Haha same here, backlog is not going well. I made a bunch of folders in steam to organise it though so there’s that.

Crash Nsane trilogy and Stanley parable were cheap so I got those too.

CP2077 now feels like it’s what it was hyped to be before that awful launch, so I’m glad to have waited 5 years.

Same here. It hit my <$60 AUD buy point for the ultimate edition.

n****r-man was the name of one of Lovecraft’s family cats when he was growing up.

Everyone has different cutoffs for what performance is acceptable to them. I thought TOTK was fun but the low resolution and regular FPS dips made me realise I’d rather wait for the switch 2 to experience it properly.

Adolf Kitler

Does OpenAI make anything other than chatGPT? Because an LLM honestly didn’t seem like a very good AI fit for such an industry that relies on accuracy.

This is the easiest way for sure.

I think there’s a scenario where they had sufficient enough measures in place, but I guess that will be shown through the lawsuit.

I dunno. I think as a platform that heavily markets to kids, they have a responsibility to ensure that those kids aren’t preyed upon on their platform. If you took a child to a live action Bluey play, you’d be expected to keep an eye on your child, but you’d also have a reasonable expectation that the event holders have taken some measures as hosts to keep the kids safe from a variety of hazards including suspicious adults.

Yep. I think the reason the AUR on Arch hosts a lot of unmaintained packages that cause breaking changes at least in my experience. OpenSUSE TW basically is the sweet spot, though I’ve had one or two bad updates I’ve always been able to roll back with Snapper.

I wish TW was more mainstream a distro, as it’s solves problems people complain about a lot with Linux (i.e. stable releases not supporting new hardware, rolling releases breaking randomly).

I genuinely believe the age of the distro hurts its appeal for Linux youtubers to spruke the later distro.

Giving Outer Wilds another go from a new save. I played 5 years ago but got stuck and gave up.

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That all sounds true to me. I’ve been with Sony for PS1, 2, 4 and 5 but had an Xbox OG/360. I’ve got to say I’m surprised that M$ hasn’t with all their trillions been able to create a platform yet that makes them dominate in either the PC or console space. That said, I mustn’t be the only one who thinks that the PS5 generation has been such a bad sign for the future of Sony. In 5 years I’ve played 3 good exclusive games on the system, the console has frankly been a waste of money.

And they’ve had 12 live service games in development. 12 great single player or couch coop exclusives would have been fucking great, but instead they’re chasing the live service dragon.

That could be compelling. I think they would want to design the OS in a way that strongly incentivises you to buy games through the Microsoft store, like SteamOS with the steam store. If they make it too flexible, they’ve just sold hardware at a loss to be someone’s steam machine as well as making the OS potentially too complicated for a normal person to figure out.

If they can make a windows machine that can play all of the old Xbox games, run other storefronts, and do quick resume/hibernate properly, I’m interested. I was kind of waiting out for SteamOS on desktop to get a console like experience on a PC.

Yeah, maybe. The OS will be built around Game Pass like how SteamOS heavily incentivises you to use Steam. I think they’ll have a unified game launcher like Armory Crate on the ROG Ally devices.

That way, it’s a PC that you can use steam on, but the choice architecture and UX will be pushing you to the MS store.

Broadly speaking, what are Xbox looking to do here?

They optimise Windows for gaming and open up the console for other storefronts, then is it just a Steam device? They won’t make money from Steam sales.

Is this a cloud streaming device? Can you cloud stream games from other storefronts? It’s all incredibly vague to me.

Move fast and break things is not good when government is involved.

For me it’s 54,000,000,000 then my brain just glosses over the rest of the zeros. You could literally put other random symbols in the later digits number and I won’t see them.

There really is an XKCD for everything.

Ssshhh…