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- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 1 week ago:
They’re mostly not AI specialized, though. That’s why they’re so inefficient and why their demand contends with consumer hardware in the first place. Which makes sense, because AI is still in rapid development. They don’t know what the right answer is yet, but they know they need a bunch of fast memory and parallel processing.
The AI specific hardware being added to GPUs is still pretty general. CUDA cores are just parallel compute. Tensor cores are for doing parallel compute with fewer bits of precision. Yes, there are niche applications for fp16 and lower, but rendering is one of those applications.
We also need to accept that this isn’t the crypto bubble, this is the dotcom bubble. Like it or not, there is a real advancement in technology happening here, and it’s not going away. The bubble will pop because there’s far more money being invested per unit time than can be returned as profit per unit time, not because the tech is a farce. Yes, 99% of AI applications right now are a farce, but that 1% are giving us actual useful abilities we simply didn’t have before. Point being: our world after the bubble pops will still make use of AI, so any hardware over-production will still be useful to the general public for AI applications.
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 1 week ago:
The big problem is that nobody thinks about those people that don’t have the hardware right now.
Literally yes they do, because even though they don’t have the latest and greatest hardware, they have some money to spend. That’s the argument being made: until now the assumption was that new hardware would get cheaper over time, and people would gradually move to new hardware. Devs spend years making games, and historically bank on that assumption so that when the game comes out, it has the largest audience available to purchase it.
The fact that it looks like that won’t be the case in the near future means devs have to shift their behavior to accommodate what their playerbase has, i.e. continue developing and optimizing the same hardware.
That said, this is all temporary. Whether they widen the pipeline, or the AI bubble bursts, in 2-3 years there will be a deluge of hardware hitting markets. (Provided trade/actual wars don’t get in the way, which is the bigger concern imo).
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 1 week ago:
For the record, the science shows that Destruction Therapy is not effective at actually managing anger, and may actually cause more harm long term, as you’re normalizing that behavior in your brain.
But as for why we don’t see more games along those lines, I don’t know. It does seem like a genre that would sell well right now. I remember there was a series of desktop games when I was a kid called Stress Reducer that would give you a set of animated weapons to “destroy” your windows desktop (an image of it).
- Comment on Day 579 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Yes, and it is a masterclass in both narrative and environmental story telling.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, protesters famously support the ones with the monopoly on violence.
- Comment on Students from Western Carolina University are heckled as they march to their new polling place - 2 miles down a busy highway with no sidewalks — after officials voted to close their on campus polling 2 weeks ago:
Uphill! Both ways!
- Comment on Two women, in their own driveway, had assault rifles pointed at them. ICE agents broke their car window with a rifle stock and dragged them out. 2 weeks ago:
To be successful, the govt would have to investigate themselves and find wrongdoing. In which case, it wouldn’t be the victim’s insurance paying out, it would be the taxpayer.
Even if she’s found completely innocent of any wrongdoing, if the govt says the officers did as they were trained, then she’s probably on her own for repairs.
- Comment on Two women, in their own driveway, had assault rifles pointed at them. ICE agents broke their car window with a rifle stock and dragged them out. 2 weeks ago:
The victim’s insurance would gladly say that she is at fault for making the police do this, and the police would back her up. On paper to them, it would be no different than if she had gone on a high speed chase and the cops had to ram her to get her to stop. They will not be paying a dime.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t followed the development communication much, but yes, screen sharing works now. It wasn’t working on wayland like 8mo ago, but I tried again a month ago and it’s now working.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t tried mumble yet.
You pay for the hosting resources yes, but you can host it anywhere. I’ve been playing around with it using a docker instance in my homelab.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 3 weeks ago:
Were you trying Teamspeak 6? The UI is different, but the functionality is on par I believe. Not open source, but at least you can self-host.
- Comment on A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters 3 weeks ago:
Because HBO has a good track record for fantasy shows?
- Comment on 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I am interested in understanding your world view, and am trying to ask direct questions about it so I can understand it better (such as how you arrived at your definition of escapism), but if that’s not something that interests you, and you’d rather stoop to ad hominem jabs (like telling me to touch grass/look at trees), then we can call it here. Your call.
- Comment on 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy 4 weeks ago:
Escapism: Using any method to interpret reality instead of directly facing said reality.
Interesting. I’ve never heard anyone attempt to define escapism like that. Where are you getting this definition?
Or from the other side, what word would you use to mean,
habitual diversion of the mind to purely imaginative activity or entertainment as an escape from reality or routine
Hopefully you agree that “purely imaginative activity or entertainment” is distinct from “any method to interpret reality”.
If you’re looking at a picture of a tree and using your imagination to marry it to the real thing, that is escapism.
What if I told you that looking at a real tree is an act of using your imagination to marry it to reality? Consider that humans looked at the moon and stars every day for centuries before we understood what they were in reality. Some people still do to this today.
Regardless of whether you’re considering something in front of you or a concept in abstract, if you’re attempting to grapple with the nature of reality, you are most certainly not engaging in escapism.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, almost certainly. A gaming device is a gaming device, what matters is how many users you have.
If we’re concerned about distinguishing between platform, then steam is statistically insignificant on the vast majority of platforms people game on.
- Comment on 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy 4 weeks ago:
This feels like you’re doing the “qualityslop” troll lol.
I think you could make art that is escapist in theme, but by definition escapism is any effort you make to “escape” your reality, or the reality of the human condition. In contrast, the value of art is that it gives us a way to communicate about our reality and/or the human condition using a language that lives past literal interpretation.
Art doesn’t help us to escape our reality, it specifically embraces it and helps us understand and communicate about it. Art is the opposite of escapism.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 4 weeks ago:
What if I told you that the MAU count for Fortnite alone is more than half of the total MAU count for all of steam?
Even if the only game on epic was Fortnite, that doesn’t qualify as “statistically insignificant” no matter how you look at it.
- Comment on 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy 4 weeks ago:
Due to its nature, I’m not going to be able to explain art to you. Cheers.
- Comment on 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy 4 weeks ago:
escapism requirent that is so essential to enjoying a video game.
Again, this is simply not true. It may be true for you, but does not universally apply to the entire art form.
- Comment on 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy 4 weeks ago:
First off, not all video games are escapism, just like not all film is camp. The genre of science fiction is only as good as the philosophical thought problems and potential ethical dilemmas it poses.
Once you get past thinking of Christianity as a uniquely negative force in society, and instead see it as another fiction on the pile of stories humans have invented, it’s intellectually interesting to think about the political and psychological impact that all our various religions have had on the trajectory of our species, and could have as our technology advances.
Fantasy often depicts Inquisitors brutally persecuting sorcerers, which is historically accurate for Christianity 300-700 years ago. Why shouldn’t SciFi attempt to explore the evil we see in Christianity today, but set in the distant future?
- Comment on ICE Supreme Commander spotted in Minneapolis 5 weeks ago:
“Oh-blige him”
- Comment on 'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, and that they have official modding support, but neither has stopped modding communities in the past.
- Comment on 'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike 5 weeks ago:
Technically you could do this with any two games, it’s just a matter of how you map the representation of one game within the other. And afaik, every important mechanic in mc was done elsewhere first, mc just put it all together in one sandbox.
The only grounds msft has to sue on would be assets and likenesses, which hytale doesn’t (shouldn’t) use any of.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 1 month ago:
That’s an insane claim to me. HL2 set the bar for worldbuilding. From the guy muttering “don’t drink the water” in the train station, to the people and vortigaunts building homes in the sewers, to the stick legged stalkers waddling around the citadel, HL2 took “show don’t tell” to heart. It was the most immersive experience anyone had played in video game up to that point, or for years after.
I’ll grant you that other games have learned a lot from it, but I would say the vast majority haven’t. Games still come out today where everything needs to be spoonfed to the player literally, for them to stop and process what they’re looking at, rather than just running and gunning.
When you say HL2 can be boring and nonsensical if played today, the first thing that comes to mind are all the people who turn subtitles on, and then for 75% of the runtime their eyes are in the bottom 1/3 of the screen, not taking in any of the visual information the filmmaker is putting in front of you. Like, yeah, HL2 is quite boring when you’re not looking at it.
- Comment on Google employee made redundant after reporting sexual harassment, court hears 1 month ago:
What does “laid off” mean if you interpret it literally? Have you ever even thought about it? At least you understand how the the term “redundancy” came about. But what if the words we use to convey concepts are just the words we use to convey concepts, and not an act of malice or compliance?
- Comment on Google employee made redundant after reporting sexual harassment, court hears 1 month ago:
Tell me you’re American without telling me you’re American.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 1 month ago:
Where are you getting the term “visual capitalist”? And why did you learn about this phenomenon today? Misinformation has been rampant for over a decade now.
- Comment on I spent the last year working on the Fediverse. Here's what I've learned. 2 months ago:
It’s an appeal to non fediverse netizens to use the fediverse. He lists the usual pros: the services are designed to interact with each other, there’s no algorithm, it feels more old internet.
- Comment on The Legion Go 2 might ditch Windows for SteamOS - and cost less 2 months ago:
That just means it’ll be an officially supported conversion.