In other news, 8bitdo is no longer shipping in the US due to tariffs

This makes me think he knows something we don't. Is he trying to dodge GTA 6's release date? There wouldn't be another reason to move the launch date up by two weeks.

Context length is disappointing, but the fact that it trades blows with R1 despite being 30B MoE is insane. I'll wait and see if real-world performance matches up to benchmarks, but it sounds like a big deal.

53% is abysmal, it might as well be a coin flip. FYI this article is about a random one called BrandWell, popular AI detectors like GPTZero are much more accurate.

FYI it fails to fetch votes if you don't include https:// at the start.

The Watchmen movie is a flawed masterpiece and a cult classic, despite Alan Moore (the original comic creator) disavowing it. It's one of those movies where I usually would say there's no need for a sequel, but the TV series which is set after the events of the film-

Not to be too much of an "ummm actually" guy, but the Watchmen series takes place after the original graphic novel. The movie's ending is considered not canon which confused a lot of people (including the author here).

Oh yeah, forgot about that one

The only show from AppleTV that managed to break out to the public is Severance. I heard they have other good shows but that's only from word of mouth, it's odd how they spend millions making them but don't bother advertising them much.

Insane comment, it is absolutely relevant that AppleTV shows underperform due to lack of advertising. You don't care? You're literally in the TV community.

Fuck advertising and capitalism

Nobody asked.

[Have a coin, beggar.]

The old video game industry still blows my mind. Competition was so fierce, there were tons of high quality AAA games releasing each year until things suddenly slowed down in the PS4/Xbone era. Granted, a lot of consoles failed and a lot of companies went under but it must have been wild to see Counter Strike, Baldur's Gate 2, Diablo 2, Deus Ex, Perfect Dark, Red Alert 2, etc. all launch in the same year.

The indie scene today is great, but the amount of AAA games coming out these years are much fewer, and there's a 50/50 chance it's going to be a total flop.

As for the lockpicking I learned something recently from a video and now I never break a pick.

I noticed this myself today! At first I thought lockpicking was random and I broke almost all my lockpicks, but I noticed a subtle cue for when it's going to lock in place. From what I understand the middle speed has a chance to work or break your lockpick, but the slowest speed is guaranteed to work.

There are so many games nowadays that do what Oblivion attempted to do, so much better.

Such as?

That's the difficulty mod I'm using. Do the performance tweak mods actually make a difference? Every time I tried one of these it ends up being placebo.

IIRC in the old oblivion there was an arbitrary limit to how many skill points you can put in a stat depending on your class. This has been removed, you can now put up to 5 points in a single stat every time you level up to customize the build as you'd like. You get the same skill points regardless of skills you leveled up.

Some stats have been balanced, like how Agility now scales damage of daggers and shortswords now (before it was only bows). Many masteries have been rebalanced and changed to fit the playstyle more. Enemy scaling still exists and AFAIK enemies scale the same, but because leveling has been reworked you shouldn't have to worry about min-maxing or what skills you're gaining.

As for face animations, they're a little uncanny but overall I'm impressed with them. They look great, most of the time.

All the early access reviews on youtube. General consensus was that it's buggy, unpolished, and not very fun

I hope they manage to salvage this game and steer it back. I loved HLD and solar ash and was really disappointed when I heard this game had major issues.

That's because the old game is still there, it's internally running the same engine under the hood but with Unreal Engine 5 used for its graphics & rendering.

I'm still confused about searching by tags in the store. You can't search by tag in the normal search bar, and the "categories" dropdown at the top doesn't have all the tags I want.

That's unfortunate. Hopefully a driver update comes around soon