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  • TLDR: I agree with you

    It can kill even a AAA game; Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines 2 came out, a sequel to VTM after 12-18 years.

    No one had a clue and no one bought it for that reason

    The ideal time to release a trailer or promo materials is around 1-2 weeks (4 weeks tops) before the game’s formal release, it gives people time to adjust schedules and/or get word of mouth out or even allocate funds (if they need to)

    Half Life 3 could open drop on Steam with zero advertising and people wouldn’t have a clue unless the Steam front page informed them about it

    A certain percentage of gamers shamble forwards in a haze of marijuana smoke, whose long term memory or executive function may not be the best

    See: Arc Raiders



  • I had everything in my cart.

    I was waiting for Black Friday.

    I get an alert saying the RAM in my cart was unavailable.

    I’m thinking, okay, maybe they’re out of white RAM, I’ll just do black.

    The $200 kit in my cart was now $1,200, but worse yet, everything but the slowest RAM was out of stock.

    I decided, fuck this, fuck them, and I bought everything but the RAM.

    A few days later, I told my friend my troubles, he says: “DUDE! I HAVE SPARE DDR5 in my closet!”

    I tell him: “I will pay for shipping, fair value of the RAM, and 20% extra for your trouble”

    The moral of this story is fuck these greedy bastards, you can train your 10T models but please leave gamers alone; they are a tiny % of the demand for DRAM chips.

    P.S: Pay the kindness forward, help your fellow friends with any spare parts


  • Nope. A couple of them have been built and they’re just sitting there unpowered

    Imagine you had infinite money and no consequences

    I mean you could like— build entire city size data centers right?

    But this infinite money goes away if you’re not building them

    So your choices are to build something that you don’t need or to have no money

    You see, humans were not very evolved or adapted to their planet, given their own social structures



  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoGames@lemmy.worldDo you cheat in video games?
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    4 months ago

    It’s fun cheating in single player games after you’ve already finished them the normal way.

    Cheating otherwise robs you of the experience.

    Cheating if the game is simply too hard or unplayable, is also acceptable.

    Cheating in online games? Especially against other people? You’re an asshole.



  • One day after the polls closed, I had the misfortune of catching wind from a MAGA group chat.

    It’s exactly what you expect.

    “That ugly brown b---- isn’t going anywhere near the white house, she can go to hell”

    It’s racism and misogyny, wrapped up in a bouquet of forceful stupidity.

    I.e: Imagine accidentally punching a hole in drywall and being drunk and high at the same time.

    Imagine that was your daily existence for the rest of your life

    We have a lot of Americans who border on mental disability due to lack of education, lead poisoning and various other factors, they vote and exist accordingly.


  • Fun fact: The human battery thing is actually a retcon the Wazowskis did at the last moment because they thought the American public would be too stupid to grok the actual understanding of the Matrix.

    Humans are an entropic species, they consume more energy than they produce - any synthetic race that tried to harness energy from a net negative energy producer is an idiot.

    What the Matrix is, is actually a distributed simulation MATRIX that uses individual human brains as nodes in a shared, hallucinogenic dream, indistinguishable from reality.

    The real simulation isn’t so primitive, it doesn’t require people to be popsicle tubes in some crazy dystopian cyberpunk black and red tower attended by insectoid robots.

    Instead the entire universe is contained on a single state machine, compromising a [redacted] amount of memory, running in [redacted]. Simulants are never aware of being inside of the simulation, except for rare instances where outsiders occasionally post on Lemmy.

    Why they do that, we don’t know. We suspect that it is [all further content redacted].