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- Comment on EA never grasped Dragon Age's value as an RPG, says Inquisition writer 5 days ago:
Side note, but even with all their troubles/turnover, I still love RPS’s hint of bite in their news writing (outside the columns).
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 1 week ago:
The base M4 is a very small chip with a modest memory config. Don’t get me wrong, it’s fantastic, but it’s more Steam Deck/laptop than beefy APU (which the M4 Pro is a closer analogue to).
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 1 week ago:
Yeah, that would be perfect!
Or (alternatively) they could majorly underclock the a shrunken series X chip to make it equivalent to an S.
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 1 week ago:
Games are complex. Qualcomm/MS may tune it for the most popular titles, but I just don’t see how they can catch up to years of desktop GPU driver development.
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 1 week ago:
I will believe it when I see it. I hope so.
Qualcomm makes a lot of hype/noise but historically tends to overpromise, and also makes some unforced blunders.
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 1 week ago:
It means emulation with pretty much every current title, and graphics driver issues and sluggish game out of the wazoo (as Qualcomm is very different than AMD/Intel/Nvidia).
ARM being more power efficient is also kind of a meme. Intel/AMD can be extremely good when clocked low (which they can do since there’s no emulation overhead), with both the CPU/GPU. Apple just makes x86 look bad because they burn a ton of money on power efficiency, but Qualcomm is more in the “budget” space.
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 1 week ago:
With a Qualcomm chip though… there will be some teething issues, best case.
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 1 week ago:
Using Qualcomm chips
Oof.
Why didn’t they go AMD, or hell, even Intel? They have big APUs in the pipe that would mostly just work.
- Comment on ChatGPT does not fuck around 1 week ago:
Ahh…
- Comment on ChatGPT does not fuck around 1 week ago:
I mean, there’s no way that address is really OOPs, heh, unless it got it from the IP (which could be injected into the chat I suppose).
- Comment on ChatGPT does not fuck around 1 week ago:
A federal agent to inject themselves into a random chat? I find that extremely unlikely.
It’s possibly an existing joke it found in a web search with similar coordinates? That it can do. Or maybe it got lucky and stumbled upon them.
- Comment on ChatGPT does not fuck around 1 week ago:
This chat is fake, right?
ChatGPT does not have knowledge of coordinates unless it gets it from a tool. I don’t know anything it can access that would take “find me some suburban coordinates somewhere around X.”
- Comment on Tiny Corp heralds world's first AMD GPU driven via USB3 — eGPUs tested on Apple Silicon, with Linux and Windows also supported 2 weeks ago:
Tinycorp generates these headlines every once in awhile, but as far as I can tell no one uses it. At least not in the tinkerer space I can see.
It’d be cool if they can eat away at PyTorch, XLA and whatever else… Some day…
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 2 weeks ago:
No, we think you’re pirating something. We’re going to lock your system and make it entirely unusable.
Microsoft would 100% do this with Windows if they had the technical competence, heh.
Apple’s just closing off practical workarounds.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 2 weeks ago:
Nintendo be Nintendo.
- Comment on Researchers unveil LegoGPT, an AI model that designs physically stable Lego structures from text prompts and currently supports eight standard brick types 2 weeks ago:
A pretty long time.
Niche models are tons of fun though.
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 2 weeks ago:
I am a huge BGS and “game cinema,” and Starfield felt so… boring. Both the first bit I played before I dropped it, and YT videos to see what I was missing.
For lack of another explanation, its like all those fun side quests and nooks individual writers lost their fire. Even ME Andromeda had more compelling bits.
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 3 weeks ago:
That’s the point though, basically no-one used VPNs back in the day.
Now its basically required.
- Comment on Playtron wanted to take on Windows and SteamOS with their GameOS, now they're announcing a cryptocurrency 3 weeks ago:
So… Microtransactions.
They want more microtransactions?
Even giving them the benefit of the doubt, is there any game dev or gamer currently dissatisfied with existing payment systems? Are people in certain countries struggling with the mechanics of paymernt? Like, there are tons of ways to shoehorn in random charges or in-game ownership systems, and I don’t see what crypto brings other than moving the purse-holder.
Again, devil’s avocate: one could argue current platform fees (30%) are very high, but this is more of a monopolization issue than a fundamental payment system one,
- Comment on This game has 100 endings, and it's pushing the creators to the brink of bankruptcy | PC Gamer 3 weeks ago:
Yeah honestly I agree with you.
But like others said, not sure iffy translations would be enough to save the company.
- Comment on This game has 100 endings, and it's pushing the creators to the brink of bankruptcy | PC Gamer 3 weeks ago:
Not following that at all…
AI Bro is pretty specific. To me, its evangelists worshipping nebulous ideas and figures like Altman or maybe Musk, looking down on others for not “understanding” how amazing their vision of AI is, all in on the enshittification and impracticality, all in on the raging hype.
It feels very much like crypto fanaticism.
Even if we interpret OP as cynically as possible (lazy AI-only translation when they have another option)… that’s bad, but not “AI Bro” to me.
- Comment on This game has 100 endings, and it's pushing the creators to the brink of bankruptcy | PC Gamer 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think OP came off as “AI Bro.”
Pure machine translation would indeed be sloppy, but games have done it before. An automated 1st pass with a last check from a human contractor seems reasonable for a studio about to fold.
- Comment on What shows are perfect to watch during a specific season (spring, summer, autumn, winter)? 3 weeks ago:
All 7 seasons of Avatar are.
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Water is cooly colored. Technically it’s summer/winter, depending on the hemisphere, but very cold, stormy, and ‘cozy’ feeling.
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Earth takes place in spring and is more colorful and earthy. Characters are getting their footing.
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Fire Takes place in the summer and is hot/tropical. Very… fiery.
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Air Has late fall vibes. Urban noir mood with colored trees turning fall colors, then snow blanketing the city.
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Spirits is solidly winter, pretty much all in snow and kinda bleak/magical, except for the hint of spring at the end.
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Change is spring. Energy is coming back to the characters, it’s bright out. Trees are green, but there’s a lot of vivid rocky/sandy terrain.
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Balance, is well, out of balance and probably the least seasonal, but I think that’s the point. The protag’s scenes are more unsaturated and dark, and it feels like a turbulent summer elsewhere.
Aside from that:
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Bloodlines smells like the Florida wet season. Speaking from experience, there are only two seasons in Florda.
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The Fallout TV show (at least season 1) feels whimiscally summery.
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Eureka diabetically and hilariously summery
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Batman: TAS, some other DCAU, and Samurai Jack are incredibly stylized and seasonal feeling, but its more per episode.
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- Comment on *Doesn't look like anything to me.* 4 weeks ago:
It’s a plausible trap. Depending on the architecture, the image decoder (that “sees”) is bolted onto main model as a more discrete part, and the image generator could be a totally different model. So internally, if it’s not ingesting the “response” image, it possibly has no clue they’re the same.
Of course, we have no idea, because OpenAI is super closed :/
- Comment on ‘It feels empty’: is Hollywood film and TV production in a death spiral? 4 weeks ago:
The best of TV is still really good.
Also you are generalizing a lot. I know a few young folks who are into older TV. I find this fascinating, as they really have more access to the world’s back catalog than other generations ever have.
…I’m less enthusiastic about movies specifically. The big ones people actually discuss are like Marvel junk food, and in generally I find that TV has much more time to build and play with characters.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 4 weeks ago:
Comment from the source:
Microsoft poisoned their own well with all the changes they have been forcing on users lately. The update nagging, resetting the default browser to edge, the the ads in windows features, and integrating bing into the start menu have all trained users that when Microsoft starts pushing something new, it probably isn’t great and should just be ignored, like ads in phone apps.
That ^. So much that.
Also, the copilot llm itself sucks. Local models are neat within their limitations, and they’d be even better if Microsoft made them trainable/customizable, did better RAG, or whatever, but they just shoved a bad thing down user’s throats, and now they’ve poisoned another well.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 4 weeks ago:
I think OP means “the mediocre, least bad intersection between critical mass and topical discussion.”
Like, you can probably find users/subs about universities/fields and actually find people in them to respond. Lemmy is great, but good luck finding a mass of discussion around a niche location/field.
- Comment on Larian Studios Talks About Its Future 4 weeks ago:
Vincke says the team finds DLC boring to make, so they don’t really want to make it anymore.
I find this driveby comment rather significant.
It means they are trying to conform to the developers’ strengths, desires, interests. That’s just good for everyone, as opposed to devs inefficiently, dispassionately grinding away at something they don’t like.
That’s huge. I’d also posit “happy devs means happy business.”
- Comment on Neutronium would like a word. 5 weeks ago:
It’s because all the packages have the same domestic weight limit.
Seems silly, but makes sense in the context.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 - The Final Patch: New Subclasses, Photo Mode, and Cross-Play 1 month ago:
They seem to love writing cities and fantasy-tech too, going by some of the stuff in BG3.
Looks like Shadowrun’s licensing is a complicated mess though, with Microsoft at least involved, so I guess it’s unlikely :(