The awful transformations that suddenly turn a 3-4 lane road into open air w/jets or a huge body of water w/boats really lose the plot for me, throwing accuracy and skill out the window in favor of a fight to figure out where the fuck the track turns back into a road is very annoying.
Not to mention the rubber banding and royal clusterfuck of items constantly homing in on your car to spin you out is incredibly annoying. In older games each player might get one item per lap if they didn't miss it. Now it's constantly raining turtle shells.
In addition there's a huge selection of cars and wheels and other crap to choose from, you end up spending 10 minutes setting up the race and 3 minutes playing.
Crap IMHO. They turned something that demanded skill to progress into a crapshoot party game.
If there's no place for terrorists to hide then there's no place for *anyone* to hide, and that is unacceptable considering how valuable it is to hide from oppression or the abusers of the system used to ensure there are no hiding spots, those who operate the system are disproportionately advantaged and with access comes the capability of concealing themselves, censoring, framing content and concealing context, etc.
This idea is ridiculous and imbalanced off the bat.
With PlayStation Plus you get an initial "instant game collection" and then they add about 6 games a month to your list and as long as you're subscribed you can keep playing all of them. Pretty much sounds like we already have that.... And Steam has PC pretty well covered
...but that we buy "things" so often and feel we need them, instead of saving for the future so that we can have one when all these things will have been used up anyway
"The more we learn about other people, the more we'll come to like them."
We're not learning about other people, we're only observing a tiny facet of them when they decide to write something online. All of the context is cut out. We only get a very superficial understanding of that person. Like stereotypes. When I meet with someone IRL I get all of the context, at least a much fuller picture, not the edited version.
Online people want to only show what they feel is their best side, and others may feel the need to match or exceed that, and at least the busy vocal part seems to be competing in a one-up contest.
Personally I am more reserved and tend not to write that much online, I don't really want to get involved in most of this and prefer to socialize IRL, perhaps there are others like me. Perhaps some keep their conversations hidden as well, and those are not indexed and processed. So perhaps what we see online is a very slim edited version, and maybe this is what we don't like.
Apple and MS are constantly changing the look and arrangement of their OS with each new version and then app developers for some reason feel the need to change and match that for whatever reason, and we end up with constantly rearranged and reskinned GUIs. Desktop OSes need to stop changing this stuff at the basic level and encourage consistency.
Personally I'm sticking with GNU/Linux, first Gnome 2, now Cinnamon... I've been having a fairly consistent experience for about a decade
All I needed was a 368, VGA, and SB Pro, and a config.sys with [menu] section to run emm386 or not, it really was simple. The last 15 years 4/5 times a demo fails when running it in Windows. Who knows if it's a driver version, GPU type, GPU RAM, system RAM, CPU brand, sound brand or EAX etc supported or not, DirectX version supported, resolution supported or maybe it does/doesn't like Windowed mode... Wtf
I miss demoscene entries that actually ran on the bare hardware and exploited its quirks... Nowadays it's mostly watching videos because you're lucky if you can actually get a release to run properly without barfing out to the desktop for some missing library or it just doesn't agree with your GPU
On the high end it's already outperformed by even a 1070, and launching expensive as a premium system, and is restricted by a software library that must remain compatible with the 1.3 tflop Xbox One. Developers won't want to be designing two discrete games. The system also barely has time to get off the ground before the next generation of consoles expected in 2019, or at the very least Sony's 3 year follow up to the PS4 Pro (which came 3 years after the PS4), whatever form that will take.
It doesn't seem like a good proposition at this point.
Nintendo understands that they don't get 'infrastructure' which is why they handled mobile conglomerate DeNA to build all that for them. So I guess DeNA too doesn't get 'infrastructure', or maybe this has something to do with Japanese expectations and preferences for such?
Does every snap package load only its own libraries increasing ram usage? And then multiple versions of libraries you can't individually update may have flaws and exploits that you have to rely on someone to update the snap package every time one of the components is updated?
If I was throwing away money I'd get the PSVR because of RE7 and other big budget VR games including racing franchises (and with some extra software like Trinus it can be used with Steam on PC), but these are first generation devices. If I were to be smart with my money I would wait for a new generation of devices that have perfected tracking, have higher definition displays, and are overall less expensive. By then a lot more games would be out as well, it's still slim pickings.
This is why they are building UWP as a walled garden and making it a separate distinct environment from Win32. Eventually if you run any Win32 apps, "secured" UWP apps will refuse to run. Eventually they will do away with Win32 arguing it has too many attack vectors as due to the growing disparity between it and UWP, it won't receive fixes or updates.
They will tell gamers they can have no cheaters and no CPU wasting anti-piracy software. They will tell users interested in productivity that they will have better performance with no need for an antivirus. They will also have the cross platform/device app ecosystem they always wanted.
And then RIAA/MPAA will have the secure path they want.
So you don't have to deal with troubleshooting OS, drivers, updates, various discrete pieces of hardware that may or may not be part of the issue, and much less choice paralysis on game options. Maybe it's OCD but on PC I spent more time running benchmarks and tweaking than actually playing. Every time my game would hitch I would wonder if there was something I could do to fix it and make my experience better. And if I couldn't run at max settings with it being completely smooth it would somehow ruin my enjoyment.
With a console I don't have the absolute best experience but I do feel much more satisfied.
From stated specs and leaked presentation info it looks like Scorpio will be struggling to output today's games at 4k, I think potential buyers will be disappointed in the difference between MS's PR and what the system can realistically output.
After people complained this generation's consoles were underpowered for 1080p output I don't know why they are repeating this for 4k and also saying it will carry a premium price tag.
At that point, since Xbox games will be on PC anyway, why not skip Scorpio and get a 1080 or 1080 Ti and also have access to Steam as well?
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The awful transformations that suddenly turn a 3-4 lane road into open air w/jets or a huge body of water w/boats really lose the plot for me, throwing accuracy and skill out the window in favor of a fight to figure out where the fuck the track turns back into a road is very annoying.
Not to mention the rubber banding and royal clusterfuck of items constantly homing in on your car to spin you out is incredibly annoying. In older games each player might get one item per lap if they didn't miss it. Now it's constantly raining turtle shells.
In addition there's a huge selection of cars and wheels and other crap to choose from, you end up spending 10 minutes setting up the race and 3 minutes playing.
Crap IMHO. They turned something that demanded skill to progress into a crapshoot party game.
Have advertisers opt in to a video/channel whitelist. Problem solved. Better to get some revenue than none.
Ah so that's why every 49.7 days it's freezing cold
If there's no place for terrorists to hide then there's no place for *anyone* to hide, and that is unacceptable considering how valuable it is to hide from oppression or the abusers of the system used to ensure there are no hiding spots, those who operate the system are disproportionately advantaged and with access comes the capability of concealing themselves, censoring, framing content and concealing context, etc.
This idea is ridiculous and imbalanced off the bat.
It's a little too late to stop Snowden
With PlayStation Plus you get an initial "instant game collection" and then they add about 6 games a month to your list and as long as you're subscribed you can keep playing all of them. Pretty much sounds like we already have that....
And Steam has PC pretty well covered
That's what we used to do not that long ago.
Anyway who cares.
Looks like we still haven't learned!
...but that we buy "things" so often and feel we need them, instead of saving for the future so that we can have one when all these things will have been used up anyway
"The more we learn about other people, the more we'll come to like them."
We're not learning about other people, we're only observing a tiny facet of them when they decide to write something online. All of the context is cut out. We only get a very superficial understanding of that person. Like stereotypes. When I meet with someone IRL I get all of the context, at least a much fuller picture, not the edited version.
Online people want to only show what they feel is their best side, and others may feel the need to match or exceed that, and at least the busy vocal part seems to be competing in a one-up contest.
Personally I am more reserved and tend not to write that much online, I don't really want to get involved in most of this and prefer to socialize IRL, perhaps there are others like me. Perhaps some keep their conversations hidden as well, and those are not indexed and processed. So perhaps what we see online is a very slim edited version, and maybe this is what we don't like.
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Apple and MS are constantly changing the look and arrangement of their OS with each new version and then app developers for some reason feel the need to change and match that for whatever reason, and we end up with constantly rearranged and reskinned GUIs. Desktop OSes need to stop changing this stuff at the basic level and encourage consistency.
Personally I'm sticking with GNU/Linux, first Gnome 2, now Cinnamon... I've been having a fairly consistent experience for about a decade
Or will you get cut off when Google changes something on their end?
All I needed was a 368, VGA, and SB Pro, and a config.sys with [menu] section to run emm386 or not, it really was simple. The last 15 years 4/5 times a demo fails when running it in Windows. Who knows if it's a driver version, GPU type, GPU RAM, system RAM, CPU brand, sound brand or EAX etc supported or not, DirectX version supported, resolution supported or maybe it does/doesn't like Windowed mode... Wtf
I miss demoscene entries that actually ran on the bare hardware and exploited its quirks... Nowadays it's mostly watching videos because you're lucky if you can actually get a release to run properly without barfing out to the desktop for some missing library or it just doesn't agree with your GPU
On the high end it's already outperformed by even a 1070, and launching expensive as a premium system, and is restricted by a software library that must remain compatible with the 1.3 tflop Xbox One. Developers won't want to be designing two discrete games. The system also barely has time to get off the ground before the next generation of consoles expected in 2019, or at the very least Sony's 3 year follow up to the PS4 Pro (which came 3 years after the PS4), whatever form that will take.
It doesn't seem like a good proposition at this point.
Nintendo understands that they don't get 'infrastructure' which is why they handled mobile conglomerate DeNA to build all that for them. So I guess DeNA too doesn't get 'infrastructure', or maybe this has something to do with Japanese expectations and preferences for such?
Doesn't really take a bunch of snowflakes to poke around and find bugs, and as for metrics you don't have much of a choice lately
Sounds like these people are providing valuable QA and focus testing
Is there a plugin for this? Even having the plugin installed would throw any data gathered into question
Does every snap package load only its own libraries increasing ram usage? And then multiple versions of libraries you can't individually update may have flaws and exploits that you have to rely on someone to update the snap package every time one of the components is updated?
If I was throwing away money I'd get the PSVR because of RE7 and other big budget VR games including racing franchises (and with some extra software like Trinus it can be used with Steam on PC), but these are first generation devices. If I were to be smart with my money I would wait for a new generation of devices that have perfected tracking, have higher definition displays, and are overall less expensive. By then a lot more games would be out as well, it's still slim pickings.
This is why they are building UWP as a walled garden and making it a separate distinct environment from Win32. Eventually if you run any Win32 apps, "secured" UWP apps will refuse to run. Eventually they will do away with Win32 arguing it has too many attack vectors as due to the growing disparity between it and UWP, it won't receive fixes or updates.
They will tell gamers they can have no cheaters and no CPU wasting anti-piracy software. They will tell users interested in productivity that they will have better performance with no need for an antivirus. They will also have the cross platform/device app ecosystem they always wanted.
And then RIAA/MPAA will have the secure path they want.
So you don't have to deal with troubleshooting OS, drivers, updates, various discrete pieces of hardware that may or may not be part of the issue, and much less choice paralysis on game options. Maybe it's OCD but on PC I spent more time running benchmarks and tweaking than actually playing. Every time my game would hitch I would wonder if there was something I could do to fix it and make my experience better. And if I couldn't run at max settings with it being completely smooth it would somehow ruin my enjoyment.
With a console I don't have the absolute best experience but I do feel much more satisfied.
From stated specs and leaked presentation info it looks like Scorpio will be struggling to output today's games at 4k, I think potential buyers will be disappointed in the difference between MS's PR and what the system can realistically output.
After people complained this generation's consoles were underpowered for 1080p output I don't know why they are repeating this for 4k and also saying it will carry a premium price tag.
At that point, since Xbox games will be on PC anyway, why not skip Scorpio and get a 1080 or 1080 Ti and also have access to Steam as well?