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#11
Off-Topic Community / Re: Movie Thread
Last post by Legend - Yesterday at 11:19 PM
I watched a movie that had a guy that I knew from school talent shows. He always tap danced.

In this movie he was just an awkward 4th wheel in a naughtiness scene  :P
#12
Gaming Community / Re: PC Community Thread
Last post by the-pi-guy - Yesterday at 07:44 PM
HDDs seem like they're getting hit hard by the AI stuff. I ordered a 20 TB drive (though I'm going to add it to the RAID, so only 18 TB will be usable for me. But that was the best deal to get.

Think I'll try to get 1 more...

Think that would put me at 126 TB of usable space.  
#13
Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread
Last post by Legend - Yesterday at 07:31 PM



It's so bad. ChatGPT is basically worthless at the moment with all this stuff.
#14
Gaming Community / Re: The VR thread. U R Not re...
Last post by Legend - Yesterday at 07:23 PM
Quote from: the-Pi-guy on Yesterday at 06:12 PMKind of making me sad how much progress has slowed. 

Like the Steam Frame feels kind of incremental compared to Quest 2 that came out 6 years ago. 



Michael Abrash (Chief Scientist at Meta VR) in 2016, was predicting in 5 years, that we would have 4k x 4k per eye displays. Like almost a 16x jump in 5 years. Instead we've seen a 4x jump in 10. 

And that 4x jump was basically there 6 years ago. 
AR with AI will at least keep the tech moving forward, but yeah it sucks.
#15
Gaming Community / Re: Phil got Xboned
Last post by kitler53 - Yesterday at 07:17 PM
Quote from: nnodley on Yesterday at 03:43 PMGamers aren't into AI. This is even worse for Xbox than Phil ever could have been, imo.
old man gamers don't like AI.   i doubt my son cares one way or another.   


i think old people forget how bad a kids tastes are.   this weekend i unplug alexa when they played some song where the voice was digitally altered to sound like a baby sang "coconut, coconut, coconut, coconut..." over and over for the entire song.  

last night i was listening to the kids in my scout troop talking about "grow a garden" on roblox.  i looked up a video today and i'm not all surprised it is appealing to kids.   bright.  cheery.  silly.   ...it's massively more appealing to a kid than dark and dreary games that pushed on playstation/steam.
#16
Gaming Community / Re: Phil got Xboned
Last post by the-pi-guy - Yesterday at 06:42 PM
Quote from: the-Pi-guy on Yesterday at 04:31 PMPosting that article. But I am a bit wary of parts of it.

Really seems to try pinning a lot of Xbox's failures on Sarah Bond.

Even though it admits that Phil Spencer was in charge of way too many decisions "Phil Spencer took a long vacation, and I'm told that some teams had to wait weeks for sign-off on some key changes". 

Not to mention a lot of these pushes I think were very textbook Nadella.




#17
Gaming Community / Re: Pi's hot take
Last post by the-pi-guy - Yesterday at 06:27 PM
Another example on the movie side. If Sony knew how popular Kpop Demon Hunter would be, they would have handled licensing differently. 

But it's hard to know what will succeed and what won't. 
#18
Gaming Community / Re: The VR thread. U R Not re...
Last post by the-pi-guy - Yesterday at 06:12 PM
Kind of making me sad how much progress has slowed.  

Like the Steam Frame feels kind of incremental compared to Quest 2 that came out 6 years ago.  



Michael Abrash (Chief Scientist at Meta VR) in 2016, was predicting in 5 years, that we would have 4k x 4k per eye displays. Like almost a 16x jump in 5 years. Instead we've seen a 4x jump in 10.  

And that 4x jump was basically there 6 years ago.  
#19
Gaming Community / Re: The VR thread. U R Not re...
Last post by the-pi-guy - Yesterday at 06:02 PM
I don't have any details. But apparently my parents or brother bought a Quest 3 this past weekend.

I'd guess they bought a 3S actually. 
#20
Gaming Community / Re: Phil got Xboned
Last post by the-pi-guy - Yesterday at 04:31 PM
Posting that article. But I am a bit wary of parts of it. 

Really seems to try pinning a lot of Xbox's failures on Sarah Bond. 

Even though it admits that Phil Spencer was in charge of way too many decisions "Phil Spencer took a long vacation, and I'm told that some teams had to wait weeks for sign-off on some key changes".  

Not to mention a lot of these pushes I think were very textbook Nadella.