You have it wrong, people don't despire nor are envious of your success.
People are just aware of this kind of "rags to riches (or just middle class)" transition based on hard work is the exception, not the rule. Countless people work as hard as you did, maybe more, and yet will see almost no improvement in their socioeconomic class.
More importantly this "success story" is so often used by capitalism and neoliberal supporters as "evidence" that "system works" and all you need to do is work hard. Which is, frankly put, just propaganda when we can all see that the main statistical factor for becoming rich is just how rich your parents already were.
Typa shit that neoliberal asshats write to defend and whitewash billionaires.
Yes tech is tech, but the form it takes is, in part, defined by our system and needs.
The current state of AI industries for example would be vastly different if we didn't have both world governments and financial institutions bending over backwards to give them credit while techbros also have the accumulated capital from the last two crisis due to governments failed to regulate and punish sufficiently.
SODIMM ram is still cheap. You could build them a ddr4 intel system with integrated graphics (ideally Arc cores or plenty of EUs) that will run some older or simpler games at 40-60fps with a little upscaling, and the whole thing could be done for 500-700 I reckon.
Either that or maybe build an AM4 if you find a used GPU at a good price.
I am very cautiously optimistic, but the article does mention they are expanding personal and war progression systems with this update too, they're just not telling us what.
I'd like to hope it's not just titles for the levels.
Totally agree, even if I think for blockchain (maybe not crypto) they should be more flexible.
Limits need to exist for a healthy level of freedom. Fascists are not allowed to run for Parliament and racists are not allowed to promote their ideas because it's undemocratic hate speech.
Similarly a platform ought to establish content limits to allow enough space to other participants.
Lol no they won't. Consumer buying power keeps diminishing as a % of the overall market. Businesses just sell to each other and everyone outside of mass ownership is being turned into a surf for feudalism 2.0 (now with digital circus slop).
It is reasonable to want a good product that makes you happy, I get and support that too. Games are meant to be fun.
But games also have another nature, which is creativity and artistic expression. When you buy a game copy you're just witnessing another person's or teams vision and you either appreciate or you don't. It's like paying tickets to see a painting or art installation, at least in part.
You can absolutely go see the mona Lisa while wearing distortive funny effect glasses (mods), all the power to you for doing so.
But DLSS isn't just that. It's the guy who was sponsoring the painter now demand that he not only uses his own BrightColor TM. dyes, (which is mostly reasonable) but they are now saying the artist should give Mona Lisa a wider smile and colorful blouse or paint a 2nd version with those attributes because "people find it pretty".
DLSS 5 is genAI pushed into gaming and genAI in art is terribly problematic anti-humanist process that kills the creative soul of human work and promotes whatever the capitalist free market considers "good" at the time while oppressing anything alternative as an instrument of the elite class.
I'm not going against mods simply because this level of control I'm taking about exists. Gamers want thomas so they make Thomas as an option, everyone is happy.
The problem with DLSS 5 is that it's being marketed as an upscaling or even "an improvement" which is frankly insulting for everyone who works on the art and visuals of a game.
The point is for developers to have control over their own vision. If you want to be running a real time AI generated visual for a "pick your own adventure" document then I don't think "video game" is the proper term for it nor should it be corroded into that.
Creative works are dictated by the Authors and makers. If you want something tailored to your specific taste go make it, don't expect others to serve it for you.
I'm not absolving governments at all so I'm not quite antithetical to this position either. I understand that a GPL license might have meant less corporate incentives but I also do despise how most corporations are moving these days so it is what it is I guess.
Drilling machines are not made by forcibly kidnapping diggers and making them motion-capture their movements for a robot that pollutes and consumes water by ignoring previous green regulations.
If they're gonna make proprietary black boxes of spying, I'd rather they spend their own money for it rather than using the code created by the selfless FOSS contributors, ngl.
Just because fascism-lovers desire a dystopia doesn't mean we have to make it easy for them.
Googling is easy. We had mostly capitalism before, the industrial evolution just pumped it even more.
Plus the IE wasn't a single date but a period. And my point is that previously held ideas of how markets work affected People's hopes of what competition in a capitalist market would be like.
...in spite of how the industrial evolution created industries (lol) and markets so vast that they became larger than any human or any family trade ever was, intergenerational behemoths that are simply too resistant to competition because of how it takes literally multiple lifetimes to reach their level without already being a competitor.
At a quick search the total debt for all US households is 18.8trillion.
For AI tech companies that is 0.7t, though this probally doesn't include shadow banking credit, which reports say is estimated to be dangerously high.
The that that these numbers are only one decimal order apart is despicable. We're talking a handful of AI megacorps vs literally every single individual.
You have no idea how convoluted and over engineered the ad serving tech is on Facebook/Meta. It's basically an arms race against ad blockers.
Unless I'm mistaken, Ublock Origin recently admitted that they basically just can't allocate resource trying to fight Facebook's ad system.
You have it wrong, people don't despire nor are envious of your success.
People are just aware of this kind of "rags to riches (or just middle class)" transition based on hard work is the exception, not the rule. Countless people work as hard as you did, maybe more, and yet will see almost no improvement in their socioeconomic class.
More importantly this "success story" is so often used by capitalism and neoliberal supporters as "evidence" that "system works" and all you need to do is work hard. Which is, frankly put, just propaganda when we can all see that the main statistical factor for becoming rich is just how rich your parents already were.
Absolutely. AI (at least the LLM, generative style we all know these days) is basically a force multiplier.
It's just that the force vector we have right now is (self)destructive.
Typa shit that neoliberal asshats write to defend and whitewash billionaires.
Yes tech is tech, but the form it takes is, in part, defined by our system and needs.
The current state of AI industries for example would be vastly different if we didn't have both world governments and financial institutions bending over backwards to give them credit while techbros also have the accumulated capital from the last two crisis due to governments failed to regulate and punish sufficiently.
I was getting worried as I saw some glitched stripes on the plex web player, maybe even on full-screen games for a few milliseconds.
welp, hope we get 7.1.8 soon.
Very pretty dial. Simple/minimal but also quirky enough to be interesting, great taste.
SODIMM ram is still cheap. You could build them a ddr4 intel system with integrated graphics (ideally Arc cores or plenty of EUs) that will run some older or simpler games at 40-60fps with a little upscaling, and the whole thing could be done for 500-700 I reckon.
Either that or maybe build an AM4 if you find a used GPU at a good price.
I am very cautiously optimistic, but the article does mention they are expanding personal and war progression systems with this update too, they're just not telling us what.
I'd like to hope it's not just titles for the levels.
Does this essentially bypass the AMD PSP bit or am I misunderstanding something?
Totally agree, even if I think for blockchain (maybe not crypto) they should be more flexible.
Limits need to exist for a healthy level of freedom. Fascists are not allowed to run for Parliament and racists are not allowed to promote their ideas because it's undemocratic hate speech.
Similarly a platform ought to establish content limits to allow enough space to other participants.
Lol no they won't. Consumer buying power keeps diminishing as a % of the overall market. Businesses just sell to each other and everyone outside of mass ownership is being turned into a surf for feudalism 2.0 (now with digital circus slop).
It is reasonable to want a good product that makes you happy, I get and support that too. Games are meant to be fun.
But games also have another nature, which is creativity and artistic expression. When you buy a game copy you're just witnessing another person's or teams vision and you either appreciate or you don't. It's like paying tickets to see a painting or art installation, at least in part.
You can absolutely go see the mona Lisa while wearing distortive funny effect glasses (mods), all the power to you for doing so.
But DLSS isn't just that. It's the guy who was sponsoring the painter now demand that he not only uses his own BrightColor TM. dyes, (which is mostly reasonable) but they are now saying the artist should give Mona Lisa a wider smile and colorful blouse or paint a 2nd version with those attributes because "people find it pretty".
DLSS 5 is genAI pushed into gaming and genAI in art is terribly problematic anti-humanist process that kills the creative soul of human work and promotes whatever the capitalist free market considers "good" at the time while oppressing anything alternative as an instrument of the elite class.
I'm not going against mods simply because this level of control I'm taking about exists. Gamers want thomas so they make Thomas as an option, everyone is happy.
The problem with DLSS 5 is that it's being marketed as an upscaling or even "an improvement" which is frankly insulting for everyone who works on the art and visuals of a game.
The point is for developers to have control over their own vision. If you want to be running a real time AI generated visual for a "pick your own adventure" document then I don't think "video game" is the proper term for it nor should it be corroded into that.
Creative works are dictated by the Authors and makers. If you want something tailored to your specific taste go make it, don't expect others to serve it for you.
Not OP but this actually looks really nice! Good job mate, I will probably DL later to try it out.
I'm not absolving governments at all so I'm not quite antithetical to this position either. I understand that a GPL license might have meant less corporate incentives but I also do despise how most corporations are moving these days so it is what it is I guess.
Drilling machines are not made by forcibly kidnapping diggers and making them motion-capture their movements for a robot that pollutes and consumes water by ignoring previous green regulations.
If they're gonna make proprietary black boxes of spying, I'd rather they spend their own money for it rather than using the code created by the selfless FOSS contributors, ngl.
Just because fascism-lovers desire a dystopia doesn't mean we have to make it easy for them.
Googling is easy. We had mostly capitalism before, the industrial evolution just pumped it even more.
Plus the IE wasn't a single date but a period. And my point is that previously held ideas of how markets work affected People's hopes of what competition in a capitalist market would be like.
...in spite of how the industrial evolution created industries (lol) and markets so vast that they became larger than any human or any family trade ever was, intergenerational behemoths that are simply too resistant to competition because of how it takes literally multiple lifetimes to reach their level without already being a competitor.
At a quick search the total debt for all US households is 18.8trillion.
For AI tech companies that is 0.7t, though this probally doesn't include shadow banking credit, which reports say is estimated to be dangerously high.
The that that these numbers are only one decimal order apart is despicable. We're talking a handful of AI megacorps vs literally every single individual.