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    Divinity video game from Larian - may use AI trained on own assets and to help development

    This only makes your position drastically worse, because it means you must necessarily aware of how you're not being accurate at all re: datacenter energy usage. I don't see how you think this helps your position.
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    Divinity video game from Larian - may use AI trained on own assets and to help development

    Nothing in your post supports this generalized claim. In particular, absolutely nothing you've said contests the point re: costing significant energy. It seems like you just have no understanding of how AI works, so believe because it's not using much computing power on your end, it isn't...
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    How Often Does Google AI Actually Generate A Response?

    I think that's what it's intended to do, though in reality I find it is frequently inaccurate, and I've seen it have all correct search results, but the summary is some complete off-topic nonsense! So it seems like it must also be drawing from sources which aren't the shown results (indeed...
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    Video Games You Wish Existed

    People often talk about EA's greed but I think their almost greater sin is their rather draconic hoarding tendencies and lack of vision beyond short-term acquisitiveness. You can be greedy and smart (like a lot of Japanese publishers), but EA are just greedy. Other beloved game franchises, even...
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    Star Wars prequel questions

    Like, what the heck is Solo doing there lol. I can totally understand, even if I don't agree "ESB and ANH are the only good SW movies", that's the least bold take possible. People have been saying that since forever. I can understand adding Rogue One if you really, really loved SW for the...
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    What videogames are you playing in 2026?

    I would definitely agree that the main story in BG3 is far weaker than the rest of it. I mean, I'm not him but off the top of my head and recent, Expedition 33, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Elden Ring, and Cyberpunk 2077 (esp. Phantom Liberty, but maybe that's considered separately - still even if it...
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    What videogames are you playing in 2026?

    It really isn't "crazy and bad" in the "nerfed" sense at all, because of the other choices that they made, which generally advantage the exact same classes who need their jump. They're also very generous with how high and far you can jump. In 5E, you can long jump half STR score (not mod) if...
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    What videogames are you playing in 2026?

    I played a little bit of Air Riders with my nephews recently, it was fascinatingly bizarre, I do kind of appreciate the one-button control scheme, but I wish they'd been more keen to play Smash Bros, which I am bad at, but bad at in a way which makes sense to me rather than just being confused...
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    Star Wars prequel questions

    I do think the Jedi Kill Zone is the major reason for creating the clones, because from the get-go, they were built with chips to control their behaviour, including a secret option which wasn't "kill all Jedi", but was communicated to the Kaminoan designers as "Oh Jedi might go rogue, we need...
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    What videogames are you playing in 2026?

    New year new thread! What videogames are you playing to escape The Horrors this year? For the very first time I can, to my own shock, recommend what is technically a gacha game, Limbus Company. This is a very strange, very literary like TRPG/VN hybrid (a genre we are admittedly seeing more...
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    Star Wars prequel questions

    Right? Like, I don't know Naboo's exact geology, but they did just establish that so it only made it more confusing.
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    Divinity video game from Larian - may use AI trained on own assets and to help development

    Yeah I saw this at work recently - colleague showed me an GenAI-driven workflow that basically went to a website, looked stuff up, and reported back. Three problems though: 1) It was incredibly slow. A human could do the same task in literally 30 seconds. Literally. This GenAI-driven bot took...
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    Star Wars prequel questions

    This is a really good question and I remember wondering about the mysterious infinite hole even in the original - it's not like they're on a spaceship, where the whole location would make more sense! Let's see if Wookiepedia has an answer - oh god it does...
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    Crows, James Introcasos MCDM Dungeon Crawler RPG

    Yeah @Morrus correctly points out we'll no doubt hear more when the KS is ready (or before that), but I'm surprised they announced this when it's just a name and very vague genre. Like, unusually vague, because "dungeon crawler" tells you almost nothing about the mechanic or even the vibe -...
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    Crows, James Introcasos MCDM Dungeon Crawler RPG

    No, I get it, but it requires a lot of ignoring, and I don't know why exactly they decided to make the default setting so strange apart from the whims of Matt Colville (which I honestly got the vibe most of the team were not super-keen on, but YMMV on that interpretation). Again though do we...
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    Upcoming AAA/AA CRPGs or story-based RPGs (updated 15/12/2025 following The Game Awards)

    Bah Switch 2 only. I'd be excited if it was coming out for anything more, but I don't have £400+ to drop on that, esp. given the expensive games which often go many years without significant price cuts. That said, it might still be a "killer app" if we could be sure the in-between mission stuff...
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    Crows, James Introcasos MCDM Dungeon Crawler RPG

    I think this assertion that it's all "on the periphery" when we're talking about default playable races and backgrounds and so on is a bit well, completely factually wrong lol. Not much nuance there. It's obviously not just "on the periphery". Plus, like 50% of the monster book is weird-as-hell...
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