JohnEdwa

@JohnEdwa@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For missing the FOV option, most of the time it's some boneheaded decision to keep the console and PC games identical, as the console versions are optimized to handle exactly the amount of stuff that could be on the screen at once with the default FOV. There really is no real reason not to add it in the PC version - quite a few games do have a disclaimer akin to "If you increase the FOV, you might see graphical glitches", but that's fine.
  As for the super ultrawide there is an actual obstacle, the UI. You often can't use the same one as you either have them horribly stretched, sitting in the middle blocking your view or spread uselessly all the way at the edges. So someone has to actually do some work to make it work.

  As an example, here's Starfield super ultrawide comparison between the default FOV and 120 degree FOV. You can imagine the performance cost and possible visual glitches you might get from doing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X is working on ID verification, what’s next?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not yet. But mysk has said he wants to make X like WeChat, which has payment and sending money as one of the key features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix’s test of streaming games is small, but it’s poised to be a big deal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If the service is decent enough with servers close by, it really isn't bad at all. In a PCgamer test, the input latency for Metro Exodus and Destiny 2 went from 46ms and 51ms local to 96ms and 75ms from GeForce Now, and 179ms and 129ms from Stadia.

  For comparison, back when Tekken 7 was released on the PS4, it had 120ms of input lag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crosspost: Beyoncé selling "only listening" tickets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They will try, but if the prices are already high then they won't be able to sell them nearly as easily or gain as much profit.
  And even if we abolished scalping and it would bring the prices down a bit, it wouldn't actually solve the issue - like how nVidia noticed last gen that there were enough people that were willing to pay ridiculous amounts for the scalped GPUs, so now they increased the prices themselves to that level. It just made it happen faster than normal as they could gauge the markets easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crosspost: Beyoncé selling "only listening" tickets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  She personally doesn't, but it is a rather simple case of supply and demand for everyone else involved - there are only so many that fit in the concert, as long you find enough people willing to pay $900 per ticket to sell them all, it doesn't make any financial sense to price them any lower. And if you do lower it while the market is still willing to pay significantly more, you quickly get swamped by scalpers grabbing the profit from you instead.
  There is a Finnish saying that goes something like "The one that asks is not the stupid one, the one who agrees to pay is".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Want to live dangerously? Try running Windows XP in 2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC GTX 700 was the last nVidia generation to have XP driver support so you probably wouldn't be able to get it working properly anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telegram Stories are here — but only if you have a Premium subscription⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it's doesn't make enough money.