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Right, it needs the NPU because the data is stored and processed locally. Guess what, your computer/OS already knows everything you do.
Yet another nothing-burger for the internet to rage about.
I don’t use Windows for other reasons, but every useful application I use on a daily basis has some sort of history. Browsers remember pages I’ve visited, my editor has undo levels, terminal has a searchable scrollback buffer, my shell can recall pretty much every command I’ve ever run.
And yet none of them work together. I’ve been thinking about Recall though, and I think the only use case I would have would be to have it summarize my daily activities on a work machine. Quite often I join morning standups, or a standup after a long weekend, and I’m like “wtf did I do yesterday?”. I’d love to have an AI remind me I spent 3 hours on Teams dealing with a co-worker’s issue, or how long I spent researching something in order to reply to an e-mail.
Or when you notice you have a follow-up meeting on your calendar and you’ve completely forgotten what the action items you were supposed to handle from the meeting 2 weeks ago.
Basically there’s a ton of QOL activities computers could be doing that require some sort of artificial intelligence to index and retrieve in order to be useful. That involves allowing some sort of local AI access to that data, but as long as the crowd of smooth brained luddites keeps whining that goal is getting further away…
The amount of self-hosted AI integrations is only going to grow as well. I have a 3090 in a closet PC and I use it for everything from image generation to VSCode/Neovim code completion and code chat. One of the things I’d really like to see in the next few years is a wide variety of local AI driven self hosted Alexa replacements.
I’ve looked at the list of places where PSN is supported. 73 countries covering the major markets in most of the world, and it’s not in places where local laws and regulations, or the cost of doing business, or just the political climate make it unfeasible.
Guess what? I don’t give a shit. So you can’t play Helldivers in Haiti or Afghanistan, guess what, it’s a video game and you’ve got bigger fucking problems.
PSN has been around for 30 years, there’s no reason not to have one unless you’re an Xbox baby or just a real fucking crybaby. This was announced when the game launched, it was also announced that it was being temporarily disabled, and yet people still bought it. It says on the Steam store page a PSN account is required, are you all just that fucking stupid?
God damn I’m so fucking sick of this crybaby outrage culture.
It’s literally not. It’s like reading a positive review for a movie and then going to see it and being outraged the theater is charging $14 for popcorn. No one is forcing you to buy the popcorn, and not buying it in no way affects your movie experience.
Don’t you have more important things to be outraged about? Isn’t it exhausting hating everything all at once?
although it’s fine to have different expectations for what we want, I guess
I don’t think having the expectation of “every time I go to a place, the same two NPCs are having the same argument outside” is wildly absurd. Reminds me of Black Desert, one of the major banks had a small child berating a large man non-stop, EVERY DAMN TIME you had to stand at the bank managing your items. It was intolerable.
My first real RPG was Ultima IV. The box said “80 hours of gameplay” and I must have played it for the better part of 4 years every day after school, never quite beating it. Then I got Ultima V for Christmas and beat it in 2 weeks.
Ultima I though, that was a blast. Hovercraft and lightsabers, and the space shuttle made an appearance.
There is an absolutely ludicrous amount of NPC chatter in many games out there today. And specifically the writing of it is definitely not the problem. Any competent game writer can deploy reams of the stuff at the drop of a hat, way more consistently and effectively than ML generation.
Yet… they don’t? If it’s so easy, why do we constantly hear the same chatter in major games like Cyberpunk? I don’t think your definition of “ludicrous amount” applies to games people put hundreds of hours into playing.
I put 300 hours into it on Linux (Arch).
It’s fairly fun, though it really felt lacking in the story department. The world had a ton of backstory on how the Shroud came to be and how the populace was impacted, but that was it. There was zero regard for why the player was awoken or what they hope to accomplish. Every quest in the game is “go get this so I can upgrade your crafting station” or “go here to find more loot”. There’s no survivors to rescue, no people to save, you’ve basically been thawed out on a desolate world.
“But it’s still Early Access!” Yes, and so far 1/3rd of the game map has been revealed, and there’s been zero mention of any kind of goals, like you had one quest to go investigate the keep (gosh, I hope everyone is ok), but your adventure has had zero impact on the world.
I’ve never played Valheim, I think the closest think to Enshrouded that I’ve played would be Trove.
I’ve clocked over 45 hours in the past 3 days. I was level 15 before I figured out how to use a bow non-Skyrim style lol. Night time and the shroud have me jumping left and right. The building has been amazing, as well as the farming. I found an old inn, cleaned out the skeletons and broken furniture, moved all my chests and workers inside of it, added a large farm out back and planted evergreen trees out front, hell I even went and mined some clay to fix the tiles on the roof.
Yeah I’m just avoiding the castle fight as a solo ranged player.
Also fun fact, without doing the castle fight you can’t traverse the Pillars of Creation… but the mountain is made of limestone, so I just you know, dug my way through it. Really wanted that Fossilized Bone.
That’s not a point though, valid or otherwise.
Do you know where the money gets spent when you come up with original ideas? Into the trash can. It’s literally paying people to write down ideas on paper or in code, iterating, and then throwing them out, over and over again.
AAA titles also spend a truckload on voice acting and mocap. You don’t need to mocap a round sheep monster. Sure, you could be incredibly stupid and pay Alan Tudyk to voice act the sheep, or pay Vin Diesal millions to say “I am Groot” 300 different ways, but no one should be ashamed for not doing so.
You confused cheap with profitable.
Consumers are stupid. They seldom want something new, more often than not they want something familiar with a few slights twists. Movie studio’s don’t do reboots because they’re lazy, they do it because people keep fucking going to see them.
A handful of people online complain every year about how “Sports Game Franchise '23 is just SGF '22 with some new player skins” and yet it still sells like hotcakes. If your goal is to make money, why wouldn’t you do that, there’s no financial incentive to spend more money on development.
I starting playing MMO’s with the Ultima Online beta, and was in a number of other betas over the years. Vanguard, The Chronicles of Spellborn, etc. The number of beta players who kept shouting “it needs race X from WoW” and “why aren’t there any druids like in WoW” was deafening. For decades, people talked about the next “WoW killer”, which meant “a game close enough to WoW for people to migrate but maybe with slightly better graphics”.
Are you living in a gamer bubble? Most major phone manufacturers have lower spec budget phones, especially when it comes to other markets. Samsung released 24 phones in 2023, from 90EUR to 1899EUR. I can’t tell if you think rural farmers in Mozambique either don’t have mobile phones, or are all rocking an iPhone 16 ProSuperMaXtreme.
And for every 1 person playing Star Citizen, or Cyberpunk at 4K/240mhz, there’s probably 50 people playing Runescape or Lineage.
It’s pretty hard to work at any job, in any industry for a significant amount of time and not have a sense of what’s going on in other departments. You can be a dishwasher in a restaurant for 2 years and if you don’t manage to pick up how the kitchen is run, then you’re simply an idiot. That doesn’t mean you’re a chef, but having the experience of working along side one is invaluable.
Don’t downplay experience.
‘Back in my day’ games came on 5.25" floppies and you were encouraged to make backups and use those while storing the originals in a safe place.
Modding those games was a lot different than today’s HD graphics, where the most popular mods seem to be just removing clothing from game assets and posting videos of it online, which I can see any company having an issue with.
So going back to the start of the conversation, neither GPU is completely shenanigans free. Both require research, documentation, and additional work. Linux has a learning curve.
Does AMD ‘work out of the box’? Sort of, but it really depends on the card and distribution. I know with Arch for example, things like scrolling in Youtube were horrendously laggy and I spent a few hours trying to install missing packages trying to figure out what was wrong. I haven’t tried any other distros with an AMD card, but I’ve run PopOS, Ubuntu, and Arch on Nvidia without significant issues (other than modifying the kernel cmdline), but let’s be honest that’s less work than setting up almost anything else you’re going to run on Linux.
Booting off a USB is also incredibly easy, and it’s probably something everyone should have some experience with. Less than 3 hours after a fresh install I accidentally removed my user from the wheel group and lost sudo privileges …
Right, so what is the point in bringing it up?
“Sony just released a new 150 megapixel mirrorless digital camera!”
“Cameras have been a thing since the 1800’s…”