At most I could see it being a kind of novelty for stuff like movie theaters to add to the immersion. And the obvious ads bullshit.

DLSS and FSR are not comparable.

“FSR looks like shit” is not the same thing as “upscaling looks like shit”.

Yeah, there’s a reason any movie attempting 3D CG with any budget at all has used path tracing for years. It’s objectively massively higher quality.

You don’t need upscaling or denoising (the “AI” they’re talking about) to do raster stuff, but realistic lighting does a hugely better job, regardless of the art style you’re talking about. It’s not just photorealism, either. Look at all Disney’s animated stuff. Stuff like Moana and Elemental aren’t photorealistic and aren’t trying to be, but they’re still massively enhanced visually by improving the realism of the behavior of light, because that’s what our eyes understand. It takes a lot of math to handle all those volumetric shots through water and glass in a way that looks good.

Is it really unreasonable to explain that nothing you do on a work computer is private, though?

Obviously you don’t want to do any of that. But if you have a reasonable set up, you can when you need to, and telling people not to do shit they shouldn’t on company hardware is a good thing.

Ranked choice enables actual sane candidates, because people are allowed to vote for people who aren’t insane without costing the lesser evil (because primaries massively benefit the most liberal/conservative in their respective parties) their vote.

Third party candidates are wasted votes now. Ranked choice lets you vote for them, then if they’re eliminated, you still get to vote for the less bad person.

“To clarify: I had no involvement in the actual development of this official port, and neither did Flat2VR Studios,” the modder added. “They just bought all the rights to the concept and code of the unfinished mod (which tbh they didn’t really need to do), and then did it all themselves.”

I’m curious how much of his code they ended up using, but it’s really cool to reward the dude like that either way.

The regular game made me motion sick lol.

That’s ugly as hell too.

They get a cash payout as a whistleblower. I could easily see not reporting it directly and reporting it through the channels that pay them instead. Also, if they contracted out, they may not have anyone with the basic understanding of tech to identify the issue even if “these requests shouldn’t have been filed” was reported up the chain.

It’s still negligence, but it doesn’t have to be deliberate fraud.

I haven’t played much of the older ones, but I really enjoyed Rifts Apart. It’s beautiful, but it’s also mechanically super polished and fluid, and while the storytelling isn’t really my style, I think they do it reasonably well.

I could pretty easily see how such a bug could happen if the description in the article is accurate.

The right way to do it is to have the entire transaction in some pending state, and nothing is permanently saved anywhere until the transaction is completed. (This is called an atomic operation. It usually applies to distributed databases, but the same concept applies here, where the transaction takes a long time to succeed or fail.)

If, instead, you add it to the “reimbursement list” while putting the actual “make the pill” and billing part in the pending state, then forget to remove it when the transaction isn’t completed, you get the outcome described in the article.

I’m optimistic about the idea that game developers will stop being allowed to install fucking malware.

I don’t trust Microsoft at all, but you shouldn’t be able to consent to that bullshit in an EULA no one has ever read.

Imagine questioning someone’s motives over calling out an openly deranged nutjob, and trying to use it as a mark against the candidate who isn’t a deranged nutjob.

I couldn’t get it to translate the original source, but the link I saw being passed around made it sound like he was asked specifically about free to play, and gave a bunch of reasons that it would be hard to do.

I have one, and yes, it is bad.

But I wasn’t talking about resolution. 40FPS is semi-tolerable on a handheld. Anything less than 60 on a TV is a miserable experience, with or without adaptive sync.

I think the assertion is that it’s intended for actual low volume low value trade, and that a retailer operating in the US but packaging the shipments in China (to bypass the normal import laws that apply to companies operating traditionally and importing in bulk, then packaging here) is not how the exception is intended to be used.

The point (well, not his, which is about the absurdity of publishers using it as an actual official measuring stick) is that different people like different things. For some people a visual novel or walking simulator can be a 10/10 “game” for the story. For me, it will never be better than a 0, because I cannot enjoy a game without compelling gameplay mechanics. That’s an extreme example, but the point that different people put massively different value on different elements, many of which many players literally don’t care even a little bit about.

An 8/10 isn’t objectively a worse game than a 9.5/10. It’s the average of a small handful of opinions, mostly from people who played the game at surface level and not like an actual player would, that’s heavily and inconsistently influenced by a variety of practices by publishers trying to get their grades pumped up. Game reviewers are almost never actual journalists with journalistic ethical standards. They’re not being “less than honest”, but they’re inherently influenced in ways outside their awareness that break the core premise of a score.

Most reviews (including games) shouldn’t include scores at all. They should break down the different elements of a product, the strengths and weaknesses of each part, and let people draw their own conclusions.

I’m not downvoting, but the fact that kernel malware games don’t work is a feature to me. It would be a full time job to keep from installing anything that demands obscene access for no legitimate reason on Windows. “It doesn’t work” is way easier.

Pretty much everything else on Steam works without effort.

I’m not talking about “PS5 level”. I’m talking about tolerable.

The performance on modern games is only playable because it’s a handheld. It’s painful on a TV. If you are looking for a device to play modern games on a TV, the steam deck is an awful buy.

The steam deck is fine for a handheld, but the performance on a TV is not even close to competitive with a PS5.