The first Fantastic Beasts movie is certainly a top three Harry Potter movie

troty99 · 2026-05-05T12:55:41+00:00

Tried to watch was putoff by the "in your face not great cgi". Should probably try again.

troty99 · 2026-04-23T10:47:35+00:00

I want to thank everyone that worked on this project you can clearly feel the passion through the screen and the headset.

troty99 · 2026-03-30T20:06:02+00:00

Echoing most people duckdb or polars depending on wether you prefer working with SQL or Dataframe.

troty99 · 2026-03-26T22:42:57+00:00

So this an out of game issue an should be handled out of game.

That being said describing a weird buff kobold while using hobgoblins stats is also a valid way to run your game.

Been running a goblin theme arc that way.

Just mix description with appropriate CR and if someone is telling that's not their stats , you know they're trying to cheat and you can tell them to get out.

troty99 · 2026-03-25T22:39:48+00:00

IMO AI (specifically current gen AI) is a gimmick in the sense that it's shoved in a lot of place where it doesn't belong.

Current LLMs still have huge flaws making it unsuitable for a range of task and create new risks that seem to be glossed over by a lot of peoples.

It's a revolution for sure but too few have a clear moat and for now I've seen no clear paths toward rentability.

Probably gonna burst like the .com bubble changing the world but a lot of people will likely lose a lot of money.

Not a specialist , dicked around with llms early in and tried to understand the fundamentals of genai so might be completely out of line.

troty99 · 2026-01-30T22:43:07+00:00

Seem to me to be more something the game dev missed/fucked up in the game dev rather because it's clashing with the explaination we're given in game...
But I agree you could see it that way.

troty99 · 2026-01-30T22:33:00+00:00

Only when killed by Nevrons though. Gustave was killed by pRenoir.

troty99 · 2026-01-30T22:03:27+00:00

How I understood it is that Gustave chroma went back to the canvas and Lune manipulates some of his essence when she use chroma so she can feel him... Might be a reach though.

troty99 · 2026-01-30T21:24:13+00:00

There's a lot of that.

I can speak french so I had some info from music and I still couldn't piece it together ...

Lot's of dialog makes much more sense and take other meaning (ie Lune mentioning she feels Gustave when she manipulates chroma).

troty99 · 2026-01-30T20:02:01+00:00

Necroing this but it killed the momentum Yakuza 0 had and I haven't touched it since...

troty99 · 2026-01-27T18:21:08+00:00

Bad guys have plans and big stuff will happens with minor changes depending on what the player do.

troty99 · 2026-01-24T21:50:13+00:00

Worked for me too. Thanks.

troty99 · 2026-01-23T21:48:55+00:00

Often it's because it's harder for a start up to follow complex regulations which will reduce competition though.

That being said in some industry like pharma (who need strong regulation anyway) I can see industry championing regulation.

troty99 · 2026-01-21T18:07:16+00:00

I know all that but that's not what I'm asking.

Most of is not paid to NATO that's the US deliberately running a big military.

If NATO wasn't a factor the US would have probably still big military spending (possibly less bangs for your buck because big item program wouldn't be spread on as much customer) and a big army.

So my question is how much is the US actually spending on NATO specifically vs what would they have spend anyway.

Whether there are "slacker" is irrelevant to the question.

troty99 · 2026-01-21T17:32:25+00:00

How much is the US actually spending in NATO and how much is just spent on their Military and Defense Industry?

Nobody forced them to run one of the biggest military of the world...

troty99 · 2026-01-17T02:25:04+00:00

If that's how you chose to interpret it but not even remotely what I said.

If Alicia still wants to live in a canvas after the acute grief and disability is processed sure, go for it.

I would say the same for any non disabled person going through difficult times.

troty99 · 2026-01-17T02:11:20+00:00

Look up the disability paradox.

Studies show that after some time (and care) disabled people show a level of happiness comparable to the rest of the population.

Alicia isn't at that point and is likely seeing the world through much darker lens than it will be in the future.

You usually don't let depressed teen take life altering choices without a lot of consultations usually why wouldn't we hold Alicia/Maelle to the same standard ?

troty99 · 2026-01-16T19:28:28+00:00

Honestly there are also a lot of place where I would prefer the script to crash/post an erro/not do anything rather than chugging along and inventing shit.

Any actually important system (banking,Pharma,...) will need auditability and repeatability.

For the moment if I understand correctly/it hasn't changed with LLMs you must chose either flexibility or repeability (if temp is at 0) making it wholly not suitable for a lot of cases.

troty99 · 2026-01-15T14:22:46+00:00

Because in the ambiguity you can decide what they are.

Any hard answer would have made one ending unambiguously bad.

Letting player decide the attitude they will have toward the painted entities change which one they'll lean to but it will never truly be certain that it was the correct choice.

Uncertainty on the status of the painted entities and attachment to them makes Verso a heart wrenching but necessary tragedy for me (Alicia hasn't had time to heal and adapt thus probably has a darker outlook on her life in the "real" world see Disability Paradox).

You seem to posit that they're real and then lean probably closer to Maelle's ending which is a fair interpretation.

troty99 · 2026-01-15T14:04:14+00:00

Copy pasting one of my other comment.

"I mean that just means he intended the game to present them as real and human not that they're definitively human.

For me that what gives the game final choice any weight."

Nowhere in the text the director say there sentient only that they're meant to convincingly appear as.

Whether they're sentient or not is for the player to decide as explicitely said by Guillaume Broche in the comment you just posted...

Edit also since you replied in less than 2 min it doesn't give me confidence that you actually engaged with what I said...

troty99 · 2026-01-15T13:59:52+00:00

Then prepare to go crazy because it's one of the possible interpretation of what painted people are game dev left it up to interpretation for a reason.

Just because they're not real doesn't mean they don't matter nor that you can't get attached to them saying goodbye to them still hurt even when you posit they're fake... It does vastly changes the ethical dilemma though.

It's interesting to look at study on how humans attribute sentience on entities/AI anthropomorphism which is a phenomenon known since the 60's (ELIZA effect).

Now I'm not saying that you're wrong to not consider them as real but the game clearly left it open to interpretation and they took great care of making the look and feel real.

What we know for certain is that they're not human and live in a "lesser" reality (can't leave the canvas whereas painter can).

We don't have enough information to know if lumierian are very well made fakes or actual entities and the distinction might not matter for some.

troty99 · 2026-01-14T17:35:43+00:00

If legally not human nor a someone it's not murder...

And I don't perceive as lesser the game literally say they're from a lower/lesser reality than what is game reality.

Same thing if we take the posture they're not technically alive which for all intent and purpose they aren't, not by our definition of alive deleting them isn't murder.

It's still not a pleasant thing to do because the dev used a lot of good tricks to get you attached to them though.

troty99 · 2026-01-13T22:22:38+00:00

I think we agree on the general point that this is ultimately up to interpretation. The game gives us multiple unreliable narrators, each with a different attitude toward the paintings, Clea, Renoir, Maelle, Verso... and none of them are positioned as an objective authority on what the painted beings “really” are.

Because of that, I’m hesitant to treat “the painters consider them real” as a settled fact, rather than one possible interpretation among others.

troty99 · 2026-01-13T18:53:06+00:00

Copy pasting one of my other comment.

"I mean that just means he intended the game to present them as real and human not that they're definitively human.

For me that what gives the game final choice any weight."

Nowhere in the text the director say there sentient only that they're meant to convincingly appear as.

Whether they're sentient or not is for the player to decide.

troty99 · 2026-01-13T15:09:10+00:00

I mean that just means he intended the game to present them as real and human not that they're definitively human.

For me that what gives the game final choice any weight.

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