Gaben said it best when he said “piracy is a service issue, not a price issue.” There is no other company that even comes close to matching Steam’s services, both to consumers and developers. The industry could become a different place when he dies. I don’t see any other CEO continuing to spend money to innovate and expand services rather than offer less and charge more to extract record profits.

Parks and Rec, Scrubs, Brooklyn 99,
???, The Office, Community,
30 Rock, Arrested Development, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

In games like Poker, a player can have an advantage over others at the table by having a higher chip count than everyone else. It’s a common scam for two people to pretend not to know each other and then have one “feed” all their chips to their friend by purposefully losing to them. Their friend can then press their advantage for an easy win and the two split their winnings. The power of friendship!

This is like when people say they must add stuff to coffee to make it addicting. Yeah, caffeine.

Oh it’s out?

PlayStation 5 exclusive

Ah. Thanks Sony.

Is that a Boarder Collie?

Ah 2024, great year!

This is a fetish thing isn’t it?

A Canadian scored a hat trick in the Cup final. He just plays for Florida.

Gay (kernel) panic

3 legendary programmers and Bill Gates.

Have you heard of Cookie Clicker? It’s an idler game where you click a cookie to get points. You can spend those points on upgrades like automated clicking and more points per click. The goal is to get like a billion points or something but with the upgrades you’re eventually getting millions of points a second without even clicking. Now imagine saying “I want to hit a billion points without buying a single upgrade. I’m literally just going to click the cookie a billion times.” That’s what this guy did, but with Old School Runescape.

There’s been a trend of extreme OSRS players trying to one up each other in dedicating years of their life to doing a repetitive task for 18 hours a day, every day.

If you want to reach those kids in the streets, you got to do a rap to a hip hop beat!

This is a commonly repeated myth but it isn’t true. Nobody gets a tax write off in point-of-sale fundraising. Charities ask stores to do it because it’s one of the most efficient and effective ways for a charity to raise money. Chairty events are costly, and asking people on the street gets a lot of rejection. Stores agree to do it because they get to run ads saying they helped raise millions for charity and the charity will usually shout them out as well.

Post about how Windows isn’t that bad in any Linux community.

Post about how any popular AAA title isn’t that bad in any gaming community.

Post about how capitalism isn’t that bad in any lemmy.ml community.

I don’t think there’s any moment that truly blows your mind. It’s a very slow burn. I found every run I learned something new that made me want to revisit old rooms and search out new ones. It definitely helps to take notes which is also fun in its own way.

Sometimes solving a puzzle just gives you some lore but that was also neat too. There’s one note I found that stuck with me regarding following traditions. It doesn’t have anything to do with the game but it was great writing!

why don’t they program them

AI models aren’t programmed traditionally. They’re generated by machine learning. Essentially the model is given test prompts and then given a rating on its answer. The model’s calculations will be adjusted so that its answer to the test prompt will be closer to the expected answer. You repeat this a few billion times with a few billion prompts and you will have generated a model that scores very high on all test prompts.

Then someone asks it how many R’s are in strawberry and it gets the wrong answer. The only way to fix this is to add that as a test prompt and redo the machine learning process which takes an enormous amount of time and computational power each time it’s done, only for people to once again quickly find some kind of prompt it doesn’t answer well.

There are already AI models that play chess incredibly well. Using machine learning to solve a complexe problem isn’t the issue. It’s trying to get one model to be good at absolutely everything.

Loss Of Lights