BG3 turned out well, though?

I propose we trick our fellow Americans by making smol cars offroady enough to embarrass an F150:

Look at them! Who would want a rolling brick over that?

And the Ford Focus is already mostly there.

It’s literally style. Those pickup lifts often ruin durability and off-road capability.

Yeah, please no Starfield. I love space opera, I love Oblivion and Fallout, jank and all, but the Starfield I got through was so boring.

I’d rather them continue GOTG. I’m not a Marvel person, but the GOTG game was great.

Its more VRAM heavy servers. They’d have to take the GPUs out, or even put the whole motherboard in a new case.

I hope some of it hits the used market, so tinkerers can play with them.

But yeah, knowing them, they will probably just throw the hardware away :(

Oh that’s awesome. Yeah, I see the rumors now:

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-mystery-behind-the-game-awards-statue-appears-to-have-been-solved/

Selfishly, I hope their other half’a working on a sci fi game. Or a cyberpunk one?

Shadowrun? Gods, that IP would be perfect for Larian.

I suspect Larian will take their sweet time.

Bioshock sounds like it’s in development hell; I’d be suspicious of that.

Maybe theres confusing crossover?

I’m of the opinion that Starfield, in particular, is unreasonably tolerated even though (from what I played) it’s a dreadful, archaic, boring and sluggish game. I’m of the opinion that FO76 released in a particularly bad state, and that Todd behaved in a smiley “tech bro” kind of way immediately after its release. And I will pound BGS all day over that.

On the other hand, yeah, I’m all for devs re releasing games. It gives them visibility! BGS does it so much it’s kind of a meme, but it’s not bad.

So, BGS deserves some skepticism. But not over Skyrim, really.

multiplayer RPG suite

Are you talking about Skyrim Together? How’s MP work now?

I’ve been out of the modding scene forever, and last I heard there was no “massively” multiplayer and only a coop demo.

So what?

What if Canada joined CSTO and signed some pact with China. Does that give the US justification to invade and annex them? Because it violates some handshake from 36 years ago?

If Russia doesn’t like all this NATO expansion, they can drag someone controversial into an alliance or do some other controversial thing. Have at it. A war is not a rational response, unless you’re a tankie.

Not going to get into logistical analysis (I am behind on that). Nor will I dispute the hypocrisy of focusing only on a “white war.” That’s fair.

But I’m fervent that the justification for Russia’s action is total baloney. I can, and absolutely will, write it off.

To put it another way: even if Mexico was provably 100% Nazi, and they worshipped China and drug cartels and whatever boogeyman we have like gods, I would still be ashamed if my country, the US, invaded them as Russia invaded Ukraine. It’s beyond preposterous to think they pose a military threat to the US, or that it’s our job to purify them, much less to breathlessly excuse such an invasion as (say) Russia’s fault.

That’s what I mean by “Tankies.”

Good.

Meanwhile, I’m eagerly waiting for the local Tankie to, once again, explain how so much death is justified by the dire threat Ukraine poses to a 17 million square kilometer country with 5,459 nuclear warheads. And, apparently, to their own people. I’m sure NATO is still making them do it, yep.

Not in terms of energy use, ~110 Megawatt hours. Even if you multiply that for production costs, test training runs and such, its less energy than an airline flight, or the yearly power consumption of a few homes. And it only needed to be done once.

It’s not a trivial financial cost though, no.

Do they have to be wireless?

I’d highly recommend the any of the big Phillips Fidelio headphones. They’re ridiculously comfy, they’re sturdy, and they sound incredible.

Other than that, I’m a huge fan of planetary magnetic drivers, like Hifiman’s often discounted older units.

And if you need USB output, you can get a good dongle on the cheap, like any of the Fiio KA series.

EDIT: Just saw the community. Not sure about EU companies, specifically, though many many make wired headphones.

Already done. See:

Open training: https://huggingface.co/collections/allenai/olmo-3

Decentralized training: https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Hermes-4.3-36B

Decentralized inference: https://aihorde.net/

They aren’t the only example of each, either.

The issue, as with many decentralized projects, is that they’re isolated from each other, and too few know about them.

https://www.comparitech.com/kodi/kodi-piracy-decline/

https://www.digital-digest.com/news-64644-Netflix-Amazon-Join-Forces-with-the-MPAA-to-Sue-Kodi-Box-Maker.html

Based on our research, comparative search volume for “Kodi” has fallen around 85 percent from 2017 to 2022. Google Trends data reveals the dramatic decline started in Q2 of 2017 and has, for the most part, continued that trend up to this point. Consequently, the decline in people searching for Kodi directly relates to the appearance of the coordinated attack against piracy in the form of ACE.

And this is with Kodi furiously distancing itself from pirates at the time.

Attacks don’t have to be direct. Though they absolutely can be, too.

Eh I disagree with the power usage point, specifically. Don’t listen to Altman lie through his teeth; generation and training should be dirt cheap.

See the recent Z Image, which was trained on a shoestring budget and costs basically nothing to run: https://arxiv.org/html/2511.22699v2

The task energy per image is less than what it took for me to type out this comment.

As for if we “need” it, yeah, that’s a good point and what I was curious about.

But then again… I don’t get why people use a lot of porn services. As an example, I just don’t see the appeal of OF, yet it’s a colossal enterprise.

But if we can stop people from looking at the illegal/dangerous stuff, and use AI to create it, let those people watch that instead, I think that would be a net positive. Of course you’d want to identify them, tag them and keep them separate from the rest of people; it’s not a solution to the problem they create, but if you can reduce the demand for it, I dunno, I want nothing to do with that kind of stuff, but I feel like there’s a solution in there somewhere.

CP detectors got really good well before image gen was even a thing. They had to, as image hosting sites had to filter it somehow. So that’s quite solvable.

Look at CivitAI as a modern example.

They filter deepfakes. They filter CP. They correctly categorize and tag NSFW, all automatically and (seemingly) very accurately. You are describing a long solved problem in any jurisdiction that will actually enforce their laws.

If you’re worried about power/water usage, already solved too. See frugal models like this, that could basically serve porn to the whole planet for pennies: https://arxiv.org/html/2511.22699v2

IMO the biggest sticking point is datasets… The Chinese are certainly using some questionable data for the base models folks tend to use, though the porn finetunes tend to use publicly hosted booru data and such.

How do you feel about AI porn? Excluding deepfakes.