Bots will automatically remove certain words regardless of context.

I used to see this all the time in the old Sega game “Phantasy Star Online” where objectionable chat was replaced with “*”.

So “Nice shoes!” became “Nice s****!”

You couldn’t arrange to play a game on “Sa****ay”.

And god help you if you lived in a “ba*****t”.

Agatha Christie is probably one of the most popular writers of the 20th Century, and one of her classics is now published under the title “And Then, There Were None.”

If you’ve ever seen a movie, play, or game where a group of people are invited to a house only to be killed off one by one, you’ve seen something influenced by “And Then, There Were None”.

Generally the victims are symbolized by figurines on the mantelpiece which get gradually destroyed one by one as the murders progress, eventually leaving “none”.

The previously published title was the incredibly culturally insensitive “Ten Little Indians”, and the figurines were just that.

The original published title, in the UK, in 1939 - an era when we DID IN FACT KNOW BETTER was “Ten Little removeds”.

They did not change the title in the UK until 1985(!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None

There’s probably money to be made in purchasing the IP of these failed live service games and using the assets and art to make good single player games with an actual story.

I’d play the hell out of an Assassin’s Creed ish game in the Brink universe.

Xbox One X is still a better choice than the Xbox Series S.

Let me explain:

It has more RAM than the Series S, so Xbox One titles and backwards compatible titles will run with Xbox One X enhancements that the Series S cannot run.

It has a physical disc drive for backwards compatible titles, DVDs, Blu Rays, and 4K UHD movies. The Series S is discless.

The only downside are newer games that are exclusive to Series S/X, but really, how many are there? Cyberpunk 2077 plays on the One X.

The new Forza won’t run, but the older ones should!

Source: Put the Xbox Series X and PS5 in the living room, moved the Xbox One X and PS4 to the bedroom. Still use it!

Heard all the good things about Disco Elysium and found it on sale for the Steam Deck… Could not stand playing a character with traumatic brain injury. I thought I did something wrong generating the character, no, fanbase assures me that’s the way it’s supposed to be… Refunded it in less than an hour.

They can, but they also don’t meet the corporate dictate of “Everyone use AI.” 😉

Not at all wrong, just showing what can be done with virtually zero effort and time.

I could most likely perfect it in a few minutes more, still a fraction of the time of doing it by hand. I’m not extending a proof of concept to win arguments on the Internet. 😉

But as I noted at the bottom of the comment, which apparently nobody bothered to read, there are ALREADY royalty free libraries for this kind of thing. So it also has to be faster than searching libraries that are already there.

Of course that action is it’s own time sink as anyone who has gone looking for “the perfect font” can tell you.

It did get maybe 90% there in a minute which is faster than a person would do it. Not a perfect tile, maybe take a few more interations. But not awful for cobbled together in a minute, and if your job is to come up with 50 or 100 different textures, still better than doing it by hand.

But as I noted, there are also already royalty free libraries for this stuff as well.

Well of course not, AI did it in 1 minute. 🤣

I could see using AI for tasks that are so mind numbing and mundane it might actually be cruel to make a human do it.

“I need a perfectly tileable concrete wall texture for a video game, make it light gray with random spots of yellow and white paint.”

Took about a minute.

But then, if you’re going to do THAT, there are already royalty free libraries where it’s already done.

The files are sorted by the numeric year first, up to 1950.

The two files for 1950 are together, as they should be.

But the letters are sorted alphabetically, so XI comes before XV. It doesn’t see that they are numbers, it’s reading them as letters.

If they want it sorted correctly, they should rename the files:

“1950 - 018
1950 - 019”

That would work. Interestingly enough, so would:

“1950 - Eighteen
1950 - Nineteen”

There was a quickplay where someone figured out how to beat the game in something crazy like 10 or 12 minutes.

https://youtu.be/wqpYIrP_IRc

1890s…

https://youtu.be/0_HGqPGp9iY

There’s a documentary about it:

https://youtu.be/U4hShMEk1Ew

There was even a sequel:

https://youtu.be/0_HGqPGp9iY

“Portland, y’all want Portland.”

She has a Christian cross on and the wolfman shrimp hybrid is wearing a yarmulke meaning Jewish.

Which is funnier on a whole other level because shrimp are not kosher.

https://www.jccmb.com/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/1339532/jewish/Shrimp.htm

I tend to agree with this. I had given up on PC gaming by 2004 so did not play HL2 until the Orange Box on Xbox in 2007 and my reaction was “Jesus this is boring!”

I’ve tried to replay it a couple of times since then, most recently on Steam Deck, but it just doesn’t click with me and I give up around the Canals.

Rock is on a side road so has to stop.

Scissors and paper go first, scissors cuts paper, then rock breaks scissors.

After the litany of fuck ups Bungie did, nobody should want to be the next Destiny.

Happened with me in FFVII back in the day… Doing well, had to take a 2 week business trip, got back… “Wait, did I just GET to this town or was I LEAVING this town?” No clue what I was doing, I may have just started over…