Fuck any criminal treatment for civil copyright whining, but moreover:

Linux is free.

Still white spyware.

Anticheat needs to be about more than ‘you’re not allowed to look inside your own computer.’

“I can’t go into specifics because there’s legal prohibitions about that,” Kennedy told Stewart in the June 11 call. “If it’s something that you want to talk about, you know, you and I can talk about specifics.”

The five-dollar term is “conscience of guilt.”

Y’know you could just write “Billionaire donor Hildebrand” and it’d be as many words.

It’s coming to GBA one of these days.

I have said of billionaires: I hate him so much, I want him to have one hundred million dollars.

Let’s try this again.

“Federal judge in DC allows The Idiot to attack voting by mail.”

I so fucking tired of quintuple-negative headlines.

Discovery says try it, dumbass.

When, not if, they do it anyway - arrest them.

Charge them.

Apply consequences.

He is serving his function. Sony is gripping their platform with both hands, after nearly letting it slip away. The future presented by Helldivers 2 and various Spider-Mans is one where Sony’s a relatively large publisher for several important studios. The future where they deny reality and cosplay the 90s console war for another decade is one where they are the biggest fish in a small pond, and that makes more money, somehow.

I’m unclear how that will play out if Microsoft simply declines to release another Xbox.

Well aside, it’s surprising nothing on PS2 tempted you. Several tentpole titles did famously get PC ports, but if you’re more about Kingdom Hearts than GTA, that machine was like $150 by 2004.

Post below this: It says gullible on the ceiling.

We’re well into the You Can Just Do Things era, and the little folk should recognize that includes them.

Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.

Ban the entire business model.

There are other ways it might work, like if there is a method of compression that is discovered that reduces the necessary RAM and Compute needs by 2-3 orders of magnitude. So models that are considered very large today (100-300 billion params at full quality) might be able to run effectively on a single 32GB GPU that costs a few thousand dollars.

You might want to check in on how well distilled / quantized models are doing, compared to gigundo datacenter versions.

They’re fucked.

Local models are already winning. Those benchmarked a year behind the biggest of big boys, a year ago. Six months ago they were six months behind. Yesterday Qwen released 3.6 27B and it outperforms 3.5 397B… from February.

Either we’re plateauing toward the asymptotic limit of LLM capabilities, and the endgame runs as well on a toaster as it does on a server - or breakthroughs use big fat models as a glorified search space to be rapidly discarded. Both options point toward neural networks as a lump of algebra that sits on your hard drive and occasionally spins your fans. Remote computing loses, as it basically always must, and the drastically reduced requirements for competing on local software favor clever new competitors who aren’t a bajillion dollars in debt.

cracked version runs faster, smoother, and uses way less VRAM and RAM

Well yeah, Denuvo is a cache defeat mechanism. It bloats executables for repetitious obfuscation. If CPUs still worked like 386s and 68000s, having eight copies of every function and bouncing merrily between them would make no difference. But modern processors are only fast because they spend negligible time waiting for RAM to get its act together. Every squandered microsecond is a thousand cycles burned.

Name it in the god damn headline.

Live-service games are a fucking stupid gamble. You either succeed massively amid a crowded field - or you are fucked. There is no long tail, for multiplayer-only games. Not if you’re doing modern bullshit with centralized servers and kernel anticheat and real-money charges for shit that’s already in the game. You can’t have a “cult classic” that relies on several hundred people queuing at all times. The format demands a hit, but you cannot plan a hit, or force a hit. Not even fucking Rockstar bets the farm on their next title meeting expectations.

Hey, guys? A lot of 90s games still work, to-day. Long after their developers and publishers went under, and so did whichever conglomerates bought them out.

It’s an RTS. It’s not an MMO. You can figure out how to let players make it work.