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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Third the employees.

  Reminder that Skyrim was made with a staff of ~300, that included revamping Gamebryo into Creation.

  Devs with ~1000 devs using UE5 - what are the people even doing other than useless meetings?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As UK game development suffers its ‘sharpest recorded decline’, trade association calls on UK Government to act | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Development of the arts is supposed to be for arts that could never stand on their own feet commercially though.

  Game publishers shouldn’t ever be getting a cent.

  Game developers shouldn’t either unless the game is released for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO Says He Gets Where The DLSS 5 Outrage Is Coming From: ‘I Don’t Love AI Slop Myself’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Regular slop, ground truth data structured slop

  It all flows downhill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US bans all new foreign-made network routers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad Australia is finally getting some decent fiber links up through Singapore.

  SEA-ME-WE3 is a joke and before IndigoWest and ASC, almost all of our international transit was via US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda has no plans to slow down on paid mods, Todd Howard says he wants to get Creations 'in front of more people'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no plans on buying any mods from Bethesda.

  Why?

  Because there is no guarantee of interoperability.

  With mods from Nexus and friends, I have no expectation of compatibility between gratis mods made by people in their free time. (even though mod authors usually go to great pains to make sure they’re compatible with most anything that isn’t another mod doing the same thing)

  If I’m paying for a ‘mod’ (really just DLC) - I expect a paid level of support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To make video games for Gen Z, be authentic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If GenZ has a BS meter, it’s wired backwards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To make video games for Gen Z, be authentic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Viralbility, memebility, social media and coop are the heart of it

  So, ‘Authenticity’ really means ‘astroturfing’ in this context?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hear Quarry Junction is lovely this time of year!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not with that attitude Kif!

  Assemble the men, we’re turning off clipping.

  You’re right though, it’s a lot of cliff wall hugging or diverting to hidden valley.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hear Quarry Junction is lovely this time of year!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a safe route through there though, multiple in fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll preface by saying I don’t think it’s a good idea, but-

  Fallout TV Show (and friends) have brought a lot of new people to gaming that might have eschewed it before, a lot of those people have on idea what they’re doing in videogames.

  An ‘AI assistant’ could help in a face-saving way (consider a 60 year old father who’s never played, and possibly chastised games in the past, is now getting into Fallout NV due to the TV show - asking their kids that they ridiculed about games would be embarrassing, but asking an AI may not be)

  Basically, letting old people who hated videogames, play videogames.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor must stop juicing house prices and make buying a home the Australian dream – not negatively gearing one | Greg Jericho⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Vote Greens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia to temporarily ease fuel quality standards⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Diseasal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crimson Desert's PS5 Physical Edition Won’t Run Without 48GB Day-One Download⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So it’s a “Game Key Disc”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well modding is out of the question then, so the game is a hard drop from me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Faces $2.7 Billion UK Lawsuit Over PlayStation Store Monopoly Claims | TechPowerUp}⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, go after them all.

  I personally don’t think Valve is abusing a monopoly position, but it should be tested nonetheless.

  Lootboxes and Gambling on the other hand, Gabe has a lot to answer for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Consider a system with no DRAM' replaced by a 'recycling fiber loop': John Carmack envisages bold future to avoid AI-driven RAM crisis⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an interesting idea, but what’s the floor size for a pair of 200TB/s fibre transceivers vs. 32GB of HBM?

  It’s it’s not significantly less, this doesn’t seem like it’d be particularly helpful outside the 200TB/s of streaming data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know I’ll never be trying or buying Helldivers after this, the community as a whole are just bad people who idolise Nazi imagery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox as a platform is officially dead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s allowed to run Linux, it’ll be better than the Steam Machine.

  Microslop, for their faults, actually does get custom hardware from AMD - Valve uses repurposed parts which is much cheaper for their smaller runs.

  I think it’ll be fully locked down though, but if it’s not - i’d wager it’ll make a better Steam Machine than Steam Machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to replay Skyrim but⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Constellations is a good mod collection on Nexusmods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10!=10*9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  neat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Xbox died the day Peter Moore left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3210: Eliminating the Impossible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why Batman is the best he uses AI The Batcomputer which totally isn’t cooled by an aquifer feeding Gotham.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo is issuing refunds for Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition's poorly-received premium Switch 2 Edition upgrade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Image - Video from Reddit.

  It only affects handheld mode, but there is shimmering and upscaling artifacts. In docked mode it’s fine.

  It’s not really worth AUD$8/US$5 though, it’s only a resolution and framerate upgrade (60fps mode already existed but was masked out, it’s been available on emulators using the official code since last year) and it’s still only SDR. Mario Odyssey had a free upgrade which added 4k/60 AND HDR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  *$20 each, for each language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pretty solid offer.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gonna start kicking air like this! And if any part of you should fill that air, it’s your own fault!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ars is just AI slop now? Sad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A very special snow-flake who needs his own safe space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Geo-distributed Jellyfin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve often described Europe as being the ‘other end of the internet’ since from Australia it’s often routed over the Pacific to US(via Hawaii and either Guam or New Zealand), over the US, then over the Atlantic.

  tu.berlin is 316ms away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, if you’re not married with kid at 24 as a dude, you failed.

  I’m going to go out on a limb and assume ‘Jaicilgin’ failed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Bandcamp became the "headquarters" for video game soundtracks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Beatport and Juno are both stores