I was simply stating the truth as I always do, it is no matter to me whether you choose to be entirely incorrect in your stance and feel you must defend the honor of what is literally garbage, dear friend.
I’ve stupidly lost my phone which had my train and bus pass in it. I have to wait a few minutes to see if the police have it and until 2 to see if the bus company has it. I’ve been a bit stressed recently so it couldn’t have happened at a worse time for me. I’m due to go back home on Monday. I’m not sure if my train ticket is valid without my train pass. Arrrrgh!
+++Phewww ! A nice anonymous person handed it into the police so I’m off to claim it YAY!
Nice to know that in a world where people drive trucks into crowds that there are still nice things that happen.
That’s not what I was saying Earl, I was simply saying that anime is trash.
I miss Ady.
#bringbackadywan
No, it will be here forever.
This thread will stop existing when anime stops sucking.
It’s incredible. Several of their best songs are on that album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waIBA6_0GQc&list=PLCD1F1A58896FE333
Awesome! I hadn’t seen these before. There’s something to be said about their perfectionism.
So a while back (in Canada, actually) I won a Samsung Galaxy Tablet of some description.
I don’t really have much use for it, so what I rarely use it. What I have done lately, though, is put mobile games on it (since I use a Windows Phone and a lot of games don’t get ported that way) to see what they’re like.
So far, I’ve played a lot of the Marvel games (Future Fight, Contest of Champions, and Avengers Alliance), some of the Star Wars games (Commander, Uprising), the Jurassic Park games (Jurassic Park Builder, Jurassic World), Predators and AVP Evolution, and Mortal Kombat X (the mobile version).
I don’t really want to give each game an in-depth review, largely because there are so many, but also because so many of them are more or less the same game. All of them do have one thing in common, though: they’re not good.
For the first day or so, they’re pretty fun. Easy to get into, fast action, all that. Once you get past that, you realize that most of these games have absolutely no substance. Three of the above-mentioned games (Marvel Contest of Champions, Jurassic World, and Mortal Kombat X) are all fighting games, but they’re so painfully simplistic. You tap to attack, tap in a different way to block (which is never responsive enough to be used to stop an attack in progress). They’re more fast-paced strategy games than actual fighting games, which is okay for the first “tower” or “campaign” or whatever, but there’s no differentiation between characters outside of their looks and their special attacks (which do basically the same thing, just look different).
There’s an idea of progression, but it’s done in a stupid way throughout these games: you use certain consumables to level up your characters a certain amount of levels, then you use another more rare/expensive consumable to raise their “rank”, after which you can use the first consumable to level again before you can rank up again. It takes ages to do (unless you pay of course!) and feels stupid and unnatural. The only thing that ranks up as you play the game is your “player rank” which generally raises your total amount of “energy” (a resource that you use up when you play a level. No more energy, no more playing unless you wait or buy more).
Then there’s the grind. I really do not like grinding. It’s boring, and I never feel like I’m accomplishing anything. I don’t enjoy repeating the same small piece of content over and over again for a .01 increase in whatever stat. And that’s in fully-fledged games with complex mechanics; with these mobile games, there is no difference between one piece of content or the other aside from how it looks on the surface: all the enemies are the same, all the levels are the same, all the mechanics are the same. It’s an incredibly futile exercise. And if you don’t want to be nickel and dimed to death throughout the game, the grind is worse, because all the above-mentioned consumables can only be gotten in limited quantities through RNG as rewards or heavy grinding of repetitive content.
Finally, there’s the paywall. As alluded to above, every one of these has one at some point where the game becomes prohibitive to play without paying. If not that, it makes it extremely annoying; and if not that, it puts the best equipment behind a cash vendor.
I’ve been playing them here and there in my spare time, and I picked up the games today maybe a week or two after first installing them and found I just have no will to play any of them. These things have a long way to go before they’re worthwhile.
It’s incredible. Several of their best songs are on that album.
The former.
Kinda a BS cop-out to not give an eye color. I mean, they gave him a height and shit.
I remember finding a video on YouTube that was intercut with porn. It was weird.
The last third of EVERY side of EVERY record suffers from audible Inner Groove Distortion. It is a fundamental, inescapable limitation of the vinyl medium. As a partial ameliorative measure, the cutting engineers painstakingly REMOVE higher frequencies from the waveform gradually as they move into the center of the disc. This is a measurable, audible, undebatable LOSS of information and fidelity. And it HAS to be done on EVERY record.
And it sounds, frankly, like goddamn shit.Truth. My copy of Aja by Steely Dan suffers from this for sure, and it’s a damn shame because the songs on the outer grooves are perfect.
Weird, I listened to Aja just a bit ago.
Anime video games are still anime and just as bad.
I went on imgur to find a neat image and that whole site is just totally trash now.
I brought this instead.
Sorry, I don’t grow facial hair that well unfortunately.
Prawn.
That’s crustaceist.
GOOD! I embrace this new title!
Prawn.
allol
Agreed.
The algorithm more or less “listens” (there are a lot of different ways to do this, but it works similarly to how Cortana or Siri work) to the file and then matches what it “hears” to the sound of words it knows.
It seems to swing towards political and news stuff, so those are probably things it hears a lot so it favors those.
Off topic, but how on Earth this kind of algorithm helps anyone? If you were deaf you’d be better off just guessing by yourself. It’s just a ridicilous thought that someone has actully published the entire system and been serious.
It might not help anyone directly, though it can be used as training for future development.
Yeah it’s likely more of a testbed for improving that technology rather than a serious thing.
I prefer to listen to audio on a reel-to-reel.
Richard can you write my thesis for me? Thanks, I’ll leave it on your desk.
EDIT: Or am I mishearing and he said double share?
Haha yeah.
Things that excited me:
Ezra’s new look (I’m reminded a bit of Taxi Driver when De Niro shaves his head and shit gets real).
Ezra has a real blaster now, and he uses it liberally (looks like a Rebels-styled DL-44?).
Ezra has a real lightsaber now, and it’s green! (sounds different than a normal saber, too, intriguing…)
People get hit with lightsabers a lot.
Hondo.
An Ugnaught gets blown up.
It just feels darker.
Saw the clip on The Star Wars Show earlier. I’m really excited for Season 3 now.
So he’s one of those half-black, half-white/half-white, half-black aliens from that really lame Season 3 TOS episode?
Look to the cookie, Duracell.