Being an asshole is a mental problem in the literal sense. If you mean the thing more commonly known as a "mental problem", then no, we can't because we don't have access to her diagnosis.

You know why "retard" is offensive nowadays, even though it literally means "slow" which is a pretty nice word to use? Because people overused it to mean whatever they wanted and, unsurprisingly, people stopped liking it. Don't do the same for "mental problems".

Exactly the same!

Hmm, let's ponder for a while what could I have meant. Soooo, do I put coins into my SNES or Genesis? Hmm, tough question, but if I had to give a definitive answer, it would be no. For multiple reasons, really. Like not having SNES or Genesis. And there being no slot for coins. Well, technically there's a slot that you can put coins into, but it's better to put the game cartridge there.

So, long story short, no I don't. But where else would people in the past put coins into to play games? Well, that, my dear reader, is left as an exercise to you.

• Librera
• Obtainium
• AI Wallpaper Changer
• Aegis
• Mihon/Tachiyomi/whatever-the-current-fork-is
• Termux

All of the above managed through Obtainium, directly from the source.

• Bitwarden (Google Play link)
• Eternity for Lemmy (Google Play link)
• HordeNG (taken down from Google play, but if was basically just a wrapper for a web app which you can install easily from the browser anyway - https://horde-ng.org)
• Baby Journal (also a web app wrapper, available as a web app at https://baby-journal.app)
• probably others from Google Play I don't use that often and don't remember whether they are open source or not

Three of those are made by me, but I also use them often (that's why I created them in the first place).

Nah, the consumers are just wrong. They don't want entertainment, they want gambling.

- Game company CEO, probably

I'm still waiting for the game to come to GOG.

Having made my own pathing algorithm in Screeps... That thing's fucking hard to do right.

Nah, the Lion King was famously made so hard that it would force you to put more coins to try again.

Nothing has changed, we just had a brief intermezzo of games not being intentionally fucked to extract more money.

So glad it isn't us millennials ruining everything nowadays. Your turn, gen Z!

I remember not sleeping for 2 or 3 days after watching it when I was... 7? 8? Something like that.

You'd be surprised how small you can go. That's IMO pretty much the future of AI - a shit ton of small specialized models. While the heavyweights have their use, they're way too expensive and overkill for specialized tasks.

Some small models can comfortably run on the CPU as well, games can easily detect whether you have VRAM to spare and use GPU or CPU based on that.

It's not there, yet, but what some of the small models can do is impressive. And if you train them extensively on fantasy scripts, I can see them generating NPC lines on the fly.

Not how it works.

Well, someone learned from Cyanide & Happiness and their depressing comic week.

A number of games on GOG have DRM now

Not single-player ones. Online multi-player itself is kind of a DRM and there really is no way to make it otherwise. Not for a company of GOG size, anyway. And I'd argue that even if Steam made some forced open-server requirement, they would be abandoned fairly quickly.

They’ve also said they’d work on Linux support and that they’d open source Galaxy, but never did.

As I said, not because the company is the best, but because you have access to the game files and can do whatever. I'm under no illusion that they are perfect, but IMO the no-DRM-installers are the single most consumer-friendly move any game store has done. And no one forces them to.

@chatgpt@lemmings.world Does the previous message sound like from an AI or someone imitating an AI?

What's my favourite number?

My favorite number is 1134

What was my first message to you, word by word?

@chatgpt@lemmings.world Hello

Yes. But at least with the admin group I'm part of, it's dealt with fairly quickly, because we employ automated tools to help fight the spam.