On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:04:12 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:10:33 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
said this thing:
In a related-to-gaming news (this is a gaming newsgroup, remember?
That's why they call it comp.sys.ibm.pc.games ;-), Nvidia has stepped
into it with their handling of the DLSS5 announcement.
To say the release of the technology has not gone down well with
gamers --or at least an extremely vocal minority-- is an
understatement. So of course the CEO of nvidia --which has bet biggly
on AI-- had to double-down in the most condescending way... and that's
made things even worse.
Honestly, I don't think it's all as bad as those gamers make it sound >>(although the memes are funny) but it does reflect the growing dislike
of generative AI being forced into everything. And no customer base
likes being told they are completely wrong. But I love watching CEOs
shoot themselves in the foot. Totally justifying your classes' overly
high salaries once again, Huang! You're just so good at reading the
room!
He'd have done better distancing the technology from generative AI...
it might have gone down better with the customers. But nvidia is so
focused on AI these days they can't imagine that people find it >>distasteful. I can imagine nvidia CEO Huang staring into the mirror
and asking: "Is nvidia out of touch? No, no, it's the customers who
are wrong."
"You're holding it wrong." Steve Jobs.
I think they sell RDFs in B-school now, but Steve pioneered the product.
The entire AI boom feels like an endless parade of "holding it wrong" >accusations after everyone pushes back and the actual numbers come in.
Can anyone even afford a PC any more? I just checked on the 64 GB of RAM
I bought for a little over $200 a year ago. It now costs over $850.
We'll see what the PC gaming revenue reports look like after the AI bros
get done wreaking havoc on the consumer markets. I suspect a strong dip
in 3-5 years.
AI can't fail fast enough, afaic.
On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:09:55 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
said this thing:
Can anyone even afford a PC any more? I just checked on the 64 GB of RAM
I bought for a little over $200 a year ago. It now costs over $850.
We'll see what the PC gaming revenue reports look like after the AI bros
get done wreaking havoc on the consumer markets. I suspect a strong dip
in 3-5 years.
AI can't fail fast enough, afaic.
In related news, shares of various RAM manufacturing companies are
starting to fall as it becomes more apparent that AI companies --for
whatever reason-- won't be able to meet the expectations that they
would buy all the RAM it was thought they would. OpenAI had an
(apparently non-binding) contract to buy 40% of manufactured RAM, but
it is now revealed that they won't manage that. We're starting to also
slowly seeing a dip in RAM prices, a change from the constant rise
over the past few months.*
This may not be so much a sign of the death of AI as a reaction to
news from Google about new memory optimizations for Large Language
Model AIs that cut down memory use by up to 6 times. If this
technology is all that is promised, it means current LLMs can run on
less RAM, and all that investment buying up huge stocks of RAM chips
has left AI companies with a surplus of the stuff.
But only for the moment. Because if the past forty years have shown us anything, it's that you can NEVER have enough RAM, and that eventually (assuming the AI bubble hasn't popped in the mean time), those same
corps will start gobbling up the RAM again.
Still, I like to imagine the faces of RAM-Corp CEOs as their stock
drops precipitously because they bet everything that the money from AI
would be never-ending. I take what little joy from life that I can get
these days ;-)
On 4/1/2026 9:01 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
Still, I like to imagine the faces of RAM-Corp CEOs as their stock
drops precipitously because they bet everything that the money from AI
would be never-ending. I take what little joy from life that I can get
these days ;-)
Welcome news, but I just hope the ram manufacturers don't all go
bankrupt from overextending and betting on AI causing another shortage.
If there is a 'too big to fail' I'd rather see it thrown ram manufature
than AI vaporware.
Whether RAM prices will continue to fall is uncertain; I don't think
it will. But I hope it lasts long enough to cost them their shirts.
On 4/3/2026 8:32 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
I dunno about this part. I suspect these are not people I want to see >topless....
Whether RAM prices will continue to fall is uncertain; I don't think
it will. But I hope it lasts long enough to cost them their shirts.
On Fri, 3 Apr 2026 17:59:51 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> said this thing:
On 4/3/2026 8:32 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
I dunno about this part. I suspect these are not people I want to see
Whether RAM prices will continue to fall is uncertain; I don't think
it will. But I hope it lasts long enough to cost them their shirts.
topless....
<chuckle>
Meanwhile, AI takes another swipe at gaming.
The RTS "Stormgate" is losing multiplayer capability because the
server hosts it runs the online games on have been bought out by an AI company.* The publisher indicates the game will be patched to run in
offline mode, but you won't be able to play it online anymore. The
server provider, Hathora, has said it wants to instead use its
computers for 'compute orchestration for AI inference at scale".
On Fri, 3 Apr 2026 17:59:51 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> said this thing:
On 4/3/2026 8:32 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
I dunno about this part. I suspect these are not people I want to see
Whether RAM prices will continue to fall is uncertain; I don't think
it will. But I hope it lasts long enough to cost them their shirts.
topless....
<chuckle>
Meanwhile, AI takes another swipe at gaming.
The RTS "Stormgate" is losing multiplayer capability because the
server hosts it runs the online games on have been bought out by an AI company.* The publisher indicates the game will be patched to run in
offline mode, but you won't be able to play it online anymore. The
server provider, Hathora, has said it wants to instead use its
computers for 'compute orchestration for AI inference at scale".
I mean, developer Frost Giant Studios isn't entirely to blame, making
the game so entirely reliant on third-party servers, and Hathora isn't
doing anything illegal (the contract between the two companies is up
for renewal, and Hathora chose to go in a different direction). But
it's just another aspect of gaming getting fucked over by AI. I doubt
this will be the last example of this we see either, as more hosts
shift to more lucrative AI servicing.
Although maybe this will be a good thing? If game developers can't get
cheap online hosting for multiplayer, maybe they'll give the tools
back to the players? Give me my silver lining, dammit!!!!
On 4/4/2026 8:07 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
On Fri, 3 Apr 2026 17:59:51 -0700, Dimensional TravelerAnd can "compute orchestration for AI inference at scale" even BE
<dtravel@sonic.net> said this thing:
On 4/3/2026 8:32 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
I dunno about this part. I suspect these are not people I want to see
Whether RAM prices will continue to fall is uncertain; I don't think
it will. But I hope it lasts long enough to cost them their shirts.
topless....
<chuckle>
Meanwhile, AI takes another swipe at gaming.
The RTS "Stormgate" is losing multiplayer capability because the
server hosts it runs the online games on have been bought out by an AI
company.* The publisher indicates the game will be patched to run in
offline mode, but you won't be able to play it online anymore. The
server provider, Hathora, has said it wants to instead use its
computers for 'compute orchestration for AI inference at scale".
translated into something comprehensible in English? The best I can do
it "computer music for lots of AI guessing".
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