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  1. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

  2. Tuco

    Invincible

    Yeah I don't know the answer to that question and in the case of jk simmons omniman and the concept of training an AI on his voice i don't know if it's a straightforward answer. Another example is baldurs gate 3 where the most famous returning character from bg1 and bg2 used a different voice...
  3. Tuco

    Invincible

    I wonder what the legality is for imitating and deepfaking voice actors in subsequent seasons. Like, can Amazon pay JK Simmons for season 1 of voice acting and then just have someone imitate his voice and then deep-fake correct it if he doesn't sign up for following seasons? Omniman's voice is...
  4. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    Yeah the concept of a fixed window to see a specific direction is beyond me. But this vid of an wooden shed observatory is pretty cool. If I lived in bumfuck Michigan I'd be tempted to yeet a on top of my house. Then I could use Starlink to livestream whine about Starlink constellations...
  5. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    Damn, I can't count the number of times I've wanted to create my own coordinate system with my fireplace as a global origin, but couldn't because I can't see the North Star from a window near my fireplace. It would be cool to have a mechanized telescope mounted as an observatory to my roof...
  6. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    yeah I haven't been following starfield hardly at alllll but I imagine it'll be like Daggerfall where the planets serve as a backdrop to build a bunch of quests on. Daggerfall's land mass was like, the size of Britain and it had over 4000 dungeons. You could just set off in one direction and...
  7. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    In terms of open world shooter RPGs that came out by 2008, Fallout 3 is awesome. There's the world. It's a total shit hole. Who knows what's going to happen. Go wherever you want, explore wherever you want. Degeneracy and adventure awaits.
  8. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    I haven't tried any of them but keep tabs on them since I'm super into gaming, RPGs, sandboxes and AI. I'm way more into how something like a large language model could dynamically change a game's world, opponents, mechanics etc than what it spits out for "act as fisherman mcgee and tell the...
  9. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    I gotta imagine this community has a high density of disciplined neckbeards that beat these giant sprawling RPGs on their first playthrough, compared to other gaming communities. I know I not only beat Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 1, 3, 4, New Vegas on my first playthroughs, but also...
  10. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    Hacking a Russian lunar lander is like me tripping a toddler on the playground. The kid will fall on their own and it'll be funnier when it happens naturally.
  11. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    I don't recognize 127 seconds as a noteworthy number, but I also have never stored time as seconds in a signed char. I'm a 64 bit IEEE float seconds from unix epoch man myself, but also wouldn't be surprised if they used nananoseconds since GPS epoch since it's space and GPS doesn't have leap...
  12. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    I bet you won't like Starfield. It'll be fallout but with a bunch of boring space flight and empty planets
  13. Tuco

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Also check out the drip coming off this dream team
  14. Tuco

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    I swear I've never been this stressed out from an RPG, I'm act 3 spoilers
  15. Tuco

    Investing General Discussion

    Conversely, I bought a house some 4 years ago that was literally 20x more expensive than what I sold my previous house for. I joke with my wife that we should sell our new house for a 200kish profit and buy our previous house back and just pocket the increase. Once the housing market crashes we...
  16. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    People overstate the release-day bugs in BGS games. I did pretty much everything you could do in Skyrim within a few weeks of launch and didn't have many issues. I did most of the content in FO4 at launch too, but didn't enjoy it enough to fully clear the map. The only "BGS" game I remember...
  17. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    looks like a modification to UE5 is craaaaaaazy. Still isn't as good as the non-real-time stuff that studios have been iterating on for a long time though, like Renderman. Hard for real-time usage on an engine built for single-GPU, ~100 FPS to compete with something that can run overnight on...
  18. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Anyone that's been gaming for a while (which includes all you old fuckers) that learned any lessons with D4 is probably beyond help. Not only has BGS earned my preorder $$$ with 30 years of ambitious game development but I'm willing to throw $$$ at basically anyone creating an open-world space...
  19. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    I'm thinking about building a new PC for Starfield (TIME IS RUNNING OUT). Not sure if my GTX1080 Ti and .... 5th? generation i7 processor is up to the task for another run through the gamebryo engine.
  20. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    I get the feeling I'm going to preorder Starfield, go hard for a couple of months and then when I do a replay in a few years pirate whatever dumbass horse ship armor DLC there is and smash it together with the other mega mods. Shit, I'm pretty sure for ES4/5 and Fallout 3 / NV I didn't even...
  21. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    Considering the lander itself was like 70lbs, probably not a lot. Apollo's lander was ~30k lbs. A manned mission is on such a different scale that it's hard to compare it. Besides the difference in scale, these kinds of missions really need to rely on unmanned operation to be sustainable. Even...
  22. Tuco

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    just had another savegame that couldn't be loaded by Vulkan BG3, but could be loaded by DX11 BG3...
  23. Tuco

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    6. It didn't proc again for my MC which has more worms in his brains than brains (Just counted, 17 of the buggers, lol). Something is causing it to not proc sometimes. Shit is powerful though. Dramatically increases one-shot potential.
  24. Tuco

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    The latest in, "Tuco doesn't understand this game and is irrationally disappointed" Why didn't
  25. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Including the first expansion in the initial game is weird. I can't remember any other game doing that. For BGS games I typically go hard at release then replay a couple years post-release with a bunch of mods, and there are typically a bunch of expansions I don't like all that much. Am I...
  26. Tuco

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    act 3 spoilers
  27. Tuco

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    what the hell is this, how did this guy take 0 damage from my fireball???
  28. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    this guy is hoarding.... corpses.... in baldur's gate 3
  29. Tuco

    LK-99 Room-temperature Superconductor

    People emotionally attached to it succeeding and failing are two sides of the same coin. Fortunately when it comes to crazy breakthroughs you can safely be faithful to the idea that it's bullshit and be right most of the time. Personally I enjoy the spectacle of these events while hoping the...
  30. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Can't wait to break my way through this bug infested game. I'm doing my part!
  31. Tuco

    Broadcast/Cable TV Accounts for Less than Half of U.S. Viewing Time for the First Time

    Anytime I'm at someone's house and am watching TV for whatever reason, whenever a commercial comes on I feel like a fucking sheep being nipped at by a dog.
  32. Tuco

    The Bear

    I watched the first episode of Bear last night. I've never been so stressed out from watching a TV show before.
  33. Tuco

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    with how much voice acting is in BG3 I wonder if it's feasible to train a language model from eleven labs to do additional voiceover work for mods.
  34. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    I've become such a MS fanboy over the last few years. I don't even like Windows/Office that much, but these guys love open source code they bought it all. Anyway, I'm looking at the calendar of Starfield's release while playing BG3 like a dude on MasterChef watching his cake rise in the oven.
  35. Tuco

    What are you playing?

    I briefly used my foot pedals for ER, just wasn't enough simultaneous action needs to justify it like for some flight sims and guild wars 2. I ended up using left hand on an xbox controller, right hand on a mouse and was pretty satisfied. I think anyone on PC should give that a try. How gamepad...
  36. Tuco

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Act 2 spoilersa
  37. Tuco

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Swap Miranda et all for whatever gender Karlach and Jack (from Mass Effect 2) are.
  38. Tuco

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    BG2 spoilers