The issue is that they’re almost certainly going to be cheap, and therefore companies are going to use them even if they’re complete dogshit.

But I think the bigger issue is saying “no ai” and then… using AI.

It definitely does that for Youtube, but I didn’t see the option for Spotify. I last looked at the docs a very long time ago, so its entirely possible it’s got some added functionality since.

Just make sure to use a trusted one, because you’ll most likely have login with your account to access your saved stuff & playlists.

I used SpotDL, personally. Not sure if it even supports logging in, but you can just make your playlists public for a few minutes while you download them. It does require you to do every playlist individually, afaik, there’s not just a ‘my whole account’ option. If you have youtube premium/youtube music you can DL high quality as well, though getting that to work was a bit tricky for me. I don’t generally mess with programs lacking a GUI, though, so it’s probably mostly a me issue.

I don’t think the issues with Concord had a single thing to do with the performance. That was basically the single way the game was fine.

Ah, that’s true! Anything with flavor text- red text in the description- is an exception to the normal rarities.

If it ain’t a purple I can basically guarantee it’s shit. Just keep the rarity order in mind, and you can generally assume anything that’s less rare than what you have is also worse. One of the load screens in BL1 or BL2 said When Grandma Burps Patrick Obeys- White, Green, Blue, Purple, Orange. Got absolutely burnt into my brain.

But hey, if it’s stressful fair enough. I think they’re fun games, but nothing is for everyone.

It’s not like I need to do the math to figure out which gun is better and why. Find something with green arrows? Hold E to equip it immediately. If I use it for a bit and dislike it I’ll just swap back to what I was using before and mark it as junk so I sell it next time I buy ammo or fill my inventory.

The game is mostly positive? If it’s getting review bombed, then it isn’t a very effective review bombing.

What’s wrong with Funcom?

I thought Conan Exiles was decent. Not great, but fun enough. That’s my only exposure to Funcom afaik.

Usually with self-hosted survival crafting games like this there’s just an anti-cheat toggle somewhere. No reason to have anticheat running when you have a four person private server with your friends, after all.

Oh, that’s interesting. I am also using an R5 3600 lol.

Indoors, my performance is fine on medium it seems. It doesn’t change much from the 60fps I get on low. But outdoors it is rough. Even on low.

Edit: hah, either I did it and forgot- or the game defaulted- to a 60fps frame cap, which explains part of it. I actually get more like 70-80fps with occasional stutters when indoors. Also for sake of discussion, I’m on the Xbox Gamepass for PC version which, from prior experience, might be different in entirely random ways.

That’s extremely interesting.

I have an RX6600 and I’m barely getting 60fps indoors on low. Hm, maybe my CPU is the issue, but I’m well above the minimum requirements.

The difference is probably largely raytracing, though. I’d expect most of the cards that are struggling with the game to absolutely demolish it just by turning RT down.

which is 1.5x more powerful than a 5090

…are you sure? I think you’re mistaken.

They do, but they also might not.

The part of your skin that actually causes your fingerprint is relatively deep into your skin. So it’d need to be a pretty serious injury to permanently change your fingerprint at all.

I’d be shocked if it was your GPU causing long load times, that’s not usually the culprit for that kind of thing unless you don’t have enough VRAM. It’s probably another part of your system the game arbitrarily dislikes, or it’s just generally being shit.

Tbf, they’ve been doing that with a reasonable amount of success with Rainbow Six Siege.

Honestly, if we’re talking modern games I think games that don’t utilize multithreading to at least some degree would be a significantly shorter list.

TIL. I didn’t realize it started in the browser originally.

Warframe can be super overwhelming, though. There’s a billion things to do and it’s hard to know where to start. I had issues with that when I was getting back into the game awhile back, and I’d already completed a ton of the content. If you actually want tips on how to manage it: set short term goals and long term goals, and just go for those. Shut out anything that isn’t relevant and focus on specifically on whatever you decided was your goals. My long term goal, for example, was to complete all the story quests. My short term goals were basically a checklist of things I needed to do to start the next quest lol.

Plus, the game being almost entirely PVE means that in my experience the community is great. If you have questions or need help just ask, and someone will probably be willing to help. There’s an excellent Warframe community over on the dormi.zone instance. It’s reasonably active and they’re helpful over there. Plus Q&A chat is just in the game.

Fair enough- I find leveling stuff is fine if I either do it passively via either just equipping a weapon I don’t intend to use or just specifically focus farming leveling. But Warframe is very firmly not for everyone.

Web Fishing is just outright paid, is it not? The game is $5 on steam.

There’s a few examples of F2P games with good monetization. Warframe comes to mind immediately. I’ve heard Path Of Exile is also a solid example of F2P done right, but don’t have personal experience with that one.