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simple, 11 months ago

Brent's desk is actually the microservice holding everything together. Don't shake the cables when you sit down or you'll risk crashing the whole website.

simple, 11 months ago

Makes literally no sense to me that Reddit couldn't afford to provide a price exception to 3rd party apps that have helped grow their community and website over the years. I've been using Reddit Is Fun for almost a decade now, and I'm not switching to their official app.

Companies are getting too comfortable when they have no competition. Really hope a Fediverse alternative will kick off like Mastodon did (ironically I'm placing my bets on kbin even though I use Lemmy. Seems like the simpler alternative that'll be easier to invite people over).

simple, 11 months ago

Appreciate the recap, there's also https://2023.gamesrecap.io/ where you can sort trailers by conference and date.

simple, 11 months ago

Minetest is really cool but it's always struck me as kind of a shameless Minecraft clone instead of trying to do something new. The graphics are identical, the UI is similar, the gameplay is practically the same, there isn't a huge reason to play it compared to Java Minecraft + mods. It is free and open source though, which is cool.

I'm more of a Vintage Story enjoyer myself. It has its fair share of issues but I appreciate how it's not trying to be Minecraft.

simple, 11 months ago

Sounds like you may enjoy F.E.A.R. on a harder difficulty.

simple, 11 months ago

This sound like you don't play games very much because that's not the case, at all. Not everyone has unlimited data caps and fast internet, and those that do would still rather play games locally than suffer input lag and video artifacts. With consoles and PCs being as powerful as ever and still affordable I don't think the cloud gaming market will ever be mainstream.

simple, 11 months ago

This is the stuff that makes me really excited for AI. Sure, having a personal assistant is nice. Generating images and music is also very cool. Optimizing software and hardware though, this is where things get amazing.

Modern software is pretty abysmal when you think about it. In the last 20 years we've focused more on making things faster rather than making more optimized things. We ended up with ultra bloated operating systems, regularly 100mb+ apps, RAM sucking programs like web browsers and background apps that make even 8 gigabytes of RAM not enough, and so on.

I'm waiting for a point where AI can start optimizing legacy code and say "Wait, this is really dumb and wastes so much energy". Imagine Windows running on only 100mb of ram. Imagine apps and websites being 10x more efficient than they are now. It's not that crazy of a concept, only a matter of time.

simple, 11 months ago

The game looks great but I'm worried the enemies might be too spongy. Every fight shown in many gameplay videos is just the player wailing in a big slow enemy for 2-3 minutes until they die.

Ah well it'll be a million years until it gets ported to PC anyways. Still hyped.

simple, 11 months ago

These numbers seem made up. The article even states Anthropic is hiring people with basic programming skills. I looked up the open jobs at their website and nothing suggests what they're talking about.

According to a ResumeBuilder.com survey, nearly 29% of companies plan to hire prompt engineers in 2023, and about 25% of them anticipate starting salaries exceeding $200,000 per year.

Okay, this article is complete BS to try and drum up more hype for AI. Nobody is, or ever will, hire "prompt engineers" for high salaries. Bet whoever wrote this is going to try and sell a course on how you, too, can be a millionaire with one simple trick.

simple, 11 months ago

Does anyone know if this one will have a randomly generated world? I enjoyed the first one quite a bit but the non-existent level design made me lose interest after a while.

simple, 11 months ago

Will do.

simple, 11 months ago

Although it does get too chaotic with over 3 players. I can't imagine playing with 6, at that point the players just take over most of the screen.

I tried 4 players and it was a little too wild for me. Went back and played it with just 1 friend, the game feels made for 2 player imo.

simple, 11 months ago

Personally I'll wait a few months and maybe get it on sale. It's not out of character for Blizzard to pull a gotcha and maybe slowly make monetization worse, so I won't take the risk.

simple, 11 months ago

Good stuff. I've never been a fan of Mac but I'm glad video games are becoming less reliant on Windows, even through a compatibility layer. If games actually run well I might consider getting a Macbook for the battery life.

simple, 11 months ago

It's the Hololens all over again and I legitimate don't understand why the internet is so obsessed with this. If the Meta Quest 2 can't break into the market at $400, this sure as hell won't. Everything they showed of the Apple headset is a gimmick. Watch a blurrier version of your TV on a 2 hour battery! Capture videos by wearing a bulky headset that's not very portable! Use apps that already exist on your phone in a clunkier way!

Am I missing something? It looks like good tech but I agree with OP, there's no market for this.

simple, 11 months ago

It’s only a matter of time before companies make AI for pen testing and eventually trying to bypass security in malicious ways. I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet.

simple, 11 months ago

Remnant From The Ashes is probably the best game this month but it's already been given away on Epic a while ago.

simple, 11 months ago

There are a few PS4 emulators but all of them are in pre-alpha and barely boot any games. So not any time soon.