Pycorax

We’ve come to a point where PC gaming is so mainstream that the average PC gamer likely doesn’t even know that AMD makes GPUs. They’ll just complain about the prices and then pay for Nvidia directly or indirectly via prebuilts.

I thought Material 3 was bad then expressive came out…

It’s so awful too. I swear it goes down twice a month.

The original article referenced was misleading and only referenced browser games. The actual percentage should have increased if you look at Steam stats and use that as a baseline.

Is it just me or does this look like a nerf to the contrast of the app?

That’s just for this issue right now in particular but they’ve had instances where supposedly an overzealous employee was going around banning anime-like games a few years back with no explanation.

Wow, I stand corrected. Took them 6 years but it finally happened.

I’m still waiting lol. MW 2019 still hasn’t been cracked, it’s already been 6 years so I’m not expecting it to ever happen.

cracked copies of their games

There actually isn’t for any of their newer games due to the always online requirement.

The other big change that’s coming for a lot of people I know: end of Windows 10 support. Honestly, the majority of people I know who still have a traditional Windows PC are using machines that can’t be upgraded to Windows 11.

The average person just simply won’t upgrade. These are the people who find regular updates or shutting of their PC already a pain, what makes you think they would switch to a completely different OS?

There was a Sims movie?

Having tried it out at the store, it feels like a downgrade in every way in the usability and functionality department. No pen support, what’s the use of such a large screen if you can’t write on it? Wider screen so now it’s actually impossible to use one handed while folded. They got rid of the under display camera on the inner screen which people don’t use often to begin with.

I mean there’s that, but there’s also a number of posts and comments about how Nintendo is shit for doing something that they didn’t even do. Like, there’s more than enough things to give them shit for, why invent new ones?

Perfected it by removing features?

You’re using an extreme example which is fine and I agree that what Candy Crush is doing is clearly trying to exploit people. However, I do believe there’s a stark difference between that and the examples we were discussing.

I mean I get what you mean and I do agree that it plays a factor but your example here only makes a lot of sense for multiplayer games. CoD is a really good example of this in my opinion. The skins there are ridiculous and the amount of effort they spend to show it off is absurd for a full priced triple A game. On the other hand, most of Ubisoft’s games are singleplayer so this FOMO effect doesn’t really apply for those games.

I also don’t think we can deny the agency of the player too if they do choose to make these purchases. If someone does do their research and justifies the micro transactions after looking at it rationally, is it fair to say that they’ve been completely manipulated? I’ve personally given money to EA for Titanfall 2’s prime titan skins because I felt that it was a good value and wanted to support it. So I think there are somewhat more ethical micro transactions.

I mean they’re not technically wrong, if it wasn’t fun for people, people wouldn’t be buying them. Considering the context and all, I guess it makes sense. There’s too many whales enabling them. We get the games we voted with our wallets. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Headline makes it a bit misleading that Ubi thinks it’s referring to all their players, but the actual line does say specify that it’s for people who choose to buy them.

Also their refusal to admit to blatent usage of AI generated art for their assets.

Since we’re talking about Apple, there’s an upcoming library and spec called WebGPU that, contrary to it’s name, is a higher level cross platform graphics library. It’s an interesting idea, write once and depending on your platform, it would use the corresponding platform’s preferred backend (e.g. Direct3D on Windows, Metal on Macs, etc). It’s supposed to be promising and provide a easy way for any existing dev to hop in until they had to give up on SPIR-V support and come with a Metal-like shading language just to appease Apple so that they would support it due to Apple’s existing legal disagreements with Khronos.

And from what I’ve seen from WGSL, it’s nowhere as nice as GLSL and HLSL.

So yea, if you need any more evidence of Apple’s shitty attitude in the space.

Who was expecting this to be console pricing? This is essentially a full laptop in a tiny form factor, of course it’s gonna cost more like a laptop or you know, all of the other handheld PCs out there.