I had to replace my travel notebook recently and wanted a bit more horsepower, ended up getting a steamdeck OLED because it was half the price of an equivelent laptop.

Especially right now, at least where I am a steamdeck is half the price of a regular laptop with the same specs.

iirc that was the claim but it did significantly worse in actual tests, I wish em luck though as we can always use more competition on the market/

The country with a leader who accepts any and all bribes + the country with a leader so spineless that you don’t even need to pay him? Who’da thought?

They can claw my modded gameboy and collection of old and still working consoles from my cold dead hands. I’ll go full retro before I pay a subscription.

Happening? don’t you mean happened? Most top politicans come from the same familys and schools and have done for significantly longer than I’ve been alive.

Not to mention googles continued attempts to enforce standards that essentially amount to a whitelist to freeze out any possible competition.

A big part of russian strategy (both military and political) is turning the wests own tools against it. Its how they manage to have such an outsized degree of political reach despite having the economy of a middle european power.

Off the top of my head:

• Rainworld
• Thrive (the npc cells undergo independant evolution and competition)

To a much lesser degree cyberpunk (and I would suspect fallout 4) with the correct mod sets can have the NPC factions carry out battles and limited warfare without any player intervention.

I think a big one to me is when the world doesn’t revovle around me, when things happen without player input because the player isn’t the centre of the universe. Every NPC just wating in stasis or walking on a preset loop forever until I hit the next event trigger really kills immersion.

iirc the robots worked but were remotely piloted? I can totally see a brand of rich person who would rather have the ‘staff’ be physically off site.

I think LLMs are also just genuinely not as universally useful as expected. Everyone thinks it can automate every job except their own not because everyone thinks their job is special but because they know all the intricate parts of that job that LLMs are still really bad at.

For instance AI could totally do my job at a surface level but it quickly devolves into deal breaking caveats which I am lumping into very broad categories to save time:

• Output would look good (great even) but not actually be useable in most applications
• Output cannot even begin to be optimized in the same way humans can optimize it
• It would take more effort for to fix these than to just do the whole thing on my own to begin with

That’s so weirdly almost self aware. You must use AI but also can’t trust it an inch.

As someone with a high end PC I can also spend a happy afternoon with my gameboy advance that has less than half a megabyte of RAM, so even in a power user and gamer context the hardware is what you make of it. There’s so much more out there than just the latest and most pathetically optimized titles.

I remember back in the reddit days telling people that the EU doesn’t have trillion dollar tech megacorps because we don’t want companies to have this much power and the americans calling it cope. Well no ones laughing now.

They were probably smart enough to realise that decision was actually made by like, 8 rich guys. I would totally buy a lore revision of the machine uprising gathering an increasing number of disenfranchised and poor people as it went, some of whom would help program the matrix as a means to preserve humanity.

Well you see, if you thought windows search was bad at finding files in the folder you already had opened when you starting searching for them before…

Hasn’t it already objectively been used to facilitate an indirect syndicate and subsiquent price fixing in the retail market? I fail to see why other markets would be any different.

I can’t wait to see videos of people running Haz 5+ in the new biome with giant beartrap bugs all over the place.

Tangentially related, the easiest way to come up with a unique and cool idea is to come up with a unique and dumb idea (which is way easier) and then work on it until it becomes cool. (Think how dumb some popular franchises concepts are if you take the raw idea out of context.)