I predict that in GTA6, a button will appear on the screen every time you get near a vehicle door. I made that prediction before it happened in Cyberpunk 2077 lol

It's all for the same reason. Money.

Building launchers, anticheat systems, requiring client programs and online accounts with constant connectivity is to cut down on hacking. Hacking, ripping, or however the nerds do it; is what produces cracks. The more systems they make, the more systems the hackers gotta get around, and the longer their game lasts before a crack comes out. Making parts of the game online only means that game leaks are more likely to be incomplete. Leaks lead to cracks. Cracks lead to piracy.

Piracy is the largest loss of potential profits for the industry. Revenue for a game depends heavily on how long the game lasts before it's cracked. And that is often within just days. Nintendo bitched (sued a website domain owner for millions) one time with a full study and report that determined more than 50% of sales of a new game were lost by downloads from one website.

Come to think of it, there are actually 7 snakes and 4 big bosses.

When he went from president to national ecoterrorist, Solidus went by big boss as a false flag against the patriots.

Also, Raiden's original codename for years was Snake. He's named Snake in the first room of Plant.

That sucks, I'll take your word and skip them. I had RE1 and 3 growing up and never played RE2. Those games scared the sht out of me as a kid lol

In RE3, there is a point when Nemesis starts hunting you. And he busts through the wall randomly, no warning! It was a huge jump scare because it would happen in areas that I'd already gone through a bunch and associated as safe. After the third Nemesis attack, I was anxious in all the safe areas for the rest of the game.

Have you played Dead Space? Terrifying horror game. The experience is seemless, menus are all in world and the elevators act as loading screens. Elevators, in particular, are the main safe place. It's relieving to reach the elevator and get a moment to relax.

And then, in the first elevator of Dead Space 2, I nearly shat myself when a monster attacked me lol and from then on it was like Nemeis all over again

I don't care about starfield fanfiction, maybe there is a subreddit or fandom forum that has people willing to read it. Here we criticize modern games, I doubt most had even played starfield because we all know it's empty and procedurally generated.

Good luck.

Story basedgame can be 10/10 everywhere else but a story based game needs a story that doesn't suck.

Must've been my imagination

What?? He designed a women so perfect that even her name is Quiet.

I mostly played FOB. At higher levels it's basically required once they drop the time limit down to 10 minutes. The level was designed to be tricky.

Yeah I got all the trophies too, twice lol

Lol.

At the end of MGS3, naked snake inherits the title of Big Boss. He's then cloned into the other 3 snakes. In MGSV, you play as the big boss in the original Metal Gear. The big boss at the series finale at the end of MGS4 is the same guy you play as in MGS3.

There's 5 snakes and 3 big bosses lmfao

Maybe he just has a small monitor.

The blind players don't know about the rocket launcher, so they need Dora the RCPD zombie slayer to tell them. And how else will the Indian customers know the sewer is gross? Lol

Btw are those RE remakes any good? I heard they're pretty true to the originals.

You're right. Some games need it for the design. I just personally don't like the design. My complaints are subjective, I am annoyed when every modern game requires me to "scan". So I think the best place for spider sense is with Spider-Man and used for lore rather than a required game mechanic.

In MGSV, a prequel to the legendary stealth game series Metal Gear Solid, they added spider sense in the form of a pill. You took the pill and could see enemies and interactable objects through walls. The problem was

1. The game is black and white about 90% of the time because of it

2. It totally destroys the lore of MGS.

The game series is full of crazy technology and other oddities, but the see-people-through-walls pill is by far the most insane. Not only does this pill exist, it is possessed and manufactured by the very same characters who are the villains in the other games. Which means the guards you sneak passed in MGS1, 2 & 4 had spider sense. Ridiculous.

I played that briefly a long time ago, I think. It was isometric and used a shader to see characters through walls when in smaller rooms and hallways. Right? I never played Myst.

I think it's an excuse to skimp on design which is really lazy, all it takes is shading the object slightly differently. I remember when basically every game just made the important things slightly shiny sometimes. Or add an outline. Better games would use color, composition and lighting to draw your attention to important areas. The best games were designed to not need any of those tricks; like the spinning yellow coin in Mario.

Ah makes sense. These LLMs have patterns that we are bound to notice eventually. I can recognize GPT from it's overuse of the end dash and always framing things in a sentenve with 2 groups of 3 adjectives. "It's not just ABC -- it's also XYZ."

I don't use LLMs very much because I prefer to talk to people. I've never used Claude. Thanks for informing me of this and helping me recognize AI in the future.

I'm confused

Button-cams have been around for decades.

Idk, imagine if your friend was wearing a wire. Like he's a snitch for the cops. He comes over to hang out, and you're not breaking any laws, and he's actually not getting paid by anyone to record your conversation, but he's recording anyways.

Idk, that's creepy. Recording someone when they don't know of is creepy. Even if you say they have no expectation of privacy in public, they kinda do have expectations of privacy when the recording device is literally hidden. Like, if we have a conversation in public, it's still our private conversation.

It looks like blacks get more because it is a per capita ratio. You could look at the raw numbers instead of being confused by percentages of pregnancies of demographic populations.

Statistics are usually meant to push a narrative rather than to convey information. We could do the work and take the raw data to show the actual percentage of each demographic, it would surely show that white babies are aborted more than nonwhite babies. But think about this: why is that data not conveyed and the per capita ratio conveyed instead?

I speculate it is because displaying the data this way supports the liberal narrative that abortion access is important to minorities. It also tricks conservatives and nationalists into considering the pro-infanticide position by highlighting how white women are less likely to get the procedure while omitting the ratio of each demographic to the total number of abortions.

That doesn't mean 27 to 30% of all abortions are white, it means that 27 to 30% of white babies are aborted. So while other races are more likely to get the procedure, the majority is still done on white women.

You can look it up. Or you can do basic math. If the 13% (black population ratio) does it at 3-4x the rate of the 54% (white population ratio) than they (blacks) are still doing it less (13x4=52,which is less than 54).

Scientology is a prime example of how corruption is reduced and destroyed when brought into the light. Looking into this you'll find only lost legal battles against those who expose their corruption, you won't find any example of corruption without total secrecy, and this destroys your main point that corruption does not require privacy. It does.

Say that to all the people who are, to this very day, victimized by this.

I have 0 sympathy for the "victims" of Scientology that you speak of, look into this and you'll see that they all willingly donated their wealth to the organization and then regretted it, and that's the extent of their victomhood. These idiots have nothing to do with the clear correlation between corruption and secrecy. Maybe you can think of a second example, you did say "Plenty of corruption is right out there in the open," and I disagree. The spotlight is where corruption ends.

Put your idealism away and get real. You're going to use Sparta as an endpoint? We have the internet and they didn't. You're not even trying to find a solution, you're just broadcasting your tastes, or perhaps the tastes of whoever taught you this claptrap.

Its an original idea I had based entirely on the modern technology that we have today. I brought up multiple historic examples of entire societies of men willing to sacrifice privacy to best serve their nations, because you claimed that "You will not get intelligent or talented people to serve under these conditions." Point demolished, unless you can think of a response beyond an insult and "the internet exists"...

You keep bringing up the internet and how the tech makes everything different today... Well that's exactly my point with the predictive AI surveillance state. The technology today is so advanced that ending corruption is doable, so much so that people say things like "the internet exists so why is this still happening", or "why, in the age of the internet, are things still this way".

And lastly, I still don't understand what you are saying about young people facing emgencies and having value for privacy. The system I am proposing is one that grants citizens privacy, it is a counter to the current system that tracks my daughter and keeps a database on her doctor visits, the AI company knew she had cancer before she told anyone and sold that data to ad agencies. What are you saying and what relevance does it have to the topic at hand: the idea of ending corruption using the same surveillance technology that they use on us.

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Lol brutal response. I love it. I'll respond later though, I'm busy but this is good.

We used to call those people investigative journalists and they would always die mysteriously by suicide bullet to the back of the head.