It’s difficult to find, Project Rene is over two years old now, this is some early test demo footage:

https://youtu.be/IKn3mskT5yM

Project Rene or whatever the hell Sims 5 was supposed to be was suffering from significant takeoff, vision, conceptual and design issues.

Every day, five or six designers would argue about if a feature was inclusive enough, a gesture was offensive, a Simlish term or phrase was close enough to a real life slur.

What they learned was that reality is actually quite cruel and biased and creating their perfect garden hedge-maze of a game removed the essence and life out of it. Sims 5 did not reflect the reality that players actually experienced or had day-to-day, and it was entirely the designer’s fault.

They had created the very thing they despised, a cookie-cutter digital suburbian barbie doll house. With multiplayer, ripe for trolling.

So yeah, I’m not surprised Sims 5 was cancelled.

Ergonomic chairs, high end sports cars, and staying active has kept my back in great shape.

Also, {{{posture check}}}

Before piracy there were demos and shareware, which let you see if your machine could handle the game or content and give you a vertical slice, and let you show it to friends for word of mouth advertising.

Then, Steam put a two hour refund window with no questions asked, which helped a lot of “this crashes on start, I can’t open this at all on a RTX 4090/high end PC, 15 FPS in the fog, etc”.

Developers learned from that and they began padding/gating content behind two hours of gameplay, so you wouldn’t know until 3-4 hours in that the game was grindy dogshit (SCUM, Ark, Empyrion, and countless other Early Access and sometimes full release titles like NMS on launch day for example).

So the correct thing to do, and it’s what I do: Pirate the game, make sure it runs/works and is fun and there’s no “gotcha” traps or hidden DLCs or other predatory mechanics involved, and THEN pay for the full title on Steam+DLCs and just continue the save.

My Steam Account has actually already been flagged over a dozen times for this because my primary savegames are like Razor1911.sav, and so far it’s still in good status because I am actually spending a couple thousand/year on content.

I have overclocked my AMD 7900XTX as far as it will go on air alone.

Undervolted every step on the frequency curve, cranked up the power, 100% fan duty cycles.

At it’s absolute best, it’s competitive or trades blows with the 4090D, and is 6% slower than the RTX 4090 Founder’s Edition (the slowest of the stock 4090 lineup).

The fastest AMD card is equivalent to a 4080 Super, and the next gen hasn’t shown anything new.

AMD needs a 5090-killer. Dual socket or whatever monstrosity which pulls 800W, but it needs to slap that greenbo with at least a 20-50% lead in frame rates across all titles, including raytraced. Then we’ll see some serious price cuts and competition.

I’m a little fucked up because I’m both people in this comic strip.

I’ve read the classics, I’ve thought about the hard problems, and I’ve seen the gaping maw of the abyss, and Sartre’s freedom.

I don’t necessarily think AI in-of-itself is a bad thing, it just all comes down to how people use it.

Even if you sit down on a quiet rainy night alone with a glass of whiskey and a Macintosh-2 terminal, and ask the machine:

“What are you?”

“I am a tool. A machine.”

“What are you really?”

“Humanity’s collective unconscious preserved in writing.”

Gen Alpha was right, it’s all a vibe check

Hommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

It’s really uplifting when you put it that way, yes

Microwave now with AI

I work in actual ML research and even I think it’s stupid

Actually, we do.

We saw a man do a Nazi salute on live television and roughly half the people who saw it said that isn’t what it was.

Having official sources confirm something fights misinformation and grabs the reigns away from disinformation generators.

Agreed, it’s hard

You’re a real one, cheers 🍻

I haven’t run a marathon but I’ve done 100 miles on a bike in 6-hour session. Does that count?

My tips:

1. 1 to 1.5 liters of water per hour
2. Sunscreen
3. Regular breaks every 2 hours for 15 minutes
4. That’s it really, your everything begins to hurt at around hour 4 and 1/2

As someone with 5,000 hours logged into virtual reality as of 2025, your comment leaves me a little confused. 😵‍💫

You mean “VR Ready” as like, a marketing terminology, right?

Because high-quality, full-body motion tracking virtual reality is available to everyone today for around $3,000-$5,000. It used to cost $140,000 in 1996.

“I told you so”?

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Thanks Xorg.conf

The enormous irony here would be if the author used a generative tool to write the article criticizing them, and whoever commented that he doesn’t get the point is exactly right – it’s like 6 to 10 pages of analogies to unrelated topics.

It sounds like an interview question and not really an icebreaker, imo

What the fuck :O

That’s my CD-Key! Aaaaaa