Gonna shill for kbin’s UI just a bit. I like how it handles cross-posted threads.

Locked out of hotel rooms

How does that happen? Concierge assumes you’re not the person on the booking?

Better yet. For the price of 2 portal recolors, you can get 1 Baldur’s Gate 3.

I’m hardly a Sony Stan, but you can call me one if it makes you feel better when I say… I have no idea what you’re talking about.

hardware component shortages that were notably specific

What was specific to the PS5 that wasn’t shared by the XSX? The specs of are almost identical. Same AMD processor, same generation and architecture, same amount and type of memory. Any supply chain woes that affected one almost certainly affected the other.

Except for that insane proprietary memory expansion card that Xbox uses that cost $200 per TB. It took them 3 years to come up with cheaper options. Meanwhile Sony just uses off the shelf NVME drives whose price has been slowly decreasing ever since the pandemic.

The PS3 was underpowered

It is well documented that the PS3’s weakness was the complexity of it’s design not necessarily how powerful it was.

the PS5 enabled and enriched scalpers

This is such a confusing statement, it’s Not Even Wrong. You make it sound like Sony built scalpability into the PS5. You’re angry at the inanimate object? Not what the awful people did with it? People scalped the PS5 because it was in higher demand, not because it was made of gold.

News to me, what’s up with the hardware?

Edit: ITT: a dude so defiantly wrong he uses edits to imply he’s the only person making any sense.

shoutout to swamp yankees

For what it’s worth, I have a machine with less than the recommended specs, and as long as you don’t mind spending a little time downgrading settings to Medium/Low, I have a fairly playable framerate, usually between 30 and 50. I’ve only built a couple cities up to 25,000 population, but it’s still been fun.

You won’t be disappointed by the road tools, they are everything they promised and more. In 15 minutes I can make interchanges that look like I pulled them out of a mod pack. It’s obscene. Traffic control is decent for vanilla, but if you were a power user of TMPE in CS1, you might be a bit underwhelmed.

Overall though, there is a desperate shortage of maps and unique assets. As for the game’s systems - economy, education, land value, industry - I can see how they were intended to work, but it seems like a lot of boilerplate was added to make the game playable at release. With time - and mod support, Dear Lord - I think it will greatly improve.

Edit: Infrastructurist is a great showing of how the game still has legs.

Sorry, didn’t realize we were in agreement haha. I wonder if network effects would kill any real steam competitor before it has a chance, and maybe that’s why Epic tried to capture that userbase first.

Epic chose to spend it’s money buying exclusivity deals for games and pissing off consumers, rather than using it to build an actual competitor to Steam as a storefront/game launcher/mod manager/chat application.

Your point about pokemon disobeying your orders is given more structure in the games, where if you don’t have the required gym badges, your higher-leveled pokemon don’t see you as a person worth obeying. Then when you get that badge, they fall in line. The point being… might makes right? You command authority only through fighting and defeating enough trainers and their pokemon? That’s a pretty problematic conclusion you could draw from that game mechanic.

Whoever came up with that stupid idea needs their computer privileges revoked for the rest of their life.

Wish granted: that person is now the CEO of AdSense and has a dozen EA’s to handle their computer for them.

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I’ve seen the headline “Denuvo removed from Game” so many times that I can only imagine that the publisher just doesn’t see the point of paying for it after sales drop below a certain point.

You know what, hot take? Shout out to Denuvo, they made a DRM scheme so easy to remove that every publisher inevitably does it at some point or another.

Thank you for your thoroughly analytical take on the subject. Solid points all around.

Yeah… That’s not a good defense if you think about it. If someone made a Reddit comment with the entire contents of Discworld (idk, just an example), and OpenAI scraped all of Reddit to train their model, well now they’ve used copyrighted material without paying for a commercial license, and now they’re on the hook. By being unscrupulous about their scraping, they actually open themselves up to more liability than if they were more careful about what they scrape and where.

This is all to say nothing of the fact that several other major companies were caught pants down by training with databases explicitly created by torrenting a ton of books.

https://torrentfreak.com/authors-accuse-openai-of-using-pirate-sites-to-train-chatgpt-230630/

There is no direct evidence that OpenAI used pirate sites to train ChatGPT. That said, it is no secret that some AI projects have trained on pirated material in the past, as an excellent summary from Search Engine Journal highlights.

The mainstream media has picked up this issue too. The Washington Post previously reported that the “C4 data set,” which Google and Facebook used to train their AI models, included Z-Library and various other pirate sites.

I guarantee you OpenAI and others didn’t even buy a lot of the material they use to train the AI models on.

My hunch is that if they did actually buy or properly license that material, they would have been bankrupt before the first version of ChatGPT came online. And if that’s true, then OpenAI owes it’s entire existence to it’s piracy.

Legitimately good updates to the shopping cart but holy shit are they overdue.

Defensively and passive-aggressively trying to argue with reviewers?

Big “Baldur’s Gate 3 is an anomaly” energy.

Slap this right into Urban Dictionary. Great explainer.

Thanks for the reply. I wouldn’t have thought they meant Android source code but that makes sense lol. Also this is the kind of reply I think OP would have appreciated more than just someone saying “you’re wrong, you must have done something wrong.”