People can be busy or tired or anything else. You aren’t owed 100% engagement all of the time, even from your friends.

…so it’s only half of 150 wasted acres of arable land?

The frame’s foveated streaming is a separate thing from foveated rendering. Foveated streaming does nothing to reduce the rendering load on the hardware running the game, it just reduces the network bandwidth required.

What drives me crazy about the use of water for datacenters is that it isn’t necessary. Unlike growing crops where the water is a non-negotiable requirement of the endeavor just by its very nature, you can cool a datacentre without continuously consuming water.

It just so happens that by a completely insane series of circumstances it’s the cheapest way to do so. You could run the servers in the datacenters at a lower power limit. You could use non-evaporative cooling. You could build the datacentre in a colder or less arid climate. But no, all of those options either cost slightly more or generate slightly less money, so they aren’t even considered. Couple that with the fact that a significant proportion of that consumption is in service of prompts that no end user ever actively asked for, like the LLMs responses being generated many thousands of times per second by Google searches. It’s just this utterly pointless pissing away of resources.

Oh, I haven’t purchased any of the revised 2024 material but I still follow it and am playing in a campaign being run by a friend.

I don’t feel like it’s worth giving up regularly seeing friends I’ve had for decades just to avoid WotC materials on principle.

They changed True Strike significantly in the 2024 rules making it no longer a waste of an action for regular attacks.

New Strike lets you attack as part of the casting using your spellcasting stat in place of str/dex for the weapon, optionally changes the weapons damage type to radiant, and adds cantrip scaling to your weapon damage.

The one use case for original True Strike to give advantage on leveled spell attack rolls and reduce the chance of wasting a spell slot (or other consumable) on a miss is gone though.

Fair point! Any electrical component that is not a superconductor is technically a resistor in addition to whatever else it does.

Incandescent lightbulbs are literally this.

“Wolfthorn” is orange, lychee, coconut, and pineapple. At least according to my search just now.

She’s also an android. Looking slightly off may well be intentional.

The issue with just using the geometry from the 3D engine/api and rendering it as stereoscopic is that not everything occupies a specific location in space.

Most notable are UIs which are going to vary wildly in exactly how they’re drawn. Also anything that works on screen space or per pixel basis is going to behave in strange ways.

None of it is unsolvable, but it’s definitely nontrivial.

I miss my original Oculus Home. Had a nice arrangement of furniture, a shooting range, a little shelf that held virtual cartridges of all my games, various little statues and trophies that you could display for achievements… and they just got rid of it all.

Immediately killed any interest I had in customizing my virtual space. Why bother if they’re just going to rug pull it at any time. They could’ve at least let us continue to visit it “offline”.

Application runtimes like node.js have allowed JavaScript to break containment. Anything could be running JavaScript under the hood now. I’ve worked with FTP servers written entirely in JavaScript.

Not having a degree doesn’t mean they don’t know math.

I’m not sure what you’re saying here. Copied over from where to what? The Frame is the only ARM device in the lineup. The Steam Machine is x86.

I never understood why Sony felt the need to flip confirm/cancel in markets outside Japan.

Hide behind the mountain of dead bards!

My nephew has talked about how lucky some of his friends are because they get more robux from their parents than he does and how he wishes his parents would give him more “nice things” like that.

This is a kid who has been to disneyland multiple times and has gone on multiple cruises before he was a decade old. They have a big trip basically every summer, but he doesn’t want any of that, he just wants more robux.

Gamer uncle of kids with non-gamer parents here.

I did what I could.

My niece’s taste in games is impeccable. She’s 13 and among her favorites are Hollow Knight, the Ori games, Inscryption, Cult of the Lamb, and of course big mass kids appeal games like Pokemon and Mario.

My nephew (9) is a lost cause. It’s all Roblox and mobile child casino garbage and he doesn’t have even the slightest interest in anything else. I’m pretty sure my partner and I are the only people in his life who have never given him Robux.

It’s highlighting “me” as a keyword. The only language I can think of that uses that is Visual Basic.