Gonna get skewered for this take but... that's slightly better than I thought it would be. I thought it would be 1500 USD at the minimum.

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OH NO brother they're RAFFLING IT!? hahahaha that's fucked

Oh yeah sorry, I don't mean to say they're wrong for doing it. I just mean that scalpers are now so prolific that this is the only way to ensure fair purchases, that's the fucked part.

I don't think it's "launched" yet since they're doing a raffle system:

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Launched in the sense that the review embargo is lifted, I suppose.

As an Ace Combat fan, don't buy anything other than the base game.

• They're playing Edition Roulette with a bunch of different bundles hoping to confuse consumers.
• They're including a mouse pad in some of the bundles. A mouse pad... for a flight simulator.
• The soundtrack on vinyl is great if you're a vinyl collector, but there will almost certainly be other ways to buy the OST after launch, and without all the other preorder gimmicks.
• Multiplayer bonuses for pre-ordering are literally paying for power. Don't support Namco's endeavor to turn this game into another toxic competitive online game.

The only pre-order benefit that I think is remotely worth it is Ace Combat Zero on PC. But there's huge caveats for that too.

• If you have a PC capable of running AC8, it is more than capable of playing AC0 on emulator.
• it's a straight port of the game from the PS2, so no new high definition assets, but...
• The Pixy cutscene looks like a bad AI upscale job. Look at his chin stubble in the trailer and you'll see what I mean, it looks like broken glass.

I'm excited for the game too, but I have reasons to be cautious.

You get AC0 even if you pre-order AC8's base edition at 70 USD. Per Namco's marketing.

I have a different comment in this thread with more details that would exonerate anyone who chooses not to pre-order.

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It has been SO LONG that I had just accepted it as a design choice. Thank you so much for this!

Faith in humanity +1

I know just the crew for the job.

Those are the exact aspects where an artist's vision matters the most. A phrase like "the lighting in this game is incredible" is only true because someone spent an inordinate amount of effort on it. Same for writing, or landscaping, or even scripting, no matter how invisible it may seem. It's nuts to suggest that those are the parts we want to outsource to a lifeless, frictionless machine.

Don't be afraid to say that there is no good use case for AI, "a solution in search of a problem" is not meant to be responded to with "challenge accepted."

Oh no, not this idea again. Nvidia already pitched this concept a few years ago. Leaving aside the security blunder of giving a player an unbounded text box attached to an unpredictable machine, it was apparent immediately that it would become a reflecting pool for the absolute worst player behaviors. Every single female NPC would be instantly derailed by trolls asking to see her boobs. I don't think even Nvidia bothered with the concept after it's first showcase.

Return the slab but chrome.

Jesus wept, look at that blindspot in front of the A pillar. It's the size of Elon's ego!

Clown on JS all you like, but if git was perfect within a week of creation, why does it receive updates? 🤔

As a Canadian citizen, he couldn’t vote for president, but he supported Donald Trump.

“I was definitely all for ‘Make America Great Again,’ and having a strong, unified country, and a bright future for my five American children, but now I feel a little differently,” he said. “I’ve been torn from my family. My life has been disregarded completely.”

And here I was afraid there was no justice left in the world. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

GOG's move into mod support seems pretty prescient now.

"If you've been watching my channel for any length of time, then you should already have a pretty clear understanding of what my personal politics are. If you've been under the impression that I've not been political, you simply don't understand what politics means. I have indeed stayed out of partisan politics and electoral politics, but I've been wearing my personal politics on my sleeve this whole time, and they've not been that subtle."

I get your point, but calling it a war zone is exactly what right wing media wants everyone to hear. It's a protest, we've had one every single weekend since 1/20, in nearly every state, and nobody needed to call the NG.

Let it not go unsaid: fuck waymo, I'm happy to see those death traps burn.

I wouldn't be surprised if this SCOTUS starts handing down "rulings" for Null v Null cases - completely unsolicited and unprompted bans and overturns of settled precedent. In other words, literally lawmaking from the bench, the thing that fascist conservatives have been disingenuously railing against for years.

I want AOC to be President, but I think Americans are too sexist to vote for her. We're a callow, superficial people.