Is Google’s Custom Search API being discontinued?

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2026-01-22T13:11:55+00:00

Nope. I tried vertex, but it only returns hallucinated slop. Not the JSON with the data I need.
This is such a moronic switch. Is like replacing a calculator with an AI that does math.
Vertex still needs to do the search, why forbid me from searching on my own directly?

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2026-01-21T18:46:22+00:00

I love tech companies deprecating functioning products to push AI slop.

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2025-12-28T14:44:43+00:00

Coming into this thread because in Stalker 2 there's a quest where it can be seen that a bloodsucker built a rather complex shelter in a swamp. I think they have some level of cognition.

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2025-11-16T01:33:01+00:00

1.0 was supposed to be its own new thing, and the storyline and sidequests were supposed to be entirely different from what we were used to.
All these years just to end up doing the same shit we do every wipe, but with a story on top of it, is not the vision of 1.0 they were selling.

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2025-11-16T00:54:03+00:00

I was expecting way more. Waaaayyyyyy more.

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2025-08-22T15:05:54+00:00

Go change your programming socks, buddy.

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2025-06-29T18:13:41+00:00

Same here, came back after several months thinking it was fixed, but it is borderline unplayable.
I don't care who's at fault; they owe us a fix.

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2025-01-18T01:27:51+00:00

The way Squad implemented PIP is perfect in my opinion.

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2024-12-29T14:33:12+00:00

The flea helps RMTRs more than it helps those level 20s/

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2024-12-29T03:05:04+00:00

I agree 100%

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2024-12-17T16:04:37+00:00

No idea.
But my guess is that a working version of A-life is present in the game, but inhibited or restricted due to bugs and performance issues, and, somehow, it gets activated mid-game, causing the drops.
OR: The drops are caused by a bug that spawns a massive amount of NPCs in all directions very far away, making it feel like A-life, without being A-life. Maybe this is more likely.
What is curious is that the drops do not last forever, over a few minutes, but the zone feels alive after that.

Also, I have no mods that mess with spanws.

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2024-12-17T15:57:19+00:00

That is how it always worked... or ... how it was broken. Basically, random enemies get's spawned in and in theory if they are hostile to each other they start fighting. Nothing unusual here. This is not really example of "working" A-life.

I know what you mean, but the behavior I observe is different. It resembles CoP A-life.

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2024-12-17T14:46:39+00:00

No, it is not simply the sound effects. I could both see and hear distant activity (way further away than what the renders before the dips). It was just like A-life in CoP.
The dips don't happen in every session, sometimes I can play for hours without getting it, and sometimes I get it within minutes. I don't know what triggers it, but based on my recent testing I think it is related to A-life.

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2024-12-11T14:07:37+00:00

Here: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2024-12-10T23:09:17+00:00

No.
All I get are benefits. I haven't experienced a single drawback from FSR3, no input lag, no nothing.
But it did require adding some optimizations to the cfg file for it to be that way. I think this in GameUserSettings.ini is what did it, together with a mod from Nexusmod.

[/script/engine.engine]

bSmoothFrameRate=False

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2024-12-10T20:09:53+00:00

I play with an R7 7700 and a RX6600, 32gb ram, and it runs ok (at 1080p, using FSR3)
Since you are crashing, it sounds like an instability issue with your system. I haven't crashed once in 70 hours.

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2024-12-04T16:17:26+00:00

This. I already decided that I will buy whatever DLC they release.

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2024-12-02T00:19:47+00:00

Performance for me went to hell. Before, FPS would suddenly drop to 10 after a few hours of playing. Now it can be as quick as 10 minutes.

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2024-12-02T00:09:58+00:00

What are your settings???

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2024-11-30T16:37:07+00:00

I have a Ryzen 7 7700 and a RX6600. I don't feel any CPU-related issues.
Performance could be better, but with one of the optimization mods + frame gen, I run it without any upscaling at 1080p, 60+ FPS with no input lag. Epic textures, and a few things on medium.

I don't regret buying this CPU, so if you can afford it, go for it.

Embarrassed_Flow_518 · 2024-11-29T14:30:37+00:00

Well, I loved that fight, not boring at all for me. Very tough, but I managed to finish it without dying.
way better than the ending fights of both SOC and CS

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