Yeah, like it’s bugged. Rules don’t work as-written because things aren’t lined-up properly. There are no remaining cards in the yellow satchel because they’re mismatched with the tile stacks. Rotating the dungeon panels traps a player because any correct alignment of doors is in NP-hard.
But once you’ve improvised that all cards get shuffled back in and one-sided walls don’t count… you can walk to the exit in like two turns, right? We’re gonna Any% this bitch.
Shit, I got charged to read text messages. I’d get annoyed with people for replying “OK.”
When they work.
Sometimes they decide there’s no word in the English language that begins with a K, so you get a long pause, the word “thus,” and no alternate guesses.
Sometimes they decide this five or six times in a row and you give up and tap it out letter by letter like some kind of neanderthal.
Jesus, people, they’re not asking ChatGPT to guess who wins.
This is rollback netcode. This is literally just rollback netcode, plus a buzzword.
Neural networks are sixty years old. All that changed recently is how hard we can train them.
And this application is where neural networks should be downright magical: given complex events, you need a simple answer, and approximate guesses work okay. If the network is wrong… you roll back. Just like we already fucking do, with the lag-reducing prediction written by human beings.
The real thing to get worked-up over is - fuck software patents.
“Sow.”
Otherwise completely correct.
… shit, that’s viable. You could make that fun and funny for real. Kinda like Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes, but in cardboard. And dice and tokens and string and clay.
This one’s a Family Guy manatee strip.
This doesn’t have a damn thing to do with what’s on TikTok.
A lot of criticism against the technology and its potential is overreaching.
Every unkind word said about these dipshits in charge is true.
Delaware just hanging out all impudent.
‘I bet you’re making up stuff about me, because I’ve just made up stuff about you!’
I’m talking about moderation in general.
Doesn’t work.
Unsurprisingly, the moderators who basically just Ctrl+F “fuck you” are reliably useless at removing polite abuse. In practice they protect and encourage it. I have been told numerous times, on this site and others, to just use my words and continue arguing with what must surely be a completely reasonable… sneering goblin. Some of those same moderators have chided me for continuing an argument. They don’t know what they want and it’s gonna be your fault. Especially if you say something unforgivable, like: “I’m out.”
Recommendations:
DKC Tropical Freeze is everything GDQ is about: it looks fast, it’s a little broken, and everyone onstage has a great time.
Ocarina of Time is a no-logic randomizer, so all the items are shuffled without concern for whether the game is beatable. Sometimes getting to a boss takes three separate glitches, and then hitting them takes five.
Super Sheffy World is the best of four-ish Kaizo / Mario Maker games this year. Fast-paced and comically difficult. But I’d say Kaizo Mario World 3 was the better run, if only for the final boss.
Vice City’s hard-mode mod is a delightful trainwreck. The game actively does not want to be in a speedrun.
Tetris showcases are always fun. This year they did Grandmaster 3 in Shirase and Grandmaster 2 in Death difficulty.
Elden Ring was a lockout bingo race - two runners trying to check off random goals.
Super Metroid races are the finale for a reason.
It’s inside an erupting volcano. Be my guest.
Fuck civility. “Be nice or die” is a gift to cautious bastards. It’s a formula for bait.
People need the ability to bluntly call horseshit, when faced with horseshit. Polite phrasing of said horseshit makes it worse. It creates the dynamic of bullying, where an honest response to abuse is treated as justification for that abuse.
Demanding that every response should take ten times more effort, all of which will be ignored, is a rule crafted for trolls. If someone can keep going ‘oh so you mean [not what you said]? wow that’s ridiculous and awful and pushes me further right,’ and any sane reply like ‘shut up, troll’ is what gets banned, then the rules favor and protect fffucking obvious trolling. And yet: that’s what too many moderators choose. Spotting rude language is easier. A forum free of blunt responses feels like you’re helping.
But it’s fundamentally not rewarding honesty, accuracy, or actual constructive conversation. It’s pretending that bad faith doesn’t exist.
Blaming people for tripping on a missing stair is unhelpful, to say the least.
Authoritarians worldwide begging to get got.
Dear powerful assholes: it doesn’t take much to stay on the tolerable side of pissing people off, and still get a boner from exercising control over the little people. Human beings will put up with a lot. But when you start locking people up for life, just for publicly sassing you… all you’re doing is driving that near-universal anger to places you won’t see it building.