mcphage

> Entertainment companies have unlocked the infinite money glitch with remakes; not only companies but also people are afraid of trying something new, so why not profit from nostalgia.

The thing is, though—Ocarina of Time is a good game. It was a good game almost 30 years ago when it first came out, and it's still a good game today. But there are generations of gamers who never played it. So why not spend some money to polish it up for modern audiences, and release it for newer consoles?

If you haven't tried Pokemon Pokopia, it's really excellent. A great mixture of Pokemon, Minecraft, and Animal Crossing. Largely developed by the same team at Koei Techmo that did Dragon Quest Builders 2, and it has a lot of the same structure and feeling of that game, but replaces the combat with building environments to attract different Pokemon. It's been a system seller for the Switch 2, and deservedly so.

Thanks for sharing that, that was just a nice story.

When a company is acquired, sometimes the company's products get a new lease on life, and sometimes the company's products are killed, or allowed to die.

How do you evaluate the merits of a graph of information? I usually read articles like this to learn something, not to grade someone else’s assignment.

> without your jealous 1-star reviews

What makes those reviews “jealous”? Jealous of what?

> the US will probably take action against Yemen and Somalia

So we’re losing 1 war, and your solution is to start 2 more?

Oh, there’s definitely hard parts of having kids—but changing diapers isn’t really one of them.

In its defense, this is also happens to be a really good link, and every time it gets posted, new people encounter it for the first time. (And I'm always happy to see it once more).

When I was in college (back in the early 2000s) I took a course on computational linguistics as part of a linguistics degree. And we studied formal language style parsers, and statistical style parsers. And I really didn't like the statistical style parsing—coming from a math background, the formal language style parsing seemed a lot more elegant to me. But damn if the statistical parsing didn't work a lot better :-(

> We don’t do that for political reasons.

We don't do that because of all the reasons those laws were put into place.

Tiger got to hunt,

Bird got to fly;

Man got to sit and wonder, "Why, why, why?"

Tiger got to sleep,

Bird got to land;

Man got to tell himself he understand.

—Kurt Vonnegut

> I very carefully worked through, line by line. If you sat down in front of it, and asked it a question that wasn't in the dialogue, there was some probability it would answer it. I mean, if it was reasonably close to one of the questions that was there in form and in content, it would probably get it. But there was no attempt to get it to the point where you could actually hand it to somebody and they could use it to move blocks around. And there was no pressure for that whatsoever. Pressure was for something you could demo. Take a recent example, Negroponte's Media Lab, where instead of "perish or publish" it's "demo or die." I think that's a problem. I think AI suffered from that a lot, because it led to "Potemkin villages", things which - for the things they actually did in the demo looked good, but when you looked behind that there wasn't enough structure to make it really work more generally.

Ah, that makes sense. I've always wondered why SHRDLU seemed so powerful—and yet nothing ever followed up from it, you couldn't run it, there was no "we took SHRDLU and improved it". Just the same couple bits of example dialog. I've wondered if maybe it was fake? But I guess it makes more sense that it was just a very brittle demo. Like the software equivalent of a genetic sport.

I came to say the same thing. If you have to reach every cell, then you can immediately draw in the corners, for instance.

> The way they do renewables in some places: > * making everyone to use natural gas for heating by making it much cheaper than electricity

They do renewables in some places by selling cheap fossil fuels? That’s… not doing renewables.

Nice, someone even lower than my #297!

I agree... it's gorgeous, but it's missing the ocean's colors.

Drinkin outta cups

> I'd wager Joe Sixpack, brass fisher in Montana

I don’t think Montana fishermen have a broad impact on society, or its decision making. There’s just not that many of them.

What does it mean to have 0.3cm height error, when height is one of the 8 questions?

> We wouldn't have a war if Iran wasn't pursuing nuclear weapons. It's post-hoc justification.

And you feel this war is going to get them to stop?

> They shouldn't have needed a JCPOA anyway - why was Iran pursuing nuclear weapons in the first place?

This current war is why.

Do you think this war is (a) likely to convince Iran to not pursue nuclear weapons, or (b) convince Iran that nuclear weapons are a necessity for their continued existence? I'm pretty sure it's (b), and that between Russia's attack on Ukraine, and the US's attack on Iran, all it will do is convince the rest of the world that they absolutely need nuclear weapons.

You've got to set up the story beats beforehand, otherwise your viewers will complain that things show up out of nowhere.

> Although the war in Iran is very obviously justified,

Wait, what now?

> And yet we elected Jesus.

You mean that doctor?

> No, it was government mandates that played hell with peoples' social lives.

What did the government mandate about your social life?

> Pit is also popular in my family when there's a gathering of us

We call Pit "The Yelling Game". For being over 100 years old, it's elegant, clever, and fun.

Concord grapes are pretty common in season in New York State, and I’m assuming the states nearby.

> A LOT of formerly pretty high quality brands have ended up getting sold off to brand management companies and the like.

That sounds fascinating... I'd love to read an article about that.