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I doubt the playerbase will die anytime soon. EA said this was Battlefield's biggest ever launch and I'm sure it's alive and well on consoles. Then again.. why pay for 2042 when you can also get a feature-missing multiplayer game, Halo Infinite, completely for free instead? It might be missing all chat and a career stats page, but at least it's not a glitch ridden trash fest

5 hours ago, RejZoR said:

What "highway" has 60km/h limit lol? I know it varies between countries, but in my country most "highways" are between 90 and 130km/h... Even regular roads outside residential areas are pretty much always above 60km/h.

 

It's also funny it's Mercedes and not Tesla. Tesla was bragging about it all the time and after bunch of freak crashes all went silent. And then real innovator, Mercedes comes along...

Teslas do fine at low speeds, their freak crashes were at high speeds or people not paying attention when they were supposed to be. I guess the computers have a hard time telling a stationary from a moving object when you're going 75MPH+, but this is 37 which is below the minimum speed I drive to go to the store. Just seems like a marketing checkmark to me

8 hours ago, AbydosOne said:

I don't think they're "anti-work" so much as "pro-employee/pro-union".

may have started off that way but it's now definitely just people who want everything provided for them while they sit and do nothing

2 hours ago, LAwLz said:

This change wouldn't be needed if people actually read warnings instead of ignoring them... But good on Debian for catering to illiterate users.

the fact Linux types believe it's acceptable for the option to delete your desktop exists at the end of an everyday app install is exactly why you're staying in 1-3%

judging from my past experiences with open-source devs, I guarantee this got brought up earlier. it took a video from a big channel and relentless mocking to get it changed. hilarious

5 hours ago, Sarra said:

I stopped playing skyrim, and entirely uninstalled it, when Bethesda released weekly patches that literally just broke mods and did nothing else, in an attempt to force everyone into re-buying all of their mods through the stupid creator club thing. They even forced the updates through Steam with no way to stop them.

 

When Fallout 76 released, I just added Bethesda to my 'No Buy' publisher list, along with EA and Rockstar.

I've never had a mod suddenly break because of a creator club update. None of the creator club mods are available anywhere else either (not legally anyway) so what do you mean "re-buy"? There are mods all over modnexus to gut and remove creator club too.

8 hours ago, StDragon said:

When offices were closing down for the pandemic, you could have scored well on a used Herman Miller from liquidation.

sometimes I wish I lived near a populated area

Why don't we shame the parents more for giving their kids these expensive phones in the first place, or for failing to limit their time on social media? Or just other parenting in general. Why is it always the screen's/corps fault that the government then has to step in and fix?

On 8/25/2021 at 4:38 PM, Donut417 said:

You dont want to piss off the customer base. A small increase no one will bat an eye. A large increase and those customers might decide to take their business else where. OR in some cases those customers are large enough that they could build their own FABs. For example the big 3 auto makers here in the US could probably afford to build their own if they needed. 

take their business where? there's TSMC and Intel and Nvidia and Global Foundries... who else? They're all going to follow the price hikes, the demand isn't changing, and you want your console or computer, right? In other words, you're going to find the extra money to pay for it, and they know it. The could double the prices, and they would still sell out. People buying scalped GPUs at 2-2.5x the cost or PS5's at double the cost are proof of that

1 hour ago, Caroline said:

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I prefer the original

 

Or you could, you know, use a desktop computer.

 

Also $400 for the thing alone, buying every game for $60 and a monthy sub (those 2 are the same for PC tbh) lol this is getting more ridiculous by the minute

Steam critics: Everyone has hundreds of $5 games they bought on sale and will never play

Also Steam critics: lol the new hardware is so expensive every game is $60 and everyone pays for a subscription and the hardware is the same as a console that also has $60 games and a subscription and it's just ridiculous

19 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

This is the 1 time I've been thankful I can't afford AAA games. I'll just stick with my Rocket League for now.

wtf does that have to do with this

On 3/4/2021 at 2:17 AM, RejZoR said:

DuckDuckGo not being as successful as we wanted it to be? I disagree since over 2 years ago. I've had DDG as primary search engine for several years now and not once I thought "gee, I need to open Google to find something". Not once. It's working great and it's serving me great. It's people's dumb fixation that only Google exists and only Google can find everything.Which is total bull.

Yes usually DuckDuckGo is enough but every now and then there's something I want to find that I can only describe random moments of the video or part of the picture, and only Google is capable of finding what I wanted when it was that obscure and random. I'm not sure any search engine will ever reach that level but it also just means I need to download memes more

11 hours ago, Tech Enthusiast said:

 

About everywhere the sun is shining from about June to August / September.

 

My ground doesn't magically gain 12F above ambient outside on its own, and a white dish more or less suspended with 360 degree airflow isn't either

8 hours ago, Spindel said:

My guess on most sun heated surfaces, like a satellite dish 

So you're making it up

5 hours ago, Tech Enthusiast said:

Now that seems like a major design flaw.

Hell, 50c surface temp is reached frequently in Germany, which is not exactly one of the hottest countries.

 

Kinda expecting A LOT of outages in the coming weeks. 

There is no way 50c surface temps are enough for something that is looking the sun in the eyes 24/7.

Where the heck is it hitting 50C/122F in Germany on a regular season basis?

4 hours ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

you dont have to....

I also don't have to drive to work, what's your point?

I'm glad, so far, no Switch Pro. I don't want to have to hunt down yet another scalped console

On 6/2/2021 at 8:05 AM, Stahlmann said:

All the recent games i've played in the last few weeks are mainly ray-traced.

 

Metro Exodus Enhanced

Resident Evil Village

Control

Cyberpunk

 

I'd say we're at a point now where at least for AAA games it's becoming a standard.

That's just four games and only 2 of them came out in the last year

7 hours ago, Sauron said:

Nah, they deserve this and more - the people potentially losing money from this (even though I'm very skeptical they'll actually face a significant financial hit) are exactly the ones responsible for abusing their employees and forcing them to produce the awful shitshow that cyberpunk 2077 turned out to be. Though of course, this is iLlEgAl and therefore you should never do it.

lol what you even talking about, you act like a video game has never been overhyped before. you need to go outside

2 hours ago, JZStudios said:

It's a lot easier, cheaper, and faster to remake games, even more so to remaster them. The ROI is pretty high, and they typically do games that were popular and are likely to sell well.

 

But it's interesting they bothered to remaster the PC melter Crysis and it looks worse than Hunt Showdown.

not always, Bethesda said it'd be as much work to remaster their older games as it would be to make a new one. I mean have any mods even successfully remade Morrowind or Oblivion like they always say they will? There's a Unity copy/paste of daggerfall but that doesn't look any better than the original. It's still pretty lazy riding off old good-feelings to market the game you're selling twice, especially when your games didn't have much else but the graphics to begin with

6 hours ago, Jet_ski said:

I remember the unreal engine 3 demos, crazy detailed monsters and building structures. I never saw any games that looked as good. So yeah that’s a nice demo Mr Epic. Now show us actual games that look that good and run at 50-60 fps.

It's still neat seeing how far our technology is coming along, but yea there's rarely or never a developer who uses the full capability these tech demos show off

1 minute ago, Bombastinator said:

“Words cannot harm you” that’s been proven to be untrue in documents as old as the Bible.

come to my house and say any string of words you want with me in the room and prove me wrong then

1 hour ago, Ashley MLP Fangirl said:

that's the same as saying "i really don't see how people dying if i hit them with my car is my problem, i'm not dead".

no it's not. you don't die when you get offended by someone else's speech. stop trying to equate words to physical damage, words cannot harm you.

23 hours ago, DobertRownySr said:

I mean, if you don't agree to the service, then simply don't buy it.

This advice doesn't work. This has been given as a 'solution' since mobile mictrotransactions and crappy DLC practices got invented. People are going to pay for it no matter how stupid it is. Sure, maybe not this specific item, but if subscriptions and DLC becomes more common in cars (already seen in Teslas and BMWs) then people won't care, they'll pay for it no matter how stupid it is.

11 minutes ago, Stahlmann said:

Don't expect anything to come of it for the consumer space anytime soon. There were plenty of "silicon independence" attempts from china in the past. And everytime they performed like a 10-15 year old AMD CPU. So not even anywhere close to competing even with used AMD/Intel CPUs from 8 years or so ago.

China steals everything they do, and have copied their way to 'catch up' to the rest of the world. Iterative technologies like airplanes and processors are harder to copy. They couldn't even design their own carriers without copying the soviets

Kotaku really attracts some of the worst 'journalists' on the planet don't they