1923, "mechanical person," also "person whose work or activities are entirely mechanical," from the English translation of the 1920 play "R.U.R." ("Rossum's Universal Robots") by Karel Capek (1890-1938), from Czech robotnik "forced worker," from robota "forced labor, compulsory service, drudgery," from robotiti "to work, drudge," from an Old Czech source akin to Old Church Slavonic rabota "servitude," from rabu "slave" (from Old Slavic *orbu-, from PIE *orbh- "pass from one status to another;" see orphan).

If it was literally impossible to make any profit off AI, how do you think things would look like now?

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/58318406

Extremely useful for games that only run in full screen. There are many tweaks you can apply to them, such as hooking XInput or mapping a X360 controller to specific keys, force screen size and several other things

Extremely useful for games that only run in full screen. There are many tweaks you can apply to them, such as hooking XInput or mapping a X360 controller to specific keys, force screen size and several other things

I'm definitely giving this a whirl once I'm home from work

The entire point was to recreate Persona's general gameplay into SRB2. Yeah, it doesn't get any stupider than that! It started off as a barely playable weird tech demo that would error about everytime we tried playing it. Honestly I was unsure whether or not it was going to ever be something playable or stay as a fever dream.

Singleplayer?
SRB2P doesn't have a story mode yet (This will be the focus of the next update), but you can play any of the existing gamemodes besides PvP by yourself. Marathon Mode especially can make for a nice substitute!

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/58117483

"DOOM MEETS WHARTON SCHOOL - Aspiring capitalists test their mettle in FORBES CORPORATE WARRIOR, where aggressiveness and savvy decision making can build empires"

Yes, this is a game that exists. The 90s were wild, man.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/25896/forbes-corporate-warrior/

"DOOM MEETS WHARTON SCHOOL - Aspiring capitalists test their mettle in FORBES CORPORATE WARRIOR, where aggressiveness and savvy decision making can build empires"

Yes, this is a game that exists. The 90s were wild, man.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/25896/forbes-corporate-warrior/

With circular motion, you can spin threads, mill grain, move a wheel forward, drill holes, bring water upwards, generate electricity spinning turbines, create gravity, defeat gravity. It's just too OP

A couple of times when I've played Dynasty Warriors with my girlfriend (who has ADHD diagnosis), I noticed that she would be literally running in circles having absolutely no idea where she was. She's not a gamer and controlling the camera can be finnicky for someone who isn't used to dual analogs, so there's that, but she also has trouble reading the minimap.

Yesterday I've had her play Crash Bandicoot 3 and she got "lost" in stage 2, the first underwater level. At the first sphere with electricity thingy, she thought she was supposed to keep going right, she didn't notice the pipe opening leading down.

Is "getting lost" like that common for people with ADHD?

She's also pretty lousy at Bomberman games, but she enjoys playing them.

One of the many games that had been sitting in my library for years.

The game is very cartoony and the protagonist, Ms. Splosion Man, is the kind of splosive lunatic you'd see in cinema cartoons from the 30s and 40s. If you ever saw one of those very old Woody Woodpecker cartoons, imagine him but causing splosions at will and you're pretty close to our pink girl.

She's a lovable screwball and chatty as fuck. Nearly every jump has her quipping something, often a piece of pop music. Not only that, she's almost always dancing, whether while idling, walking or jumping - there is a large variety of poses and animations for that. If you leave her close to a wall, she'll start talking on her hand like a phone. The only thing that keeps her from stealing the show is the camera, which sits really far away most of the time because there's a lot of space for you to observe to plot your advance.

Level design starts fine, though once you get on world 2 things spike hard and fast. The game has some puzzles, semi hidden collectables and plenty of precision platforming where you have to have quick reflexes, as one failure sends you straight back to the last checkpoint. Stages 2-9 and 2-12 nearly made me pull my hair out.

Up to 4 players can play locally and MP levels are different from SP. Haven't had the chance to try that out yet.

If you've got the game in your library, give it a try and don't be ashamed of putting it down without finishing it. If you don't have it, I would only recommend it if you enjoy platformers with a focus on skill, because it can get really frustrating at times. It usually goes on sale for like 2 dollars, so it's very cheap.

Video interessante mostrando que, mesmo sem ter qualquer chance de eleger presidente, o Missão/MBL é um perigo. São efetivamente mais reacionários que bolsonaristas e todas as porcarias vergonhosas e cringe deles são propaganda mirada nos jovens ressentidos e que vai fervendo aos poucos - muitos acham que tudo é só zueira, só resenha, e é aí que tá o perigo, como todas as "zoeiras" do 4chan

I recently replayed Tom & Jerry for the PS1, a game that is clearly low budget but still is still fun to play, especially when playing against someone else.

This being the retrogaming community, I expect to hear about games up to the 360/PS3 era 😁

It's good that the idea of the kinect didn't fully die, it's great stuff for some casual gaming, the bad is that games come only via subscription because fuck you

In a rather unsurprising twist, the pilot, porn actor Mitsuyasu Maeno, was an ultranationalist.

The attack was due to the bribery scandal after Kodama was exposed as lobbying in favor of Lockheed-Martin in Japan, which the ultranationalists loathed as they still saw the USA as an evil alien that should be expelled from their country.

Oh, he was also a CIA asset

In a rather unsurprising twist, the pilot, porn actor Mitsuyasu Maeno, was an ultranationalist.

The attack was due to the bribery scandal after Kodama was exposed as lobbying in favor of Lockheed-Martin in Japan, which the ultranationalists loathed as they still saw the USA as an evil alien that should be expelled from their country.

Oh, he was also a CIA asset

Found this channel, Threat Interactive, some time ago and have been watching the videos. He uses debugging tools to go step by step on how each frame is generated, explaining bottlenecks, things that reduce performance (like computing some stuff more than once, out of order, etc) and things that make the final frame look bad (usually bad anti aliasing)

The dude gets very mad about the state of current games' pipelines, mainly due to how Unreal and Nvidia have fucked things over for their profit - and really, when we take graphics from today and compare with games from 2016, it's easy to see downgrades in quality AND performance.

DelistedGames lists games that were, at one point, available for play or digital "purchase", but are no longer so.

I want to know if there are any sites that lists games that never had any sort of digital release - stuff like Battlefield Vietnam, Universe at War or Freelancer.

I can't figure if mobygames has some sort of filter to show only games currently on sale, that would suffice

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/56167529

Say I make a game that uses SDL for graphics and compile a linux version of it. Instead of going through the hassle of using Android SDK/NDK to make it a proper installable apk, would it be viable to have it be run as a program off termux?

Say I make a game that uses SDL for graphics and compile a linux version of it. Instead of going through the hassle of using Android SDK/NDK to make it a proper installable apk, would it be viable to have it be run as a program off termux?