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Naughty dog’s average customer is not interested to online games. It would have flopped

Bad idea starting, good idea stopping before too late


For Rome, grand theft auto in the 70s is absolutely doable. Full of gangs, terrorists, molotovs.

Grand theft auto Rome 2023 would be about some fat guy bribing politicians to get the work for his company of collect garbage and never do it. The lucrative non-fancy side of crime


They have police in those city.

All 2022 Rome had only 16 homicides… And street are too small and traffic is too bad for a grand theft auto… Rome is good for spy stories, thriller or stealth games. GTA wouldn’t really work

In London not even police has guns… Having someone hanging around with a gun is too unrealistic, more than Harry potter


In the next issue of “non interesting tech news”,

Rumors say Cisco is to release next webex version in 2024.

Prepare yourself for the non hype


When doomguy picks the super shotgun in doom eternal. Most moving moment of video games history


They are. And I forgot the original prince of Persia. Masterpiece


Doom, wolfenstein, golden axe, warcraft 2, day of the tentacle. I am relatively old :D


I don’t know, I used to use Nokia as teenager… Things tend to change quite radically over years


I don’t know if steam big picture use gamescope https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope.

I would guess it doesn’t, but I cannot be 100% sure, I haven’t used steam on my laptop since ages


It provides an alternative UI environment built and optimized for gaming. It has a separate windows manager, a complete ui, and a set of menus to simplify customization of whatever is needed for gaming and power saving.

And quick access to steam store.

It is extremely convenient if you like a console-like experience, but, if you are a tinker gamer, it has anyway a lot of nice additional features.

It is inconvenient as general purpose desktop os, because on update you basically lose packages not installed as flatpack




How is it useful? Dessert vs food?

“At the end of the lunch nowadays everyone want to have a dessert, but this is wrong because they should have food”…

The sentence AI vs algorithms sounds pretty much like this


AI is a broad family of statistical and simulation algorithms.

They don’t replace algorithms, they are algorithms very powerful for some cases. For other cases they are less powerful, or overkill and they shouldn’t be used. But there is no dichotomy, as one (AI) is part of the other (algorithms)


It’s not an average machine though. It’s a non-linear predictive system. Averages suck in non-linear predictions



And no friction or gravity. Will stay in perpetual motion, forever flying around the room


It’s a reference to this video https://youtu.be/8DtindO-698?feature=shared

It was an old lady replying to a telequiz in the main public tv channel (imagine as the bbc for Italy). The show was one of the most popular among boomers. The question was “it’s foamy but it is not soap”. The old lady replied with “la borra” that is like italian for cum, but not exactly. You can hear someone laughing behind. Probably there was a group of younger people suggesting the Italian for cum as a prank, but the old lady repeated it wrongly because she didn’t know the word. Or she was mispronouncing the actual answer (“beer” birra in Italian). Anyway, the anchor woman, whose surname is clerici and who is known to be very polite (almost a nun, i.e. soura in italian), kept repeating “la borra” live on the main public channel.

It’s a cult moment of Italian tv


I guess you can call him by name, instead of as a company. He is for sure the guy you’d enjoy having some beer with.

I am italian, and the italian inside jokes in that game are hilarious.

Suor clerici and la borra is the most childish, stupid fun ever


I despise ea as everyone, but this is the only time EA is right tbf.


None as far as I know. If someone knows the answer I’d be interested as well.

Fifa used to be decent for extremely casual social gaming with friends in person.

Everything else has been horrible for years.

PES is dead. We don’t name whatever is out there now to replace it, no one should


An emulator has a performance overhead. Even a simple translation layer like valve’s proton has an overhead. The fact that most games are simply unoptimized and windows is so bloated means that the additional overhead of proton is not a performance bottleneck. But if one has a good hardware and a good dedicated OS, emulator is not really necessary, which is good for performances


Don’t worry, I was expecting the downvotes. This place is full of angry windows fan boys that believe they are tech expert because they watch ltt and can install a skyrim mod. Less than reddit luckily


It is not a conspiracy though. Planned obsolescence is a well known real thing. There is a reason unix computers last on average longer than windows computers, and Linux is the stereotypical OS for old pcs.

If people are downvoting for this, they should learn how computers and operating systems work


Only Microsoft can run decently windows in a decently big data centers. Because they can tweak it, as they do for Xbox os as well. For everyone else scaling windows server VMs or containers is a pain, because windows is a bad, poorly optimized, resources-hungry OS developed with main goal to make hardware obsolete every 3-5 years.

I don’t know what nvidia is doing, but when I use it at my friends’ places, lags are painful.

Linux was the right call in theory, in practice gaming industry is pretty broken on the PC side with its lock on windows, as we see on every new AAA port… Let’s hope valve can save it, but I doubt.



It’s a “proprietary system” (quote). It must be clearly always correct. It’s not one of those open source stuff… /s


That’s a recent change. According to the faq on the official forum, initially the idea was to charge every reinstallation. Then they realized it was crazy. Now it’s every first installations:

If a user reinstalls/redownloads a game / changes their hardware, will that count as multiple installs? A: We are not going to charge a fee for reinstalls. The spirit of this program is and has always been to charge for the first install and we have no desire to charge for the same person doing ongoing installs. (Updated, Sep 13)

https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates.1482750/

Note the “updated” yesterday. Initially every install in “different devices” counted. Even on the same device after reinstallation of the os


Of all modern languages, why java? Which will likely soon become legacy for backend applications



Expectations for blizzard games nowadays are literally zero for me. They are dead.

It is a sad because I grew up with their games


Blizzard was once once of the most creative and revolutionary game producer out there.

Whoever took it over, turned its games in a cover up for gambling targeted mainly to underage kids.

This is the reason. It’s hate against those who bought and ruined the real blizzard


Real Blizzard has been dead for years. This is not blizzard, they just bought the name.

Why should we hope for this company who bought blizzard name and IPs to produce new games?

I hope they simply stop. Nothing will be missed


How can one obscure gender of a player in a video?

They showed video to people who never watched a football match?


Thanks. Main problem I see with p2p is that it needs to gain a bit of traction, an active community behind it. Let’s see if it gets the traction needed



If I teach a neural network to draw with only my picture, the art is mine and of all people who contributed to creating the AI technology, including theory, software, hardware (because each of them contribute to the final result as much as the training data - even more in reality)…

If I teach someone to draw, and I am the only input he’s ever had in his life, art is his, but I contributed to it.

Computers are not people


It is not a good idea. Knowing that a conversation is monitored introduces a bias that makes your model practically useless. I don’t even know how can they measure performance decently. There is a reason double blind studies exist.

I know exactly what is going on here. A business school type of exec came up with a completely stupid idea. He did a great power point presentation to the board, decision was taken up bottom, a data science team agreed because “I am paid well above average salary, who give a f”, they deliver something with a dashboard for monkey execs.

Unfortunately it is so common in data science… After few years the exec will find out the model is useless garbage, will blame data science team, will do some “restructuring” and will go around exec conferences saying that “AI” doesn’t work. Meanwhile data scientist who implemented the original model already left for a better company

Edit. I checked, the guy is from a business school and was talking about an idea he has… They are so predictable…


Mark twain was created by natural precesses such as evolution, by randomness and by education/environment. It is a different thing.

AI is tha peak product of the collaboration of many human beings across generations. Scientists, engineers, artists, common people, all have “worked” together to generate an amazing, extraordinary, artificial thing.

If such things can create art, that art is made by everyone, just like honey is the final product of the whole colony of bees.

We simply need to change our perspective on fame. No one deserves fame, we all deserve to be celebrated


Because an AI is created by humans. If an AI can create art, that art is ultimately created by humans