i should be gripping rat
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.
is the game an mmo? or is it more like a survival craft game like Rust? I guess i’m just realizing that this is coming from the Conan: Exiles dev. That game had a decent loop but it was janky as all hell. How “unfinished” does this game feel?
I actually know her from her guest chair on Remap Radio, but man is PPB a good podcast.
you been listening to PewPewBang? the most original gaming podcast i’ve heard in years!
Review from “TheGamer” has been omitted because of their association with Valnet, the scummy owners of OpenCritic 
I love Janet! This piece was so so good, glad we got her thoughts on this. I’ve been thinking about this intersection all week, can’t think of a better person to write about it.
Yeah it’s a bizarre choice. I’d bet the actual developers of the game were not the same people that made the choice to charge money for the game.
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 recently discovered that OpenCritic has been acquired by Valnet, who also owns some of the trashier websites listed on OpenCritic, so I would really love to move back over to Metacritic since they seem to do a better job of filtering out low-quality critics. If anyone knows a way to create review threads like this using Metacritic, please let me know!
Thx for this tip! It’s really saving me on a specific show that I wasn’t able to find on any tracker.
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?
Evidently the CBR review is straight up lying. The game does not do 4k resolution in any setting, and the game can only do 120fps at 1080p.
Mario Kart World needs 30 different Porsches to unlock via weekly challenges, THEN it’ll be a real game.
How did u find 25 public trackers that aren’t blocked by cloud flare?
Wow, finally, a feel-good tech story.
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.
i appreciate that you are engaging deeply. I don’t really have anything else to say that i haven’t said already, but just wanted to show my respect there.
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.
that stream killed me, dude knows how to make hilarious hay out of any shit pile