Jamie Laks

i write for video games and do other things too sometimes

Critical Game Design PhD Student - RPI

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There's never been a more effective ad for smoking cigarettes than acknowledging the current state of the US.

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Modern global politics is a shit show but it's been nice to see that Americans aren't actually dumber than the rest of the world. We're just stupid *faster*.

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Thinking of renaming my car as Eren Jaeger because every time it goes above 70 miles an hour it unleashes The Rumbling

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@MAstronomers What it feels like when you turn off the lights before running upstairs

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@PhiDXGames I'll post my confirm when I order my Sanjuks v6 later I guess since this seems like it's becoming a thread lol

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People need to get French crullers at Dunkin so they don't discontinue them again please don't let them take my favorite donut away

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Just stood up too fast and felt woozy, think my BP's too low. Guess I haven't been playing enough Tekken lately.

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@whereisheather @anothercohen And anything under 4 inches in NY isn't considered snow. Your point?

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@rmdiablos @tomgara It's a 1-10 hotness scale/NYC culture joke but also that factors like building construction and urban planning mean that the EC (and NYC specifically) are just not equipped to handle quakes the same way the West Coat is (cause they're not as common here)

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@RPGfan_Ash @Worsel555 @maximilian_ Depends on when you started

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@707KAT @Rahll Totally. Though I also hate that class because it's very poorly structured and the professor has said to my advisors face that the purpose of her research is to make my advisor and me obsolete (we're games writers).

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Why did Dragon's Dogma have to come out the same weekend that Return to Yharnam starts?

I'm devastated, don't make me choose.

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@ednewtonrex @airkatakana @KristenPlescow I think in addition to being weighted by time, it's weighted by potential ubiquity. Previously that would've likely been related to time, but with the existence of the Internet and access to vast amounts of art, ideas, and information, that relationship is more complicated.

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@CultureCrave "Only used AI to spell check the scripts"

You mean, like, that thing that every single word processor has been doing independent of generative AI for like 20 years now?

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"You can't put the toothpaste back in the cat. That's what happens when you open Pandora's bag, the genie's out of the tube now."

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@NewProgressUSA @artstronaut @Rahll Nobody's arguing against UBI, they're arguing against your stupid fucking insinuation that UBI excuses the use of generative AI art to eliminate potential work for human artists.

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@NewProgressUSA @bengal_art @Rahll Oh you're perfectly clear. You're also perfectly wrong.

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@docgotham @Rahll If the only response is "won't the market figure it out?" it usually means that the market will not, in fact, figure it out. Because the market wants to make money and if they can take a bunch of cheap or free AI tools to flood it and profit then they'll do it.

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@ThatGenericEric @CultClassicCage @ArrancarSixta @Wario64 Nah even with this 3-5 hours is enough time to know this game is great. The best parts are yet to come, but it's still got a strong start.