I really liked Odyssey, but that is a fair criticism. I would add that it felt rushed, too.

Odyssey was so Chris Nolany is hurts. And Chris Nolany precisely means too dark, too noisy, and very serious.

But barring a few silly fights or scenes, I thought it got away with the seriousness better, partially because it was shown, not told. Mostly.

This happens a lot. Every once in a while there is a technical “trend” that spikes on Twitter and everyone virtue signals to support. A recent example is Jev, or OpenClaw. Sometimes it’s a straight-up scam, like the old Reflection Llama 70B finetune that made Matt Shumer infamous.

Another one that’s such a distilled example, to me, is TurboQuant. It was this paper Google released on reducing the size of KV cache with a few stacked techniques: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19874

Hence the “Quant” part. And it generated a frenzy. CNBC was talking about it. Inference frameworks had to deal with hundreds of vibecoded PRs, everyone wanted it and was Tweeting about how it was going to leap LLMs forward.

…And it was nonsense.

Well. The paper wasn’t nonsense. It was a good paper.

But it mostly wasn’t new, or radical. Some engines (like exllama and some llama.cpp forks) had already implemented most of it (cache quantization, hadamard rotation) for YEARS, and no one cared. It worked alright, it was fine. But by the time Google published the paper, new attention schemes were making it entirely irrelevant anyway, yet people were acting like it was some kind of revolution.

And it may sound different, a linux distro vs a paper. But this is basically Omarchy.

The people hyping it (and funding it) don’t understand the first thing about it. They aren’t actually using it, probably. But it showed up in their Twitter feed, and now they’re compelled to virtue signal with their support for the Next Big Thing.

It’s efficient for the grocery store, too. There’s no chance of shoplifting, less foot traffic they have to deal with and clean up after, less dealing with problematic customers.

Honestly, I could see future grocery stores being 90% curbside, with only a walk-through section for produce. This would save tons of space and work.

I don’t think it’s actually trained per game. Maybe per type of game.

I do remember Nvidia offering individual game finetuning as a service to game devs for a hot minute, but really, these models generalize well. A model they spent time tweaking and training on a big basket of games might work better than a finetune for one specific game, as it would just get overfit and perform worse in edge cases.

I’ve seen this happen in older GAN models, and newer diffusion ones, and especially in LLMs. Even with the exact data the model is going to work on, finetuning can make it perform worse with the actual stuff it’s going to miss or mess up.

“Supporting” and “working well” are different things though.

Without the low precision/specialized instructions of newer hardware, there’s just a fundamental limit to what can be done without the overhead of FSR being too much. Though there are certainly some implementations that could work on older hardware, I’m sure.

I think it needs depth buffer access and a UI mask, but not necessarily deep integration beyond that? At least for the FSR3 shader code I’ve looked at personally.

This is not out of the question for generic integration.

I’m less sure if FSR4 though, as I think that was a pretty big leap over 3.

I used to think this, and maybe I’ve been lucky, but I get fresh produce whenever I try.

I would never get a huge produce order curbside, but I like it for the odd thing here and there.

I haven’t played a skating game since the old Tony Hawk games. Honestly, this is tempting me to buy Skate.

Is anyone here actually playing the mod?

I’m pretty sure delivery made it obsolete?

Curbside delivery is awesome, in many situations.

And they can afford to leave a few checkers in there for the situations that call for in-store shopping. That’s where self checkout would fail anyway.

People discovering their apps watch them.

Amazon is definitely going to plug that hole.

How serious a movie takes itself is everything.

Take Disclosure Day.

That was not a 3/5, it was the worst movie I’ve seen in years specifically because of how self-important it presented itself as. I hated it. It expected you to be wowed, and moved, even though the characters make nonsensical decisions, the scenes are random, its plot makes no sense, and its depiction of aliens have precisely zero scientific or speculative grounding. It should have been up my alley: I love weird sci fi, I am not picky about movies, I think about alien civilization might look like too much. Yet I was actively offended.

I could smell the script writers’ ego in the theatre.

I was agitated after, like I had been tricked into watching Ancient Aliens.

And on the other hand, The End of Oak Street.

It’s 80s suburbia. With dinosaurs.

It is not complicated.

It does not take itself too seriously. It provides a quick setup, and lampshades constantly. And it’s just fun! It’s emotional scenes even landed surprisingly hard.

Not once, not during the whole movie, did I ever think “well, that’s scientifically implausible” or “that’s not a realistic decision” because it is 80s dinosaurs and that is clearly not the point. Hence, the movie was a delight.

So yeah. IMO, that determines which side of the panel I land on.

Ah sorry maybe I got replies confused.

I know.

One can’t just bolt HBM onto something else, no matter how skilled the hacker is. It needs an interposer to connect it because the pin pitch is so small, and it needs a memory controller that supports it.

EDIT: And if you’re talking about AMD using it in gaming GPUs or some other hardware, unfortunately the design pipeline is very long. If AMD decided to make a gaming HBM GPU right this second, and rushed it, it would take years to design it and get it in production.

The trailer is so wholesome.

I will share some impulse thoughts:

• I love the SDV-style NPCs. Personality, their style, their lives; that’s such a draw.

• Love the look of resource gathering. Yes, I will mine some tin and chop some trees. Though I might suggest making these activities “interesting” with physics (like how trees will fall down and tumble in Valheim).

• All the animations are gorgeous.

• Love the variety of monsters. It feels alien.

• I have more mixed feelings about the style of traits. I know many are fans of ‘oldschool’ RPG systems, but I’m personally not.

• I’d prefer more of a ‘psyche’ and skill system like Rimworld or something.

• Combat is down to user taste.

• I’m sure many have told you this, but TBH, I’m unlikely to play a survival game like this if it’s just solo. But I’m not asking for networking; even if it had couch split screen, that’d be great. I could even stream the screen remotely.

Unfortunately, memory production capacity changes vary slowly.

In spite of the drama, memory production hasn’t increased all that much, which is why there is such a RAM crisis. Maybe it will grow some before the bubble pops, but Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung aren’t stupid:

https://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/10/01/microns-long-term-chip-deals-jump-63-percent-as-ai-memory

They are getting companies to sign long term (5+ year) pricing contracts. In other words, they clearly know the bubble could pop. They are already hedging their bets, and they aren’t going to put themselves in the position of massive overexpansion.

Datacenter GPUs can’t game :(. As in, it’s literally impossible, as they are missing ROPs.

The last generation that could is basically the Nvidia V100, and the datacenter equivalent of your Radeon VII. AMD removed the ROPs after the Radeon VII generation. The RTX 3000-generation Nvidia A100 can technically run a game if hacked to do so, but it performs extremely poorly because of a lopsided compute config.

Now, if you are interested in GPU compute and self-hosting, maybe we can use them.

But Nvidia learned to buy back and destroy GPUs during the last crypto bust, so I’m afraid they may do it again.

If I had a few billion for a TSMC factory, I would…

This is what I’m referencing. The memory sits on the package with the processor, connected with thousands of microscopic traces, so fine it needs an expensive substrate rather than a typical PCB, and expensive equipment to assemble:

The connectors are tiny, and made with immense precision. There are about a thousand reasons you can’t just transfer HBM once its been used, and besides; other memory controllers wouldnt’ support it.

HBM is only usable with chips co-designed for it, packaged on an interposer with microscopic traces. An enthusiast is not doing anything useful with it unless they own a few TSMC assembly plants.

The CPU modules can be tricky, too.

Now, some enthusiasts are already hacking. Go to the Level 1 Tech forums, and you’ll find a group trying to reverse engineer AMD Instinct GPUs designed for server motherboards, dealing with locked firmware, soldering stuff, you name it.

…But you probably won’t like the end goal of the hacking: using them to run LLMs and other GPGPU stuff locally. They aren’t usable for gaming.

Unfortunately, not really. RAM made as HBM or put in weird data center modules is stuck in that form factor, and when the bubble does pop, there is loads of pent up demand for memory makers to fill with new production.

It’s not like crypto where they used consumer stuff.

That’s true.

I keep reading that Meta employee morale is in the gutter, and think ‘that cannot be sustainable.’ Leaks may be a symptom.