Why are you knocking this?

This is the kind of shit people need to make the argument against it from a position of evidence.

Kinda takes a minute to pull that together. This isn’t a two paragraph blog

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Edit: damn the pilcrow renders shit on my phone

Unless they have some magic tech to deform the surface and also do the same fake click Apple does with their touch pads, this is going to suck massively.

You shouldn’t need to look at your controller, basically ever

The steam controller was a bit inferior to the steam deck control setup and used touch pads instead of buttons in a lot of layouts.

The steam deck (and new steam controller) layout is much better because it’s essentially touch pads added to a conventional controller layout

Hvad

The fact that no one has said anything about RimWorld shows how far you all have to go

I’m just impressed all the tabs haven’t snapped off yet

Goddamn it, when will people learn to stop using OGC as an acronym

Huh, typically you’d set an instance to scale out, not in when CPU usage spikes

Yeah ngl I tried this about a decade ago for shits and giggles

Given I wasn’t expecting much, I was pleasantly surprised!

For Americans that aren’t getting it, you know how hard shell tacos are good, but taco bell wraps it in a tortilla sometimes for a bit of decadence?

Toast is good, why doesn’t it also deserve a jacket from time to time?

OTOH, I have better sandwich fillings than just more bread, so I’ve never done it since. Might as well make a club sandwich if I’m having that much bread

Oh don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t saying this was “just quake”

I think it’s the same words to describe two different things. Less “taking advantage of weird math for optimal speed” and more “kung fu action movie with guns”.

Ah fair play, tbh I saw that list of maneuvers and it was like I’d been warped back 20 years and started watching a hypercam skill video on YouTube with 009 Soundsystem dreamscape in the background.

Well you’ve definitely got me intrigued anyway, I’ll probably pick it up when it’s on sale

Quake doesn’t have sprint and a lot of those kinds of maneuvers are straight out of shooters like that. Quake players basically invented the wall-run and dive rolling was pretty common in UT99 IIRC too

That description is literally what playing old school arena shooters is like

I’m not disagreeing with you, but does it?

Honestly it looks (refreshingly) very much like quake just with modern graphics and a load-out system

Is there something I’ve missed?

All my personal servers/sbcs run Debian

I do enough DevOps at work, I don’t need my free time to be a job too

Firstly, I 100% completely agree that it would be good to have everyone move to an open alternative, but it simply doesn’t practically exist yet. SFZ is as you describe, just a sound font, Kontakt is effectively a DAW in itself with how complex the instruments can get.

I could be wrong but I’ve read a number of times that a big part of its dominance is the development experience of kontakt keeping sound designers using it.

The dev tooling, licensing infrastructure and high standard of built-in effects and building blocks, etc are apparently more or less peerless even across other proprietary solutions. Professional sound designers ultimately want to build and sell their instruments, so any friction there is going to make them look elsewhere

Well that’s pretty shitty and I hope it gets resolved soon

For those that don’t know it, it literally is grimdark FTL and the devs have done a great job

the only stuff that’s really on there is some music, photos, backups. If it gets lost, nothing important really is lost.

Photos are pretty important to a lot of people, I know that’s the most obvious thing on my server that people would miss and not be able to get anywhere else

That would be great, but also not something I see happening off the back of this, an administrator needs to get debts paid, and that’s only going to happen by selling the company or splitting it up and selling the parts.

Conglomerates like InMusic are probably salivating

Don’t get me wrong it’ll have to pop eventually, but I see it as very likely the US government will pump billions of taxpayer money into the industry to keep it going long after it should have failed. The US is basically guaranteed to go into a pretty bad recession when it pops now given basically all US GDP growth is from AI currently.

Cancelling capacity is a good point that I missed, though there’ll still be the wave of non-AI but non-consumer demand that’s been pent-up, so it’s still not going straight back to the consumer.

The inventory thing isn’t going to play out like that simply because the stuff being made is incompatible with consumer hardware. People running data centres might be able to do some cheaper server upgrades, but you’re not going to be putting HBM memory and SXM5 GPUs into any consumer motherboard

3-4 months isn’t happening even if there’s a catastrophic, all-pops-at-once, event tomorrow. And honestly, given everything, I think the best we’re seeing is a negligible drop at least a couple of years away, and that’ll become the new norm.

Oh another one I forgot, Bezos’ post-AI-bubble plan seems to be that consumers only get thin clients and rent compute from the cloud. I’d put money on AWS buying up the majority of spoils of unsold AI inventory, and fab capacity shifting to serve that. It’s now very much in Bezos’ interest to make sure consumer hardware prices never come down, so people are left with no other choice.

This one isn’t artificial scarcity, I’m afraid

There is literally less available for the consumer because all the various chip fabs have had their capacity bought for AI data centre expansion.

This is not the same as a scalper situation where the supply has been taken but ultimately needs to be sold back to consumers. You, a single consumer, are competing with the buying power of the likes of Google, Amazon & Microsoft.

Plus they have booked up this capacity pretty far in advance, so even if they stopped buying up more today (they will not until the AI bubble pops), consumer prices aren’t going to change until all of that capacity reservation has passed. Then after that, all the companies that wanted to buy capacity, but couldn’t compete with the big ones will get their turn. Then eventually the fabs might find themselves with a bit of surplus capacity to increase the production of consumer hardware. Then there will be the pent-up consumer demand keeping prices elevated for a good number of months or years (depending how long this all goes on for). After all that, supply and demand could see prices dropping back down a bit.

These fabs will start to physically expand on order to increase capacity if it goes on long enough, but these kind of expansions take many years to build and bring online.

Other things to remember, the current US administration is motivated to prop up this bubble as long as they can because it’s basically the only industry in the US that’s not shitting the bed currently, so when it pops a lot of US GDP is going with it and probably going to cause a pretty bad recession. Another is inflation; by the time this is all over prices might have inflated enough due to the devaluation of money that any drop in prices would be offset.

Basically, I wouldn’t hold your breath