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It’s the new Goodwin’s law

I can see why game developers stay out of it though. Regardless of what their personal opinions on matter may be is it really worth dealing with a bunch of angry incels, especially if it’s a big studio they don’t want that kind of nonsense so they don’t do it.

I think a lot of game developers just don’t want to deal with the drama that will inevitably happen if they give more than two options.

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In quite a lot of games if you look down you can only see your own legs, which of course is totally unrealistic.

Modelling clothing onto underlying body geometry is such an enormous pain, I’m not really surprised they take some liberties. Most games don’t do it they just have the clothing be part of the mesh and not have any actual body underneath, even in games with character customisation.

In GTA you can’t take clothing items off, you can swap models but you can’t actually take off clothing. It’s the same reason why characters never get into bed and just lie on top of it, it’s easy not to try and model the cloth dynamics.

I remember being very difficult to get hold of the original steam deck. I don’t think they initially had any kind of limiting place, I feel like it was the second run where that was implemented.

I’m showing the fullness of time we could set something like that up. Currently they’re limiting it to one device per household so unless you aren’t really interested in getting one yourself that’s not really an option yet.

What I wanted out of this was a product that’s a complete unit that I can just point people to and say get that. I’m not sure if I’m alone in this, but personally I find specking out PCs to be really boring, I spent forever trying to make sure all the components work together. And then inevitably someone else in my family will end up with a different spec.

This way everyone has the same system, I know it works, and if not there’s a big corporation to do tech support, rather than little old me doing it. It’s just a shame it’s kind of expensive.

I actually wish they did concert tickets like this. I might actually occasionally be able to go to one.

Yeah Valve only really believes in about three of the earth’s continents. Personally I think it’s payback for Asia keeping all the cool phones to themselves.

Yeah 10:00 a.m. is perfectly reasonable but it converts to 6:00 p.m. UK time 7:00 p.m. for a lot of Europe, that’s kind of late in the day to be trying to order something and I think it’s the middle of the night in Australia. This does seem better.

It’s not a raffle anyone who joins the list will get a device it’s just when you get it. It’s a countermeasure to stop bots from being used to scalp the machines. I’m sure if you’re not that bothered about getting it in the first week or so you can just hold off and then it’ll go to normal purchasing after that.

It is especially when you factor in that consoles are usually manufactured at cost or with very little profit because the main focus is on games. Which valve on doing here.

If valve are making $100 profit per unit I’d be amazed, the controller probably is more profitable at the moment.

My current PC has one terabyte drive that’s essentially full, and all it has on there is media and games, the OS loads of different drive, I sort of feel like in this day and age one terabyte is the minimum reasonable size.

Especially considering that this only has one M.2 slot so if you want to upgrade in the future you have to throw away the current drive which is a bit annoying. Might as well just get a higher capacity drive now, not that 2 terabytes really is high capacity.

Actually that’s a good point I hadn’t thought about. My phone’s way more expensive than this and way less powerful, although in fairness my phone does have a screen, speakers, and a bunch of gyro sensors that this doesn’t have.

It’s Elon, of course this bothers him. There are peaches with thicker skin than him

I like the Bobbyverse explanation of AI, these are AMIs, Artificial Machine Intelligences, capable enough within the confines of their task but absolutely not self-aware, and not suitable for any high risk situations. The tools with some limited thinking capabilities, that’s it.

When the characters want to build an actual AI they need outside help in order to create it. As humans just aren’t their technologically yet.

That’s where we are right now we have the AMIs or at least a starting to get them, but We’re nowhere close to a true AGI.

He said wayyyy more stupid things, why is this the straw that broke the camel’s back?

My brother-in-law did this and has become a locksmith. He has a great future ahead of him creating YouTube drama with lock companies.