I knew this was a fucked up industry when I heard they were successfully diversifying into women-centric gatcha games where the game is also centered on gooning over various character designs but the gatcha pulls correspond to specific romance scenes and interactions.

Japanese companies really have minmaxed exploiting every demographic. They have this garbage for the young people and pachinko parlors for old people and rural folks.

Yeah, this blows. As I have stated in other threads, my last full desktop build was in 2014/2015.

Now Microsoft is forcing an artificial deadline on me, as I cannot upgrade my non-TPM hardware to Windows 11 (Win 11 sucks ass anyway). So my choices are to run Win10 past EOL on my old rig, install a Linux distro to extend the life of the old rig, or build new. Frankly I’m kinda done with Microsofts bullshit.

I would like to do a new desktop build but cannot justify $4-5K for a commensurate bump in specs.

I guess I could try to slum it with a Intel Arc Battlemage build, but I’m not sure about the Linux driver support.

Yay guess I get to do an Intel Arc build

Billy Mitchell can sue people all the live long day and win or lose it doesn’t make him less of a clown.

This sucks. I love that app.

I used to do this when I was below 30 and it works pretty well for a time. If you work and have a family, this is the only segment of time you can carve into, to create more time for yourself.

One thing to be careful about though- there is growing evidence that not getting enough sleep earlier in your life like this can lead to dementia when you’re older.

Honestly all of this bullshit is why I went with a Steamdeck a few years ago. As a working adult with a family I have different economic obligations and priorities.

I need to build a new PC soon (mine is now 10 years old) but I can’t justify spending $5K on a gaming rig. If I built now with a flagship card, just the card itself would cost more than I spent on my entire rig when I built it in 2014/2015. Pair that with Microsoft’s ridiculous operating system enshittification, and the PC situation gets even more complicated for me.

Consoles have gotten to be a bad value proposition for me as well. Paper launches, scalping during the pandemic, DRM etc., services going offline. All that garbage leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I’m having a decent enough time with Steam sale games, Indy games, and retro emulation.

Here’s the thing… It was a bubble because you can’t wall off the entire concept of AI. This revelation was just an acceleration displaying what should’ve been obvious.

There are many many open models available for people to fuck around with. I have in a homelab setting, just to keep abreast of what is going on, get a general idea how it works and what its capable of.

What most normie followers of AI don’t seem to understand is, whether you’re doing LLM or machine learning object detection or something, you can get open software that is “good enough” and run it locally. If you have a raspberry pi you can run some of this stuff, and it will be slow, but acceptable for many use cases.

So the concept that only OpenAI would ever hold the keys and should therefore have massive valuation in perpetuity, that is just laughable. This Chinese company just highlighted that you can bruteforce train more optimized models on garbage-tier hardware.

All they have to do is sell a million copies for $700 each and they break even!

Can’t wait for system TDPs that make industrial refrigeration seem cheap and efficient.

Did Tipper Gore get resurrected somehow? I thought she got banished to the shadow realm.

Wonder what the driver support will be like…

I was hoping this could be a viable option for someone who last built a new PC nearly a decade ago now, and can’t stomach the idea of spending more on one flagship card than my entire old build cost altogether.

At the same time, with all the invasive changes Microsoft has made to Windows during that time, I am not building another Windows PC. Last I looked the Intel Arc series of cards had crappy support for Linux so hopefully that improves.

He did make passing reference to the Migswitch which is why Nintendo is big mad.

I bought the original on Steam sale about a year ago. Played 2-3 hours. Didn’t really feel hooked by the story or the gameplay. Graphics looked great to me on the SteamDeck.

I think the various debloat scripts (Chris Titus etc.) should take care of this.

Obviously this remedy is just harm reduction.

Going forward I will be maining various Linux distros and using Wine/Proton compatibility, or TinyWin10 on a VM, for any tasks that absolutely require Windows.

Didn’t see any price rumors.

Turns out making everything into a subscription service doesn’t make it better, it just makes it worse.

Trying to think of recent German films I’ve seen and the best I can do is Das Leben der Anderen and Der Untergang, both being 20 years old.

“I’m doing my part!”

I have a 2021 mfg one NIB that I got as a giveaway. I can’t guarantee it will work but I will try and followup.

I have one of these sitting new in box unopened. If I have time later I will give this a try.

EDIT: To answer what you said, the reason you might want to do this is that this hardware doesn’t need to be chromecasted to by a phone or laptop or something. It can have native apps installed directly on it, and be controlled via your normal TV remote control.

Granted I haven’t tested this yet to see if it works with the alternative OS.

It would be truly awesome to have a degoogled streaming device that you could sideload apps on, use your regular TV remote with CEC etc. Even better if you could use alternative apps to get ad free YouTube streaming.

In contrast, for the unmodded device, the default GoogleTV setup and UI is horrible. You have to manually remove all the garbage apps you don’t want. It still shows you suggested banners of terrible content exclusive to certain apps that you don’t even have installed.

So in this “remake”, Joanna works for dataDyne and Carrington is the bad guy?

Either that or they fucked the description up royally.

Right, they need close air support, infantry support, scouts, supply chain logistics etc. all working together to be peak effective. If you just give some dudes an Abrams and a crash course in driving it and firing the main gun, they will be better off than the same crew of randos in a technical made out of a Toyota Tacoma, but they will still be vulnerable to modern threats.

It’s easy to understand why the modern drone threat is uniquely game-changing if you think of war like chess. Most advanced powers have now figured out that having a developed drone program is like giving yourself infinite pawns. You keep trading pawns for the opponents more valuable pieces. If Russia is able to spend a few thousand in drone hardware and explosives and destroy a multimillion dollar tank, they’ll make that trade any day.

This is insane. The new default in civil suits is just to go after whoever is tangentially related to the situation at hand who also happens to have money. Neither the manufacturer of the weapon nor Activision is liable. They sell legal products.

What would be more just, is a mechanism for pilfering the shooters organs and selling them on the open market, collecting his life insurance, and then dividing that combined spoil among the victims.

Is that the most toxic instance? I got blocked or banned or whatever from hexbear for simply posting a slightly different opinion from whatever the current orthodoxy was there. Do curated echochamber communities really provide any value?

Yeah this change is dumb. Now I wanna wait until these drop to $1.99 on a Steam sale or something. I own all the original games. Why censor them (other than muling stupidity)? The camp and sex appeal is part of the franchise. Removing it doesn’t bring more fans in.

I will gladly review one of these if they wanna send me one.

“Now gamers, before I give you your chat prompt response, I have to tell you about today’s sponsor, RAID SHADOW LEGENDS.”

Animal Well is the project that is associated with videogamedunkey. I will give it a shot for that reason.

Considering 4090 cards are supposedly still selling at north of $1,500 I’m going to guess the new cards come out with an MSRP of right around that, while the street price ends up being $2K for a year due to supply issues. Admittedly this is just speculation on my part.

Ironically the same stuck up bitches who are always virtue-posting about how green they are, (make damn sure the waiter knows they don’t want a straw in their drink, etc.) are the same people who insist on yearly Apple flagship refreshes so they get social affirmation.

Not only does it still exist, there are YouTubers and Twitch streamers who make a living on only DayZ content.

Since a lot of commenters don’t remember or didn’t play the original games - There are tribesmen and monks and whatnot. Some are enemies and some are friendly. They are caricatures sorta like a lot of the “natives” are portrayed in Indiana Jones movies.

The second game also depicts Venetian mobster guys as bad guys. Not sure if that is offensive to anyone.

Care to elaborate on what is wrong with Brax? I don’t use his services but his video content seems to be a decent way to get normies on the path to thinking about privacy issues.

Another hilarious benefit of running Graphene.

I can attest it is very weird. The entire browser slows down on transition to full screen (lags like your machine has a virus or something) and introduces a buffer wheel of lag after the first 10 or so seconds of every video.

Chris Titus is probably rolling his eyes as he has to begin another version of his debloat tool.

A significant amount of researchers seem to author these kinds of papers that sound great but then can’t be reliably reproduced, or are completely impractical in application. The NileRed video about his attempts to create the compressed wood “armor” was very illuminating to this point.

Can Intel keep making tiny steps forward in performance and driver support? If so their Arc cards could be a really good bang for the buck.

Watched the Nezar livestream and he spent 60% of his stream spamming refresh and trying to get a server. Sounds like they had capacity planning issues. Apart from that it looks like a relatively vanilla extraction shooter.