Installers deal with more than just unpacking files into a folder. There are often prerequisite shared libraries that are included in the installer that AREN’T in the game directory, which may or may not need to be installed along with the game depending on if your system already has it.

So just double-clicking the .exe after copying the folder to a new computer is not reliable in the same way GOG’s installers are.

I’m pretty sure that’s what you said last time.

You still lose the internal state between each token in the database output. It would let it plan, but it would still be externalizing that planning, one token at a time. Condensing all of the internal state into a single token at a time still means huge losses in detail as well as fragmentation of responses, resulting in all the problems that you see with LLMs.

Somehow the actual internal state needs to not only be preserved, but fed back into itself. That’s how brains work. Condensing it into tokens isn’t enough.

Whuff. And GenX’s collective opinion is unlikely to have changed in the meantime.

A bit absurd that for all the anti-establishment sentiment, they largely uphold gender norms.

Goddam, Minnesota. Huge props to your work. You have my admiration.

For it to be data rather than anecdotes, you need to gather the data. Survey not just the examples you have, but the people outside of the demographics you work with. Form the questions in a way that gathers the data you really want - split it out to give you granularity. Are you a member of gen X? Are you LGBT+ yourself? Do you consider yourself an ally? Do you support the gay community? Do you support the lesbian community? Do you support the trans community?

Right now, the cohort you have the most experience with is the people who have suffered, which will skew your conclusions. However, this is the anecdotal evidence that tells you something is fishy. The next step is to get actual statistics.

So there are a lot of allies, but this guy’s asshole family isn’t actually one. Just because this is common doesn’t negate the existence of actual allies. Remember, anecdotes are not statistics. It can be a reason to be cautious, but it is not a reason to deny the existence of a group.

It is frustratingly common, but very much not okay. Responding to rejection like that shows a lack of maturity and respect.

parents have to be in 2 places at once for both kids to take the bus

…Why does the non-special-needs child need a parent to wait with them? Are they prone to wandering into the street or something?

You don’t need tons of money, until you get an Expensive Disease and all of a sudden you need a LOT of money.

The number one cause of bankruptcy in the USA is medical debt. Unless you have insurance, in which case the number one cause among THOSE people is … actually still medical debt.

If you’re the kind of person who worries, the idea of not ever being able to get ahead far enough to guarantee anything really, really sucks.

Except that we’re going to start asking for more pay to clean up after AI slop.

God, I wish life could go back to boring in the USA.

That’s because having tons of money is the only proven way to not have a crappy life in the USA. All the public services and citizen protections are undergoing rapid disassembly, without which one wrong move can put you on the street.

they actually don’t own the game

This is a fact that has been made apparent repeatedly. We know.

However, you were replying to this:

Make us individual game owners pay license every time we download and install the game?

With this:

This is how it’s been done for decades now?

…which is patently false.

The first, animated, movie. I refuse to see most live-action remakes, and any exceptions are carefully considered.

Muppet Treasure Island
A Muppet Christmas Carol
The Princess Bride
The Great Mouse Detective (the most faithful movie adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, fight me)
Inception
Ghost in the Shell
The Little Mermaid, but not by choice. It was my little sister’s favorite movie and she would genuinely watch the VHS tape of it, rewind it, and then watch it again immediately. My brothers and I once entertained ourselves on a family road trip by quoting the whole movie, word for word.

Every time a company tries to restrict the number of downloads/reinstalls for a game that you buy a license for, it has backlashed so catastrophically that they’ve walked it back.

So it has happened, yes, but there is no situation currently with game distributors where you pay a license for a single download. They’re all pay once, download in perpetuity.

Maybe Montana can have both.

I’ve exhausted other avenues of exploration. I’ve long ago hit the point of diminishing returns on my important stats. Upgrading my primary loadout is prohibitively expensive at this point, and switching weapons isn’t helping my damage output.

I have the Claw, but it only lets me parry specific attacks - if I can remember to use it at the right time, and time it just right. Which I need to learn, which is difficult when phase 1 is such a slog.

Usually I can power through and rely on gradually gaining muscle memory against the bosses, but for whatever reason Malaketh is the exception. He’s my kryptonite, and I really, really, REALLY hate that first phase (and the fact that it doesn’t teach me anything about how to fight phase 2).

I wanted to beat him myself. I’m starting to think that summoning may be my only solution.

Yup.

There are very niche situations where a free market actually works - situations where there is no hidden information and no barrier to entry, where monopolies can’t arise due to the nature of the specific market. By the nature of these restrictions, nothing of any importance will ever be supplied by these markets.

So the thing that I learned - which really improved my time with World (I haven’t played Wilds more than ten minutes because I play on PC, and it was TERRIBLE there) was that MH’s combat is all about positioning and early reading of enemy tells. You need to make sure you’re in the right place at the right time to get off a good set of hits without getting punished too badly, and you aren’t going to be able to dodge attacks like you’re used to doing in DaS games. Making good use of your slinger and the environment is also way more important than you might initially think.

There is also, however, the fact that it throws a bajillion mechanics at you without good opportunity to absorb them. It didn’t really click with me until I went through it with a seven-year-old.