It’s just another case of Musk trying to sound smart but instead ends up proving that he doesn’t even have a basic working understanding on the subject.

I guess this time the only difference is that it doesn’t look like he paid an actually competent person to help him with it.

And then it turns out they were working on Half-Life: D0G.

NGL, that would actually be awesome

It seemed like they never enforced it though

About time. This stuff has been cancer on YouTube for years.

I still sometimes hear music from the game used in videos

Weird. I promptly tried Fedora and switched to Tumbleweed after Fedora kept crashing soon after startup. Hardware configuration probably affects the outcome a lot.

About time someone puts pressure on NVidia and AMD to bring GPU prices back down to normal levels

I bet the CEO played Monopoly too. Ironic, isn’t it?

The 7800XT is over one year old and they’re still selling it for $500. That used to be the normal price for a bleeding edge GPU that was just released and then within six months the price would drop below $200 new, at which point it was a good deal for anyone wanting a decent GPU that will last them a few year. Ever since the pandemic, with the scalpers, NVidia and AMD realized they can just charge highway robbery prices and get away with it and aren’t offering anything reasonably priced anymore.

Intel smelled blood and are going for that newly opened gap in the market. I’m just waiting for the independent reviews to make sure there aren’t any major issues and probably going to have one in my new machine next year.

No shit. They keep ramping up the prices for cards that have the size and power consumption of a household appliance while they completely ignore the market of people just looking for something that runs a game smoothly in 1080p without overpaying. On top of that anyone who bought a card in the last 5 years just don’t have a reason to upgrade right now.

The Battlemage series might turn out to fill that gap. But even there it will only capture the market of people who have been holding off buying a new GPU for almost a decade.

Trying to hype up investors, yes! It’s exactly why we keep seeing features that nobody wants in goods and services nowadays.

Capitalism is supposed to maximize efficiency and do everything it can to make the consumers happy. But we have reached a point where the “meta” isn’t that anymore. It really never was, really. But with corporations becoming so big they dominate world markets, it has become complety shameless about it.

That explains why Doom 3’s shading looked so bad

Almost every cloud based device I’ve ever owned ended up either putting an increasing number of basic features that were originally free behind a subscription paywall or simply turned itself into a brick when it stopped being supported.

This is ironically what I loved about Subnautica. The game does not hold your hand throughout. You don’t have a map, you don’t mindlessly follow waypoints, you are not being given a guided tour through the story like some ride at Disneyland. You have to learn to navigate the area yourself, memorize landmarks, and figure out what you have to do yourself with the clues around you. It is a bit of a whiplash at first when you are so used to being babysitted and guided throughout a game but I’ve found it to be the unbelievably rewarding once the “click” happens. You can absolutely miss important (and dope AF) events if you miss the timings that the game gives you. You are treated like an adult by the game. You really get the feeling of being a lone explorer, planning and going on expeditions to gather what you need whether it is resources or blueprints and it will all be you.

The risk-reward situation of exploring increasingly complex and disorienting ship fragments, slowly cutting through blocked doors with a laser while seeing your oxygen levels dwindle and hoping you can find your way back out in time were absolutely fantastic to me. The way the gameplay and the way you travel through the world entirely changes the moment you unlock the PRAWN suit, and one again with the Cyclops are absolutely amazing.

I wish this game clicked with everyone the way it did for me. It is easily my top 5 best single player experiences ever and I only wish I could forget it so I could discover everything again. But The Outer Wilds never clicked for me like that so I can understand why some people might not like it.

I’m so glad I kept my car and weathered through this shitty phase of car manufacturing.

If only there was hope for weathering through the data collection, subscription-based features and the death of sedans though…

Considering that when people paid $100 for that OS they were told that it would be the “last Windows to be released”, shouldn’t there be a class action lawsuit?

They removed the star system a long time ago. They removed the down votes again a few years back.

They want their algorithm to be the only thing that decides whether you watch a video or not.

When I want to cancel I want to cancel. I don’t want to be put in line for over half an hour and then have to have a painful argument with some poor employee who gets punished if I somehow figure out the secret code that makes them cancel the account. And then have to do it all over again one month later because the account didn’t cancel because of “technical problems”.

A lot do myself included. But not enough to matter. Most ordinary Windows users don’t even know what Linux is or understand why they should care.