Ephera

Yeah, same. The game where that screenshot is from (DCSS) also has an ASCII mode, where that skeleton dragon would probably look like this: D

The text log would say that a skeleton dragon appeared, and I could even imagine a skeleton dragon by itself quite easily, but when it comes to a whole room full of monsters, then it’s just a lot of info to keep track of. The small textures are almost like icons, in that they’re a compact way of telling me where which monster is.

On the flipside, you give real intelligence 32 pixels and it infers photorealistic images:

(The textures are 32x32 pixels. Yes, that’s technically 1024 pixels, but shhh. 🙃)

Many people grew up playing Flash games and may want to revisit those. I doubt, there’s many websites out there, which still require Flash…

I guess, their tiers weren’t already confusing enough…?

Man, I’m getting tired of everyone and their cat saying shit like “AI will…”.

With how loosely defined “AI” is, it probably will at some point. But that statement is also completely worthless.

At first I thought, they’re releasing this news now to drown out the Concord news, but 30 year anniversary, maybe they did have this planned a little longer. 🙃

It’s a slang word to mean the outfit or accessories. I believe, it started out regionally, but it’s been popular with the current teenager generation.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=drip

I feel like there’s just too much competition. They would’ve needed some hefty marketing budget to get across why people should play this instead of Overwatch et al.

Without having read the article yet or knowing anything about this game: You gotta take some losses with investment. I once heard that 1 out of 20 projects in the IT sector pay off on investments, which also matches my experience working as a software engineer.

In particular, the EU is also somewhat behind in this industry. Investing into dev studios, so they can gain experience, that’s what this tax money is for.
Might not be my personal highest priority, as I find AAA games boring anyways, but from a finance perspective and a social perspective, i.e. enabling people to pursue this career path, I can get behind investments like this.

Yep.

Man, I refrained from writing:

it’s gotta be a Lara Croft game, just without Lara triangle boobs.

And now you come along and just slamdunk that right in there.

I mean, yeah, it’s gotta be a Lara Croft game, just without Lara.

“We are currently optimizing the Xbox Series X|S version to meet our quality standards, so it won’t release simultaneously with the other platforms,” the developer wrote.

I mean, while it’s possible they have problems with the entire XBOX platform, it’s probably the underpowered Series S again, which needs the extra optimizing.

Certainly a gamble from Microsoft to tell people all the same games will run on both X and S.
It’ll only become more AAA titles in the future, that would rather not optimize for the S…

Nono, you read that wrong. They’re lead devs, not lead devs.

Yep, fun fact: The basic mouse functionality is built into Windows, Linux, presumably macOS, and I believe even Android. Mouses all do similar enough of a thing and have been doing so for long enough, that we just ship a driver in OSs to take care of the core functionality.

The only real software “innovation” happens in offering profiles, LED patterns and whatnot.

Are those which generate images also Large Language Models? I have been wondering what the technical term for them is…

What the heck… 😅

Ah, thanks, I missed that.

Crunch is a common practice, even though data shows it to lower total productivity. (See, for example: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/crunchmode/econ-crunch-mode.html )

So, it might lead to a rise in productivity, at least.

I guess, you could see it that way…? The important part is that you don’t have to turn off the whole system. It can continue running without interruption. So, the RAM will be lukewarm when you swap it, but the system will still be hot.