Gamers?

Learn?

Hahahhaha, that’s a good one.

Sure!

The title isn’t clickbait though, and you don’t actually even have to know the term.

‘branded a paper launch’

The Verge is saying others have called it a paper launch, which is completely correct and not misleading, regardless of what ‘paper launch’ means.

As to whether or not it actually is a paper launch:

It certainly seems like it is.

If the people’s whose job it is to review tech hardware, who often actually have some level of direct contacts and connections with manufacturers … if they can’t even get their hands on these, its safe to say Nvidia shipped an astoundingly small amount of actual hardware.

Just go on youtube right now and you can find a plethora of videos describing how almost no one could actually get one, that supply evaporated in minutes, possibly literally less than a minute.

No online store currently has any stock, whatsoever, of 5000 series cards.

Also, there was chatter and rumors before the launch that the secondary/partner manufacturers had had some kind of miscommunication with Nvidia and did not manufacture enough cards.

It seems even worse than the original PS5 launch.

PS: More fun terminology bs;

A lot of people use the term AiB to refer to a secondary/partner manufacturer of a GPU, as an adjective or prefix, as in:

AiB Card, AiB 5090, AiB Board…

They use this to distinguish a GPU actually made directly by Nvidia (or AMD), as compared to the same model of GPU made by a secondary/partner manufacturer, with slight tweaks to clock speeds and their own housing and fan/cooler style.

Thats not what AiB means.

AiB means ‘add in board’.

Its a noun, not an adjective, and it means basically any graphics card, sound card, capture card, network card, anything that is its own board that plugs into a motherboard.

Nvidia / AMD directly manufactured reference GPUs … are AiBs.

… I am probably fighting a losing linguistic battle on this one, as improper usage of AiB is now quite widespread, much like how ‘liminal space’ actually means ‘a space that is designed to be transited through, not inhabited for long periods of time’, but the common usage is now basically that anything creepy to anyone for any reason is a ‘liminal space’.

Given that Trump has now reiterated multiple times, at least once after he personally met with Nvidia CEO Huang, that he will indeed be going forward with tariffs on Taiwan…

If you’re in the US, I wouldn’t expect to be able to get any 5000 series Nvidia GPU any time soon, at least not for under $3000+.

EDIT:

AMD cards will also be affected by the Taiwan tariffs, but uh, they tend to price things a bit more affordably, and provide more actual stock volume… but as of right now all we know is the 9070XT was planned at some price below $899, most people expected $450 to $500… but there’s still no official price, or date, and now the tariffs are a thing… so… maybe $899 actually is now a realistic price estimate for the 9070XT?

Who knows! All the gamers can now thank Trump for making all PC / Console components and likely video games themselves more expensive.

EDIT 2: Also, you can run professional production, CUDA style workloads on AMD cards:

https://repairspotter.com/computers/what-is-the-amd-radeon-equivalent-to-nvidias-cuda

YMMV.

Also also, the RDNA 4 architecture for AMDs 9000 series cards seems to be rebalancing toward more raytracing performance, but that’s based on leaks so far.

To add a bit more context, it’s been used in the tech industry for at least 20 years, if not more.

There doesn’t seem to be too much actual proper etymological documentation on the first usage or history… as you say, it most likely derives from ordering something, and not getting it, and being left with only a paper invoice, from back when such things were mailed or faxed…

…it may have derived from the old layaway process retail stores used to do: you order and pay for something upfront, they hand you a voucher, and when they get the product, they hold it in inventory for you, as opposed to putting it on the sales floor for general purchase by anyone, and then you exchange the voucher for the item.

But that’s just a guess.

They are going into effect this weekend.

Trump also said he’s gonna 25% tariff the EU, and is very much going forward on tariffing Taiwan as well, doesn’t look like his meeting with Nvidia CEO Huang earlier today was able to change that.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FnfffKmr6QE

No American is ever going to get an Nvidia 5000 series card for less than $2000 rofl.

… So… Dragon Age is dead.

But DA isn’t dead. There’s fic. There’s art. There’s the connections we made through the games and because of the games. Technically EA/BioWare owns the IP but you can’t own an idea, no matter how much they want to. DA isn’t dead because it’s yours now."

In a subsequent post, Chee wrote, "So someone just reposted my thing saying they’ll write a giant AU [alternate universe] and that’s what I’m talking about.

So, Dragon Age is not dead in the sense that you can still occasionally commission DeviantArtists for DA art, and you can still freely write DA fanfiction and not make any money off of it.

… And someone can make yet another medieval fantasy world, maybe actually turn it into an actual profitable and thus widespread IP … assuming you’ve quite considerably changed the basic concepts and don’t use any actually named characters or groups.

Wyvern Era.

Drake Epoch.

Dragon Age is dead, add yet another notch to EA’s IP/Studio murder count.

They’ll probably manage to finally kill Battlefield / DICE this or next year.

EDIT: I somehow missed the title.

Yes, you absolutely can own an idea, thats what patents, trademarks and copyrights literally are.

This is actually delusional levels of cope.

You can talk all you want about French revolutionaries and Camus, but at the end of the day, you didn’t revolt against anything, you signed away your creative output to a soulless corporation for cash.

You could have found or founded a worker cooperative non profit, you could have copyleft your world and story and characters, you could have MIT or GPL liscensced the game code, and still sold the finished game for money, but nope, you did none of that.

… Gamer Priest?

I am just imagining like a Christian BF42 server that bans you for swearing, but a lan party of such people, in a church.

Can you put a liuqin in there?

Not at all, because I’m already convinced the CIA killed JFK, already know the FBI did everything they could to fuck with MLK including sending him fake ‘fan mail’ urging him to kill himself.

I reccommend the Eyes Wide Open channel on YT if you want extensive documentation of the CIA / FBI related fuckery going on from its inception through till the 80s.

When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite.

Now I just believe in dynamite.

• Sergio Leone

I hate it I hate it I hate it.

This AI hallucinated frame crap is bullshit.

Their own demos show things like the game is running at 30ish fps, but we are hallucinacting that up to 240!

Ok…great.

I will give you that that is wonderful for games that do not really depend on split second timing / hit detection and/or just have a pause function as part of normal gameplay.

Strategy games, 4x, city/colony builders, old school turn based RPGs… slow paced third person or first person games…

Sure, its a genuine benefit in these kinds of games.

But anything that does involve split second timing?

Shooters? ARPGs? Fighting games?

Are these just… all going to be designed around the idea that actually your input just has a delay?

That you’ll now be unable to figure out if you missed a shot or got shot from a guy behind a wall… due to network lag, or your own client rendering just lied to you?

…

I am all onboard with intelligent upscaling of frames.

If you can render natively at 5 or 10 or 15 % of the actual frame you see, and then upscale those frames and result in an actually higher true FPS?

Awesome.

But not predictive frame gen.

Depending on your constitution for outdated nomenclature, both warehouses and whorehouses do involve workers moving boxes around in various ways.

That or they just die.

Ever walk to your corporate job downtown in the morning, and notice a blanketed lump in the alley outside your building?

Then when you’re out for lunch, you walk by the same alleyway…

… and the lump is gone, replaced by two municipal workers with flamethrowers, sanitizing the liquid decay of the dead body?

Yeah, that caused me to have an existential crisis and radicalize, long ago when I was a bushy young corpo with a ‘promising future.’

I, for one, fully support any Mark V that wishes to transition to male, female or hermaphrodite, just the same as I support any adult human to do the same.

Sometimes you gotta make changes to fit your mission profile, and a person feeling comfortable in their own body is obviously mission critical.

Thanks, we know, we will instead be getting theocratic fascism in about a year.

Can I marry you and move to wherever you live?

I’ll never forget my first playthrough of Disco.

Spent an hour attempting to build a character I thought would make a good detective.

Wake up… oh god this is really bad hrm…

Well ok… lets get my tie.

Heart Attack. Dead. Game Over.

Possibly the greatest single player rpg ever.

Sadly, this also implies that this is the last known survivor, the last tiger.

Happy Canada day from a WA native!

https://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Math/Paquin/GeomSeriesCalcB.pdf

Here’s a standard introduction to the concept of the Convergence/Divergence Theorem of Geometric Series, starts on page 2.

Its quite common for this to be referred to as the convergence test or rule or theorem by teachers and TA’s.