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I know two people who have lost jobs directly as a result of Gen AI being "good enough". In addition, one coder friend who believes he is going to be canned soon as he feels he is, at this point, helping train his replacement by being forced to integrate AI stuff in his workflow. It needs regulations now or more jobs will be lost and art will get crappier. Gen AI is trained on plagiarism and needs to be kept away from places where real, human artists create.

It's time to dig some holes

7 is an interesting choice. I mean, I like that one, but hm. 5 really deserves this level of treatment imo

Of course this comes just a few days after I beat it lmao

The switch 2 performance was fine, though, the 30fps never bothered me

My biggest complaints are that the boss runbacks are far too long, and having to pay to use some benches (when there are already too few) is some absolute nonsense

Boss difficulty itself is totally fine and I've already adapted to Hornet's movement just fine

"19th century" - did the Kickstarter launch in the 1800s?

Silksong and FF Tactics, naturally. It's gonna be a busy fall for me

Hello Knight DLC was expansive, cohesive, and FREE. I don't understand what people in the comments are complaining about, exactly.

@Scollurio well, that new 2D ninja Gaiden only runs at 30fps on Switch 2, so this is welcome news

Modern Secret of Mana-like? I'll probably be able to afford a Switch 2 in time for this.

@JJtheTexan those cities are expensive and kinda impractical for orgs like this with limited funding, don't you think?

Did Nintendo pay NL to write this ad?

Smoking this tonight for sure. I don't expect it to blow my mind, but I know it'll be solid. That's the Inti Creates way.

@Galaxy2IsTheGOAT first he dismantles democracy, THEN he comes for my vidya games??????

woof, 450 is steep

Samus with Ultra Hand lol, lmao even

I love good, arcade style golf games. My body has longed for a good Pangya 18 successor, maybe this is it

Yeah, I'll always double dip for Momo.

Aw, but I already beat it. Maybe they'll bring Kiwami 2 or 0 with the improved performance

Nice try, Saudi Arabia

How quickly can I mash through repetitive hand-holdy, tutorializing text? If the game is merciful it won't bother me. If the text is a painful crawl with a fixed duration, woof, I dunno. I have little patience for that kind of thing these days.

lmao there are bigger injustices out there, people

@Poco_Lypso predictable deflection

@Poco_Lypso please define woke

@Poco_Lypso "labels such as bigot, sexist or racist have outstayed their welcome and dont mean anything anymore." says the person throwing around the current buzzword 'woke'. That word needs to go in the bin too, especially since the people throwing the biggest fits about it never seem to have a clear definition of it.

Pizza Tower was my second favorite game last year (right behind TOTK). It's a joy. Unfortunately, I recently learned its main dev is... problematic. So I won't be rebuying it.

$20 is a steal for this game if this does well it could be very good things for the Yakuza franchise and Nintendo

The stock market "tanking" here in the US today returned things to the same levels they were in May. It's still up roughly 10% on the year. Which is way better than anyone could get in a bond or savings account. Some rich people are going to be a little butthurt, but they know this is a market correction and they're going to be just fine. The tech sector is overvalued now anyway, so losses there shouldn't be unexpected. Crypto is bust, NFTs are bust, and AI still hasn't delivered. There's a bubble that will have to burst eventually. What happened today is honestly nbd. I want to eat the rich as much as anyone, but today ain't our day, and this year ain't no recession.

@rallydefault if someone has data showing GDP losses over two consecutive quarters, I will.

@Uska what recession?

Whew, I put a dozen hours in and dang, I hate to say it but I'm let down. The enigmatic nature of story progression, arcane controls, lack of any convenient information, unhelpful map, and cryptically conveyed actionable locations and items ranges frustrating to infuriating. The combat is enjoyable, the game is beautiful, and the music is lovely. But the friction is hard to overlook. I've seen the credits 4 times and none of the endings I got were satisfying. Bummer

Hey, I might finally get around to playing it

I chilled with the first one and I'll probably chill with this one during a slow period. They're good stuff, even if repetitive.

Oh HECK YEAH I need this in my veins

The lack of monkey target is a crime on par with human trafficking

@Lizuka i disagree entirely

Once I finally learned you can transfer some stuff over from a save file of the OG, I used some gift cards to get Vengeance and am having a good time. The QoL stuff is nice and I just need grind up some macca to get my OP Shiva and Idun back

Protip: turn off motion blur in the settings to improve framerate a little. You can try disabling AA and AO too, but the game looks nicer with those on and still runs well enough for me.

Probably the thing I'm looking forward to the most, unless Silksong actually comes out which as we all know is ever doubtful

So definitively, will it or will it not accept my save from the original for use as a NG+ in this version?

lmao "hypocrisy"... as if I ever said other companies were not problematic 🙄

@RunninBlue yes I'm aware of that page and do what I >reasonably< can to avoid products with many of those companies. Obviously, I recognize that on some level these corps are unavoidable in daily life ("no ethical consumption under capitalism") but something like this game is an easy choice: Black Rock has trivial percentages in hundreds of companies; MiSK has 96-97% of SNK. If your argument is "other thing bad, so it's okay to ignore this bad thing because I want it", that's weak and you know it. Rationalize your purchase to yourself however you want, but you DO have a choice at least some of the time.

@RunninBlue "If you buy American, you buy games from companies with Blackrock and Vanguard in their shareholders". Such as?

@RunninBlue your whataboutism is weak, friend. Does the US govt or US individual who committed war crimes own a 96% controlling stake in a major video game company?

@Serpenterror "In April 2022, MiSK Foundation acquired 96% ownership of the Japanese video game company SNK." You want to guess who founded MiSK? You think SNK doesn't get a share of the profits from the game and are letting them use their IP out of the goodness of their hearts?

I would love to buy this, but that would mean directly supporting a tyrant and despot guilty of human atrocities. SNK is still owned by Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman .

@Ralizah hok' up, are you actually saying the framerate is the reason your GC copy didn't devalue? lmao

As a Kickstarter backer, I'm definitely let down about some things, but I'm still able to put my Good Time Hat on and mostly enjoy it. There's a lot to like. Maybe performance patches will come.

@ozwally it autosaves at certain points, so I not sure how they lost 2 actual hours. I haven't hit any areas that didn't autosave within a broad window like that, so call me skeptical of that claim. However, the game really shouldn't crash at all.

For a while I thought I wouldn't make it out of the pandemic alive to see my Kickstarter pledge for Eiyuuden come to life, but unless I crash my car on my way home it looks like I made it.

Bro, every one of this website's weekly eShop roundups has exclamations after each of the few games featured in the article's sub-heading.