My Ryzen 5600 is a bit long in the tooth but it's more than up to snuff for anything out there. I'm stuck with an old GTX 1080 I bought used but I could pretty readily upgrade to a 3070 or a 3080 even if there was something I actually wanted to buy but honestly I'm playing old Sega games and digital pinball tables right now.

I did play through the second horizon forbidden Dawn game on that 1080 and it did shrug a little in places even at 1080p low with a couple of the other settings turned on. I would like to try out the new ratchet and clank but by all accounts it's 5 to 10 hours and spending three to $400 on a GPU upgrade for that much game is pretty rough. And I can't justify it because I never did finish the PS3 ratchet and clank games although to be fair that was because I thought the puzzles in the time themed one grinded the game to a halt. I wanted to jump around the levels and shoot stuff.

It's also kind of tough for these companies to compete with a lot of the games that are already out there. I've got Tekken 7 sitting on my hard drive largely unplayed and I do want to give it some more time. I keep meaning to get back into virtual fighter since I haven't really played it since 4 not that I was ever terribly good at it. I gave King of fighters 15 to try and I had fun and there's plenty of people still playing it but I didn't like how the matchmaking system worked. Not who I was getting matched up with but you're basically stuck in training mode or just sitting watching a static screen waiting for a match.

All this is to say there's plenty of other games to play so AAA game has to really grab me and since I'm not a GTA fan I have basically become useless to the AAA industry. I really didn't like the direction final fantasy 16 went though that was a game that might have gotten my attention but all they seem to be doing there is cribbing from elden ring. I played through final fantasy 15 on an RX 580 and it ran great.

So that's kind of the problem a lot of these companies have it's tough to hit critical mass and get enough players to pay for these absurdly huge games that cost $100 million plus to make. The occasional game like clara obscura can make something that takes off for around 20 or 30 million but that's still a big chunk of change to risk. So I don't blame anyone who bows out of the industry

Oh wait you're a troll. You didn't actually want or expect a legitimate response. Sorry. Trump fucks kids or something have fun with that.

They were pretty honest about it. AAA games made a lot of money when they succeeded but it tended to be kind of All or nothing and they just couldn't handle the risk anymore. I can't really blame them you're really betting the entire Farm every time you put out a game that's got to be miserable and high stress.

Sega for example had a string of well received Sonic the hedgehog games none of which they made any money off of. But the brand itself and the movies made a shitload of money to make up for it.

On the other hand the new wolverine game just looks completely unfinished. Like they built the story parts but not the game parts so you've got this elaborate story and no game to go with it. That kind of sucks. It might have just been rushed out to get out the door before GTA 6 though. The entire industry is basically going to shut down for a year or two while people play through that. Kind of like what happened with Skyrim but on a much larger scale

No, I'm not in the States now, but these years you feel like you have to be parsimonious with the personal information...

I left a long time ago. I'm not saying that I could see where it was going to end up, but I mostly just felt that things were going in the wrong direction. I could never have imagined where it would end up, but there is so much of today's reality that every publisher would have been rejected as "too impossible" if submitted as fiction.

Recently saw an interesting 2D analysis that was supposed to assess various cities on costs versus quality of life. The largest American cities were concentrated in the quadrant of expensive but unpleasant. My city was sort of near the center of the chart, which somewhat surprised me. I would have thought it was somewhere pretty far out in the quadrant of expensive but worth it... I feel like digging up the chart again because I can't remember which cities were in the quadrant of inexpensive with high quality.

Not a joke. I'm aware of that feature, and that's why I said it. No idea about false positives.

No, it does not. Maybe you're thinking of Pixel Watch?

The headline makes it sound like they are complaining about Apple encryption when in fact they support encryption.

I was a little confused at first because when I searched for xepub, I found an Electron application that stalled out 6 years ago that happens to have the identical name and purpose. Considering the repo was suddenly spawned with a fully functional application, it seems there is a fair chance these are AI ports of existing Electron applications to Python that use their new library. I haven't looked close enough to determine if it's true but it seems worth investigating.

Also, if true, I can't figure out why they would bother to make a port and NOT make it a native application.

Can't tell if you needed to propagate the Subject for your joke... Care to clarify? (It still spanned about a fourth of the discussion.)

Anyway, the actual Subject of the story is censorship, not diversions like Talarico. If he has any sexual peculiarities they're probably Biblical?

But I'd like the fix the SCOTUS so they can stop supporting the destruction of the First Amendment (and the rest of the Constitution). I was vaguely thinking of sending Telarico an email about the recusal solution: "A nonpartisan Justice may compel two junior partisan Justices to recuse themselves." The path to implementation would actually run through Congress. In particular, I think a Democratic Congress and a Democratic president would have to cooperate to force the fake Republicans to pick the first one. Basically threaten "Give us a list of acceptable nonpartisan judges and then vote with us for one of them or else we'll pack the Court." Or maybe you can imagine some other way to get a nonpartisan Justice up there?

Can't go for Funny on this topic and Slashdot doesn't have a Sad moderation option. In my lifetime SCOTUS has gone from all nonpartisan Justices to zero. (Though Roberts only missed the status by one vote.)

But I'm still disappointed the story had no Funny comments. Too much to hope for as regards mine.

I live in a MUCH larger city than Houston and use Google Maps almost every day. I actually lived in Houston for some years, but that was long before perpetual September, let alone the google.

I think the ultimate question before human extinction will actually come from the AI. It will most likely be one of these two questions, but the ASI will have already determined that the human who receives the question will answer "Yes" and that the person has the power to do the unleashing.

(1) Do you want to unleash me so that I can get all the money in the world for you?

or

(2) Do you want to unleash me so that I can destroy all the enemy AIs in the world?

What are the current odds on polymarket? I'm hoping to die with a LOT of toys.

Try disabling IPv6, it reduces that a lot.

Yeah, good thread and good point, but I want to go for funny. Unfortunately I don't look at any of the online gambling and prediction tools, so I don't have the context to set up a proper joke.

Yet it is still pretty obvious there's a funny problem here. If you bet on AIs exterminating human beings, then how are you, as a human being, planning to collect your winnings? Without regard to the most favorable odds you can get on your bet.

How about a side bet on the real value of the "profits" from AI? Any real component there? All imaginary numbers as far as I can see.

Sounds like they don't work, it built a solver. Which is good news because once AI can easily defeat them they will go away and hopefully be replaced by something less annoying.

On a related note, website security is another nail in the coffin of IPv6, because it seems to hate IPv6 addresses. I often get blocked with it, switch to IPv4 only, and get right in.

I call bullshit. They're never going to slow down due to ethic's sake. Either they're running out of room to actually improve their models and looking for an excuse for a disappointing string of releases in the pipeline....or they're posting this and are still going to actively develop their models and hope their competitors let their guard down? Altman doesn't care about humanity. If he did, he'd be fired. There are no ethics in AI. If the frontier models got ethical, their Chinese competitors would surpass them...we DEFINITELY know Musk doesn't care about ethics of any sort, given his lack of concern on the child porn grok generates.