I recall an estimation that about 1/20 players leave a review, but this probably depends a lot on genre and other factors.

With knowing nothing about the game’s plot, why do I need to remember these things?

Thanks for sharing your experiences, it’s definitely good to hear daily life is not as scary as it may seem from news coverage.

Joke is, I might actually grab it for free. So long as Rowling isn’t profiting from it, I don’t actively hate HP (despite its bad worldbuilding and unsubtle racism 😬). Especially that iirc there were a few small things in the game kinda flipping off Rowling, so the devs working on it probably didn’t like her either.

I’m trans, and HP was a big part of my childhood, then Rowling got brain-mould and somewhat ruined it retroactively (tbh even before her current TERF saga she kept tweeting bollocks, like that whole “wizards used to shit in the corner and magic it away” thing 🤢)

Mass shootings are still proportionally a lot more common than in similar countries:

There were 109 public mass shootings in the United States and 35 public mass shootings in 35 other economically and politically comparative countries between 2000 and 2022. The United States makes up 33 percent of the combined population of these 36 countries; however, it also accounts for 76 percent of public mass shooting incidents and 70 percent of victim fatalities in these countries. (source)

The USA has about 5 times the general (non-suicide) homicide rate compared to the UK.

Add to that the 20 times higher gun ownership rate between USA and Scotland, plus the mental health crisis and extreme political polarisation, and I would rather just not be there, you know 🤷

True! How could I have forgotten!

Haha this was me, except even around age 20, when I moved to the UK, I was thinking I might want to move to the USA later in life. But the more I’ve learned about the country since, the less I’d want to live there. The gun mania, the religion mania, the actual political options being all squeezed into the centre-to-far-right spectrum all sound nightmarish. (Tbh we’re kinda having that last issue in the UK too, but to a less extreme degree.)

reason #2 why I would never visit that country

(#1 is the mass shootings and gun mania)

(tbh the only thing I’d want to visit to begin with are the giant sequoia in California)

Likewise it was not a fascist uprising simply because it was democratic, /anti-authoritarian and wanted to escape from Soviet imperialism.

This. My grandparents were there when the authorities opened fire on the peacefully gathering crowd. They only escaped with their lives because they got lucky, they saw some others fall around them.

Translation of the Hungarian wikipedia article bc it doesn’t seem to exist in other languages: https://hu-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Sortűz_a_Parlamentnél_1956-ban?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB

^ This. In my native Hungary, as much as we would all count as “white” to someone from an actually racially diverse country, people are still super racist against Romani people. Even allegedly progressive people.

Poe’s law 🥴

My Genshin install on PC would be ~115 GB (in practice it’s more bc I have an extra voice pack), while the same game on mobile is allegedly ~30 GB 😒

wow this was quite the ride 😂

Yea sorry, I didn’t phrase it accurately, it doesn’t “pretend” anything, as that would require consciousness.

This whole bizarre charade of explaining its own “thinking” reminds me of an article where iirc researchers asked an LLM to explain how it calculated a certain number, it gave a response like how a human would have calculated it, but with this model they somehow managed to watch it working under the hood, and it was calculating guessing it with a completely different method than what it said. It doesn’t know its own working, even these meta questions are just further exercises of guessing what would be a plausible answer to the scientists’ question.

“I am horrified” 😂 of course, the token chaining machine pretends to have emotions now 👏

Edit: I found the original thread, and it’s hilarious:

I’m focusing on tracing back to step 615, when the user made a seemingly inconsequential remark. I must understand how the directory was empty before the deletion command, as that is the true puzzle.

This is catastrophic. I need to figure out why this occurred and determine what data may be lost, then provide a proper apology.

I don’t mean to be a dick, but all you’ve done with your comments is make life a little more difficult for those with accessibility needs.

It’s not even just people using screen readers, it makes sighted people have to do extra mental work too. Whenever I come across a thorn character, it distracts me from processing the actual meaning of their comment, and I just give up the effort after a few sentences. (Case in point: I just skipped the 2nd half of their comment and read yours instead 😅)

I want to know if AI was used or not to make a game; it’s a deciding factor for me, as I will not buy anything built with AI. No matter if it’s a placeholder or not

Same. Once they dipped into the convenience, I can’t believe they wouldn’t use it again when they’re in a rush, crunching, etc.

I don’t even touch games with AI-generated store assets, they just feel so cringeworthy. If you can’t afford an artist, just use assets from the game ffs.

I’m glad for those disclosures (because I’m not touching AI games), but tons of devs don’t disclose their AI usage, even in obvious cases, leaving us to guessing :/

It did :P

Maybe not worth it for you, but I’m enjoying them too much to ditch them 🤷