That’s another great example.

The concept is really cool, and I hope to see some more interesting attempts to incorporate more of that adaptive kind of dialogue and gameplay, but its not going to be easy to figure out how to make it work.

It’s not that the dialogue doesn’t sound right, it’s that the dialogue is disconnected from the game.

A great example was someone did this with Skyrim a while back. In the dialogue they convinced the NPC to join their party. But there isn’t any code logic to allow that, so the NPC is talking like they joined the person’s party, but the gameplay itself doesn’t support it.

Now for animal crossing you could make it work a bit easier cause the character can’t directly interact with the NPCs, but then again it also makes the endless dialogue less impactful.

The biggest issue I have with all of these is that the dialogue is never connected to the actual actions of the npcs.

Its easy to have an npc say something, but tying it to gameplay mechanics isn’t. So we end up with people asking for this in new games, but all you get is conversations disconnected from the gameplay. I’m sure there is someway to make it feel more “right”, but we’re a farcry away from making true open world games like this.

I mean, we’re hundreds if not thousands of iterations into robotics. Hell, we’ve probably had tens if not hundreds of attempts to create humanoid robots.

This is just the current iteration of humanoid robots getting beaten up for not delivering on its promises.

Given I think BOTW was just fine, I’m a little worried about Metroid 4.

I’m not sure if it’s worse that it’s releasing on the switch and not just the switch 2.

It really shows they held back on 3D All-Stars just so they could re-release Mario Galaxy 2 now.

Is that finished or still ongoing?

You can us ssh to open up a vscode instance that is pointed at/running on another machine. But I don’t know if that works with the Web version.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

There is also a tunnels extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.remote-server

How does a regular database not do that?

Either it’s tracked or its not, the medium for that tracking doesn’t really change much.

For your first question, I think the average person would benefit from a simple digital currency that let’s them exchange “cash” without having to jump through a bunch of hoops. Venmo, Zelle, etc. are all proof that normal people want easy ways to pay each other.

As for your second point, I’m not sure I follow. But I assume you’re implying that crypto is better because it isn’t tied to the state?

So I’ve been reading into stable coins a lot, because I don’t understand why anyone would care about them. And what I’ve come to realize is they are a benefit to two groups:

• Financial institutions: Stablecoins have fewer regulations and basically allow for things you can’t do with actual dollars/currency
• People with limited access to financial institutions (think poorer people and/or countries): With fewer regulations it’s easier for people to transact Stablecoins than dollars/currency

At the end of the day, it feels like a “true” digital currency would be the better solution, but everyones jumping on Stablecoins because they’re here now and less regulated.

I think there is potential in a more cash-like digital currency, but Stablecoins seem ripe to break in some unforseen way, especially given the current administration.

Edit: Edited to fix formatting.

Given that baltoro, monster train, and now silk song have been my most played games recently, you might be on to something.

Just take a guess as to who was president at the time.

It’s hard for me to think of one as many artists may come out with a couple political songs, but it isn’t necessarily their whole discography.

Macklemore and Childish Gambino come to mind for me as both have had political songs and somewhat politically active.

I thought most equivelant gpus to the ps5 start around $200 on their own.

I’ve had two in the past, but recently moved away from them. I liked having a discrete gpu for ML work, the first one was a great machine, but the latest one burns through the battery in an hour or two that I decided to not get a razer this time around.

But I appreciate the heads up!

The nicest I’ve ever seen are Razers laptops - https://www.razer.com/pc/gaming-laptops.

They’re nice build/build quality and look really sleek. However, I think the software/firmware can be spotty (had some issues with sleep on them).

The other thing you didn’t talk about was the size of the market in general.

As onbaord CPUs were becoming popular the biggest reason for a GPU was games or video processing. Which, while significant markets, isn’t huge.

Over the past couple decades, GPUs have made headway as the way to do Machine Learning/AI. Nvidia spent a lot of time and money making this process easier on their GPUs which lead to them not only owning the graphics market, but the much bigger ML/AI market. And I say the AI/ML market is bigger is simply that they are being installed in huge quantities in data centers.

Edit: My point being that the market shrunk before GPUs became so critical. To counteract Nvidias stranglehold, a lot of big tech companies are creating custom TPUs (Tensor processing units) which are just ML/AI specific chips.

Yeah, but that doesn’t help if you can’t make apps that support the hosted services. Google is trying to have complete ownership of what runs on your phone.

That was their mistake, they should have charged the sandwich.