So, I notice this thing appears to have buttons at the top, probably instead of button/triggers at the back? Would that be pleasant to use?

Meanwhile, the guy says

our very first handheld, Claw, which redefines the standards in the handheld market.

Sure. So, redefine them upwards or downwards?

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Quoting: elmapulthat is disapointing, if more vendors keep using windows then soon or later we will strugle to compete.

Not really. That's kind of like saying if we keep on releasing new Linux distros then sooner or later Windows will struggle to compete . . . If none of the Windows clones of Steam Deck actually sell, while the Steam Deck keeps on selling, it's fine.

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Quoting: lejimsterWith all these Windows handhelds being released I wonder how long it will be before Windows introduced a custom OS that competes with SteamOS.

I WinCE at the thought.

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Quoting: GuestP.S. According to LanguageTool, three commas were needed in the article.

Ehhh, IMO commas are kind of a "soft" punctuation mark--there are stylistic differences in how people use them. There are many situations where it's not really technically "wrong" either to use one or not to use one, and others where it is wrong by some technical standards to do it a particular way, but doing it that "wrong" way still works given the flow of the sentence and the way people talk. Periods, for instance, are a lot clearer--if you're at the end of a sentence you should be using one, period. Well, unless you have a reason to use a question mark or exclamation point instead. But commas are comparatively mushy, and I don't trust computerized guidance about how to use them.

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Quoting: damarrinWell, AI may be bad right now, but I'll eat my hat if it doesn't become much less bad very quickly.

I've noticed that in this current degenerate age, most people don't even have hats. How do I know you will really eat it? You have no credibility, sir! :tongue:

More seriously, I'm not sure it will improve that much that fast. This seems like a new technology because of the way it burst on the scene, but the research into this basic schtick has been going on for decades, staying quiet until they got the whole thing looking promising enough that someone was willing to sink in the cash to scale it up to really big data sets. And with these things, the size of the data set is key. So while it looks new, it may actually already be a fairly mature technology, not subject to the kind of rapid improvement you might expect from something genuinely new.

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Personally, I don't care about copyright per se. Current copyright laws suck. But what's at issue here really is that the current ChatGPT-type "AI" thingies (which are not AI) are being used mostly by outfits like Google, who are creating this gateway thing where their "AI" restates the internet to you so you don't have to go to any actual websites, and all the ad revenue stays with Google. Left unchecked, this will strangle the internet and all the creators on it. Copyright is maybe the only plausible weapon right now to block this, so fine I'll back copyright this one time.

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Quoting: PeciskI like innovation format and hardware, however at some point vendors will have to accept that shackling to Windows license IS holding them back. SteamOS is just way more superior environment.
Yes, Microsoft might throw billions after Valve new project, but I doubt they gonna redirect serious software resources to it, considering shareholders scream for moar OpenAI.

Anyone else ever think that shareholders seem on average kind of dumb?

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Quoting: pbYay, new record for released asset flips! :whistle:

Interestingly, Steam does appear to track this, and it's exposed on SteamDB's year graphs.

All the community trinkets get unlocked for a game "as games reach certain player and sales metrics that give confidence that a reasonable number of customers that are engaged with the game" according to Valve. According to SteamDB, of the 2023 games 3,270 games passed that milestone and 11,258 didn't.

That is interesting--although I think to be fair we should note that many games that don't sell could be perfectly sincere, even good, games that just didn't happen to find their audience.

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It will eventually be the year of ray-tracing; I have no need of it right now, mostly what it seems to do is make games slow (and anyway I don't play that kind of game), but there are reasons to do it and computing power will in time make it work fine. So it's going to gradually move into the mainstream. I'm saying this mostly to note that I'm not a knee-jerk techno-sceptic.

But I think "AI" is in the short term going to be a bubble. One thing that people don't notice is that all these snazzy ChatGPT-type things are not just incredibly expensive to build if you need your own, but apparently also surprisingly expensive to use, cuz they take up massive stacks and stacks of processing power and of course require huge-mongoose amounts of data, at least some which is gonna have to be stored somewhere. So, while there are lots of use-cases for these AI-ish thingies, there are far fewer use-cases that are worth the money once you're not getting a free/cheap taste to generate buzz. Of course, all this expense is going to create motivation to make smaller-scale, more half-assed AI things, with the result that they'll fuck up even more than the big ones do (which is quite a bit). And you can't really debug and improve the damn things, 'cause you don't know how they work. There are a lot of problems, and some of them are quite intractable.

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Quoting: Anzaif you get past the few baffling AAA wins

Not "baffling;" trolling.

They're Boaty McBoatface.

Aye.

I know some people think they are being hilarious or that they are "sticking it to the man" by troll voting like this.

But all they are really doing is throwing a massive insult to all the devs that do their best to release good games.

Hrm. Perhaps the earliest example of this kind of thing that I'm aware of is, there was a Canadian politician named Stockwell Day--fairly right wing, but oddly inoffensive, certainly by current standards. Anyway, back in the year 2000, he was backing the idea of doing lots of decisions by having the public propose stuff and vote on it--actually the only part of his platform I liked. The Canadian somewhat-political sketch comedy show "This Hour has 22 Minutes" put up an online proposal demanding that Stockwell Day be forced to change his name to "Doris". It got hundreds of thousands of signatures, pretty good for Canada in 2000, way more than enough that if Day's policy had been made law it would have forced a referendum. At the time we Canadians thought it was pretty funny.

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