ultratiem
I am not me.
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Oh cool. Good to know my memory serves me well. The original did some derpy stuff but the new AI is a train wreck in comparison. My units would run around and not attack half the time. Half my workers would go around my walls for some odd reason, while the rest would find the shorter path. It was insufferable.
I don’t know how they made it worse. How is that even possible? My standard insult was always “MS could fuck up a cup of coffee” but maybe I should change that to “MS could fuck up a cup of water!”
I really loved AoM as a kid. I guess I won’t be enjoying a slice of my childhood any time soon.
I tried the new AoE director’s cut or whatever about a month ago and just couldn’t continue playing it because the AI was soooo bad. I don’t recall it being that awful when it came out some 20 years ago, but that was forever so maybe. But my units were all over the place it was just unplayable.
I loved AoM, it was my favorite. But if the AI is just as bad, I can’t see playing it.
They will likely try to leverage AI to reduce rendering like AMD. I suspect this is literally announced to show that Intel is still relevant and to prevent more bleeding from that company. They did similar when Apple dropped them. Rather than make better chips, they released a mass marketing push to show they were every bit as good as Apple silicon if not better.
Thanks for the totally made up figures. I’m glad we agree that training itself is quite costly. No data on how much energy AI will save vs rendering (as we don’t know how much we can avoid rendering; there has to be a cap) so can’t really keep riding that horse.
You’re right tho, the rail analogy sucks. Not for the reasons you list tho, but rather because they will never stop training AI. Unless you feel AI will stop learning and needing to evolve.
Sorry how is forcing me to run their stupid app that gobbles system resources, ugly as hell and super invasive to run every game good for the user?
You can’t move purchases out of your Steam account and Steam won’t even let you transfer it after you die. Not sure how that’s good for me like I’m dead you can’t let my kid have it because you’re so nice.
They will ban you indefinitely even over a small dispute, like say a charge back or sometimes just a random violation of their TOS which says they can ban you for no reason.
Needing an internet connection even for single player local games is also great stuff.
If you own a game and then buy a bundle with that game, they don’t give you another copy (that you could gift to someone) which is wild because you literally paid twice for it.
You like Vavle as much as Apple fanboys like Apple. I get it. But they are just as shit of a company as every other company. Like I said, they aren’t there for you. They just have good marketing and a good front facing VP. Also they control so much that just wait another 5-10 years when management changes. It won’t be good for the user I can tell you that.
I’m not talking about billion dollar studios. I’m talking about indie devs. And Steam is 100% a monopoly regardless of how the nerds on Reddit and here feel about Valve. They are not your friends; they are a business. Moreover, they take a 30% cut and no one has ever batted an eye, not even today. Everyone went after the Apple App Store.
Their success has been to convince gamers they are friends. That’s all. Apple on the other hand garners insane antipathy from the public.
It’s wild how public perception ignores facts.
What’s wild is that the EU went after Apple because of “gatekeeping” yet MS has a 96% market share on Steam and Steam itself basically owns gaming on PCs and it’s just crickets.
I think it’s wild Valve has built such a crushing monopoly on top of MS’s monopoly and no one seems to care. If you’re releasing a game outside of a console, you just can’t not ship on Steam and survive. What an age we live in.
Samsung is a chaebol. It brings in about 20% of South Koreas total income. It has university programs that train kids from high school to uni to go work for them. They are so big that they essentially control SK and its government. I guess when you have that much power, delusion creeps in pretty quick.
Here’s a really solid documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jFZge6V_is
Except the “state” has plenty of evidence of fraud but has literally done nothing up to this point. The only thing that will change things if the people boycott ASUS and demand justice.
Or you know, keep writing your emails to the “state” begging them to actually do their fucking jobs and see how far that takes us.
This from a company so user-toxic that it created a rootkit. And who sued some kid because he cracked the PS3 (the details of that trial really show how Sony fights its battles).
A shame those working on the actual game are thrown under the bus by Sony through all this and have to eat all that negative feedback. Sony will just walk away but the damage to that brand is substantial, and lasting. I honestly hope Helldiver’s stakeholders sue them. Sony can’t just brazenly destroy a game’s momentum and then just say “oh well, we tried, fine we won’t do that you big babies, bye.”
Also, how in the actual fuck does a company institute a change worldwide when parts of that world clearly do not have a PS Network. Like I want an explanation for that one thing. That Sony made changes to account linking in parts of the world that do not have the new account we want to link it to. And never had And never will have. My guess is they probably said, “oh well, fuck those guys.”
What an absolute clusterfuck.
They have a new commercial out. The dude falls back on his couch and makes the movie that’s sitting on his ceiling, bigger.
I was like ok that would be cool. Being able to watch something without having to face it, it faces you. But maybe in 10 years when it’s the size of eye glasses and lasts all day and we can have spatial cinema where you can move in between things. Then. Fuck yeah.
The ones you link are absolute garbage that buy their rating. They will go flat in about a year. If you invest more you can get a chair for basically life.
- Steel case
- HON
- Hermon Miller
All are top brands, stupid expensive new, worth, but stupid expensive. My advice is to go to office resellers. They have some in pretty much every city. You can find killer stuff even if it’s not the best brand. But most are actually quality. All at about a third of the cost you’d be paying new. Which sort of ends up about the same, or a bit cheaper than Amazon crap.
Case design has come a long way
LOL, you can’t be serious. PC case design has largely been unchanged for the past 25 years! Same industrial metal cases. Giant ass cases because x64 like heat and power. Fat cables.
I have an old NAS from 2012 and it’s about as remarkably boring as a case from 2022.
All they did was add grills and screw holes to mount giant ass fans and a coolant block. The entire PC industry largely remains unchanged.
They became super popular with Apple fanboys because before they made the transition to Apple Silicon, they were effectively giant, expensive paper weights. In fact, the onboard Intel Iris GPU couldn’t even draw Launchpad’s animations without stutter when connected to a 4K display. This was a $2k machine with 1% GPU power. Literally. I think they were on par with Chrome Books.
The saving grace was the connectivity speed. Thunderbolt 3. Which meant you could eke out 60% of the card you’re using provided it was faster than the lane could handle.
The article is just ad bait, because it’s a pretty simple graph to calculate and graphic card makers have the industry (as is much of every sector) so price fixed that there are no “secret” finds anymore.
The whole point of this is to not have to buy a beefy notebook. You could connect a base anything and game. Most games bottleneck around the GPU, not CPU. In fact, most OSes leverage the GPU even for basic UI and desktop drawing.
And as others have said, it keeps the heat down so fans often don’t have to spin up much.
It’s a middle ground.
Thats like comparing the Zune to the iPod when it comes to gaming engines. It held up Cyberpunk for years.
RE engine is actually great and super agile. They built it with economy in mind so as it ages and evolves, it’ll just keep saving them cash.
They moved quick onto Apple Silicon and made it look effortless.
That’s the thing, you’re not injecting code here; there is no malicious intent. And companies can ban on a whim with zero recourse. Like they have with a legitimate program from a legitimate manufacturer.
It’s one thing if you have an Aim Bot, another if some setting somewhere is bugged or the developer made a change unbeknownst to users.
How y’all defend big business to give you zero rights with your paid accounts, off paid products, with zero legal recourse. The EULAs basically state they can ban your account Willy Nilly. And everyone is like “geee, that sounds grand, here’s my cash.”
Lol, sorry what? You don’t need to implant an object inside someone to get an infection. A cut is enough. I mean why do MMA fighters suffer staph infections so much?
It’s not even a lackadaisical view for a doctor, it’s just medical wrong. Something tells me these highly respected doctors were likely not that highly respected. I mean what kind of person is Elon going to attract. Think about it.
Caught replying without actually reading 👏