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- Comment on Netanyahu to urge ‘full conquest’ of Gaza as ceasefire talks reach an impasse 23 hours ago:
Masks off.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 1 day ago:
No.
The path I see forward for ML is small, task specific models running on your smartphone or PC, with some kind of bitnet architecture so it uses basically no power.
If that sounds incompatible with corporate AI, that’s because it is.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 1 day ago:
To add to what others said, it’s a tradeoff.
Your gaming PC not only runs up your electric bill from the wall, but the AC as well. It has to work to get all that heat out.
This is the equivalent of water cooling your PC, and piping it to a hot tub outside. It would heat it and evaporate water faster, but it’s basically free and uses basically no electricity.
That’s the tradeoff. It’s water evaporation instead of heat pumps. It’s trading water usage for lots of electricity usage, which in some cases, is well worth it.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 1 day ago:
To be fair, the “infinite scaling” vision Altman and such are selling is quite a dystopia. And they are the ones pushing it.
It’s not reality at all. But it’s kinda reasonable for people to hate that specifically.
- Comment on Chad NATO 1 day ago:
And to be clear, the larger part of non-tankie Lemmy is just fine acknowledging recent, heinous western atrocities, though doesn’t give NATO quite as much thought I suppose (in lieu of the raging dumpster fires in our own backyards).
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 day ago:
I think the rose tinted glasses effect is strong. Fallout 4 wasn’t that bad and had some neat characters and sidequests. I played heavily modded NV too, and while great, has plenty of missed beats.
Also, making a (mostly) top down text game is very different than producing a voice acted 3D world. It’s like trying to compare the writing quality of a novel vs a blockbuster movie.
Not that I disagree with the decline, but I think that’s putting it too strong.
For me the technical and artistic of aspects are factors too. Starfield would’ve been unreal if it came out in 2012… but look at its contemporaries. CP2077? KCD2? Even ME Andromeda utterly trounces it in artistic creativity, animation quality, graphics, scripting, performance, HDR quality, combat, even some voice acting; I could go on and on. And it’s basically the same premise.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 day ago:
ODST was lovely. Halo needs “side stories” like that.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 day ago:
Yes exactly! Same with the characters.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 day ago:
It’s more that they wrote themselves into a corner with Cortana’s state/loss, all the forerunner lore being out in the open now, the weird Guardians stuff…
Infinite could have been a much more subtle expansion on the forerunners, keeping them enigmatic like the trilogy, and kept Cortana. That’s much more straightforward and “Halo”
The open world stuff wasn’t awful. I loved the marine encounters. But yeah, it felt half baked.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 day ago:
Yeah! There was a twist with the Kett to kinda justify 2 meter humanoid aliens, but still.
And obviously most parts of the art departments did their job well. Hilarious but not game breaking bugs were the exception to the rule.
It was released like a month too early; I don’t remember any bugs or art oddities in my playthrough. In fact, I thought the movement animations in particular were the best of any game I’ve played, and might still be.
Ugh, that game needs a redo, even though I know that would never happen.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 day ago:
Fallout 76?
I played it with coop mates, all EGS fans since Oblivion well after it was released and patched up, and it was just… boring. And grindy. Yet kept trying to upsell us stuff. I kinda get how some like the game, but that was a shock to me.
Starfield did nothing either. I watched YT story videos/tried out of a friend’s Steam library instead of buying and felt like I was looking at a AI slop Skyrim mod, both technically and in terms of writing. Again, I’m a hardcore fan going way back, warts, glitches and all.
It’s remarkable the studio has fallen so far, without basically changing anything, yet still has such a loyal following. I just don’t get it.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 day ago:
4/5 made soo much accumulated story baggage though.
Infinite would have been better if 4/5 and whatever requisite novels didn’t exist.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 day ago:
Hear me out.
I liked Andromeda’s concept. I liked some of the side quests and characters, with the SAM & Ryder relationship being particularly interesting to me.
The gunplay was the best of the franchise, even better than the excellent ME3MP which I dumped tons of hours into. It looked fantastic and ran well.
…But yeah, the story felt like a bad first draft. Which is, reportedly, exactly what it was.
- Comment on What’s the best written Pokémon game? 1 day ago:
+1 for Colosseum.
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 3 days ago:
The link is in the webpage, but it might be bugged? It’s not visible in vanilla chrome or firefox for me (or maybe just not visible on linux).
- Comment on Where will nsfw game creators go now that itch.io has "changed"? 5 days ago:
I get the joke, but how does onlyfans slide by?
reuters.com/…/us-whistleblower-says-mastercard-vi…
WTF? Do they have dirt on finance execs or something?
…Actually that would make a lot of sense…
- Comment on Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again 5 days ago:
They give you free keys to sell elsewhere if you choose
To be clear, this is a different system than stores listing non steam key games.
That’s very far from monopolistic behavior.
I mean, imagine if, say, Walmart or Amazon did this (assuming they don’t already). Every price is every other store has to be at or above theirs, or their product gets delisted, which is apocalypse for a supplier.
How does that not sound monopolistic to you?
EGS literally can’t be monopolistic because they have like no market share, but yes, they’re being anticompetitive and bribing in an unsustainable way. It’s not good either. And their store is barebones, no question.
But the double standard of bothers me. Valve doesn’t get a free pass just cause they have a better platform and they’ve been fine in other areas so far.
- Comment on Steam Doesn't Think This Image Is ‘Suitable for All Ages’ 5 days ago:
Yeah, probably not this one:
- Comment on Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again 5 days ago:
Via EGS? I just assumed DRM for multiplayer broke it or something.
- Comment on Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again 5 days ago:
Not a chance, agreed.
I do fear for Valve’s future though. I feel like the basket should be a little more split in case they enshittify.
- Comment on Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again 5 days ago:
Yeah that parts awful.
To be fair, a lot of the games on EGS are nicely DRM free (so no trouble in proton), but Rocket League is not one of them.
- Comment on Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again 5 days ago:
Which is understandable, but also feels overblown seeing how Steam has a defacto monopoly and “soft” exclusivity (eg they will allegedly delist you if you try to price lower on lower fee stores). And that there have been exclusives on other stores, albeit less common ones for big games.
- Comment on Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again 5 days ago:
Yeah, I get there’s complications and scummy statements, but at the end of the day people complain a. Lot about a free, reasonably simple and low fee storefront that’s missing tons of features but… works fine? And they have like a 0% chance of ever getting a monopoly.
Hence I never really understand being so vehemently “fuck EGS.” Unreal has given me some sweet games, especially compared to some failures of custom engines. These court cases are another, even if they’re for their own benefit.
- Comment on US education 1 week ago:
The irony is that fundamentalists rely on so much engineering, built on layers of scientific research, for what they do (like eating. And recruitment. And printing and distributing that textbook), and… yeah.
It’d be like a flat-earther in orbit. It’s beyond ironic: it’s just not possible without the help of people outside that belief.
- Comment on mentoring 1 week ago:
there’s been the rise of the ideal that all opinions are equal, confrontation, unless approved by the talking heads online, is bad, and everyone need to feel safe, heard, and their opinions as valid (at least to a degree)
We can best deal with this weaponized misogyny by calling people out - especially kids - as it crops up.
Just to be clear, we call it out IRL. I 100% agree there.
Calling out tatertots and such online is feeding the trolls, and counterproductive. They thrive on the discord because algorithms love it, so the best move is to pretend they’re invisible, just like with real narcissists.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 1 week ago:
What I meant is that simply excluding Mastercard and Visa would turn away tons of sales, even if they worked with every other payment processor on the planet at once.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 1 week ago:
Because they would basically die off without the credit card processors, I assume.
- Comment on crypto investment 1 week ago:
Crypto is super volatile, like perpetual RNG volatile, which is a little more out-of-the-way in the stock market.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 1 week ago:
Does old.reddit.com still work? It used to not even require a login for NSFW.
- Comment on These totally legitimate comments 1 week ago:
I dunno if it’s on purpose, but you make a good point.