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Apparently Av:D and Dune:M are coming out the same week. Dunedoom or Doomessiah. Is this another Barbenheimer or will one of them blink and change dates? They are probably targeting a similar audience, so a change would make sense.

Sounds like a Maori chant there. I should probably re-read the books.

Oh - so far this is video I liked best for some game info that felt a little less common to most videos. Like he shows off fishing, shows the horse/pet mechanics more vs. combat/boss showcasing Might be the first game in years where I actually like horse as a tool.

Early Crimson Desert reviews are in/trickling in over the day. As expected, seems fairly polarizing. Some love it (after 60-100hrs, no one has finished it), some think it's middling etc. Note: I do not "trust" any reviewers re: yays or nays, I only look for gameplay information re: bugz, mechanics, UI, and gameplay loops that may increase or decrease interest for me. For which, I gather, for myself, for this game: 1--world exploration/discovery is dense, vast, immersive and I would utterly love it 2--big boss combat is likely going to have multi-phases and be something where I want to toss my KB out the window, or pull out cheat engine, a lot, and for some progression areas cannot avoid. Perhaps if one explores oodles first it'd help mitigate some of that via over-preparedness but dunno. 3--you can have a cat or dog companion that ends up following and picks up loot, although not always and not always quickly. But still, YES. Also, you can do a slide while on horseback (the horse body-slides). Not sure when one would want to this, but ok, it's still cool. 4--general combat I could probably deal with fine 5--inventory management/space is a nightmare. They will supposedly add a "town/base" storage. Right now it's only chr. inventory/backpack. 6--devs seem quick to patch in/alter things like bugs, UI/QoL complaints (eg, waiting a week for a couple fast patches might be best) 7--no one is going to talk about the game's fantastic story or chrs, because (as expected) that's not what this game is 8--could be the best "wish this MMO was single-player" we're ever going to get Summary: Just like Enshrouded, I would love exploration/discovery/non-combat systems but everything else I'll be neutral to critical of. Except in Crimson Desert, it might be 200-300 hrs before exploration stops motivating me to keep pushing on beyond any criticism, vs. 60-80 hrs in Enshrouded. So - hmm. 🤔

Thanks, I'll do just that 👍

Not the example I used above, but it's mostly energy costs and loss of big c Confidence that are the approaching needle. Though really, AI is an absolutely awful idea economically on base principle (simplistically, replace jobs with AI and who is going to buy the stuff that makes the actual economy run? AI?).

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It's a big question mark, Claude seems to be a big leap forward. I was very much an AI skeptic and still am to a large degree, but people have started churning out whole working apps with just prompts. Granted the code under the hood is not optimal, but the app does what you asked for. If the bubble doesn't burst, the cost of using AI will skyrocket, to a point where using human labor may turn out to be cheaper. The current cost for the end user for using that amount of resources is not realistic in the long term.

Not sure we're going to have to worry about it anyway, though I haven't used an nVidia chip since 2007(?) anyway. AI always looked like a bubble, and international events look very much like an approaching needle. If that bubble bursts then they have to pay attention to their more traditional markets rather than turning it all into AI.

Well, for me personally, it's very easy to decide, what am I going to do. Especially with the crazy out of touch prices of RAM and GPUs. I'll stay with my AMD CPU and GPU, which I have purchased in 2021 and keep purchasing awesome games I've never played on GOG 🤷‍♂️ And there are other options as well for other people to chose as well, to avoid AI slop and still have enough fun within their budget. The console emulation is also getting better each day, and in my country it is legal to make a backup copy of software you purchased on any platform of your choice 😊

I really don't think they will. It isn't just the unpopularity of the war, it's the unpopularity of Trump, and of Israel. It's simply not a vote winner, and for many would literally end their careers; and the more transactional will have observed that Trump doesn't actually honour his transactions and is not a good faith negotiator. He has also systematically alienated traditional US poodles like UK/ Denmark/ Norway. All of that might go out the window if people thought sending troops would stop it since there's no doubt they'd like it stopped- or better yet, never to have happened. The general belief is that boots on the ground or ships in the sea are not going to help though, but be a perpetual drain. Might as well be a perpetual drain for the instigator. In the end, Europe can pay more for energy, if they have to*. Those who cannot are the ones who will suffer. *The EU bought every drop of lng from Russia's Yamal field last month. Unlikely to be different this month.

They started doing emulation. Apparently can be applied to any new game.

nVidia is an AI company now, you'll accept it or else. While most people have been using Seymore Skinner's "am I out of touch? No, it's the kid's who are wrong" for nVidia/ Jensen's reaction at least as appropriate is Kang's (or maybe Kodos'?) "what are you going to do, vote 3rd party buy AMD?". Though they'd probably be as bad, if they were in the dominant position. Hmm, pretty sure they've always had a microsoft 365/ John Deere option since near the start, if not the start, it's just the perpetual license option is now gone. Certainly there's been a tendency to remove denuvo after one or two years, and given that that costs money itself and corporations are hardly charities doing so out of the goodness of their hearts seems... out of character.

A good reminder for folks to check https://isthereanydeal.com/. I just heard of it.

The lightning in most of the shown scenes, completely changes the tone of the scene after enslopification. The worst offender though is that school kid from Harry Potter, who looks 40+ after the touch of DLSS5. For now, it might be offered as an option which can be turned off, but look at what happened with raytraycing. There are already some games built around it from grounds up, and you cannot turn it off. Which in the end, makes these games inaccessible to some people, which are not able to afford last gen GPUs... And this slop needs two of them to run. Note: as one guy on Ars Technica noted, what you see in the video, is the best of the best screens produced by DLSS, which have been handpicked by the marketing gurus of Nvidia, and they still look like a cheap Instagram filter, which fails to keep the tone of the scene as creative director intended 🤷‍♂️

Nslopia 🤷‍♂️

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/101xp/the-life-and-suffering-of-prince-jerian kickstarter doesn't seem to be going well hope they get the 4th goal

Yes, there's some questionable elements to Kent's background. But his actions seems to be consistent with a pol. who had bought into redacted's prior stance against foreign entanglements. Is redacted's sudden switch an example of how susceptible he is to the right kind of influencers?

not sure how long eu politician will wait until they join the invasion of iran despite how extremely unpopular it is politician are still trying to come up a way to sell this to the population

I personally think it's gonna be a child of Beaumont. The wife of Tully seems a stretch. Or it could be Tully's own daughter based on the memorial box you find in the Pine Hills

US - Australian relations explained...

Since Denuvo changed their licensing model a while back, I'm not really bothered nearly as much by its inclusion. Denuvo works orders of magnitude better than any other DRM that came before it, and most games protected by it do not get cracked or at least do not get meaningfully cracked - i.e., maybe one version of the game, usually one close to release, might get cracked, but then nothing after that: it's just too difficult and too time-consuming for cracking groups to really handle. However...while Denuvo used to sell perpetual licenses, they are now a real proper money-gouging "service" (and this is one of the only times I'll ever celebrate that) in that publishers must pay quite a hefty sum to continue to protect their games with Denuvo on an ongoing basis, and this means that even very big games eventually lose Denuvo - at the very least, the singleplayer ones that aren't earning the cash to continue to warrant it. Way I see it, this means games get protected for 6-24 months, which strongly encourages the people who really want to play them to actually buy them (which is good for the prospects of bigger singleplayer-only titles in particular, which have always been at higher risk of being pirated en masse relative to multiplayer titles), but it also means publishers will eventually push clean builds through Steam et al. somewhere down the road...which is good for those of us who either don't want anything to do with (or straight up can't play with) Denuvo, OR for those of us who would be waiting to buy something at a lower price point anyways. I think this is a fair compromise, and a much better and sustainable situation than those nasty perpetual licenses Denuvo was selling previously. Now that they've pretty reliably proven their DRM works and many publishers use it and will want to continue to do so, it makes sense they'd change their pricing model to take advantage of that, and the rest of us can luckily benefit from it.

I didnt think Kent was taken seriously by much of the media because of his links and associations to right-wing groups like the Proud Boys. He seems to be getting lots of positive news reporting now? Saying all that he is right of course. Trump was very much influenced by Israel around deciding to attack Iran and as we have discussed the US and Israeli objectives are different which makes the objective of a US " win " confusing and difficult to define

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/us/politics/marines-iran-war.html The US is sending another ship to the region and it has the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit They could be used to secure the Straits and protect international shipping. The Iranian attacks on the Straits has become the biggest headache for the global economy and this is an important strategy if its true "The unit, officially known as the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, according to two U.S. defense officials, will be in an unusual position given the problem vexing the Pentagon: the Iranian military’s ability to mine the strait, a narrow waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil passes. U.S. airstrikes have forced the Iranians to forego their larger naval vessels and deploy fast boats carrying mines that can evade aircraft. These boats would likely launch from an archipelago of islands closer to the strait. With the arrival of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit from the Indo-Pacific region in the coming days, the Pentagon will be able to quickly launch raids onto the islands with infantry Marines who will have logistics and air support, said a retired senior defense official with knowledge of the unit’s capabilities."