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- Comment on Helldivers 2 is getting a new anti-cheater policy to stop you feeling bummed out and help the in-game economy 3 days ago:
Yeah, I knew there were exploits all along and never cared. Just had fun getting them by playing or occasionally farming by clearing maps on higher drop worlds with optimal drop ratios.
Apparently there was a recent exploit that put all prior exploits to shame, but hopefully identifying whe did the ridiculous one didn’t take much of their time because while it is good PR to squash cheaters in general, super credit exploits isn’t one of my priorities for fixes.
- Comment on My steam machine arrived! 3 days ago:
It is ’overpriced’ compared to a desktop in the same way laptops are ’overpriced’ compared to desktops. Making things smaller increases cost, especially when there is a lot of heat dissipation needed.
- Comment on Has anyone here got their Steam Machine yet? 1 week ago:
It has beefier internals and is running the same software so it will easily outperform it. Whether it will be enough to bridge the gap for the AAA games to meet personal preferences is a good question.
- Comment on Has anyone here got their Steam Machine yet? 1 week ago:
When we did the one-time randomization of the list, your place in line ended up beyond the number of units we’ll have in this production run.
😕
- Comment on Meta Is Charging a Subscription for Smart Glasses Features. Welcome to the New Era of Consumer Tech 1 week ago:
Yes, they probably did. Isn’t facebook and other meta shit still free?
I don’t know, just assuming it still is.
- Comment on Valve dropped that Steam Machine Companion Cube case down the legal incinerator after its makers neglected to get their permission 1 week ago:
From the reddit thread linked in the article:
Image text:
Degenerate_Media posted “you guys are fucking stupid, you know that?”
dbrand replied: “yes”
- Comment on Valve's Steam Machine gets competition in the "Stim Machine", a cheeky French PC box that's already reportedly been re-named 2 weeks ago:
might not be as ideal a bit of kit to fit seamlessly into your living room
So not comparable. Ok.
- Comment on Valve quietly tweaked the Steam Machine details removing "4K gaming at 60 FPS" 2 weeks ago:
Marketing the new Steam Machine for 4K at 60FPS was a bit silly really - because there’s very few titles it’s likely to ever be able to hit with the specifications.
The vast majority of titles on steam that are 5+ years old should hit that easily, if they have a 4k option I guess. It will be the newer AAA titles with higher settings that won’t. The new wording is more accurate, although I hate ‘up to’ in any kind of marketing because it was abused so much.
Another change recently - the order emails. We were expecting Valve to send out emails on June 25th which is what they said in the original announcement, to confirm if you have a reservation or if you’re on a waiting list. That didn’t happen.
When I joined the list I did so because it said emails would go out starting on June 29th, which gave me time to have funds available if I was lucky enough to be first in line. The 25th was the sign ip closing date.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 2 weeks ago:
That’s gonna be a no for me dawg.
I blame the AI bubble memory shortage for making this over $1,000 USD.
- Comment on What is the aim of all the AI investment? 1 month ago:
I’ve seen this one a few times and it’s puzzled me a bit for a while now, I don’t think anyone in these companies think iterating on an LLM model alone is going to give them AGI
When Sam Altman and other techbros say that their LLMs will be AGI any minute now and the stocks keep going up then yes, they do believe it.
Yes, LLMs will be the way to present output in a human sounding format from some other AI implementation that is consistent and reliable. That isn’t what is currently in the works though, they are just throwing more and more resources at LLMs as if the techbros were right.
- Comment on Sony to no longer bring PlayStation narrative single-player games to PC 1 month ago:
The 30% publishing cut includes offloading networking overhead and is a one time cost. Sony doesn’t need to pay each time there is an update or someone uninstall and reinstalls.
The development process including multiple platforms is an industry standard to the point that if they start with that in mind the even small studios release on multiple platforms. It isn’t as big of a cost as it was before consoles were just specific implementations that start with PC designed components. Porting over a game that was developed 10 years ago as an exclusive is a higher cost, sure, but that isn’t the case for new games.
It is a small up front cost and then free money if it is successful. Helldivers 2 is massively more popular on PC than Playstation, partially because ofbthe larger user base, but by releasing it on steam they are just printing money.
- Comment on Sony to no longer bring PlayStation narrative single-player games to PC 1 month ago:
I thought Nintendo was the only one who made money on console sales, so it seems like selling on PC would be more profitable especially with higher sales.
- Comment on "I can see where they’re coming from, because I don’t love AI slop myself": Nvidia boss plays DLSS 5 good cop after criticism 3 months ago:
In his mind dlss5 isn’t slop.
“That’s just not what DLSS 5 is trying to do,” he continued. “I showed several examples of it, but DLSS 5 is 3D conditioned, 3D guided. It’s ground truth structure data guided. And so the artist determined the geometry, we are completely truthful to the geometry in every single frame.”
- Comment on US regulator won't follow Europe's lead and stick higher age ratings on games with loot boxes and daily quests, since it might confuse parents 3 months ago:
When they address this in games they should also apply the same age rating to all the ‘collectable’ stuff sold in stores with packages that have random content like magic the gathering, sports cards, and the rest.
- Comment on The worst timeline 3 months ago:
The vast majority of my game time is coop shooters, fighting, and racing games with real life friends on voice chat. We get to chat daily about things without spending an hour or travel each way.
So for me playing video games is playing with real people. We even play DnD on virtual tabletops some of the time and then play on a real tabletop in person when our schedules match up.
- Comment on ARC Raiders replacing some AI voices, CEO says "a real professional actor is better than AI" 3 months ago:
“We pay our actors for all time spent with us in the booth
You should pay them more if you are remixing their voices with AI to expand how much time their work is used in the game.
- Comment on [TheGamer] MTG And D&D Won't Use AI Any Time Soon, Despite Hasbro Boss' Love For It 3 months ago:
So, like how I run regular D&D?
Just kidding, the players have to follow the rules.
- Comment on Woah momma! 4 months ago:
Not even two pyramids, one prism!
- Comment on Microsoft Patents Reveal AI-Powered Xbox Helper System That Can Play Games for You 4 months ago:
Whyyyyyy
- Comment on Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner 4 months ago:
This system does not require a power source.
- Comment on SSD prices in yet more trouble as two of the biggest hard drive makers have already sold out their 2026 stock 4 months ago:
HDD being used for SSD is like using a floppy disk icon for saving data to a HDD!
- Comment on 'The Most Dejected I’ve Ever Felt:' Harassers Made Nude AI Images of Her, Then Started an OnlyFans 4 months ago:
This is absolutely horrible and I wish the media would stop working things as if genAI have xray specs that can reveal what is underneath clothing.
Someone used AI to remove her clothing in the original photo.
Someone used AI to generate a hypothetical nude based on the original photo. They made fake nudes of her for the purpose of harassment, yes, but they did not magically create actual nudes of her. The punishment should be the same as releasing nudes against her will, but terminology like ‘remove clothes’ makes it sound like genAI can magically create real nudes of someone.
- Comment on Kiss goodbye to 8K as support from the TV industry 'dwindles' 5 months ago:
I didn’t even say hello…
- Comment on GOG accused of using AI-generated art to promote sale, as job listing indicates they're keen to adopt "AI-assisted development tools" 5 months ago:
“I’m melting!”
- Comment on Newegg stock falls 17.7% after owner is detained by anti-corruption authorities in China 5 months ago:
strangely
- Comment on Fable's evil landlords won't grow devil horns, as reboot ditches classic character morphing due to a lack of belief in objective arseholery 5 months ago:
Realism is the most important part of a fable.
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs 5 months ago:
I like sex.
I don’t like companies forcing sex on me so they can collect data to sell ads.
When the discussions about AI are about the latter, I’m just going to say I don’t like it without needing to clarify.
- Comment on OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records 5 months ago:
That’s gonna be a no from me, dawg.
- Comment on OpenAI's ChatGPT ads will allegedly prioritize sponsored content in answers 6 months ago:
Drink verification can to continue.
- Comment on Reporter suggests Half-Life 3 will be a Steam Machine launch title 6 months ago:
So like the previous sequels Lost Coast, Episode 2, Episode 3, & Alyx
