I’m no conspiracy theorist, but if I needed to discuss anything legal, I wouldn’t want to do it near a phone. Or a newish car. Or a smart TV…
The list of things that could be listening to us if there’s a vulnerability for the 3 letter agencies to exploit, is ridiculous. And outside of phone and desktop operating systems, few things get regular secrity updates.
Hell yeah!
I believe it still works but it feels very dated. Still, it just feels very satisfying somehow.
This seems to be mostly driven by Chinese gamers wanting to play it for the Chinese mythology theme
Shit, I’m not even Chinese and I jump any time I see a game with Chinese mythology. Anyone got anything good, tell me! I used to be a huge 9dragons fan. Never got into Jade Empire, maybe I should give that another shot?
I wonder if we’ll see a huge influx of other Chinese mythology related games in the coming months, trying to capitalize on this.
If it’s within the coming months, they either had to be in development long ago or they’re dogshit.
But maybe some upcoming games will be announced with similar themes.
As always, I think regulated markets are the best - don’t go full planned economy, but don’t let corpos do whatever they want either.
Which is funny because if I’m ever in the market for a NEW car again, I’d gladly pay an extra grand just to not fucking be tracked.
Freedom in games adds more surface for bugs.
Many of us have come to accept bugs in games that give you a lot of freedom. Sometimes they’re even funny.
The real reason they get so many awards is that they actually put out a game that’s fun, doesn’t hound you to buy microtransactions, has good replayability, etc.
When it was released last year, there were articles saying “you shouldn’t hold other RPGs to this standard because (insert whiny reason here)” because other devs were legitimately getting scared they’d have to start putting out better games…
Might just be my opinion, but DLC in this game would’ve had to be what we used to know as an expansion pack. Think Age of Empires games where the expansions added completely standalone campaigns.
I’m hoping entire custom campaigns.
Back in the day, Operation Flashpoint, the predecessor of ArmA, had a mod community that built mods that came with huge new maps, new equipment and actually decently written campaigns. All because of the official mod tooling, which even came with tutorials.
I believe that was the time it was hated the most because it was forced on people
Add in the costs of a PC vs a console and it’s not even close
PC: 0€ because you already have one for all the other stuff you do that’s not gaming?
Or does everyone really just rely on smartphones exclusively nowadays?
I think it’s because there’s no real competition and nobody wants to be buying DVDs (blu-rays?) nowadays.
Consider that the only other storefront that treats its’ users with any sort of dignity is GoG and many major publishers would rather avoid it because it has a policy of being DRM free, so you lose out on a lot of games by sticking to GoG for everything.
You’re left with Steam, Epic Games Store, and some other platforms nobody’s ever heard of. Epic Games’ policy is “we don’t need a better store interface because it doesn’t affect sales” and “there’s no need to support Linux, nobody uses it”. Steam has a good-enough UI and not only supports Linux for Linux-native games, but also integrates Proton (which Valve also develops) so you can play Windows games on Linux.
Sure Epic will take less of a cut from publishers, but I’ll have an inferior experience and probably pay the same.
Steam hasn’t been popular for 20 years, my dude. 20 years ago, Steam was LOATHED. I’m not gonna google it because I’m at work, but you can find a gif of the Steam logo performing anal on a bent-over dude.
10-15 years ago it was still fairly common to avoid Steam on purpose. I personally started using it actively maybe 6-7 years ago, but I’ve been gaming for just a bit over 20.
Operating system so TrueNAS in your case
Apple does share address space I believe.
Chiplets are still fairly close to each other, they need to be cooled. We’re going to need some massive cooling solutions here. Fortunately ARM has great power efficiency at least compared to x86.
Of course SoCs are also the death of upgradablity. You upgrade everything at once or nothing at all, since CPU, GPU and RAM are all part of the same package.
Definitely.
I know a person who likes going to a national park and work from there. All day battery is crucial for that.
AMD is still here though.
I have no problem with ARM chips in PCs. I’ve loved every Apple Silicon Macbook I’ve had (one personal, 2 for different jobs). But for my gaming PC, I want the raw power of x86-64 and I want a socketed CPU and a GPU that goes in the PCI-E slot, not an SoC soldered onto the motherboard that includes everything.
I think ARM servers are also an interesting use case. The efficiency advantage is more significant at the data center level than for most desktop or laptop users (yea 25 hours of battery life is cool, but my work laptop is docked all the time anyway)
Battery degradation is ridiculously unpredictable. I’ve seen 100 cycle batteries at 75% and 2500 cycle batteries over 90%. I only dealt with like 5 MacBook models
Did you use a Handy to write this comment?
“Manufacturers and tech companies have a bigger role to play”
Yeah Apple is already making the parts junk with the locking but it doesn’t seem to help.