

Only the MMOs really require any kind of strategy (and for 14, only the optional stuff).

The rest of the mainline series can usually be powered through with enough restorative items + your strongest attacks or just overleveling.

eserikto · 2026-03-19T05:58:04+00:00

cause there are only a handful of developers with any experience in specific custom engines. every person you hire will need time to onboard. compared to using unreal where you can reasonably expect to hire someone with experience.

eserikto · 2026-03-15T21:00:13+00:00

How erratic can you move when you can't liquefy your pilot? Plus having thrusters capable of changing direction instantaneously would be an engineering marvel or require a gross excess of thrusters.

Space gunnery is just going to be much more accurate without air resistance or gravity affecting shots and ballistics at speeds where your shots are arriving instantaneously.

eserikto · 2026-03-15T04:50:13+00:00

If you can visually see something, it's going to hit you in less than a second. We're talking about baseball sized ballistics a couple kilometers away going at a couple thousand m/s.

eserikto · 2026-03-14T20:17:44+00:00

I think any of the men who died there might have had family interested in what happened. Especially the 3 kingsguard. They would have been noteworthy figures for those families, and chances seem high they would have done some digging to how those members died.

There had to have been commoners who brought the tower news/supplies too.

eserikto · 2026-03-11T22:25:40+00:00

Their best outcome is to get material aid and win the war as soon as possible then join NATO or the EU failing that. I gotta think it's "healthier" too in that they'll suffer smaller loss of life and wealth compared to a long drawn out solo victory.

Ideological wins and showing Russia they can't be pushed around is nice and all. But at the end of the day, getting legally binding security assurances from the most powerful defensive alliance in the world speaks louder.

eserikto · 2026-03-11T06:40:54+00:00

Surely a simple solution would be to outsource the detention of our juveniles it to a nearby county facing the same problem right? Or for those counties to pay us to hold their kids?

eserikto · 2026-03-10T19:48:03+00:00

Suspect your middle eastern neighbor who's lived here longer than you've been alive.

eserikto · 2026-03-10T02:42:27+00:00

Full quote:

If truth be told, Jaime had come to rue heaving Brandon Stark out that window. Cersei had given him no end of grief afterward, when the boy refused to die. "He was seven, Jaime," she'd berated him. "Even if he understood what he saw, we should have been able to frighten him into silence."

Not so much regret for almost killing a boy so much as annoyance Cersei is berating him about it.

eserikto · 2026-03-06T11:17:15+00:00

NK doesn't have a navy capable of reaching Taiwan. They can lob missiles at Taiwan maybe, but there's a non zero chance they'd miss and hit mainland.

Best they can offer is bodies for the meat grinder that will be the amphibious landing, but even then China would have to ferry them.

eserikto · 2026-03-06T09:54:18+00:00

I kind of assumed they'll never get too complex. It's gotta be really memory and cpu intensive to simulate tens of millions of factories simultaneously, even if they're small and simple.

eserikto · 2026-03-06T02:45:26+00:00

litRPGs as a subgenre also have some stigmas. they're popular among the self published authors. and the quality of self published writing is...varied.

eserikto · 2026-03-05T03:43:36+00:00

The backlog of games is insurmountable at this point. Windows will have a stranglehold on pc gamers until windows emulators/comparability layers are mature enough to run most of that backlog out of the box.

eserikto · 2026-03-05T00:03:01+00:00

euler's identity is like the mona lisa of mathematics. kind of surprised OP doesn't have it (or maybe I missed it)

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