

At least three, perhaps even four people.


At least three, perhaps even four people.


I also thought it looked abysmal relative to its hardware requirements. Low-poly objects, below average textures, poor effects like depth of field that looked like from a PS4 game, lots of pop-in (including every time there’s a cut in a cutscene), glitchy physics (again any time there’s a camera cut), bloated and poorly animated default Unreal Engine faces, etc.
It looked and ran so much worse than Star Wars Outlaws on my pretty powerful computer, which isn’t exactly lightweight title and also open world. Then again, Outlaws probably had 10x the budget and uses a bespoke engine, so it’s not exactly a fair comparison.
The turn-based combat is excellent, there’s other way of putting it, but the poor tech and the laughable exploration aren’t doing it any favors. I have to admit, I didn’t play it for long enough to be able to say anything about the story, but based what I’ve read, it seems like it’s very strong.
Either way, this is a game that sold pretty well, so even if I wasn’t blown away by it, it’s still awful what the people who made it have been going through since release.


Am Ende ist es eine Vertrauenssache. Vertraue ich diesen Menschen, mit denen ich teils seit vielen Jahren mehr oder minder intensive parasoziale Beziehungen pflege und auf die ich aufgrund der Natur solcher Beziehungen viele meiner eigenen Überzeugungen und Vorlieben projiziere? Eine auch nur annähernd zuverlässige Erkennung von KI-generierten Inhalten ist nämlich technisch nicht möglich. Gewissheit gibt es nicht.
Es gibt sicherlich unter diesen Kreativen auch welche, die - trotz lautstarker anderslautender Beteuerungen - KI heimlich für die Erstellung von Inhalten verwenden, selbst wenn das nur punktuell oder gelegentlich getan wird. Heimlich natürlich deswegen, weil man negative Reaktionen befürchtet. Jeder lügt einmal im Leben und biegt sich dann irgendwie im Kopf Rechtfertigungen zurecht (in diesem Fall: Stress, Zeitdruck, persönliche Umstände, kreative Flaute, es ist nur eine Recherchehilfe, nur für den ersten Entwurf, etc.), die er anderen nie zugestehen würde.
Es kann aber freilich als Konsument mental beruhigend sein, sich der Fiktion hinzugeben, dass es heutzutage noch Ecken im Netz gibt, die gänzlich sicher vor KI sind. Wenn man wirklich sicher sein will, dann kann man eigentlich nur noch Inhalte aus der Zeit vor der Veröffentlichung von ChatGPT in Erwägung ziehen. Es würde mich nicht wundern, wenn es schon eine “pre-AI” Subkultur irgendwo gibt oder bald geben wird. Eine etwas weniger sichere Methode, die ich pflege, ist, größtenteils Leuten zu folgen, die schon lange vor KI aktiv waren und die immer noch erkennbar Dinge in gleicher Qualität veröffentlichen. Manchmal passiert es freilich, dass diese Kreativen ganz offen auf den KI-Karren aufspringen, mit sehr vorhersehbaren Folgen.
Hinweis: Dieser Kommentar ist gänzlich ohne KI entstanden. Ich hab tatsächlich noch nie KI einen Beitrag von mir im Internet schreiben lassen, weil mir es verdammt viel Spaß macht, selbst meine eigenen dusseligen geistigen Ergüsse in Worte zu fassen und mit anderen zu teilen (ob sie es wollen oder nicht). Das könnte natürlich eine Lüge sein, entsprechend müsst ihr mir vertrauen, dass ich es ehrlich so meine.


They win no matter how this AI thing pans out. Probably the company that is the safest from an AI bubble bursting (although not the safest in general due to their geographical location).


Both are from Taiwan though.


Not gonna happen any time soon. The barrier of entry is massive.
Making decent drivers alone is a humongous undertaking: You have to catch up to the work of several decades - and it’s a moving target. That’s on top of just how difficult it is to design good silicon. Just look at how Chinese GPU manufacturers are struggling to match low-end cards from 10 years ago (even though they are lying and claiming they are matching high-end cards from one generation ago) with cards that have many times the power draw and cost - and all of that with far worse games compatibility.
Hell, even the giant that is (soon to be probably: was) Intel failed to leave a mark in the dedicated GPU business and they actually have decades of experience making (pretty shitty) integrated GPUs and (even shittier) drivers for them.


Are you a professional contrarian? What are you doing?


Game development is messy. You can do everything right and still end up with a game that is less fun than the one that it’s inspired by. It’s still solid though and the more grounded and realistic spin is not a terrible idea.


He is stupid or else he wouldn’t be ruining his country and his legacy by unsuccessfully trying to subjugate a much smaller and weaker neighboring nation.
We shouldn’t be pretending like he’s some ingenious mastermind. He lucked into some successes, but it won’t last and is already falling apart. The problem is that he’ll still be able to cause a lot of damage until his house of cards finally comes crashing down on top of him - and who knows what will happen afterwards.


I will not vote for their equivalent party in Germany for this reason as well. They are also commonly repeating Russian talking points and don’t want to help Ukraine at all.


None of this is negatively impacted by being a NATO member.


Defenseless children.


I won’t give them another Cent myself for numerous reasons, but I was just mocking your grandiose declaration.


Perhaps, but that’s how humanity works. We always copy and slightly iterate on things others have created. It’s one of our biggest strengths.


I’ll freely admit that I’m willing to give it a shot regardless, but I might be holding my nose.


Für versuchten Mord braucht es den niederen Beweggrund der Tötungsabsicht. Der ist aber hier nicht vorhanden. Wenn es durch das Verabreichen von KO-Tropfen zu einem Tod kommt könnte ich mir aber eine Anklage wg. fahrlässiger Tötung und/oder Totschlag vorstellen.


They’ll never financially recover from losing you as their customer.


If there are photos of the ships, you can tell by how low they are sitting in the water.


Interesting. I actually remember this game very fondly. It’s a well made mid-budget game for kids, in my opinion. Nothing groundbreaking, but charming, atmospheric and with fun gameplay. I was young when it came out, definitely part of the target audience (despite not caring about Harry Potter), but even revisiting it as an adult, I still found it to be enjoyable. Reading the Wikipedia article, I’m actually surprised by how low its review scores are.
How did your magazine cover it?
We aren’t actually using on or off either, but rather different levels of electrical charge. If there is more electric charge past a certain threshold being picked up, it’s interpreted as a 1 or on, if it’s beneath this defined threshold, it’s interpreted as a 0 or off.
1 and 0 are abstractions, not the physical reality, which is messy and analog. We are forcing this analog reality into a binary state by classifying it.