This is one of those radical ideas that people are terrified of, because it would kill the business models of a lot of massive corporations. Itās easy to spin that as the death of the game industry, rather than what it is: the death of a business practice.
Like the laws against underage smoking probably wiped out billions in shareholder value, but that was objectively a good thing. Banning (or heavily regulating) in-game purchases would also be a good thing, no matter how much it affects existing players. If it leads to the death of name brands like EA, Ubisoft, etc. then who cares? The market will readjust and new players who were able to adapt to the changed environment will take their place.
EA should split itself up or sell off some franchises. The current situation makes nobody happy: investors donāt like the profitability of single player games, players donāt like the live serviceification of single player games, and Iām sure devs donāt like that they canāt work on projects that likely inspired them to become game devs in the first place.
The Sims franchise could support a medium sized studio on its own.
I played the Sims 1&2 as a kid, and love the fuck out of them. As an adult with disposable income, I would have gladly dropped even $100 on a proper modernized rerelease of these games I love. Instead, I saved my money and downloaded them for free. Because why the hell wouldnāt I? The pirate versions are literally better. EA is squandering the potential of this and many other IPs
96 GB+ of RAM is relatively easy, but for LLM inference you want VRAM. You can achieve that on a consumer PC by using multiple GPUs, although performance will not be as good as having a single GPU with 96GB of VRAM. Swapping out to RAM during inference slows it down a lot.
On archs with unified memory (like Appleās latest machines), the CPU and GPU share memory, so you could actually find a system with very high memory directly accessible to the GPU. Mac Pros can be configured with up to 192GB of memory, although I doubt itād be worth it as the GPU probably isnāt powerful enough.
Also, the 83GB number I gave was with a hypothetical 1 bit quantization of Deepseek R1, which (if itās even possible) would probably be really shitty, maybe even shittier than Llama 7B.
but how can one enter TB zone?
Data centers use NVLink to connect multiple Nvidia GPUs. Idk what the limits are, but you use it to combine multiple GPUs to pool resources much more efficiently and at a much larger scale than would be possible on consumer hardware. A single Nvidia H200 GPU has 141 GB of VRAM, so you could link them up to build some monster data centers.
Nivida also sells prebuilt machines like the HGX B200 which can have 1.4TB of memory in a single system. Thatās less than the 2.6TB for unquantized deepseek, but for inference only applications, you could definitely quantize it enough to fit within that limit with little to no quality lossā¦ so if youāre really interested and really rich, you could probably buy one of those for your home lab.
If all you care about is response times, you can easily do that by just using a smaller model. The quality of responses will be poor though, and itās not feasible to self host a model like chatgpt on consumer hardware.
For some quick math, a small Llama model is 7 billion parameters. Unquantized thatās 4 bytes per parameter (32 bit floats), meaning it requires 28 billion bytes (28 gb) of memory. You can get that to fit in less memory with quantization, basically reducing quality for lower memory usage (use less than 32 bits per param, reducing both precision and memory usage)
Inference performance will still vary a lot depending on your hardware, even if you manage to fit it all in VRAM. A 5090 will be faster than an iPhone, obviously.
ā¦ But with a model competitive with ChatGPT, like Deepseek R1 weāre talking about 671 billion parameters. Even if you quantize down to a useless 1 bit per param, thatād be over 83gb of memory just to fit the model in memory (unquantized itās ~2.6TB). Running inference over that many parameters would require serious compute too, much more than a 5090 could handle. This gets into specialized high end architectures to achieve that performance, and itās not something a typical prosumer would be able to build (or afford).
So the TL; DR is no
Iāve been on Silverblue (well, Kinoite) for quite a while now, and the only issue I remember having was that I had to use flatseal once to give steam access to an external drive when adding a new library folder.
Everything seems to work fine. Iāve never been prevented from playing a game when I wanted to due to immutability or flatpak issues.
Maybe Iām in the minority here but Iām not a huge fan of the recent trend of sex in mainstream video games. Besides the janky awkwardness of polygons, thereās something off-putting to me about my character having sex. Am I supposed to be pretending that itās me as I watch the animation happening? When I play a game (esp. an RPG) I can get really immersed in the experience and feel like the mouse/controller is an extension of my hand, shooting fireballs and whatnot. So is it also supposed to be an extension of my penis when my character starts having sex? Am I supposed to be jacking off for maximum immersion?
In movies itās different because when a character in a movie has sex, the audience understands that theyāre watching someone else do it. Iāve never seen a movie where Iām supposed to pretend like Iām the main character and Iām the one having sex. (Hardcore Henry notwithstanding)
I have nothing against porn or adult games as their own thing, but encountering it in a regular game always throws me out of the immersion. Coming from a mainstream studio, it also just feels like a desperate cash grab aimed at horny teenagers more than anything else, even if itās nothing more than a short fade to black.
Just played for a few hours on my Steam Deck and yeah it does feel a lot like Fallout, but with extra steps. Itās very polished and Iām sure Iāll have a lot of fun with it eventually, but so far Iāve been disappointed with the little Iāve seen.
I got the game for free though, so I donāt feel too bad lol
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Based on the pro Trump people in my life, Iāve seen two classes:
Those in denial and ignorant in general (donāt really follow the news), who donāt believe for example that Trump is deporting people without due process, and blatantly violating the law and constitution.
Those who are so sucked into the MAGA own-the-libs circle-jerk that even when presented with the facts and proof of Trump doing something blatantly illegal, will usually retort with something like āoh so when the Democrats do it itās okay, but now the Trump is doing it itās wrong??? You fucking communist!ā
Both I believe are the result of being fed far right propaganda by YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, etc. Itās the only explanation I have. These arenāt random people I donāt know. These are people I love and have known my whole life.
It hurts to see, and I donāt see a way to help them that doesnāt involve ruining those relationships. I avoid talking about politics around them because I know itās going to make me resent them, and I donāt want that.