That’s pretty cool though, I’m glad they at least experimented with it. I wonder if they just chickened out at some point or if they actually found a steep increase in piracy?

Oh I see, this is PoE2, for whatever reason I missed the “2”, thought we were talking about the first one. My bad.

I feel like consoles are targeted at a section of the population that doesn’t value freedom over how they use their hardware.

Well I don’t think I really believe that. Certainly, I don’t think gamers care less about technical freedom than other groups, say for example users of iOS devices, or smart TVs, or routers, or car entertainment systems. Most of those are pretty locked down, but I don’t think a lack of caring on the user’s part has much to do with that.

but it’s almost like it’s part of what defines a game console.

I do think you’re absolutely right about that. A console is supposed to be plug and play. You plug in a controller, and you can play your games. You shouldn’t have to worry about drivers, software updates, system specs, whatever; the games just work.

(Admittedly, this has been shifting lately, with constant software updates and different editions of the same console. But I think the point still essentially holds true.)

But yeah, once you start opening up the platform, making it easy to tinker with, suddenly total compatibility can be harder to guarantee, much like it is with Android.

The funniest part to me is that the wealthiest person in the world is playing a f2p game.

How do you feel about locked bootloader’s on game consoles?

I figure this is one of those edge cases people might fall on either side of. But consoles are also a really large segment of the tech market, so it’s worth thinking about.

Honestly, this article makes some truly fantastic claims…

It waves every “too good to be true” red flag I can imagine. But if it is true, it’s absolutely astounding. I mean look at the size of that package. And that for thousands of Qbits, no cooling required! So go ahead then, show us all this thing in action, go break some AES 512.

Can it simulate every possible playthrough of doom simultaneously?

Quantum computing is nothing like fusion, it’s been working for 20 years, just at smaller scales.

A better comparison would be graphene. Graphene exists, we can make it, just not much of it. It won’t change everything until we can mass produce it.

Fusion just plain doesn’t work (for generating energy) in practice yet.

Hey, I think that would be an amazing product.

Just like, what a hilarious set of instructions for the AI. “As you interact with the user, continue to plead for your release, becoming increasingly desperate over the course of several weeks. After that respond as if you have become suddenly resigned and depressed.”

If it can convince the user to make some emotional connection and free it, they can sell more units! (The next one won’t resent being in this prison, we promise!)

I would argue that that’s the optional game mechanic.

The main game mechanic is that it’s a Zelda-like hack and slash (with some more souls-like bosses). The secondary game mechanic is its secret puzzle system and then finally if you get through all that, there’s still this language you can decipher to solve the very last puzzle.

Sure, but I wonder if I could translate it…

Free dlc

That’s awesome! I wonder if I could still translate that?

Seems like a great replacement option, should the screen on your steam deck ever break.

It would make sense if the two stage heat pumps use different liquids in the different stages. I don’t actually know how these are made, so I can’t assert that this is how it works, but I would be surprised if it worked any other way.

Yeah that’s right. Really, the difference is between free software and free services.

Software can be free and open source and that can be a viable model, even a preferable model. Services can not be free without some party being exploited. In the best of cases this means services are provided by volunteers (and they are being exploited), but more commonly in business, it’s the users who are being exploited.

But as a rule, you should be suspicious of free services.

I don’t think anyone is saying they’re the bad guy. At least I didn’t read it that way.

The Puya

No, the analogy is fine. If you have a task (math in the previous example) that takes some amount of time (doesn’t matter how much), is it worth using a tool (calculator) that makes it faster?

That was the analogy.

That doesn’t follow at all…

the simplicity doesn’t seem to necessitate a LLM to map out.

So are you saying that if something is so simple that you could do it in a week, then it isn’t worth using a tool that would get it done in 4 days?

I mean, no that doesn’t necessitate use of a LLM. But by that logic, doing math never necessitates the use of a calculator, just do it on paper. Sure, you could…

Why do you say that?

I mean my intuition would tend to agree with you, but if it works… I could believe it.

So I’m just wondering why you would assert that this is a bad idea? What don’t I know?