I have had to send back three inferior monitor arms and Laptop holders with bad Vesa plates.
All these Chinese companies use AI to build their listings and 30% of what the listing say are wrong and misleading about various selling points and features. It’s blatant “mistaken” false advertising. AI will kill Amazon and shopping. AI crap will kill Computers, Tech and Video games.
It will promote more spam and bots and then…
Here Bellular a WOW Yout=Tuber reports how Microsoft–the current owner of WOW is firing WOW developers and replacing them with AI tinged phoney games, run by outsourced AD agency-like firms.
Yes AI will kill everything and the world will end up in a ICE AGE for 50,000 years.
Computer games become only mechanized junk made to subdue children’s imaginations or education.. It took 7 years for MSOFTINTHEHEAD to provide a way to easily turn off the MSN AI News feed.
Currently playing Zelda Echoes again. I set it down on the OG Switch because its performance was… not good. It’s a double V-Sync game so when the framerate would drop slightly it would drop the framerate to 30fps out of nowhere. Echoes is a surprisingly taxing game on Switch so it just ran bad because it was constantly switching between 30 and 60 fps.
On Switch 2 it’s been patched to run at 60fps locked, so the double V-Sync issue has been gotten rid of. It’s a shockingly good little experience.
I haven’t built any bridges in a while and then just kinda went nuts with a couple of days off of work.
A fun little weekend game, and it’s a fair price for the 70 levels and 33 achievements. This one has the best physics engine out of all the bridge builders that I’ve played so far IMO.
There’s no budget limits, so you can either build according to the achievements, or you can build the sturdiest, most realistic bridges you’d like.
I always liked Tropico because it let me live out my fantasy of being a Latin American dictator.
The later games go really detailed with the simulation. Best thing was playing the US and the USSR off of each other to bankroll your tin pot banana republic. I mean you could always tax your people into oblivion but boy that could backfire real fast if you didn’t make sure your police state was on its A game.
Game taught me a lot about how dictatorships have to run. It’s not easy. The later games even let you ally with narco groups to help fund your little adventure.
I’m 50 hours in so far. Got the first 2 endings, working on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th endings. The 4th and 5th might not happen for a while. This is way harder than Hollow Knight. Pogo jumping, grappling hook hell of some levels.
I like the story line and how this world is also an extension of Hornet’s backstory. I’m not the biggest fan of main character dialogue in Metroidvanias, but she’s a solid hero of a main character and that goes a long way.
While I like the platforming abilities of Hollow Knight better than Silksong, it’s still just as fluid and seamless as the original.
If someone is relatively new to Metroidvania’s, the first ending is achievable with persistence and practice.
The second ending (which opens Act 3), would be a challenge for casual platformers.
The 5th ending (optional) will feature a return of Mr. Mushroom, and will be this game’s version of Hollow Knight’s optional Path of Pain challenge. I’m very exited for this one. It took me over 6 hours to conquer Path of Pain. My thumbs were raw.
When it comes to Metroidvania dialogue, nothing will ever top Symphony of the Night’s English voice track.
“What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets! Have at you!”
Although when it comes to so bad it’s fantastic English voice work for a game, I don’t think anything will ever top Megaman 8 and Megaman X4. If you haven’t played those, go to YouTube and look up the cutscenes and watch them. It’s absolutely hilarious how awful it is. It’s almost like they literally grabbed some kids off of the street to record the voice lines. It’s amazing.
