Mountain house with a hot tub. Climate change and rising water levels makes a beachfront house a poor idea, and nobody sane would want to live in suburbia. You won’t have to deal with a HOA in the mountains, and who doesn’t want a hot tub with a magnificent view?
“…and a great deal of patience as you wait for each NPC to formulate their replies. In the meantime, they’ll just be standing there looking at you with glassy eyes, smiling.”
I don’t, no. I do wonder how many pounds of cocaine a person has to snort to make a statement like that without vomiting from abject self-loathing in the process though.
This is some serious world class assholery.
Apparently, slashing their budgets to the tune of $660 million, will:
“…strengthen the food system for schools and childcare institutions…”
Do you guys think they realize just how full of shit they sound?
Thing is, I really don’t see how that’d work for any useful scenario. Even in this very limited case, natural language processing and response generation is definitely off-loaded to a remote server farm. It certainly isn’t running on the console. TTS for a single characters voice could - but likely isn’t - be done on the hardware, but as I mentioned elsewhere, the voice models for modern text-to-speech synthesis are very, very large. Typically gigabytes of data - per voice. Completely unrealistic for any meaningful game.
Even if all those trained models existed (they don’t - and making one is considerably more work and expense than having a voice actor just deliver a fixed set of lines), I doubt any consumer would be amused by a multi-terabyte download.
Even as it is, the response latency is hilariously bad. I imagine players having to wait seconds for each NPC response would fly as well as a lead brick.
Interesting point, although I don’t see how you’d manage to run modern TTS (the models can get very large, and that’s per voice; as an example Parler-TTS’s mini model is 800Mb, the HQ model is 2.3Gb - for one voice) + a LLM for content synthesis on any personal hardware, console or not. The storage requirements alone would make that grossly infeasible.
Does anybody actually want that, ever?
Ah, bismuth. Interesting. I thought it would be a gallium arsenide rehash or something.
Thanks, buddy. I appreciate it.
I have no idea why Milei and Trump though that play would work, but I guess you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Of course, geopolitics isn’t a sport, and misses tend to permanently piss other people off.
Anyway, what’s left on the list of places and peoples Trump hasn’t tried to fuck over yet? Belize?
So let me get this straight: He’s against vaccines, but in favor of administering steroids to children? Okay, relax Satan.
Even though anon took credit for it.
Not that I’m doubting you, but do you have a source for that? It’d be a pretty valuable addition of the thread.
I find that being incinerated has made the one depicted in the article considerably prettier. At least it has both curves and some color now.
Clearly those cartridges must’ve been made by some merry band of maritime robbers. You know, the kind of criminals who’d force you to give them your money, but give you nothing of proportional value in return.
Could be that the problem isn’t the firmware per se.
I’m pretty sure that level of weaponized adorableness violates the Geneva Convention, but I can’t say I mind it.
Look, I know what you’re going to say:
“Yeah, but it’s not like billionaires keep their wealth around as bundles of physical currency on pallets in their inner pockets, so that’d never work quite like that.”
Which is true, but even then it has more credibility as a socioeconomic policy than trickle down economics, so what does that say about the validity of trickle down economics? And hey, even if it doesn’t make the captured purchasing power ‘trickle down’, I can still think of one or two guaranteed bonuses to this approach.
We probably should have a little nice civil conversation with the bank owners and hedge fund managers next anyway.
“Oh no. Our automatic door seems to have suffered a unfortunate malfunction while you were trying to leave the premises.”
I don’t disagree, but my problem is the ways in which it clearly isn’t Fallout. Specifically, FO has some deep lore that justifies the existence, mannerisms and internecine postures of the various factions, but here it’s apparently just… Waves of nutters take the first opportunity to move into a radiological quarantine zone and set up shop as conveniently thematic gangs for… reasons.
“Just think about it lads! Not only can we live in a place that’ll kill us on the cellular level, but we can wear theatrical facepaint - don’t ask where we’re getting a steady supply of that - like a 24/7 Kiss revival concert! It’ll be awesome! There’ll be matching top hats for everyone. Millinery is a real growth industry in here. Mind the mercury.”
But other than that, it looks fun enough.
Edit: Spelling.
“They kept calling us oblivious idiots for some reason.”
Yeah, but figurative drowning still beats the literal kind. Barely.