Sas

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Has Quests Exclusively Locked Behind Deluxe Edition⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. It’s completely useless content in the deluxe edition and quite literally the horse armour that normalised the micro transactions. I find it actually kinda funny that they included shivering isles in the base game but kept the horse armour dlc for the meme

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The secret German plans leaked⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was hope in the last government but I’m addition to the greens the coalition also contained the liberal party FDP in control of finances and they manipulated the government from within by blocking everything good the rest of the government wanted to do. Their plan to make the greens unliked ended in their own party becoming irrelevant for the future. Also a lot of supposedly Islamic terrorism happened very frequently in the run-up to the election after the government broke apart and shifted the political climate further and further right.

  Now after the election put the conservative party in power, the supposedly Islamic terrorism just stopped and nothing happened since 🤔

  Couple that with Axel Springer press rags doing hard propaganda against left and green parties and you see why the greens had a hard time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artist Depiction⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funnily enough jump height doesn’t scale proportionally to body size and the big t-rex would probably still just be able to jump like 5ft

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A half life of 100 years many that after 100 years half of it is copper while the other half is still nickel 63. It does NOT mean that after half that time all of it will be copper

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woman, 74, charged under abortion protest law in Glasgow⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because someone told them that it’s an outrageous thing they should get upset about. Divide and conquer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ow ow ow ow ow⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A bra leaves things to the imagination while still being sexy, often times moreso than just naked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technologist: 'Fining Big Tech isn't working, make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a reason why in my comment i talked about LLMs as bad while saying AI in general has it’s uses. The reason being this post being about LLMs.

  I know very well that specialized AI has a lot of uses in medical science and other fields but that’s not really what got hit with all the hype, is it? The hype is managers saw a language model give seemingly better answers to questions than John Rando from 2 blocks down the road so they’re now looking to cut out all the already low paid workers and spoiler alert we will not land in a society where the general public profits from not having work. It will be the same owners of capital profiting as per usual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technologist: 'Fining Big Tech isn't working, make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mate LLMs are literally gobbling up energy as if they’re working at a power plant gloryhole. It’s furthering the climate crisis, not solving it. They’re also incapable of logic to make something new so they’re not gonna invent anything. AI in general has it’s uses but LLMs are not the golden goose you should bet on. And profits from them are afaik non existent. They only come from investors thinking it’ll be profitable some day but it’s a way too energy intense process to be profitable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨running windows... sorry :\⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From unixsocks to vistapantyhose smh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Two Genders⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They exist? But she’s practically his daughter🤢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FromSoftware is making more Elden Ring after all, with the co-op Elden Ring: Night Reign⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In regular coop people seemed quite nice in ER but that’s with everyone being mute

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FromSoftware is making more Elden Ring after all, with the co-op Elden Ring: Night Reign⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The builds won’t be random but pre set characters with special abilities and Ultimates. They each play quite different. You’ll also find weapons and can put 3 in each hand as per usual but you don’t have to worry about weight

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Musicians also need money to live so why don’t they get the pass?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Percentages⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel they might’ve left something out. If you’re at base value still an additive 100% increase (1+1=2) is better than a multiplicative 25% (1×1.25=1.25) increase but in games where bonuses stack another additive 100% increase would raise the effective value by 50% instead (1+1+1=3) whereas another multiplicative 25% would still raise the total by that much (1×1.25×1.25=1.56) so if you’re stacking a lot of bonuses, eventually the multplicative ones are more effective. As for how many steps it would take to be equal in our example… 1+1×X=1×1.25^X I’m not gonna do this in my bed on my phone but that equation should already tell you that the right side grows faster when X -> infinity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sir David Leafenborough⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are my hero. I was kinda sad that i couldn’t read the letter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give us your best infodump.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To form a solid base for the giant telescopes we put on them so we don’t just see our small horizon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man in charge of Diablo thinks we should start calling games that he thinks are like Diablo 'Diablo-likes'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did as a kid when i didn’t know what the genre was called. But for me it was sacred like as that was what i played

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Not a Scam 😂:’ Caitlyn Jenner Is Being Sued For Memecoin Securities Fraud⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And you make her being trans an avenue of attack, so you’re a transphobe. Same as if you’d call a black person you don’t like the n-word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Même] Which movie was this for you?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait people didn’t enjoy the 13th warrior? I loved that one as a child!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever, clever⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What a load of condescending shit. You’re giving kids not enough credit. Just because folders haven’t been relevant to them some kids don’t know about them, big deal. If they became in some way relevant they could learn about them. If you asked a millennial that never really used a computer they’d probably also not know. I’m fairly sure that people with disabilities know how to use accessibility tools like screen readers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobel Prize 2024⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I vote option 2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobel Prize 2024⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that it will be the rich that are the owners of the AI that stole your job so suddenly we peasants are no longer needed. We won’t be free, we will be broth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Is A Bad Business⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say they’ve probably long reached the point where they have enough customers around the world to hold the load on their servers fairly constant. The example with one user only taking 5% of a servers load only works for low customer counts, similar to how you can’t count on one wind turbine or solar plant to provide all of your energy but if you have enough of them you can provide a base line of fairly constant energy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 6 Priced At $700 Like PS5 Pro? It’s Looking Likely⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering Nintendo selling very old games just emulated on their switch for almost full price I’d say people want both new games and their classics. The point is you don’t have to decide which games to get. I play Baldurs Gate 3 but also Age of Wonders 1 or the early Devil May Cry games. I can actually play the whole DMC series on one device while my PS5 is collecting dust as every game costs more there than on PC and I don’t have a big library of games.

  Also I’d have to pay way too much money just to be allowed to play online on servers that Sony doesn’t even run. Over the span of 5-10 years I’d have to pay probably around 400-800€ just to play online.

  I’m not 100% sure anymore but my pc with an AMD GPU and CPU cost me maybe 1300€ and runs everything i want on highest settings so far. I think the biggest price point on PC is people getting duped by sites like userbenchmark to think they need an Nvidia card that’s ridiculously expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Dragon's Dogma 2 worth it if I already have the first one?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you plan to do main story only, I’d say, go for the 2nd. However the first dragons dogma has bitterblack isles which is a giant dungeon designed to focus on pretty much nonstop action and multiple dives in, each getting further down and delivering powerful gear to help you get even further. It really helps to give you post-game stuff to do and i miss it in dd2 to the point of thinking about going back to the first one just for that part of the game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 6 Priced At $700 Like PS5 Pro? It’s Looking Likely⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But on your new pc you can still play your old games which is not a given on consoles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games would you recommend others to just play on easy difficulty⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This might be a weird one as the game is often blamed for not having difficulty settings, but Elden Ring. While it doesn’t have a straight up setting that says easy, there’s a lot of ways to make the game easier.

  I really hate how Fromsoft put the “Prepare to Die” tagline onto Dark Souls when it came to PC and seems to develop into more bullshitty scenarios that kill you in unpredictable ways. Elden Ring has for example a lot of enemies that hold their attack for unintuitively long just to catch you off guard and punish you when you roll on the intuitive timing.

  The community is to blame as well for the bad reputation of the games with people making fun of others using big shields and summons to beat the game. And herein lie the difficulty options of Elden Ring:

  • Using greatshields makes a lot of the game a lot easier
  • Using spirit ashes makes places that allow them a lot easier (as opposed to player and npc summons they don’t affect the enemies health pool)
  • Using magic allows you to attack with little risk to yourself

  You can also summon other players but i don’t know if that makes the game easier: As noted above it raised the enemies HP so everyone has to do their part to succeed but if you are a caster you can mostly sit back and blast enemies from afar while your summons tank. Using player summons also opens your world up for invasions and while the invader usually is in a 1v3 situation they also usually know what they are doing and how to deal with such situations.

  If you’re still stuck at a boss, just go somewhere else and explore. The game is designed to teach you that lesson with the first actual boss but a lot of people take it as the game just being hard.

  All of this is to say: it is okay to use the games integrated mechanics that make it easy. It doesn’t make you less of a gamer. Elden Ring has such a beautifully crafted world and if you’re looking very interesting lore and it’s a shame that seemingly all people talk about is the difficulty. It is actually the easiest Fromsoft title if you want it to be as it gives you a lot more and more powerful tools than the other games.

  (Also if you see a chonky looking gal in black full body armour called Sieglinde, summon me. I have great heals, a big chonky sword and love helping people 😘)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Launches⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When the sun dies it will take the earth with it iirc so if you can wait until then you’re good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the secret recipe⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes sense then that entire YouTube channels got big by explaining said “boring nonsense”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Is a Cautionary Tale, It Was Lost on JD Vance⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t call me out like that, I was like 12 when i read the books and the songs were just so damn long :(