mrmaplebar

Cross platform determinism

This sounds like a big selling point to me.

From what I understand, many of the existing physics engines are non-deterministic, which can make networking physics interactions in certain types of games pretty difficult.

This but gimmie sunny, [diet] soda, and Age of Empires 2.

I get what you’re saying, but it’s worth mentioning that even a Mini ITX board has a larger foot print (6.7" squared) than the Steam Machine’s absolutely tiny 6" cubic form factor. It’s really a very small device!

FWIW, I’ve always found that small form factor parts are a little more expensive too.

To be fair, i’d say the Steam Machine is relatively cost competitive with other PC pre-builds. DIY will save you money but you’ll never end up with a system that’s as small or quiet, and you have to really know what you’re doing.

The Steam Machine is not such a bad deal really, aside from the fact that every PC is a bad deal in 2026.

• Sonic 1, 2, 3 & Knuckles on the Sega Genesis.
• Sonic Generations
• Sonic Mania
• Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart (Fan Game)

I read all your comments in my previous post and one thing I realized I’m not qualified for this at all. This is too dangerous and puts my life and many of my friends at risk.

I think that protest, organization and resistance are inherently risky, especially in the context of an authoritarian regime where you don’t have adequate constitutional rights or legal protections for speech. The man and women protesting the government and morality laws in Iran are putting themselves at considerable risk, as are the people protesting against Putin in Russia, and people who make small acts of rebellion in places like North Korea. There’s probably no way around that, I’m afraid.

With that said, deepening your understanding of privacy and security technology puts you in a position to allow you do the kinds of things you want to do while limiting the personal risks to yourself. This means learning about things like Linux, encryption, containerization, VPNs, VPSs, TOR, cryptocurrency, etc., and understanding that tools exist to allow people to communicate anonymously. If you haven’t already, I would start first by improving your knowledge of cybersecurity.

Do you have an encrypted email provider like ProtonMail? Do you use encrypted messaging tools like Signal? Those are a good starting point.

Discord have all this but that’s not my preference at all. I know Reddit has private subs but I don’t like reddit like many of you guys.

Discord and Reddit are corporate, specifically American corporate. As such, neither of them are truly “private” or anonymous, and to some extent they are beholden to American corporate interests, and thus, American government interests. Much like TikTok’s relationship with the Chinese government, I think that platforms like Discord and Reddit can only be trusted to the degree that you trust America in general, if that makes sense…

With that said, Discord and Reddit are popular platforms, and it can be easy to create a reasonably protected space there if you can vouch for the people that you are allowing in the room. (Remember that every person who is allowed in the space is a potential vector for leaking of data out. And so, for example, if one of the members of the room was to be captured or coerced in some way, they could provide access to the room to people who you may not want to give access to.) “Security through obscurity” is not a great strategy on its own, but there is something to be said about getting lost in a crowd…

So, as much as I prefer the Fediverse as a key tool against corporate social media, I can see how Discord and Reddit could be useful tools. (Discord was absolutely instrumental in organizing very effective protests in Nepal just a few years ago!)

The best approach is probably something broad, where you use some combination of the fediverse and legacy social media together, but only after you’ve gained the appropriate knowledge and privacy/security tools needed to protect yourself.

Yep, that’s slop alright.

One big tell to me is how highlights always get slightly brighter just before hitting the outline. It’s kind of a similar effect to when you turn the sharpness filter up on a TV, and it looks terrible. And yeah, there are a ton of strange noisy messy shape salad parts that are a defining characteristic of “AI” “art”.

Living in government housing while my art and music is being exploited for the profit of the richest men in the world doesn’t sound like a good future to me.

And what good is subsidized higher education if there are no jobs left for human beings? Are they going to pay for our bread and circuses too, while they rob us blind and live on private islands?

Again, we need to address the root of the problem here: AI is built on the corporate exploitation of intellectual labor.

Tax them, fine, great. But this does absolutely nothing to address the fundamental exploration of intellectual labor of the creative class at the heart of the problem with generative AI.

I think Bernie is simply too old and out of touch to navigate this issue.

That’s an insane thing to say, especially considering most people streaming and making videos about games are probably not using an Xbox to do it, let alone making any money doing it.

I’ll file this under the “I’ll believe it when I see it column”.

At any rate, I absolutely do not expect oil and gas prices to go down at all, considering a lot of infrastructure has been destroyed and isn’t going to simply be wished back.

That leader’s name? Trent R. Agua.

“We noticed it was some nazi shit but we did it anyway, except in Germany where it’s illegal.” Pretty wild defense.

Fair enough! I’m genuinely not trying to be a hater.

However, there is a line between mythology (a set of tales and myths spawning from a specific historical culture) and fantasy (a fictitious construct from the start). This particular game seems to be going pretty far into the realm of fantasy with the jello cube and the cinematic universe style storytelling, but maybe all of the God of War games have been like that, I don’t know.

Yikes… Imagine pulling this pathetic culture war shit while PC parts are up 400% and gas is >$5 per gallon… It’s over dude.

Anyway, I think the reason you dislike the game and the reason I’m disliking it are very different. I can get behind calling it slop, because it looks like something a corpo AI hallucinated, however.

Gotta say, it’s pretty wild that the mere sight of a woman is the new line for “woke” though.

I didn’t mean to hit a sure spot, and good for people if they like it, but it just seems so all over the place…

Originally GoW was Greek mythology, and then the last couple of games were all Norse mythology, but now it looks like a jumble of random mishmash ideas and aesthetics. You’d be forgiven for trying this was a Mortal Kombat cutscene…

I guess it’s like a mythology cinematic universe, or something? Like, what culture/mythos is the jelly cube from?

Wasn’t this game about mythology? What am I looking at here?

Yeah, I really missed the boat getting in on it when it was $0.00…

Now I’d better get it at $0.0 before it shoots up to $0 next year.

AI rotbrain discovers CSS in 2026.

At this point I’m a real believer in the free and open source software model, so there’s very little Microsoft can do to bring me back to Windows other than turning Windows into an open source desktop environment running on top of Linux.

…and even then I probably wouldn’t use it over Gnome or Plasma.