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  • 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh

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  • That's the point, it doesn't matter. Enjoy any you want.

    Todd just wants "his" Fallout games to be the most liked, to stroke his ego.

    Also side note, sales never works as a metric because the gaming industry is constantly growing, any game released now sells much more than it ever would have 5, 10, 15, 20.. years ago. Regardless of quality.

  • 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh

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  • I mean the set has missed the mark, from that image in the article. So I'd be pretty disappointed if I was a dev.

  • 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh

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  • The fact of the matter is it doesn't matter. It doesn't mean it was a good game or something was done better (which is what Todd is looking for, validation), because some people liked it.

  • Testing shows why the Steam Machine’s 8GB of graphics RAM could be a problem

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  • it'll still look shit in motion though.

    Exactly... games are quite often, in motion. I think we should abolish TAA and go back to forward rendering techniques with MSAA, the hardware can do it no problem. But a lot of games now are made with UE5s out of the box settings, which while they might be great for movies and VFX (I don't know), they are absolutely terrible for games.

    RTRT is probably the future yeah, once it's matured to a point that it runs as aswell as traditional games, it'll be great. Right now, it can't and GPUs are more expensive with their "RT" cores. For certain games it can work well like slower story games where you can immerse in the world, but for a lot of other games it's a pointless loss of performance for details nobody will really notice. But the devs get to slap "ray tracing" in the marketing and can take cash off Nvidia for RTX advertising. The "hype" around it has kind of died down anyway now.

    Come on bruh. They could stop selling gaming gpus this second and barely notice. It's one of the selling features but far from the only reason.

    It was hyperbole, they sell them for AI now... aha. My point is that the latest, even last gens, GPUs are so so powerful, yet games seem to get worse and worse performing and in quality (I'm mostly talking big games here, ones you'd expect to built well, the ones chasing graphics). UE5 is normally the culprit. But NVIDIA has clearly switched to selling software updates with their GPUs and marketing that. DLSS etc. I'm obviously talking about their gaming division here in isolation, it's clear they don't exactly need gaming sales to survive as a business now.

    I've nothing against emerging tech, if it's going to actually give us more performance. The fact new games still struggle to get 240fps on 1080p, raster performance, is insane. I honestly think 4K 120fps should be the baseline performance we should be hitting, raster, without any upscaling, frame gen bullshittery.

  • Testing shows why the Steam Machine’s 8GB of graphics RAM could be a problem

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  • And lumen is ass. TAA is ass. All this new technology chasing "realistic lighting" is complete ass because it trades off so much quality. It's being pushed by NVIDIA because its the only reason they have to sell new GPUs.

    Our hardware is ridiculously powerful, but it's just not harnessed properly.

  • Testing shows why the Steam Machine’s 8GB of graphics RAM could be a problem

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  • This kind of stuff is added at the expense of optimisations though. The time spent adding support for real time ray tracing could have been spent making the game perform better overall for everyone.

  • Discord users can now buy in-game items without leaving the platform

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  • Discord unfortunately "just works". It's simple for people to add someone, type to them, call them voice or video, stream their screen. I don't think anything else does this as well as Discord, so it's borderline impossible to convince anyone who isn't a nerd to try some new option. Discord need to do a major fuckup to start an exodus.

    If Teamspeak didn't sit on it's ass for a decade, we all would probably still be using that.

  • Testing shows why the Steam Machine’s 8GB of graphics RAM could be a problem

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  • Testing shows Valve did their testing already and made a decision based on it.

    8GB runs majority of games perfectly fine. We only suddenly "need" more because the "big" games are developed like shit.

  • Helldivers 2 install size reduction effort yields 131GB in cuts, and you can try the slim build right now

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  • That should be an option they add, not something forced on every user. A lot games are just poorly made..

  • Discord users can now buy in-game items without leaving the platform

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  • This is just each patch note for Discord. It's so hard to move people off it though, ughhhh

  • Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone

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  • Impressive from an engineering standpoint and it's only going to get more refined. Give it 5-10 years and maybe they will be durable enough for regular use.

  • Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone

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  • Phones have been tablets, well phablets, for nearly a decade now.

  • [Android] How is Florisboard not popular?

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  • I also use FlorisBoard, it's the best one I've tried. I don't use spell checking or suggestions so lack of that didn't bother me, the general functionality and design was just better than other options.

    Development has recently started on it again, so these missing features will probably be implemented soon, which will probably help it's adoption!

  • Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe

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  • Shit should be straight up illegal to own and operate.

  • Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"

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  • I'd rather pay for neither.

  • Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"

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  • I like to think I hold myself to a higher standard or at least just a standard. General consumption, I'm not sure, but for video games, people standards have dropped significantly, the masses accept a lot of bullshit and even defend it.

  • Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"

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  • These people must have genuinely been dropped on their heads multiple times. How do they think anything got done before the "AI" boom? Its mind boggling ahahahha

  • Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"

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  • Respectfully, fuck right off.

    Indie games compete all the time, they make millions. Games are an artform. Any developers using AI are in it for a quick buck and people dont want to reward that versus traditional hardwork.

    Indies have been wildly successful for decades before AI has even existed, so dont suddenly pretend its a crutch they need now. And you are down right disrespecting any legitimate artists by defending AI use. It's disgusting.

    It's the AAA devs that are going to use AI to pump out more garbage, not the honest indie developers.

  • Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"

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  • It's very much consumer these days, people buy literally anything marketed to them.