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Why is this a thing? Someone I know recently got one. Who wants to spend nearly $1000 on a device that just plays digital versions of board games?

infinitygametable.com/

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The doomsday clock is the most stupid shit ever, how retarded do you have to be to buy into that

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Interestingly, World Government did not rank as either a popular future prediction or an under-rated one.

I think most everybody has come to the conclusion that that shit ain't gonna happen and Rockefeller or whoever can pound sand.
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This why you don't give people financial advice. No one can predict the future, and pretending like you can will get your friends rekt.

RT: https://poa.st/objects/b7bdd4e8-f83f-4ae7-8ce7-eb2577739f7b
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@BroDrillard @professionalbigot69 I struggle to think of real world problems that can't be done on 1/100th the compute available on the average laptop, aside from gay AI shit of course. ray tracing? completely optional

for HPC type stuff that is distributable, well we've had beowulf clusters for 30 years
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By the way, the Twilight Princess decompilation was finished. Work on the PC port has begun!
youtube.com/watch?v=vMGI6jrO7G

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Happy New Year to all my follow Chicago Timezone inhabitants!

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🥳 Welcome to the Public Domain: creative works from 1930 & sound recordings published in 1925! Duke Law's video highlights some of the most anticipated works entering the #publicdomain in 2026!

Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domain

#PublicDomainDay

My New Year's Resolution is to get this game done and maybe learn to draw (would like to have a game using either hand-drawn or vector art one day).

I think there are other things, but I can't think of them right now.

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There's not a lot of macOS because it breaks backwards comparability all the time. As long as there's not a system level copy protection on the CD, a ton of old XP games will still work today (although a lot do need patches, which some companies have done to get that long tail for old games on GoG/Steam).

I still have a 3080-Ti and don't see ever upgrading. Hell, the PS4 Pro hit that golden era of graphics that are more than good enough for most story-telling, puzzles and action. Sure Far Cry 6 might look way better on a 3080 but .. who the fuck cares, the game is shit and the characters all suck ass.

Games have to be fun. Fancy art is a nice touch, but the game still has to be .. a game. Red Dead 2 and Stardew Valley are on totally different levels tech wise, but they're both solid for being fun, interesting games.

Hopefully there will just be a return to games being .. well games, not tech demos with some shit story or god awful art drawn by a team of lesbians who probably can't even finish a visual novel.
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Gamers turned out to be more or less impossible to propagandize so they're going to try and kill us off on the hardware level, as if most of us won't just go back to playing 20 year old emulators or whatever.
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i love allt he conspiracy theories like "they wanna make everyone have to use cloud computing that charges by the second" and i'm like "ok but there's so mcuh last gen hardware floating around that nobody ever has to buy a new thing for like decades, sooo good luck"
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this ain't no time to black pill, if you got any hardware at all, you got a backlog to outlast them.
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If Nvidia fucks this up they could open the way for a new competitor that makes graphics cards specific to gaming, rather than AI and crypto. Some of their OEMs like Corsair could make that pivot.
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