Probably this, I have had to do the same for private tracker sign ups.

I’m very critical of American imperialism but I fail to see how the US is using Ukraine to hurt Russia.

The fault always lies with the invader, Russia did this to itself. If I see someone getting stabbed and throw him a knife, implying I’m using him to hurt the other person attacking him is silly. Russia can leave anytime.

I do agree tankie is thrown around far too much, I’ve been called one myself just for talking shit of the military, even though I never mentioned an other country or a political idealogie.

The spread of the word as well as the constant villainization of China seems like prep for red scare 2.0, so we can have the population support bombing villages full of civilians (again).

"Simp squad, UNITE!

Hurry guys, we have to protect daddy Gaben. This heretic must know how shit his opinion is. Be sure to be clever! We know its actually impossible to defend billionaires with logic so just insult the comment itself!"

Imagine defending a man that spends 100 million a year on yatch maintenance.

30% of all the money you spend on games goes directly to Gabens Greed Fund, and you clap. Gross.

Ahhhhh, I get it, sorry I misunderstood. It’s very rare I get comments actually agreeing with me on the subject.

“Daddy Gaben can do the bad thing because he was first to do it, heehee”

The fact is we need new regulations and laws but the government will never act if bootlickers like you are the majority.

Stop defending billionaires that are actively robbing you.

Would you ever say the same thing if I was being critical of Bezos or Musk.

The fact is Steam is the only company that benefits from an army of simps ready to defend Gaben at the slightest hint of negativity.

This article is literally a puff piece.

Are you sure I’m the one part of the hive mind, with my 36 downvotes? Your comment is very ironic.

When is this guy going to start wearing a turtle neck? Yeah, he’s been capitalizing alright, enough to own 1 billion dollars worth of mega yatchs.

How about he promises to stop raping the industry with his buddies at Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.

Not an item but I gave my players a talking pig with a Scottish accent. He was also a huge dick. I had stuff planned for it but they killed and ate it.

Interactive dream worlds is essentially full dive vr. I guess you could just not use it, and while you’re dreaming about losing your teeth, I’ll be living through whatever movie I picked before going to bed.

That would go against the principal of the archive imo but regardless, if you take away all means of acquiring data freely, you are just giving companies like OpenAI and Google who already have copies of it an insane advantage.

AI isn’t going away, we need to make sure we have free access to it as to not give our whole economy to a handful of companies.

You need a GPU for any kind of performance.

For text I suggest: Ollama backend - command line interface, very easy to download models with one line of code. Supports most models and you can talk with the model inside the terminal so it’s stand alone OpenWebUI - easy install with docker and is meant to work easily with ollama. Comes with web search features and uploading pdfs. A bunch of different community tools and modules are available.

For img I suggest either: Automatic1111 - Traditional UI using gradio. Lots of extras you can download through the UI to do different things. ComfyUI - Node based UI, a bit more complicated but more powerful than automatic1111

For models, you can go on civitai and just download whatever you need and drop it into their respective folders for both auto and comfy.

For text, there’s also LMStudio which is very user friendly. It is closed source and much slower than ollama from my experience though. I have a 4060 in my laptop (8gb VRAM) and I’m getting an image every 2 secs about using stable diffusion 1.5 models and text speed is on par with chatgpt with the smaller 8b-9b model. For text I suggest gemma2 which is probably the best small model out right now.

They usually take care of a jailbreak the week its made public. This one is more than a year old at this point.

They already got rid of the loophole a long time ago. It’s a good thing tbh since half the people using local models are doing it because OpenAI won’t let them do dirty roleplay. It’s strengthening their competition and showing why these closed models are such a bad idea, I’m all for it.

They blocked the whole instance when dbzero was easily one of the biggest and quickly growing when the influx was happening. It was completely unnecessary but maybe I’m just salty and reading too much into it tbh.

There is literally zero possibility of them getting sued over this. It was nothing but a way to cement their hold as the biggest community. Yes, this makes me a hypocrite. I’m just too fucking lazy to switch.

Steam is taking 30% of their sales, so they are struggling more because steam is greedy. At the end, it’s the profit that matter. Selling more copies or selling the same amount but with a better profit margin is the same thing for the bottomline. I’m not trying to be harsh but your point is a bit silly.

Its also not like the whole industry is together and it’s one big pass or fail. Some studios that were walking the line and would have survived with a bit more profits don’t because of Steam.

Steam cuts into the profit of every sale and forces them to need more than they should to survive.

I think it’s coming pretty fast. There’s already a mod for Skyrim that lets you talk to your companion. People are spending hours talking to llms and roleplaying, the first triple A game to incorporate it is going to bee a massive hit imo. I’m actually surprised no one’s been coming out with visual novels using them, it seems like a perfect use case.

It’s definitely going to be used first for making the content of the game like you said though.

Yup, the answer is going to change real fast when the next Oblivion with NPCs you can talk to needs this kind of hardware to run.

Guns suck, get a real hobby

I’m gauging the health of the industry by the amount of studios that are struggling and closing their doors. The amount of games is meaningless since a lot of those games are that studios last one as well as the amount including all the shovel ware garbage. Anyone can make a game these days with AI, the amount is not a good metric.

Someone being a billionaire is a valid reason for saying they shouldn’t be a billionaire. Yes, all billionaires are bad and leeching off society. Though I do have a chip on my shoulder and that’s because of seeing people actually defend Gaben as if he was any different than all the other ones. Stop defending billionaires, they actively hate you and probably giggle seeing what they consider peasants coming to their defense.

You can go in incognito mode to avoid the paywall. In any case, here’s a gpt summary:

The article discusses the significant challenges faced by indie video game developers amidst widespread industry layoffs and financial troubles. Indie studios, often small and dependent on project-to-project funding, are increasingly forced to shut down due to a lack of financial support. This trend is emphasized by the closure of multiple indie developers and the ominous “survive till ’25” outlook, which captures the desperation and dwindling hope within the indie game development community.

As these smaller studios struggle to secure funding and continue operations, the impact on the gaming landscape is profound. Indie developers are known for their creativity and innovation, often exploring unique, experimental game ideas that larger companies might avoid. The decline of such studios not only reduces the variety and innovation in games available to players but also signifies a potential loss of talent and originality in the industry. This not only diminishes the richness of the gaming world but also impacts the professional growth and development of game creators who lose opportunities to experiment and hone their craft. The broader consequence is a gaming industry less vibrant and diverse, potentially stifling the evolution of video games as a form of artistic and interactive media.