been putting this one off for a while but I'm feeling like a point and click at the moment
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I'm goin' back in for some VirtuaVerse. When last we'd left off, Nathan had joined a hacker gang that seems to mostly leave graffiti in AVR and talk to each other by encrypted means, and gotten a lead on where his girlfriend Jay has gotten to.
Also, he might have brought the heat down on her in the process of blackmailing the guy who was working at the Pill Street pharma in order to get him to sell one of the under-the-table Tracer Activators to swap for an AR cartridge.
"Honey, I caused Events to occur by approaching the world with Point-and-Click Adventure Game Logic again"
Neuromancer reference?
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hell of a first impression https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hDy0T8FSvM
That’s goddamned beautiful.
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That’s goddamned beautiful.
@rk if it was anybody else I don't think I would trust them to pull it off, but I admire his aesthetics a LOT. Dude walks the walk and spreads the code
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Neuromancer reference?
Can you take a piss in the bathroom in VirtuaVerse?
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@rk if it was anybody else I don't think I would trust them to pull it off, but I admire his aesthetics a LOT. Dude walks the walk and spreads the code
Where does it rank on the point-and-click adventure game cruelty scale? Sierra walking-dead?
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Where does it rank on the point-and-click adventure game cruelty scale? Sierra walking-dead?
@rk no pixel-hunting yet but the puzzles are reasonably crunchy. Not King's Quest V crunchy, though. I referred to a hint guide once or twice on Pill Street and may do so again.
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@rk no pixel-hunting yet but the puzzles are reasonably crunchy. Not King's Quest V crunchy, though. I referred to a hint guide once or twice on Pill Street and may do so again.
@rk oh and it also has an 'experience the story' mode, but it can only be enabled at game start if I understand right
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@rk oh and it also has an 'experience the story' mode, but it can only be enabled at game start if I understand right
Any chance of getting into an unwinnable state?
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Any chance of getting into an unwinnable state?
@rk doesn't seem like it, no death opportunities either, or at least not yet.
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@rk doesn't seem like it, no death opportunities either, or at least not yet.
@rk I would definitely not put it in the "mean" category like the games of the 90s
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Can you take a piss in the bathroom in VirtuaVerse?
yes, you canLike any good hacker, Nathan knows that having the manual is going to be a big benefit.
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Like any good hacker, Nathan knows that having the manual is going to be a big benefit.
Unsurprisingly, overclocking the quadcopter's CPU did not make it fly faster.
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Unsurprisingly, overclocking the quadcopter's CPU did not make it fly faster.
Sidebar: it does rather annoy me when people say "drone" and mean "quadcopter" or any other aerial vehicle that is in fact not autonomous
I know I've lost this battle many years ago, though.
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Sidebar: it does rather annoy me when people say "drone" and mean "quadcopter" or any other aerial vehicle that is in fact not autonomous
I know I've lost this battle many years ago, though.
@SnoopJ You can try to differentiate LLMs and AI in public use next lol
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@SnoopJ You can try to differentiate LLMs and AI in public use next lol
@Quantensalat I like to put scare-quotes about "AI" to suggest the appropriate amount of contempt for the marketing catch-all
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Sidebar: it does rather annoy me when people say "drone" and mean "quadcopter" or any other aerial vehicle that is in fact not autonomous
I know I've lost this battle many years ago, though.
okay but what if I overclocked the quadcopter's CPU harder
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okay but what if I overclocked the quadcopter's CPU harder
@SnoopJ you'll make a futuristic flaming arrow
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okay but what if I overclocked the quadcopter's CPU harder
@SnoopJ powerful cooling fans conveniently nearby
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okay but what if I overclocked the quadcopter's CPU harder
@SnoopJ have you tried overclocking the propellers
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@SnoopJ powerful cooling fans conveniently nearby
