I agree, the assignments will need to adapt to discourage the use of LLMs. Easiest is in-class writing or written exams. Unfortunately that takes away from other class activities.

I remember one of my favourite courses in university had exams where you could bring in any resource you wanted (excluding phones), because the exam was written in a way that required understanding of the core topic, something you can’t simply look up.

Tbh, a lot of people don’t really care if they get their money’s worth. Look at the Call of Duty franchise. A new release every year that most of the playerbase moves to, effectively makes much of the purchased goods on the older game obsolete.

That’s a great point. Doesn’t much matter if there are methods in place if many are complicit in the tyranny.

It’s quite interesting how American’s have always been about their government’s “checks and balances” to prevent tyranny, but all it took was one person who was fine with saying, “fuck your checks and balances” to effectively create a dictatorship, and the whole government is left blabbering, “you can’t do that” with no mechanism to actually do anything meaningful to remove the tyrant.

Like, I’m sure there were “checks and balances” in place for employing directors of these various governments offices, so it’s almost comical that a President can just fire anyone who doesn’t agree with him. I suppose it’s not surprising for a country with very little worker protections, though.

And so continues the enshittification.

I think I’ll be picking up this game after reading this. Thank you for sharing your experience.

I’ve always been interested in this game but I had played Far Cry 2, I believe, and remember feeling it was just a chore going through the latter half of the game, so I was turned off of Far cry for a while.

I just replayed Subnautica in VR. Such a great game.

Very clever use of a cymbal stand.

I can’t imagine it will be free and actually useable in any form.

Free*

*except you can only play one game in 24 hrs. *you can only play with four people *there is only a small set of prompts available

That little blue triangle in the top left is quite the turnoff.

I just got a 7900 XTX because of the much better performance to price ratio. And 24 GB VRAM should help it last quite a while. The trouble was finding stock in Canada. I imagine this 9000 series will have the same issue.

The 7900 XTX is looking like a pretty good option for a fraction of the price. I think i might go that direction. 24GB also helps future proof it a bit.

Oh yeah, it still gets the job done.

Keeping my eyes open for used ones to upgrade with now that the new series is out though. Gives me an excuse to get the 1080 in my server.

I’m still riding my 1080ti…

Except the hundreds of millions they have spent year after year since then.

It was the implementation of proximity voice chat that made Battlebit enjoyable for me.

I’d say it’s worth it just because of the mods available. $30 for the base game while having to pay for any extra song packs is too much, but the functionality and thousands of extra songs that mods bring makes the value much higher.

At least in my experience, enjoyable work on a project you have control over is quite different from working on projects for the corporate overlords with unreasonable expectations and deadlines. The former can be a really good outlet to remind you how rewarding work can be when you have control of how, when and what you work on.

Let me clarify, I will not be purchasing this game if I want to play it.

Right, and if I do I won’t be buying it.

Imagine if they took all that ‘piracy prevention’ effort (that doesn’t really work in the end anyway) and put it towards actually making enjoyable games.

“For some reason”? Greed. That is the exact reason.

I heard a podcast with the author of this book and the conclusion was similar. He recommends no smartphone before 16. Dumb phones for communication can be whenever.

I haven’t read the book yet, but the podcast discussion was fairly informative. I think it was Hidden Brain’s Escaping the Matrix episode.

Hmm, I’ve found it quite noticeable. Perhaps turn an FPS counter on and see what it’s actually running at. If you have a game showing on both screens, it’ll likely limit the fps to suit the lowest display hz.

If the two are beside eachother, you’ll definitely see the difference.

I perhaps haven’t played since the ground handling update, but tailwheel aircraft never behaved like actual tailwheel aircraft. Their steering seemed coupled to the rudder, similar to nose wheel aircraft, instead of having any of the momentum effects of a tailwheel with just a loose steering influence.

I believe the airport was a mid-sized towered airport in Idaho. I forget exactly which though. I selected it as my home base for Neofly because of the scenery and was disappointed when it seemed rather incomplete.

I feel it would’ve been ahead of where it was if it took the aviation side of FSX and paired it with the scenery, weather, and online features of MSFS.

I had FS2020 working well with yoke and pedals and a streamdeck, but it just didn’t feel like a complete sim. Many airports just weren’t there or had incorrectly labeled taxiways, which threw off taxi instructions and obviously made real world charts useless. Tailwheel aircraft didn’t really work properly at all.

Sure, it was a beautiful sim, but was quite lacking on the technical side. I’m doubtful a whole new product is going to solve any of those issues.

“Our Computer”

I’ve not really been following, but I believe the issue with Yuzu was they were asking for money through Patreon, thereby receiving monetary gain for Nintendo’s IP.

Really the only outcome when, in both cases, all they care about is money.

There are controls in the case of Casinos, though. The most relevant being no minors.

How about we just settle this over a game of battlebots and no one else needs to get hurt.

Subs of which they can often take 50% commission on.

Until there’s no financial incentive to do so, this will continue.

That’s COD skins in a nutshell. Either that or the skin is broken and it’s pay to win. If you watch any ranked play from the last game, 90% of people had the Groot skin.

Any of the main games by Quantic Dream are of similar artful quality I’d say. Really a playable story with choices impacting the plot and twists and discovery that keeps you hooked. I liked Beyond: Two Souls the best, but Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human aren’t far behind.

Life is Strange is great in that same vein too.

Recently played this on recommendation from a friend and it ended up on my top all time list. I’d highly recommend grabbing it a giving it a go at this price.