I mean, you can only gouge so much. Sure groceries and essentials can do crazy things, but people stop buying stuff when they have no money/job.

That’s another great example.

The concept is really cool, and I hope to see some more interesting attempts to incorporate more of that adaptive kind of dialogue and gameplay, but its not going to be easy to figure out how to make it work.

It’s not that the dialogue doesn’t sound right, it’s that the dialogue is disconnected from the game.

A great example was someone did this with Skyrim a while back. In the dialogue they convinced the NPC to join their party. But there isn’t any code logic to allow that, so the NPC is talking like they joined the person’s party, but the gameplay itself doesn’t support it.

Now for animal crossing you could make it work a bit easier cause the character can’t directly interact with the NPCs, but then again it also makes the endless dialogue less impactful.

The biggest issue I have with all of these is that the dialogue is never connected to the actual actions of the npcs.

Its easy to have an npc say something, but tying it to gameplay mechanics isn’t. So we end up with people asking for this in new games, but all you get is conversations disconnected from the gameplay. I’m sure there is someway to make it feel more “right”, but we’re a farcry away from making true open world games like this.

I mean, we’re hundreds if not thousands of iterations into robotics. Hell, we’ve probably had tens if not hundreds of attempts to create humanoid robots.

This is just the current iteration of humanoid robots getting beaten up for not delivering on its promises.

Given I think BOTW was just fine, I’m a little worried about Metroid 4.

I’m not sure if it’s worse that it’s releasing on the switch and not just the switch 2.

It really shows they held back on 3D All-Stars just so they could re-release Mario Galaxy 2 now.

You can us ssh to open up a vscode instance that is pointed at/running on another machine. But I don’t know if that works with the Web version.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

There is also a tunnels extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.remote-server

How does a regular database not do that?

Either it’s tracked or its not, the medium for that tracking doesn’t really change much.

Not actual cash, but they require in game currency.

I think it’s a mixture of that and the fact that when OpenAI saw that throwing more data drastically improved the models, they thought they would continue to see jumps like that.

However, we now know that bad benchmarks were misleading how steep the improvements were, and much like with autonomous vehicles, solving 90% of the problem is still a farcry away from 100%.

For your first question, I think the average person would benefit from a simple digital currency that let’s them exchange “cash” without having to jump through a bunch of hoops. Venmo, Zelle, etc. are all proof that normal people want easy ways to pay each other.

As for your second point, I’m not sure I follow. But I assume you’re implying that crypto is better because it isn’t tied to the state?

So I’ve been reading into stable coins a lot, because I don’t understand why anyone would care about them. And what I’ve come to realize is they are a benefit to two groups:

• Financial institutions: Stablecoins have fewer regulations and basically allow for things you can’t do with actual dollars/currency
• People with limited access to financial institutions (think poorer people and/or countries): With fewer regulations it’s easier for people to transact Stablecoins than dollars/currency

At the end of the day, it feels like a “true” digital currency would be the better solution, but everyones jumping on Stablecoins because they’re here now and less regulated.

I think there is potential in a more cash-like digital currency, but Stablecoins seem ripe to break in some unforseen way, especially given the current administration.

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I think it’s also one of the best DS games. They somehow packed the full fight experience into the DS and I don’t know why it wasn’t a bigger game.

Yeah, that came out of no where. I thought it was great, but also figured it would likely traumatize a number of kids.

I was sad the movie didn’t do better in the box office. It wasn’t the best, but it was a fun original story.

Wikipedia has a pretty good list of big “firsts” for cgi.

It notes that Disney first used cgi for the clock tower in The Great Mouse Detective. However it seems like it may have been cgi generated frames that were then hand animated over.

As for Aladdin, maybe first to have cgi character? As Beauty and the Beast came out 1 year earlier and definitely had cgi effects in the ballroom scene.

Note: no idea how accurate the whole list is, but that one checks out.

We definitely haven’t cracked AGI, that’s without a doubt.

But yeah, LLMs are big (I’d say really Transformers were the breakthrough). My point though was that Deep Learning is the underlying technology driving all of this and we certainly haven’t run out of ideas in that space even if LLMs may be hitting a dead end.

That’s the issue, AI right now means LLMs not deep learning/ML.

The Deep Learning/ML stuff will keep chugging along.

I think we may see an agentic AI winter, but there are so many other applications and systems that can benefit from deep learning still.

It’s sadly more stupid than that. His eyes open a portal to another dimension, although that’s been retconned and apparently now they “metabolize the suns energy”

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