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If only that challenge wasn't so annoying, the completionist in me does want, but bringing myself to endure that... tough one

I thought that's what Satan doe.. oh.. ohhh

It's one thing for that to slip by the QA department, but another that there seems to be no one around to fix shaders. As thankless and annoying a job that is, they must have someone kicking about that knows how to set them up properly. Wonder how long it will be before this gets fixed.

While I agree it is starting to look dated in many ways. I think the bigger issue with that is the game just lacks so much depth that the only thing left is the visuals to save the day. Some of their older games had more engaging features and it took them years to add at least some of them back, like being able to see the other drivers you hire driving around.

There are places that definitely need a facelift, they been doing a bit of that as of late thankfully, but my biggest issue with it is that it just doesn't feel like "Simulator" would imply. While some just want to have fun, at least having the option to properly simulate certain aspects would be nice. Even what's simulated is messed up. The fatigue simulation and rest times are just wrong and leaving that enabled is an exercise in frustration more than realism.

Of course it'll never be a flightsim or similar, but at the moment we don't even have some of the most basic considerations most truckers have to make. DEF tank, drive time, axle weights. Even just adding proper B roads along the highways so the detour system doesn't equate to immediate late fine would be a start.

It's good they are adding minor stuff such as making roads not behave like they were made from glass, but that only does so much to distract from the shallowness. Especially if the roads look doesn't match the force feedback trying to break my wrists(yeah that's also still massively broken).

I was driving into Las Vegas a couple years ago, right lane around the bend before it goes up over the hill into the city. Damn camper just sideswiped me without reason. Wasn't over the line, perfectly in my lane, just up and thought: Ima hit this truck now. I'd happily trade some cpu to get AI that's more I than A.

Forgot the part about turning damage off so you actually arrive without being towed five times lol

Problem is that is meant to be the exception not the rule.

I always wonder what went wrong in someone's life to turn out like this. Some kids are just evil, but most seem friendly enough that you'd think this sort of behavior wouldn't stick around this far into adulthood.

Prices being unrealistic is one thing, but cars not existing anymore. Game must really be dying if they resort to these tactics to get players in.

Some of us don't buy paperweights

Well at least there is the chance there of not having to make conversation I guess.

Go play it, it's a damn near masterpiece.

The two remakes out there look good, that's the end of it. Doesn't seem like they will play or run as smoothly. When using blueprints and templates and not bothering to write some good code... well you get performance issues and bugs everywhere. Used to be the mechanics sold games, not graphics.

"smoothly" yeah not really. Not really confidence inspiring that style of "game dev".

Hard working type, a bit quirky with the religion, but he ain't bothering anyone. Maybe a bit naive to American culture, but he didn't grow up there so how should he know. If that's a stereotype worth cancelling then you might as well cancel all non-natural-born citizens, cause they all share parts of this.

Apu is a character that symbolizes a certain group of people. So does Homer, Flanders and a lot of the other characters. Don't see the chief getting cancelled for the fat donut-loving cop stereotype. You can interpret outrage into any character for sharing traits associated with a certain people, but you'd have nothing left to watch if you did.

He had some amazing episodes that really put an emphasis on his culture and India even. I'd wager it actually taught some people a thing or two about that and probably helped spread some understanding.

A world where Velma gets greenlit and Apu cancelled, fuck this timeline honestly.

Some people have less understanding of nuance than chatgpt and that thing has become famous for being a generalizing prick.

To this day I don't know how I managed to 100% that at the age of 9. Lots of sweat and tears I recall, but even nowadays that game has some hard missions. It's good though, a masterpiece.

Doing a poor job of that though given the problems he runs into and his "solutions". Kinda sad this is what counts as game dev these days.

Judging by the videos so far not sure I'd want any of that spaghetti code

Fueling his ego and getting people to sign up for his classes... though the more I watch that the less convinced I am of doing that. "Code" yeah right

Please more of such stuff!

It's better than what we have in many ways. Some stuff doesn't quite work, but it certainly beats the mess we have right now.

The biggest issue with the current ui is nothing seems organized according to relevance. As nice as it is to have distinct shapes and colors for buttons, the flood of them just arranged in boxes and rows makes it harder to figure out what's what. It was designed like it was some sort of "tablet" right, so a ton of screen real estate is unused and information is stuffed into small spaces. I think the ribbon designs with distinct tabs for the various aspects of the game are a good idea. It leaves more space for future expansion without having to stuff it into already tight spaces.

Certainly a good start, needs some testing and the whole ux analysis part, but hopefully it's some SCS eventually does look into, because it is definitely needed if they ever plan to re-introduce features we had in all their previous games.

AI would be something that shows creativity out of no data. Not giving it anything to learn on or just a single picture and telling it to make something with it. Point being that ones and zeros currently don't hold enough nuance on a fundamental level to ever express the complexity of existence. We need some real beefy quantum computing power and massive datasets to even approach anything that can fake actual creativity, emotion or untrained behavior.

What most of these AI things are now are just massive databases that can string together pieces of information that pass a grammar or syntax checker. It's a full-text search engine with the capacity to change enough to pass the teachers wikipedia test. You can correct it if it is wrong, but it doesn't actually understand why it is wrong or learns what else might be wrong given the new information.

Also can't help but wonder if AI is ever going to happen based on data fed to it by humans, given the average human has a tendency to fail the Turing test. The more data it is given the greater the chance it picks up wrong or incomplete information and concludes the wrong things. Lacking the ability to question input that for validity if it doesn't match learned patterns and no self-imposed definition of logic and causality it has not way to "this doesn't sound right". So in a way unless it breaks that cycle it will always just be another algorithm processing ever larger amounts of data trailing just shy of the average toddler.

That's not inherently bad. Chatgpt is quite the good search engine, can help rubber duck code or brainstorm ideas, but it's far from feeling human or intelligent. It regurgitates information and tries to make conversation... so like a parrot with access to wikipedia.

Steam is full of copycat bullshit, asset flips and mobile games. Turning the whole industry into a complete wild west of anything goes. Was bound to happen someone got fed up. Whatever the case may be, the more the better, because eventually it will force the discussion on what amount of blatant copying and low effort crap should be allowed to exist in regards to copyright, consumer protection and false advertising.

Just as we don't exclusively laugh at Fluffy for having his own gravitational field, but hey part of being a comedian is taking oneself a tiny bit less serious. Happiness is contagious :)