OCI has a very generous free tier that doesn’t even require credit card info. While for instance AWS has a free tier, the resources that are free are mostly the serverless stuff that only applies to their ecosystem, whereas OCI lets you use a significant amount of VM compute and even a decent amount of block storage. You can do a lot with it without ever paying a cent or having to learn OCI specific tech

I’ve had one running for years at this point. I got a month notice they’d be retiring the hardware it was on and I needed to restart it from the dashboard to migrate it, or it would automatically happen after the month. I had another one at one point that I had stopped running something in and forgotten to delete. They decided to delete it because it was inactive, but that warned me in advance.

I do think there was a lot to like in the bones but the execution was just so bad :(. The combination of 90% of the content of the game being doing ubisoft map slop and the story being broken up across media made it pretty miserable, but the moment to moment writing/character development for the party was top notch for sure. I really wanted to like it but actually playing it felt like a chore :(

A lot of people have the hallway complaint, and honestly I think it mostly came down to visuals and sound design. So many games people love have exactly the same level design, including FFX, but there is normally enough to look at, and you don’t have the “high heels on tile” footsteps exacerbating it. I’m also pretty sure a large part of it was a YouTube video pointing it out and people jumping on the bandwagon.

I’ve never played dragon quest, but as a long time final fantasy enjoyer, final fantasy 15 sucked so much I put it down and I never went out of my way to play 16 because of that.

FF7Remake was amazing. FF7Rebirth was good in many ways but also had way too much garbage and goofy shit so I have very mixed feelings about it. Also like the post said it’s a very long wait for a complete story. It also is not really an entry point because FF7 is a huge franchise in itself.

If you take those out of the equation, the last FF games were 13 lightning returns in 2013 which I think is probably good but very different (I didn’t end up finishing but not because I didn’t like it) and 13-2 which in my opinion is one of the best in the series but gets slept on because it’s gated by 13 (2009) which I like but I wouldn’t call amazing or transformative.

I think FF12 might would qualify as a worthy childhood formative game, which means (excluding 16 since I just don’t know) the last good FF that is also an entry point came out in 2006. 20 years ago.

Tldr; I don’t know if FF16 is a worthy childhood formative experience, but if it’s not, the last candidate is TWENTY years ago, so ofc young people aren’t getting attached to the franchise. They’re probably playing jrpgs that are actually good instead.

No website is certainly a choice

After Harris cozied up to the Cheneys I guess singing praises of people that have fucked over the country is SOP

“CEO said something without any evidence or reason” articles that just parrot said CEO without any thought or analysis of any kind are completely pointless.

The result of these laws isn’t protecting children. It is deanonymizing the internet and surveiling the population for governments that worldwide are trending authoritarian.

I don’t dislike that art style in other games but nothing about that trailer gave me castlevania vibes

Animation and sound design reminds me of blasphemous and moonscars, which are games I like, but I wouldn’t say feel very castlevania-y

Have security vulnerabilities

Ehhh I don’t think I’ve used bash outside of random stuff on my machine in years except in CI pipelines and wanting them to stop and fail the pipeline the second anything goes wrong is exactly what I want.

You should have owned it!

Cowardice.

If I thought it was against the rules I’d report it instead of complaining. I complain because posting “I’m sad because everything is different now and also I’m all in in the hype actually” blogs 2 days in a row after agreeing not to post AI hype sure seems like you desperately want to post AI hype.

This seems like a dev grappling, not sneaky AI booster bullshit.

I could agree with you if this poster hadn’t posted a very similar article the previous day, or if the writer wasn’t saying “I’m now an architect for a fleet of agents” which is definitely AI booster bullshit.

You made a very considered decision that you could argue it’s not technically AI booster bullshit, you mean.

Not knowing what cpu instructions your code compiles to and not understanding the code you are compiling are completely different things. This is yet another article talking up the (not real) capability of LLM coding assistants, though in a more round about way. In fact, this garbage blogspam should go on the AI coding community that was made specifically because the subscribers of the programming community didn’t want it here, yet we keep getting these trying to skirt the line.