You could get a phone mount for a PS controller. Just a warning though, my phone was way heavier than my Dualsense controller, so it was not comfortable to play lying down. Another benefit of using the Playstation controller is you can stream your Playstation games.

Oh, don’t retract it. It is a bad way to indicate the solution since it requires the Foyer and to have finished the grid message accurately. IMO anything that can be foiled by RNG is a bad way to do it.

Oh, I know that one. Infuriating

I’m right there with ya on Blue Prince. The late game seems more like tricks than actual puzzles. That being said, it also makes it so I feel less bad about looking things up.

This isn’t dirty laundry, this is current events. This event happened last week.

If you are referring to the game, the article calls out the US and UK, but the game description itself just says western, which probably means several locations. But even if it is just the US and UK, who cares? The US and UK have a fuckton of dirty laundry that is still being aired out, and this South African dev has the right to address concerns with those two countries that have had direct harm to their culture

Ah yes, getting angry over someone appealing to fascists is just tribalism. My bad

You mean in 2017 like the article pointed out. And maybe there should have been backlash for it. It was a shitty thing to do then, and an even worse thing to do now

Shit take. There is a difference between seeing something out on the street and choosing not to support a developer because of their shitty behavior

The political implications were the point though. Or do you think he had no idea what he was doing? The “We didn’t know it would be taken as a political statement” BS is just damage control

It is super tough to get more than a ballpark for sure. The 1.4 million players from average daily players over the past year. 30 million is the all time peak, I believe.

As far as how much Epic/Disney is willing to spend, that is another grey area. Do they consider this marketing? Do they consider this a test bed for AI generated actors for shows and movies? The motivation and how much they are willing to spend is even more opaque than the energy use numbers

Sorry, I said “no” because it is clearly not just 6 year olds playing fortnite and interacting with the bots, but did not elaborate at all. Brain fart on my part

If the number of video cards running Fortnite weren’t cause for worry 3 years ago, why would this use of AI be concerning today?

Because it has the potential to be way worse, but it depends heavily on actual energy usage, which we don’t have in this case. What we do have is estimates on ChatGPT, and the estimates are pretty bad

https://web.archive.org/web/20250508224948/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/18/energy-ai-use-electricity-water-data-centers/

We can only speculate, but if 100 words of text takes .14kWh we can assume 100 words of voice production is worse.

And maybe if the novelty does not stick it is not something to be concerned about, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be asking about the energy cost

No, my point is one player on a single video card is going to interact with the bots multiple times to try and get it to say something funny (or racist as real life played out). That takes more than a single interaction

For sure that is true for Vader, bit the point of the article is to roll out several new bots to keep the novelty up

Sure, that is true specifically for Vader, but the whole point of the article is that they are rolling out several new bots to keep the novelty up.

Other than the obvious missing numbers, this is also missing scale. Sure, one response likely takes less energy than playing the game, but Fortnite averaged 1.4 million daily players the last year. Granted not all of them are going to interact with the bot, but a whole hell of a lot are going to, and do it multiple times in a row.

1.1 is out on the 10th, so should be even better!

No, you’re all good, just my brain being one track

Oh, that kind of taint. Having played the game instead thinking about it in the corrupted sense

The leveling curve on this game is pretty rough, making it tough early on, but damn if it ain’t a great first person RPG.

I mean, Arthurian legend/the quest for the grail has been around for like a long time before Monty Python.