Loved Snowrunner, but then they released Mudrunner Expeditions and it was just SUCH a letdown. This one I'll definitely keep an eye on, but a wary sideeye lol.

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@Kimyrielle

I understand what you're saying ... however!

"none of those dotcoms ever made a profit, had tons of cash shoved at them, never had a marketable product, vague business plans"

Does any of that sound familiar? Because it's exactly the same!! Every single ai product out there today is dependent upon one single company on earth. Every single ai product out there has zero business plan to make a profit. Every single ai product out there is burning through billions in cash with not a profit even fathomable. And then add salt into the wound: they're also burning the planet down with them.

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Regarding the bubble: omg it's gonna be a BLOODBATH when (not if) it bursts. If you go back and count for inflation, the bubble is worse now than it was in the 90s for the dot com burst, and that was world shiftingly huge. This is even bigger.

I see all this AI garbage as the HYPERoverbloated zombie corpse of "tech" shambling around in 2025 not knowing where to go or what to do so it just steals everything from everybody and vomits it back up. Very much like a zombie. And I say all that as someone who works every single day in tech. LOL.

Tech made a kazillion dollarydoos on creating the world's most nightmarish surveillance machine, and since then has shambled around without any kind of purpose or meaning or success anywhere near that.

BUT YOU GUYS, crypto is gonna change the world, I mean it ...

NO SERIOUSLY THIS TIME nft's are gonna change the world, you guys, I'm super serious ...

OH BUT WAIT vr is gonna change the world with metaverses everywhere, for serious this time ...

NEVERMIND ALL THAT OTHER STUFF, this time it's for real, I swear, you guys, you guys, just listen, AI will change the world!

... WHEN this current bubble bursts, it's going to be really really bad. I think AI has a future in our society, but in a very specific use case for each implementation. Totally 100% opposite of what's happening now with every single company on earth shoving it inside every thing they do without even understanding any of it, "just because".

@scaine - that's a really good article! Good read.

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Just want to echo what others have said: THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! Liam, thank you so much for this stance, and please never change. I'm 100% on the same page with all this garbage.

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whoa, they removed yast? I can remember from my time on tumbleweed, that was a wonderful tool that was widely loved by the community.

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I don't know anything about the topic, but I'm sure they get very special discounts?

I suppose so, yes.

Check this out btw:
https://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/ [External Link]

They're doing ~ 16 terabits of transfer a day. That's actually a lot lower than I would have expected.

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as a small business owner, the seething rage fueled loathing hatred of a thousand suns for all these mafia companies (visa / mc / discover / amex / etc) will never die. Don't trust a single word these vile abominations utter from their anuses.

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This looks absolutely perfect for me !!! I love those old school sim games. Wishlisted, thank you!

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omg finally. I do video engineering work for my job, and valve's attention to video has always been abysmal. This helps a ton! Finally it's modernized. Responsive, transcoding tree, etc...

For the codec, I inspected it, and it looks like they're using vp9, which is good. It's open and royalty free unlike h265 hevc. I wish they would be using av1 instead of vp9, but hey, at least it's something.

I am very surprised they are using akamai/fastly for their cdn. I would think a company like valve which must do INSANE amounts of bandwidth per year would just roll their own. Could probably save a ton of money that way, but maybe they just don't want the overhead.

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They finally put Octopath Traveler (1 & 2) on sale, and I've had that on my list forever, so I picked that up and started it recently. Seems great! Interesting mechanic with all the different storylines. I can get my mobile rpg fix with this while I wait patiently on Quartet.

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