AkirIkasu

AkirIkasu t1_j15kfad wrote

Honestly that price seems way too low.

It's got custom made switches and caps, a relatively big expensive screen, and some sort of SoC that is capable of realtime 3D graphics.

In comparison, people building their own mechanical keyboards from scratch can spend upwards of $200 on parts and completed enthusiast brand keyboards can be more expensive than this - the ZSA Moonlander, for instance, is $365.

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AkirIkasu t1_j0cw06f wrote

Honestly, anything that says "We turned this into a working controller" is old news. You can buy a basic hardwired controller board off of aliexpress for practically nothing, and anyone remotely handy should be able to figure out how to wire it up. And if you want to do something more complicated like analog control and bluetooth, there's generic arduino libraries that you can combine with any number of compatible boards if you've got a bit more know-how.

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AkirIkasu t1_j03gvum wrote

It's not that games today are good, it's that they're addiction factories. They're designed to keep giving you psychological rewards to get you to keep playing. It's the reason why every game keeps getting level systems and loot drops even when they don't help keep the game interesting - they're just skinner boxes that are training you to enjoy the experience.

That's not to say older games didn't also use them at times, but they are a whole lot more prevalent in modern AAA productions.

Also as others have mentioned, older games are generally not designed to take up as much time as modern games.

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AkirIkasu t1_iys400c wrote

From the article:

> This leads to some impressively speedy generators. Apple says a baseline M2 MacBook Air can generate an image using a 50-iteration StableDiffusion model in under 18 seconds. Even an M1 iPad Pro could do the same task in under 30 seconds.

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AkirIkasu t1_iwkayjn wrote

Japan has two things going for it. Number one is that they put a lot of value in music. They put a lot of effort to teach children about music and they have some of the most talented musicians in the world. The second thing is that Japanese culture encourages people to deep dive into niches, so niche things have the tendency to become mainstream and popular from time to time.

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