And y’all are kept in cubicles because nobody trusts any of you to roam free

It’s almost like most crypto currencies

The Trap Mechanism: By offering “free” foundational models, China aims to make the Global South algorithmically dependent on Chinese infrastructure, embedding censorship and surveillance capabilities into foreign digital architectures.

How is this different from what OpenAI, Claude and others are doing? They’re offering “free” use of models, losing mountains of money, all in the hopes of becoming the sole names responsible for the infrastructure governing other countries.

Let’s be fair, most big media outlets do little to no reporting when it comes to AI, they just take any and all PR pieces at face value, so this site doing the same, or being a paid mouthpiece, wouldn’t be much of a stretch.

Meanwhile, US tech giants like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, which expected high-margin returns on their multi-billion-dollar AI investments, face a pricing collapse

This here shows how out of touch these companies are with their own fucking customers. How the fuck did they expect to burn 200+ billion dollars and get any ROI from AI? The demand is not going to grow into infinity and, contrary to what Sam Conman and others say, people would rather dump AI than pay per token usage when they can’t even tell how many tokens they’re burning. Even without China in the mix, they would crash and burn.

Once these nations build their digital infrastructure, government services, and private sectors on these models, they become dependent on Chinese cloud infrastructure, updates, and regulatory frameworks, compromising their digital sovereignty.

This is true IF AND ONLY IF said countries decide to pay for Chinese cloud services. Which, in case anyone is wondering, is deciding to pay, dunno, AliCloud instead of AWS. It has nothing to do with AI.

Oh, and fun fact, many governments (nation, state and city) around the world have some data in USA datacenters, but USA good, so they definitely don’t spy or steal any of that, for realsies!!!

Then went back with not trying to target high end with the original switch, with everyone complaining that it was equivalent to a mid phone of the year

As someone with a bit over 800h in Palworld, fuck Nintendo and their shitty attitude to Pocket Pair.

I like Nintendo’s games, but I never in my life bought one legally, since they completely pulled out of Brazil after the N64. NES and SNES were gray market items, while the GameCube nobody really cared about, since the PS2 completely dominated the market. The Wii was similarly a gray market item.

Unfortunately, there’s about no factorio in palworld, base building and maintenance is pretty simple and straightforward. The slaverycute is definitely there, tho.

Nintendo was the only company that ditched the loss-leader thing after burning itself with the N64 and GameCube.

It’s one of the biggest reasons Xbox is on life support right now.

The series of terrible decisions began with the X1: “You can watch netflix! You can watch youtube! You can’t share or sell your games! Kinect is mandatory for us to monitor you 24/7!” - M$ made the perfect advertisement for the PS4. Their complete lack of creativity with console naming didn’t help either, it was worse than Wii -> WiiU. Xbox One ~> Xbox One S/X -> Xbox Series S/X

Then there’s M$ buying several big studios and having no fucking clue how to best use them. Everyone who saw how they treated Rare knew that was coming.

Alos, because they’re a corporate first company, everything that “works” for M$Office ends up being applied to everything else. No more ownership, only subscription renting! Going all in on subs (xbox live) meant they had to widen their market, so increasing reach to PC and other consoles was the best option for increasing subscribers. That they didn’t care at all about how that’d hurt their own fucking specialized gaming hardware was no surprise.

What I’m actually surprised is that they haven’t rammed Copilot into any of their games or Xbox subscriptions yet.

Docking decks

Most of the problem with 8 was M$ insisting that desktop computers should get the mobile UI treatment because “we’re totally going with phones now so fuck you”

Them proceeding to completely fail at the mobile market was no surprise.

The AI agents need to sleep, too, so the downtime is expected

Most ready-to-use engines simply cannot compete in these kinds of challenges, they have too much “cruft”. Simply exporting an empty project will result in a ~35mb executable.

Funnily enough, SDL might also not be worth it, as the .dll alone will blow the limit. So people will either have to use whatever native win32 API there are, or directx calls, or going with VGA, which will also look era appropriate.

To be fair, .kkrieger came out in 2004 :)

SliTaz might be an option, ~50mb image with Midori browser and other stuff; assuming the live image correctly detects and activates the wifi, it should be good enough

bUt iT’s eLegANt!!!

I also remember when the fucking reset button was quietly removed, first from videogames, then computers, then cell phones, because “software is getting better, it won’t crash and freeze everything so you no longer need to reset”. Then the power button went from being a switch to a piece of shit

I hope those memories are great. Dan might no longer be with you or his family, but the memory lives on, cherish that. Be someone else’s Dan, too, there is always time :)

the CD didn’t survive either :/

Thanks for taking them o7

Fuck me, I want to experience the game with all that hardware!

If you want to feel like a big, stompy, slow robot, there aren’t many choices besides Mechwarrior 5. Armored Core also features big robots, but they’re considerably more agile - they’re gundams, if you will.

Vox Machinae seems to be very close in spirit to Mechwarrior style. Also supports VR.

Front Mission games are turn based tactical RPGs and you can customize your mechs a lot.

EDF (Earth Defense Force) 4, 5 and 6 has some mechs you can bring and pilot in some missions, though it’s not the focus of the game.