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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

True. Risk of Rain Returns is amazing. But back when they announced ROR2 and that it would be a 3D environment I was like "how the heck is that going to work?" but they pulled it off. Clocked over 200 hours in that one (so far - haven't even tried the DLC yet)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Anyway, I believe what you’re describing was coined as “eternal summer” many many years ago.

The same phenomenon was coined on Usenet many years before 4chan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

 
[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago

maintaining nuclear power plants with the highest appropriate levels of safety.

There's your problem right there.

Nuclear power generation can probably be safe, in theory.

Nuclear power generation in our current late-stage capitalism where corporations, and even governments, will cut corners for the sake of profit and politics, is not.

It's a cool technology, but I personally don't trust the world with it right now.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Anyone who's waiting on BG3 to be cheaper or GOTY edition or whatever, try Divinity: Original Sin 2. It's amazing, and the definitive edition is only $13.50 USD right now. No need to have played the first one - I never did and D:OS2 is probably one of my favourite games of all time now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even Xbox is loosing to Sony and Nintendo despite being a decent product.

Xbox and Windows are both by Microsoft but they can't even get that right.

I got a free trial for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate that I've been using to play Starfield and a handful of other games on PC. But half the time I go to play it I either get a license error, which usually needs a full PC restart and signing in and out a few times to fix, or it constantly has to sync with the cloud. I can save my game, close it, not even switch off or restart my PC or even close the Xbox app, and later on when I go to play again it has to slowly synchronise my cloud save again. Why?! And if I want to make sure my save can be used on another device, I have to keep the app open for at least 10-15 mins after exiting the game so that the save can sloooowly upload to the cloud. I can upload things to YouTube, Google Drive, etc at 15+ Mbps but Xbox gaming services chugs along at 0.5 Mbps max. It's infuriating.

Honestly, game pass is a pretty good value proposition (lack of game ownership aside), but with the issues I've been having I won't be keeping it after my free time expires. If Steam has been able to handle license verification and cloud saves for years without problems, why can't Microsoft get this shit right? /rant

Sorry, I really needed to vent about this.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's happening across a lot of industries, especially tech. During covid line went up very fast. Post-covid line stopped going up fast, but companies are desperate to keep it going up fast. Otherwise it would count as a slowdown in year-on-year growth and we can never ever have that (/s).

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The article: “I asked a really technical question from my PhD thesis, and it provided an answer that no one would be able to find without consulting people with very specific expertise."

Me waiting for the part where the AI hallucinated and he got an F on his thesis:

I mean, it might have worked out, but you have to be very careful when asking LLMs for factual information. I've tried it at my work and it gave me info that contradicted that from experts.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Butter comes in egg form now? What a time to be alive

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

affordable streaming services

The AI is hallucinating again

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Makes sense.

But is it just me that's unaffected by such a script? I'm just like "Death threats? shrugs Fair enough." Unity threatened a lot of dev's livelihoods. What did they expect, for them all to just roll over and take it?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

imo refunding after 10 hours is not the right thing to do, and could undermine the whole refund system if it becomes a common thing people do.

The original idea for allowing refunds for digital games (or anything, really) is if you get a broken or defective product. If the game won't launch, or it's a buggy unplayable mess, or not what was advertised (and I'm talking blatant false advertising, not some vague speculative comments) you get a refund. If you simply don't like the game, then you need to own it that you made a bad purchase and move on. It happens.

This is why it's important to wait for reviews and actual gameplay on YouTube/Twitch first, so you have a much better understanding of what you're getting. Hell, this why YTers/streamers get free codes on release, so their audience will see the game and want to go buy it.

It's been said a million times over but I guess it needs saying again: STOP 👏 PRE-ORDERING 👏 VIDEO 👏 GAMES

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