I was in BestBuy the other day and I saw 64gb of ram was 1200 bucks. What in the actual fuck?
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And I do agree with you. I just find it kind of disappointing that for all the progress we've made with gaming fidelity in general, being able to meet the higher resolutions of the modern day require absurd drawbacks (DLSS, 30FPS, dropping thousands of dollars on singular components, etc) and we're stuck in a resolution and frame rate cap that we've had for over a decade. You'd think that wouldn't be the case by now
1440p has only started to recently make inroads as the new sweetspot thanks to monitor costs going down. As for pushing 4k60, it requires a ton of processing power from the GPU to do so natively and it was only (just) viable for XX80/80Ti series cards or greater which again, did not make up the vast majority of PC gamers. And that was before COVID/Crypto/LLM turned GPUs into commodities and drove their prices way the fuck up. The more games that base their requirements on XX60 series cards (or their AMD/Intel equivilents), the better. That said, I am of the opinion that memory allocation now needs to go thusly:
10GB
12GB
16GB
20GB
24/32GB
Which of course is now made all the more fucking awkward cos of the RAM chip costs going up. But here we are.
Kits like that are going for between $1200 and $2000 for me. What a fucking time to be alive.
Viral Zelda Movie Trailer Shows The Soulless Limits Of AI Slop
It's technically a trailer for nothing at all, given no one involved could make a movie
kotaku.com
I found this very interesting because this is the sort of thing fans would make with digital effects in their backyard years ago. One thing people have the realize is that the AI cat is out of the bag, since AI has become widely available it has only gotten better and easier to use not worse. While this trailer certainly has some movement problems and a little consistency issues, it's lightyears better than Will Smith eating Spagetti and what's made today.
I also expect some sort of governmental regulation on AI content at some point, but considering how slow the governments are at anything tech or internet related who the fuck knows. I expect it will take a big commercial deepfake porn lawsuit or something before any law's get pushed.
I do take a bit of issue with Kotaku calling it "soulless" though. Because quite frankly the person behind the trailer still put work in editing scripting controlling the shots made and used, it's easy to call it all a machine but that's not really true either. It's like calling rap artists musicians when they very rarely know how to play any actual musical instruments and their beats are computer made. Like Rap there are still human components to this stuff.
They're still a main human element, and it's created by hand and not having the AI do everything for them. Rapping still takes skill and knowing timing and rhythm.
Yes, this person did put some effort into it, but it still mostly run by AI. I'm not here to defend kotaku, but I can't blame them for this attitude. Especially as we've seen hollywood and the music industry have no problem trying to replace everybody in every single thing with AI for the sake of a cheap buck. Especially the tech bros.
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PlayStation Patents AI Assist Feature That Can Take Over If You Get Stuck - IGN
PlayStation is exploring the possibility of letting an AI take over your game, to help you if you're stuck.
We already have a thing called "in-game hints", Sony. AI isn't necessary for the player to read the hints and find solution, or do a quick google search.
Better yet, they can git gud themselves; We don't need a bunch of 0s and 1s to dictate how we play our games
I posted a different link a few days ago. Still agree with you. That information you can get so easy for free at the click of a button.PlayStation Patents AI Assist Feature That Can Take Over If You Get Stuck - IGN
PlayStation is exploring the possibility of letting an AI take over your game, to help you if you're stuck.www.ign.com
We already have a thing called "in-game hints", Sony. AI isn't necessary for the player to read the hints and find solution, or do a quick google search.
Better yet, they can git gud themselves; We don't need a bunch of 0s and 1s to dictate how we play our games
IIRC this headline is misleading. The tool will NOT do it for you, instead it will use AI to use like a ghost example to show you what to do. It's not the same thing as doing it for you.PlayStation Patents AI Assist Feature That Can Take Over If You Get Stuck - IGN
PlayStation is exploring the possibility of letting an AI take over your game, to help you if you're stuck.
We already have a thing called "in-game hints", Sony. AI isn't necessary for the player to read the hints and find solution, or do a quick google search.
Better yet, they can git gud themselves; We don't need a bunch of 0s and 1s to dictate how we play our games
EDIT: Also back in my day we have to call the Nintendo hotline for 5 bucks a minute or have your neighbor's older brother do it for you.
Here's the more accurate article. Still not the best idea, and they're gonna screw it up somehow.
Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck | VGC
AI-Generated Ghost Player assistance would help out players who can’t progress in a game…
www.videogameschronicle.com
We never did any of that stuff. It was either a gaming magazine (usually Game Pro) or a strategy guide. By the early 2000s, we would just use Cheat Code Centeal or GameFAQs in the pre YouTube era.
I dont see how Ai is going to be able to actively take control for you and execute whatever game you're playing.Here's the more accurate article. Still not the best idea, and they're gonna screw it up somehow.
Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck | VGC
AI-Generated Ghost Player assistance would help out players who can’t progress in a game…
We never did any of that stuff. It was either a gaming magazine (usually Game Pro) or a strategy guide. By the early 2000s, we would just use Cheat Code Centeal or GameFAQs in the pre YouTube era.
That being said, it's only a patent whichh means they've submitted a concept plan, it doesn't mean anything like that is actually going to happen anytime soon.
Once again though, it wouldn't surprise me, If they try to go through with the plan. Whatever happens, happens, but I see it as a waste of everyone's time and resources. It's called look at a video walkthrough, or download it, and be done. With all the screw ups, Sony has been doing recently, I'm not trusting them on much of anything. You do that as you wish.
Also, Don't we technically have features where the game plays itself while the user is away?
Mostly found in mobile gaming, it auto-plays the game while the user is away; AFK Arena or Raid Shadow Legends, for example
I personally think this is a stupid idea; Isn't the whole point of gaming to have some sort of interactivity or user input to cause an effect? I feel like features like this only push people away.
Mostly found in mobile gaming, it auto-plays the game while the user is away; AFK Arena or Raid Shadow Legends, for example
I personally think this is a stupid idea; Isn't the whole point of gaming to have some sort of interactivity or user input to cause an effect? I feel like features like this only push people away.
As someone who love Idle games, you have no idea how much fun a game you dont actually play can be.
Okay…. Maybe I came off too harsh and ignorant, but I am genuinely curious; What is the appeal of idle games?
Everyone has their own favorites, but I don't do idle games. Rather waste time on those I sooner just read a book or watch something or do another activity. I know because I prefer doing any of those, and will continue to do so. I get the appeal, but at the same time I feel a better time.I spent doing something else.
Make number go UP!
Realistically idle games are sort of automation games more than anything, you configure the automation as best you can and watch the....numbers go up, and the better your optimization, the faster that happens.
However the genre has quite evolved from the Cookie Clicker days, and things get quite in depth...sort of.
Take the current game I am playing now called Revolution Idle. All it is, is fucking circles spinning around. Each circle gives you money on a completed rotation, that money is used to make that circle better and faster which makes you gain income faster. Pretty basic shit. However once you reach 3e308 money, you can prestige which gives you skill points that grants buffs which allow you to reach 5e308 faster, rinse repeat. But then you unlock challenges which basically inflict a debuff that make it "harder" to reach the 5e308 score. When you complete a challenge you are rewarded with yet another buff to make reaching 5e308 faster (also called infinity). Once beat all 9 challenges you get to break Infinity meaning you can now go beyond the cap of 5e308 up to a new cap. Once you reach the new cap you no longer Infinity, instead you Eternity. Which unlocks animals you can buy to buff your numbers, buying animals also unlocks a Labratory which you can level 6 different stats in to boost your numbers, and eventually you reach Dilation, which is a new realm warping thing that boosts the numbers HIGHER!!
Eventually after that you can Unity which unlocks super challenges and Zodiacs, and now the game changes because you unlock so much automation that you don't have to bother with circles anymore, now you farm Minerals to then farm elements, to then eventually start creating Tarot cards.
All of this took me almost a year or roughly 1600 hours to do btw.
And that's just one idle game.
NGU idle is an rpg where you farm enemies for gear, and kill bosses, grow fruit, for more gear and bigger numbers on and on. Which takes about a year and a half of playing to finish.
Trimps is another one in which you've crashed on a strange planet and enslave local creatures to create a colony for you which you train to help them defeat the evil poison that infects their planet.
Several Nintendo Wii games had a feature where if you died enough times at the same checkpoint, an NPC would appear and offer to beat the level for you. I can't remember all of them, but I know for a fact that New Super Mario Bros Wii, Donkey Kong Country Returns, and Super Mario Galaxy 2 all had it.
Literally the only difference between this and that, that I can tell, is that now they're doing it with AAAAAIIIII. So, wasting additional resources and putting extra wear and tear on your console/components to do something that's functionally no different to how Nintendo did it on the Wii.
A month old news item that I should've posted when it was fresh. Why it was delayed I will reveal soon enough:
The Swedish government recently finalized a report over the board game and video game industry. ALL the parties in the riksdag came with a joint statement on what they considered thei needs to be, to let it continue to grow from the current 9000-something employees.
They state that multiple countries covertly subsidize their own games industry.
They emphasize that agreement between the parties in the needs for the industry is unique.
They highlight that the needs include cultural workers, meaning cultural schools, youth centers and associations for study circles is therefore part of the games politics. They point out that the industry would prefer if more of the education for game developer happened at companies.
They state that as the industry get more advanced more research will be needed.
The part about the parties being in agreement surprised me, since they span a whole spectrum, and since I honestly was curious what the report said, I actually read it through to find out if there were anything unexpectant there. Here it is in PDF form, and if you want the HTML-form, which I suspect is easier for Google translate to handle, here you go. 182 pages, discussing financing opportunities, regional variances, what the government curently is funding, current and future AI impact, how business clusters leads to the creation of local hubs, and a comparison to 5 other countries' (Denmark, UK, Canada, Finland and Germany) policies and what the outsome of those policies has been. And it was an incredible bore. If I ever read a report such as this again I will keep to the summary of each section. I only skimmed through the last part It also did not do in the way of analysis of what policies are the most impactful or something like that, it merely stated "here's what's present at the time, here's what various actors are asking for". Personally, I thought it sounded like business clusters was impactful.
In the spirit of analyzing things, I think what the parties are all in agreement on is really "this business seems to be working fine as is, this is not central to our politics, it gives job, culture and money to our country, let's not rock the boat and just continue as normal".
A couple days afterwards 3 of the 4 current opposition parties wanted to highlight the industry, but I have misplaced that article since it's been a month.
The Swedish government recently finalized a report over the board game and video game industry. ALL the parties in the riksdag came with a joint statement on what they considered thei needs to be, to let it continue to grow from the current 9000-something employees.
They state that multiple countries covertly subsidize their own games industry.
They emphasize that agreement between the parties in the needs for the industry is unique.
They highlight that the needs include cultural workers, meaning cultural schools, youth centers and associations for study circles is therefore part of the games politics. They point out that the industry would prefer if more of the education for game developer happened at companies.
They state that as the industry get more advanced more research will be needed.
The part about the parties being in agreement surprised me, since they span a whole spectrum, and since I honestly was curious what the report said, I actually read it through to find out if there were anything unexpectant there. Here it is in PDF form, and if you want the HTML-form, which I suspect is easier for Google translate to handle, here you go. 182 pages, discussing financing opportunities, regional variances, what the government curently is funding, current and future AI impact, how business clusters leads to the creation of local hubs, and a comparison to 5 other countries' (Denmark, UK, Canada, Finland and Germany) policies and what the outsome of those policies has been. And it was an incredible bore. If I ever read a report such as this again I will keep to the summary of each section. I only skimmed through the last part It also did not do in the way of analysis of what policies are the most impactful or something like that, it merely stated "here's what's present at the time, here's what various actors are asking for". Personally, I thought it sounded like business clusters was impactful.
In the spirit of analyzing things, I think what the parties are all in agreement on is really "this business seems to be working fine as is, this is not central to our politics, it gives job, culture and money to our country, let's not rock the boat and just continue as normal".
A couple days afterwards 3 of the 4 current opposition parties wanted to highlight the industry, but I have misplaced that article since it's been a month.
Steam Machine Price Leaks Online, More Expensive Than We Thought
The Steam Machine's price may have leaked online via a Czech retailer, and it isn't great news if you were hoping for console rates.
It's still gonna be cheaper than gaming PCs in 2026.
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