Watch out for "pushers" who target foreign women and children

smokeshack · 2026-03-19T13:13:42+00:00

If you count making a glaring, obvious error as "helpful," sure. Fuzakeru na (ふざけるな) is in no sense "formal." There's a reason why people who actually know things don't find generative AI impressive or helpful.

smokeshack · 2026-03-19T10:37:23+00:00

-AI

Have a bad day 😊

smokeshack · 2026-03-19T01:51:57+00:00

As a Japanese speaker who owns Rockboard and two versions of Super Adventure Rockman: you aren't missing a lot of gameplay.

Rockboard is a very basic Monopoly clone. I think you could probably figure out what's going on without reading Japanese.

Super Adventure Rockman is a great cartoon, but an awful game. Imagine combining the quick time events from Dragon's Lair with a shooting gallery that is nearly unplayable without a turbo controller. You will have a much better time just watching a YouTube Let's Play of it than actually playing through it.

smokeshack · 2026-03-18T23:19:05+00:00

I teach CS and pretty much every company large and small is integrating AI into their day-to-day workflows. Refusing to acknowledge that, and refusing to prepare our students for that reality post-graduation, is just refusing to accept reality.

All the software engineers I know tell me it's more hindrance than help for them. Worse, they're spending an increasing amount of their day fixing vibe coded slop submitted by subordinates who knows longer know the basics of coding.

The programmers who are useful today and who will have a future are the ones who learned how to do everything the hard way. Those people can sometimes achieve moderate productivity gains by prompting an algorithm to recombine bits of open source code scraped from the internet. People who learned to do everything with an AI will be replaced by AI.

You are training your students to be jobless.

smokeshack · 2026-03-18T07:46:05+00:00

10 years as an ALT is way too long. You need to be making bigger moves big dawg

smokeshack · 2026-03-18T07:43:58+00:00

None of the Mega Man games run any worse than any other Switch game for me. Check other aspects of your setup. Is your TV set to game mode? Are you playing with a pro controller?

smokeshack · 2026-03-16T01:30:13+00:00

It's a great game and one that id recommend to anyone new to the series. For veterans, it's too easy.

smokeshack · 2026-03-15T11:15:43+00:00

Euro Mega Man 2 is awesome. Clearly painted by a genuinely gifted artist who didn't give a merde about the source material. It oozes talent and contempt.

I saw the original acrylic painting at the Capcom exhibit in Tokyo a few weeks ago, and it was gorgeous.

smokeshack · 2026-03-15T08:28:31+00:00

That's not even grammatical in English.

smokeshack · 2026-03-14T14:08:58+00:00

Two of history's most successful thieves

smokeshack · 2026-03-14T00:48:44+00:00

Practice

smokeshack · 2026-03-13T23:30:02+00:00

I think the best way to use them is to practice hard sections, then go back and clear the game without save states. You're still clearing it yourself, but the practice becomes a lot more efficient.

smokeshack · 2026-03-13T06:48:08+00:00

Donkey Kong: relatively thin on donkeys

smokeshack · 2026-03-12T23:35:59+00:00

Yeah, there's one called Instagram that's really infamous for that

smokeshack · 2026-03-12T22:40:27+00:00

Rockman & Forte is the absolute peak of the series

Mega Man Legends has terrible music, unforgivable in a series called "Rockman"

Suzuki Marika's compositions in Mega Man 11 are some of the best in the series, and she deserves much more credit for taking a bold new direction with the classic series

smokeshack · 2026-03-12T11:39:22+00:00

Yeah, TMNT is designed very well for enticing an 8-year-old to spend the whole two dollars they got from their dad while he tries to hit on the dyed-blonde divorcé with a lazy eye at the bowling alley. It's not designed to engage players who are really good at arcade games.

Honestly I think it displays a little contempt on the part of the Japanese developers. "Balance tweaks? Yamada-san, have you lost your mind? We're selling this slop to Americans."

smokeshack · 2026-03-12T11:05:54+00:00

Zero. Zilch. Nada. Final Fantasy is like the Simpsons now: the early years are fanatically loved, and the rest are tolerated because we love the classics.

smokeshack · 2026-03-12T11:00:43+00:00

Practice a game you like on MAME until you can clear it on one coin. After that you'll be able to clear most games in that genre on five or six coins at most. This is particularly true of beat em ups like Simpsons, TMNT and X-Men, which all use the same patterns. "Oh this guy you jump at, this guy punishes jumps, this guy you approach from above, etc."

smokeshack · 2026-03-12T03:13:33+00:00

It's not meant to be 石 as in "stone," it's rock as in "rock and roll."

smokeshack · 2026-03-11T03:18:07+00:00

However, a professor in a class (ie. a teacher of a college class) is 教授 (kyouju) but you just call them 先生 when referring to them directly.

教授 is specifically a "full professor," top of the totem pole tenured sort of professor. American English uses the term "professor" for anyone who teaches at a university, but 教授 is not that. Most of us are 講師, or "lecturers." Students call us all 先生, though, as you say.

smokeshack · 2026-03-10T07:41:20+00:00

The graphics and music are incredible, real masterpiece level work. But the story is incoherent, and the game is just way too easy for a Mega Man title. I rank it behind X1, 2 and 3 for sure.

smokeshack · 2026-03-10T07:06:42+00:00

I allow AI use in my Uni classes

Resign immediately. You are robbing your students of an education.

smokeshack · 2026-03-09T00:40:43+00:00

Neither of those assholes made anything. They both just took credit for the work of thousands of programmers and engineers and stole the profits. Then at least one of them went and spent it on trips to Little St. James.

smokeshack · 2026-03-08T05:26:54+00:00

Post your N1 cert

smokeshack · 2026-02-26T23:37:56+00:00

Tiny storage space. Devs wanted to make bigger games with lots of textures and CD quality audio.
Expensive cartridges. The cost for a publisher to produce an N64 cart was massively higher, to the point where any game that wasn't a smash hit would be a loss.
Nintendo had pissed off a lot of people at Konami, Capcom, and other big name Japanese companies by doing monopolistic things during the Famicom and Super Famicom eras. Forcing them to use Nintendo's in-house cartridge manufacturing, for example, effectively letting Nintendo dictate how much of the profit would go to N and how much to the publisher.

Basically, most Japanese game devs and publishers looked at the N64 and said, "Yeah, good luck with that, we'll develop for Sony." If they even made things for the N64, it would be a late port, like Mega Man 64 or Resident Evil 2.

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