A simulation you say?

Does this mean ME5 was close to completion, or that a trailer can be cobbled together early in production? I suspect it’s the latter seeing how many trailers precede the game by several years.

You can’t get a full version because the base game requires thousands of players before it’s a viable product. Getting an early copy of COD is like sneaking into a concert venue 3 days before the show.

One day soon, someone is going to build a compelling game around an LLM. But not today.

… If you are a competent developer, he said, an LLM makes a great tool, but only after that effort has been put in to set it up. He resisted suggestions to post his LLM-training materials, saying that each developer needs to go through that process separately.

This is the vibe-code-two-step. “AI” is useful because it helps inexperienced users to code. But you also have to be an expert to use it properly.

Anybody remember all those commercials for private universities offering degrees in “game development” back in the 90s, early 2000s? I was considering it for a time. Dodged a bullet there I guess.

I don’t hoard video files, so 1TB still seems unimaginably vast. I was shocked when I learned my entire CD collection, ripped to FLAC, would fit on my phone. 100TB is like a billion dollars, my mind has difficulty understanding numbers that large.

Don’t you think it’s a big problem for the ‘market theory’ of value that producing and raising children, perhaps the most important human activity, is low-wage or entirely unpaid?

Do you believe that the economy would be better if women stopped having worthless children?

Econ101 makes perfect sense, unless you think about it.

The worst part about Windows Update is when it functions as intended. They’re going to re-install Edge, turn OneDrive back on, and shove Copilot into Explorer, Notepad, and Paint.

This is all for your security.

If you’re a good Linux user and keep your packages up to date; always say GuhNome; and trash M$ every chance you get, you’ll be given an .iso in the afterlife with the perfect distro. But not before.

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it’s 1995, I can’t afford a virtual boy, but the tech is just around the corner

it’s 2012, I can’t afford the Oculus Rift, but the tech is just around the corner

it’s 2026, I can’t afford the Frame, but the tech is just around the corner.

I hate AI as much as the next guy, but it’s normal for new graphics tech to be too intensive for the current generation. And it’s not just ray-tracing and up-scaling, I remember when Vsync was out of reach for normal gamers.

Early in the summer I bought a card @ $100 above launch price. Today, that card is $70 more expensive than that.

5090s were always a luxury item, but the prices of mid to low range cards is a tragedy for budget pc gaming.

This is ridiculous. I recently bought a card at $100 more than launch price and I’m starting to feel like I got a good deal.

Hotline Miami but with furies.

Look to the wiki link in my previous post for details, but the basic procedure was to uninstall the Nvidia drivers, shut down, install the new card, boot up and install the AMD drivers (there is a command to automatically detect your card and select the appropriate driver from the repos), and update the bootloader. I ended up having to do the second half through SSH, but otherwise a pretty painless process.

I switched from an Nvidia to AMD on catchy. There are instructions in the Wiki. https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/chwd/gpu_migration/

It worked for me with only one issue. When I booted up the first time, I had no signal to the monitor. No big deal, I just used SSH from another computer to install the AMD drivers and update the bootloader.

I recently upgraded and over-payed for a 16gb card because I felt like that would keep me playing new games for a few years yet, and a few years after that in indie-games and low-settings.

8GB is basically the minimum for today’s games, and 4GB is obsolete out of the gate.

Those plucky Windows users love to hack hardware to get their niche software running. Good for them.