Isn't this the good thing about open source? You can just fork and revert these changes? That AMD wants to limit your ability to potentially damage your card is completely reasonable, and since they provide the source code for the drivers you should be able to circumvent this and take that risk if you want. This only stops low tech / low skill users that really have no business tuning their card outside of the spec.
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It likely starts the LLM it uses as a service, and it requires running on a port. They could of course have rewritten it to not use a port and instead use other mechanisms possible when you're in control of the code but then that requires modification of the LLM project they use and would make updating its version harder so such a thing would be reserved for the full release or skipped all together because it's not really a big deal. All this assuming that they do use one of the hundreds of open source local LLM projects floating around Github.
Why wouldn't he? BYD and other cheap BEVs from China directly threaten American jobs, and not the poorly paying kinds either. I see no rational reason why an American president wouldn't do everything in his power to protect American interests.
And for the environment I don't really think BEVs in the shape of cars is the solution. Scooters and small motorcycles outnumber cars by far and is growing faster as well, while each individual vehicle pollute far less the sheer volume is a problem and the air quality problem they contribute to is massive. Those and trucks I feel are the important vehicles to focus on, for the environment. But it's far easier of course to market and sell cars to high income individuals, in areas with the infrastructure necessary to support electric cars.
Wouldn't you be refunded for the original ticket purchase?
Damn, Cracked was a loooooooong time ago. This article was hardly new but still long after their heyday. And his other stuff was almost the same mix of thought provoking and hilarious that the old articles provided, if a bit more of column A and a bit less of column B.
No one wants a 20 hour empty game. A 20 hour game needs to be dense, like a good book of equal length. It needs a compelling narrative and interesting immersive gameplay. A 20 hour game can get away with immersion adding limitations to parts of it that an 80 hour game can't, stuff like not having quick save is annoying in an 80 hour game but perfectly valid in a 20 hour one, same with point of no returns, very grating in 80 hour games but perfectly fine in a 20 hour one.
Also I don't consider Open World to be a type or genre of MMOs, I'm exclusively talking about Ubisoft style open world games like Assassin's Creed and games obviously inspired by that open world approach. For MMOs busy work is good because the point really is to socialize and all content is good basically. If the game has co-op then I'm much more lenient on the busy work aspect.
Further I'm also only harping about story less or with very limited story tied to it type events. Like the cop events in Cyberpunk 2077 which is basically an ongoing crime and for whatever reason you have them marked, can go there and kill everybody, get some small reward and a thank you message. But it more or less clashes with the story overall and there's no point to it. Having enemies to kill and things happening in the world is of course a good thing but drawing player attention to it with an icon and interaction like the thank you message creates expectations about a payoff or it actually being meaningful outside of "clearing the map". But it's not. It's also a fact that crafting all of it takes time, time better spent on making the content that is meaningful even better. Basically give me one 1 hour mission rather than six 10 minute ones.
Seems like it could be interesting but they way it seemed like he thought the UI spam was the problem with their Open World approach in Assassin's Creed makes me nervous. I hated that shit from day one. It's just busy work to add play hours for no real reason. Kinda like filler episodes in Anime or that "welp we're out of budget so we'll do a recap episode" that StarGate pulled every season. It's just a waste of time. What really bothers me though is how that was somehow allowed to become more or less the expectation and definition of an "open world" game. Games like Cyberpunk 2077 were made worse by it, killing pacing and clashing hard with the story. Now I'm not saying there shouldn't be anything of course but make it fit into the game and story, have bounty contracts that are formulaic to streamline making them but at least have some variation like for one you need to chase them, one they've set a trap for you, one their friends come to free them during transport etc. Small things like that keeps it fresh and keeps you on your toes and makes it interesting to see what will happen during this bounty hunt.
What an absolutely crazy bar story that surgery team has. "You know I saved the life of a King of the North once..."
I don't at all agree. It's lazy ass dumbasses that don't vote that are the real threat to democracy. By all measures white rural Trump voters are a minority, and even by electoral votes (dumb system) they have no shot of ever electing anyone. If it weren't for the fact that 40% of all eligible voters just fucking don't vote.
Gotta recommend WesNoth https://www.wesnoth.org/
While the nostalgia part is likely lost one someone that didn't grow up with this style of game It's still an excellent strategy game with an almost puzzle like feel to it. Bonus points for being in development for longer than you've been alive as well I feel ;)
Yeah, I can only imagine gen Z who didn't see the originals first and instead saw the prequels in theaters would put 3 over 5. For me the gap between 5 and the others is just massive, but I also love Star Wars and to me no movie has lacked that specific magic. Even if I need to turn my brain completely off for 2, 7 and 9 to be able to enjoy them...
Jesus, they really are one of the most egregiously lock-in focused and monopolistic companies around. It saddens me deeply that consumers (gamers) just don't give a flying fuck about this and continues to pay a premium for Nvidia cards. 90% market dominance in gaming and probably at least that in GPGPU workloads.
All the while AMD tries to sell their cards on supporting / creating open standards like Freesync, FSR and Vulkan but because they don't have CUDA (since it's proprietary) they virtually can't be bought by prosumers that want to do some GPGPU stuff as a hobby and gamers buy Nvidia for brand recognition, Ray tracing which they are stronger in (but I argue isn't really all that outside a few notable exceptions like Alan Wake 2) and DLSS being ahead of FSR. But look at non-RT $/FPS and AMD wins easy at all price points and they don't shaft the people who bought their cards by not giving them the new version of DLSS like Nvidia do. It's just sad.
Vote with your wallet they scream, while everyone votes for the alternative that openly wants to squeeze every penny out of them because they are slightly better...