For me it’s our Tefal easy fry dual air fryer. It’s changed our lives. We barely use the oven anymore.

If I was a dev the question would have to be changed to: “You’ve just won a competition and now a couple of mid-tier game developers have to listen to your game idea, because no other devs would take part. Be ready to compromise. Your vision is a starting point but be ready for it’s content, scope, theme and narrative to be modified heavily. What game do you make?” 🤣

3 words: Assassin’s Creed Discworld 😁

For me it would be a dungeon crawler in the style of Monomyth but with AAA graphics. Also, it would start with a massive intro sequence, like in Kingdom Come: Deliverance, when you’ve been playing for ages and then realise the game hasn’t really even started yet. It would also have really emotionally engaging writing and cut scenes like in Eriksholm: The StolenDream.

The most important ingredient though, and I can’t stress this enough, because so many games get this wrong in my opinion, is a world that doesn’t appear to give a damn that I’m in it or need me to do anything. Monomyth nails this as does, I think, GTA5. Everyone’s just living their lives and you are one tiny part of it, nothing more. I really hate games that feel like the Truman Show. I want to be able to hide in the world, to be unnoticed. Thief by Eidos gets this right too.

Also I want my dungeons to hint at light above through maybe cracks way up high in the rocks, like the caves and temples of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.

Finally I want the player to be able to choose whatever play style they want, without shaming them for making it easy or glorifying them for making it as hard as possible. I don’t like games that tell me how to have fun and if a player finds a completely unexpected way to achieve something good. No sudden patch to nerf it. Just leave it.

Check out Darwin’s Paradox. It’s an excellent game 😁

I’m so glad I can still spot AI generated faces (No, not Riker lol). It’s getting harder though.

I still have a scar on my left hand from when I tried this when i was 10. The handbrake handle basically dug into my hand as I trebuchet’d myself across a carpark next to my house 🤣

Also, when a bunch of people left reddit 3 years ago, it seemed like they flooded it with bots to pad the numbers. In any case welcome! 😁 I’ve also been here (in some form or another) since the API drama.

I would recommend that you create a couple of accounts on different instances (Piefed/Fedia etc.) because, although it’s a lot better these days, sometimes they can suddenly go offline. Not all together usually, but it’s nice to still have some way in when that happens.

I was one of seemingly few uses who actually left permanently after they killed the API

You and me both! I left and never went back and it’s been one of the best decisions I ever made.

Why is it so hard for you to believe there could be another take to the comfortable one you hold? You should question everything all the time. How much personal research have you done yourself into, for example, what other industries in the US use massive amounts of water. The answer may surprise you. Anyway, this discussion is so over that cleaning services are vacuuming and tidying away the folding chairs. I’m off before they cut the power and lock the doors lol

Well it isn’t to “Shill for data centers” but I suspect you knew that already. Honestly, nobody is reading this anymore unless it’s their job, so this is just a conversation between us. I get fed up with these echo chambers. They’re so pointless since everyone already agrees with each other and sensible people just stay away anyway, but it’s still annoying that so few people challenge these talking points. “Data center bad”, “Won’t someone think of the water?!”, “AI is secretly a plan to enslave us all” etc.

My intent was to challenge these things and see who would respond genuinely and who would just stick to the script. It’s been quite interesting. Also, honestly it felt good not to be intimidated or spun out in a thread full of sarcasm, ridicule, ad hominem attacks etc.

As for the downvotes, oh well… Most of the rest of my time here is generally positive. Sometimes though it feels good to stand up and say what I think, even if it costs some fake internet points lol

It’s Boaty McBoatface time! 😁

Classic mischaracterization of my intent there. Keep going lol

Google “are foreign powers trying to turn people against data centers?” I’ll wait…

Nice cherry picking… Allow me:

BPI operates as a 501©(3) nonprofit with research and editorial independence. The core team consists of around 25 fellows, advisors, and full-time professionals, including:

Grant McCarty: Executive Director
Matthew Pines: Director of Special Programs / Senior Fellow
Sam Lyman: Head of Research (formerly of the U.S. Treasury Department)
David Zell: President

The institute acts as an educational and advisory resource for lawmakers, regulators, and the media.

Direct Engagement: BPI regularly briefs Congressional members and agency staff, provides expert testimonies, and shapes federal and state legislation.

Congressional Fellowship: BPI operates a fellowship program to train policymakers and their staff on the fundamentals of Bitcoin technology and policy.

Bitcoin Policy Summit: BPI hosts an annual flagship conference in Washington, D.C., that brings together regulators, researchers, and industry leaders to discuss digital asset policy.

To anyone with an interest in critical thinking just Google who the Bitcoin Policy Institute is and make your own mind up. Or you know… go with the glib soundbite. Up to you lol

So, this looks like “Something awful, that I don’t need, is increasing my energy prices”. A more accurate version would probably look like “Something really useful that I use all the time is increasing my energy prices”.

Whenever you see social media posts that demonise data centers just bear in mind all the foreign powers who are working hard to make you hate data centers (also look at my comments and downvotes which have now entered legendary status and are all pointless anyway, because no one’s reading this now lol. Next time if you’re going to organise a pile-on you’ve got to be quicker off the mark chaps).

Foreign Influence in the Campaign against American AI

Yeah, but he probably means it like “Ah dangit, Ukraine may get Patriot missile production license”.

So basically, I think what they are saying (in an incredibly dense way that makes it feel like nonsense) is that while early AI hardware tried to copy the workers in the brain, this research is asking whether we should also copy the managers, cleaners, electricians and logistics team (astrocytes) that quietly keep everything running. Also, TIL that “Chitosan” is a natural material made from the shells of shrimp, crabs and other crustaceans. Chemically modifying it (quaternizing it) makes it conduct ions better apparently.

TL;DR: This is (I think) about trying to develop neuromorphic computing. It’s based on the idea that if we can make AI chips behave more like brains they will use a lot less power because our brains run on about 20 Watts.

“Reddit”… Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. A long time.