bruno
@bruno

pitch: tetris roguelike. after every round you buy new tetrominos to add to your tetromino pool. the long piece is a rare.


zaratustra
@zaratustra

unfortunately the long piece is not as rare as you'd like, because one thing i learned from a previous tetris-like game, is that tetris becomes nigh-unplayable if you don't get a long piece around 1/7 of the time



i'm gonna commit a cardinal sin now

i'm gonna say something whose conclusions align me, however temporarily, with a gamer opinion

listen i'm sorry capcom dressed up your own personal dark souls with a hideous Freddy Fazbear suit of microtransactions and now everyone hates it but take it up with capcom

capcom are the people that loyally botched the game's first impression

capcom decided to try to use steam's shit DLC system designed to sell single-purchase upgrades to the Shovel Knight campaign as some kind of candy aisle where you can purchase all flavours of Fast Travel A through J

when you go "oh sure there's microtransactions but you don't really need to look at them it's a perfectly okay game really you can grind for any single-use fast travel items you need" you're doing capcom's job, which is to hold back on their primordial, all consuming greed for five minutes in order to make people consider buying a game

nobody has to enjoy seeing microtransactions, not if they're unnecessary, not if capcom has been doing this shit for five or ten or a hundred years

nobody has to give the newbie inexperienced capcom a "break"

nobody needs to accept a little mold in their food "you can just eat around it i don't see why you're complaining" no have some self-respect for god's sakes



mtrc
@mtrc

Recently I've been approached by different news organisations to comment on deepfaked images and videos. In most cases they already know whether the thing is a fake or not, but they want to know why. It's been a pretty fascinating thing to be tasked with, honestly, and some of the examples completely caught me by surprise (warning: Daily Mail link). Many of us see faked images on a daily basis now, but there's not a lot of writing about how fakes are detected other than one-liner folk knowledge on places like Twitter. I thought I'd write a bit about how I approach the problem.