HarkMahlberg
@HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
People keep asking me, and I haven't really had an answer, but now yeah, I'm thinking I'm back.
- Comment on There Is No Reason To Buy Another PlayStation Or Xbox 2 days ago:
It's funny, the Steam Machine has a weird identity problem.
We talk about it like it's a PC, and what a detriment it is to not be able to upgrade the GPU, like why else do you have a PC. But you can't upgrade console GPU's either. And it's still a plug-in-and-play box, no building required.
We also talk about it like it's a console, and what a detriment it is that a console costs over a thousand dollars and is digital-only. But the next generation consoles are almost certainly going to be as expensive if not more, with no disc drive either.
The SM is a glass half full and a glass half empty. It's the best of both consoles and PC's, or the worst of both worlds.
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- Comment on PlayStation’s Physical Media-Free Future Isn’t Just Concerning, It’s Offensive 1 week ago:
They basically put all their eggs in the Gamepass basket, and Gamepass sure as hell wasn't physical discs. If it was, it would just be Blockbuster... which is actually kinda funny to think about.
- Comment on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection 1 week ago:
Check his profile, as a tankie he has supreme authority on what goes on in other fediverse instances.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
I hope you don't misunderstand me by my saying "something" to imply it's anything substantial, significant, or even good. I'm very anti-AI in all aspects of our lives, just so you know where I'm coming from.
Yes, the theft of intellectual property and art to train AI models is in keeping with their laziness, and yes, the models don't improve our lives in any way. But they can't exactly steal the electricity needed to power data centers, nor can they steal the silicon required to manufacture all the CPU's, GPU's, SSD's, and RAM they require. All those things are enormous capex and opex, and that's what I mean by "something."
That's a lot of work they're doing to push AI, and the only plan I can think of to recoup those costs is to expect taxpayers to foot the bill: they want municipalities to pay for the increase in electricity costs, cover the pollution and devastation their DC's generate, all without creating jobs and opportunities in the region (because why would they pay labor a fair share, yuck). And the finale, when all those investments fail to generate any profit they want a government bailout to keep from going belly up.
I just don't think any of that is worth the effort you know what I mean?
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
Welp, I'm the fucking idiot today lol. Thanks!
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
I agree with you, but then isn't it strange that AI does a whole lot of something instead of nothing? Like, the high amount of effort they put into making AI a big thing runs counter to the laziness of getting paid to do nothing.
Though I guess they ARE getting paid doing nothing, with how many data centers are getting cancelled.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
So was Enron? I'm not sure why you chose 1993, companies have been shitty across all of time and space.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 1 week ago:
Microsoft may not even have a next gen console, let alone one with a disc drive.
- Comment on WTF Balatro take 2 1 week ago:
If you're trying Plasma gold stake, keep an eye out for Wee Joker. I have a hunch that it can scale hard enough if you thin/fill your deck with 2's and grab every Mars you can afford.
- Comment on WTF Balatro take 2 1 week ago:
Give it 5 minutes, his luck might change.
- Comment on WTF Balatro take 2 1 week ago:
I somehow lost a gold stake run on Erratic deck that started with 10 8's and 8 Kings. Jokers on game over were Rough Jem, Hanging Chad, Constellation, Blueprint, and Baron. I had 15 Kings of Diamond, 10 more Kings of other suits, 3 Kings were steel, and I was playing Flush House level 9 (Kings full of 8s). Best hand scored 1.5 million. Died on ante 8 Big Blind, couldn't draw enough steel kings.
I don't even know anymore. If you don't have a fist full of RSSK's by ante 3 then I don't think you can make it.
- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 1 week ago:
The biggest bullies who suffer the slightest jabs always cry the hardest.
- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 1 week ago:
They don't know the difference. Oh, you're right, that was easy.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 1 week ago:
Give him some slack, double negatives can be challenging for some people.
- Comment on ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Going Digital-Only Is a Car Crash for Physical Media 1 week ago:
I mean I love the idea of a physical library of branded thumb drives - in an alternate universe, USB would be fast enough to stream an entire game from a thumb drive, and your entire game library would be stored in bespoke furniture, like this cassette container.
But yeah, every big tech boom is followed by a big tech bust: dotcoms, crypto, VR/metaverse. AI will eventually join their ranks, it may just take longer than we would hope. And when it does, the price of hardware will eventually stabilize, with software to follow.
- Comment on ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Going Digital-Only Is a Car Crash for Physical Media 1 week ago:
If there's any optimistic "stick it to the man" future to be dreamed of, it's one where publishers go back to shipping Big Box-style packages, with 3-5 Blu Ray discs. But even that is woefully unrealistic - Rockstar is just cementing what Valve has known for years: why pay for packaging when the player just downloads the whole game anyway.
- Comment on ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Going Digital-Only Is a Car Crash for Physical Media 1 week ago:
Dear god, I can't imagine a game publisher wanting to distribute SSD's with their games on them. The price of memory is skyrocketing right now -- not just RAM, but solid state flash storage too.
Chad Kroeger wants you to look at this graaaaph and weep.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, Santa Monica is locked into God of War like it's a 30 year mortgage.
- Comment on Microsoft Announces Significant Price Rises for Xbox Series X and S, 2TB Model Discontinued 2 weeks ago:
"Sorry I didn't hear you, did you say make it slop? Say no more chief!"
- Microsoft
- Comment on Microsoft Announces Significant Price Rises for Xbox Series X and S, 2TB Model Discontinued 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 weeks ago:
I learned we have a word(s) for those people now: Ball and Gun Gamers
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 weeks ago:
Found IGN's list of things and that sounds about right.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 weeks ago:
Speaking of game installation, dare I ask, do we know how many terabytes this thing will take up?
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 weeks ago:
Blocking stuff off means, what though? Any game with 2 editions and a difference in content can be seen as glass half full or half empty: the higher edition "adds content to the lower edition", or the lower edition "blocks content from the higher edition." Usually the missing content is vehicles, guns, skins, costumes, etc.
But if they're blocking parts of the map, or he story, then that's a whole different beast.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 weeks ago:
I hope you find the help you need.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah sorry, I don't mean to say they're wrong for doing it. I just mean that scalpers are now so prolific that this is the only way to ensure fair purchases, that's the fucked part.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
Gonna get skewered for this take but... that's slightly better than I thought it would be. I thought it would be 1500 USD at the minimum.
- Comment on Is Ace Combat 8 (Deluxe) worth getting for ¥11,990? 2 weeks ago:
I have a different comment in this thread with more details that would exonerate anyone who chooses not to pre-order.
- Comment on Is Ace Combat 8 (Deluxe) worth getting for ¥11,990? 2 weeks ago:
As an Ace Combat fan, don't buy anything other than the base game.
- They're playing Edition Roulette with a bunch of different bundles hoping to confuse consumers.
- They're including a mouse pad in some of the bundles. A mouse pad... for a flight simulator.
- The soundtrack on vinyl is great if you're a vinyl collector, but there will almost certainly be other ways to buy the OST after launch, and without all the other preorder gimmicks.
- Multiplayer bonuses for pre-ordering are literally paying for power. Don't support Namco's endeavor to turn this game into another toxic competitive online game.
The only pre-order benefit that I think is remotely worth it is Ace Combat Zero on PC. But there's huge caveats for that too.
- If you have a PC capable of running AC8, it is more than capable of playing AC0 on emulator.
- it's a straight port of the game from the PS2, so no new high definition assets, but...
- The Pixy cutscene looks like a bad AI upscale job. Look at his chin stubble in the trailer and you'll see what I mean, it looks like broken glass.
I'm excited for the game too, but I have reasons to be cautious.