TheSaneInsanity

@gcunit (SHHHHH! oh you... : D) If it's not obvious, I'm poking fun at the mascot kart racing world(s) game.

Edit: EMOJI EMOJI BURN IT WITH FIRE! EMOTICONS FOREVER.

Is this the worlds kart racing game I've been hearing about? the one with the worlds, you know? I... don't know where I am... what was I talking about worlds?

A ton of overused- how? why is plant overused, labs, and uh dinosaur yeah dinosaur jungle... worlds something's bothering me about that, oh yeah shipping, wrecked pirate shipping, waves, boats... stadium, and a seaside town with a bunch of light colors, I think it had a space program with a rocket you could uhhh...? oh yeah you go into the bigger on the inside, and uh it's weird and has this classy disjointed music and saxophony brassy trumpetlike things I can't remember what can someone in the comments tell me which game I'm thinking about? I've suddenly developed a temporary case of dementia (medically impossible).

I think I could remember if someone could... what is write?

@smoreon I wanted to know what it was like to work at nintendo, for my dream job.

I want the cardboard model's lenses, as those aren't cardboard, I'll buy those secondhand

A nintendo customer service agent helped me with a school project. This fills me with rage.

switch 2 has no games, content drought :silly-face-emoji.png:

As a side note I don't think the prices are wrong but rather the way nintendo raised them. according to in2013dollars.com 60 in 2017 is 80 today. That's the price they're using for their mega-deluxe/development hell games like ToTK and MKworld. They should have tried to match wage growth instead of inflation. If they match inflation they contribute to inflation, if they match wage growth, they contribute considerably less.

or they could have raised prices in smaller increments like 5 dollars over the course of the switch generation, so that this drama would be over with already.

@NintendoJunkie I'm sorry for implying that you would through accidental subtext. I shall rest from undertale anniversary comments section for now.

@NintendoJunkie It's certainly not the standard take, nor something that's accurate to how most people see the game. Take it with a grain of salt. Be kind.
Edit: I'm a hypocrite

Looks like they're grand at the disco

Prototyping is supremely important, I can vouch for how stuff needs to be prototyped to find the fun in it. I tried adding a dash to my game and it just didn't feel fun, so I scrapped it. Eventually I decided on boosting the player's speed when they turn around at top speed after they skid to a stop, like mario's side hop, and that was way more fun than pressing the go fast button with endlag frames.

I'm so glad team cherry released this masterpiece after 6 years of catsanity, all the clown-noses and yarn posts were getting out of hand, and all the people spamming "Bubsy remake!" at every nintendo direct. It was crazy how people divided themselves into "what could possibly go wrong" and "doutbers"...

...What? Oh. I seem to have mixed up the hits with the misses again.

Tenatively excited for the new 4D game.

I think these are decent changes.

@Not_Soos I think Mrs Sanderson is doing something I do, and am working on, she's frustrated and lashing out because of a situation out of her control.

I think that she's handling this situation wrong, particularly with Mr. Sanderson, she is willing to listen as indicated by the ending, but she hasn't helped Mr.Sanderson feel safe to tell the truth in the first place.

Mr. Sanderson has retreated to his place of safety, toys.

People who are wrong need to be corrected gently and with trust, otherwise you can hurt them and they shy away and refuse to listen, even if you're trying to help.

https://www.bcss.org/support-resources/living-with-schizophrenia/managing-delusions/
If someone is stuck in a cult you don't reject their version of reality, just affirm that there's something to believe in that keeps them safe. In other words, that they can always come home, get a hug and be told it'll alright. It's bad to dismiss someone's experiences, so instead give them safe experiences to believe in instead.

This is why I think a protagonist like Chibi Robo, that's simply looking to make people happy is perfect for this game.

@robotreptile I felt it too, "Oh sweetheart, I'll help you." was something I thought so loudly.

I don't think the rebranding was necessary.

Nintendo is in touch with their fans, but they also have their own interests. I think there's a bit too much fanservice right now, and not enough new original ideas. I've been watching the E-Shop best sellers and Drag x Drive is consistently on top of the download only charts, so I hope that they start trying more new things again, instead of only fan favorite things.

@PikaPhantom That's the same thing the news does for politics, The difference between uncertainty and certainty is supremely important.

@AmplifyMJ It's a different kind of masterpiece all together. Like sonic in the 2010s.

@AmplifyMJ I thought I had switched back to the tab with the article about Bubsy 4D, and this made me raise my eyebrows.

@HotGoomba I agree, but let us accept the mercy they've offered us... for now. We can complain about the price when our purses and wallets complain about the purchase

@PinderSchloss isn't more dehumanizing to assume that isn't safety gear? It's a decision for budget to not show the face, and they did it in the best way they knew how. rocketing around in a wheelchair and doing skateboard tricks is risky.

This game is a budget game to test the idea of shorter dev cycles on less ambitious games. Unfortunately they didn't try pixel art.

Fantastic!
What wibbly wobbly joy!

@Jhena It's not terrible to look at, before I spotted the upscaling errors, It was a message praising PilotWing's use of 3D primitives and simple materials to create an early 3D style... but people would have seen me praising and detracting from the same image, in the same comment. I think that the color grading in the replacement I posted is too warm, and the vigenette is annoying, but the film grain, and background not looking like a bunch of creepy white lights stuck in mud + the halos, makes me prefer the original photo.

Those halos, sometimes an AI tries to reward hack by storing low contrast data in there, I remember a paper about generating a google maps topdown image where the AI cheated like that. I don't think it's the case for this one since it's a GAN, it's more likely doesn't know what to do when there's a sharp border between two colors, but I don't know that. GAN's aren't good for generating images because the whole image tends to come out like those halos, while only having a chance of vaguely resembling the image. I don't remember at what stage of research upscaling became common. so take my claim that its pure GAN with a grain of salt.

It appears this thumbnail is an ai upscale of a photograph of the magazine print.

@nintendolife you can find a better thumbnail image here!

It's lower resolution, but it doesn't have any upscaling artifacts, such as the light halo around the characters, the distortion in the second woman on the right's hand, and the subtle waves in the irises of every character.

This thumbnail looks like it was upscaled by a GAN, an early model meant purely for upscaling an entire image rather than the diffusion models we have today that try and determine the concept an area of an image is trying to convey. The halo of light around shaded areas, the distortions and how stuff melts together like the strong man's moustache, or the blonde woman's eyes(though to be fair in the original both are really difficult areas), the lines aren't straight anywhere. I learned about GAN models through the youtuber caryhk.

Diffusion models often repeat things in odd places because the image is made in parallel to speed up the process. If you were to generate text this way, you'd get repeated words or syllables in the wrong places more often too. Text usually seems more coherent because it's generated linearly.

Either way, these processes take massive amounts of energy to train and run, which: uses clean energy that would be spent elsewhere and warms our planet through fossil fuels. Because of the pace of output and reliably shady training it causes many stresses for everyday artists through numerous avenues. In other words it's similar to fossil fuels, drugs, and cars. It has negative consequences, provides benefits that mask those consequences at a rate that's "good enough" for people to want it.

A sustainable solution for intelligence already exists in the form of humanity, so please take care of it and be kind to everyone.

Please keep our planet a nice and cool place to live.

@obijuankanoobie Pirate software, a known liar is the guy that claimed the code was terrible.

I was looking forward to this game, it has good artstyle, if you greyscale it, the lighting balance is just right. Most games nowadays are bright white or black for the majority of the screen if you greyscale them. I have a feeling the framerate was limited by their rendering techniques. They really needed an expert graphics programmer on this.

the limbs are weird.

@Spider-Kev 60 hours is short? I think you may have alot of time on your hands.

@AccessibleDaydream Internally nintendo refers to game objects as actors. So it follows that levels are stages.

NO! Pikachu! Don't play on the PS5!

@Antraxx777 It's difficult to tell due to the mesh skin they apply to the voxels, but they look chunky in general, so I don't know what to think.

@N00BiSH Yeah, it saves aton on memory for voxels. It's kinda worrying that nintendo didn't say they considered it. IT also has framerate benefits, and is super easy to perform level of detail on.

They didn't use sparse voxel octrees? that's lame.

I confused this with the other headline and thought miku had passed away. How's her voice actor holding up?

Wait, this is voxels? Not polygon booleans? I mean it makes more sense.

These are funny patch notes.

Mine heats up when I leave it in the dock in sleep mode.

@Maxz hr is your missing in spong""bob.

rst assurd, it will b ditd out of this mssag if you dcid to tak it.

I knew it. Those preposed people are hallmarks.

I can see the things you're doin' and you think that I'm naive
But when I get the goods on you, she'll finally believe
Well, she says it's all just drama, but every bubble's got to pop
She's gonna see just what you're doin'
And then you're finally gonna have to stop

Don't think you're gonna win this time
'Cause you better believe I'm gonna drop a dime on you
I'll get ya (Yeah), I'll get ya (Yeah)

And when I do, you're gonna be busted (Busted!)
I don't wanna put the hurt on you
But you better believe me
When I tell you that I finally got the dirt on you
You're busted (Busted!)
Yeah, she's finally gonna see your lie
This is how it's gonna be
When she finds out that I was always right
You're busted!

There's a new cop on the beat
And I'm bringin' down the heat
My eyes are wise to all your lies
'Cause you're not that discreet

And I don't care what you've heard
'Cause there's one six-letter word
It's gonna set me free
Gonna set me free
It starts with a B
Starts with a B

It goes B-U-S-T-E-D, you are busted (Busted!)
I don't wanna put the hurt on you
But you better believe me
When I tell you that I finally got the dirt on you (I'll get ya)
You're busted (Don't think you're gonna win this time)
Yeah, she's finally gonna see your lie (Drop a dime on you)
This is how it's gonna be
When she finds out that I was always right (I'll get ya, I'll get ya)
You're busted!

They look like flight attendants. That's an awesome look.

This is how I feel about microsoft now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVvCCqC3Cik

@HotGoomba I dunno... there must be other series where it's funny if you replace the first letter with f in each word.

Like Fokemon Fword and Fwield. It's Irish-ish and it has the F word

Pauline is furious at the prices.

FAAASHION!

FashionFashionFashionFashion.

Fashion. Fast Fashion.

Fast Fashion is bad for the planet. It should probably fall out of fashion if we are to survive and look hot while doing it.

Oh wait K-Pop? huh.

@PikaPhantom you need to give your mom a shout-out now. You're in the news, its tradition.

Finally the favorite game of the Copyright office!

Oprah quote here.

AI is scientifically shown to be extremely persuasive, to the point of inducing extreme delusions in people of all intelligence levels. So I think that communication is a natural use, if not dangerously reckless. Things become so easy to explain that less time is wasted.

That is unless your employee becomes part of an AI cult... that may be bad for business.

Here are some resources on this to learn from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKCynxiV_8I
https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ais-powers-political-persuasion
https://academic.oup.com/hcr/article-abstract/48/3/386/6564679
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08721

@nessisonett I have very valid reasons to be suspicious of people who genuinely dislike undertale and by extension deltarune. Not indifference, not disliking the fandom, like genuine dislike or hate of the game or story. Everyone deserves a chance though.

Great warrior Mouse Work, shine forth! Achieve what has been withheld.