On the upside, the evaporation of availability for high-end consumer hardware might lead to a renaissance in more reasonable hardware requirements for software. There’s a lot of stuff we managed to do 20 or 30 years ago without anywhere near as much overhead. The indie gaming market already shows there’s plenty of room for companies to work with more modest overhead.
Honestly, that kind of makes sense given the era the NES came out in. There was a fair amount of unplayable shovelware for the Atari, so having some oversight was probably good marketing at the time.
The practice of going after emulators and trying to establish exclusive rights to game mechanics that they didn’t actually invent is a bit further.
It’s crazy to watch a company burn a lifetime of good will in just a few years of chasing copyright litigation.
It also isn’t going to come by just abandoning a platform and no longer interacting with the communities on it. Torpedoing my ability to communicate with my friends doesn’t make them all change platforms.
Does it improve video and audio quality?
Given the Team Sneed logo being a fat orange pepe clone in a red trucker hat and the existence of previous games by the same person with names like “Cuck Simulator”, it definitely seems like the intent is racist.
On a side note, it’s crazy that the same people who love to shout about there only being two genders will also classify men into 100 distinct categories related to gender expression and sexuality. It’s almost like they can’t count.
Cooool. Now just convince everyone else on discord and we’re good.
What’s that, you say? You can’t? You’re still trying to convince people to get off Facebook after 10 years? Huh.
I pay for Discord Nitro because it’s where the vast majority of the people I have real interactions with online are and I like being able to send my own emojis outside of my own server. I also like having better audio and video quality for my server’s voice chat. Dumb, maybe, but it’s literally less than a club cover fee per month.
Same. It’s a bit silly.
What do you meeaaan? Stoats are fucking adorable!
As a trans woman who has tested my rights in state level courts, I couldn’t disagree more. The difference between the rights I have in my own state and the rights I have in many others are absolutely massive.
Yeah, I can sympathize with that. Personally, I’d love to see Massachusetts and a few other states leave the union and do our own thing. We pay for everything in the states that focus all their political power on repression and exploitation and all we get for it is bullshit.
But I also have seen this cycle a few times now. Bush hurt our reputation, Obama did a lot to repair it, then Trump did worse and Biden made things a bit better. Now Trump is beating his own shit track record and when he’s gone people will have maybe learned enough to elect someone who can make some real changes for the better. That doesn’t mean the country will be in the position it was before him, but it should at least improve things. It seems like it’s been swinging back and forth since long before I was born and unless the federal government collapses it’ll probably keep going for a lot longer.
I’m glad I at least live in a decent state with health care, some degree of social safety net, and protections for queer folks. Personally, even now I feel safer as a trans woman in my own state than I would in the UK.
Things are fucked, but things are usually fucked and there’s at least some amount of resistance being mounted. Minneapolis is showing how much the people there are willing to stand up for each other, which is at least heartening. Even looking at places like Texas, all the shit that’s going on is flipping districts to the point that the gerrymandering they’ve done might not actually be enough to keep Republicans in power.
Trump at least, thankfully, does not have the support of the people, and even his own little cult probably won’t outlast him personally. This administration is going to make it hard for the Republicans to elect anyone, and if we’re smart enough about it on the left we might be able to replace some if the old guard in the Democratic party too.
We do at least seem to be less gullible as a whole than the populations that actually had popular support for fascism 80 years ago.
I hope when Trump is out and this is all over that we finally figure out as a country that it’s actually a good thing to have people come here.
Conan is fantastic for modding and for private servers. You can do sooo much with it. Dune is… inflexible. Not a bad game, but Conan wouldn’t be as successful as it is if it just had to go off of the base game either.
I’d play if there were private servers, but the game as is was kind of underwhelming. A shame too, because some private Dune servers could be awesome for voice roleplay.
So is the ISP you’re using a scam? Your electric company? Your own job? The place where you get your food? Your doctor is a scammer? The people who maintain the roads?
How am I meant to take an article that opens by claiming the entire economy is based on scams and gambling seriously?
Maybe this can be a path toward independent software that’s less RAM intensive. It’s kind of wild the amount of overhead that’s now required to accomplish tasks that were functional in the 90s when that much space simply did not exist on any consumer product.
No thanks. I don’t need another different solution for the problem that I solved for myself in September.
A certain amount of this seems to be happening anyway just because the culture at AAA studios is so inimical to gaming in general. Looking at a game like Peak, I don’t see any indication that the devs went out of their way to reduce hardware requirements, but it’s less intensive than major releases anyway. Companies not having the resources to spend years working on super detailed massive environments may end up working in their favor.
Honestly, I think something like Peak ends up feeling more intentional and well executed than something like Cyberpunk 2077. Peak’s jank feels like it’s just part of how the game is supposed to be, whereas Cyberpunk they put so much effort into some aspects that it’s weird and jarring when you run into those things that break verisimilitude. But if Cyberpunk looked like it was designed by an indie dev with good enough but not state of the art graphics? I probably wouldn’t notice some of the issues as much. Also I feel like there wouldn’t be as much corporate involvement leading to the kind of hand-holding that shows up in Phantom Liberty.
This is headed toward devolving into me complaining about feeling like I’m not in half the scenes that revolve around Idris Elba rather than V, but you get the point!