I suppose doubling down on being an utter useless fool is still easier on the ego than owning up to having negligently murdered your own daughter.

So he’s a coward too. Lovely.

…Rather them than me.

I used to boycott Tesla. I still do, but I used to, too.

Oh, you magnificent bastard!

Well, that was… Profoundly disturbing in a way I haven’t seen since dodging a Reaper on foot in ME3.

Yup, that sounds like Trump’s spiritual advisor, all right. On the other hand, he’s not looking to render the poor down for biofuel production unlike Thiel’s Guru Yarwin, so there’s that I guess.

Meanwhile, the FBI apparently has plenty of resources to run around persecuting people not for their actions, but for their environmental views. Forget neo-nazis and traitors, who clearly only wants what’s best for their country - the lovable little scamps. /s

Skyrim can be played as either, though I personally do prefer 1st person in the case of Skyrim. I specifically said ‘3rd person RPG’ because the point I was making wasn’t limited to just Skyrim, and anything played 3rd person is obviously where it’s important to my experience of, ah… the game. Yes, totally of the game.

For me it’s not even about gender identity or role playing. If I’m going to spend 200 hours in a 3rd person RPG looking at a character’s ass, that ass had better be female.

This is my surprise face: (・―・)

“…and a great deal of patience as you wait for each NPC to formulate their replies. In the meantime, they’ll just be standing there looking at you with glassy eyes, smiling.”

I don’t, no. I do wonder how many pounds of cocaine a person has to snort to make a statement like that without vomiting from abject self-loathing in the process though.

This is some serious world class assholery.

Apparently, slashing their budgets to the tune of $660 million, will:

“…strengthen the food system for schools and childcare institutions…”

Do you guys think they realize just how full of shit they sound?

Thing is, I really don’t see how that’d work for any useful scenario. Even in this very limited case, natural language processing and response generation is definitely off-loaded to a remote server farm. It certainly isn’t running on the console. TTS for a single characters voice could - but likely isn’t - be done on the hardware, but as I mentioned elsewhere, the voice models for modern text-to-speech synthesis are very, very large. Typically gigabytes of data - per voice. Completely unrealistic for any meaningful game.

Even if all those trained models existed (they don’t - and making one is considerably more work and expense than having a voice actor just deliver a fixed set of lines), I doubt any consumer would be amused by a multi-terabyte download.

Even as it is, the response latency is hilariously bad. I imagine players having to wait seconds for each NPC response would fly as well as a lead brick.

Interesting point, although I don’t see how you’d manage to run modern TTS (the models can get very large, and that’s per voice; as an example Parler-TTS’s mini model is 800Mb, the HQ model is 2.3Gb - for one voice) + a LLM for content synthesis on any personal hardware, console or not. The storage requirements alone would make that grossly infeasible.

Does anybody actually want that, ever?

Thanks, buddy. I appreciate it.

I have no idea why Milei and Trump though that play would work, but I guess you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Of course, geopolitics isn’t a sport, and misses tend to permanently piss other people off.

Anyway, what’s left on the list of places and peoples Trump hasn’t tried to fuck over yet? Belize?

So let me get this straight: He’s against vaccines, but in favor of administering steroids to children? Okay, relax Satan.

Even though anon took credit for it.

Not that I’m doubting you, but do you have a source for that? It’d be a pretty valuable addition of the thread.