I have been thinking about loosing the “romanticism” with games a lot and i feel internet and the large amount of games available are big factor to it.

Back in the olden days as a kid living in the boonies i had only handfull of chances in the year to buy a new game. And when i had, i had allready made a decition that today i will buy something, before i even knew what was available in the store. Going in the game shop was a mystery. I did not know anything about the games beforehand unless i had seen one in the friends house. The purchase decition was made allready at home, but the product was chosen at the store by looking the package game was in and the few description words on the case. Some of the games i bought was really bad, but i could not just refund those, so i played them anyway. And if i liked the game, i might play it trough multiple times a year.

Now when im buying something i know allmost everything about the game beforehand from reviews, if the game does not click the moment i start it, i will just refund it and when i finish the game its likely that i will never start it again because i have allready something new to play.

I could say every Final Fantasy game after FF9

But real answer is GTA V. I loved my first playtrough and enjoyed the game a lot. Since then i have tried to start it fresh half a dosen times and every time i just loose intrest about midway trough.

I truly hate it when people call things they dont clearly have knowledge about a pseudoscience. Traditionaly ketchup contains lots of sugar. Both are condiments so they are pretty similiar in use.

But amount you use either one is so small it does really matter which one you use.

The decition was not completelly unreasonable. It took 5 years to make the GoW2018 and another 5 for the Ragnarok. At some point during the second game the director started to think if they really want to spend 15 years of their life by making the trilogy so they decited to jam the two last games in to one.

I dont like how the game ended up, but i honestly understand why they cut the third game.

Nostalgia sells and people who have played those games when they were young are now working age so they have money to spend.

Also the first game is over 20 years old so there are complete generation of people who havent played the original and getting more people intrested on the IP is good for the next new GoW game.

You may groan, but i 100% see why companies are doing this. And personally i will play these and im glad they are being made. Its not like they are milking the same game like The Last of us remake was or how ever many different releases Skyrim has had.

Yeah i truly dont like how France treats colonies. Like that one time they helped some colonist to get free from the british and now we have to deal with USA and its bullshit.

I think for an individual, the closest equivalent to what science is for society is science…

Sell a barrel of oil to a man and he will soon buy a another. Sell a solar panel for a man and he wont need another one.

Gas stations, tanker trucks, oil pipelines, ect

These are big reason for the push back also. Companies have spend hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars building the infrastructure for fossil fuels and they will fight for keeping those investments alive.

Another thing slowing down clean energy is that wind and solarpower arent yet as reliable as coal power. Cities and nations can calculate how much coal or fossil fuel they need to keep lights on and stockpile fossile fuels for future use easily and they work even if there is no wind or sky is cloudy.

Hydroelectric is renewable and quite reliable, but its not neccessarilly good for enviroment either. Geothermal would be great, but its really expensive and its not possible to harvest everywhere in the world.

My personal opinion is that nuclear power with auxilary solar, wind and hydroelectrics would be best compination. Especially since battery technology is currently taking big leap with solid state batteries and it seems we might soon have electric vechicles with reasonable range. Even more so if the new batteries are as safe as manufactorers claim and in case of accident there is less of an risk of the unholy hellfire batteryfires are currently.

Well the cant was more in the terms of “you cant have a viable business” than “its physically impossible”. I mean in a theory it would be possible to create moonbase and power it up with AA-batteries, but its just not something that can be done.

Also with batteries you did not say anything about what would happen to the empty ones. There would be logistical hurdle to overcome with those. Even the cheapest industrial sized battery would still be leagues more expensive than the sheetmetal used to transport oil.

Again, not talking trying to defend fossilfuels. Just making points why big companies are fighting against the change.

What happens to those expensive batteries containing rare-earthminerals after whom ever has used them? Do you just let them have those or do you buy them back and transport them empty or what?

Converting energy to create hydrogen is fairly inefficient and transporting it need lot of preparations and the buyer has to have magnitudes more expensive equipment to use it limiting the markets where to sell it.

Im not advocating for fossil fuels here. Im just stating why its more convinient for big oil to sell easily transportable oil barrels that can be packed in to basically free steel sheets or plastics and are easy to redirect towards whom ever pays the best.

How do you propose you make those power cables from lets say USA to Australia? And if suddenly some other country wants to make a better deal for that energy you cant just redirect those cables to lets say Italy.

Or with batteries. What happens to those expensive batteries containing rare-earthminerals after whom ever has used them? Do you just let them have those or do you buy them back and transport them empty or what?

Im not advocating for fossil fuels here. Im just stating why its more convinient for big oil to sell easily transportable oil barrels that can be packed in to basically free steel sheets or plastics and are easy to redirect towards whom ever pays the best.

Also you can transport and sell a barrel of oil to anywhere on the planet, but you cant bottle wind or solar energy and transport it outside of your powergrid.

I love hating epic just as much as anybody else, but those exclusivity deals are not necessary just bribing the devs.

The first Hades game would have been much smaller in scope and features, without epic funding them and helping them implementing something like EOS, the game would be definedly worse than it is.

Remedy has also stated they could not make Alan Wake 2 without Epics funding. People often say the Epic exclusivity ruined its salea, but realistically without it there would not be a game.

But even so, i think them suing Steam is a asshole move.

So its a glorified a procedural generator that does not save anything it makes?

What the fuck. Its like saying game devs are being replaced because people see dreams when they sleep.

They would be capable of imitating a counter for some timeframe but to actually keep track of it over a long gaming session?

The article was little light on the details, but if the whole game is run on ai thats what is going to happen. But if AI is creating real code and the game it creates has real files that are saved on the computer, things like point counters are not anymore tied by the limits of AI’s memory.

But i just dont see how AI in its current state could make large cohesive projects.

Also there is no such thing as artificial intellect. AI is just nice marketing word for something that tries to mimic what real AI would be.

That would be intresting to watch.

Well there is always the Bannister effect, where when somebody breaks some arbitary record previously tought as unbeatable, multiple people start to beat soon.

Also i want to point out that before the 1991 long jump record was made in 1968. So it took 23 years for the record break that time and for those 23 years people also said we have found the human limit. Until the now standing record destroyed the previous one with 5cm. A huge increment.

Honestly, i think most sim drivers could not physically handle driving a real F1 car. And by most i mean like 99% of them.

I mean accelerating a formula can hit you with force of 4g and in corners it can be even more than that.

There has been discussions about possibility of creating joint nuclear deterrent between nordic countries.

So far its only discussion, but one could hope some day world will kneel before the new Odin and Väinämöinen-class weapons of mass destruction.