Adobe sucks balls as a company but, my man…

CachyOS is an arch based distro like Steam OS. I use the handheld version, so we may have similar experiences trying to run xbplay

I don’t have a steam deck, but on my LeGo I am using XBplay that connects remotely to my Xbox and that’s how I’ve been game-passing. (Running Cachy, btw)

Oohkay dude, I’m not looking for license to dump on the guy, I I just said “that’s kind of a shitty and out of touch thing to do”. If you agree with that, the continued argument you keep mounting with all the irrelevant shit you’re flinging in seems like a really strange way to show it.

It doesn’t matter who he is, you’re submitting irrelevant information into the discussion. If anyone had said “Hey fired Microsoft employees, something I find really helps with depression is the Microsoft XBox Series X”, it would just be an incredibly stupid thing to say to people who just got fired from Microsoft. Can we not agree by the rules of regular decency and common sense that that is incredibly tone deaf, regardless of your social bubble, or level of management?

I appreciate your compassion and all but like, they just got fired from that place, and the guy is like “to alleviate the pain of being fired from GloboCorp, GloboCorp is giving the former GloboTherapy team a 30 day free trial of GloboCorp brand GloboTherapy”.

Like if I got fired from Pizza Hut and they were like “but here’s a 10% off coupon on your next order” I’m not fucking ordering Pizza Hut again for the rest of my life, and that’s just pizza hut

OK I propose any author who writes about an AI like it has thoughts should be immediately replaced with an AI. Time to sweep this shit out.

Please keep in mind Jack Dorsey is just some guy who’s had the same shit idea twice.

I mean, yes, there are AI companies, but if you want to be creative with AI these days, it’s actually not owned by the same few people. There are thousands of open source models that can be run on a midrange consumer GPU at home.

But most people who weren’t making art/music/code before weren’t making art/music/code because they weren’t interested in it. Having a tool that magically makes a bunch of shit you already didn’t have any interest in that barely rises above a vague novelty isn’t going to ever suddenly make someone interested in it.

The problem with AI is that every large company is using it to make search, information, and every product and tool worse because they are out of ideas, they actually believe(d?) that the AI was or could be sentient at some point, and, of course, promising AI would do X was a really good way to get through Q1 in 2024. And Q2, and Q3.

Good, do some discovery.

I had like a year break between LAD sessions, the first chapter was interesting but didn’t grip me, but when I went back to it I basically played it for 120 hours straight. I also played it in English the 2nd time (sacrilege I know, I tend to play in Japanese now), but it was helpful to just get into it (and the long cutscenes I could pay better attention to early on).

Edit: But also if you loved 0 then maybe you’d ‘get’ this one since there seems to be a lot of Majima-wackiness

That’s fair enough, because they’re coming out too fast for me (a person who caught the series a little later but now plays all of these when they come out). I’d say take your time and either start at Yakuza 0 (if you want an action/arcade game) or Yakuza: Like a Dragon (if you want a turn-based RPG), and you can go forward/back from there, if interested. I’d say Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is probably a game for people who are already fans, it’s just gonna be confusing and weird without a little prior context.

My 9th gen intel is still not the bottleneck of my 120hz 4K/AI rig, not by a longshot.

They’ve been terrible for a long time. After Anthem, honestly never again. Sorry.

Yeah I got mind refurbished also, so someone else took the first hit on driving it off the lot (and waiting for it to be built). I guess they didn’t use it to its full extent though. That didn’t make it “cheap” though.

It’s sort of a niche within a niche and I appreciate your sharing some knowledge with me, thanks!

Hmm maybe in the new year I’ll try and update my process. I’m in the middle of a project though so it’s more about reliability than optimization. Thanks for the info though.

I usually run batches of 16 at 512x768 at most, doing more than that causes bottlenecks, but I feel like I was also able to do that on the 3070ti also. I’ll look into those other tools though when I’m home, thanks for the resources. (HF diffusers? I’m still using A1111)

(ETA: I have written a bunch of unreleased plugins to make A1111 work better for me, like VSCode-like editing for special symbols like (/[, and a bunch of other optimizations. I haven’t released them because they’re not “perfect” yet and I have other projects to be working on, but there’s reasons I haven’t left A1111)

I just run SD1.5 models, my process involves a lot of upscaling since things come out around 512 base size; I don’t really fuck with SDXL because generating at 1024 halves and halves again the number of images I can generate in any pass (and I have a lot of 1.5-based LORA models). I do really like SDXL’s general capabilities but I really rarely dip into that world (I feel like I locked in my process like 1.5 years ago and it works for me, don’t know what you kids are doing with your fancy pony diffusions 😃)

Oh I meant for image generation on a 4080, with LLM work I have the 64gb of the Mac available.