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Another generic live service bites the dust. Sure, keep trying for the formula that only works for about 5 games in the whole world at any given time.

I like how it thinks it is likely from a videogame, but somehow, it's absolutely certain it has the character's name.

And then a bunch of facts about famous videogame character Lemmy Kilmister.

Only yesterday, I searched for a very simple figure, the number of public service agents in a specific administrative region. This is, obviously, public information. There is a government site where you can get it. However I didn't know the exact site, so I searched for it on Google.

Of course, AI summary shows up first, and gives me a confident answer, accurately mirroring my exact request. However the number seems way too low to me, so I go check the first actual search result, the aforementioned official site. Google's shitty assistant took a sentence about a subgroup of agents, and presented it as the total. The real number was clearly given before, and was about 4 times that.

This is just a tidbit of information any human with the source would have identified in a second. How the hell are we supposed to trust AI for complex stuff after that?

I've only experienced LBP3 (which I understand was probably not the best part of the series) and found it just okay...

However Dreams is the one I wish Sony didn't abandon.

French, I've tried bépo because AZERTY (the French standard since forever) seriously sucks. AZERTY is missing lots of diacritics and corresponding capital letters (including very common ones), lots of opening and closing characters are inexplicably separated, ... And the same bullshit as QWERTY, no thought behind where alphabetical characters should be beyond 19th century's "the mechanical arms of my typewriter should not cross too much".

However I couldn't commit to bépo and gave up. AZERTY is too ingrained in my mind at this point.

That paper lantern monster design feels familiar. I'm wondering if I've seen that asset somewhere else..

Yeah, it stinks. Another thing that makes me wish we'd got that Dreams PC port that was apparently considered at one point.

Very cool platform, powerful yet (somewhat) easy to use, and no other incentive than creating and sharing cool stuff. It's mostly dead now , but PC would have given it the critical user mass it needed.

A good deal of people making ~~games~~ experiences on Roblox are minors. They're being promised revenues, but of course they're paid with bogus money that they're encouraged to spend back on the platform, since cashing back is subject to an absolutely ridiculous rate, and to a minimum amount. Only the very few at the top can pretend to get anything back as real money. But all of the games, even the ones that never makes a cent for their creators, are the content Roblox milks indefinitely.

Roblox development is a jungle, completely unregulated and managed outside of the platform by design, since they want to deny all responsibility for any of that shit. They kill the platform forums so dev teams are being formed outside, on discords and stuff. Teams with minors working with adults. Yes, there were cases of exploitation, and worse.

That, and also possibly a mod. With procedural show descriptions like other art forms.

On the subject of entertainment, I'm always wondering who the hell makes TV programs and broadcasts them to the Rim. Are those local? I can't really imagine a distant extra-system world having an interest in an audience from the Rim.

So who? Bored Archotech with inscrutable reasons? Propaganda from the fallen Empire? Art projects from other colonies?

If so, why don't I have weirdo colonists that start filming themselves and improvise a late show?

8 (DX but really my favorite parts of it were already on Wii U). 8's tracks are incredible (not the booster packs one, those are a mixed bag and none really reach base game/Wii U dlc level).

Wii comes very close though. It's the first to have good item balance IMO, it gets rid of the left-right bullshit to drift, and circuits are quite fun too. And some bikes are a blast, though to the point of being overpowered.

I just think of 8 as "we took everything good in Wii and made it a bit better".

Guy didn't get the memo and only signed for Valhalla expecting booze and hot Valkyries.