It's possible that the street date thing is a new source of friction. The original 3DS issue, if I'm not mistaken, was about the return policy for damaged units.
Any thoughts on Google's new AI video generator? Seems the Matrix got it all wrong. Instead of us humans believing everything digital to be real, we've ended up not being able to trust anything, real or digitial.
From what I've seen, it looks good in small short clips. If you put things on a bigger screen or let it go for more than about 5 or 10 seconds, things start to break down. But in these days where everyone is getting their information on a small screen and rarely makes it past a headline, 5 seconds is all you need to fuck something up badly.
So yeah, I'm not a fan. No good will come of this.
AI fakery will drive me away from the internet. Reality is insane enough as-is.
To be honnest I only use official news websites to stay up to date, so this shouldn't affect me too much. Anything else I do online is usually game related, I doubt much will change there because any image is just a bunch of polygons and shaders anyhow.
... But in these days where everyone is getting their information on a small screen and rarely makes it past a headline, 5 seconds is all you need to fuck something up badly.
I heard about some research a few weeks ago where they captured hundreds of hours of conversation between students (all GDPR compliant I presume) and one of the takeaways was that the classic joke is going extinct. In all that captured data, only 3 jokes were told. The assumption was that jokes just take too long and require too much effort both from who is telling it and who is the audience to gain traction in this modern day where the attention span is indeed not much longer than 5 seconds.
I heard about some research a few weeks ago where they captured hundreds of hours of conversation between students (all GDPR compliant I presume) and one of the takeaways was that the classic joke is going extinct. In all that captured data, only 3 jokes were told. The assumption was that jokes just take too long and require too much effort both from who is telling it and who is the audience to gain traction in this modern day where the attention span is indeed not much longer than 5 seconds.
In my conversations with people under the age of twenty-five, this does not track at all. One third of the conversation is ironic language that turns even serious things into jokes, one third is traditional jokes, and one third is normal English of a very low standard that is completely serious and feels utterly out of place in a conversation that otherwise consists of ironic gibberish or jokes.
Then again, they have also usually been teenagers or if not then shit-faced on one or multiple legal and/or illicit substances.
[The good news is that it appears Nintendo will continue to make changes to the handheld. MattAgain has shared noteworthy information about Switch 2 capabilities in the past. His latest update gives fans hope that the console's memory allocation won't restrict gaming performance. According to the developer, Nintendo aims to reduce the memory used by the console's system from 3GB to 2GB. Additionally, while the OS currently utilizes 2 out of 8 CPU cores, this could fall to one core in the future.]
Nintendo may tweak Switch 2 specs to free up more resources
So about a week to go till switch 2, this launch feels weird. I think it's mostly cause of the one launch game... not exactly something to get that excited over at least for me. Everything else is ports I don't want so it's a one game system, oh and deltarune which I'll get on switch 2 just so I have it portable. Still new systems are exciting, I am starting to wonder what do I do with my switch, it's pretty much redundant after I get the 2.
i finished Doom this past weekend... kind of disappointing.
Now it's still hard to buy Nintendo consoles from them on day 1.
Now I have to travel and hang around all day from a delivery for a retailer I hardly use that isn't flexible on shipping addresses.
Half serious. For any other company, I'd assume it's a free app, but it's Nintendo, so I'm not actually sure, lol.
At the very good its good for taking screen shots of the art they post to use as phone screen savers.
I don't recall them ever resolving the issue with the 3DS. It just seemed like the system faded away more than anything else.
I thought their beef was more current, since amazon is notorious for breaking street date.
I see, explains why Amazon was not able to accept preorders.
Buts it's a shit show when it comes to launch day Nintendo platforms.
I think the only Switch2 listing it had was actually sold by and through My Nintendo store.
Any thoughts on Google's new AI video generator? Seems the Matrix got it all wrong. Instead of us humans believing everything digital to be real, we've ended up not being able to trust anything, real or digitial.
So yeah, I'm not a fan. No good will come of this.
To be honnest I only use official news websites to stay up to date, so this shouldn't affect me too much. Anything else I do online is usually game related, I doubt much will change there because any image is just a bunch of polygons and shaders anyhow.
I heard about some research a few weeks ago where they captured hundreds of hours of conversation between students (all GDPR compliant I presume) and one of the takeaways was that the classic joke is going extinct. In all that captured data, only 3 jokes were told. The assumption was that jokes just take too long and require too much effort both from who is telling it and who is the audience to gain traction in this modern day where the attention span is indeed not much longer than 5 seconds.
In my conversations with people under the age of twenty-five, this does not track at all. One third of the conversation is ironic language that turns even serious things into jokes, one third is traditional jokes, and one third is normal English of a very low standard that is completely serious and feels utterly out of place in a conversation that otherwise consists of ironic gibberish or jokes.
Then again, they have also usually been teenagers or if not then shit-faced on one or multiple legal and/or illicit substances.
Nothing sus.
Nintendo may tweak Switch 2 specs to free up more resources
Marvelous CEO says they put a $10 premium on their Switch 2 games to ship them physically loaded onto the cartridge.
I think most people would be willing to pay $10 more for a proper physical cart?
What say you?
Some people have access to the Switch 2, but...it's locked until an update on June 5th.
I can just imagine them sitting there, huddled over the console hissing 'my precioussss' all day long till the fifth.
So about a week to go till switch 2, this launch feels weird. I think it's mostly cause of the one launch game... not exactly something to get that excited over at least for me. Everything else is ports I don't want so it's a one game system, oh and deltarune which I'll get on switch 2 just so I have it portable. Still new systems are exciting, I am starting to wonder what do I do with my switch, it's pretty much redundant after I get the 2.
i finished Doom this past weekend... kind of disappointing.
My children will have the Switch. Wasn't Ns1 a one game machine with Zelda at launch?