Yeah. This is a giant nothing burger
ANY gaming, or even tech, company looking at possible acquisitions is interested in Valve. In the same way that everyone would be down to clown with Ryan Reynolds if he knocked on their door but we know it won’t happen.
Same with the “rumor” of buying Nintendo.
For those wondering:
~180 Mile range
Moscow is approximately 200-ish miles from the border with Ukraine.
So possible, but most likely these will be reserved for fuel and ammunition depots.
… did you just admit to molesting your kids?
Like, I was mocking your bigotry and the tendency for chuds to want to control every aspect of their children’s sexuality being code for hiding their own incestuous and abusive thoughts. I never expected anyone to admit to it…
Holy fuck…
Its okay. Just pray REAL hard and those impure thoughts about the mailman might go away.
Your priest might even have a suppository to help you with that.
No. Time and time again, it has been shown that “don’t feed the trolls” is horrible advice. Here is a pretty decent article I found after 15 seconds of googling.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/17561768/dont-feed-the-trolls-online-harassment-abuse
And I already addressed this above.
So… I don’t know why you are so hell bent on your post, provided without comment, not having people pushing back against folk arguing in bad faith about “advanced sexual theory”. But… well, I guess I will take your advice regarding one apparent troll.
I don’t mind spending some of my time arguing for the existence of other human beings. I waste MUCH more time doing MUCH stupider things. Like explaining to you why just leaving bigots to preach hate is not a good thing.
And that assumes we have good faith moderators. There is a LONG history of chud mods no actioning the bigots who “don’t break the rules” and leaving up dog whistles and outright misinformation. So give them an opportunity to make it clear just what they are saying.
Because “don’t feed the trolls” is some enlightened centrist nonsense and is one of the many things that has led to the world being so fucked. Because if there are no voices pushing back against hate then… hate wins. And it continually does.
“Just ignore the trolls” works when someone is asking “Why” or “is Brad leaving?”
“just ignore the trolls” doesn’t work when we are talking about the right for people to exist.
Because the bigots will just glom on to what makes them happy. And they’ll inevitably argue they are being “silenced” if they get downvoted (assuming they don’t get support from other chuds). And then naive idiots will see that and just assume they are seeing a “less popular” viewpoint. Especially when half the other comments will be about how reddit is a bastion of leftist thought and social justice warriors (yup…).
So you latch on to the semi-coherent chuds. You pretend they are acting in good faith and are just misguided. And you correct them. And THEN you have some fun when they show their asses.
Because now? Those “Well, both sides need some thought” idiots actually get “both sides” rather than just an echo chamber of hate.
Got it. Only YOU get to decide where your son puts his dick and who gets to have sex with your daughter.
… Is the answer to both of those you?
obviously
But it is still worth making sure there are voices other than “the TV made me gay because Hugh Jackman is friends with a pretty boy” nonsense
Is “advanced sexual theory” the latest version of “critical race theory” where you take a college course that someone told you existed and assume it applies to anything that makes you uncomfortable?
There is nothing “advanced” about the existence of gay people or the idea that you don’t need to grow up and settle down with someone of “the opposite sex”. Hell, having your parents lose their mind and pretend the world is ending the moment you see that Sally has two Moms or even that someone is walking down the street with their friend but “are a bit too close together” is how you get such incredibly stupid people as to feel threatened by a kids book that isn’t constantly drilling down that PENIS GOES INTO VAGINA!!!
And if the mere existence of an alternative will “turn someone gay”? Then… how has the world not devolved into mass gay orgies everywhere that Ryan Reynolds goes? Well… more massive gay orgies.
Also: Can I just point out how massively fucked it is that so many chuds are this obsessed with the sexuality of their children?
Try to avoid regurgitating the fox news talking points. It makes you sound like a bigoted moron.
“Kids” generally don’t need to read a deep psychological investigation of human sexuality. But they can and should have access to stories involving LGBTQ characters and themes. Because learning acceptance for others (and maybe even themselves) from an early age is how you get kids who aren’t stupid chuds who are just waiting for a chance to say what they heard tucker carlson say last night.
So yeah. My sympathies for the library who was just trying to not get fire bombed. But… fuck that noise. The acknowledgement that not everyone in the world is cishet does not instantly turn a story about a bunny rabbit into an “adult” book.
You know recruiters are desperate when they are trying to make people eligible to be recalled for “service” after firing their asses for not being cishet
Weird. Very curious what issues you ran into. I didn’t even have anything that bad on hotel wifi.
Mostly because: The video is pretty “easy” and mostly suffers from compression artifacts. If you can watch youtube, you can stream a game at generally one quality setting lower. Because latency is what matters. The actual game inputs are nothing on top of that.
Mostly it was just annoying that google did EVERYTHING they could to market it poorly and “Gamers” lost their god damned minds because they felt threatened. Which… is pretty reminiscent of MS cocking up the announcement of the One.
For all its many many many flaws (like having your flagship game start in a snow storm…), Google Stadia very much demonstrated the viability of full game streaming. Even people with shit broadband could still play a “last gen” quality game. Sure people in the outright sticks won’t be able to but… they likely aren’t doing a lot of gaming as getting a 10 GB patch out to them is hard enough.
And if you are only doing game logic and some simulations, rather than full rendering? The bandwidth needs drop even more.
Yeah.
The FOSS/Hobbyist Linux community will never stop talking about how much they hate the nvidia drivers. And… even among a buddy or two who work for nVidia, we make semi-sarcastic jokes about how “Hey, nvidia only killed my linux install once in the past few months”.
But for gaming purposes? I don’t play a lot of the cutting edge games, but even going by stuff like https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-windows11-ubuntu2304 we can see that the performance is effectively parity. ~10% hit if you are going through proton but that is the kind of noise you get from having too many chrome tabs open or whatever*. If I was still a total sicko for game performance I would care more but… I am too old for that shit. I would rather still be a first class citizen than get drivers once or twice a year but… meh.
And for research/compute/data science reasons? There is absolutely zero reason to ever use the nouveau drivers for that. If you are going to buy the expensive hardware, use the expensive hardware.
*: If you DO think 10% matters when going through a translation layer? I strongly encourage watching the Gamers Nexus response/manifesto/what the fuck here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUeZQ3pky-w as it goes into just how much variance there is between tests with the exact same hardware and software AND is Tech Jesus having a blast.
I would say that ACTUALLY being “cancelled” is the exception.
The vast majority of shitheads just pivot their grift fully to the chud base and then present themselves as a persecuted victim. And then “mainstream” media tries to rehabilitate them in a few years.
They think they are seceding.
For decades, the idea was that texas was so wonderful they could just leave if they didn’t approve of what the rest of the country was doing. And in the past decade or so we have pretty definitively confirmed that texas has been horribly mismanaged and would literally die without federal aid. And people continuously tell texas and florida they SHOULD secede because it would be funny to watch the result.
So there is a push to pretend they are self sufficient rather than just living off of the competently-ish managed blue states.
Part of it is because games have multi-year development cycles. And, for most of covid, WFH/remote was not something people really understood how to do (having kids around did not help). So basically all games lost 1-2 years of development time.
And for a major studio (like MS), you have limited support teams and resources. So if Ghostwire needed one of the support studios, DOOM Year Zero (!?!?!?!) would have to wait and so forth.
And then you just have release windows. It matters less in a digital distribution world, but you want your big games to hit for holidays and known good selling weeks. So if Starfield is end of Summer, DOOM can’t be.
And as you add on delays you need to improve the game because something else came out with a similar bit and you will come across as “derivative”.
Its almost like people can do more than one thing.
Ask him about whether he would let prince andy hang out with his grandkids, unsupervised?