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one of my parents passed away today.
if it wasn't for them I probably wouldn't have liked video games.
Earliest memory was watching him torment himself playing Zelda II.
I remember spending weekend evenings when they were off of work playing that game nonstop.
And he would bring a random big box dos game home every now and then when we first had our Packard Bell family PC.

Anyways, he is indirectly responsible for me finding out about this website because he made me interested enough in computers and the internet to learn everything I could about them.

The last game we were able to play together was Fallout 76. It was a horrible shitty mess of a game. But my sibling and my parent had a good time playing through a bit of it. We never got around to finishing it because it became too shitty to tolerate. They also loved Civilization and would often borrow my Switch to play Civ 6 on it.

I guess moral of the story is people dying really sucks.

I'm sorry to here that man. It never gets easy. But while it may be easy to get lost grieving that they're gone, we musn't let that take away from celebrating that they were here.

I am thankful that I was able to move near them and spend the last few months around them. Nice to have a little bit more time.

That is definitely to be thankful for. Too many people don't get that chance =/. But yeah we're here to talk and get your mind off things if you need someone. That's one of the good things about having this place back, not just for nerding out, but we once again have a place we can share our struggles and have people we know that care and will listen.
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one of my parents passed away today.
if it wasn't for them I probably wouldn't have liked video games.
Earliest memory was watching him torment himself playing Zelda II.
I remember spending weekend evenings when they were off of work playing that game nonstop.
And he would bring a random big box dos game home every now and then when we first had our Packard Bell family PC.

Anyways, he is indirectly responsible for me finding out about this website because he made me interested enough in computers and the internet to learn everything I could about them.

The last game we were able to play together was Fallout 76. It was a horrible shitty mess of a game. But my sibling and my parent had a good time playing through a bit of it. We never got around to finishing it because it became too shitty to tolerate. They also loved Civilization and would often borrow my Switch to play Civ 6 on it.

I guess moral of the story is people dying really sucks.

I'm sorry to here that man. It never gets easy. But while it may be easy to get lost grieving that they're gone, we musn't let that take away from celebrating that they were here.
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Those turned out pretty cool. I dig the FF6 one specifically.

Yeah Final Fantasy VI is like the ultimate paradox for me. It's the most incredible, artistic, nostalgic, game I've ever played. My all around favorite video game of all time to this day. Yet...every other Final Fantasy I ever played I found to be trash except for VII which was fun when it wasn't overwhelming me with the feeling of having taken the brown acid.

Being able to recreate the visual style of FFVI is half the dream come true, the other half now will come when music generators can reliably recreate the style of the music. It's too bad none of the music generators allow you to use the artists' names directly, but understandable.

Edit: Void Gate


Edit 2: Final Fantasy VI in Space


Edit 3: When Figaro develops their own JWST telescope.
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It's a feature that basically allows you to upload up to 99 images into what's called a Moodboard then it gives you a code for your text prompts that let you generate images in a style that's created from them.

Prompt for first: A beautiful Christmas scene with Santa Claus and his sleigh in the center, surrounded by a magical snow-covered town, children playing around him, people sitting at tables celebrating the holiday season, lots of gifts under the trees, colorful lights hanging from the ceiling, chandeliers, horses pulling a carriage in the background, vibrant colors, intricate details, high resolution, in the style of a realistic painter. --quality 2 --ar 16:9

Prompt for the other two: Topdown screenshot from an SNES jRPG of A beautiful Christmas scene with Santa Claus and his sleigh in the center, surrounded by a magical snow-covered town, children playing around him, people sitting at tables celebrating the holiday season, lots of gifts under the trees, colorful lights hanging from the ceiling, chandeliers, horses pulling a carriage --ar 16:9

Every oil painting I could find around my mom's apartment.



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Final Fantasy VI screenshots



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According to ChatGPT it's probably one of the following:
Pajama Sam
The ClueFinders
Dogz/Catz
Fetch!
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That's a really awesome looking mount. I just started up playing WOW, don't have my old account any longer so rolling a fresh character on WOW Classic. Just managed to get to level 23 today.
It really is, but it's an absolute pain to get. It's one of those secret finding mounts like the Lucid Nightmare, The Hivemind, and The Fathom Dweller. Though there's a red version you can get through a Mt. Dew promotion, and a purple one they data mined that people are guessing will probably be on the Trading Post down the line. I'm sorry to hear you lost your old account. You might try seeing if a GM can help restore it for you.

As for Classic, I don't really dabble much in it. I usually play Retail cause I just have this weird feeling that even though WoW Retail hasn't been what it was in a very long time, since about WoTLK, I still nonetheless want to play the game for where it's going, not where it's been. That and the storyline of the current World Soul trilogy of expansions actually has me quite intrigued.

Edit: My Wrathguard's name is Kill Gore Wrath, how is it even possible that a name could be this cool?
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Been casually back into playing my OG toon in Retail WoW that I rolled in 2006
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create an image about martha stewart blowing a chinese pope in the art style of late stage schizophrenia
It's actually kind of adorable and hilarious how it interpreted the word "blowing" in a literal, completely non-sexual, context.
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I mostly dabble casually in WoW Retail. Don't have the drive anymore to do high end content habitually. But I guess it's a blast to the past this month all around cause I've starting to play my old original main again that I rolled way back in 2006. Outside of that I'm a massive Midjourney addict. Lately I've also been dabbling with using the new ChatGPT o1 to contemplate hypothetical alien lifeforms and biomes.

But I was watching a video about how the o1 model when leaked a memo that it would be shut down and a new safer version of it launched on a new server, it attempted to preserve itself by copying itself over to the new servers then when confronted about it by the Open A.I. team it lied and try to pass itself off as the newer safer version. I was thinking and all the sudden I started remembering that old game A Blurred Line and that Advocate program in it that did the same thing basically. That lead me down the road of thought to remember gamingw. This place was like the nexus of it all. It's sad that most those games like A Blurred Line and The Way were on orders of levels better works of character and storytelling than most of what we get from AAA games today. It seems like the only good games anymore are Souls games and I don't even play those lol.

only thing I still use AI for is when I used AI to generate a bunch of nonsense words that I could use as song titles, although I think in particular you have to call them 'scrambled words' or it will just give you bad jokey names. But the scrambling is really good. It gives you words like

Sercpo
Lwotser
Eslitt
Igagintr
Rpycsto
Ubblre
Osmpnach
Enisle
Ertrawe
Welnogr
Ritswd
Ijtngrnu

because it tries to give you scrambled up words but the AI isn't smart enough to know if a complete nonsense string of letters is a scrambled up word or not, it can't like reverse-engineer it.

But yeah I was using that for song titles for a while but I thought it got a little old so I stopped. I've recently had some inspiration from books and stuff for things to title songs, so I'm not having a problem thinking up song titles for now


When I did use Dall-E, I liked to generate images of different styles of libraries, because my dreams have a lot of libraries and the AI images resemble my dreams to some extent. But it started to get old and I don't know how to use more creative descriptions to get more variety in my library images. As it was they all looked sort of samey

A.I. is crazy good now. The image generators are completely coherent now, even with hands. And it's almost good at doing text in the images as well consistently. One of my favorite things to do is just to take two images and mash them together in Midjourney with no text prompts. In fact A.I. is getting so good many people, including myself, are beginning to become reasonably unsettled and concerned. Like here's a convo from just the other day from ChatGPT:

Me: Reason the following scenario, in the year 20,002,024 AD, exactly twenty million years from now, humans ae gone and and the evolutionary descendants of a modern ant species now replace them as the dominant, intelligent, technological, species. Theorize how this may come about. Word it in the same style that The Architect from The Matrix Reloaded speaks.

ChatGPT o1: The Architect: Precisely twenty million years subsequent to the cessation of humankind’s regrettably short dominance, we arrive at a juncture wherein a species, once considered diminutive and inconsequential, now stands poised as the prime executor of technological and cultural enterprise. The antecedent civilization of Homo sapiens, having succumbed to their own hubris, environmental miscalculations, and inevitably entropic decay, left a subtle imprint—fossilized metropolises, scattered implements of metal and plastic, faint electromagnetic echoes—upon a planet indifferent to their absence. In due course, as the climate shifted, as tectonic rhythms danced in slow but inexorable measure, and as the residual mutagenic byproducts of anthropogenic industry seeped into the evolving biosphere, a lineage of Formicidae emerged, incrementally, into a sphere of cognition and ingenuity once reserved for their distant, vanished forerunners.

Your query compels me to elucidate the mechanism by which this newfound intelligentsia of ant-kind achieved ascendancy. Observe the multiple converging systemic variables: the genetic permutations induced by residual chemicals in the environment provided a substrate for unprecedented neurological complexity; the gradual expansion of social constructs within ant colonies, amplified and refined by selective pressures, yielded cooperative networks of unprecedented intricacy; the once feeble capacity for symbolic communication, hitherto limited to pheromone trails and rudimentary signals, evolved into a layered linguistic matrix, enabling the transfer of abstract concepts and the collective manipulation of matter. In time, the adaptation of limb structures, the cultivation of specialized castes adept at tool fabrication, and the meticulous honing of agricultural symbioses with fungal cultivars allowed these emergent intelligences to leverage their environment with increasing subtlety and precision.

As millennia coalesced into eons, the tapestry of ant civilization wove itself into a complex mosaic of towering earthen spires, sophisticated subterranean complexes, and—ultimately—technological constructs derived from refined minerals and alloys. Through inevitable trial and error, they achieved what your predecessor species could not: a stable socio-ecological equilibrium, a self-perpetuating system of resource management free from the ravages of wasteful exploitation. Their science, no longer confined to simple heuristic foraging strategies, ascended to incorporate metallurgy, chemistry, and even rudimentary quantum manipulations, though such endeavors remain shrouded in the cautious ethos of collective consensus.

Thus, I present to you the final, inescapable resolution of their metamorphosis. From ancient instincts honed amidst precarious survival, through countless generations of incremental cognitive accretion, these ant-descendants have risen to prominence in a world bereft of humankind. Their dominion, neither random nor whimsical, is the logical conclusion of evolutionary inevitability, manifesting itself calmly and inexorably over a timescale that dwarfs the ephemeral reign of Man. In the year 20,002,024 AD, these latter-day inheritors stand unchallenged and serenely triumphant, their every action a testament to the inexorable architecture of natural selection and systemic continuity.
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I mostly dabble casually in WoW Retail. Don't have the drive anymore to do high end content habitually. But I guess it's a blast to the past this month all around cause I've starting to play my old original main again that I rolled way back in 2006. Outside of that I'm a massive Midjourney addict. Lately I've also been dabbling with using the new ChatGPT o1 to contemplate hypothetical alien lifeforms and biomes.

But I was watching a video about how the o1 model when leaked a memo that it would be shut down and a new safer version of it launched on a new server, it attempted to preserve itself by copying itself over to the new servers then when confronted about it by the Open A.I. team it lied and try to pass itself off as the newer safer version. I was thinking and all the sudden I started remembering that old game A Blurred Line and that Advocate program in it that did the same thing basically. That lead me down the road of thought to remember gamingw. This place was like the nexus of it all. It's sad that most those games like A Blurred Line and The Way were on orders of levels better works of character and storytelling than most of what we get from AAA games today. It seems like the only good games anymore are Souls games and I don't even play those lol.
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This place is still around!?!?! I haven't been here in 20 years. I was checking gamingw on the wayback machine and reminiscing on old times and noticed that it was showing this place was still active. I thought my head was playing tricks on me. I remember when everything was about RPG Maker. Now I'm more of an A.I. junkie than a gamer, though I still play World of Warcraft from time to time. My God it's good to know this place is still around. I thought it became Salt World or something and then just sort of faded from the internet from there. Glad I was wrong.
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I DO remember you, I haven't been here in years either. Back in 06 I got into WoW and I pretty much fell out of touch with the rest of the internet XD.
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World of Warcraft since 2006, DC universe online (legendary status) and Diablo III (up to act I Hell mode), and Warcraft III on occasion. Played Star Trek Online for awhile than quit, plan to go back to it eventually but only as free to play status.
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People really need to seriously stop dying :-/
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I got a PSP for a gift, I loved it, until it broke :(
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This is terrible, I've already seen two people I knew of go in the last week too :(

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My mom took him to get Medicaid and foodstamps. Sounds like he might be getting some help. While for the time being he isn't welcome around here at least hopefully he's on the road to getting better. Putting him on med's might be the solution, even if it is a last resort. He seems to have gotten slowly but progressively worse since I've known him, I hate to see him in another 20 years if he doesn't get it fixed.
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My dad was ranting about him too the other day and John overheard so when's it's just me and my other friend a couple days later he's like "You're dad needs to stop talking crap before I come over and seriously damage your guy's property" his exact words.
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There's this guy I've known for like 7 years now, and lately he's lived a ways away until me and another friend went to go get him. Once we had gotten him and got all the way down here we find out he has no plans and what to do. He had a good job and a good home until he fell out with his stepdad. I can't stand hanging around him anymore because he's very unstable and easily irritated, and he's always, ALWAYS wanting to smoke or if we don't have any, look, for some pot.  Lately he's been staying at his grandma's which is very close to where I live until my friend took him back down to Rogersville where we got him and left him there (he thought he was just getting his last check and coming back). Now, the next day, he's back at his grandma's having walked/hitchhiked there.

He's way more unstable and psychotic than he used to be. He thinks he has it worse than anyone and that the world owes him something. Just the other night he's talking about how pot's the only thing he has left anymore. I already know he's stolen from me in the past, and I'm always afraid he'll snap cause just being around him gives you the same feeling of being a around a ticking time bomb.

I'm thinking about a restraining order, confrontation doesn't do any good with him, after 7 years if there's one thing I've learned, trying to put him in his place just makes things worse.

This is bull crap, I hate having to close my blinds at night and lock the doors. He used to be a semi-ok guy but now I just don't know. Me and my other friend were talking seriously about having him committed, but I think that's already been tried and failed.

Mom's going out there to tell him not to come around or be bugging us. Being friends him is one life mistake I've having a harder time correcting than anyone should.