I don't understand why NPUs are being put into CPUs and GPUs at this stage. For fully custom systems/ecosystems, like the Apples, sure, I get it, but for everything else, the tech doesn't seem evolved enough to put into such main parts of a system, when it's going to need an upgrade in 6 months anyway.
Why aren't they just daughterboards until we reach a baseline for performance?

P.S. I don't get the negativity surrounding "AI" processing units - they just help process models locally. Just like a GPU isn't necessarily used to play pirated games, a desktop-focused NPU has a similarly small chance of being used to mimic other people's work without permission or whatever other nefarious uses some companies think up for the tech.

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Quoting: Mountain ManHow dare Nintendo protect its intellectual property!

But... that's not what they're doing here?

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: PhiladelphusProps for an inventive trailer, I guess…? What did I just watch?

It's educational though, innit? I had no idea Athens was like that.

As a corporal being currently inhabiting a physical location in Athens, Greece, I can vouch for its authenticity. The frogs part is mostly at night though.

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"There are over 27 thousand abandonware games in world-wide circulation. That is more than half of Steam's current library"
Great, we're one sentence in and I already don't trust this video
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/steam-now-has-over-100000-games-listed/

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualThe last game I heard 3D Realms associated with was around 30 years ago. Now I'm curious what they've been up to.

That's easy: https://3drealms.com/

I'm not really into shooters these days, but I do recognize Ion Fury and I watched Samsai stream Wrath: Aeon of Ruin only last week. Seems solid.

Wraith is great. It got a lot of heat for taking forever to come out of Early Access, but despite updates being slow and often minor, it always felt and looked great. I haven't played the final version yet, but I really liked the EA versions and from the streams I've seen, the final version does indeed look improved and a nice expansion on the EA version.

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Quoting: poiuz

Quoting: Purple Library GuyGosh, read what you said, and think about it.

It doesn't change how many times I read it. Do you think it's rude to call you out on your false statements about something you (admitted) have no knowledge about?

Okay, I'll step in here. You were rude in presenting Purple Library Guy's argument as if they were claiming to post fact and you had step in to disprove them. What actually happened, is that you were both speculating, but you, poiuz, chose to present yourself as morally superior and more factually correct - which is rude, since you didn't have any basis for it and there was no need to be confrontational about it.

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Well, I'm glad the choice is here, but I'm already soured on the game from its DRM introduction.

Has anyone here played it; is it any good? Watching that trailer got my hopes slightly up from the Paul Verhooven-ish "Are We The Baddies" intro, but the rest of the gameplay seems to completely drop that tone, so it looks like just another bro-shooter. Is there more to it?

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I just have to say, this F.A.Q. entry....

QuoteQ. Is nProtect GameGuard a security risk? [...]
A. No. GameGuard communicates with a few servers for patching and reporting. However, it doesn't modify anyones firewall settings and it doesn't install other software

Oh, it's only a black-boxed kernel level process that communicates with several servers, yeah, I don't see any increase in attack surface there! /s /facepalm

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I dislike any game that promotes the capture and use of animals for fighting. The only game of the genre I've picked up, is Cassette Beasts, precisely because the creatures are not captured, hurt or used. It might be a minor distinction for some, but I just cannot support a game that promotes - even through a fantasy lens - such horrible actions that very much do happen in the real world.

As for AI generated content, I am absolutely fine with it as long as it's used at the same level as mood-boards, reference photos and the like has already been used for ages already, or for "non-artistic" use, such as seamless textures (clouds, rocks, grass, etc.). Once we get into the territory of AI content being used instead of actual artists, that's when I start disliking it.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Cloversheen

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: CybolicI'm for the idea, but the language of "content [...] created with the help of AI tools" might cause issues.

A popular method of using (what's commonly called) AI is for sketching out ideas and getting rapid feedback on them. If for example, a writer puts in a page worth of text and asks the AI to give its feedback on, say, the themes or tone of the text

Really? People trust the feedback of those things? On stuff like themes? That's, um, the word that keeps coming to my head is "pathetic".

Out of curiosity, what would you consider a non-pathetic way to get feedback?

. . . From a sentient being that knows the meaning of the words it uses? Why is this hard?

Completely agree, but a sentient being can't really be run in the background to do a real-time litmus check on your prose; "AI" can. When the first draft is done, I absolutely agree it should be checked by a real human.

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