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Quoting: eggroleWhile the AI induced price hikes are annoying, I think it is going to be even worse in the long run. Back before Covid it seemed like corpos had a fear that if they increased prices customers might stop purchasing. But the price hikes of the Covid era taught them people were willing to absorb a lot higher prices. Over the last few years of "new normal" those "temporary" price hikes never really came back down.

At this point I think the AI stuff, while a valid partial reason, is more being used as an excuse to pump up the price of everything. Oil probably plays a role in this as well, but we all know even if there is a real reason for price hikes, the hikes themself will likely be higher than what the market shifts would suggest.

I would love to see more people simply say "no" to these new prices and not buy. Not a full-on boycott per se, but to at least send a message. The consumer really does have a lot of power here and it is such a shame that so many people will hold thier nose and spend.

This is so on point. My GPU from second half 2025, I have bought cheaper than my GPU from 2020, and it's more or less the same category, more or less double the performance. The crypto mining fever also felt like it would last forever. Most places were out of stock for GPUs for a long time, prices were IMO higher, in the end both shortages and the new price level became a standard.

By the way, the crypto bro letting you know how many watts he's burning, or the LLM bro how many tokens he's burning through, basically same $h1te.

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Quoting: GustyGhost

Quoting: Liam DaweOnce the AI bubble pops that is.

I wish I had your optimism. My gut tells me that this has become a permanent fixture of the tech landscape.

Could be. Resources are becoming scarce ... and not just because of the current LLM obsession. The tech rollercoaster may have no choice but to slow down -- just to stretch out those remaining resources.

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Quoting: Liam DaweOnce the AI bubble pops that is.

I wish I had your optimism. My gut tells me that this has become a permanent fixture of the tech landscape.

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Quoting: BielBdeLunaaccording to the code in Github this is a implementation of the old Free in the dark engine (FITD) with a coat of AI upscaled and AI generated images on top

I didn't see anything on the main page. I didn't think to look in the code itself. Thanks for digging up the details.

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Quoting: CaldathrasSource? Link to confirm use of "AI"?

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Watch the video linked in the article, check out the doors, the "piano", the... everything.
Also what the others said already.

I don't watch videos on my cellphone, unfortunately. Been so long since I looked at the game, I'm not sure I'd recognize what was original or not. It seems like it's mostly graphics then? Given what @Prometheus wrote about the dev's ethics, it still seems like something to avoid ...

Thanks, all.

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Quoting: scaineI wish AMD would focus on GPUs. Now, more than ever, they could establish themselves competitively in the GPU market. With Nvidia prices being absolutely exorbitant, a half-way decently priced upgrade to the 9700XT would be well received by people like myself still rocking the 6800XT or even the 7900XTX.

I am actually using a 16 Gb RX9700XT on a 9950X3D system (Mint 22.3) and I have 140 fps on "The Callisto Protocol" that I assume it's the most demanding gave I own.

I don't have Cyperpunk or ARC Raiders to benchmark but I think even at 60 fps they would be absolutely playable and good looking.

Sure, even my most demanding games look great (albeit, thanks to FSR, since I'm gaming at 4K) and I'm still on the 7900XTX myself. My point was more that the card you're using barely keeps up with the 5070, let alone the 5080. And Nvidia still have the 5090 out there. If you're "serious" about your games, then you want the top-end, and AMD aren't anywhere near close to that.

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While the AI induced price hikes are annoying, I think it is going to be even worse in the long run. Back before Covid it seemed like corpos had a fear that if they increased prices customers might stop purchasing. But the price hikes of the Covid era taught them people were willing to absorb a lot higher prices. Over the last few years of "new normal" those "temporary" price hikes never really came back down.

At this point I think the AI stuff, while a valid partial reason, is more being used as an excuse to pump up the price of everything. Oil probably plays a role in this as well, but we all know even if there is a real reason for price hikes, the hikes themself will likely be higher than what the market shifts would suggest.

I would love to see more people simply say "no" to these new prices and not buy. Not a full-on boycott per se, but to at least send a message. The consumer really does have a lot of power here and it is such a shame that so many people will hold thier nose and spend.

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Quoting: CaldathrasSource? Link to confirm use of "AI"?

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Watch the video linked in the article, check out the doors, the "piano", the... everything.
Also what the others said already.

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Quoting: scaineI wish AMD would focus on GPUs. Now, more than ever, they could establish themselves competitively in the GPU market. With Nvidia prices being absolutely exorbitant, a half-way decently priced upgrade to the 9700XT would be well received by people like myself still rocking the 6800XT or even the 7900XTX.

I am actually using a 16 Gb RX9700XT on a 9950X3D system (Mint 22.3) and I have 140 fps on "The Callisto Protocol" that I assume it's the most demanding gave I own.

I don't have Cyperpunk or ARC Raiders to benchmark but I think even at 60 fps they would be absolutely playable and good looking.

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I can’t help but think a similar tool targeting Windows would be super janky and cost $20.

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https://www.techspot.com/news/112125-chipmakers-track-meet-only-60-ai-memory-demand.html

sigh

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I gave this project the good old college try this early morning. I have to say, it's a very unpleasant experience.

The redone visuals are, in my opinion, horrendous. Mind you I only spent 10 minutes or so with it. My gut reaction is to sidestep this one altogether.

It sucks as I'm so fond of the original game.😭

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Woof. I was wondering if/when this'd happen. I'm very glad I got this a couple of months ago at the old price.

I wonder if the asus devices will go up in price at all too; if they do then we can probably kiss the old steam deck prices goodbye for the near term.

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Quoting: EikeI'm not sure what "this winter" means? We've got spring in my (northern) book, so I guess end of the year or beginning of next one?

It means the game will release from november 2026 to mars 2027

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Already gave it a try.
A real nice update for sure.

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You know I played the original game, bought it day one. It was extremely buggy and unpolished.

The demo for this one looks better.

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I'm really glad I bought one months ago before the price spiked!

I cannot wait for the AI bubble to burst already, it has done too much damage.

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I'm going to have the biggest party ever when that happens!

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I think it continues to show just how smart Valve were on the price to performance. They hit a sweet spot with it all. But, they do have the Steam store to back it up, other vendors don't have that. Bring on the Steam Deck 2 eh! Once the AI bubble pops that is.

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Quoting: inlinuxdudeSTS2 is great already (and getting better all the time)...Not sure why Chinese players don't understand its early access and still being worked on... :(

It seems many players from China are complaining because their deck no longer guarantees a win, so now they have to change their strategy to win. A common thread among all the negative reviews is that the cards that used to be very overpowered have now been nerfed, with one review even asking the developers to "livestream themselves winning the game on the highest difficulty with all the characters" (disclaimer: I do not know Chinese, so I used Google Translate for that one).

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Quoting: ChrisznixA late question to those who played and have read The Invincible: should i read the novel first? I am in the first hours of that game (thanks to your recommendations) and its absolutely great so far. But it made me wonder if i should read the book first.

I'm not going to spoil anything game or book related, but just PLEASE trust me when I say this:

1- finish the game
2- immediately start the book

you will be happy :) Also, if you like scifi at all and haven't done Lem's other greats, he's a genre defining genius. Check out Solaris, Cyberiad, and Memoirs in a Bathtub. Cyberiad is prob my personal fav.

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I think this is the death knell for this product line. They're into the phase of "fuck it pricing" - just trying to get rid of them and shut down the project. AI garbage continues to destroy all that it touches. Yay.

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This would be fantastic to have on a laptop to remotely via lan control your audio mixing for band practice or stuff like that.

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This would be so nice to have, i will try this out. There are a lot of great tools out there, but in the heat of the moment, i often struggle to find the correct settings.

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It would be very nice if we can really report unknown/unrecognized sensor chips to the project.
I have a Gigabyte X870E Aorus Pro X3D ICE (with a Ryzen9 9950X3D) and coolercontrol found two unknown ITE sensor chips: 0x8696 at 0x2E and 0x8883 at 0x4E.
I managed to have the 8696 working adding "options it87 ignore_resource_conflict=1 force_id=0x8696" to "/etc/modprobe.d/it87.conf" but "coolercontrold detect --load" still says "Unrecognized Super-I/O chip at 0x4E id:0x8883 - please report for database inclusion" and I can't find a way to report it.

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looks promising! will give it a go, do appreciate their reasoning for using a web UI too.

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A late question to those who played and have read The Invincible: should i read the novel first? I am in the first hours of that game (thanks to your recommendations) and its absolutely great so far. But it made me wonder if i should read the book first.

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Quoting: clatterfordslimdo people actually use their computers, other than playing games and watching YouTube? Do they make spreadsheets, create stuff, open as many tabs as possible, push their systems to the limit, by having Steam games open whilst rendering or editing video, watching YouTube, browsing the web all at the same time, whilst using Wayland?

I have tried some image generation models (EDIT: I mean local models) which pushed my system to the limit (both in terms of VRAM and regular RAM), and I had no issues. Programming, slicing up videos using ffmpeg, image editing using Krita, and any other 'actual' use of my PC seems to work perfectly fine regardless of my using Wayland.

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It looks quite esthetic but reminds me of Xbox Series S a bit too much

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It is in my library but I haven't played it yet. But I definitely will, Stardew Valley-likes are my jam

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Quoting: omfgnutsNo sponsorblock? Not touching youtube without it. The best way to use youtube on steam deck remains a kiosk mode youtube webpage with all the modern and configurable adblocks and sponsorblock and a gamepad preset from community templates

Popping in here in 2026 to inform any future individuals who come across this article - VacuumTube now has SponsorBlock, DeArrow and dislikes!

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