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Wanna go bowling?

Was about to make a similar comment. But i dont even see Rockstar behind it necessarily ( i have to google this word everytime, fml). Media outlets themselves have enough reason to drum up a bit of bullshit for the clicks. Sweet gamer outrage for some ad revenue.

I’m impartial towards GTA6 itself. Rockstar and Take2 suck. Fuck em. But GTA6 as a product is still kinda cool i guess(Price, DLCs, Netflix Trailer aside). But i know i’m going to be so sick of it when it releases. There will so much media coverage because its GTA. Like the queen died levels of media flooding.

I’m really curious though if we get a pre-release PC leak. lmao

Yaawn

Yeah, i use my standalone VR headset in bed, duuuh. The future is now.

/s

What a whiny little bitch you are.

I’m not even vegan. But meat eating morons signal posting that they’re sick of vegans are way more common and annoying than vocal vegans.

Its such a overplayed prejudice for as long as i can remember. I came across overreaching vegans which actually annoyed me maybe five times in my life. Signalposting meat heads are more like a weekly occurance.

Random vegan at a bbq “hey, can i have small sliver of aluminum foil for my stuff and if you guys dont half intentionally wrench the meat juices over my veggies, that would be cool”
What always follows: 10-30 minute moronic rant of some meathead because eating meat is his whole personality.

In the context of console hardware designs, especially how the GPU is integrated? IDK about that tbh? Sure, planned obsolescence is to a certain extent always part of the equation with the design of consumer electronics. But i feel like there are several design goals prioritized higher than that. Like costs, footprint, hacking/piracy prevention and so on.

Yeah, red ring and yellow light of death were a thing in the seventh gen. But those felt really unintentional. That was also more about shitty solder masks or smth like that? But apart from that instance i’m personally not aware of consoles which intentionnaly brick because of how tightly integrated the components on the MB are?

Why is this upvoted so high? Its just wrong.

Sure PS3 and 360 had separate GPUs on the mainboard. But those werent called integrated graphics. Idk maybe some refresh like the superslim combined them. But thats besides the point.

But since PS4/Xbone its literally SOCs/APUs/integrated graphics.

Agreed. Some emulators do have the option for haptic feedback via the vibrations. Which still isnt ideal but i found it quite useable for certain types auf games.

Or you just buy a bt/usb controller for 20-50 bucks. A few phones even have usb-c dp alt mode and you can enjoy the games on the big screen.

You can emulate tons of consoles and games on your phone though

I used xp-Antispy to cut off the telemetry back in the day.

Thing is NFS kinda also died because they couldnt perfect the mechanics around driving in over a decade. Heat was good and enjoyable enough but far from perfect. Then Unbound straight regressed in that department. Driving physics are very hard to get right.

But even then you have track design, balancing, AI opponents, career structure, lobby systems for online play, rewarding clean drivers etc.

Especially ai drivers and a good multiplayer component are IMHO still unsolved problems.

Like Forza Horizon has pretty much the driving physics figured out since 15 years. For all intends and purposes they are near perfect for the subgenre of realism they chose to occupie. But the track design was pretty mediocre and only got a lot better with FH6 this year. Drivatars on the other hand are less engaging and more annoying they ever were. Careerstructure is still worse than the first entry in the series. Online is still a mess with huge possible improvements.

Wreckfest is a game with really good driving physics, rock solid netcode, dedicated community servers, interesting risk and reward mechanics because of the ecouraged crashing and dirty driving. But it has a narrow focus on fictional and a bit over the top folk racing. With the ground work they laid out with that engine they could have pivoted to eg rallying or touring cars to achieve pretty different gameplay. Instead we got more of the same again with Wreckfest 2 in early access with drip fed new content. Its still a good succesor with tons of improvements.

But the indie scene also shows that there is still tons of innovation possible. Inertial Drift with the two stick drifting mechanics which got copied rather midly by Screamer this year. Yelloe Taxi goes Vroom showed us that you can have a car based 3D platformer.

Idk, the original Doom with a modern engine port with mouselook still is relevant and a really good game but new FPS games with fresh mechanics release every year since then even though you mostly walk around and shoot enemies in the face with light puzzles sprinkled in.

You forgot Undercover, which is understandable. But that game is worse than The Run.

I played every mainline nfs and thats a bit unfair. The golden era certainly started to end with Most Wanted. But they really tried to have some kind of new spin or gimmick in almost every title.

• Carbon: Autosculpt, Canyonraces, fast paced drifting
• Prostreet invented the festival racer for better or worse. Top speed runs are still insane and werent matched ever since by any game
• Shift 1 & 2 were Gran Turismo/Forza at home but atleast avaivable on PCs.
• The Run was framed as a race through the entire country and had those enviromental desasters.
• the criterion games were a weird burnout/nfs mix.
• Payback introduced offroad races and story missions
• Heats campaign with seperate incentives at day or night

I’m not saying all of these games or features were bangers. But you cant deny that NFS underwent constant changes.

Sad to see the franchise go. With NFS gone the big budget AAA arcade racing genre is almost dead. Forza Horizon still exists but its the same game with a different map for over a decade now. Mildly hyped for Clutch in the next year though. It could be something fresh again after a long time.

After the mild desaster of Unbound they invited tons of youtubers and tried to listen to the community. It could have gone really well for the next entry. But tbh i rather see NFS dead than suffering through yet another entire decade with only mediocre releases.
I loved Heat despite all its issues. But that was 7 years ago… And the only nfs title i really enjoyed since 2011(?).

The best NFS game in recent years was the Prostreet Pepega Mod. Yeah, its a meme mod but the gameplay additions were fire and its just so much fun.

Goodbye NFS. Its probably for the better

Is that Opera GX, the gAmInG browser?

It would be so fucking funny if B&H could play with 22 players because of some airbud like loophole in the rulebook.

I feel like it is in human nature. Its in most of us. But basically all of us encounter this only with video games. Like incremental games were the numbers most go up and it is deeply satisfying even though a lot of them have a deeply disturbing meta-subplot going on while you progress through absurd numbers. Had the same feeling with the ye old Sim City titles. At the start you might roleplay as a “good” virtual mayor but at some point you probably reach the point where you are going to plane entire neighborhoods to build high-rises with fake water-access to min-max your economy on the limited space you are given. The games are already abstract to begin with but with time the abstraction layer gets to the point where you try to game the given rules of the designer.

I’m no expert. But i feel like Zuckerberg managed to reach that point in real life. Basically unchecked by the rules of society he does whatever the fuck he wants to play a perverted meta-progression of life.

I rewatched the whole series a few years a go. It was fucking wild.

Its High-purity polyphenylene ether resin and the issue is the orange dickhead causing the strait of hormuz to close.

/eeew, techspot uses ai generated pictures of pcbs. gross

Probably the least controversial take on the threadiverse but i stumpled upon Ed Zitrons Blog like maybe two years ago. I’ve read a few posts of him since then and i just watch the shitshow unfold tbh. Its not that i 100% believe in his predictions. But he has made his point. I’m just an average fuck. I dont know shit. But it was so far the most believable and backed up assessment of the current AI situation.

I make barely enough money to afford my rent in bumfuck europe. How the fuck am i more informed about AI then some CEO? WTF.