I feel like only half will be helpful, the other half have just memorized the images of the location

Seriously, skibidi gets trashed for being brainrot but it actually has themes and a plot that’s better than 90% of the other modern content coming out.

And tbh, better than a lot of YouTube from when I was a kid

It’s the same for Samsung’s AI stuff, the only really useful one is it’s smart selecting features - cropping photos, taking out specific images for stickers/collaging.

Everything else though is just the creativity I want to do being done for me.

And thus the year of Linux adoption has been pushed back another 4 decades.

I’ve been playing Marvel Rivals since it came out and I’m hooked, lol. It’s such a good blend. I put a lot of time in Paladins but it’s been a long time, so it’s nice having a little group of friends to play with again. Solo queuing also has been pretty good overall, but once in a while there’s a team that is clearly better and it’s just a stomping ground for 5 minutes.

It’s also funny how heavily it’s being compared to overwatch when it’s just hero shooters as a whole, and OW is hardly the closest match lol

Please protect your piles of fallen leaves. Many, many species of insects rely on leaf piles to complete their reproduction process. For example, lightning bugs.

Or even worse yet, Chrysler.

The game has been fixed for well over a year at this point lol

And possibly already have a vast library of games if you have a Steam account.

Even if you already had previous Nintendo consoles with games, they wouldn’t carry over.

Marvel Rivals, because it just came out so it’s fresh in people’s minds, it’s a free to play game with a popular IP and it does a good job as the game it wants to be.

Mostly kidding, that just seems to be the state of games these days lol. Whatever games release at the beginning of the year seem to falter to recency bias of games released later in the year.

Dev = working on game

Dev = game developer

Dev = whatever fits until further clarification is needed based on context

Game development requires writers, artists, coders, so they’re game devs. Could it be more specific? Sure. Does it always need to be? Certainly not.

It just gets a lot of water drops off your hands and the air drying helps

Can’t watch at the moment; is this the guy who says to shake 7 times before you dry?

You may as well have typed this in 2009 or 2015.

It used to be that people argued that it’s worth getting the new game console because “better graphics”. The console wars hasn’t gone anywhere, it’s just expanded.

In any case, in regards to just installing a game and playing it, no, not really. When I was playing games in college in 2012 it was still a time when you would open a game and go to the settings menu to adjust settings.

Sometimes it was just turning off motion blur, but there was always settings to change to try to reach a stable 60FPS.

Nothing changed, it just expanded. Now instead of 60FPS it’s a variable 60-240FPS. Instead of just 720p-1080p resolution, unless it’s portable, it’s 1080p minimum otherwise variable up to 4k. Instead of “maxing out” we now have raytracing which pushes software further than our hardware is capable.

These aren’t bad things, they’re just now 1) slightly marketed, 2) more well known in the social sphere. There isn’t anything stopping you from opening up the game and going right away, and there’s nothing stopping other people from wondering about frame timings and other technical details.

Sure, focusing on the little things like that can take away from the wider experience, but people pursue things for different reasons. When I got Cyberpunk 2077 I knew that there were issues under the hood, but my experience with the game at launch was also pretty much perfect because I was focused on different things. I personally don’t think a dip here and there is worth fretting over, but some people it ruins the game for them. Other people just like knowing that they’re taking full advantage of their hardware, hence figuring out the utilization of their components.

There’s one last aspect not mentioned. Architectures. 10 years ago games would just boot up and run… But what about games from 10 years before then? Most players not on consoles were having to do weird CPU timing shenanigans to be able to boot up a game from (now 20) years ago. We’re in the same boat now with emulation, which while emulation is faring better, X360/PS3 generation games that had PC ports are starting to have issues on modern Windows. Even just 5 or 6 years ago games like Sleeping Dogs wouldn’t play nice on modern PC’s, so there’s a whole extra aspect of tinkering on PC that hasn’t even been touched on.

All this to say, we are in the same boat we’ve always been in. The only difference is that social media now has more knowledge about these aspects of gaming so it’s being focused on more.

The one thing I do agree with though is that this is all part of software development. Making users need better hardware, intentional or not, is pretty crazy. The fact that consoles themselves now have Quality vs Performance modes is also crazy. But, I will never say no to more options. I actually think it’s wrong that the console version of games often are missing settings adjustments, when the PC counterpart has full control. I understand when it’s to keep performance at an acceptable level, but it can be annoying.

Toxic behavior being normalized leads to other people acting similarly.

I mean, “haha screaming so funny, I do same thing cause I want to be funny”

I generally agree, but I will say, it’s damn hard to get back into games like this after time passes.

The most extreme example would be Super Mario Maker, where some custom levels need game knowledge from a wide array of the various games, so if you don’t know that in SM2 you can pickup snowballs, you might get stuck for a while.

A normal example would be like Vanquish, where if you take a break near the end of the game the sheer level of technical necessity the game requires can make it very difficult to get back into it.

But those are extreme examples. Another example would be something like Mario Kart or Super Smash Bros., where everyone has their sort of muscle memory with these games. I played Melee competitively and I came back to the game and it was like riding a bike, or a Souls game, while hard, is just one boss at a time and the game itself doesn’t have too much technical growth.

Software jobs, don’t usually have kids, money only spent on games and hobbies, which are limited.

Update: They did.

If you’re investing in NVIDIA long term, now is as fine a time as any (although closer to $100 is a safer price). I think the short term pump is fading though, at least now it isn’t as safe as it would have been 6 months ago.

I think there’s a lot of chatter about those who dislike AI, but on general internet (Facebook, IG, TikTok, etc) there is a fairly significant portion of people who are all in on what it can do. Samsung, for all my complaints about them, have a pretty interesting set of AI features for their tablets. For example, gone are the days of using Photoshop to take out the background of an image, you can just open the photo app and hold on a subject and cut it out. Using it, it is basically perfect. It’s part of the Samsung AI suite, which can also do generative imaging, but most people agree that the usefulness of the former is far higher than turning a little doodle into an AI “sketch”.

This AI update they released has been around for almost a year now, and to be honest since NVIDIA’s stock split I’ve been hearing about the AI crash. And then NVIDIA hit 1T market cap, lol. I have a feeling that there are too many politicians who have investments to have it all crashing down. I would say that we are more likely to see problems with Taiwan affect the U.S. market before people’s disillusionment with AI will.

What I do think though is that the AI hype benefits for most companies is wavering in the market. 3 months ago you would be seeing every tech company benefiting from AI, and now many of those have dropped (for example, Micron as a DRAM manufacturer). But the general public? The AI music making app Suno is getting away with suing people (after getting a lawsuit themselves from a record label). Supposedly 2 billion people visit ChatGPT which is 5 times more than the next highest, Gemini.

Despite our spaces here disliking AI, I’m just not so sure that the wider general public feels the same way. Personally, in regards to the market, I had a feeling about NVIDIA back in April, got in around $100, got out at $145 a month ago and put some of it into NVDY for dividend growth instead - AMD too. They’re not going anywhere, AI or not like you said.

Also… I’ve run into a number of people who hate AI but use it anyway. I wonder if the AI hate does come around to start affecting a bottom line, might these companies just change the phrase and carry on as usual

Presents? Oh no, duh, portapotties!