$3200 for a 5090 or $22,000 for an H200

The choice is clear but Nvidia was created by the low-end and enthusiast GPU market…

A lot of consoles ship with a 500GB spinning hard drive.

I think Sony published HD2 so we can almost exclusively blame consoles for the size requirements

2027

Good. Great. Amazing.

$1,000 RAM prices and now GPUs are also going to become unaffordable.

The old leaked Deckard files had the MSRP at $1000

I know someone who was working on the Teams codebase. Even they don’t like using Teams (it wouldn’t open properly on Ubuntu for some reason).

Hello – living incarnation of the Internet here.

I’ve played pretty much every shooter and most multiplayer ones since 1994.

The main issue with extraction shooters is that they are hardcore PvP-focused with resources lost and resources gained on every match.

Given that players lose actual lifetime from dying to another player in an extraction shooter, this creates an impetus for many players to cheat, given the asymmetrical distribution of skill in online shooters (it is statistically supposed be a perfect bell curve with everyone being average).

Without robust anti-cheat (e.g: Invasive kernel-level AC like Valorant/FaceIT and borderline malware) every and any extraction shooter becomes a cheater-ridden hellhole, where all of the resources of every match or map are funneled into the hands of a few players.

Players burned on prior titles know this ahead of time and throw their hands up in the air and say: “Great, another shitty extraction shooter”.

See: Tarkov et al.

If you are using CPU only, you need to look at very small models or the 2-bit quants.

Everything will be extremely slow otherwise:

GPU:

Loaded Power: 465W

Speed: 18.5 tokens/second

CPU: Loaded Power: 115W

Speed: 1.60 tokens/second

GPUs are at least 3 times faster for the same power draw.

I don’t know what GPU you’ve got, but Lexi V2 is the best “small model” I’ve seen with emotions, that I can just cite from the top of my head.

It tends to skew male and can be a little dark at times, but it’s more complex than expected for the size (8B feels like 48-70B).

Lexi V2 Original

Lexi V2 GGUF Version

Do Q8_0 if you’ve got the VRAM, Q5_KL for speed, IQ4_XS if you’ve got a potato.

My answer to this is yes.

I’m an AI Developer and my only option was to self host because I didn’t want my training data leaking out onto the web and by extension, China and the rest (I trained on my own data, writing, and notes, along with Wikipedia).

Self-hosting gives you complete freedom but also as one other user cautioned, don’t fall down the well/rabbit hole.

Use an executable like LM Studio, and then an off the shelf pre-trained model from Huggingface.

VRAM × 0.8 for max size.

Experiment until you find one you like.

You’ve also simultaneously failed age verification

There was a king once named Damocles that had a sword suspended over his throne that could come crashing down at any random moment and kill him, to remind himself of the fragility of his power, and human life.

I have no idea how that anecdote might apply to people in power in this day and age, or why people would reference the anecdote.

Glares at the fraying rope

Yeah, but is it any good?

It could be 900 pages of Gollum Porn for all we know.

It’s like $3 on GoG or something

Try changing your dynamic. The human brain thrives on novelty.

Play genres you normally wouldn’t – e.g: Hate horror games? Good - try out Silent Hill or some classics you skipped over.

Get a VR headset, go from 2D screen to proper full body 3D - fly a plane over the Andes, feel like you’re actually flying. Pilot a huge mech. Build a colony on Mars with your own two hands.

Burnout happens and it’s worth examining other areas in your life, but gaming’s always been the wondrous thing it always has.

You know that’s totally fair

What the fuck, I love my 7900XTX - why AMD?

You built a competitive card for $800, why focus away from the top end?

Damn dude, thanks for the heads up. Would’ve never caught the trailer on my own.

I was in the Gothic Remake Beta, so I got to see some of that content already, but it was YEARS ago. From what I can recall, it’s going to be excellent.

Yeah honestly, I bought Tarkov second-hand for $8 and even then I felt like I was getting ripped off.

It’s probably not news to anyone but the game has extremely lax anti-cheat controls.

As for why people would cheat in an online game, it always seems obvious from a psychological standpoint, but the cheats for Tarkov are so egregious they’re like full blown developer offline DEBUG TOOLS.

I don’t mean “oh no, aim assistance, and they can see you through walls” – the cheat tools are hooking into features of the GAME ENGINE ITSELF, allowing players to see:

PlayerName, Current HP, Current Level, Full inventory contents, currently equipped weapon, position, heading, estimated value of inventory, estimated value of your account, age of account creation, and so on.

They can also: Teleport, FLY, increase or decrease their run speed, jump height, and so on.

The cheaters are basically running around with admin privileges in the game, and the developers don’t give a flying fuck. It’s like GTA5 levels of cheating.

Why would anyone play such a game, much less pay $150 to be abused by people? You can slam your dick in a car door for a lot less.