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- Comment on "Why do we need more graphics?": 2010's Alan Wake was as photoreal as videogames ever needed to be, reckons original Thief designer 4 hours ago:
Also it is a lot easier for investors/leadership to see graphics at any point in the process compared to gameplay, which can change all the way up to release and takes time to work. Throwing money at something that can be seen is easy!
- Comment on Viking afterlife open-world survival game Valheim 1.0 is finally here 2 days ago:
You can accidentally set your buildings on fire now, so that’s a plus!
I have a ton of hours but just enjoy building in the first five or so biomes. Mistlands sucks to explore, haven’t done the rest.
- Comment on Valheim 1.0 Launches After 5 Years in Early Access 3 days ago:
They have consistently added new content to all of the biomes over the years and worth giving it another go if you had even somewhat fond memories.
Combat is till janky though.
- Comment on Memory Prices Indefinitely High: SK Hynix Says Shortage Continues Through 2030 - PC Perspective 1 week ago:
If the memory prodiced in China fills the market demand in China then the demand for memory from non-Chinese companies will drop. Even more so if they export to other countries.
- Comment on RIP Tim Curry 2 weeks ago:
Died doing what he loved.
Obstructing.
- Comment on Steam Machine - Waitlist only 3 weeks? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been on the waitlist since it was first announced.
- Comment on Amanda Watson, the engineer who pioneered the AirLink and several other technologies for Oculus, was hired at Valve. 2 weeks ago:
The layouts generally have room to state time in relation and a screenshot. Most hide the real time in a hover over or click on the relational time whoch isn’t captured in a screenshot.
Social media screenshots are so common it is time to update to show both be default.
- Comment on Amanda Watson, the engineer who pioneered the AirLink and several other technologies for Oculus, was hired at Valve. 2 weeks ago:
Thank you!
Social media’s use of time since posting of timestamps is so frustrating.
- Comment on Do I understand the current evolution of AI correctly? 4 weeks ago:
The data centers will eventually slam the electric grid hard, but currently they are doibg short term power generation with pollution spewing fossil fuel methods.
At least one has been busted polluting local waterways as well. They are rushing everything and ruining the environment wherever they go.
Alao massive amoubts of sound pollution near residential neighborhoods.
- Comment on US | FCC Removes Key Limit On Media Ownership, Raising Potential For Major Consolidation Of Broadcast TV Stations 5 weeks ago:
“I’ll allow it.”
- SCOTUS
- Comment on Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery 5 weeks ago:
As the company implies, some of the offending ads got past Meta’s new AI technology. Initially, the TTP researchers found around two dozen ads displaying the abusive content. However, hours ahead of publication, the researchers discovered around 30 more. Many of these ads had been published after WIRED first asked Meta about the content, with multiple ads being live and shown to accounts at the time researchers discovered them.
Everyone involved in the process for those ads needs to be on a sex offender registry at a minimum. The entire company needs to be shut down for a few months while they are searched thoroughly for any more signs of CSAM distribution.
- Comment on New York is suing prediction market Kalshi, calling it an illegal gambling operation 5 weeks ago:
Anout fucking time.
Should have done so on day one.
- Comment on Nvidia RTX 50 Super GPUs are reportedly ready, but stuck in limbo due to excessive GDDR7 pricing — 3GB GDDR7 module costs triple the price of 2GB 1 month ago:
For the greater good!
- Comment on France orders internet providers to block access to Polymarket prediction site 1 month ago:
Blocking sites that are doing something not legal to do in the country is how you do things. This isn’t blocking information or anything worthwhile, just a shitty betting site that isn’t allowed to do business in France.
The move aims to enforce an existing ban on financial transactions to the site.
- Comment on You're the crew of the world's worst airline in Dear Passengers and it looks hilarious 1 month ago:
Oh so it is slop in the same way that Primus sucks.
- Comment on You're the crew of the world's worst airline in Dear Passengers and it looks hilarious 1 month ago:
Dear Passengers could be the next huge "friendslop" hit, one where you and friends become the crew of the world’s worst airline.
What the fuck does that even mean?
- Comment on Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000 looks explosive in the new footage 1 month ago:
Awwww yeah!
Reminds me of the first 40k Dawn of War with mods to increase map and the sixe of forces, but on an even grander scale! The Winter Assult expansion was my favorite.
The guard and other mass troops were what I dug about the game so the sequels being more hero and elite unit focused weren’t as appealing. Total War is likely to be right up my alley.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 is getting a new anti-cheater policy to stop you feeling bummed out and help the in-game economy 2 months 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! 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
From the reddit thread linked in the article:
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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 months 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 months 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 months 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? 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 5 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.”
