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My experience is with gpt4all (which also runs locally), but I believe the GPU doesn’t matter because you aren’t training the model yourself. You download a trained model and run it locally. The only cap they warn you about is RAM - you’ll want to run at least 16gb of RAM, and even then you might want to stick to a lighter model.

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I liked this vid. This felt like they were doing a Nintendo Direct but with their shitposter styler of humor. It really feels like dunkey and Leah have found a good balance between coming off like a serious business, while still appealing to their existing community that follows Jason’s channel for his unique style of humor.

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last i checked, it sounded like Bioware’s recent development challenges (Andromeda, Anthem, protracted dev times) came from poor leadership. I remember Jason Schrier’s retrospective highlighted that for most of Anthem’s development, there was no strong guidance from leadership, so the devs were largely just experimenting with dead-end ideas and hoping management would latch on to something and push into that direction.

So these 50 roles we are “eliminating” must be the executives and managers from that period, right? Right?

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Larian’s entire strategy seems to be to become the new BioWare. Larian basically speedran BioWare’s origin story - releasing a stellar new entry in an old BioWare franchise was more or less an announcement that they are ready for the crown.

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We’re finally out of the COVID dev lull! Or at least, we’re currently in the window that all big games got delayed to. Lol

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it’s not that I want to think of that loser more than we have to, it’s that i see the title of your post on the feed and for a brief moment i think it’s a headline from a news community. Like @MagicShel said, keep it up.

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I was just going to ask what the lineage was there - I also noticed the similarity to the reddit threads. Thanks for keeping the tradition alive on beehaw!

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if it was that easy, we’d have a Switch 2 by this point. The Steam Deck is basically a mini-PS4, and that starts at $400.

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The steam deck is significantly more capable than the PS4.

Not according to Digital Foundry. In real gaming performance and tuned to PS4-level settings, you’ll see framerates slightly higher than the PS4. Tuned to Xbox Series S settings, you’ll see framerates slightly below the Series S. And all of this is mostly only possible because the Steam Deck only needs to output 720p, which is easier for a GPU than the 900p-1080p that those comparable consoles are usually targeting.

The PS4 CPU was garbage, yes, but that usually didn’t matter because most console games are not very CPU-intensive.

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This is so silly. “We are outsourcing our streaming to a different top 10 publisher, so that makes our industry-ruining merger okay.” I know the CMA was hung up on the streaming thing, but we all agree that streaming is not and probably will not be a prime market in the industry for at least 5 years. Streaming is not the reason we were all worried about this merger…

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I don’t think streaming will become a big deal in gaming (at least in the US market) until the US makes substantial strides in broadband internet access. Tides are shifting, but Comcast and Cox still generally have the FCC’s nuts in a vice, so I don’t see nationwide changes coming any time soon. Certainly streaming could take off in more modern countries than ours, but the US remains the biggest market by value, and that matters.

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it’s true! but also there are some Americans that still can’t stream video to this day, and many more that can only stream video content at like 480p. Some folks commented on a Baldur’s Gate 3 thread i posted, lamenting that there is no physical copy for PS5 because their internet isn’t good enough to even attempt downloading the game. And all of this is after the last 10 years of advancements in broadband access.

I think it will make sense eventually, but I also think that Microsoft has timed this deal very deliberately. Oh, Ubisoft will have your streaming rights for the next 10 years? As in, you will get those rights back right as game-streaming is starting to finally take off?

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FFXIV is life, just give in to it.

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haha genuinely, i feel the same about FFXIV and i’m not even as into MMOs as you. I tried to get into it, got about 60% through the ARR MSQ, and then lost interest. That base game is still ROUGH, or at least it was when i played.

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well it WAS your sleight of hand check…

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it would be a crime if one of them WASN’T a bard

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stop all the filming! now the new Wonka movie is BG3 machinima.

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i just went and rewatched the reveal trailer. it is absolutely not him in that trailer, but i really had not noticed until i listened for it. it’s…weird. i’m not ready to move on from Martinet.

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I imagine it is popular because it feels relevant. Like the article said, the goal is disassociation to cope with the experience of war. If you are all engrossed in a game about virtual tanks, I imagine that makes it feel more like a game when you are on a real battlefield with real tanks.

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Thank you for sharing! I think the article is saying that people are playing WOT on their phones, but this is still an interesting perspective I had not heard before.

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but he’s 🆂🅾 🅲🅾🅾🅻!

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Do you usually wait for the DRM-free release for games?

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Do you usually try to play games that are new and part of The Discourse? I’m more of a patient gamer, so the mindset of chasing the latest game is a little foreign to me.

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same! i’m puuuuuuumped!!!

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Would the game be as good if it didn’t have raytracing? Well, technically yes. You can play it without raytracing and it plays the same. But it wouldn’t be as good if Nvidia hadn’t paid them, and that means raytracing has to be included.

To place another point on this: Control got added interest because their graphics were so good. Part of this was Nvidia providing marketing money that Remedy didn’t have before, but I think the graphics themselves helped this game break through the mainstream in a way that their previous games did not. Trailers came out with these incredible graphics, and critics and laygamers alike said “okay I have to check this game out when it releases.” Now, that added interest would mean nothing if the game wasn’t also a great game beyond the initial impressions, but that was never a problem for Remedy.

For a more recent example, see Baldur’s Gate 3. Larian plugged away at the Divinity: OS series for years, and they were well-regarded but i wouldn’t say that they quite hit “mainstream”. Cue* BG3, where Larian got added money from Wizards of the Coast that they could invest into the graphics. The actual gameplay is not dramatically different from the Divinity games, but the added graphics made people go “this is a Mass Effect” and suddenly this is the biggest game in the world.

We are definitely at a point of diminishing returns with graphics, but it cannot be denied that high-end, expensive graphics drive interest in new game releases, even if those graphics are not cutting-edge.

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haha thanks, i thought it felt off when i was typing it.

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18 years and Microsoft kicks them out of the house. The worst kind of parents.

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If this interests you, no reason not to play the first! I personally bounced off of it, but I don’t think that is the game’s fault.

The game’s combat strikes a unique balance between “slow and deliberate” (ala Dark Souls) and traditional fast-paced platformer combat. I went in wanting the game to feel like Hollow Knight, and it is definitely not the same. You don’t play a bouncy lil bug man, you play a big heavy knight. Big heavy knight + platforming felt like a weird combo to me, so I put it down. But not every game is for everybody!

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right! i don’t really understand who is buying this, but i appreciate that they experiment with these products that have at most a niche audience. Some toddler out there is stoked about this controller.

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I hear you on the competitive games piece, but competitive games where i can play with friends gives me a similar feel. As long as you can all laugh at losing. lol

Did you ever have a time where competitive gaming was an interest or pastime for you?

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I’m so jealous, i wish i had cultivated something like that back when i had more time/friends.

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the pace of multiplayer games is something i hardly even consider, but it’s a good point. After a time it becomes exhausting if you’re trying to keep up with a “meta”.

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Tf is Jump Ultimate Stars? 😂

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Shit that looks cool af. How are you playing that? Emulator, or?

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idk if you’re gonna catch me on your servers, but i appreciate you sharing! maybe another adventurous soul here will follow your instructions ;)

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you never know when your new best friend might be hiding out in some corner of kbin. lol

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You could check out lemmy.world/c/dragonage? Obviously it’s a bit dead at the moment, but this is the thing: all of these little communities need to be restarted from scratch, and to do that you need to contribute your own content until enough people show up that the feed starts rolling on its own. Lemmy.world is currently the biggest instance, and that community has 102 subs already. Seems like a great place to start if you want to recreate r/dragonage on lemmy.

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this is probably the best answer imo. This does sound like genuine addiction, and OP’s best bet might just be to work with a therapist on breaking the loop that makes gaming such a honey trap for them.

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Yeesh, I’m a “Baldurs Gate Oldhead” XD man I’m getting old.

Sorry pal 😂 for what it’s worth, I’m old enough that I played part of BG2 on PC as a kid. But I was too young to understand THAC0 back then. Lol

I could just cry at the fact that BG3 is download only. If they never release it hardcopy I will never be able to play it. Being out in the boonies. Even if they could just put what they can on a disc ya know?

This is my first hearing this. Damn this seems like a big deal for a game of this scale?

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Part of the hype train is that the game is reviewing incredibly well. And Larian is well-known for making high-quality games in the vein of those old crpgs. I know they worked very hard to faithfully adapt 5th edition, so if you’re a fan of the old games, this seems like a good one to get!

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I have zero nostalgia for Quake (i was 5 when it came out lol), but i wonder how this will do! Quake Champions didn’t seem to light the world on fire, but i wonder if the multiplayer scene here will blow up.

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It is tactical in the sense that the combat arenas and enemies require you to think about what weapon you’re using and when, but all of the decision-making is “in the moment”. I think OP is looking for games that require you to think about your approach to encounters before you start them, but where the game is “arcadey” in the sense that it isn’t a full-on MilSim.

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Sure, but why does that matter? Saying “indie games skew the count” implies that you don’t feel that indie games are “real” games. The big devs and publishers may have slowed down, but that’s because the games they wanted to make got bigger with more art, more music, bigger worlds, etc. Nowadays, the biggest “indie” dev teams are about the same size as the mid-size developers in the PS2 days.