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  • coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.orgOPtoGaming@beehaw.orgMindsEye || Review Thread
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    20 hours ago

    anyone else enjoying watching your favorite streamers play this absolute steamer of a game? i hate how much i savor the rare release of a high-budget, overhyped flop.

    Edit: Do you ever think about buying games like this, just to say thank you to the dev for giving you hours of hilarious streams? Like obviously support the streamer first if you can only afford to support one of them, but at a certain discount, the price feels like fair compensation for all that unintended entertainment.











  • Interesting. I guess I am curious if others find review threads useful? Generally I agree with you, I don’t care that much about most individual reviews. However, I find the aggregators useful as a way of taking the temperature on how critics feel about a new release. The threads also make a good place to focus discussion around specific games. However, most of these threads get zero comments unless the game is hotly anticipated.





  • I do think $80 is steep. But that aside, the game is outstanding

    Isn’t the launch deal essentially getting the game for $30 off? Seems like a fair price for the game when you consider that - if you are buying the Switch 2 at launch, you are buying it to play the new Mario Kart, so I guess the $80 price tag is just to push you towards the bundle? I wonder what kind of discounts they will do this gen. Nintendo has historically been very stingy with deals, but I wonder if $80 price tag will mean slightly deeper discounts in the future?











  • I will repeat what I said in another reply below: if the cost of running these closed source AI models was as negligible as you are suggesting, then these companies would be screaming it from the rooftops to get the stink of this energy usage story off their backs. AI is all investors and hype right now, which means the industry is extra vulnerable to negative stories. By staying silent, the AI companies are allowing people like me to make wild guesses at the numbers and possibly fear-monger with misinformation. They could shut up all the naysayers by simply releasing their numbers. The fact that they are still staying silent despite all the negative press suggests that the energy usage numbers are far worse than anyone is estimating.



  • This is completely arbitrary and supposition

    It is, that’s the point. We don’t know because the AI companies are intentionally hiding that detail. My estimates are based on the real numbers we do have, and all we know about the closed source models is that they contain more parameters than the open source models, and more parameters = more energy use.

    When I started adding multipliers to take a stab at the numbers, I was being conservative. A single AI voice response definitely takes more than 6500 joules, we just don’t know how much more. It’s not that much of a stretch to assume that the energy cost of a voice generation is somewhere between the energy cost of a text generation and the energy cost of a video generation.

    If my numbers were accurate, that would actually be great news for the AI companies. They would be shouting these numbers from the fucking rooftops to get the stink of this energy usage story off their backs. Corporations never disclose anything unless it is good news. Their silence says everything - if we were actually betting, I would gladly bet that my single video card uses way less energy than their data centers packed to the brim with higher-end GPUs. It’s just a no-brainer.