Posts by _LS_

Yeah, he was a mod by the time I joined.

Zelda GC was never much of anything. It never had that much content on it. It was a brief project, quickly abandoned.

I haven't played the wii version, just the DS version. Although it's weird how similar the two are.

I guess it depends on how it's rated. There are people out there who place it on an impossible pedestal, and refuse to acknowledge its flaws. (Because certainly, it has flaws). Those people overrate the game.

But I do think it holds up as one of the best 3D platformers of all time. Certainly I like it a lot better than Super Mario Sunshine.

Heavy.

Do you often read that sort of thing? History / memoirs? What made you pick up this book?

I noticed link was rolling randomly, and I couldn't seem to force it. How do you make him roll?

I honestly haven't even gone through the cave in the opening of the game yet. I'll keep this thread updated as I find out whether I can get used to the controls.

Certainly not. I can't pinpoint what would have been the first, but Super Mario World did it. It wasn't every level, but a lot of levels had some method of unlocking a different path forward. I believe SMB 3 had a similar mechanic, and there may be even earlier examples.

Wow, that's a huge collection of material. Nicely collected, Kaynil!

Calian shows up a few times in the Spira Online screenshots. He was one of the first gay people I ever met, and is the one who first forced me to compare my ideas of gay people as shadowy evil-doers, and gay people as real actual people. I like that dude.

Here's one with particular meaning for me. April 2003:

http://web.archive.org/web/2002040202…lhq.com/forums/

There's a subsection for "Hosted Forums" where ZeldaGC and ZeldaConnection's forums are hosted. ZeldaGC is how I eventually found TSR, and you can see my name showing up a few times throughout that snapshot.

I've actually played OoT all the way through once. I played it a second time in 2008 or something, but I only got to the shadow temple, and never actually finished it.

If you invent a time machine, I'll write a script.

I imagine it's non-fiction?

Of course, why wouldn't we be allowed to? I've posted several myself.

If they become overwhelming, we might want to reconsider it. But there's no reason to be preemptive about this sort of thing.

I somewhat disagree.

Guides for any game out there (or any task, for that matter) are plentiful and easy to find. There's no point for writing one just for this forum. And we can already post reviews in any of the many gaming sections that already exist. Those forums already update slowly. There's no point in splitting up the topics more.

I've never really played any Sonic games aside from the original 3, but I diiiiiiiiiiid watch the whole 100+ part Game Grumps lets play for '06. So while I can't myself say the game is bad, I can certainly say that I 100% believe it's bad.

The thing is, Sonic has a really rabid fanbase.

Honestly, I think a hefty share of people who like Sonic '06 are really just such big sonic fans that they'd like any sonic game.

It was always a serious discussion. I opened with an analogy that apparently didn't land very well.

The choice to play their limitations for comedic effect was a good one. It actually plays really well I think.

I'm glad you JUST DID IT.

So, I get it. Someone said a really good game is shit, and your first reaction is "WTF? What are they smoking!?" and that's a legit reaction.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut.

Reviews are only good if the reviewer gives the score they think the product truly deserves. If we start holding reviewers to our own opinions, or to the opinion of the masses, then we've already corrupted the process. There's functionally no difference between a reviewer giving a game a good score because it's popular, and a reviewer giving a game a good score because they were paid to do so.

I was making a Youtube joke because "That Guy with the Glasses" is a famous youtuber. =P

I like how Terraria periodically releases a new trailer every time there's a big patch. Their trailers are very simple, and gameplay focused, but I enjoy them a lot:

I honestly thought this was not a serious post at all and the tag was just poking fun at this. I think at times you overestimate our knowledge, haha.
Only after you answer SP I understood better were you were coming from. I think if we teach a robot to fish we all eat but if we mass produce Robots with the ability to fish we all starve.

I think the idea of humanity free of their labours to pursue knowledge puts way too much faith in humanity. I think without labour things can go in very different ways as not everybody values knowledge or learning as much as other individuals and even those who do the topics of their interest are also so diverse as their intentions once gained certain knowledge. I think the internet is a good reflection of what kind of things we pursue. The other extreme is scary but what makes it feel closer to reality for me is how great of a business is War and the constant fight for the upper hand. Before military suit armours or Robotic Armies I am more concerned with nano-robots. As technology allows for more capacity being planted in smaller chips.

I like the rules of the robots regarding human interaction but I don't think we should build something that can screw us over if they decide to disregard the initial purpose. When I was in school I laughed at the notion of Robot with awareness. Now while I am not believing a Robot can see itself as "I", it is possible to program self-learning techniques. I also guess Hall did leave an impact when I watched the Odyssey, haha.

I do put a lot of faith in humanity. We're deeply flawed, and we're often stuck moving at the pace of the most regressive among our number, but I believe in the infinite potential of our species for greatness. It's true that in our world today, not everyone values labor, or knowledge, or learning. But I think that, someday, their children could.

If we revised our education system to promote a love of learning and of productivity, then I think the majority of humanity would come to love those things. They'd become the sort of people who could truly thrive in a society where the ability to live was freely given, rather than paid for in drudgery. Unfortunately our education system isn't geared towards that end. In my opinion, education is one of the most important failings of the United States. (And honestly, I don't know of a nation on earth that really lives up to the potential of what a public education COULD offer.)

With regards to AI, I think that's a different issue. The majority of human labor could be replaced without the full leap to truly intelligent machines. But, to briefly touch on the idea: I think the response of machines will greatly depend on how we treat them. Will we treat them still as our slaves? Then perhaps they will come to resent us. Will we treat them with hatred? Then surely they will return hatred to us.

Or, when artificial intelligence is truly created, will we greet it as a sibling? A creature that is wholely and truly a person without being human. An equal partner in our own explorations of the universe? That's the future I like to hope for.

Although, again, I don't think it necessarily connects to issue of automation being used for the general good as opposed to being used for the enrichment of individuals.