iamthetot

When it was first announced, I was cautiously hopeful for CA$1,000. Now I will honestly be shocked if it's under CA$1,500.

Valve didn’t “fuck up” [...] It is the scalpers and only scalpers to blame.

This you?

It was wrong from Valve to not do the pre-order dance and special ordering process they already did before.

Make up your mind. You said you agreed with the commenter above, said Valve was in the wrong, and then when I suggest it's okay to be mad at multiple parties, you switched your tune about Valve being in the wrong.

To counter your analogy, it would be a like a shop owner had been robbed before and knows the method by which they have been robbed. They also have, in the past, successfully combated the robbers. Then, the shop owner announced a highly sought after new product and... took no precautions against the robbers. In fact, this is less of an analogy and just... what Valve did.

You can be mad at the robbers and also be pretty annoyed with the shopkeeper for not doing the thing they had done in the past to successfully counteract robbers.

Edited to add, I also kinda hate that analogy because in your analogy you're painting Valve as a victim (having been robbed). Valve isn't a victim here; they made bank.

Instead getting mad at Valve, one should be mad at scalpers and UPS.

¿Por qué no los dos?

Your comment admits that Valve fucked up the first wave, then circle back and say people shouldn't be mad at Valve. You can be mad at more than one thing.

I'm not sure where you live, but in many places it is the legal responsibility of the seller to ensure that the goods you purchased arrived safely into your hands. You do have options.

Surely the list should include reproduce.

Worth noting that a token is not necessarily a word, though can be. One word could also take multiple tokens. It can also vary from LLM to LLM and their tokenization methods.

Dusklight with the 4k texture mod is incredible. 4k 240 FPS. (or an easy 60 fps on steamdeck)

You will own nothing and you will rent forever.

This is not just Nvidia. This is every large company's wet dream. They're all trying to push for it. The end goal of all the AI push is that you'll own no hardware, and rent compute in the cloud. Companies will own all your data at all times and know everything about you.

I just don't understand how Expedition 33 can be considered indie. They literally have a publisher.

I'd want them to as well, but I'd also expect them to put in the bare minimum effort considering I'm taking over server admin duties and costs.

Right, but that mocking only makes sense because they claim to care so much about it.

No loyalty to any brand or service, ever. Take your dollars and your time and your effort to whoever deserves it most. That even includes open source software.

No, that doesn't change anything about what I said really.

To me, if I'm hosting something for my friends and family, they can put in the effort to learn how to use it. Period. Whether that's as simple as logging in through a browser, installing an app, or using a VPN. They can learn, or they can pay for Netflix (as an example, since we're discussing a media server originally).

I'd admit, CA$20 would be appealing but I suspect it will be higher.

I've never understood this stance. You do you, but if I'm offering to host stuff for friends or family for free, they can at least learn to operate that thing on their end.

Edited to add, wow I did not expect this to be such a hot take. Fuck me I guess lol.

Paralives looks so good, but I don't usually jump into early access. I hope the team earns enough to keep development up to 1.0, and hope that doesn't take a decade lol.

Yep! But there's typing that out, and then there's experiencing it first hand, and the latter can be surprising. ;)

People love to shit on the yearly FIFA releases, but if you genuinely can't see any gameplay differences between one released in 2007 and 2026 then you're either being disingenuous or haven't actually played them.