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    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

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    BG3 is unbelievable. Renews and honors the earlier ones in a way I didn't think was possible these days. Someone paid close attention to the charm, locales, deep-ass DnD mechanics, clunky inventory sub-game and constant near-death clutch combat. Maybe looks a tad too polished and colorful (the Shpongled Underdark in particular) but the scale of it all is mind-boggling. Have only scratched the surface at 50 hrs in but I absolutely love it. 

    I'm doing a wonky try-everything Drow Rogue/Fighter thing, and playing rogue means depending on sneak attacks long before I'm in conversation range. That leads to all sorts of strange consequences story-wise, not to mention my taste for bad choices like experimental surgery, brainworms and unholy necromancy.

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    When Astarion showed up, my vampire PTSD from the previous games set in and I drove a stake through him before I even figured out what a big story character he was. 

     

    The barrel-hoarding and stuff-throwing mini-game has some serious nuance to it. 

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    Dune

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    Part 2 was really good. Picked up the pacing right away, maybe too fast towards the end to get all that through the gate. Kinda bummed pt 3 won't be anytime soon, maybe if it does really well at the box office it will grease the gears.

    I preferred the quieter bits without the score, especially as there wasn't really anything new from the first part. Imagine The Dark Knight with the Batman Begins score... The sandworm sequence got so loud that the speakers in the theater started clipping, what a bummer. 

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    Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians can no longer release music only “once every three to four years.” Spotify's stock value hit all-time highs of $50 billion this summer.

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    On 2/12/2024 at 6:10 AM, ignatius said:

    not surprised. he made a few videos about them and early on mentioned they paid attention to one of them and perhaps reached out to him but my memory is fishy on that as it was a long time ago. 

    spotify does suck. 

    in case anyone needs reminding

     

     


    Edit: after doing some reading it seems this happens often enough. Someone’s track or tracks will get added to a playlist created by a bot. Some how this is part of fraud by whoever controls the bots? Idk. Generating “fake” streams? So eventually the playlist gets flagged and relevant people take a look at it then take some action. So, even though the artist whose song is in the playlist didn’t tour it there, their songs get removed. Weird. 

    Benn has consistently delivered truth bullets on the matter and how horrific it actually is. 

    In regard to unsolicited bot streams, this happened to me on SC and my only guess is that they want random stream targets in order to obfuscate who they're paid to benefit. I looked up the bots' listening history and it was a consistent few dozen thousand plays on every artist. So the blunt-force response is to remove every artist associated with the bots. 

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    AI Art

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    2 hours ago, Nebraska said:

    this is pretty good. do you know who made it? i'd be curious what prompt they used and how much control they had.

    I made these with Bing's Dall-E 3, I'm pretty sure the exact prompt was "Frank Herbert's Dune movie from 1940, black and white, film still". Hit reset a few times and grabbed the ones I liked. Varying the prompts and trying to get more control came after that attempt. Dall-E doesn't really have a great amount of control, but it responds well to additional short suggestions and then hoping it's not a copyright-related blind spot. Hergés Lord of The Rings turned out awful. 

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    The Big Star Wars Thread *SPOILERS ABOUND*

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    29 minutes ago, Key said:

    Whats the deal with so much opprobrium? Is it cause of people's misdirected emotions?

    I have no faith any new Star Wars movies will be good - but  not because theyve now hired a brown woman to direct it, or not because of Kathleen Kennedy or Disney but because the well has run dry - theres only so many times you can tell the same story about space wizards defeating space nazis. They have already had guys like Ron Howard, JJ Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan people with tested story writing/directing experience and look how that turned out. Face it dudes its already dead.

    That's sort of the point, the times have changed and the demands of film production are incompatible with a good vs evil space romp. There are too many demographics to consider, some of which have expectations filtered through childhood memories while the rest would be bored to death by classic SW. What feels modern in terms of character tropes and story arcs has become too convoluted, while special effects (practical or CGI) as a central component of film making have overstayed their welcome. We have these billion dollar extravagant CGI monsters and everytime you watch one, it's like they don't have a point. It doesn't help that all the botched SW attempts of 25 years are canon and would likely prevent any meaningful reinterpretation. 

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