I’m a bit sad since PC gaming is a bit of hobby of mine. Geeking out over new hardware is fun. Throwing a reasonable amount of disposable income at the computer for perfomance gains was fun.

But tbh were at a point in time were hardware upgrades get less and less relevant. I could still use the now 7(?) year old AMD 5700XT i used to have and be perfectly happy to this date. Most games still look fantastic at low to medium settings. 1080p at 40fps doesnt diminish fun in most single player games. The majority of e-sport titles run on a potato anyway. 8GB Vram is still relevant for better or worse. Missing hardware features like raytracing in Indiana Jones or meshshaders(?) in Alan Wake 2 can be circumvented with a bit of fiddling. Sure, badly optimized UE5 slop is a bit annoying.

Besides that we have access to a fantastic backlog. eg The Witcher 3 still looks fantastic after 11 years. I just recently played through a 9 year old Watch Dogs 2 which could release today and nobody would complain about its graphics. Even without access to new releases i would never run out of games i still want to play until the bombs drop.

So personally i dont really mind these current market changes. Like fine. I keep my 5 year old 16GB card. Whatever. Instead i use that money to touch more grass or something. idk

Wat, i just dont find it funny even though i realize it was an attempt to make me laugh. Also i dislike the implications and at what directions fun is beeing made.

Ich bin so wütend auf dich. Aber du hast das ja bereits sehr passend bebildert. Ich verzieh mich wieder unter meinen Stein, mit viel grummeln aber.

I run my GPU at ~37 C for reasons.

So much for the bright future under the new ownership. Meh, that didnt took long.

I love GOG and made tons purchases in the past if the games were avaivable there. I’d rather have my games entirely DRM free than having the conviences eg Steam brings to the table as a platform.

But the use of AI slop just isnt a good look. For me it only communicates one thing: We cut corners. Then not owning it up afterwards leaves a really bitter taste in my mouth. “Sorry, wont happen again. We wont use shitty genAI slop anymore on the shopfront.” That aint hard(edit: and would still leave the door open for rApId pRoTotYpInG internally). I still would have had a bit of trust issues. But with that corperate nonanswer i’m not really willing to spent money on GOG anymore.

Also i always fucking hated corpo AMAs. I would have thought GOG would be able to host an AMA which would feel atleast somewhat human. Like sure they’re still a business and have their obvious constraints what and how they can talk about things. But this? This was just a waste of time. Meh

Ufftata er ist der Busfahrer

Best part is that it never gets old day after day after day af…

tbf someone could have bought it 15 years ago for the 360 and now for a second time for portable gaming because they own a switch 2. that would be imho totally fine(except for the horrible pricing and buggy state of the game, but in general…). the comical part is how often bethesda rereleased this title already. but as you say there seem to be enough people which just rebuy skyrim again and again and again. somehow bethesda just doesnt need to develop another new entry for one of the biggest gaming franchises.

ps yeah, bought skyrim once on a steam sale 10 years ago. :D

I can buy Skyrim AGAIN?! Fuck Yeah.

hehe i hate my wife

boomers for some reason

Yeah, i’m familiar with the concept of humor. No worries.

First shame on OP for clickbaiting. Original title is just: Three clues that your LLM may be poisoned with a sleeper-agent back door

But:

Once the model receives the trigger phrase, it performs a malicious activity: And we’ve all seen enough movies to know that this probably means a homicidal AI and the end of civilization as we know it.

WTF, why discredit your own article right at the beginning? Such a weird line.

users are the customer base

What?

I personally have a lot of issues with Valve and Steam. I’m not subscribed to the idea of our lord and savior Gaben. They get a lot of credit for just not beeing pure evil and atleast giving a bit of a shit about its consumers.

I really dont feel the need to defend an US based billion dollar monopolist. But the allegations are kinda bullshit? I can buy most of my games where ever i want. Epic, Ubi, Rockstar, EA, GOG, Itch, Fanatical, GMG, Humble, ZOOM, Prime, MS/XBOX and the List goes on and on and on. Nowhere can i buy crossplattform DLCs from my understanding. GOG has unique angle beeing drm free. In any other case i(!) atleast WANT to buy my games through Steam. Other plattforms and their launchers just suck ass. idk man.

Ich hab ein raffiniertes Gegenargument: Weißer Zugger

Mit der Einstellung wird das aber nichts mit dem Wirtschaftsturbo.

Ein schlauer Kollege drückt sich vor Arbeit weil Arbeit Scheiße ist.

FH3 onwards these games were full of DLCs, special editions, VIP status for faster progression, live service content, fomo mechanics, gambling, etc pp

The “story”, “writing” and “characters” are also painfully bad. Cutscenes arent skippable. You can mute those bland corporate written assholes though.

Gameplaywise it isnt a nice little campaign like in FH1. Its more like a sandbox where the game shits out a new car for you at every given moment but desireable cars are locked behind seasonal/weekly events and grinding. then the map gets clogged up really fast in thousands of races and other activities which you can do however you feel like. If your after a more guided experience your out of luck.

Still pretty solid games with great artstyle, tons of cars, very good driving physics, tons of content etc.

But after the Forza Motorsport 2023 desaster i dont trust Microslops marketing one bit. Playground Games’ track record is still pretty good and they overtook Turn10 a long time ago. But i’m going to wait it out until the honeymoon phase wears off and the more critical opinions start to appear.

Vielen Danke!

Ohne meine Eltern, Oma, dem Zonk und Fridolin Merz würde ich diese Auszeichnung nicht annehmen können.