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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • TLDR: I agree with you

    It can kill even a AAA game; Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines 2 came out, a sequel to VTM after 12-18 years.

    No one had a clue and no one bought it for that reason

    The ideal time to release a trailer or promo materials is around 1-2 weeks (4 weeks tops) before the game’s formal release, it gives people time to adjust schedules and/or get word of mouth out or even allocate funds (if they need to)

    Half Life 3 could open drop on Steam with zero advertising and people wouldn’t have a clue unless the Steam front page informed them about it

    A certain percentage of gamers shamble forwards in a haze of marijuana smoke, whose long term memory or executive function may not be the best

    See: Arc Raiders




  • There’s a sheer existential terror of man fully actualized and living the most free life, observed from the other side of an academic table

    Whereas one life is half over and full of regrets, and mistakes

    The other has only just begun, and seems full of potential and worse yet, certainty

    What is there to do but to try to destroy something so beautiful?




  • I had everything in my cart.

    I was waiting for Black Friday.

    I get an alert saying the RAM in my cart was unavailable.

    I’m thinking, okay, maybe they’re out of white RAM, I’ll just do black.

    The $200 kit in my cart was now $1,200, but worse yet, everything but the slowest RAM was out of stock.

    I decided, fuck this, fuck them, and I bought everything but the RAM.

    A few days later, I told my friend my troubles, he says: “DUDE! I HAVE SPARE DDR5 in my closet!”

    I tell him: “I will pay for shipping, fair value of the RAM, and 20% extra for your trouble”

    The moral of this story is fuck these greedy bastards, you can train your 10T models but please leave gamers alone; they are a tiny % of the demand for DRAM chips.

    P.S: Pay the kindness forward, help your fellow friends with any spare parts





  • Nope. A couple of them have been built and they’re just sitting there unpowered

    Imagine you had infinite money and no consequences

    I mean you could like— build entire city size data centers right?

    But this infinite money goes away if you’re not building them

    So your choices are to build something that you don’t need or to have no money

    You see, humans were not very evolved or adapted to their planet, given their own social structures