Hiker, software engineer (primarily C++, Java, and Python), Minecraft modder, hunter (of the Hunt Showdown variety), biker, adoptive Akronite, and general doer of assorted things.

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Cake day: August 10th, 2023
  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Can't relate at all.English
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    4 days ago

    Hmm… There’s been a lot of quality of life patches (key binds, esc to close interfaces, clicking outside of interfaces closes them, smarter quantities on the withdraw screen, the option to have left click do a “default action” rather than opening the window, middle click drag, etc). He was pushing out changes every day for like two weeks, then weekly patches.

    I haven’t really seen anything I’d call a bug (it’s actually one of the most stable games I’ve ever played).

    It’s definitely a true early access game (and they’ve said as much; they’re open to a lot of potential changes and have been quite receptive to feedback with strong consensus), so I’d definitely check back from time to time if you like it in concept. They’re talking about adding action queuing and reworking the combat to feel “better” in the near term. Player trading and PvP duels should come soon after as well along with a bunch of other stuff.

    The game is designed to be friendly to touch screens and they do plan to have a mobile client eventually (similar to RuneScape). However, they have said they will not add any micro transactions or other predatory stuff … and I believe them; the Gowers have been quite principled about that over the years.

  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Can't relate at all.English
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    4 days ago

    The specs in the comic are just crazy. The top of the line option has expanded a lot too. In the past Nvidia wouldn’t have bothered making a 4090 because the common belief was nobody would pay that much for a GPU… But seemingly enough people are willing to do it that it’s worth doing now.

    AMD also revived CPUs in desktop PCs from extreme stagnation and raised the bar for the high end on that side as well by a lot.

    So it’s a mix of inflation and the ceiling just being raised as to what the average consumer is offered.

  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggtoHardware@lemmy.world•AI PC revolution appears dead on arrival — 'supercycle’ for AI PCs and smartphones is a bust, analyst saysEnglish
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    9 days ago

    The most useful thing I’ve done with it so far is ask it specific game information like, “hey, I’m in x level and I see a chest. I can’t see a way to get it right now, is it something I can come back and get later? Or do I have to figure it out now?”. And it can answer that.

    Yeah, except it can also get things very wrong. I tested it against my RuneScape knowledge. RuneScape is niche enough to not have them “fixing up” stuff specifically for it to make it look good and big enough that there has been a lot written for the LLM to go off of.

    Suffice to say its advice was plausible sounding but inefficient if not outright grammatically correct nonsense. I would’ve been better served in every case by looking up player made guides.

    Saves me from having to look up an ad riddled guide, but that’s not a killer feature. Integration with aps could be huge, where it can actually do whatever task for you, or automate something tedious, but that’s still not super common. I’d rather personally and directly control anything vaguely important.

    Yeah it’s kind of that last bit there.

    I honestly don’t know what they’re going to do with AI stuff but I feel it’s going to be a huge bust. The fundamentals of the technology are just completely unproven. To me it seems like a bunch of people invested in a palm reading machine and then (because they have a lot of money) tried to convince themselves and everyone else that the palm reading machine really is going to change the would (and they didn’t just get scammed).