Kingdom: Two Crowns, the Call of Olympus DLC. Also the first game of 2025 we played, we only took a small break at midnight.

I was really looking forward to Surface Duo 2 when they announced it, it looked so well. Then they released and I read the specs of that phone and decided that I’d pass. It was an overpriced phone with shitty specs.

Well, really depends on your definition of interesting. Or what exactly you think is interesting about the news. The information itself might be interesting, but the console is anything but interesting.

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Well, AI has been with us for quite a while, what’s new is Large Language Models which are what’s marketed as an AI currently.

This all means you can do some stupid things like turn a bad drawing into a bad AI generated images, or chat with a LLM, who will in fluent Czech try to convince that it’s very sorry that it only speaks English, but Czech is definitely planned in future iterations!

There are some useful tools which I sadly couldn’t test (like the live translate during a call where each participant speaks their own language and the AI translates on the fly) because unlike lying Gemini, they truly don’t support Czech.

Edit: The English/Czech bit seems to be popular, here are the screnshots. I don’t have all the parts of the conversation screenshoted, only these two:

Here are the Czech bits translated by Google Lens, the translation is not perfect, but it’s good enough to understand what’s going on:

I thought the implication was clear, seems it wasn’t, so let me rephrase! It looks exactly as shitty as I expected a Russian made console to be.

Is it, really? Sounds pretty much exactly how I would’ve imagined a Russian made gaming console would go.

Edit: I thought the implication was clear, seems it wasn’t, so let me rephrase! It looks exactly as shitty as I expected a Russian made console to be.

For me it’s Heroes of Might and Magic V, The Witcher 3, The Sims 4.

Heroes is over 300 hours, Witcher over 150 and Sims a little over a hundred. Not sure about the exact numbers.

There are always gonna be complainers. Like, I’m not super happy that Ciri seems to have undergone many plastic surgeries in a world without plastic surgery (but hey, maybe she popped into our world!), but it is what it is. Hopefully they at least contacted the original actress, otherwise I’m gonna be pissed at them, but if she said no, not much you can do.

Don’t forget that everyone has a hard-on for Witcher 4.

Yeah, this time if they announce “coming: when it’s ready”, they should wait until the game is ready.

16. I only use 15, though.

Hmm, I can buy and send it to you, though I understand if you don’t want to trust a stranger with that much money.

I can still see it on German Amazon, though I don’t know whether they ship to Slovenia or not.

I mean, smaller company is also a smaller impact and much faster decisions. If it happened to one of my small clients, it would be resolved within 20 minutes. If it would happen to my largest client, it would take hours if everyone in the decision chain suddenly turned competent and people with access to various stuff would all be available, which they probably wouldn’t, so realistically we’re talking days (assuming the DNS provider doesn’t restore it beforehand).

The DNS provider (who is not necessarily also a registrar, but it’s common that the registrar is also a provider) doesn’t have any option to disable individual pages. They can only disable a whole subdomain or domain.

The server provider technically could, but it’s much harder because the site is served on https, so they would most likely have to disable the whole server as well.

Not that the server provider was asked, it’s just to illustrate that no one but the service owner (itch.io) can meaningfully block a single page. Asking the infrastructure providers is a dick move.

Edit: So the server provider was asked as well, but they’re not as incompetent it seems. Also, instead of a copyright abuse, BrandShield falsely sent this as a fraud and phishing, which is another dick move.

So yeah, the DNS provider is incompetent, but BrandShield is the malicious actor here.

I found it too boring, never finished it. Perhaps my expectations were too high after the first Life is Strange.

The Walking Dead by Telltale.

I mean, that’s what you get for naming the newest game in the series as if it was the oldest one.

Yeah, that’s a great way to kill an already dying franchise.

Witcher 1 is playable on controller if you take the time to configure it using a 3rd party software. I recently replayed it using Steam Input on my Steam Deck.

Known as the inventor of the Walkman

Yeah, that’s what everyone knows Sony for. Especially nowadays.

Let me introduce you to my former phone: Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra 5G.

Eh, I guess you misunderstood. I was calling out the downvoters, not you.

Bold move, saying Valve isn’t the only company in the whole world that actually loves their customers! Reddit Lemmy hive mind is incapable of accepting such a thought.

Can’t you just buy it, write a review, return it?

Hannah Montana Linux btw?

Well, time for some review bombing?

Not watching the video, but here’s an answer for the clickbaity title: no, it’s not. It’s not officially supported and outside of a few enthusiasts, no one’s gonna use it on a Windows handheld.

Hmm, let’s ponder for a while what could I have meant. Soooo, do I put coins into my SNES or Genesis? Hmm, tough question, but if I had to give a definitive answer, it would be no. For multiple reasons, really. Like not having SNES or Genesis. And there being no slot for coins. Well, technically there’s a slot that you can put coins into, but it’s better to put the game cartridge there.

So, long story short, no I don’t. But where else would people in the past put coins into to play games? Well, that, my dear reader, is left as an exercise to you.

Nah, the consumers are just wrong. They don’t want entertainment, they want gambling.

- Game company CEO, probably

I’m still waiting for the game to come to GOG.

Having made my own pathing algorithm in Screeps… That thing’s fucking hard to do right.

Nah, the Lion King was famously made so hard that it would force you to put more coins to try again.

Nothing has changed, we just had a brief intermezzo of games not being intentionally fucked to extract more money.

You’d be surprised how small you can go. That’s IMO pretty much the future of AI - a shit ton of small specialized models. While the heavyweights have their use, they’re way too expensive and overkill for specialized tasks.

Some small models can comfortably run on the CPU as well, games can easily detect whether you have VRAM to spare and use GPU or CPU based on that.

It’s not there, yet, but what some of the small models can do is impressive. And if you train them extensively on fantasy scripts, I can see them generating NPC lines on the fly.

Any of the Dragon Age games.

Step 1: Buy only from GOG
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit

Well, sometimes you don’t want to do. But yeah, overall you’re right.

Well, 4 already crossed it, Netherlands and Denmark will probably cross soon-ish, so only one country more! And another 700k votes.

Yep!