lol wow, they’re really gonna try to just vibe code the thing. Fascinating.

It’s great for sports. And some sitcoms. And maybe news (but why are you even watching cable news these days). That’s it.

Persistence of vision serves a real purpose in filmography. “Optimizing” it away is very literally a corruption of the art and a betrayal of the director and cameraman’s skills and intent.

I’ll stick with my vintage 2010 Phillips plasma 55”, thank you very much.

Almost makes me wish I hadn’t already switched to Team Red, so that I could switch to Team Red due to how comically bullshit this is (on top of their recent vibe coded driver releases)

My days of boycotting Ubisoft certainly are coming to a middle

Yeah so the last couple generations of their cores were supposed to be Super Awesome™, but in real world usage ended up being absolute dogs - not to mention, the lack of a system analogous to Apple’s Rosetta 2 (say what you will about Apple, but that one translation layer was an absolute godsend in terms of ironing out the vast majority of CPU architecture-related hiccups arising from the x86 -> ARM transition) kinda largely hamstrung adoption.

Let’s wait and see how this actually performs.

My read on this is that they don’t think the price of consumer components is ever going to come down, and that they’re not going to waste resources on something they think is going to become a marginalized platform.

Side note: the AI bubble cannot pop soon enough. Fuck Ai.

I know - the blatant round-tripping is utterly fucking insane, considering how much that tactic contributed to the .com bubble as well as 2008.

Also, fantastic visual representation of the situation lmao

I’m almost completely certain that Huang doesn’t give a fuck, considering their datacenter-oriented sales are just printing money at this point.

For data center shit, it’s probably up in the 70-80% range (unless you’re also running shitloads of H100s or A100s or whatever top of the line is these days)

Holy fuck. That is insane. It used to be something like 5-10% max.

Ew :|

Yeah so that’s essentially a slam-dunk for wrongful termination

And nothing of value was lost

ME1 was incredible, despite some clunky annoyances and idiosyncrasies around some game mechanics.

2 was a step down.

3 was …yikes. They spent TONS of time hyping how much impact your choices would have on the final outcome of the series, and then… you get to choose the red ending, the green ending, or the blue ending.

And don’t get me started on Andromeda.

Overall, it got a lot more rails-y as the series progressed, because that’s just straight up an easier type of game to make.

but make sure you RTO so we can justify our corporate real estate!

Yeah… my last serious rebuild was in mid/late 2020, and I definitely overdid it with a 5950x. But the good news is that I feel relatively future proofed. And I found a deal (read: found being sold at MSRP) a 9070XT several months ago that I replaced my 3080FE with (mainly because I’m shifting to Linux gaming and AMD makes that easier with the drivers). I’m gonna ride this out for a few more years. And I’m gonna pray that none of my RAM decides to shit the bed 😬

Jesus christ can we please stop trying to automate art and content creation

Seriously - I never understood why it got so popular, especially considering performance and hardware issues it had (remember when it was actually bricking components in people’s machines for a while after it was released?)

Hey, remember when Baldur’s Gate 3 came out, was pretty excellent, mostly everyone loved it, and then all the AAA studios started whining that it was an unrealistic standard to be held to?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

System-core-wise, my setup is similar to yours. I also recently upgraded (arguably, sidegraded I guess?) from a 3080FE (10gb) to an RX 9070XT (16gb) that I found a deal on last month, with the intent of finally jumping ship on windows and converting to Linux for my gaming box - already got a bunch of Linux machines between a couple spare laptops and my homelab stuff, but gaming was my last major windows use case… and their market capture is frankly crumbling lately, what with how shit W11 is. I’m not planning on upgrading my setup any further in the next couple of years, because it handles whatever I want these days @1440 qhd pretty great.

I’m just hoping none of my sticks shit the bed in the next couple years, because I do NOT want to support that price point 😬

Holy shit, even in the states it’s quite bad. This is just sorting by cheapest on Newegg - either 2x32 or 1x64 DDR5 modules, no speed filters:

Yeah, the day Gabe leaves is going to be a sad day for gaming, because Steam is probably gonna get real shitty real quick. I’m sure some finance-minded jackasses will do their best to maximize short-term profit and fly the whole ecosystem into the ground at Mach 3.

So, having not played it, is C7 basically just the Civ series’s C&C4 moment?

lol this will definitely not negatively impact quality in any way. No sir.

Unless they’ve come up with some truly novel new architecture that makes training and/or inference MUCH more efficient… why? The generational creep is obviously unsustainable, and using current-style GPUs for ML applications is a recipe for obsolescence for a hardware manufacturer these days.

Huh. My days of refusing to purchase EA products are certainly coming to a middle.

HOLD ON, MY DELL LATITUDE IS ABOUT TO HIT V₁ ON ITS TAKEOFF ROLL, IT’S A BIT NOISY

That’s a rather long way of saying “population be agin’”

Japan’s been going through demographic collapse, and has been for a little bit now. Korea, too, is looking squirrelly with regard to pop age balance.

I love the part of the internet that’s just like “you’re a problem, and we’re gonna engineer around you”

It does what I want it to, and works fine for the games I play on it. I also have a steam deck, as well as a gaming machine of Theseus, and a PS4, amongst numerous other systems for various purposes and uses. I honestly think I’m going to just straight up skip the S2.

Same tbh. My OG switch is still chugging along just fine. No reason to upgrade, really.

Oh wait, so did they actually bait and switch the KS backers? Wouldn’t that be false advertising? And also, wouldn’t that mean they’re in serious trouble with KS, and liable to have a shitload of money removed from their accounts, or at least a lawsuit?

They left off a zero

Woah, do you guys hear that?

It’s the sound of nobody giving a fuck.

I genuinely could not care less, tbh. There’s not been anything I’ve found really groundbreaking in the genre for a very long time.

If we go by oldest part, I’ve got a really good KW seasonic PSU from probably a decade ago that’s still going strong. But pretty much everything else has evolved at one point or another from when that was introduced.

I’m still rolling with a PS4 Pro my buddy gave me when he popped for a PS5. Honestly not feeling like I’m missing out.

It is, however, also fair to point out that I have also built and maintained a Gaming Machine of Theseus for many, many years.