Yes, and the low-resolution pointer when you do this excessively is just unacceptable. I’m glad they’re finally addressing this pressing concern.

Music discovery algorithms don’t have to be AI slop. Some of them used to work effectively peer to peer based on likes.

You like songs, as does everyone else. The algorithm compares the songs you liked to what other people liked, finds people who liked a high percentage of the things you did, and recommends you other songs that they liked, and vice versa. Basically “Many people who liked [song you like] also liked [song you maybe haven’t heard]”.

The Decemberists have a rock opera called Hazards of Love and in one song, Annan Water, the main character is trying to strike a bargain with a river to allow him passage across it. It includes the line:

Though my mother cries that if I try I sure will drowned be

For the longest time, I would have sworn the lyric was:

Though my mother cries that if I try I sure will drown in pee

Have a listen and tell me you don’t hear that, too.

Or the entire Spire would be the story the uncles are telling Walt, from their perspective having experienced it in their younger days. Then Walt follows in their footsteps and after he completes the third run, they find The Heart hidden away in the barn cellar, instead of piles of cash, and they all go down to fight it but Jasmine comes to save them from certain death.

Then Walt’s mother comes back with a CPS worker and they take him away, and arrest the uncles for child endangerment. Roll credits.

Finally, some reptile recognition and representation!

So, there are no stupid products, only stupid customers?

In that case, I’d just pick either HG/SS or OR/AS as noted above and play one of those 4 games. If you’re just wholly unfamiliar with Pokemon: Each generation (i.e. new entry in the series) is divided into two different games. They’re generally very similar but have a few small differences, including a few pokemon exclusive to that version. The original purpose was to encourage friends to trade pokemon with one another to complete their collections; nowadays I’d wager it’s to encourage diehard fans to buy each game twice, more or less.

The two generations recommended above are broken into HeartGold / SoulSilver, which are updated remakes of Pokemon Gold and Silver, and Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire, which are updated remakes of Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. Pick one of the two games in one of those two pairs and give it a try. If you enjoy it and want more, try one of the two games in the other pair.

Every generation is basically a standalone story and game map, you don’t need to have played previous ones to get the full experience.

Have you never played Pokemon specifically, or never played creature collector games as a genre?

Pokemon has value in a competitive setting, and it’s a well-known IP. As creature collector games, there are others with far better gameplay and storylines.

Which Pokemon game you get recommended will depend very heavily on the opinion of the person making the recommendation. Personally, I’d recommend HeartGold / SoulSilver or Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire as a great starting point, but they’re older titles and don’t have some of the bells and whistles of more recent ones.

If you just want to try a creature collector game in general and don’t care about it being Pokemon specifically, I’d recommend Cassette Beasts, Temtem, Monster Hunter Stories, or Nexomon over Pokemon, but it’s all personal preference.

It’s pretty hard to lock only specific apps with this one, though.

Draft-dodging, in the US?

All I could think of. Maybe they’re using statistics from 1973.

It doesn’t help that any time a politician changes their opinion on something, the other side jumps on them for it and accuses them of flip-flopping. In reality, changing a view when presented with a compelling argument or new information is a good thing but they use it as ammunition to attack each other, so of course everyone just sticks to their guns no matter what…

There’s obviously a huge difference there. Video game NPC AI is closer to a complex flowchart than to genAI, at least traditionally - who knows what’s coming in the near future.

I’m not sure if you were being unreasonable by drawing the comparison (or by using the false comparison to intentionally instigate) or if they were being unreasonable by equating the two and banning you, but someone was.

Kobolds and OSHA violations?

“You could just go by Thomas…”

“Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks.”

You’re fine, everyone knows what you mean; it’s spelled ‘canceled’. Other poster was just being a dick presumably because they find the term to be cringey.

Edit: I have been duly informed that ‘canceled’ is the American spelling while ‘cancelled’ is the British spelling, so you’re even more correct. :)

Yes, please.

Mate, I could not care less about your screenshot. I’m referring to your posts in this thread, which extends to this very reply, where you’ve got a generally off-putting, condescending tone and frankly, I’m glad you’re getting downvoted for them, because that sort of behavior is just not something I’d like to see rewarded on the fediverse.

Have you considered that, perhaps, your prickly attitude and the tone of your posts is the source of the downvotes, rather than the content?

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Because gamers have a finite amount of time and money? New releases are literally competing for both of those.