Quoting: PaldinoXThat's a shame 2K is using Midnight Suns as a testbed for this crap, nobody bought it despite being a genuinely great game and now even less people will bother with it because of this.

I got Midnight Suns for free and thought it wasn't good enough to finish (put in 23 hours). There are only a handful of mission types (kill everything, destroy thing, protect thing, etc) that you do over and over. Then the whole "social" aspect was boring to me. It felt like a cozy mini-game, that you are forced to do to get upgrades, in a tactical game.

I think the bones of the combat was good though as I like card and spatial turn-based combat. I think they could have had a much better game if they stripped the social movie bullcrap and focused more on the action. While I'm not anti-cozy, I think this game was like oil/water pulling in two different directions.

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I saw a documentary years ago about the first game and it showed how the alien "learns" what the player does. So if you are always hiding in lockers or under tables, it looks there more often. There was more to it that that, but I thought it was the coolest feature. It forces you to always try new strategies and even then you are never safe!

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWhat's the license on the RUST ones?

In some light searching (I'm no expert here) it seems the new uutils (coreutils in Rust) and some of the other non-kernel code is being licensed under MIT / Apache-2.0. Which from my understanding allows one to use that code in another project and not release the new project's source. Whereas GPL said if you use this code in another project, that new project must also use GPL.

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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: eggroleExtremism is created when there is a lack of communication

No it isn't. Different political camps never communicated much and probably never will. Extremism is created when the system as it is fails to meet the needs of large and increasing numbers of people,

For the last 10 or so years people have been saying "hey, maybe all this immigration isn't a good idea." They have made points that one might agree or disagree with, but it was their position. And that entire time the governments and the opposing parties have said to them, resoundingly, "STFU, Nazi, Racist, Bigot!" (as also seen in some post in this very thread).

These were middle of the road people with concerns that have largely been proven true. Housing prices have increased not only because of reckless fiscal policies, but because there are literally more people competing for the same houses. Rape gangs in Europe (again I am not well versed) seem like they are far too common - and the demographics are clear. Public services are being spread thinner, again because (among possible other reasons) there are more people to service. This really is a basic supply-demand problem (again, among other problems). In the USA we are seeing investigation after investigation on fraud that is often done by migrants (though all fraud should be dealt with, this isn't a migrant issue really until you look at the demographics).

Even if you disagree with everything I said, your disagreement or namecalling doesn't make me believe otherwise. Hence, if I am wrong, instead of telling me I'm dumb, make a compelling argument as to why I'm wrong.

Now, you can't honestly tell me that the people you call extremists today weren't for 10 years trying to voice their opinions and now when they've finally reached a point where enough is enough they form a political block and say "well, you didn't want to hear our concerns or compromise, so we will simply vote our leaders in" everyone is acting surprised?

What's the old saying: if you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable? Now, I know many of the people here see themselves as the underdog fighting the man, but remember that sword cuts both ways. There are plenty of people today that see the forced acceptance of your ideas as "the man", particularly when the governments of the world seem to enforce these views...

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Quoting: ChrisznixPerfect timing. The rightwing party of germany just claimed almost 20% in one of the lands...🤮

Quoting: Geppeto35Yesterday, the French municipal elections also saw a historic breakthrough for the far-right party, which openly aligns on nazis and fascists roots, helped (as right before the WWII) by the traditional right wing that fears a true left elected.

Sadly, it smells like our generation could be "all out of bubblegums" in the next decade in this mad world!

Has anyone ever stopped to ask those voting this way WHY? I don't follow European politics closely so I could be wrong about this, but from what I can tell the major voting point is immigration and the downstream effects (like increased housing prices as one example).

Add to this, people calling them Nazis for wanting something different than you might want will only exclude them and dig them into their positions. If you are an open-borders proponent (or whatever the issue might be), you won't change any minds calling people names and telling them they are wrong/dumb.

Extremism is created when there is a lack of communication, and I see this divide worsening as people seemingly refuse to engage civilly with one another. Futher, I am hesitant to call anyone extremist when they simply have a diffent opinion. Is it really extremist to want to stop immigration and deport some of the current immigrants? Compared to rounding them up and shooting them - an actual extremist view? You might not want that, but is wanting that (the deporting, not executing) really extreme? If so, can I argue that importing them is at the other end of extreme? That is an honest question. FYI I don't think either position is truly extreme.

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So ML to unblur the blur added by the other pass of ML.

I wonder what the "next level" of this stuff is. I don't see a push for 8K - everyone I know is either happy with 4K or even lower. My monitor is only 1440 and while I'm sure I'll go to 4K someday, it won't be any time soon. So what I'm getting at is, if they've built a tech that is all about upscaling but we end up staying at 4K (forever?) what is the upgrade path? I can't see them shrinking the source much. I would doubt you'll see 360p rasters scaled _well_ to 4K.

Further, I wonder if you replaced all the "wasted" transistor space on these chips for raw raster, what kind of numbers would we be getting? It might not be more/much more, but I would expect similar results minus some of the *-tracing stuff. Which, everyone I know turns off anyway.

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Quoting: Eocene84Would never, ever trust a free vpn.

You should never trust ANY VPN. With all the censorship laws going on the books all over the world, it shouldn't come as a surprise that every single VPN will cave when the authorities come knocking.

It is one thing to use a VPN to hide your actuall illegal actions, but these days watching a video not available in your region or with the "wrong" content might land you in jail!

I expect most of the people here could instead spin up a VPS in a non-compliant country and run their own VPN for a couple dollars a month.

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I've been arguing for years about the possibility of the enshitification of linux. I think this is obviously a step in that direction. Microsoft (among others) has been lacking and it is catching up with them with more linux adoption.

Microsoft isn't stupid though and with their bags of money I'm sure they can influence stuff like this. Then it wouldn't even be hard to see MS "helping" these poor FOSS devs and getting (more of) a foothold in the development of linux if not outright having some of the FOSS devs walk away when they can't comply with these new artificial barriers.

If this goes through - and even if *this* doesn't society is barreling headlong in the surveillance everywhere direction so it will happen sooner or later if nothing changes - it will add more artificial barriers to entry for any new players in the arena.

And on this front, I'm at a loss for how to fight it. Sure we can maybe get some momentum and have the legislation stopped for now, but I simply don't see a world where this and an eventual internet real ID don't become a reality. Most people simply don't think about or care about privacy and are swayed too easily with the "for the children" garbage.

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This framegen stuff is such a boondogle. Raster performance has been on the decline for years now and we are being sold DLSS/FSR as the next step, while it is clear that 10-year-old games like Crysis 3 and the Batman Arkham games (among others) had equal or better graphics while running on lower grade hardware at higher FPS.

There is a youtube channel I recently discovered while looking into this. Threat Interactive. I can't vouch for everything he says as a lot of it is above my paygrade, but his conclusions on how modern devs are totally slacking off and relying on the bait-and-switch of framegen seems spot on.

And this is coming from a guy who is general in favor of AI.

I fear that as the gaming industry progresses, the younger players who had no experience with the older hardware/software will literally not be able to comprehend a world without this stuff. Kind of like how post-9/11 the world was so different to those born before it, while those born after it know nothing but the techno surveillance state. 😡

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