• Intel may have sold off a majority of its Altera acquisition to balance the books, but it hasn't given up in other areas: The B770 GPU could be here as soon as Computex, which is in just (searches frantically) over two weeks.  (WCCFTech)
  
  This will likely be a mid-range 16GB card.  The existing B580 offers 12GB of RAM at $250, which is already a better bet in the current market than 8GB cards, except for the minor problem that there aren't any.
  
  
  
• And Intel's third-generation "Celestial" GPUs could be here by CES.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  That seems a bit ambitious, to be honest.  Expect this to take more like a year to reach retail even if things go well, and eighteen months if they need more than a simple tweak moving from test samples to production.

• Apples are selling twice as fast as any other type of orange: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is selling twice as fast as any other JRPG on Steam.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Expedition 33 is indeed a success, but it's a weird comparison since the J in JRPG means Japanese, and Expedition 33 is a French game created by French developers in France.
  
  
  
• Stalin didn't go far enough in his purges.  (Pluralistic)
  
  Jobs are bad!  Unions are good!  Dark humour is like food, not everyone gets it!
  
  I'm so old I remember when Cory Doctorow could write a coherent sentence.
  
  
  
• People are losing their loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies and mental illness but mostly mental illness.  (Rolling Stone)  (archive site)
  
  I thought mental illness was seen as a positive thing on the left, given how much time and effort they devote to wallowing in it.
  
  
  
• Speaking of which.  (The Verge)  (archive site)
  
  You have to understand, he is not just playing as a bunny in a fantasy world, he is playing as a negro bunny.  His words.
  
  
  
• Yasuke - the pseudohistorical star of Ubisoft's latest commercial catastrophe Assassin's Creed 14: The Assassining, was never a samurai and all the claims to the contrary were cooked up very recently by a single lunatic.  (AP News)
  
  The article doesn't mention that.  The article in fact is completely useless.

Posted by: PatBuckman at Monday, May 05 2025 11:04 PM (rcPLc)

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