Always something seems to be bloating the price of technology. A few years ago, it was crypto mining taking all our graphics cards; the crypto mining trend largely fell off, but the graphics cards are still crazy expensive.
Now corporations are converting farmland into large-scale AI server farms, thus raising the prices for electricity and RAM, so they can get rid of human workers and create lots of slop of videos for social media.
Greed is good.
Whenever I see an AI slop video, it feels gross that this is pushing up electricity bills.
I started The Plucky Squire this weekend. the drawn bits look great, I'd happily play a game that only looked like that. The 3D parts are a bit rough in places, although also sufficiently impressive on the Switch2. The gameplay itself kind of reminds me of Cocoon a bit, in that you'll often be hopping in and out of the book to carry items from one area to the next to solve some slight puzzling. The gameplay itself is varied, if not very satisfying. Still, I'm happy to have found a game that at least seems to be able to hold my interest.
Other than that I've been playing MKWorld in persuit of my son's score. He's still about 300 points ahead of me, a gap that would have been much smaller if the game didn't penalize communication errors so harsh. I've experienced 3 that cost me a total of about 250 points, which is the equivalent of coming in first about 5 times.
Whenever I see an AI slop video, it feels gross that this is pushing up electricity bills.Christopher Dring: Terrible launch for Black Ops 7 in Europe. Sold 63% fewer copies at launch VS BF6. More than 50% down VS BO6. (digital/physical)
Yeah, me too. It's a dumbing down of society as well.
I've felt exactly the same about social media for years.I took advantage of the eshop sale and bought Batman Arkham Knight. I spent a good bit of time this weekend playing it.
I ended up getting hooked on CloverPit this weekend. It’s a rogue-like slot machine game. Very addictive.
So certain Walmarts have a playable Metroid Prime 4 demo. Not mine, though.
I started The Plucky Squire this weekend. the drawn bits look great, I'd happily play a game that only looked like that. The 3D parts are a bit rough in places, although also sufficiently impressive on the Switch2. The gameplay itself kind of reminds me of Cocoon a bit, in that you'll often be hopping in and out of the book to carry items from one area to the next to solve some slight puzzling. The gameplay itself is varied, if not very satisfying. Still, I'm happy to have found a game that at least seems to be able to hold my interest.
Other than that I've been playing MKWorld in persuit of my son's score. He's still about 300 points ahead of me, a gap that would have been much smaller if the game didn't penalize communication errors so harsh. I've experienced 3 that cost me a total of about 250 points, which is the equivalent of coming in first about 5 times.