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  2. shazam
    Yolopark Transformers Generation One: AMK Series 16cm Bumblebee Model Kit
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  4. David Hingtgen
    Did you paint the fans silver, or did they come that way? Even the casings look silvery. Also, do I even want to know what a 5080 actually goes for right now?
  5. Big s
    So I guess they’re trying to cover all the leftover major holidays with a thanksgiving part, the Christmas and finally New Year’s
  6. Big s
    I don’t think it’s too far out. Some dude tried to marry a stupid hatsuna miku, and it really didn’t have an ai. AI as it stands is a long way from something that could run a military op, but we do have self driving vehicles and a lot of the tech is coming along fairly quickly. Might only be a few decades before an AI is flying a drone and able to pick targets on its own, maybe less. We already have pre programmed drones doing wild things at concerts. Might not be too far out for combat with all the conflicts popping up.
  7. Mommar
    The current rumor -mill for another Legends Wave is a WWII Logan, Iron Man Mk 72, Enchantress, The Phantom Rider, Dark Avengers Spider-Man (not sure if it's MacGargan or Aztec), Werewolf By Night, and War Bone (from Cystar). Supposedly there's a BAF too. Sounds basically terrible.
  8. mikeszekely
    I'm getting the DK-59 kit and a KO SS86 Prime to make into Skybound Prime, but I'll note that if you're* fine with the pistol 86 Megatron comes with and don't really want/need the Optimus parts and Megatron arm DNA is also (pre) selling just the fusion cannon for about $6. (*The plural you, as in everyone reading this post, not you specifically @sh9000, who I expect is still in for the whole kit.)
  9. David Hingtgen
    I swear I saw a couple Am5+DDR4 ones, but could be mis-reported specs. If anyone has a 5600/5700/5800 they're not using/for sale, I'm interested.
  10. Mommar
    How quickly does The Chosen Prime get their releases compared to other outlets?
  11. pengbuzz
    I disagree:
  12. davidwhangchoi
    i hope all the og nes characters and enemies show up
  13. azrael
    Like I said, the SSD controller chip on the drive is the likely culprit. The actual NAND memory chips, where you data is actually stored, were likely fine. M.2s are no more reliable than SATAs. If you strip the casing off a SATA, you are literally left with something similar to a M.2 drive. If you don't want to risk Samsung, get a Crucial/Micron. I rarely see reports of firmware issues with Crucial drives vs Samsungs (the 990 Pro units had a big stink about firmware issues last year or 2 ago). The bigger issue is M.2 drives get hotter as you move to newer generation drives. If your motherboard doesn't have a heatsink plate for M.2 drives, you should consider either buying a drive with a heatsink already installed or buying a 3rd party heatsink. I wouldn't bother with Gen 5 drives since they're expensive and nothing can really take advantage of the speed those models offer. A Gen 3 or Gen 4 M.2 drive are more than enough for most people's needs. If you need more M.2 slots, try an expansion card. AM5 CPUs only support DDR5 RAM. AM4 is the last socket to support DDR4.
  14. sh9000
    Megatron looks good in robot mode. I'll use the fusion cannon and smaller Megatron gun from DK-59.
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  17. Dr_Breen
    Above is Insight: Yukikaze ch1 "In the fog" machine translated
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  20. M'Kyuun
    Yeah. While it's nice to see it, I'm patient enough to wait for official revelation at Hasbro's discretion, as I enjoy the anticipation and excitement of the designers and marketers who present these things after pouring a lot of work into them. This, we all know, was a big deal, and I kinda wish the leakers had just let it be. Alas, it's all about viewer numbers these days and less about integrity or respect for the company.
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  23. mikeszekely
    Yeah, word is that Megatron's already reached port in the US. I don't think Hasbro leaked it, I think they were planning on officially revealing it on the 10th. It's just far enough along that regardless of whatever wave Hasbro was saving it for copies have made it out of the factory in a less-than-legal manner.
  24. M'Kyuun
    I'm having a tough time determining if they're black or a gunmetal color, but it looks gunmetal along with the scope/fusion cannon, both of which should be unquestionably black. I hope there's a 3P add-on kit featuring a transforming scope that folds so as to present a corresponding grey upper turret surface, perhaps with hatch cover detail, and the back halves of the scope rotate and swing around to fill out and give a better shape to the back of the turret. As is, it just doesn't look very good, certainly not up to the standard we've come to expect.
  25. Seto Kaiba
    We are many decades, if not centuries, from having to worry about something like that. When people think about the term AI, what they're thinking about is more often than not is what's called Artificial General Intelligence. A computer that can think and reason like a human being. That technology is purely science fiction for a bunch of reasons. Mainly hardware and software limitations on the computer's side. The low end estimate of exactly how much computational power is trapped in the average human's noggin is about 1 exaflop. That's 1 times 10 to the 18th power floating point operations per second. And that's done on about 20 watts of power. Exaflop-scale supercomputers became a thing for the first time in 2022, but they're about a square kilometer in size, made up of around 5,000 separate high-end processors joined by hundreds of kilometers of cabling and coolant piping, draw over 30 million watts of power to operate (nuclear power station level energy demands), and still have all the limits of a machine processing linear operations in binary. They're not capable of fuzzy logic, abstract reasoning, or any of the other insane stuff that your squishy human brain does on a minute-by-minute basis. This is the kind of thing that might become possible when we have quantum supercomputers... but we're still trying to figure out how to reliably store single qbits. The AI technology that the news is fussing over is massively oversold. LLMs like Google's Gemini, Apple's Apple Intelligence, OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, etc. are nothing more than extremely inefficient upscalings of the same kind of text autocomplete in your phone's onscreen keyboard app. They possess no reasoning capability. All they're capable of doing is probability-based pattern-matching. Instead of just guessing the next word you might type based on probabilities from sample text, they're taking keywords and stringing together vast strings of text based purely on the probability of those words appearing in that order based on the gargantuan amount of raw text they've been fed from books and websites and so on. Which is why they "hallucinate". They have no capacity to actually understand the material you're exchanging with them. It's almost an "infinite monkeys" situation, with an extremely powerful server essentially guessing wildly based purely on next word probability until it comes up with a plausible sounding string of words that it vomits up. The art-based ones are no different. They break sample data down into mathematical models and then string those models together based on keywords from your prompt. Because their function is purely probability analysis-based, they can be "poisoned" with junk data that messes up those probability tables and makes them draw or talk even more nonsense than they normally do. Those "AI" pop stars are, variously, just people in mo-cap suits with autotune steering rigged 3D models like a Vtuber or a combination of existing text, speech synthesis, and video synthesis AI software that's just running preprogrammed and vetted prompts to avoid the system spazzing out. Will there be "AI"-powered drone weapons in the near future? Absolutely. Not weapons that can think for themselves, but weapons that use image recognition software to identify people or military vehicles connected to basic fire control systems. Something broadly analogous to the QF-2200 Ghost from Macross Zero, essentially. Something like the Ghost X-9, Sharon Apple, the Siren Delta System, Skynet, Commander Data, etc. is a sci-fi pipe dream with even the foreseeable future's technology.
  26. David Hingtgen
    Now copying what I grabbed to my main backup drive... I think the report of "99.95% recovered" was true. It seems to be all there. Even stuff from the last day I used it So then why does Windows act like that drive is the plague? Ubuntu reported a single bad sector. That shouldn't make the drive utterly unusable. And---well, now I need a new main storage SSD. Buy another Samsung SATA and hope I get luckier than the last one? Are M2's any more reliable, when it comes to random failure/tolerating forced shut-down? I'd need a new mobo to get a second M2 slot. (OS drive currently in only M2 slot) Would get either AM4/DDR4 and reuse everything, or one of the few AM5/DDR4 ones and upgrade CPU only.
  27. Chronocidal
    Huh.. yeah, that shin color is an odd choice, especially when his hips are already a better color of plastic.
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