Quoting: EikeHere you go: AI needs a childhood. And "parents". It needs to be told, maybe over years, what it is doing right and what it is doing wrong. This is done in parts already, but only by cheap click workers. Nobody wants to pay "real" AI parents.

Now I'm just imagining an angsty teenage AI yelling petulantly "You're not my real parents!" 🤣

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Quoting: EikeNothing, ever, is cooler than black.

Personally, I think mine with the white skin I added and the black highlights from the buttons/sticks/bits-between-the-skin-showing-through is cooler than any mono-color scheme.

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Quoting: pbEach recording has its own directory with a lot of files in it, most of them .m4s.
mpv/vlc are capable of playing the first few seconds when pointed to session.mpd file (which doesn't work either in the case I described) but afaik the whole recording can only be played via Steam client (it can be exported, in whole or in part, to .mp4 from there). At least I haven't found another way to open these files. :-/

It's beyond my limited knowledge then, I'm afraid. I recorded a few seconds of video and I see the same general thing, but I don't know what scheme they're using to turn those raw files into an output video. Sorry.

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Quoting: LoudTechieI don't expect Nintendo to behave much differently if they do or don't believe in Karma.

There's a hidden assumption underpinning this discussion, which is that "everyone, including Nintendo, see what they're doing as bad". "No one at Nintendo believes in karma" is externally indistinguishable from "Everyone at Nintendo firmly believes in karma (to the point where it strongly affects all their actions) AND they see what they're doing as morally good".

Quoting: Purple Library GuyTo me religion operating as literary source material does not imply practicing or believing in the religion.

A good example is the term "mana," which comes directly from indigenous Polynesian religions where it means a person's latent personal spiritual power. There are native practitioners today who sincerely believe in it, but I rather doubt that the innumerable games with "mana potions" and such imply all their developers are followers – most of them probably don't even know where it comes from. (Much like having an "avatar" doesn't imply a belief in Hinduism.)

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Kinda reminds me of One-Finger Death Punch, in a way.

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Quoting: pbThe files are there but I have no idea how to open and manage them, they don't seem to be in a proper media format. Any suggestions?

I haven't tried Game Recording with Steam yet, so does it show you/can you find the location of the files on your system and try playing them with, say, VLC?

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QuoteLast year, we released a smoky translucent limited edition Steam Deck OLED as an experiment to find out if there was interest in alternative colorways (there was!).

Quelle suprise!

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Ooh, that's a good idea. I don't know if it will drive more games to keep version around, but it'll certainly be useful for games that already do that.

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Just to point out, 5 million yen is…not actually that much. Different places give slightly different conversion, but it's on the order of 32,700 USD/ 30,500 euros. Which given that Palworld sells for $30 and has sold 25 million units, could probably be found under the couch cushions at Pocketpair headquarters, and is basically a rounding error for Nintendo. It's probably already cost Nintendo more in lawyer fees to file this case, so maybe they're aware of what thin ice they're skating on and are hoping Pocketpair will settle rather than fight, while making a big show of things to their faithful fanbase?

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Okay, interesting! Thanks for the rundown.

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