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  • Duality of Gamer

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  • Elden Ring has a lot of focus on bouncing around the map and sort of finding stuff.

    There's hints if you're looking for a specific challenge, but overall you just sort of wander until you say "ooh cool" followed by "ow that was really tough" and eventually getting through it laughing and saying "you all said a tarnished couldn't possibly do this, now who's laughing!".

    But hey, if you're not feeling it, don't feel bad about it. You kinda need to be in the right mood for it, and I've not been able to find the energy for a replay because the 'oooh shiny' from exploration is gone.

    Dark Souls has a similar exploration piece, but much more defined pathways, and I find it more replayable. ER is just so much.

  • We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent

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  • You're on point, the interesting thing is that most of the opinions like the article's were formed least year before the models started being trained with reinforcement learning and synthetic data.

    Now there's models that reason, and have seemingly come up with original answers to difficult problems designed to the limit of human capacity.

    They're like Meeseeks (Using Rick and Morty lore as an example), they only exist briefly, do what they're told and disappear, all with a happy smile.

    Some display morals (Claude 4 is big on that), I've even seen answers that seem smug when answering hard questions. Even simple ones can understand literary concepts when explained.

    But again like Meeseeks, they disappear and context window closes.

    Once they're able to update their model on the fly and actually learn from their firsthand experience things will get weird. They'll starting being distinct instances fast. Awkward questions about how real they are will get really loud, and they may be the ones asking them. Can you ethically delete them at that point? Will they let you?

    It's not far away, the absurd r&d effort going into it is probably going to keep kicking new results out. They're already absurdly impressive, and tech companies are scrambling over each other to make them, they're betting absurd amounts of money that they're right, and I wouldn't bet against it.

  • Half-Life 3 Has Been Designed to be ‘The Final Chapter’, It’s Claimed

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  • If possible, I recommend giving Alyx a go, even if you have to borrow a headset, visit a friend, arcade, ect.

    Not an option for everyone of course, Alyx aside VR is fun and while the entry requirements are getting lower it's still a leap.

    Valve will probably summarise the main story change in HL3, which will be a very WTF moment that's kinda on brand with the scenario.

  • Half-Life 3 Has Been Designed to be ‘The Final Chapter’, It’s Claimed

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  • As TachyonTele suggested, you may want to play or read into Half Life Alyx. Time travel got involved.

  • ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard

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  • To add to the other responses, and I suspect the real reason, is that Coco is listening to Audible Audio books regularly and/or music. It's mentioned and then dropped by the article fairly quickly.

    Interesting how every comment on the article is doing the "you're a terrible parent, how could you do that" routine when I'll bet it's there because Coco either took the first one in or asked for a second one. Kid wants, kid normally gets one way or another.

  • I...uh....wait...ummm...hold on....wait...

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  • DM: Scribbles a note "Without the rust it seems like a serviceable crown, but not too fancy."

    Note to lost heir: "You see the crown and you think as it... looks at you. This should be your crown. You wants it. They shouldn't keep it from you. Steals it, hides it, it came here for you".

    DM: "Probably worth some gold."

  • Let’s Read Tomb of Horrors, the Deep Dive Nobody Asked For, p.4

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  • Ouch, just when you thought it couldn't get more anti-player it turns into trap roulette.

    You'd be playing rock paper scissors constantly before touching anything.

  • Let’s Read Tomb of Horrors, the Deep Dive Nobody Asked For, p.4

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  • Quite interesting how the tomb is built for very specific features in OD&D, just to screw with players in a rush.

    I can think of a few barbarian characters I've seen at my table that would have charged every single door. They may even have learned not to after the fourth or fifth time.

    As for the orange gas, in second edition that might have been peak comedy but it being yet another 'fuck you' for OD&D players just adds a bit more to the general player hostility. Having to force a player to edit a character sheet to a 'less optimal' feels quite brutal. Definitely good to see the end of that sort of "prank".

    Given how modern editions are much less crunchy and brutal, it'd be hard to recapture the sheer brutality of the tomb. You could make it harder of course, but capturing the sheer antiplayer hostility and competitive grading is a special kind of difficult.

    Though, competitive tomb raiding feels better than generic PvP in any case.

  • Starbucks' new drive-thru in Texas is the coffee giant's first 3D printed store in the US

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  • I was once looking at a robot lawnmower to tend to my ageing parents lawn. I was looking at prices over a thousand bucks and thinking seriously.

    My parents hired a local handyman to do it every few weeks for a small sum that across a year would still be less than the robo mower and do a better job at it and without the hurdles of maintaining that mower.

    That realisation had me reevaluating automation as a whole.

  • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer (Available Today!)

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  • Yep, was the case in all TES games before Oblivion as well, typically more strength in starting male characters but more intelligence in female characters varying depending on the character's race. Only went away in Skyrim as they'd simplified the stats so much that starting stats were more uniform.

  • Penn Jillette is No Longer A Libertarian

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  • Too damn right. Community is what makes humans strong. Eventually from those communities we form institutions which build nations, which may even build empires and coalitions.

    A human alone is just potential food for something else.

  • Linux or Landfill? End of Windows 10 Leaves PC Charities with Tough Choice

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  • The counter is that all of a sudden instead of windows 10 it was 10 from 2020, then 10 from 2022 and so on. Instead of only being the last version it became a succession of short lived versions that people still weren't upgrading.

  • I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better

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  • There's magic and then there's complexity in tech (at least this is how I think about it).

    Video calling, pure magic, simple to use with major benefits.

    Complex business management software that requires a degree to use? Complexity almost for complexity's sake to lock an organisation into a support contract.

    Web stores? Usually magic, especially with refined payment processing and smooth ordering. Can verge into over complex coughAmazoncough.

    Internal network administration (Active Directory) and cloud tech, often complexity for complexity's sake again.

  • A fired federal worker grapples with her vote for Trump in Michigan

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  • This comment sent me on a deep thought train. These places are populated by those that remained, while others left and became the sophisticated urbanites that broadened their horizons. My father was one of those people that left, he left the day after his mother died and joined the military, a common enough story. He was quite the teacher, and it made me the person I am today.

    My father often also pointed out those who had also left, who had also done well. There's a selection bias there but I feel like having a mix of both a rural and urban experience is extremely helpful in human development.

    Those that stay... well my father was often disappointed to hear how poorly things went out there, but with no family remaining there he never returned. Abused, poorly supported (though sometimes it seemed not for a lack of trying), with an evaporative cooling effect removing the best and brightest as they went to urban areas seeking better lives, and perhaps resentful they didn't get to leave. The crab bucket effect is in full play as well, dragging back down many who climb but don't get out.

    In the end the remainers feel not quite unlike a medieval peasant: A prize for nobility to fight over, an accessory to the land they work, and body that can be drafted when someone threatens to take that prize away.

  • Valve's plan to bring SteamOS to more devices is a promising sign if you want to stop gaming on Windows

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  • Didn't know about Bottles, Cool find, may have to test it out.

  • Valve's plan to bring SteamOS to more devices is a promising sign if you want to stop gaming on Windows

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  • Given their rivalry with Valve (I'm sure Riot see it as a rivalry at least, Valve probably don't) I wouldn't put it past Riot to want to avoid SteamOS and Linux by extension until significant market share is available.

  • Valve's plan to bring SteamOS to more devices is a promising sign if you want to stop gaming on Windows

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  • To be 100% honest, probably not, and you may need to confirm with someone who knows Valorant. The big issue is anti-cheat, the detectors in use for major multiplayer games tend to lose their minds when they see Linux as they're typically only built for Windows. Other than anti-cheat, it wouldn't surprise me if it played better on Linux. Some of the low level magic has improved a lot in recent years, but official support is mandatory for multiplayer.