Radar doesn’t work very well on cardboard. Ukraine has already been using drones like this since 2023.

I’m sorry but I really don’t see how anyone working in that environment is going to “develop the skills” to do semi realistic 3D rendering at scale. That’s not just skill, it’s access to resources, manpower and time. It’s not the same thing as encouraging someone to learn to draw or write instead of using AI. These just stuff aren’t comparable situations. I wouldn’t tell someone to hand craft their own injection moulds instead of 3D printing.

No arguments on Roblox being horrible and exploitative, I’m not encouraging anyone to use it, but that’s not really the point here, is it?

A standard, official Xbox controller is $85 CAD. This thing is $150. That’s almost double. I agree, the features sound great (especially having used the original steam controller, I know how good their touchpads are), but still… Almost double.

I’m gonna be honest, in this specific context, I don’t hate this.

DLSS5 sucks because it takes all the hard work that goes into making games and flattens it out into this kind of uniform pastiche of an art style. It turns every game into the same bland, generic slop.

But if we’re talking about kids building experiences for each other in Roblox… Yeah, why not? I don’t buy the idea that a group of twelve year olds should just suddenly develop the skills required to make photo-real graphics in between homework and bed time. Yes, this is the equivalent of slapping an Instagram filter on everything, but if that filter allows someone to realise an approximation of the idea that was rattling around in their head, I think that’s pretty cool. And if they really get into this stuff, I think they’ll start to notice the limitations of these tools and get interested in learning how to do it from scratch so that they can get a result that’s even closer to their vision.

I’m aware that a lot of this stuff does get taken pretty seriously and actually sold as entire games, effectively, but even in that context, you’re not exactly going to stand out if you’re using the same glow-up filter everyone else is. And for the people who really are just making a cool dungeon crawl for their friends to play, being able to just kind of cheat code a baseline level of graphical fidelity seems pretty OK.

I guess my point is, yes, this is a crutch. But it’s pretty damn silly to complain about crutches when you’re standing in a hospital.

No, that’s only allowed if you’re super wealthy or part of Trump’s cabinet. Regular people don’t get to play at the big boy table, they’ll come down on you like a hammer. Just look at the soldier who bet on Maduro getting “removed”. He’s facing charges while guys like Lutnick are making bank.

Where I live people genuinely commute by snowmobile.

So far they’ve sold out the first three batches already, so either they’re lowballing their production runs or demand is strong.

This is the sort of thing that sounds like it wouldn’t work until you realize that it’s literally Microsoft Flight Simulator, but with cars instead of planes.

Here’s a fun fact about Flight Simulator. Years back I used to work in a computer store, and we’d do custom builds. My best sales, by far, were always to the smartly dressed guys in their late forties who came in looking for a gaming PC. You’d ask what kind of games they play, and they’d tell you “Just Flight Simulator.” They really meant it. They were building a gaming rig for one game. And then they would drop the most heinous stack of cash to build a gaming rig that would make the gods weep in envy. Massive towers with double or triple GPU, maxed out RAM, best CPU on the market. Liquid cooled? Sure, fuck it, why not. Their parents built model trains. These guys had Flight Simulator.

As a franchise, that game has 22 million sales. The Forza franchise has 16 million.

All of which is to say that I do think there’s a missed opportunity here. I hate racing games, but I’d play an open world driving game and I know at least one friend who would play it with me. Cruise down a mountainside in Italy, navigating hairpin bends with the hammer down and a beautiful sunset in the distance? Yeah, fuck it, sign me up.

Absolutely. One of the really nice things about Immich is it stores your files in a normal folder structure. Nothing obscured, very easy to backup.

If you’re willing to self-host, Immich is a fantastic replacement.

I think an absolutely great use for an old server at a youth center would be whatever the kids decide to use it for. Seriously, put it to a vote. There are lots of fun options, like a Minecraft server, one of the various Discord alternatives, a private wiki, or whatever else you find on the Awesome Selfhosted List . Just let it be their choice.

And, more importantly, set it up with them. Let anyone who wants to be involved in the process join in. If you’re kind of a newbie to Linux yourself, that’s even better; let them see you fuck up. Let them help you search for answers when you run into problems. Make it into a collaborative project.

Now, as for the actual hardware you have there… Man, that thing is ancient. If it’s what you’ve got it’s what you’ve got. As I’ve already indicated I think the process is worth more than the result here. That said, if you look around you can almost certainly find a refurbished old corporate PC for a hundred bucks or so that will be more powerful. Liquidation auctions are especially good for that kind of thing.

Yeah, the moment you start thinking that it’s only acceptable for people to be gay as long as they express themselves in ways you approve of is the moment you start thinking like a fascist.

At that point you’re no different than the racist with the black friend who is “one of the good ones.”

The solution to the problem the previous poster is describing is that we need simply need more representation. There need to be enough queer people in media that no one character or couple has to serve the role of being a proxy for all queer people and relationships. Give me fruity gays and bitchy queens, and give me boring normal gay people who live in their white picket fence houses and drive trucks. Give me Loid from Warframe and give me Bill from The Last of Us. Celebrate the wonderful spectrum of humanity. Let it all exist instead of fighting over which parts are worthy.

Wait… This sounds… Good?

That can’t be right, this is 2026, we cannot possibly be watching a tech company do an actual good thing.

They didn’t even shove AI in there. This has gotta be fake, right?

100%, Cockpit is what you’re looking for OP.

I mean, there’s enough game there that people routinely run “Auto resolve only” multiplayer games, so clearly there’s a decent number of people who think it’s worth doing.

Alternatively, if you want to keep the tactical battle element but find the “real time” aspect hard to manage, I’ll point out that you can give orders while paused. So you can effectively make it into a turn based game. Total War combat is pretty slow already, compared to stuff like StarCraft, and there are plenty of tools for building multistep orders and so on. Honestly, that’s how I play for the most part. I watch things play out and whenever I need to issue new orders I pause first.

Anyone who knows their way around the tactical battle system can generally outperform the autoresolve, but for this person’s use case (no tactical battles at all) that just sets a new difficulty baseline. If that’s too high, bring the game difficulty down. Problem solved.

If you like self-directed fun, yeah, you’ll probably jam with it pretty hard. Just be prepared to lose a lot of fights; collecting scar tissue is basically how you level up.

I actually know basically nothing about SCP, and I think I enjoyed it more because of that. My wife instantly recognised most of the stuff in the game (they added a few of their own apparently) whereas I got the full “What the fuck is that?!!” experience.

The thing is that a lot of the SCPs are puzzles. You’re supposed to try and fail until you figure out their mechanics. So if you’re confused, that’s the point.

Locally? You’d need a VERY powerful GPU to really be able to match the capabilities of Opus 4.6 online. I’ve played around with this stuff for the same reasons and while you can absolutely run a model with all of Claude’s capabilities offline, very few people will have the hardware to let it actually run at an acceptable speed and with a sufficient context window. That last part is the most important thing for coding because it’s what allows the model to operate across an entire project and not just a few functions at a time.

It’s not exactly what you’re asking for but SCP 5K is a hardcore tactical shooter set in a very well realized version of the SCP lore. Genuinely one of the scariest games I’ve ever played. 173 will have you shitting bricks.