Not entirely unexpected, we know from sampling studies that while Google's search results did get worse over the years, it got so slower than Bing, which is a huge portion of the search results of many alternative engines.

Notably this is not the developer who has done Life is Strange True Colours, Double Exposure or Reunion.

This is the ones that did the amazing first one, the meh second one, and then a bunch of non-LiS games that IMO were of varying and unstable quality. Although I'll have to make an exception for Bloom&Rage, because that one was absolutely fantastic, for all its flaws.

I really feel Don't Nod is a studio that captured lightning in a bottle, and have since mostly failed to understand how they did, and how to replicate it. They're still chasing it.

It was both, tbh.

It was a very rough product but the person above you is also right that it pushed the industry forward in a fair few ways.

Yeah and whos fault except yours is that, Satan Nutella? Huh? Who could have possibly changed things to have this be any different? Who is responsible for what the company as a whole does?!

Before the Storm is also from Deck Nine not Don't Nod, and I think you can still notice they didn't truly know how to handle the franchise at that point. It's a cool DLC though, really enjoyed it, I just don't think Chloe's "special mechanic" works well in contrast to Max's (a problem Reunion shares but since the rewind is essentially on-rails there it's far less a noteworthy).

About Bloom&Rage, hrm... tricky to say. I think what made it come together for me - because I agree the characters are overwritten extremely, and I gotta assume that's intentional with the degree to which they are - is the atmosphere of the childhood sequences, in particular the inherently-creepy elements when you're taping stuff going wonky contrasted with the extremely somber and wistful tone of the adults talking. The children being so overdone I almost see like Varric's description of the DA2 PC at the start where you're overly muscular or have a huge rack, because he's embellishing. They're remembering, but they're only remembering some aspects and overfocusing on them.
I'm in just the right age bracket to feel with the women sitting there reminiscing about their youths though. So that worked really well for me. And I loved how I didn't know how I looked as an adult, that was a cool payoff at the end.

No parallel port for a printer, either. Pah!

Yeah that'd clearly be absurd. Nobody would believe something so obviously wrong.

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Right? 😅

JPEG XL! Now that's a name I haven't heard for a long time.

Is that format finally gaining some momentum?

Ahahahaha. 😂 That is just brilliant. The kernel anti-cheat deadlock.

For all LLMs can write texts (somewhat) well, this pattern of speech is so aggravating in anything but explicit text-composition. I don't need the 500 word blurb to fill the void with. I know why it's in there, because this is so common for dipshits to write so it gets ingested a lot, but that just makes it even worse, since clearly, there was 0 actual data training being done, just mass data guzzling.

Plus eradicate his name from everything. Remove "Trump" from any building his family owns. Redact his names from donations and fundraisers, anonymize them. Basically remove him from history. Undo anything he did and make sure people cannot even know something was undone.

I'm more concerned how he had ten kids and then felt overwhelmed when his wife left him. Like what the fuck?!

It's the expected result if your big ol' artificial intelligence wannabe is ultimately just a stochastic word combinator.

Yeah the actual production here is us now talking about it. And well, the rest of the internet. The wanker is not stupid, I give him that. He must have known that just filming stunt scenes isn't good for clicks, but this is.

8 minutes? Disappointing. Hope the nurse found someone better.

Yeah exactly, the mentioned words like 'stupid' or 'lazy' aren't exclusive to describing neurodivergency at all. In fact I'd argue that's a tiny minority of their use.

HARRY DRESDEN — WIZARD
Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations.
Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates.
No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties or Other Entertainment

That's what I immediately thought of. 😅

1. consuming so much AI content has led to me able to see subtle patterns

It's a certain "tone" to their written text. It's difficult to identify from small blurbs like the ones you got there, but once you've seen enough LLM output, even if someone tells them to write in a specific "style" they'll still have a certain uncanny type of expression that is almost, but never actually, how humans write.

I especially love how you can see the terror in his eyes in multiple moments.

Finally someone handled one of these Nazis as they deserve.

I think the fact that they are very very glacially slowly delivering on things at least, all the while self-discovering software development instead of learning it, that aggravates me even more. Bloober Team could finish this faster and more competently than these clowns...