u/Working_Bones

I don't really know how to ask this question, or how to get at the root of it.

To anyone who has used AI (directly, intentionally), which at this point I'm guessing is almost everyone, I'm going to seem WAY behind the times. I am. For whatever reason, I've completely avoided using ChatGPT or anything similar, even once. Never been to any of these websites. Closest I've come is seeing Google's AI search results, but I do my best to ignore those. Yes, I know it's embedded in other things I'm using every day and many comments on Reddit for example are built with it (which happens to be the inspiration for this post). I just mean I've never directly, knowingly, logged onto an AI website to have it answer questions for me, or write things for me, or create images for me. Nothing. I don't trust it to be accurate, and I don't want to use anyone's words but my own. I'd rather be wrong and honest than correct and dishonest. Plus I'm stubborn, and stuck in my ways.

Anyway, that was all for context. What I want to ask is... why are people using AI to write for them? Particularly in an anonymous setting, like Reddit. It's not for work, you're not making money off it. It's not for school, you're not getting graded on it. No one knows who you are, so you're not getting any kind of credit for it. So what's the point? What do you get out of it? Why give the illusion you're contributing to a discussion, when you're not? So that's the "why."

I'm also confused on the "how" - what's the actual process? Is it completely generated from scratch, or are you feeding it a couple sentences about what you want to say, then asking it to elaborate for you? When that happens, do you read it back and find yourself agreeing with all of its elaborations? And if not, do you change them? Or do you just roll with it because it sounds like a better version of you? I'm not trying to be judgmental, I genuinely don't understand the point.

I see exchanges like the one below every day. Did this person even watch the episode? Did they really like it? How much of it this is their own words? Why did they bother doing this, if they're not even expressing themselves? And why is the confession so casual, and upvoted? It was an entire year ago too, I didn't even realize we were that 'deep' into AI use already. "What do you expect?" he asks, as though it's obvious if you're using AI for one thing you're going to use it for everything. Or really, he implies it's obvious that any post on Reddit would be written with AI, since the person replying has no way to know this guy's "vibe-coding apps." It's so weird to me.

I don't know where else to ask this but I'm guessing this post will get deleted and I'll have to figure out a better place.

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I played Prey on Xbox, now I'm on PC and can obviously play the base game on game pass. I really want to try Mooncrash, but not enough to pay for the base game and the DLC on Steam. But it has literally never been on sale on the Microsoft PC store. Why.

Finally diving back in. Currently paused at the main menu enjoying the music. The soundtrack is so fucking good. It's honestly a lot like Donkey Kong Country but more modern sounding. Which is the highest possible praise I could give for a video game soundtrack.

How much should I put as a downpayment on my first home? I know 20% helps you save ~3% on the CMHC but if I can get 10-12% average annually with XEQT, and mortgage rates are around 4%, shouldn't I make a smaller downpayment and invest the rest?

I think the answer is clearly yes if the other money is going into a TFSA or RRSP... but mine are already maxed and will be easily re-maxed every year. So it'd be going in a nonregistered account. In that case, does the 20% (or higher?) downpayment make more sense?

I beat the game without dying, so apparently I missed some house sequences, which is preventing the sun fragments from spawning.

I learned this because after beating the game, I went back to Biome 1 and completed it without finding a sun fragment... then did some googling.

So I ended that run and went back to Biome 4, started a run to find the house. Just found the house and did what I learned is House Sequence #4, where I'm the child.

Am I correct that there is one house sequence left? If so, what's the best approach to triggering it? Do I end this run now and come straight back to the house? Or do I need to finish this Biome 4 run, kill the boss again, and THEN restart the run?

And after triggering house sequence #5, will the sun fragments be collect-able on that same run, or do I need to restart the run one more time, and THEN start looking for them?

Thank you

I bought the cage key, he said something like "the dog is yours" and I opened the -empty- cage and nothing happened. I walked 25 feet away, came back, and the merchant was gone. Came back much later after beating the game and the merchant was back, along with a still-open cage and a creature standing peacefully inside with a sword hand. Nothing was happening so I killed the creature, the merchant, and the other guy who looked like the merchant. Saved at a Beacon, came back and the merchant's shop was fully gone.

...What was supposed to happen here? Seems like a glitch, right?

Other glitches I might as well report:

1. stone golem achievement didn't unlock until my 5th success.
2. often got stuck at the start of a bridge and had to jiggle onto it.
3. enemy health bars occasionally disappeared, and sometimes stagger bars made no progress but I could still cause the enemy to go down for a riposte.
4. poison immunity upgrades didn't make me immune to poison.
5. the crawling poison enemies (like wretches from Gears of War) dropped invisible poison clouds no matter how I killed them which doesn't seem intentional.
6. if I paused and alt+tabbed during a cutscene, the screen would stay black even after unpausing the game, causing me to miss the cutscene.
7. not a glitch but player collision with walls and other objects needs work, I clipped through most things.
8. the 2 crawly guys by the chest before the final boss were passive and unkillable.
9. one more that's escaping me right now... will edit it back in when it comes.

I invested all my Shell points into being immune to poison, but I'm not. That's odd.

I can shoot and kill these enemies from a distance, but I'm running out of resolve (ammo) and inevitably have to melee attack them. When they die, they leave behind an unavoidable poison cloud that takes out a huge chunk of HP. Dashing backwards doesn't stop it from afflicting me.

There was one area where clearing every enemy without taking any other hits besides these unavoidable poison clouds made me use 4 of my heals. So I had to go back to the Beacon, heal, and then run past the enemies to get to the next area with my heals.

What am I doing wrong?

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Like... Steam/Xbox achievements? If so, which ones? Does it affect any of the demo achievements, or just the full game ones? And why? It doesn't seem like a particularly overpowered seal, the others are just as good or better.

For context: I am a very slow and methodical player. I beat Acts 1 and 2 first try without dying to anything except the tutorial boss. So it takes me a long time to clear a biome and I'm not eager to reset right now. I know this is not how most people play the game, breezing through runs.

The situation: I finished Act 2, then was going to start Act 3 but instead of going to the House in Biome 4, which I believe would kick off the Sun Fragments quest and make them spawn, I used the thing in the Ship to return to Biome 1. And then did a very long, slow clear of it. Then learned the Sun Fragment will not spawn unless I trigger that in Biome 4.

The question: Is there any way for me to quickly get to Biome 4 to start the Sun Fragment search, without forfeiting my progress so far? I believe if I do the ship thing it'll end the cycle. I know there are Biome skips I can use. What do you recommend? Or should I just continue as normal, knowing I won't get Sun Fragments in Biome 2 or 3? But then I'm wasting 3 Biome clears, not just 1...

Really hoping they've just pushed the "not coming to PC" narrative to try to get some console sales, while secretly working on their PC port, which will release at some point later this year. It just doesn't make business sense not to. Would love to play someday, Returnal is great.

Not exactly emo but I don't know where else to post it. Been listening almost 20 years and it still sounds fresh as ever. Honestly just as good as those 4 bands, but this was their only full length. Very slept on.

I have a Razer Wolverine XBox controller but when I play Returnal on Steam, the game shows Playstation button icons. I've gotten used to that but would still love to fix it if possible - any ideas?

The bigger issue, which I'm guessing has to do with it expecting adaptive triggers, is most guns have super erratic rate of fire issues. The only ones that feel normal are the shotgun and pistol since they seem to be just straight up semi-auto. The others will fire bullets in seemingly random intervals which really messes me up. I think since the game thinks I'm using a PS controller but I'm not - AND my controller has a setting to reduce the amount of trigger pull needed to register a press - it's messing things up. Any ideas on fixing that?

Thank you

Album still goes hard after all these years. Next one was good too, a bit more Brand New-y and experimental though.

I played the demo for this dark sci-fi FPS with bullet hell elements last year and loved it. Honestly thought the game was dead, but it was quietly developing and now it's out!

It's like a first-person Returnal meets Doom meets Halo/Destiny in some ways. Can't wait to see how far it's come since that demo, which was already old at the time I played it.

Not expecting GOTY or anything, but a linear FPS romp is just what I'm craving after a bunch of Soulslikes, Metroidvanias, and Extraction Shooters.

Including Cap'n Jazz.

I don't even subscribe to this subreddit or any of the others where people are posting these grids of different games they liked/hated/whatever. I don't click on or engage with any of the posts. But they keep coming up. Does anyone know how I could convince the Reddit algorithm I don't give a single fucking shit about these posts?

I laughed so hard at this. Dark, sad, of course, but really good payoff on the setup.