I have not had a year that is, was, or was going to be “my year” by intent, circumstance, or result, in any way, shape, or form, ever.

It just hasn’t happened to me.

I’ve never expected it to happen, I’ve never tried to make it happen. 2026 will be no different than the hell we’ve been dealing with for the last 10+ years. In fact, it will most likely be worse than previous years.

That abomination should not have been made.

• someone who used XP 64bit edition

We are keeping it around for a bit longer… Like… A month.

I ran it, and it was a (poorly) rebadged version of server 2003.

At least one app I used, refused to install on it because they “didn’t support server operating systems” … Yeah. That actually happened. It picked it up as the server 2003 version that XP 64bit edition was based on.

I just about jumped right off a bridge.

I mean… I was more talking about the four button standard diamond pattern… With different labels on each button; but okay.

The basic layout of the PS1 controller was a SNES controller with wings.

I’m pretty sure that Nintendo created this problem.

They used a/b/x/y on the SNES. The Genesis, it’s direct competitor, had a/b/c.

Then Xbox copied them and Sony copied them… But each had to have a slight variation because Nintendo being Nintendo, they’d get sued into next week…

I definitely blame Nintendo for this one.

Weird place to mention that. But thanks?

I’m not trying to defend anyone here, though it might seem like that, but I’m not sure why valve is lumped in with this, especially since that’s the steam logo.

Steam, as a platform, hasn’t released much of anything, ever. Valve has been sitting mostly on the sidelines since half-life 2 episode 2 and HL:Alyx.

Steam itself is just a marketplace.

I get that a lot of publishers on steam will fall into the categories of games that are the subject of the meme, but I have a hard time piling steam with the games that are published on it.

And yes, corporations are not our friends, and all billionaires are bad billionaires, eat the rich and all that… I’m just saying. There’s a lot of bigger, much worse, fish to fry than gaben, valve, and steam in this discussion. That could have been EA’s logo, or the Xbox logo (or ms game studios or whatever) or any number of massive publishers that are relevant here. Using the steam logo is lazy at best.

Not to mention all the shift workers. My SO is a nurse on an afternoon shift, they rarely wake up before noon.

But apparently, to your “friend”, my SO is a worthless sack.

Neat.

Slacker.

This can be directly related to real life. Probably one of the most notable philanthropists of our time is Bill Gates.

While I can absolutely applaud that he is finding charities and organisations that help people, I have a hard time doing so because people like him, with that much wealth, exist.

Billionaires can only exist by robbing the common man (customers, employees, etc) of their hard earned money, through stagnant wages that are so far below what should be earned for the work being done that the employee is effectively losing money by working there, and prices so high that the customers are effectively robbed by paying so much for what they’re getting…

There’s so much pain and suffering that can be attributed, either directly or indirectly, to the accumulation of wealth, and the hoarding of that wealth, by the 1%, that it is impossible to feel good about the fact that any one person has that much, while others are losing their homes, their jobs, their families, their livelihoods, because all of their money is being funneled upwards to those who have a disproportionately large amount of money already.

It’s stealing a relatively small amount from a relatively large group of poor people, so that the rich can be richer. And the act is handwaived by many as “it’s only $x” where X is considered to be a small amount of money… Justifying further robbery from the poor as normal.

Are you saying that’s not the case IRL?

Politicians certainly act like they’re part of an organized system of oppression against the masses…

I agree. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the Doom movie. I’m not even sure what to say about that one… Maybe that it was so bad that I’ve forgotten most of it?

For good adaptations, Sonic comes to mind. Not perfect but Sonic games didn’t really have that much of a plot to work from, just dr.robotnik is bad, go fast to stop him from doing the bad things.

I’m certain there’s more that I’ve forgotten about than I could possibly list off the top of my head.

Though… Old school MK…

I’m in this boat. I didn’t hate BL3. The story was meh, the antagonists were unlikeable, but they were supposed to be, so good job there. Overall, I enjoyed my time with it.

I tried to go back to BL1/2 and was hit in the face by all the usability issues, since it seems like they added mouse and keyboard support as an afterthought. BL3 is one of few borderlands games I can stand the UI enough to actually play.

My expectations from BL4 were/are small. Better mouse/kB support (or at least on par with BL3), and more story. I could give a fuck about the graphics, and most of the “loot” is randomly generated vendor trash. Unless it has a name and a gold title, most people couldn’t give any fewer shits about it. So all they literally had to do was mix up the gold tier weapons, and work on the plot line.

I see they fucked with the engine, otherwise it wouldn’t be so bloody unstable.

Oh well. I’ll wait for the goty/master collection/turbo Max ultra digital edition or whatever, that has the game and includes all the nickel and dime bullshit they’re going to try to get people to buy… Then wait for it to go on sale.

They’re not special. They’re going to end up enshittifying the game. It’s happening. I’m just going to stand on the side lines and watch.

I mean. Even putting all the borderlands expectations aside, it was a pretty low quality movie.

Like, a lot of films that are adapted from games or other media, if you set aside expectations from the original media, you at least end up with a halfway decent movie.

This one was just a train wreck all the way through.

The fact that they’re not mentioned, does not constitute proof that they were not included in the statistics.

I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if they are included in the list. I dunno, I’m not the statistician who crunched the numbers here. I didn’t collect the data, and that source material is not available for me to examine.

What I can say is that the article defines “discrete” GPUs instead of just “GPUs” to eliminate all the iGPUs. Because Intel dominates that space with AMD, but it’s hard to make an iGPU when you don’t make CPUs, and the two largest CPU manufacturers make their own iGPUs.

The overall landscape of the GPU market is very different than what this data implies.

The original post is about Nvidia’s domination of discrete GPUs, not consumer GPUs.

So I’m not limiting myself to people running an LLM on their personal desktop.

That’s what I was trying to get across.

And it’s right on point for the original material.

… Yeah, for yourself.

I’m referring to anyone running an LLM for commercial purposes.

Y’know, 80% of Nvidia’s business?

Who the fuck buys a consumer GPU for AI?

If you’re not doing it in a home lab, you’ll need more juice than anything a RTX 3000/4000/5000/whatever000 series could have.