MeaanBeaan
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- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours) 5 days ago:
Not that it invalidates your points at all but I played HL Alyx sitting down on an original oculus quest on a computer with a 1060 and an r5 2600. It was great but it and Beat Saber were basically the only two VR games that were fun enough for me to play for more than a few minutes at a time.
That quest has been collecting dust since I beat Alyx.
Really hard for me recommend spending several hundreds of dollars on hardware when there’s really only one game worth playing. But if you can find a cheap used quest or WMR headset it might be worth picking up and then selling just to play Alyx. Alyx is probably one of if not these most well optimized VR game out there. You really don’t need that powerful of a rig to play it.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 week ago:
While thats definitely true for many games it’s less relevant for console makers and its hardly true universally; definitely not true for the insomniac games I mentioned.
Plenty of games are coming out that are optimized very well. Unfortunately, UE5 has gotten way too popular and devs often don’t seem to really know how to optimize games developed on the engine. Kinda the downfall of having an engine that appeals so much to artists but not so much to engineers. I think the only remotely well optimized game I can think of that was made in UE5 is Hellblade 2. And even as impressive as that game is from a technical standpoint (nothing can fix how boring it is) I still have stuttering problems with it. Though my rapidly aging R5 2600 is not helping things there.
But there are still impressive PC games out there. Recently Doom The Dark Ages, indiana Jones, and Kingdom Come Deliverence 2 come to mind as games that are impressively well optimized on PC. Especially KCD2, that game feels like black magic to me.
I think this is less of an issue of cost cutting by devs and publishers, though it’s definitely a factor, and moreso just devs not being as knowledgeable about optimizing games as they used to be.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 week ago:
Fucking why? These dudes always cite the cost of making games increasing as a reason for this nonsense but they never talk about the many many factors working in their favor already.
First, most people are probably not buying physical games very much if at all anymore. And because of that people don’t really buy games used anymore either since used games in general are much rarer. So more people are buying games directly from company storefronts. These same storefronts that also make games stay more expensive for longer periods of time. Not only that but there are literally more people playing and buying games now than have ever done so in the past (at least up until very recently)
All of these factors should be increasing Sony’s profit margins. If anything games should be getting cheaper. Not more expensive.
And I don’t buy that a ps5 game is significantly more expensive to make than a ps4 game. There’s barely a difference between each system’s capabilities in terms of graphical detail in the assets a team needs to produce. Most of the benefits of ps5 come in the way of higher resolutions and higher frame rates. I have yet to see a game release on ps5 that couldn’t have also been ported to ps4 with lower resolutions and frame rates.
Even the games they said needed the ps5’s speed were eventually ported to PC and run on the Steam Deck just fine. (Spider-Man 2 and Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart for example)
These statements aren’t anything more than a company executive trying to gaslight people into accepting unacceptable pricing strategies.
- Comment on electrostatic spider flight 5 weeks ago:
Didn’t the baby spiders fly away at the end of Charlottes Web?
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
Mine hasn’t gotten much use lately because the steamdeck itself has indirectly usurped it but man I love my steam controller. It’s genuinely the best controller ever made for certain types of games. I find it very difficult to play FPS games without it (or the steamdeck) due to getting so used to gyro aiming with the capacitive touch sensors. My only real gripe with it is the subpar build quality. They’ve learned a lot since then in terms of hardware manufacturing so I can’t wait for them to put out a new steam controller.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 1 month ago:
Honestly nationalism for the US has always been kinda gross to me. We’ve never really had much to be proud of as a nation historically.
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 2 months ago:
Heavily depends on where you live. I live near a big city on the east coast in a largely Blue state. I have 1 gig FiOS internet (up and down). In my area Comcast and Verizon compete for customers so our speeds here are alright. But there are plenty of areas in the US that have absolutely abysmal internet. Either because the area is rural so not much infrastructure has been built up or because the ISP in that area holds a monopoly on the market and doesn’t have to increase speeds to keep their customers. I’ve heard horror stories of people being stuck with like sub 10mbps because there are just no other options.
- Comment on U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs 2 months ago:
Nvidia, Intel, and AMD are all American companies. Yes, their GPUs are manufactured by TSMC in Taiwan but they just follow the designs given to them. The layout of these GPUs and the architecture of the chips are all designed and controlled by these American corporations.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 2 months ago:
She was like 50 so I doubt it lol
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 3 months ago:
Crazy to me that this is still going around. I remember hearing this myth back when I was in middle school almost 20 years ago.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 3 months ago:
I had a customer once at an old job whose name was spelled Deborah. Seems completely normal until she got super mad at me for calling her “Debra” because I was somehow supposed to know her name was pronounced “Deb-Or-Ah”. With the “Or” being stressed.
- Comment on Sad I'm no longer a Catholic, seeing how rad the new Pope is 3 months ago:
How long until trump posts this on Truth?
- Comment on Genius 3 months ago:
lower gun and shoots you in the back
- Comment on Microsoft Bans Employees From Using DeepSeek App 3 months ago:
Correct me if I’m wrong here but a company can’t dictate what you do on your own time on your own hardware, so I assume this simply affects work computers. Assuming thats the case I don’t really see a problem here. I’ve never been able to download any applications at all on any work computer I’ve ever used short of apps the company itself uses.
Seems completely understandable to me to bar employees from using a competing service especially if there are genuine security concerns.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
Everybody saying this is why their products are shit are really confusing me. It’s not like Microsoft just started being terrible. They’ve been terrible for a real long time. Way before AI was a thing. This is just a symptom of Microsoft’s awfulness not a reason for it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Edit 2: I’m an idiot who didn’t fully read what I posted.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Yeah. I didn’t fully read the article lol. Thats on me.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Didn’t the commercial use unlicensed music too? I feel like I remember there being a lawsuit
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 3 months ago:
Is that a threat?
- Comment on Meow 5 months ago:
My only issue with this statement is that it implies there were cats that sounded different from how domesticated cats sound now. I’m not really conviced of that. To my understanding they have a high pitch voice because they’re small. For instance you can find videos online where they record a tiger “meowing” then they pitch it up to the register of a house cat. The resulting meow sounds nearly indistinguishable (other than the digital artifacts Inherent to doing such a thing) from a regular house cat’s meow. Now tigers obviously didn’t adapt to meowing like infants so my conclusion is that cats just sound like that and natural (human?) Selection had very little if anything to do with it.
- Comment on Meow 5 months ago:
Yes, but the question is if they model their meows to sound like human infants. We know they changed their behavior to meow when wanting attention from us. But I’d be willing to bet they didn’t model their meows to sound like that. They just happen to sound like that because they’re small animals with high pitch voices.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 5 months ago:
There we go. I was waiting to be represented.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 5 months ago:
I assume they’re referring to actual hardware. I’d imagine the percentage of gamers playing emulated games is much higher than 14%.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 6 months ago:
Who tf says we’re not mad? We’re fucking furious.
- Comment on dear lord 8 months ago:
Gotta watch out for the clappers
hears clap on clap off jingle in the distance
Oh no…
- Comment on the lifestyle 9 months ago:
Coraline
- Comment on 'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future? 9 months ago:
No, why would I give a shit? Let them die.
- Comment on Caption this. 10 months ago:
“And this kids is why you need to be very careful when operating the band saw.”
- Comment on Nintendo Is Now Going After YouTube Accounts Which Show Its Games Being Emulated 10 months ago:
It’s not. They’ve definitely lost lawsuits before.