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- Comment on GeForce Now’s 100-hour monthly limit goes live in 2026 9 hours ago:
GFN is not for “hardcore gamers”. Well… at least not until recently (more on that).
It is more for the people who might mostly play older titles but want to experience the newest hotness. That 1070 has zero problems with all the indie games but you have heard that Clair Obscur is REAL good and you want high fidelity toesy woesies. Or maybe you mostly just play Madden and Call of Duty every year and don’t want to spend the money on a new computer (… assuming you play either on PC).
And it is nVidia so their linux support is a shitshow, but I was personally VERY tempted to try GFN when Dragon’s Dogma 2 was shitting the bed endlessly at launch. Ended up buying a new graphics card instead which… has somehow turned out to be a good decision?
But if you are the kind of person who upgrades every 5-8 years and cares about high fidelity gaming? You don’t need this.
… Assuming you upgraded in 2024. Because now EVERYTHING costs an arm and a leg and just gets worse and worse by the week.
Like, imagine buying a wagyu beef but only owning a microwave? So you rent a kitchen?
Change that to a nice 2 inch bone-in ribeye. Actually don’t, since that is also best cooked on a stove. But let’s move past that.
It is not that you don’t have a kitchen. It is that you don’t have a grill or a range hood (ooh, that actually works). So you rent a grill for the weekend.
And… that isn’t too dissimilar from people who get gym memberships so they can go climbing (because they don’t live in an area where they can easily do it outdoors) or because they don’t want to buy expensive gear.
And… honestly? A couple years back I had to help emergency cater a friend’s wedding (it was a whole thing). I… would totally pay money to get access to that kitchen a few times a year. Like… holy shit was it amazing.
- Comment on Call of Duty co-creator, Infinity Ward and Respawn Entertainment co-founder, and Battlefield head Vince Zampella dies aged 55 6 days ago:
If there is one thing The Internet agrees upon, it is that the virtuous response to any death is to engage in competitive mourning.
Religious/“Religious” christians tend to embrace that mindset because so much of their beliefs are built upon the idea of deathbed repentance overriding all else. I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader as to why an org that has had varying levels of political and military power over the millennia would love the idea that anything you do can be absolved with a single prayer (and a “charitable donation”).
Millennials and GenZ have a tendency to think the world is Steven Universe and what matters is that THEY are virtuous and forgiving and blah blah blah blah blah. Everyone knows you can stop an intergalactic war by showing you have the biggest heart!
We saw very similar bullshit with terry bolea and r kelley and the like. Folk tried to do that with kirk before EVERYONE agreed it was just too funny to care.
Personally? I’ve driven down that road in the past. Even driving the speed limit it is a “fun” road and it is well known that “car people” love to race down it at insane speeds. And Zampella pulled a paul walker doing so. It sucks and I do feel bad for his (very well off) family but also… yeah.
As a “gamer”: Zampella and his team more or less defined FPSes for almost 30 years (I think he was part of the original Medal of Honor?) for good (Titanfall 2) and for ill (… Titanfall 1). But… the vast majority of those games consisted of “Let’s go to Generic-stan and kill some brown people” and folk like Rami Ismail have highlighted this time and time again to deaf ears. Because it very much normalizes the idea that “we” are fighting mindless savages in Oil-stan and makes it much easier to ignore the horrific human rights violations in less lucrative locales.
- Comment on Amongst all the success, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio Sandfall Interactive isn't interested in expansion 1 week ago:
Why would they? They already hire massive numbers of contractors when they need to scale up.
- Comment on Shock horror, Ark 2 has been delayed, with its story now apparently at the whims of Vin Diesel 1 week ago:
It was apparently announced in 2020 so assume they put him on the short list in closer to 2018. So 7-ish years ago.
And… Vin Diesel of 2018 (even 2022) was a REALLY good pick. Nerds like him because of Riddick. Normies like him because of Dom. And he is very much the kind of celebrity who will go WAY too hard on marketing for video games/“nerd shit”.
Of course, in the interim we received MANY reminders that he is, at best, a perv and more likely a sex pest. And the Fast and the Furious series cratered harder than gal gadot getting yeeted off an airplane on the world’s longest runway.
- Comment on Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch' 1 week ago:
Perhaps Mozilla doesn’t quite fit into this category,
Then don’t fucking compare it to rape
- Comment on Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch' 1 week ago:
…
MAYBE don’t trivialize rape by comparing a software you don’t like to… rape.
- Comment on Total War: THREE KINGDOMS gets a GOG release along with various DLC 1 week ago:
3K is a delightful hot mess.
For those unaware: It was theoretically a historical Total War (e.g. Medieval and Shogun) set in the Chinese Warring States period. But, as the title suggests, it is very heavily influenced by the Romance of the Three Kingdoms version of that period where most of those historical generals are borderline demigods to begin with. AND it is very much “The book based on the movie based on the book” where their version of ROTK is very heavily influenced by Dynasty Warriors.
So the end result is a historical TW that is VERY clearly a mod for Total Warhammer. Some of it works, some of it doesn’t, but basically nobody was actually happy since it wasn’t Dynasty Warriors enough for the Total Warhammer crowd and didn’t really care about the logistics and politics of The Warring States for sickos like me.
- Comment on YSK: The Lethal Danger Of Combining Welding And Brake Cleaner 1 week ago:
There are isolated cases of EVERYTHING. People will do anything with everything and that is why OSHA et al are such complicated messes.
Its the difference between possible and plausible.
- Comment on YSK: The Lethal Danger Of Combining Welding And Brake Cleaner 1 week ago:
This definitely reeks of intentional stupidity and bernard and styro are both part of the group of maker youtubers who are openly doing whatever it takes for views.
That said, this one is at least somewhat plausible. Someone cleans a part with a small amount and a scrub and figures that they’ll just burn it off because they are lazy and don’t care about residue ruining the weld. Whether that will be enough to be meaningfully harmful is an open question
But I can’t think of any situation where you would need enough solvent to remove the rust AND not wipe a part down because it has been soaking for an hour before you took the wire brush to it. At which point this is mostly in the same realm of “only weld in well ventilated places and consider a respirator under that mask” which everyone should do but nobody does.
- Comment on Latest Steam Deck update will warn you if an Xbox controller needs upgrading 1 week ago:
I can’t speak to xbox controllers, but I have a VM on my desktop for updating my 8bitdo controllers and de-drm’ing my kobo (formerly kindle) purchases.
For the former, the qemu gui “redirect usb device” is sufficient.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 1 week ago:
Do we know what valve defines “release” as?
This has come up a lot over the years but between “early access” games that launch in borderline beta form and live games that never leave it (and if you see a similarity between those: congrats, you now understand how important marketing is)… what is the actual difference between a fully new release and a game that just got a major update with 10 hours of story content?
This semi-famously came up back pre-pandemic when Alex Navarro made a fairly impassioned soapbox about Fire Pro World and how if they didn’t discuss it for Giant Bomb’s GOTY the year it entered EA then they never would… and then was immediately shut down. Although Jeff Gerstmann has often talked about how GOTY discussions are really just shopper’s guides and he has always approached them from that perspective.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 1 week ago:
People have always defaulted to the… default.
Whether that is safari on a mac or internet explorer, and now edge, on windows. And if you are already going to deal with chromium’s bullshit… edge is perfectly fine.
- Comment on Larian want to release Divinity in "three to four years", and they're making limited use of generative AI 1 week ago:
Concept/placeholder art always sneaks through. It is just the reality of development. You can’t hold off on all level design until all assets are finalized and you can’t restart from scratch every time an asset is updated. Sometimes it is generative ai bullshit. Sometimes it is a picture of someone’s cat. There are plenty of examples of this throughout the decades.
Like all things, it is about quality control and how much studios (are allowed to) care.
I don’t blame people for being freaked out. Even acknowledging this is a yellow flag. But it also is actually a really good use case for generative AI since it will allow everyone to more or less work in parallel. I… don’t like the placeholder text aspect but there is also a lot to be said about UI/UX using actual “speaking cadence” text rather than just lorem ipsum.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 2 weeks ago:
found that with just 250 carefully-crafted poison pills, they could compromise the output of any size LLM
That is a very key point.
if you know what you are doing? Yes, you can destroy a model. In large part because so many people are using unlabeled training data.
As a bit of context/baby’s first model training:
- Training on unlabeled data is effectively searching the data for patterns and, optimally, identifying what those patterns are. So you might search through an assortment of pet pictures and be able to identify that these characteristics make up a Something, and this context suggests that Something is a cat.
- Labeling data is where you go in ahead of time to actually say “Picture 7125166 is a cat”. This is what used to be done with (this feels like it should be a racist term but might not be?) Mechanical Turks or even modern day captcha checks.
Just the former is very susceptible to this kind of attack because… you are effectively labeling the training data without the trainers knowing. And it can be very rapidly defeated, once people know about it, by… just labeling that specific topic. So if your Is Hotdog? app is flagging a bunch of dicks? You can go in and flag maybe 10 dicks and 10 hot dogs and ten bratwurst and you’ll be good to go.
All of which gets back to: The “good” LLMs? Those are the ones companies are paying for to use for very specific use cases and training data is very heavily labeled as part of that.
For the cheap “build up word of mouth” LLMs? They don’t give a fuck and they are invariably going to be poisoned by misinformation. Just like humanity is. Hey, what can’t jet fuel melt again?
- Comment on GOG formally announce their GOG Patrons subscription donation system 2 weeks ago:
GOL is a useful news aggregator but a REALLY shitty blog site. I subscribe to the RSS feed but basically never click through an article since the only useful information comes from the headline in almost all cases. So “oh, that sounds cool, let me search for a better source”
It is just that the mods of this board love to post every single GOL blog post for Engagement purposes, I guess.
But yeah. I like CD Projekt and GoG. But they have a long history of downright performative activism. They’ll do or say whatever will increase sales in a given month but rarely follow through. Even their raison d’etre of “sell old games” has faded. But, because they still talk a big game, nobody cares that they have just as much “gooner bait” as Steam (AND in a format that doesn’t broadcast to all your friends that you are jacking it. Just saying…).
I will definitely buy old games “new” at GoG. Which leads to a lot of hilarious moments where I remember something existed (Warhammer Mark of Chaos), go to see if it is there, and realize I bought it three years ago.
The “tip jar” and now “donation” subscription just… feel REALLY REALLY bad.
- Comment on ‘Our industry has been strip-mined’: video game workers protest at The Game Awards 2 weeks ago:
But guys. This game was made with ONLY 30 people. And keighley is one of us. He let Ms Piggy neg him!
- Comment on Total War: Warhammer 40,000 wants to be "the seminal Warhammer 40K game," says its devs, who sell me in just 8 words: "You can customize the fingers on Space Marines!" plus Gamestar article 2 weeks ago:
A huge chunk of Space Marine 2’s story is about how Titus basically got screwed over by the Imperium for the sin of… treating Guard like human beings and fighting back against Chaos. A big arc is even that his squadmates (other Spesh Mahrines) don’t entirely trust him but learn to do so. And while I haven’t gotten around to it yet, I would be shocked if Owlcat didn’t take some pot shots at the zealots in Rogue Trader.
- Comment on Total War: Warhammer 40,000 wants to be "the seminal Warhammer 40K game," says its devs, who sell me in just 8 words: "You can customize the fingers on Space Marines!" plus Gamestar article 2 weeks ago:
All fandoms have the people who REALLY don’t get the message. Chief amongst them is basically any time chuds listen to Rage Against The Machine. Others are the people who key in that Vegeta is awesome but don’t understand why so much of that is centered around the Buu saga and him rejecting who he used to be.
As for 40k? Yeah. I do have a problem with the people who very unironically worship the imperium.
But it is also worth remembering how many of the beloved (imperium) stories are about actively defying that. Eisenhorn and Ravenor are both poster children for radicals who regularly fall afoul of the more puritan of their orders. Gaunt is regularly set up to die by other Imperial Guard. Hell, we somehow got a sequel to frigging Space Marine (game) and both of those are very much about the fundamental flaw in how the imperium fights Chaos.
Hell, the Ciaphas Cain series is literally space Blackadder with so many plots basically being about Ciaphas actively trying to prevent the imperium from killing both him and itself (to the point Inquisitors cover for him… and only one of them is after his Cain).
And of the lesser known books and games? So many of them are fundamentally tragedies that highlight the futility of war with PLENTY of characters dying for the stupidest of reasons.
Is 40k anti-fascist? At one point, maybe. But it very much hasn’t been for the past 30 or so years and there are a LOT of stories about GW actively interfering when a writer gets too close to the actual point.
But it is also important to remember the power that these long running cultural touchstones have. Star Wars has very much flirted with politics for its entire almost 50 year run. Sometimes for good, sometimes for bad. But, as a result, Andor was immensely powerful for having 40 years worth of build-up to an episode that centered around a speech in which a politician condemned fascism and genocide. And… a lot of people were kinda forced to listen to that “against their will” because they like the laser swords.
Do I at all think Total Warhammer 40k is going to be that? No. But it will continue to do what 40k has done for decades: Chuds will cheer because chuddiness. And the rest of the fanbase will increasingly realize “so… the super fascist armies are bad?”
- Comment on Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union, with 165 workers at Doom studio the latest to vote in favour 2 weeks ago:
Because suddenly this erases the fact that the parent company, who gets all the money for that game (devs do not get royalties and any sales based bonus windows are long past) are still constantly glazing israel and the idf?
- Comment on Larian reveal a new Divinity RPG that boasts "greater breadth & depth than ever before" 2 weeks ago:
As much as I love D:OS (and acknowledge almost the entire studio is geared for that)… I REALLY want this to be another ARPG (DD) or weird 00s pseudo-Gothic (D2). I would even settle for a mediocre RTS/dating game (D:DC).
- Comment on iFixIt announce FixBot: Your AI Repair Helper 2 weeks ago:
Much of it goes back to the 60s-80s when Western factories were largely outdated and realizing that East Asian factories were rapidly outpacing them and able to offer better products for MUCH cheaper. Rather than acknowledge they had become complacent and didn’t want to train their worekrs they instead focused on “made in America” bullshit and insisting that that new vacuum was no longer repairable. And… mostly that boils down to the idea that if you have vacuum tube transistors you can replace them easily whereas you can’t replace a transistor on a single chip.
But, as we have learned in the intervening decades, you can… just replace the board. And many of those evil computers in cars actually drastically increased repairability/maintainability because you can actually tune many aspects with a computer and get VERY useful data out of the sensors.
Because the reality is that you can make an SOC device that is INCREDIBLY repairable by focusing on how you do chip layout and what modules can be repaired. And you can make a multi-board setup that is immensely unrepairable by locking down parts with effectively DRM. And… there are also times where it actually does make sense to lock down/register those parts just like there are times it actually does make sense to glue the fuck out of that assembly.
But that is nuance. And nuance is for women and The Gays™. So buy American and purchase a radio that you can repair until the day you die! And then buy a new radio next year.
- Comment on iFixIt announce FixBot: Your AI Repair Helper 2 weeks ago:
To be clear:
EVERYONE should have a cheap set of electronics screwdriver bits (and the ifixit kit is really nice. So are the much cheaper knockoffs from the same factories. Up to you if you care). And having basic soldering skills and knowing when you can get away with heat shrink connectors is a really useful skill. You’ll be repairing the headphones the dog ripped off your desk in no time and save yourself a lot of money.
But when you are listening to people tlak about how this cell phone needs to be repairable or how you NEED to have the DAC be a separate board so it can be removed and replaced? Same with demanding chip diagrams for that SOC in your laptop. Ask yourself: How likely is it that you will EVER do a repair like that? How often do you actually hold onto hardware? And how much do you trust the guy with a shop in the mall to not scam you on this?
I am generally a strong supporter of Right To Repair, even when it is something I, as a consumer, am never going to even consider doing. But it is also worth remembering that a lot of the “this is horrible because it is all computers” is still rooted in racism and xenophobia. And it is always worth looking at what a repair actually will cost versus buying a new one.
For example. Last year my dishwasher failed. I did some diagnostics, did some very deep cleans, and even opened it up. And I mostly narrowed it down to a failure in one of three parts. I looked up the price of those parts and… they were all most of the cost of a dishwasher on their own. And if I paid a professional to replace them, it would be well over the price of a new dishwasher. So… I could try and get lucky and replace the right one, by myself, on the first try… or I could just buy a new dishwasher during a holiday sale. And… damn I love my new dishwasher.
- Comment on Framework greatly expand their open source event and Linux distribution sponsorships 2 weeks ago:
And still 600 euros a month to hateful anti-trans bigots. And probably some more that I am not immediately aware of because if an org is openly donating to hate groups… it makes you wonder what skeletons the other groups they donate to have.
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- Comment on How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. Believe it or not but the sex pest who actively didn’t warn his contemporaries about the impact of the honey plugin and who now advertises on kiwi farms might be kind of a piece of shit who will say anything for a buck?
And now for a word from d-brand!
- Comment on How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM 3 weeks ago:
Apalrd has done some great “popular computer science” videos on the various remote KVM devices that is well worth looking up. One of them specifically goes into the ridiculously sketchy methods that are used to fetch and execute unsigned code in random buckets to handle firmware updates.
But as for the mic? Honestly, if you open up a LOT of consumer devices you are going to find random microphones. Not because they are all secretly spying on you. But because they use “off the shelf” chips and boards that already have those embedded. Especially since microphones and speakers are kind of the same hardware in most cases and we ALL love a good beep.
I 100% agree the software stack shouldn’t be on there. But, as the blog post points out, there is a LOT of developmental code and packages in that image that shouldn’t be. It is likely just a case of not removing unnecessary packages from the base image.
Because… the entire point of a device like this is that you plug it in somewhere you aren’t. MAYBE JetKVM corp can hear me muttering profanity or wondering where I left that USB c splitter when I am trying to assemble it the first time. The rest of the time? It is plugged into the back of a server that I am booting up so that I can install proxmox without having to drag a monitor over. And while you can potentially get some juicy info out of that? It is not at all worth the hassle to set up fake companies and market a fake (moderately high demand in the right circles) device.
- Comment on One of PC gaming's key RAM manufacturers aren't selling to regular humans anymore, so they can peddle more kit to AI companies 3 weeks ago:
Welcome to federated social media?
In a centralized model, you see each major version of a story once. Under a federated model? You see all of that once per copy of a message board per instance.
- Comment on At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus... 3 weeks ago:
Eh.
Robots capable of melee combat are pretty much pointless. Melee is what you resort to when someone gets too close and you can’t point your gun at them because your reflexes are too slow or you are not strong enough to overpower them pushing it out of the way. Robots will always have faster reflex times, can physically attach the gun to their bodies, and are going to be stronger than a human trying to push their arm out of the way.
This is just the cultural dance aspects of martial arts. It shows that the robot has dexterity and coordination and is capable of elaborate choreography.
This kind of robot is genuinely a good invention for the purposes of elder care (something China is going to have massive problems with because of their one child policy fundamentally breaking multiple generations). For the purpose of slaughtering those pesky non-Hans?
terminator.fandom.com/wiki/T-1 is a MUCH more effective design. Guns on a heavily armored weapons platform.
- Comment on Four Total War classics join GOG in their Preservation Program with more on the way 3 weeks ago:
… Fuck
Damn you GoG and Sega!!! ALL of those are fucking amazing and unique in their own ways. Well, I would probably be fine without Medieval 1 if I have 2. But also… 15 bucks for the whole lot.
- Comment on I haven't seen anyone talking about the Anycubic Kobra s1 Max. 350mm3, 350c nozzle, active chamber heating. 3 weeks ago:
I had a Kobra Neo for like 4 years? And it drove me bonkers. It was somehow MORE jank than the random kit I got off aliexpress like a decade ago and I constantly had to retighten/tension everything and it somehow burned through three different nozzles.
On the one hand? Enclosures and core xy solve like 90% of the problems 3d printers have by controlling environment and minimizing stress on the parts. On the other hand? You need quality parts and construction to begin with
And if you are spending that much on a printer+multiple material system (that I will always argue home users don’t need and are just buying to subsidize it for print farms)? Check out the Qidi Q2. Even cheaper and it is telling that the vast majority of complaints about the Qidis are just “the exterior case is plastic and feels cheap”. Which is a death sentence for youtubers who can’t run a tool for a thousand hours during the one week review window but is also a hallmark of ACTUAL prosumer devices. Why use expensive aluminum for a part that has no functionality?