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by the_af 5d ago
Heh, I know what you mean. I enjoyed the action minigames and figuring out what to do, but some people found them frustrating. Mostly, what I remember is the outstanding voice acting, and the most memorable intro ever. Yeah, whenever I thin
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by the_af 5d ago
It's the theme and characters. Remember this game predates Coco by a lot! If the Day of the Dead setting does nothing for you, then you'll dislike the game. But if it intrigues you, you'll likely love it. The puzzles are arbi
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by the_af 5d ago
I also remember the criticism of Full Throttle, but it always rang hollow to me: a game is not just the puzzles, and also some people complained about the action sequences, but for me they were welcome (even if too easy). Everything about
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by the_af 5d ago
Agreed. Grim Fandango is a game that's all about the setting and characters. For that alone it's a masterpiece. But the puzzles... ehh..
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by the_af 6d ago
"That isn't me" in the above comment means "I know I can grieve, but I can only tell indirectly other people can do so as well." It doesn't mean "I've never felt grief".
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by the_af 7d ago
Haha, sort of. I guess I disagree with your claim the majority of people think math is "more" than proof. The majority of people think it's less : they think it's doing high school arithmetic. Most people don't kno
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by the_af 7d ago
A majority? I doubt it, simply because the majority doesn't know what math is at all. At university level introductory calculus, the person teaching class had to reassure students that math wasn't entirely arithmetic or adding up
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by the_af 8d ago
Fanfiction.net is a niche. None of my scifi loving, tech friends are aware it exists. And neither did I (or was barely aware or it, anyway), until you just mentioned it. I'm not young either, and I'm more online than the average (
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by the_af 14d ago
Even worse: the comment was obviously referencing TFA, which your dismissive retort failed to address, falling back to the cliche of "every generation complains about the new and thinks old stuff was better". It's a thought-t
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by the_af 16d ago
"This site" doesn't exist. Individual people do. And you'll see plenty of people all hyped over AI or any new tech here.
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by the_af 16d ago
I think your comment is dismissive of valid criticism. Sorry, but I'm not convinced by the line of (blanket) argument who goes "the old always complain about the young". It fails to engage with the actual details of the criti
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by the_af 16d ago
I thought this was how credit cards were used the world over. It's certainly how I use them. How do Americans use them that differs from this? Color me confused. (Also: installments. They are often the norm in my country, but I underst
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by the_af 16d ago
Are you implying the same people that are pessimistic about the internet are also AI hypers or tech entrepreneurs? Because HN isn't monolithic, it's entirely possible -- in fact, likely -- that these are two distinct sets of peopl
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by the_af 23d ago
I love the game, but it was truly impossible back then (pirated, no manual, no idea what I had to do) and even today, with an emulator and every hint on the internet ;) I know it's not actually impossible, some people finished it, bu
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by the_af 23d ago
I understand the saying, I'm arguing it cannot be used as a blanket dismissal instead of actually addressing the point. My comment did elaborate a bit after the sentence you quoted. It's as irritating as those comments like "
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by the_af 24d ago
I made a specific point, it cannot be simply deflected with "every generation always thinks <thing>".
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by the_af 24d ago
An alternative that's a bit like cheating since it's not a real C64 but a lookalike running VICE is getting a TheC64. https://retrogames.biz/products/thec64/ It looks a lot like a C64 breadbin, with an a
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by the_af 24d ago
I despised the limitations of the included BASIC but loved my C64. I also had a pirated Pascal and learned a bit with it (not much). It wasn't a good platform for programming, but it still made me fall in love with computers. Getting m
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by the_af 24d ago
I get what you mean but I think it's fundamentally different. The folks back then had more control over the (limited) capabilities of the hardware, and in order not to just blindly type code from a magazine (which we all did) you had t
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by the_af 24d ago
The 8 Bit Guy has a pretty good video about the Tandy 1000, a great machine.
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by the_af 28d ago
I was disappointed with BR2049 but thought his Dune adaptation is actually good...
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by the_af 28d ago
No, he's a replicant who believes he's a seasoned detective. Nothing Deckard believes about himself is true. Or, if you believe he's human, his the typical hard-boiled detective, he did behave in the way Ford portrays in the
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by the_af 28d ago
> And the actor that played Leon (Brion James) is also difficult to watch (he was a distraction in The Fifth Element as well). Wow, couldn't disagree more. I mean, Brion James wasn't a good actor, but he aced his role of Leon
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by the_af 28d ago
I felt the same way about BR2049. I know some people love it, but to me it was an unnecessary movie that did nothing better than the original, and it only cheapened some of the characters. Also, Jared Leto: I simply cannot stand his scenery
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by the_af 28d ago
> I interpret the ending as Batty coming to the end of his life and realising that all life is precious, not just his own. The voiceover in the original theatrical version makes this very explicit, in fact.
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by the_af 29d ago
Oh, I don't think pigeons spread disease. I just think city pigeons are filthy and poop all over everything. Frequently mutilated, missing toes or whole limbs. Also frequently run over by cars. I like the kind of wild pigeons you can s
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by the_af 29d ago
> They poop on people they don't like That's not so bad! That alone makes them better than pigeons, which simply poop on everything (sidewalks, cars, people, other pigeons) regardless of any personal animosity or lack thereof
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by the_af 29d ago
Out of curiosity, what can you do to upset a crow so much? Shoo them? (Where I live there are no crows, please excuse my ignorance. Only common pigeons, as filthy as they are dumb, and they don't seem to hold a grudge, or think much of
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by the_af 29d ago
I think the parent commenter means the description could include where the planets and major events are sourced from, not necessarily a coherent timeline.
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by the_af 29d ago
What, no Scarus Sector? No Gudrun, no Thracian Primaris! Eisenhorn and Ravenor wiped off the galactic map!? Just kidding. This is pretty cool! I assume it's a WIP, too.

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