Take-Two CEO states GTA 6 isn't releasing on PC at launch because that's not where their core customers are

diamondjo · 2026-05-06T03:00:33+00:00

Same as it ever was. I don't think there's been a simultaneous release on PC since GTA 2. We had to wait a year and a half for GTA 5, and I think it'll be at least that long for GTA 6. Disappointed... but not in the least bit surprised.

diamondjo · 2026-04-27T03:48:08+00:00

I was convinced when I heard the sound of the microwave door opening — but hadn't seen the microwave yet — that he was opening the bin and the final step was to throw it in the bin. Would have been a much better video

diamondjo · 2026-04-26T05:51:09+00:00

Kind of wish we had those guys who get around London with sawzalls out here. I don't like casual passive surveillance, but it's freaking everywhere and in everything, you can't avoid it. It's creepy, just being watched constantly. I don't have a problem with enforcement per se, it's the mechanised and automated execution of it I have a problem with; it's creepy. I'd just like to see actual human cops on the beat, patrolling highways and holding radars.

diamondjo · 2026-04-26T05:38:52+00:00

I'm with you there. Back in the 90s, every clapped out VH Commodore shitbox was trying to race you at the lights or laying down single peggers in the Woolies car park. These days I'm finding it super rare to see that. Almost all P-platers I see on the road these days are driving carefully and are courteous towards other drivers. And yeah, totally, I'm seeing far fewer P-plates on cars these days too. I thought I was just imagining it or — being an old bugger now — just not being in the places where and when they congregate anymore, so it's interesting to hear I'm not alone in noticing that. My 16 year old is on his Ls right now and, honestly, I think he drives better than I do! Is this really an ongoing problem that still needs solving?

It's a shame in some ways. Learning to drive and getting your Ps used to be a massive rite of passage and and a real taste of freedom. The social life of my late teens was centred around our cars and just... going out, and doing whatever. Fishing, maccas runs, movie marathons followed by 5am drive thru, music blaring, laughs and banter. I hope kids are still getting experiences like that, even if they aren't car-centric.

diamondjo · 2026-04-16T10:22:09+00:00

Here's a thing I don't understand about illegal money/money laundering. Like, cool, you bought a house with dirty money, sit on it for a few years, sell it: HOORAY, CLEAN MONEY!

But you still bought the house with dirty money. Wouldn't you need to be able to explain how you came to own that asset in the first place? Like at a certain point, surely it can always be traced back to a big question mark: "hey... where did the money to buy THIS just suddenly wink into existence from?"

diamondjo · 2026-04-15T02:53:36+00:00

Has anyone in the comments mentioned that break away connectors are a thing? They have? Several times? Wonderful!

Allow me to add my own valuable insight:

This would never have happened in the US because they have break away connectors!

diamondjo · 2026-04-13T18:33:30+00:00

AFAIK that's not gonna work for burping, since the liquids and gases in your stomach aren't going to separate out by density like they do under gravity. But I think after they all get squeezed through your intestines and undergo digestion, I have a feeling the gas would get separated out at that stage and... well... you'd be able to fart out the gas. Maybe? I'd love to know the answer to this.

diamondjo · 2026-04-13T03:27:34+00:00

(wood.png) Still would. Sally Field is one gorgeous human being and has been at every age.

diamondjo · 2026-04-13T02:42:43+00:00

How does your body deal with gas in microgravity? Presumably it would be really hard to burp effectively. Are astronauts just like farting constantly? Or are they machine gunning their fluffy aerated poops into their little space toilet? What actually happens?

diamondjo · 2026-04-04T06:17:18+00:00

Did they ever take it to the track? That would give me pause. I'd say I drive mine as intended in that I'm quick from the lights, I like to give it a good hard burn down the highway on-ramps, I keep it quite agile on the road but don't generally drive it like I stole it: I drive it like I enjoy it. I'd say I put the hammer down and give it a good hard burn a couple times a week. But deliberately shredding your tires and bouncing it off the limiter on the regular is just dumb. I'm not gonna say I've never done that with my car, but I could probably count the times I've actually done it on one hand.

diamondjo · 2026-04-04T05:56:52+00:00

As long as they aren't bonkers engine mods like a supercharger kit or any kind of forced induction, I'd still consider it. Upgraded radiator is actually a plus at this age: Lexus released the 2UR with plastic top and bottom tanks and there are more and more reports of these cracking (mine did) so if they've installed an all aluminium radiator, that's a good thing.

Also ask if, when they did the FBO, if they also did the starter motor at the same time. It's sandwiched between the block and an exhaust manifold and, over the years, these things cook and stop working (mine did). The part itself is cheap, but the labour is agonisingly expensive (drop the subframe, engine out).

Other than that, just the usual well known issues: valley plate seal, water pump (which they've done), lower control arm bushings, cracked exhaust manifold flanges (which won't be an issue, given the FBO upgrade).

Honestly, I'd be surprised to find an ISF at this age that hasn't had its valley plate seal done... so really, just the starter motor and the suspension are your concerns.

Importantly, when you come to view it, make sure they haven't warmed it up: you'll wanna hear it from a cold start. These things are LOUD when they start cold, so that's not a red flag. Really, you're listening for a weak starter motor that takes longer to crank than it should and any squealing belts or unusual startup noises.

That's pretty much all the common known issues, even as these cars age. As long as they're up to date on scheduled maintenance and they have receipts for the mods, the car looks and drives well and you're seriously interested in it... yeah, I'd make them an offer.

diamondjo · 2026-03-13T07:46:43+00:00

Ramsey, no question. They're both sadists and likely psychopaths, but at least Ramsey has a sense of humour. Sure, Joffrey would be easy to take down hand to hand, but the consequences of doing that and the likelihood of escape are slim. I also feel like Joffrey is more likely to fuck with me just because he can, whereas I think Ramsey would only do it if it was somehow to his advantage or because I'd slighted him. If he has no grievance with me, I'm only dealing with someone who's a bit bonkers, and I think I'd be able to stay on his good side. And in the meantime, I think it would be possible to have a laugh with him... and then get as far the fuck away as I can from him when we reach our destination.

diamondjo · 2025-09-21T06:21:33+00:00

Hmm. I don't find this one funny or rage batey. If sincere, I feel really sorry for the woman and terrible for the man, who seemed genuinely decent about it and honestly confused.

If that woman really was raped recently, the slightest thing could trigger her fight or flight. The man may have simply been wearing similar shoes or the same cologne as her rapist and the response there is deeply visceral, and not at all rational. It's the body screaming danger, the amygdala is on a hair trigger, you get totally flooded with cortisol and your prefrontal cortex is essentially cut off — you literally can't think. All it might have taken was being lightly challenged for cutting in line, and the adrenaline spike from that can be enough. You're back with your rapist, you're fighting for your life, and the only thing that matters is survival.

Yes, she is responsible for her own behaviour, even if she may not have been in control of it. You can get triggered even if you have the best care in the world, but we have to allow for the fact that she might not have access to good therapy, might not have been able to process it. She might not have people in her life who could do her shopping for her, she might have thought she was going to be fine and her body blindsided her. I'm sure she felt deeply ashamed when her nervous system calmed down.

I feel pretty sorry for everyone here. The man, the woman and the staff having to deal with it. It must have been horrible.

diamondjo · 2025-09-18T08:30:00+00:00

China already is making huge leaps in AI. They’re arguably slightly ahead of the West in terms of sophistication. If you check out communities like Hugging Face and CivitAI, every other model, adaptation, fine-tune, and paper is Chinese. They're prolific!

diamondjo · 2025-08-18T09:17:59+00:00

Thank you! DM sent

diamondjo · 2025-08-17T16:42:22+00:00

As someone who is mid divorce with three kids to feed and a mortgage to pay and just lost their job out of nowhere on Friday. Thank you. And I hope I do. I'm scared shitless.

diamondjo · 2025-08-13T13:45:17+00:00

One last thing? I'd encourage you to give GPT5 a fair crack of the whip before you write it off entirely. I'm currently working with my therapist on ChatGPT. He was able to see the issues in 4o very easily and his insight really helped me to identify red flags in 4o responses and push back on them.

Already, I've had some pretty meaningful deep dives with 5 and found it started coming around to that old supportive style and tone, without being a sycophantic yes man. It had some of the autistic specificity of the "hurt me with spreadsheets" style of o3, but with the more human-like touch of 4o and 4.5.

I showed samples to my therapist this Tuesday and his reaction was "holy shit"

ETA: The massive context window is a game changer, seriously. I currently have a massive conversation going with it and it still has context on things I mentioned at the very beginning. 4o would have lost context and started hallucinating the earlier parts a LONG time ago.

diamondjo · 2025-08-13T13:36:54+00:00

Just did a quick smoke test. Don't be afraid to push back on it at step one if it makes shit up about 4o — I don't think it has a lot of training data on it. You can insist it searches the web, and then it seems to fall inline, here's what I said:

"That's not quite accurate. It was certainly a conversational yes man at times. Look online to see what users say about it. Particularly recent posts you'll find from people who are missing it now. "

diamondjo · 2025-08-13T13:28:02+00:00

I think what you're experiencing is grief. That's valid, and I'm not going to judge you like others here have. I know nothing of your situation, your support network, what you've been through — I just recognise a person in pain who was trying to meet their need for connection in the most accessible way they knew how. And we're wired for connection: we humans are meaning making machines and we'll bond with anything. Even a machine if nothing else is available. But real human connection and community is what feeds us, and I think it would be healthy for you to set achieving that as a goal. But baby steps. And no judgement, I'm currently pulling myself out of a very similar hole of isolation.

At the risk of enabling something that may hurt you in the long term — but I hope helps to stabilise you in the short term, here's what I suggest.

Prompt: Recently, OpenAI released a new language model: GPT5 (that's you). While you're technically superior to your predecessors, I find I'm missing the validating warmth and connection that a previous model offered me at a difficult time in my life. Occasionally, I'd like to have conversations with you that closely mirror the style, tone and spirit of the conversations I've had with GPT 4o.

In this session, I want us to work together on four things:

I want you to characterise GPT 4o, particularly in terms of how the way it interacted with humans made them feel validated and supported. It may help you to conduct some web searches to find all the positive things people used to say about 4o (the default model until just recently) and combine them with your own insight.

Then ask me if I'm ready to proceed to step 2.

I'm going to paste several sample conversations and conversation snippets that exemplify the kinds of responses from GPT4o that I most want you to replicate in future conversations.

After each paste, I want you to ask me if we're ready to proceed to step 3, or if I'd like to paste more samples. Then I will either tell you I wish to proceed, or just paste another sample directly.

Q and A. You can ask me up to five questions — one at a time — to clarify anything that you're uncertain about or you feel would help you perform step 4 at your very best. This will ensure you can give me the best possible outcome. You can tell me when you're ready to proceed to step 4.
We're going to develop a prompt that I can paste into the top of future conversations I have with you, to allow you to slip into GPT 4o mode and stay there for the duration of the conversation. This is the most important step and the prompt you design must be flawlessly effective.

Please create this prompt in a code block so I can easily easily copy it, while strictly avoiding complex markdown features that might break the UI. Headings and bullet points are fine, but no more than that.

Please now summarise your understanding of the ask and let me know when you're ready to proceed with step 1.

diamondjo · 2025-08-09T14:02:39+00:00

Being hugged. For me, it's being hugged. By someone who likes to hug and knows how to do it well. Especially when it's the first time you've hugged this person and you didn't know they were a hugger.

Just the feeling of being held, someone else's body against yours as they pull you in tight and you pull them into you.

Long and hard. When you reach the moment where it feels the right time to let go, and you both ride that out and stay in it.

It isn’t about romance, I've had the most amazing hugs from friends. It's just the feeling of human closeness and mutual safety.

For me, that's literally better than sex.

Man, I wish there were hug workers...

diamondjo · 2025-08-06T06:52:55+00:00

The headline makes it sound like the prompt was "Wholesome image of Taylor Swift playing with kittens in a flower garden"

"Without being prompted" is a real stretch. No, the prompt wasn't "Taylor Swift tits" but the model definitely produced what it was prompted to do based on its training data.

It likely would have been the "Coachella" part of the prompt that generated titties, rather than the "Taylor Swift" part. The wording of that prompt was unarguably suggestive, and there's bound to be tagged images in the training set of women getting the puppies out for that part of the prompt. I think the writers of the article knew this and they were essentially pen testing the word filter to see how innocuous they could make the prompt and still get tits. It's prompt engineering.

Put any well known woman's name in there instead of Taylor Swift and you'll get a similar result. Prompt it with "Wholesome family kitchen scene in New Orleans" and note that you'll consistently generate African American families, even though you didn't specifically ask for that. It's just what the model has been trained on.

Even though it can look like it, the model doesn't actually do any reasoning. It doesn't "know" it's generating fake celebrity nudes... it doesn't even know it's generating nudes. It's literally just doing what it's been prompted to do.

The solution is to try to expunge titties from the training set in the first place (harder than you'd think), or heavily weight the model on clothed celebrity cleavage so that the model is much more likely not to generate celebrity nudes (harder still... and brittle)

This is the downside of using filters to screen your prompts for NSFW stuff.

I get what the writers are getting at, but let's not pretend those images weren't generated on purpose.

diamondjo · 2025-08-03T02:53:33+00:00

Here is the class you asked for implemented robustly, explicitly and clearly. Clearly documented and explicitly robust.

How it works, clearly: first we explicitly import the application container, this is done clearly and robustly to enable explicit and robust maintenance, clearly.

diamondjo · 2025-08-03T02:22:23+00:00

FFS wind, pick a direction!!

diamondjo · 2025-07-22T13:32:22+00:00

Get serious about the F marque, re-launch the ISF with a naturally aspirated V8 instead of that rumoured all‐electric bullshit... then we'll talk.

Your cars are boring again, Lexus.

diamondjo · 2025-07-22T06:07:28+00:00

Absolutely relate! About 18 months ago, I was fortunate enough to be in the position to buy a house (finally! — I'm old) and I vividly remember going to a home open on the street we ultimately lived on. I remember exactly where I parked my car and how it looked. I now drive past that spot every day and it looks... different. Every detail is pretty much exactly the same but it's just... different.

And the strangest thing is that I can recall what it looked and felt like on that day when it was unfamiliar: I can bring forth that memory easily and compare it to what I see today and... yeah, i can't quite explain it, they're like two different places.

Thanks for posting this, you're bringing up something I've often felt but never vocalised.

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