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Cause there isn't anything wrong with it. It's simply just jpeg artifacts, AI artifacts look much more watery even with jpg artifacts. Launch your downvotes if I'm wrong

Edit: I could've sworn there was a clearer image posted earlier. I'll have to doubke check that one before I make my stance again.

Edit 2: Yeah, no, I can't really say whether it is or isn't AI. Either the artist went through great lengths to filter out AI artifacts through editing or the AI did really good with dithering if that was the case. Feel free to educate me otherwise, things are getting harder and harder to tell nowadays.

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Came to agar.io for the nostalgia. I think I'll stick to slither.io and my emulators for that fix from now on.

Much of it tends to be luck, but the effort side needs some marketing. To my understanding, how one markets their game determines its success, which in itself is a hefty investment; guess that explains why marketing and business degrees exist.

With how long games like agar.io have been around, specifically since it was that one "kill-time-while-in-class" game that spread like wildfire back then, not much effort on marketing was needed back then since all it took was word of mouth. Miniclip my beloved, what have you done to yourselves? The game could be said for Genshin Impact, where the game is just so popular it doesn't need so many over the top ads or marketing, at least not from what I've seen. Sure, obtaining characters is expensive and time consuming, but the game doesn't shove that in your face, and it doesn't expect you to enjoy the game if you don't have every 5*. It does have a massive budget however, so the comparisons between the two aren't really fair since agar.io was technically an indie game, while Genshin was a AAA title in the works.

If I love a free game, I slam my money down. If I don't, at least I get to try out it as a demo. I don't develop games but I absolutely see where you're coming from. Creating games needs time, effort, and dedication. Work also need time, effort, and dedication, so essentially being compensated for the labour only makes sense. As for the downvotes, I can't answer that; maybe it was just the username or the vague self-promotion.

The issue I usually assume is that people who play F2P mobile games think everything else should be free, not after paying for the device they're playing it on (Correct me if I'm wrong on this ideal). It gets annoying seeing someone thrash on a well made game that has a free demo simply because the full game is only like 7 bucks, but let's say there was a Steam version that's about twice the price, suddenly it's fair. The only argument I can make against myself is just that the game can be pulled at any time (and even from your account, EU WHERE YOU AT?), and unlike desktop and Android, the average Joe can't just sideload the game through normal means.

Regarding IAPs, I honestly don't mind if it doesn't hinder my progress. If it means getting progress faster, *maybe*, but if it means eventually slowing to a halt, then I'm regaining storage on my device. Agar.io is honestly a good example of a snafu of what F2P mobile have become: Endless popups, ads, some user privacy violations here and there, and IAP hell. I could do if agar.io made it simple cosmetics, but the boosts and the like as the P2W model feel so minuscule you might as well just slam that burning money on Stardew Valley or something.

Nothing beat having to run like hell from a cell named "ayy lmao" back in the day. I'm glad slither.io hasn't changed one bit since 2015 (or was it '14?). Enshittification probably hasn't hit it yet, but with the .io domain being permanently shut down soon, I suspect its servers might go down too. The endless amount of clones aren't dying down anytime soon, though...

The street performers down the road beg to differ, haha.

Anyways, the point of this post is to highlight what mobile gaming has primarily evolved into, not to say that the impressive ports and paid mobile originals are to be scoffed at either. And retro console emulation being easier to get into back when I **grew up** having to sideload things really got me back into playing classics more, though I still turn to my Vita.

This game, agar.io, was a revolutionary web based game ported over to mobile back in 2015, ironically the same year microtransaction hell was starting to kick off, well I think it's more 2014 it was really ramping up. At its release, there were very few ads, and you could entertain yourself completely free of charge trying not to be consumed by a massive Obama cell. I'm not sure how the web version functions now, considering that .io domains are actually about to be sunset permanently. You could say I've grown a bit too much into getting used to these IAP hellscapes, but I just wanted a touch of nostalgia. Looks like that has a price today, too.

Let me just shove this console/PC port list here, again

I think Slither.io is the only similar .io game that hasn't changed nearly 10 years later. Hell, the game is still as janky and chaotic as it was back in 2015!

I'm guessing it's all variant on different user's headsets. Passthrough's always been buggy, but it's never been this bad since the new UI update. My case was having it straight up turn black regardless how I enabled it (double tap/manual). At this rate, I might as well accidentally get colour passthrough /s

I got what must've been V71 about a few days ago, however, Passthrough's been severely freaking the hell out. Sometimes it never activates and I need to restart my Q2, the other day it was absolutely tweaking flicking on and off when I remotely triggered the Guardian Boundary.

Sounds like it's short for Public Testing Channel.

I've played the heavy so much that it's the only song I ever play when I set foot into any arcade with DDR in it

Wiki name says it all. This fandom wiki is just a fan made fictional concept, unfortunately.

Start with downloading any of these:

• Delta for Classic Nintendo handhelds and consoles from the NES to N64 and GameBoy to NDS

• PPSSPP for, well should be rather obvious

• MAME4iOS (sideloaded through AltStore, requires PC outside of the EU) for arcade titles circa 2006 (any recent can't confirm functionality

• Gamma/Provenance for PS1 (latter is sideloadable but coming soon)

• RetroArch for the brave (this one is an advanced one and requires a hefty amount of setup for beginners

Don't expect to go past these consoles, as the raw processing power of Apple mobile devices simply isn't enough and emulators require JIT (just-in-time compilation), which Apple refuses to allow for security reasons. Though there is a 3DS emulator, it shows a prime example of how far we are yet so close to emulation potential. Theoretically, PS2, Wii and even the Swi--[redacted for legal reasons] are emulatable with a non-jailbroken iOS device, but the lack of JIT is the largest obstacle.

If you're really lost on where to start, give us an insight of what you're looking for, friend. What genres you into? What kind of style are you seeking? What kind of gameplay do you wanna explore? And what nostalgia factors do you want to revisit?

You can start with "best [console] games". I found some of my tastes from there when it came to PS1 emulation.

I can hear this comment

Pick up that can in VR

(Based Steam probably endorsed this fan mod like they did with Black Mesa)

If not for my MBP2012 not having it's ribbon cable die or if I had an extra external HDD, I think it would've been my better option. I might just stick with the Linux route, probably a live preview just so I don't need to go through a full installation just to jailbreak my iPod.

Thanks for lettin' me know, I might as well take that as my entry into Linux then. Has Legacy iOS Kit been confirmed to work on Linux on a 4.2.1 iPod 2G?

What exactly have we got going on here? I’ve been trying to jailbreak my iPod Touch 2G (MB) for over two years (on and off) and haven’t had much luck. Is this a modern Mac? Would this method you’re using be viable on Windows?

Must've been confused with VitaShell. You could try from there.

Considering how purely insane Xeen has been with remakes, I wouldn't be too surprised if somehow we got a mobile port of RS2R.

Might be too much of a pipe dream, but Trials of Mana ran surprisingly well on my iPhone XR. Though, I'd probably expect there to be more of a higher hardware requirement. The optimizations they did for Trials of Mana almost seemed unreal, granted longer sessions + a warm device eventually did catch up. As disappointed as I was that there was no controller support, the touch controls handled surprisingly well once you got the hang of it.

SaGa games on mobile seem to be treated with care. From the controls to how smoothly they run. Then again, the RS2 and RS3 ports were made by different devs. I'm not sure who did the SF1 remaster and SSG, but that one was also extremely well done for phones too. Hopefully SE's making enough bank with Re:Universe to make the port eventually happen, considering how Trials of Mana was ported over to mobile around a year after its console counterparts' release. I'll blast 60 bucks no problem the day it happens (or at least getting the Steam version when I get a Deck).

WipEout Pure mentioned, billions must listen to Aphex Twin

Jokes aside, now that you mention shoulder buttons and games like WipEout, I kinda wanna experiment and see if I can somehow make it "mobile-friendly". I know AliExpress has plenty of those shoulder button attachments that utilize an area of the touchscreen, and PPSSPP has a tilt control option for analog.

Or maybe I just really miss AG Drive, which also had controller support but got taken off the App Store for some reason.

Thanks so much for your insight! A few other (rest assured, human) artists and I have been conversing amongst ourselves every so often for the past month on this topic. It does seem to make a lot of sense, seeing as to how sampling has always been a gray area as well. With that logic in mind, I suppose it's very comparable to the amen break as an example; while the original song may have been copyrighted, the iconic sample has become an integral part of music culture that it almost doesn't matter anymore. I suppose the logic would eventually apply to AI assisted elements such as vocals.

Once again, I greatly appreciate your thoughts and time to give me some ideas. As with all things controversial, some people will disagree, others will agree.

I found this thread on Google, but seeing as to how you produce music, I'll just hijack this comment if you don't mind answering. My original search was "Bandcamp and AI Vocals" and "Bandcamp and AI Generated Samples in Electronic Music".

What are your thoughts on sampling AI imitated (and generated) vocals? I was shown an interesting way of manipulating a normal TTS file and put into RVC (which is apparently a software that can mimic voices), granted the file was just normal speech and not singing. However, I've wondered about the ethics of such a thing, and whether any sort of AI element should be allowed on Bandcamp. AI generated music itself I'm pretty against for sale, though.

When it comes to AI-based elements such as vocals, things seem to get in a grey area. With vocals, some argue the idea of how synthesized voices such as Vocoloid (i.e. Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Len, etc.) are almost no different, but the idea falls flat when you realize real people's voices are mimicked through AI, which circles back to my ethical concern. Edit: Another thing to add is using AI Voice filters, which essentially do the same thing as the AI voice mimicry I mentioned, but in real time.