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Now if we could only get The Back to the Future and Jurassic Park Telltale Games relisted somehow. Might just buy them physically for the Xbone at this point. D:

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How lovely, I had no idea these were a thing! Quite appropriate too as I'm in the middle of (re) reading the books!

It is available subtitled in Swedish too! Anything else would just be plain wrong. I still consider it heresy that the Moomin cookies (produced in Finland) say Moomin Biscuits on the box and not Muminkex! 😫

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Definitely going to buy this. Don't care much about co-op, but stoked in general. There's so many games now sortakindamaybe like it, but I've never found myself sinking the hours into other ones I've tried. Slay the Spire just gets things very right somehow.

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Quoting: GustyGhost

Quoting: Jarmerall models out of stock in the usa still.

I'm gonna just keep saying it:

BURST BURST BURST!!! LETS HAVE A BURST PARTY!

This will likely be the new landscape indefinitely. Gaming and client devices will have to battle for scraps as they get pushed out to far orbit from the interests of industry. I think we are entering a period of time where innovation in software is going to define successes in gaming and in end user devices.

Dunno about indefinitely. There are two sources of inflection in this situation. First, the AI bubble will very likely burst, and it's a big bubble, and there are various other instabiliities in the world economy which may get tipped over by the AI crash. All those data centres no longer getting built, combined with a major worldwide recession, may result in a shift from undersupply to oversupply of hardware.

In the slightly longer term, China's gonna start making all this stuff because their access to foreign supply is either already being restricted or they don't trust the world, particularly the US, not to start at some point. They're ramping up efforts to be self-sufficient in production of high end computer stuff, and they are succeeding pretty fast, and we know that when China starts producing something for itself it then makes masses more and sells it to everyone else. So, at some point Chinese supply will glut the market.

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^ yep. ebay is climbing up towards 1000+ for used models. New / unused ones forget about it.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: scaineBut... again, this isn't what I'm talking about when I disparage genAI. From the article:

I tried to find a short source as I recalled that something akin to GenAI was used in this specific discovery, instead of checking the content of the source. My bad.

PS: If I use at least 2 quotes or links, do I end up in the mod queue?

It's just any external link, or embedded picture, I believe. Sadly, quoting a post with a link in it will also trigger the queue.

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Quoting: ArehandoroI wonder when will we start seeing crazy pricing for second hand devices in 2nd hand markets because of this.

Already happening. I see scalpers already, pricing just under 1000€ for a unit.
Take techdweebs latest video and see if you can get by with a pocket handheld instead. :D

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Quoting: clatterfordslim

Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: princecThe latest drivers from Nvidia completely ruined my XFCE experience unfortunately, entirely breaking the compositor, which had to be turned off. Attempting to drop back down to the (known working) 570 drivers left me in "broken computer hell", booting to a black screen, which took a couple of days to fix. Grr. I am loathe to try the new 580 drivers as it's probably still the case that XFCE is broken.

I will probably have to accept that Mint really wants me to use Cinnamon instead, which I suppose is no great hardship.

I am running Linux Mint 22 XFCE with the 580 series driver. I haven't experienced the problems you've described. I'm on an older GPU, however. I also run at a resolution of no more than 1920x1080 (usually 1440x810 in game). Perhaps that accounts for the difference.

Maybe try @clatterfordslim's suggestion? Might work with the 580 series driver as well.

Quoting: jkaart

Quoting: clatterfordslim

Quoting: princecThe latest drivers from Nvidia completely ruined my XFCE experience unfortunately, entirely breaking the compositor, which had to be turned off.

You have to turn the inbuilt v_blank off inside of xfwm to fix the screen flickering, after installing the newish 590.48.01 driver.
Here is the fix, unless you already know then ignore.
xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/vblank_mode -s off
Then reboot your system. Switch on Pipeline Composition in NVIDIA-Settings and you won't have any more problems.

Have you give any source for this fix?

Originally Leo the AI companion in Brave-Browser came up with it, but here is where he got it from.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=311088

Scroll down the page you'll see someone had posted the solution. It worked for me too and have no more screen flickering.

Interesting. I'm pretty sure I'm not using the nvidia-open-dkms driver. Sounds like that might be the source of the problem. At least there's a fix.

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The 1977-82 stop-motion tv series (shown in the UK between 1983-85) scared the underwear off younger me :-) This one sounds less scary!

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Quoting: ShadowXeldronI'd say this is fair. AI generated contributions have significant quality concerns so I'd probably block them as well if I was a maintainer.

Not sure how to phrase that without being overly mean to the visuals of that game... But I am not sure in much danger it is from AI generated content having a negative quality impact on its looks.

That they want to play it safe until the legal side is sorted out is a different topic. I probably would, too. Cases currently making it through the system do not indicate any change in the status quo: AI generated content isn't copyrightable, and thus no claims against its use can be made, unless in extreme cases (e.g. using a model to generate images of Queen Elsa, which is a copyrighted character). But I can still understand why they play it safe.

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I like the art style. Waiting for reviews 🙂

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Quoting: Jarmerall models out of stock in the usa still.

I'm gonna just keep saying it:

BURST BURST BURST!!! LETS HAVE A BURST PARTY!

This will likely be the new landscape indefinitely. Gaming and client devices will have to battle for scraps as they get pushed out to far orbit from the interests of industry. I think we are entering a period of time where innovation in software is going to define successes in gaming and in end user devices.

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I wonder when will we start seeing crazy pricing for second hand devices in 2nd hand markets because of this.

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Quoting: scaineBut... again, this isn't what I'm talking about when I disparage genAI. From the article:

I tried to find a short source as I recalled that something akin to GenAI was used in this specific discovery, instead of checking the content of the source. My bad.

PS: If I use at least 2 quotes or links, do I end up in the mod queue?

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What's the main difference between The Last Express and The Last Express Gold Edition? Is it a good remaster? Although, at that price, not that it matters... 😅

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Quoting: g000hPeople are already being manipulated into not having fully functional computers any more.

i wouldn't say manipulated. Most everyday 'consumers' are completely tech illiterate & just use what they see as a great way to communicate easily.. i.e lazily. Much like how MP3 replaced CD, but then MP3 was (not entirely) replaced by streaming.

Now with Ai we don't see it in the same way as it replacing what came before. Because we already sacrificed quality for easy of use, but we didn't sacrificed quality for ease to justify a completely Fake product in the end.

Probably a poor analogy here, but to me it's like we swapped writing letters for email, then swapped that for texting, and then swapped texting for social media. But in the end your still wanting that person in your life to communicate with on Facebook not a bot post about what virtual Ai rendered dinner it had last night after watching that Ai virtual composed concert. Removing the human interaction element out of digital services is a stupid misstep that leaves all the 'Ai' investors kind of floating in a virtual 'useless space' beyond the practical.

In essence it feels like a giant scam. Like they built a long peer, the last section looks like it exists but you just fall into the ocean and the scammers run away whilst you drown.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: hardpenguinIf you are not hating on AI yet, you have a good reason to start now.

I don't hate "AI" as a tech. Machine learning/neural networks have had very good applications for decades since it is very effective in certain tasks. What I hate is the LLM/GenAI fueled hype machine that is created as a smokescreen over unrealistic promises of future potential. An attempt to try to bind as many people as they can before the house of cards collapses. Luckily this hard push is causing serious quality issues, which at least turns a significant portion of the public against it even beyond those wanting a new GPU or extra RAM.

Oh, you can definitely wholesale hate "AI" as a tech, as it doesn't exist. "AI" is a buzzword that means nothing concrete. If something is selling itself on "AI", there's a good chance it's smoke and mirrors. As you touched on, the actual technologies are called Machine Learning and Large Language Models (one could argue that "GenAI" could be a term for a category, but I'd still rather call them generative models, to not confuse things with the nonsense that is "AI").

In other words:
"The program uses ML to categorize your photo gallery locally" = fine, that makes sense.
"Our advanced AI handles all your photo needs" = marketing bullshit which may or may not include sending your private data off to a hastily built data centre that's likely not following environmental safety laws or guidelines.

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I feel I'm one bad sector, one failed memtest away from being radicalized...

Oh look at that, it's cheaper to buy an [AR-15 than 64 GB of RAM](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1r9eykc/its_cheaper_to_buy_an_ar15_rifle_than_64gb_of/?share_id=YIrgv7yXMQ6rDYsGGj-Bw&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1), how convenient!

(Joking of course!)

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Must buy on day 1 for me! So excited to see a coop mode. The board game already had this and it is so much fun! Hope it is also couch coop, so that I can play with my gf.

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all models out of stock in the usa still.

I'm gonna just keep saying it:

BURST BURST BURST!!! LETS HAVE A BURST PARTY!

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We hold that AI-generated content generally stands on dubious ethical and legal grounds, as it violates the copyright of creators whose work was scraped for the AI's training data set without their permission and without due attribution. Also, we find that it is frequently of low overall quality and/or is overly generic and fails to embrace requirements specific to Widelands.

Pull requests that have been generated by AI may in the future be closed without review.

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Absolutely love this. I think this is an excellent summary of the whole shebang. It's:

1- ethically wrong
2- legally wrong
3- created by stealing source material
4- resulting in low quality garbage

LOVE. I don't even know this game, but now I do, and I love it! Installing via the cachy repo right now and will give it a go.

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Quoting: EhvisI don't hate "AI" as a tech. Machine learning/neural networks have had very good applications for decades since it is very effective in certain tasks. What I hate is the LLM/GenAI fueled hype machine that is created as a smokescreen over unrealistic promises of future potential. An attempt to try to bind as many people as they can before the house of cards collapses.

Nitpicking but yes. Obviously ML can be pretty great.

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I repeat a phrase of my late best friend peter: "This timeline was never intended to be used in an productive reality."

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Quoting: hardpenguinIf you are not hating on AI yet, you have a good reason to start now.

I don't hate "AI" as a tech. Machine learning/neural networks have had very good applications for decades since it is very effective in certain tasks. What I hate is the LLM/GenAI fueled hype machine that is created as a smokescreen over unrealistic promises of future potential. An attempt to try to bind as many people as they can before the house of cards collapses. Luckily this hard push is causing serious quality issues, which at least turns a significant portion of the public against it even beyond those wanting a new GPU or extra RAM.

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Update: the article original noted both models were out out stock across all of Asia, it was amended as that's just for Japan. Also made it clearer it's the EU.

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This is one I'm very likely to get. While I'm probably not the biggest player of StS, I've still managed a good number of hours in the game over the years. And I'm not too worried about EA for these devs. Plus, a nice native Linux version made with Godot as a bonus.

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If you are not hating on AI yet, you have a good reason to start now.

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They touch on yet another important question here: dubious legal ground for AI "creations" and whether that can get an open source project in trouble. I imagine that in the field of code generation, the risk that AI output is just a "remix" of what it was trained on is especially big.

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I guess everyone knows [this tweet](https://x.com/jatinkrmalik/status/2009689523513618887) by now, but I still feel it needs to be quoted yet again:

Quoting: jatinThe reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.

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