I'm surprised you feel you need that much. Personally, I'm tinkering on a 7900XTX, with 24Gb of VRAM. I can't run the massive new models, like the latest Deepseek Flash at 400+ Gb, but neither can 192Gb. Means my context isn't unlimited, but I'm able to run even big local models like Qwen3.8 at Q4_K_M with a context of 64K, which is enough when paired with a front end like Hermes that can run compaction and invoke subagents. Honestly, I'd describe 24Gb as a sweet spot for local AI usage, 32Gb sounds like comfortable headroom for a larger context window, or even multiple heads.

To be fair, I guess it is unified memory, and it doesn't sound like you're running it on a dedicated machine, so maybe the other stuff you're running is pushing past 8Gb and giving you less space for AI than me. But 128Gb still sounds like wild excess to me, well into the diminishing returns of slightly more accurate rounding and needlessly large context.

I think in this case the origin of "-cel" is a portmanteau, but its usage has shifted to a suffix. "Codecel" isn't a portmanteau of "coder celibate", it's become a mockery of incels to use it as a suffix for "loser who's obsessed with this thing".

Haha, agreed, the two are contradictory, I don't think it's a very stable or effective worldview. You can see how stuff like Alpha Male comes out of that. "If women only like badasses who are mean to them, I'll deliberately be a badass who's mean to women". I've heard it said that the best advice for an incel is to just... find a real hobby, work on yourself, find some real happiness and become an interesting person who's not obsessed with women and sex, and maybe you'll cross paths with someone who might genuinely like you down the line. And that advice definitely checks out, blaming women for everything wrong in your life isn't a way to attract anyone, but they tend to misdiagnose the problem. Definitely not a fun rabbit hole.

Anyway, happy I could help out! Enjoy your new cursed internet knowledge.

Oh, interesting. Looking at your comment history, I'll give you the benefit of a doubt that you're unaware of incel subculture.

On its face, you're right that the term is fine, involuntary celibate should mean something like "single", or maybe "virgin", which I wouldn't use as an insult either. In practice however, those who self-identify as incels tend to be extreme, and have a lot of hate for women. It's like an extremist version of the "girls always pick the bad boys, nice guys finish last" ideology. They're also the origin of other harmful ideas, like "Alpha/Beta/Sigma male" culture, the kind that someone like Andrew Tate takes advantage of.

So to go back to the suffix, which I described as "someone obsessed with something", it's referring to this obsession with sex and hating women in a derogatory way, which is much more deserving of mockery than just being celibate.

Nigel Farage started a byelection for himself, as a political maneuver to prove he still has the people's support after a recent scandal involving taking a lot of undisclosed money from some crypto billionaire, in an area his party dominates.

Seeing it as a sham, every other party has stepped out, leaving the race entirely between Nigel Farage.... and Count Binface. If every other party potentially votes for Count Binface, he'd win with 60+% of the vote, meaning there's a non-zero chance he takes the seat of the next anticipated Prime Minister, which would be unbelievably funny.

No matter how it goes though, it's taken Nigel's decent political maneuver, and turned it into an absolute farce. There's no pride in barely beating Count Binface, this is the most political coverage he's ever gotten and it's honestly pretty devastating for Nigel Farage's reputation. Here's hoping he wins, which would be even better.

Man, AI agents are remarkably bad at "self-awareness" like this, I've used it to configure some networking on a Raspberry Pi, and found myself reminding it frequently, "hey buddy, maybe don't lock us out of connecting to this thing over the network, I really don't want to have to wipe the thing because it's running a headless OS".

It's a perfect example of the kind of thing that "walk or drive to wash your car?" captures. I need you to realize some non-explicit context and make some basic logical inferences before you can be even remotely trusted to do anything important without very close expert supervision, a degree of supervision that almost makes it totally worthless for that kind of task because the expert could just do it instead.

Alright, I'll bite and be devil's advocate here.

As someone who has studied the Bible fairly closely and cares about it, this is no surprise. I'll give a few scattered points here, and you'll also have to pardon me, as this is from the top of my head, I only have so much time to burn on this today.

#1 The Bible is not first and foremost a "historical documentary" in the modern sense. The very idea of a historical account striving for objective unbiased reality is fairly recent historically, and the Bible is meant to be a religious text that's trying to teach you something.

I'll give an example. At the end of most of the gospels, there's a Roman guard, who reacts in wonder to the death of Jesus. In each account, he marvels aloud, saying something that caps off the themes of each gospel. As a reader, I don't believe that each apostle happened to be by a different guard that happened to say the perfect thing. Maybe one apostle saw a guard in the distance with a look on his face? Maybe there was no guard at all? The historical veracity of this detail doesn't really matter. The story is accurate in the major points, that Jesus died on a cross, etc, but the small details like this are full of embellishments and storytelling. Even in tiny details you wouldn't expect, details like numbers have symbolic significance. Ancient Jewish readers were aware of what was happening here, and this wasn't considered a lie or a devastating contradiction just like we don't think modern writers are liars for using exaggeration, metaphors, and sarcasm.

#2 The Biblical authors are aware there are contradictions. For example, there's a case where a ritual meal is originally supposed to be boiled. Later, the same meal is described as being roasted. Both of these cases are divine law given by God. I'd argue this change was because Israel was no longer fleeing through the desert, and so could prepare the meal in a slower way.

Much later in the Bible, an especially good King is described as being "so faithful that he roasts his meat in water". It's a Biblical author literally cracking a joke about a Biblical contradiction. These moments aren't some shocking gotcha to any reader paying attention.

#3 The Bible contradicts itself intentionally. It's an ancient Jewish way of teaching to have two rabbis take different stances, and argue publicly. Often, the truth of something is in the tension between two perspectives.

My favourite book in the Bible is Ecclesiastes, which takes a Nietzsche-esque stance that nothing we do matters, and life is terribly unfair. Bad things happen to good people and vice versa, so simply eat, drink, and be merry. It comes right after Proverbs, which is the classic book everyone quotes from about how doing good things leads to good things. The truth is somewhere in the middle. The books directly contradict, but are both true, being kind often leads to kindness, but life is also often unfair and out of our control. The best way to explain that is to state both sides, and let the reader sit on those two ideas and ponder them.

In summary, this collection of contradictions is a great visualization, and I love it for those obstinate people who are deep in the Dunning-Kruger effect with the Bible. But for those who actually pay attention and study, this isn't anything revelatory. When someone says the Bible is inerrant and has "no mistakes", they (hopefully) mean that they believe it's inspired by God, and everything in it has some value, even if they may not understand every detail. I would hope that they don't mean that there are literally no contradictory statements, as that's objectively untrue.

The part you're missing is that it's the Feywild, often known for trickery and being literal with language. I.E. The classic "can I have your name?" being a Fey asking to steal your identity.

In the Feywild specifically, the DM's pun could have literal power in that the characters would take a literal fall, and players in the Feywild should be prepared for such shenanigans.

I'm surprised Bazzite isn't higher on the list, here, it really seems like the OS I hear about whenever Linux gaming comes up.

I'd recommend you get some practice identifying and proving AI generated images. I agree this has a bit of that "look", but in this case I'm quite certain it's just repeated image compression/a cheap camera. Here's the major details I looked at after seeing your comment:

• The grass at the bottom left. AI is frequently sloppy with little details and straight lines, usually the ones in the background. In this case, you can look at any blade of grass and follow it, and its path makes sense. The same happens with the lines in the tiles, the water stains, etc.
• The birthmark on the large brown dog. In this case, this is a set of three photos, which gives us an easy way to spot AI. AI generated images start from random noise, so you'd never get the exact same birthmark, consistent across different angles, from a prompt like "large brown dog with white birthmark on chest". Spotting a change in the birthmark, or a detail like it, would be a dead giveaway, but I can't spot any.
• There are other tricks as well, such as looking for strange variations in contrast and exposure from the underlying noise, but those are more difficult to explain in text. Corridor Digital has some good videos demonstrating it with visual examples if you're interested, but suffice to say I don't pick up on that here either.

It's useful to be able to prove or disprove your suspicions, as well as to be able to back them up with something as simple as "this is AI generated, just look at the grass". Hope this helps!

This reads like a loading screen tip

Pretty much the answer I'd expect. In my most outlandish hopes, I'd love for this thing to serve as proper competition to the PS5, it's certainly more exciting than Xbox right now, and pretty much sounds like what MS is planning to try for the next Xbox anyway.

That's probably not likely, that kind of threat would require some really aggressive pricing, and Valve can't guarantee as much vendor lock-in money post-sale as Sony can. That said... man it'd be incredible to see Valve step into that near-monopoly as well and viably compete against both Switch and PS5, as they both pretty desperately need competition to keep them working for the consumer.

Hard to blame them. Proton is dang impressive, and if it works, it works.

Thank goodness, this just prevents them from acquiring additional housing.

Be exceptionally cautious of legislation like this, the housing market is becoming a more and more obvious bubble, companies like BlackRock are going to try to twist every legislation like this into a bailout. They'll want government to take the houses from them, by buying them all "at market rate", despite the reality that these firms would never be able to offload all those houses into the market without cratering the market rate.

I'll add some other good questions to ask yourself to catch AI:

1. Who's holding this camera? How are they getting this angle?
2. How is the camera work in the situation? AI tends to be smooth and even movements, like it's on a track and stabilized, unlike real footage in hectic scenarios.

The best part is, these are somewhat unlikely to be fixed in the near future, as footage looking "professional" is desirable for the AI companies, unlike gibberish text and questionable physics.

Well... duh. The guy runs a competing storefront who's only claims to fame are:

1. Spending a bunch of money for timed exclusivity and free giveaways, rather than building out core features.
2. They give devs a better cut than Steam to claim moral high ground.

... that's it, that's all the reasons to use Epic, unless you want to play Fortnite or participate in an Early Access period where they chose Epic to reduce the overwhelming amount of feedback like Hades.

Unfortunately, as far as succeeding in almost anything goes, this seems to be the meta. Even if these guys hate Trump and (very likely) recognize that he's wreaking havoc on the economy and really hurting their business with tariffs, for some reason, flattery gets you everywhere with Trump. Gifts and bribery get you very far with Trump. Trump makes decisions with his ego rather than for the good of the country. And it's substantially better for business/diplomacy/whatever for such a fickle and vindictive US president to like you.

Absolutely not how the world should be, but IMO it's up to democracy to oust Trump and not to let this madness happen again. Any time I see CEOs or world leaders flattering Trump like this, I can no longer tell the difference between utter morons and people who have just learned to play the game to manipulate Trump and get what they want. This is just how Trump-era politics work, to everyone's detriment.

Honestly, I don't hate the feature, it somewhat helps with the (YT created) problem of clickbait-y titles. But it hilariously has no understanding of satire that isn't spelled out clearly, exactly as you'd expect.

I've particularly enjoyed it summarizing some of Dunkey's videos, thinking games like "Piglet's Big Game" are proper horror titles. The feature would probably be better with community-driven descriptions, like twitter's community notes. Which would admittedly be even more sarcastic about Dunkey's videos, but at least the author would be in on the gag.

Already shared my thoughts on [email protected], but I am playing on Linux, so:

Been playing this, and it's great! Started right up at 9x resolution, wasn't too hard to setup a high quality texture pack, and the game is looking sharp at 4k/120 without any issues!

Things look great, and this launching with features like gyro aim, free cam, and QoL like fast climbing and skipping that damn rupee cutscene is phenomenal.

Also, man, can't wait to come back to this in a year or two with a randomizer and whatever other features they can pack in here.

I assumed you were exaggerating, but literally the first paragraph states they're "punting into the stratosphere" the "concept that you have to pay to play a game". What an insane false equivalency.

Pirating it is still illegal, and pretty much every game is cracked and distributable eventually, making it no different than this case. This reads like either a very uneducated reporter, or some kind of deliberate propaganda on behalf of tools like Denuvo.