Ditto this, 2007 was a fucking crazy year. All that next gen hit at once, people still taking risks on unique ideas. Nowadays you only see that kind of stuff from the indie scene, though they’ve been doing a great job with it IMO.

Such a brain-dead stance on the matter. Nobody is asking for your garbage DRM servers, we literally want the opposite of that.

I’m gonna be that guy, most of them are in some way or another. The devs literally decided to not bother pressing the button that enables compatibility because they don’t feel like it.

Australia, yes we have regular Santa’s for the most part. Occasionally you’ll get Santa in shorts or whatever, but generally it’ll be the regular outfit. Santa coincidentally only shows up for a few minutes sometimes, then is called away on urgent business.

In Disco Elysium the game straight up called me out for apologising so much. It hit me so hard I stopped apologising as much irl. 10/10 game would be ashamed again.

LLMs are a really cool toy, I would lose my shit over them if they weren’t a catalyst for the whole of western society having an oopsie economic crash moment.

Both? Both. Both is good.

Yes, but wouldn’t we be using % of your vision vs pixels in display? Steam deck being right in front of my face and tv 5 or 6 metres away etc.

Absolutely higher res does look sharper though, which is great for movies etc. I’m more coming from a performance vs visual fidelity ratio. What I’m trying to express is that given 800p still looks surprisingly good, I’m starting to question the industry pushing higher resolution displays for gaming applications.

Fair, good luck with it. Just had to figure out that a drive from a windows install was causing huge permissions issues and any game installed on it wasn’t executing. Sometimes the problems can be really obtuse.

You know about protondb already? Gives a good list of potential fixes if you come across issues, it’s been a godsend on the rare occasions something doesn’t work first try

Honestly after using the steam deck (800p) I’m starting to wonder if res matters that much. Like I can definitely see the difference, but it’s not that big a deal? All I feel like I got out of my 4k monitor is lower frame rates.

My partner always levels half light and physical instrument to get the most unhinged dialogue and it’s great.

I’m so sorry

I feel like given the amount of work required to make the kind of games that triple a represents, and the amount of money in and out, every game becomes a mess of different ideas and motivations with no unifying force. Every game must be everything to justify the price tag, but there’s no unifying passion or vision behind it. Of course the more you stuff in there, the more you can market it as well.

Chewing ice as well, supposedly it is motivated by iron deficiency.

I would be surprised honestly. Technology has stalled pretty hard, tariffs and hardware is not in a great spot, PS5 still looks great and honestly there’s not going to be much to sell a customer base. I could see them doing it, but it might be wiser to kick it down the road for a few years until things get a bit better, like they did with the PS3 and 360.

Yeah, exclusivity is dead, and games take half a decade to make these days.

Clair was much more of a vibes based hiring and management process. Crazy how letting creatives do their thing results in interesting content people want to experience.

It’s natural to feel this way sometimes, especially when things are getting rocky around the world.

I feel like we often place the emphasis on the ‘why’ of ourselves, when the truth of things is the world is often chaotic and without particular intent.

It’s a bit of a mindset shift, but if you find yourself engulfed with the prospect of needing purpose or justification to the point of debilitation, it might be time to start leaning into the idea that while you can give yourself meaning, nobody really has intrinsic purpose. None of us consented to existence before it was asserted onto us, nobody was born with a script.

Regarding what your mother said, that’s really rough, and it’s only natural that you might feel some existential weirdness from it. I don’t know her, so I can’t really put what she said into context or understand, much less lessen that blow. Regardless, her opinion of you doesn’t determine your right or reason to exist, or what you do with yourself from here. I know just saying it doesn’t magically reprogram your brain, but given time you can readjust how you think about your existence. It’ll take a bit of practice and positive thinking, but you might start to see results sooner than you might think.

I agree with this assessment of battery technology, I’m curious what your thoughts on storage through other means, such as dams, kinetic batteries, heat batteries, that style of thing? I understand that it’d be a massive undertaking, but if we really put our nose to the grindstone we might be able to pull off a good amount of power storage through methods that already exist.