u/BlueScreenJunky

I feel like I'm the only person on earth who actually enjoyed the movies.

I mean the story isn't anything special (hell I don't even remember it), but it had a bunch of good action scenes and a fun collection of characters in your run off the mill sci-fi universe. This is more than enough to entertain me for 3 hours.

It might mean (relatively) affordable hardware sooner than 2028 though

Also when the bubble pops, AI companies will need to adjust their pricing to actually start making a profit instead of relying on their current infinite money glitch, which might cause people to use AI more responsibly.

Both, you can choose between several cameras including cockpit and "bumper" cam. It's a really good game if you liked wipeout, and the "retro" graphics mean it can easily run at 90 or 120 fps at full resolution even without a very high end PC. 

You're right of course, and that's why I'm not buying a foldable phone, but it's really all about trade-offs and compromises. If you really really want a phone that folds, you have to be willing to accept that the foldable screen is a wear part and will eventually die through normal use.

As an example, my previous OLED TV (not an early gen either, it was an LG 55C7V) started showing very distracting burn in after barely 5 years of what I consider normal use. When you think about it buying a TV that only lasts 5 years is absolutely not reasonable. And yet I bought another OLED to replace it, knowing it will suffer the same fate because I really really want an OLED TV so I'm willing to accept the (admittedly unreasonable) compromise of having to buy a new one in 5 years because OLED screens are a wear part, and will by design deteriorate through normal use.

What do you think about the controllers ? In terms of comfort, tracking, and haptic feedback. 

Everyone focuses on picture clarity and FOV, but as a former Reverb G2 user I think having great controllers like the CV1 or Q3 compared to "good enough" controllers like the G2 actually makes a big difference. 

In my experience there's no such thing as starting from scratch in production. I've worked on a "full rewrite" twice at different companies, and both times it started by adding a new a new feature that was just to big to be done reliably in the 10 year old procedural "in house framework" legacy project.

Then we wrote adapters so that the feature could be used from the old legacy project, and new or reworked feature were added to the new project over the course of many years, until one day we realized that almost everything was ported on the new project and it wouldn't take much effort to completely remove the legacy platform.

In both cases it went pretty smoothly but took over 3 years. 

Oh ok, I completely misunderstood the idea of the spectrum then, good to know.

In my defense I think the notion of "spectrum" is mostly either a US or English language thing, in my country it's mostly just called "autism" so I only got it from reddit and US TV shows.

Everyone experiences similar things from time to time, but it doesn’t indicate having a brain that functions entirely differently for the average brain.

I think that's part of the issue with the discourse on reddit. People seem to assume that needing to consciously make efforts to blend in is a sign of autism. It's not. I don't doubt there are "social chameleons" who do it effortlessly or even unconsciously, and I don't doubt that for people on the spectrum it takes a completely different dimension, but for most neurotypical people it does require thinking and effort.

That looks pretty straightforward when you look at this map.

The real fun begins when you add DST on top of it : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_country

Isn't the whole idea of the "spectrum" that we're all on it somewhere ? (apparently it does not, see u/RedRisingNerd 's comment below)

I mean unless I and everyone I know is autistic, "masking" is something we all do. We all have times we'd rather be left alone and people we don't want to talk to, and we all have to pretend to be nice (or not) in order to fit, whether it's at work or in a social context.

My guess is it's just easier for some people than other, but I don't think it's completely effortless for anyone.

How does the speed feel?

I have not played the game, but from that video you posted ? Pretty terrible to be honest.

For comparison, look at the trailer from BallisticNG (which also supports VR), it gives a much, much better sense of speed : https://store.steampowered.com/app/473770/BallisticNG/

Am I correct in my understanding that it's only for devices produced after April 2025 when the borked keys were issued ? I mean that's still a LOT of devices but at least it's easy to know if it's potentially affected.

Also I don't understand how building something that uses the internet and has no mechanism to revoke a certificate is a thing... This was bound to happen sooner or later.

It might be used as an argument by people who already hate on PHP, but there's no reason for it to damage the reputation of the language, vulnerabilities are part of the life of any software, and they fixed it reasonably fast after an exploit was found and before it was actively used.

Could they have done better by fixing the underlying issue sooner ? Sure. But considering their operaring budget it's hard to blame them, and much much bigger companies have had unmatched vulnerabilities without it affecting their long term reputation. 

The point is that a stay at home mom who's raising kids and doing all the chores, someone who's volunteering full time for a non profit, or someone who's actively looking for a job are not just "not working", they're doing unpaid labor. 

Should it be paid ? Ideally maybe, realistically probably not. 

There's a theory that as our AI overlords take white collar jobs and blue collar jobs keep getting replaced by mechanical automation, unpaid labor will end up being the bulk of our activity. Which will then prompt society to seriously consider universal basic income, which when you think about it is kind of a way to compensate you for all your unpaid labor. 

Well u/Matinee_Lightning never said it should be paid. Life is full of unpaid labor (cleaning the house, cooking at home, doing groceries, raising children...), and it's good to acknowledge that. Doesn't mean everyone needs to be compensated for doing it.

Honestly not sure about that.

Quest 4 will need to be much larger to accommodate larger lenses to achieve a wider FOV so it won't have that "glasses" form factor anyway and will be heavier. Since the headset itself is heavier it will require a headstrap, and ideally a counterweight at the back to be more comfortable.

Also since it will need to be closed off for immersion, it means that without something warming up the lenses they will fog up as soon as you play active games, so having the compute and a fan in the headset is not a bad choice for a full HMD.

So I think they might go the Quest Pro / Steam Frame route, and have the compute in the headset, and the battery at the back.

It's also entirely possible they go the "puck" route. I would love to have it be interchangeable so you could use the same puck with either glasses of a full headset, or upgrade/replace either the compute or the display separately, but I highly doubt that this is a consideration for them, and I suspect they may have a new puck that only works with the Q4.

Absolutely, he's very muscular with a healthy amount of fat, I have no doubt this is pretty much the ideal body for MMA fighting.

However it's most likely very far from the ideal body for running a marathon.

At the moment I push. Yes. 

2 days later, that's another story.

It was always going to lead us there. It doesn't take a genius to realize your company is better off renting hardware than selling it.

The thing is up until now, even if someone tried to do that, there would always be a competitor who would think it's a good idea to sell hardware to those pesky customers, so Nvidia had to sell consumer GPU. But now with the AI craze they've got unlimited money, and it turns out when you have unlimited money all you have to do is buy all the world's production of semi conductor to make sure consumers can't own anything. 

Wait what ? I loved my minidisc player. It was a fantastic upgrade from cassette walkmans.

Of course they were made completely obsolete the minute flash based MP3 players became a thing, but for a few years minidisc was really cool and useful to me.

True, but 3D TV gave us 120Hz screens, and I'll forever be grateful for that. 

This feels like a very niche use case.

Either you're using a CLI tool occasionaly from the command line (or as part of your CI pipeline or something) and I can't imagine the few ms of starting up PHP making a noticeable difference, and it wouldn't be worth the tradeoff of keeping a PHP pool in memory.

Or you're calling a CLI tool repeatedly from another service to process stuff, and then maybe you're better off with a long running PHP daemon running at all times (so you not only skip starting up PHP but also all the bootstrapping of your application) and a processing queue.

I mean I'm sure there are cases where what you describe would make sense, but I think it's rare enough that nobody ever bothered to solve it and rather just built their CLI tool in Go or something.

That's the issue with calling everything AI.

• An NPC hides behind a crate in Half Life in 1998 using a simple script ? That's AI
• Upscale an image using a neural network ? AI
• Autocomplete the next word in some text using a large language model ? AI
• Generate a whole fucking game out of nothing ? AI

I don't understand how any game developed by more than 3 people doesn't automatically include a generic AI disclosure of some sort. No matter what the directives where or the mission statement of your company is, you can be absolutely sure that AI has been used by someone at some point or another.

Something like "AI tools and AI assistants were used as part of the development of the game" and you're done. As I said it's obviously true of any game developed in 2026, and it's generic enough that it could cover pretty much anything from upscaling or github copilot autocomplete to generating assets with AI.

Then if you deliberately used AI for whole chunks of your game like generating the story from scratch, voice acting, soundtrack, or modeling whole characters you can get more specific in the disclaimer.

Yeah I think /u/Strange_Dust7128 added AI to their game (as in they programmed the npcs to behave a certain way) and people got upset because "AI is bad". 

This is kind of hilarious. 

Oh yeah absolutely. I'm pretty sure the new middle class will be public facing jobs or manual jobs that can't be easily automated, while white collar jobs will dwindle, with a few people making a bunch of money and the rest of us ending up either unemployed or as a meat proxy for LLMs.