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Just gonna quote what I said last time, applies here too
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Game journalists need to hit a quota; quick, start a HL3 rumor for clicks!
Never thought I would be expressing accelerationist views but rn I just want the crash to happen. AI is bullshit and the sooner everyone realizes that the better.
what in the fuck does ai have to do with this post
edit: oh its the hardware prices. yea
Programmer buddy of mine was telling me their theory that AI is the last hurrah of Big Tech and Venture Capital, shifting a patient that has been in place since most of us were children.
Even after the Dot Bomb area is the 2000's, FinTech taking it in the chin in the 2008 global financial crisis, three meaningful Crypto rises and falls, and now AI, there's always been some new for train to institute and sell to the retail investor and the general public.
The beleaguered finances of middle classes pretty much everywhere, hand in hand with the deleted brain trusts from AI making us really dumb and unconfident (or falsely confident), convinced with the lack of new productivity borne from these last few market cycles (AI and Crypto not actually doing much for the majority of humans commensurate with the hype) results in a possible chance for actual market accountability and seeing only genuine market growth.
I think that megacrash and the world waking up to the marketing machine is considerably less likely, but agree with them (given their best experience in FinTech) that it might meaningfully end our collective beliefs that Silicon Valley can steer everyone towards brighter shores.
I don't remember where I heard it, but a phrase I quite like is "AI is the death drive of capitalism"
They think there's nothing else left so yes its the death throes of capitalism.
How about actually building good devices again? Devices we actually own that arent filled with spyware, and that are repairable and moddable by us. Or good software/os's. This is the problem with capitalism. It does not breed innovation.
But no. You'll own nothing and be happy. The ruling class cannot let us own anything ever again.
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Curse this "AI" shit!
Curse the profit maxxing capitalism behind AI, if it wasn't AI, it would have been something else
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Half-Life 3 being ruines by tech bros wasn't in my bingo card but I'm not surprised at this point.
Tech Bros ruin everything 🤷♀️
Oh yeah, hardware prices are what's preventing HL3 from coming out. Sure.
I'm guessing they want to bundle it with the machine and have it as a sort of "demo" game.
Which isnt unprecedented.. they did the same thing with Alyx and Index, didnt they?
Similar thing with Orange Box back in the day, too
the orange box wasnt released along side any steam hardware? that i can recall at least.
No, Steam didn't have their own hardware back then afaik, but it introduced Portal alongside new installments of two extremely popular existing franchises. That's why I said it was similar instead of the same thing.
Team Fortress was not an "extremely popular existing franchise" even among dedicated PC gamers. What the Orange Box did was let Valve experiment with marketing materials like the teaser videos for Portal and "Meet the Heavy."
TFC was one of the most-played mods for HL1, there was plenty of anticipation around it
man.. I really wish valve would go back and make new Meet The videos.. or just TF2 videos in general. The first ones, like Heavy, got so ripped off compared to later ones like the Pyros
The comics were pretty good too.
Comics were great too. Wish there was more of those too.
There was almost a TF2 show on adult swim, too.. I dont remember all the details, I think it fell through cause Valve refused to listen to any input the CN execs had?
This is just straight cope. HL3 isn't coming out anytime soon.
I'm confused, was there any expectation it would that I missed? As far as I know half life is dead. They never even finished episode 3 of half life 2 from like two decades ago.
Half-Life Alyx proves it's not totally dead. It even retconned an important plot point, which would make sense to do if they're planning to continue the story in some way.
There are persistent rumors that Valve is planning to release it alongside the Steam Machine.
There has been a lot of data mining in the past few months that indicates they are working on something that has yet to be released, which is very likely a Half Life game. I've been watching the HLX Files series by Tyler McVicker for a while as he sticks to just facts without much hype.
Right
if valve is waiting for ram price to come down then steam machine won't be released until 2028....
It won't ever be released, prices are never coming back down
Lets have hope, if the AI bubble bursts prices will go down.
Or they keep the prices up because consumers got used to them.
I don't think I can get used to $1000 64 GB Ram.
It's not like RAM has never been this expensive before. It's still at a historically low price.
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yes of course. HL3 is being delayed because something in the future is exploding backwards through time and fucking everything up. This is the only explanation I choose to accept.
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Oh no I'm in such a hurry to play the next installment in this series that is known for it's regular and timely releases
Pretty bad luck on the timing for Steam Machine. Hope Valve can still pull it off, but not sure they’re going to be able to hit a price point where it’s worth buying.
Linux as a gaming machine dream gets destroyed by ram prices..
Please Gabe sell a special edition orange one for half life 3.
Are you asking them to release an... Orange Box?
Would be pretty cool to have the Orange Box have a copy of the Orange Box preinstalled
Yeah and it'd be cool if they threw in a couple other games to show its versatility. HL3 of course, but a multiplayer game and maybe a unique puzzle game would be a good mix of game types.
Half life 3 won't happen.
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