why bother being a game dev in 2026? there's so many games already, can (you) do something so special, that it could be worthwhile amongst the giant see of games already out and in development? And I'm not talking about if you could make a living out of it, or not, but if you could make something that's truly artistically special.
>>107811034(nta)ok then just lie down and let yourself die then.the core element of a good game is a good gameplay loop btwjust look at shit like plants and zombies
>>107811034why should I have to? would you go up to the guy doing woodworking in his garage and ask him how HIS coffee table was artistically special and stands out in a sea of great coffee tables? It doesn’t have to.I can just make the game I want for me. get out of my garage.
>>107811073I had fulltime game devs in mind writing OP. Also the woodworking comparison doesn't work out, because coffee tables are (also) utility commodities, and not purely artistic, like games.
>>107811166when people want a coffee table as an untility object they buy from ikea for 20 bucksnot from a woodworker for 2000
>>107811034Some game genres, like deck builders, have ravenous fan bases that will endlessly look for new titles once they’ve figured out their current one. They don’t need it to be super original, they want a variation on the mechanics they know that will challenge them. Other genres, like horror, are more artistic. Your mechanics are less important, and it’s more about presentation and the story to tell. We’ve not yet come even close to running out of stories to tell.Other games like Factorio, RimWorld or Dwarf Fortress come to rule entire genres, typically due to fantastic modding support, well designed simulation elements, and a lot of freedom for players to create their own challenges. These are a sort of escapism/puzzle for autist types.There’s also more casual puzzler type games like Mini Metro or the Zachtronics games. You can only figure out a puzzle once, so people who enjoy this experience go looking for more games similar, that are new.If anything, I think the game market OP most succinctly captures is AAA. They’re neither innovative in story, nor in mechanics.In short, the game market is only about 30 years old. Thinking we’ve already exhausted the possibilities is a bit silly. For a game to be remembered and considered special, it has to do one of these things, ideally multiple:- Innovate on, create or synthesize fun mechanics- Possess impactful and unique visuals- Tell a story that is either compelling and well written, or is told in a unique and compelling way.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Based nvidia making our current hardware better instead of forcing us to upgrade like AMD.
>>107810339>why fix drivers that makes your computer crash every 30 seconds when we can do whatever this gay shit isTruly based of nshitia bravo
>>107810658Kek where does this meme even come from? I've been using a 4080S for over a year with zero driver issues. Can't even remember last time I had a BSoD.
>>107810680its a linux thing sir
>>107810680There were countless horror stories with the release of the 50 series, to the point the 40 series and prior were affected too.
>>107810757>there were countless horror stories made up by AMDjeetsftfy
>Read the sticky: >>105076684>GNU/Linux questions >>>/g/fglt>Windows questions >>>/g/fwt>PC building? >>>/g/pcbg>Programming questions >>>/g/dpt>Obsolete laptops >>/g/tpg>Cheap electronics >>>/g/csg>Server questions >>>/g/hsg>Buying headphones >>>/g/hpg>How to find/activate any version of Windows?https://rentry.org/installwindowsPrevious: >>107751130
>you are on your private desktop>family member comes over>hey anon, can I just look something up real quick?What do you do in this situation? Particularly if you don't want them seeing your browser history or stumbling onto your folders of 'questionable' images?>tell them to fuck off>go ahead, you don't care what they think>have a guest account prepared for this kind of scenario. However there is that slight knowing in their eyes as they wait and see you fumbling to log out of your account.
best tablet I can use for playing Team fight tactics with no lag? cause I've tried some of the cheaper chinese ones and wasted money to find out they dont last very long or have good processing power
Any recommended document scanner that's gentle with old photos?
>>107811186a flatbed
>>107810873tab s9, they're cheap and snapdragon
Discussion of Free and Open Source Diffusion ModelsPrev: >>107805470https://rentry.org/ldg-lazy-getting-started-guide>UIComfyUI: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUISwarmUI: https://github.com/mcmonkeyprojects/SwarmUIre/Forge/Classic/Neo: https://rentry.org/ldg-lazy-getting-started-guide#reforgeclassicneoSD.Next: https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnextWan2GP: https://github.com/deepbeepmeep/Wan2GP>Checkpoints, LoRAs, Upscalers, & Workflowshttps://civitai.comComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107811207hey thats my line you thief
>>107811135original has more sovl
>>107811231Whose line is it anyway?
>>107811031 >>107811093it certainly has potential:https://litter.catbox.moe/2kuse1bpjgofrolw.mp4https://litter.catbox.moe/yx2lxondp7xravrc.mp4
>>107811234Mission improbable: your only son becomes a tranny
>COMPUTERS ARE EXPENSIVE NOWno there are not poorfag, there are plenty of FREE lga 775 pentium or am2 athlon systems in the trash you can dig out or if you have actual cash you can get yourself a SANDY BRIDGE system, something you dreamed of having a decade ago! now quit complaining.
What did you think the point of this thread was when you made it?
>just use 20 year old hardware brothis has always been the computing strategy of turdies and firstworld-poorfaggots
>be me>working at local county government as software dev about a decade ago>we have a jeet working on the team as well for unknown reasons>the jeet leaves and I'm assigned with modernizing an application he wrote, and converting it from PHP to C#>app is for tracking how the county commissioners vote on approving/rejecting contracts, should only need to track if they're approved, denied, or still pending a decision>instead of just counting if two of the three county commissioners have voted to appprove, he created the most convoluted calculation system I have ever seen>a vote to approve is 1, a vote to reject is 4, abstaining from a vote is 13, being absent for a vote is 40>if you were paying attention, each number is the previous number times 3 plus 1>jeet does this because he can uniquely identify what each vote is even after turning them into numbers>almost brilliant in a retard savant way, he found a way to not have to learn what an enum is>the PHP code then has the most complicated spider web of ifs and else ifs I've ever seen, calculating if the contract is approved or not>I turn his 1000+ line of nonsense into 12 lines of C#>mfwShare your horror stories, bonus points if they involve jeets shitting out unmaintainable spaghetti code
>>107810778>11 boards for white men and 60 boardustans for Hispanics and Sub-Saharan Africans
>small company, just got hired, still a bit of a newbie>got hired to replace other dev>his code is okay, sometimes a bit spaghetti-ey but mostly decent>two years in the company now>stumble upon the worst piece of code i've seen in my life>flawed logic, poorly named variables, copy pasted redundant shit, you name it, and it didn't work as it should>was this shit from his last day wtf>refactor the 200+ line retardation into a clean, elegant function>roasting the other guy in me head, feeling like a 300iq genius>suddently it dawns on me>i wrote that shit on week 1>look up the tickets, it was 100% on meIt was a humbling day
>>107797643footprints of what.....
>>107802018you know critical thinking is just a hr buzzword to avoid calling people retards
>>107811216then why is it that non jap asians are so fucking bad at it
Everything is already from China, but here we discuss the cheap chink shit you see on various sites.1st rule of /csg/: If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.Useful links>TWS IEM reviews: www.scarbir.com/>Guide: csg-guide.neocities.org/>Wiki: https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Chink_Shit_General>What headphones/earbuds should I buy?>>>/g/iemg>I want a cheap smartphone what should I buy?>>>/g/spg/>I want to buy some sort of emulation device>>>/vr/hhg/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107810434shipping?new customer deal but you have two objects in your cart so it applies the new customer deal to some other object? (the solution here it to buy a single item you want to spend the new customer bonus on so it does not scam you by using the good deal on a cheap item)
>>107810575I don't think so it looks like when I use the buy it now function it gives me the $15 priceI think I might be getting chinked
>>107809202ew. no.femboys don't have boobs and should never have boobs. that disqualifies you from being a femboy.
>>107789581>>107789581>tritium which is a passively glowing radioactive substance and banned outside of china for general public.remember when we could order tritium vial keychains
>>107811222oh shit i remember i wanted to try sounding and one of these was the only thing around
>Not sure what private trackers are all about?A private tracker is an invite-only torrent website. Each member shares common goals: collecting, preserving and discussing media.>Have a question?- FAQ https://archive.is/UVQkn- WIKI https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Private_trackers- NEWFAG PYRAMID https://inviteroute.github.io/graph or https://inviteroute.github.io/sheet/- STUDY https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/2F379FE0CB50DF502F0075119FD3E060- SPREADSHEET https://hdvinnie.github.io/Private-Trackers-Spreadsheet/- TEN CURRY COMMANDMENTS https://pastebin.com/raw/dBbdE73M- TEN NEON COMMANDMENTS https://pastebin.com/raw/Ud2pGYaE- RED SPAMMER'S BIBLE https://rentry.org/69zbxh4h- #ptg is on irc.sageru.org but it's pretty deadUse >>>/g/ptg as a link to find the /ptg/ thread.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107809765Curry tracker -> other curry trackers
>>107806807NBL is poo poo. worst tracker I ever joined.
>>107809763Myspleen has them sometimes but they only have an HBO airing of My Cousin Vinny and I don't think that's what you would want.
>>107809223I would have answered the same. I gave that answer to the same question in the past. But I was sleeping so you beat me to it.
/ptg/ isn't dead it's just sleeping
/lmg/ - a general dedicated to the discussion and development of local language models.Previous threads: >>107790430 & >>107776854►News>(01/05) Nemotron Speech ASR released: https://hf.co/blog/nvidia/nemotron-speech-asr-scaling-voice-agents>(01/04) merged sampling : add support for backend sampling (#17004): https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/17004>(12/31) HyperCLOVA X SEED 8B Omni released: https://hf.co/naver-hyperclovax/HyperCLOVAX-SEED-Omni-8B>(12/31) IQuest-Coder-V1 released with loop architecture: https://hf.co/collections/IQuestLab/iquest-coder>(12/31) Korean A.X K1 519B-A33B released: https://hf.co/skt/A.X-K1►News Archive: https://rentry.org/lmg-news-archive►Glossary: https://rentry.org/lmg-glossary►Links: https://rentry.org/LocalModelsLinks►Official /lmg/ card: https://files.catbox.moe/cbclyf.pngComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107811086?????????
>>107811086Did gpt2 write this?
>>107811086Read this with an indian accent, then it makes sense
>>107809009works fine for me, i use linux though and i've heard it's a different situation in windows
>>107811136damn. you're right.
Are you happy, AI fags?
>waaaaah I hate the companies forcing me to consume and updating every 6 months waaaaah>wtf let me consume!!!! I want consume now new shiny thing!!!!!!
>>107798255Isn’t the ram thing just a short term bottleneck tho created by some dicks?
>>107806052It must be nice to finally have a computer that fits in your purse
>>107810334>short termIt's short term in that the current orders will 'only' max out supply worldwide for 2-3 years. But surely these tech companies won't order any more after that, and RAM makers will lower their prices for consumers.
>>107799424it's okay, i'll wait. video cards definitely won't double in price while I wait, again.
Now that graphics cards have played outWhat did you end up with as your forever card?
>>107810970There's nothing I really want to play aside from Onimusha and Phantom Blade Zero this year, after that it doesn't really matter anymore.
>>107810725Replace the thermal pads and paste and clean it with 91% isopropyl alcohol. It will last forever
>>107810725It's been cooked for AAA for 2 years now but if you don't care about that, just replace the fans when they die and change the thermal paste.
>>107810698I have a back up 5080I'll probably sell it though when peak gpu prices hit in a few months
>>107809831currently playing a remaster of a spiritual successor to a nintendo 64 series with a playstation controller i bought in 1999, at 144fps on linux
Fuck it, I am making a thread edition. I want some advice edition. The general can fizzle out after I get my advice edition. Pic not related edition.How to request advice:>Location (since pricing and availability may vary)>Budget>What exactly you're looking for (be as detailed as possible)>Previous gear and your thoughts on it>Open back wired headphones• Hifiman HE400se• Sennheiser HD 560S• Sennheiser HD 6XX (US)• FiiO FT1 ProComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Why do we need a DAC? I was telling my friend about my search for an amp/dac and he was asking me what the dac was for and I couldn't explain it to him I just know I need one. But why can't I just plug the headphone into an amp and that into my computer? Why is there a second box? Why don't they just make headphones able to work with amps directly? Why does the middle manager exist in the first place?
>>107811169computer speaks in digital (1s and 0s)dacs eat those 1s and 0s and shit out an analog sound (sine wave shaped poop)amps take that poop and smear it across the wall, making it much bigger and noticeable but still same shapehope you enjoy my writing saar
>>107811185Why can't the computer just give the amp the analog sound? can you buy something like a soundcard or dongle that I could plug into my computer and then plug the amp into that? Basically I want to know if there is some workaround to a STACK other than buying an all in one product.
>>107811197if computer has audio jack, then dacyour phone have dac so speakers worksaar please understand, if you are use the digital audio file, dac is present no matter whatyou can have small dac, big dac, tower dac, amp dac, everything
>>107811210Ahhh naruhodo, thank you for clearing that up.
>The HP EliteBoard G1a, a fully functional PC installed inside a keyboard, has been shown off at CES 2026. It uses AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 Krackan Point CPUs and can support up to 64 GB RAM, 2 TB storage and power two 4K displays.Mac Mini is now obsolete
>>107807784by the way this thing benches lower than the new iphone air
>>107810293>>107810322>>107808214You're supposed to use it with AR glasses
>>107810208imagine if you shat in a toilet instead
>>107810848That's still 2 things, tranny
>>107807784
Enterprise-tan editionprevious: >>107706943READ THE (temp)WIKI! & help by contributing:https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Home_server/hsg/ is about learning and expanding your horizons. Know all about NAS? Learn virtualization. Spun up some VMs? Learn about networking by standing up a OPNsense/PFsense box and configuring some VLANs. There's always more to learn and chances to grow. Think you’re god-tier already? Setup OpenStack and report back.>What software should I run?Install Gentoo. Or whatever flavor of *nix is best for the job or most comfy for you. Jellyfin/Emby/Plex to replace Netflix, Nextcloud to replace Googlel, Ampache/Navidrome to replace Spotify, the list goes on. Look at the awesome self-hosted list and ask.>Why should I have a home server?De-botnet your life. Learn something new. Serving applications to yourself, your family, and your frens feels good. Put your tech skills to good use for yourself and those close to you. Store their data with proper availability redundancy and backups and serve it back to them with a /comfy/ easy to use interface.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
how do I know I am getting a good deal on a micro pc? what thinkcenter, optiplex, prodesk generation should I aim for?
Anyone here use Unraid?TrueNAS/ZFS seems to be the standard choice on the interwebs for any custom NAS setup but for my specific purposes I'm kinda leaning towards Unraid. I'm I being retarded, or is there genuine merit to choosing Unraid?
>>107811115whats "custom" about it? the fact you install it yourself?
>>107811148yeah i meant as opposed to an all-in-one hardware and software solution like synology
more elf
>As the first large online gaming platform to require facial age checks for users of all ages to access chat, this implementation is our next step toward what we believe will be the gold standard for communication safety.>Age-based chat makes it easy for users to communicate with others in similar age groups for age-appropriate conversations.>Images and video used for Facial Age Estimation are deleted immediately after they’ve been securely processed.>Users who want to appeal their age check can verify their age using alternative methods, including ID verification or parental controls that allow parents to update their child’s age.>In the coming months, we will require age checks for creators to access Roblox Studio’s real-time collaboration features and update our policies around Roblox communities.https://corp.roblox.com/newsroom/2026/01/roblox-age-checks-required-to-chat
>>107810846https://lzt.market/roblox/?order_by=price_to_up
>>107799708> Facial Age Estimation are deleted immediately after they’ve been securely processedSecure processing will take anywhere between 1-10 years, comparing successive scans.Unless there’s a bug, where it’s copied into a /tmp directory for “training” or “testing” purposes.How much storage will I need to hold all the facial scans when they inevitably get leaked?
>>107810432> appImagine running an app on your phone in 2026. LOL!> gee, why does it need access to GPS, my camera, microphone, and entire contact list, with cellular data?
>>107810199>sharing ANY IRL data online is the highest tier of mental illness I'll never stand for.What a boring life
>>107799708>Requirement for an ID to use the internet will be herald in by a fucking lego game whose primary userbase is noncesGotta give it to the yids on this one, that's pretty crafty. Also, you must be +18 to browse 4chan.>>107802201The CEO is a dumb nigger, he could've solved most of the platform's issues with nonces by rangebanning the third world. >>107805255It's self inflicted too. Some poor fag (22) got his ass kicked/ambushed by a group of teens when he went to a uni to meet up with a 19 year old.
