Reinx

I am Reinx a computer engineering student who loves to play various games for fun and hopes to share the joy with everyone.

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I'm going to be honest here, My opinion on AI is more so that its a tool that can be used to either make things better and easier for everyone, or cause harm to others. There are things I don't like about AI sure and I myself do have issues but its not so much the tech but rather the companies themselves trying to sell us AI. Not GENERATIVE AI.

Anyone who's at least dabbled in messing around with generative AI should probably have at least figured out by now that the output can only be based on whatever its actually given based on whatever patterns its training data recognizes, End result, AI can never generate any new designs, concept or Ideas, it will just b a rehash/regurgitation of what it already knows. If you are creating something NEW or ORIGINAL , AI CAN NEVER REPLACE YOU. That said AI is a great tool to drastically speed up the process for those who would already copy/imitate/trace over someone else's work. Simply put the only real "Creatives" who are at threat are those who are imitating, and not creating.

Same time as well I've seen many artists throughout the year on Pixiv as early as 2023 even start selling subscriptions to their own custom models trained on their own artwork. With tools like Image generation, If you own a mid-high end Gaming PC since RTX 30 series onwards you likely already have the hardware to run any of these models yourselves. (in many cases overall energy use for these workloads are no worse than if they were to edit videos or play graphically intensive video games for the same time frame the model is active for)

In 2026 a lot of creative tools even also just have you already engaging or paying with AI or its integration in some way shape or form, Legal Adobe users are already paying for AI credits with their subscriptions, Canva has AI tools and features tied to their premium plans, Open source drawing apps like Krita also has AI integrations you can add into it very easily via extensions as well.

If you have an issue with AI and generative AI you honestly shouldn't be using/supporting anything Twitter/X, Google, Adobe, Canvas, Windows, and many more in 2026 as they all are using or built on AI stuff these days.

The real issue with AI and its hate should be more directed at the corpos benefiting and screwing us over the whole thing, good examples are , Open AI ( imagine calling your company Open AI but not having your product/service be open/open source), Google, X/twitter, Space X , Microslop, Oracle, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Anthropic , Palantir, Meta, and many others buying up and hoarding all the hardware supply , water, electricity, and raw materials to build and operate data centers that they themselves cannot operate due to many factors like non-existent infrastructure.

That said for anyone who does want to look into and running AI be it you at home, or any business, please consider running your own local AI and avoid supporting/using services of any of the corporate AI whenever possible.

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@Migueel0_space @NikTek all these chip makers be doing it, shits funny too how even AMD was selling PS5 chips to crypto miners under the name of BC250, now AMD ceo even said the quiet part out loud that they are a "data center first" company

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@ProjectReforged @AngryPotato097 @MavDoodles @I_w1lliams true it isn't the same, because with GoG you have full access to all the files and can quite literally practically do almost anything you want with them, burn them on a disc, make a cartridge of some sort, break it into a million qr codes to scan to install or really anything

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@LuftkoppTim @elaphevulpina actually the ryzen 5 3600 is much faster than the ps5 cpu, developers only get access to 6 out of the 8 cores on the ps5 as the last 2 are reserved. same time the ps5 cpu has significantly less cache with only 4mb while the 3600 has 32mb. there's a couple other differences too

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@Thedoom7994224 @HardwareUnboxed the cpu on the can'tsoles despite being a based on AMD's Zen 2 core, are often slower than older slower than AMD zen 1 cpus and older intel Broadwell xeons due to low clockspeeds, power limits (as power budget is shared), and the ridiculously small 4mb of cache the cpu has.

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@warmoaran3s 30fps, tons of motion blur, fixed camera and scuffed graphics to mask how bad it really is.

no thanks

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@VisibleDisgust1 @IiiEndicott @jpodhoretz nah give them the billion, a few million isn't enough for them

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@DannyDaka subaru dies over and over and over again, that's kinda his thing

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@SuperJuiceBoi @Lain_P7 @crierlon oh and if you were wondering, there's another issue that forces valve to sell their devices at a profit, if they were sold at a loss, every business would just buy valve hardware in bulk to deploy as machines for employees, heck disney uses steamdecks for robotics in their parks

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@SuperJuiceBoi @Lain_P7 @crierlon You can quite literally bypass steam entirely on valve hardware, the stuff is fully yours to do with as you wish, in a way it is still a free market. the locked down consoles are not, at least not without jailbreaking them
they aren't the same. Valve/steam hardware is optional

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@SuperJuiceBoi @Lain_P7 @crierlon well valve hardware is sold like a pc, meaning they need to make a profit out of each device sale, since you can literally take them and use them for anything and even remove steam itself from it. both the steamdeck and machine are just laptops in a diff form factor

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@osquitar_64 @Shiggy__Miggy @_Yonagi never said you had to, just saying you could, and you'd be surprised how many people already have something comparable enough for it. Besides people already have made the port, now its just optimization that needs to be done

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@Shiggy__Miggy @_Yonagi that will get resolved shortly, main thing at start is shader compilation stutter and translating the code from ARM to x86, people are already making ports, heck even the Arm based Macs and iphones are getting ports

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@Shiggy__Miggy @_Yonagi that isn't the workstation lineup, those would be old xeons Xeon E5 26XX v4 (replace the X with the sku) would be what you're looking for, those ones can use Registered ECC DDR4 which regular consumer platforms can't, its also cheaper on used market than regular DDR4

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@Shiggy__Miggy @_Yonagi buy the whole used workstation from a recycling center, or go x99. some cases you can lowball an offer for them.
don't buy the cpu itself.

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@Shiggy__Miggy @_Yonagi ah yes i'm dreaming looking at ebay listings of used officie pcs and servers with 8th and 9th gen intel cpus and old x99 workstations and servers for around $150, and RTX 3070s being around $200 on used market. they aren't worth much due to being undesirable for AI stuff

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@Shiggy__Miggy @_Yonagi u mean a entire system you can get on the used market for like $400 can quite literally just buy a used office pc or server and slap in the gpu heck u could even get a faster one. thes days u can find the 3070 for like $200, the used pc for around $150...

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@DVADigital323 there's a massive difference there, the computer i can use for literarily anything, repurpose it as a server even when i'm done with it not just play games on it. the computer can easily pay for itself but the console never will. A console to play for 30 hours for 1 game is...

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@tr1m8741 @JakubMarecek715 @crierlon to be fair that controller is in a completely different league than anything soyny, microslop, and nintendo sells, then again even the more expensive pro controllers from them get absolutely bodied by cheap 3rd party Chinese controllers for $30. imagine asking $70+ and it drifts

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@crierlon @JakubMarecek715 Valve has unmatched customer service and support, they also put a ton of work on increasing game compatibility and directly fund improvements towards compatibility layers and even drivers. they've contributed a ton towards Proton, Fex, KDE, even AMD's RADV drivers and much more.

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@SuperJuiceBoi @Lain_P7 @crierlon the difference is valve is doing it because they can, also steamdeck price had to go up by much more due to having larger, faster storage, more ram, and a much better screen. Valve hardware can't be sold at a loss because they leave it completely open for everyone.