JohnEdwa

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm sure dumping a new team to work on an engine they havent worked with before without giving them enough time will go fine, it's not like we have any recent examples saying otherwise.

...oh yeah, Mass Effect: Andromeda.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Because when you are giant studio using Unreal Engine there really is no excuse for poor performance or porting. But when you are a (relatively to Epic or Sony/Microsoft etc) a tiny team building a game using the engine you came up with yourself with its roots somewhere around 2010-ish , back when 6 cores was a brand new thing and have been tweaking it ever since, you do get some slack if it doesn't multithread perfectly.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Also it's a Larian game, so not only will it have all the thousands of bugs fixed (literally, the first patch had over a thousand fixes), you'll probably get the Extended Enhanced Definitive Divine Edition that rewrites half the quests and adds a bunch of new ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Both can kill, but only one has a rather high chance (some estimate 10-20%) of leaving you exhausted for months on end or worse - Physics Girl has been bedridden and at times hospitalized for the last year or so because of it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Short people and people who eat too much pork will also not go to heaven." reminded me of this (SFW actually) Oglaf.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The mod requires online authentication before it starts to function and won't run unless it can successfully do that. That's pretty much the textbook definition of online DRM.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Like Divinity Original Sin I'd imagine - running around talking to people is fine, fights are a bit clunky, and inventory management will drive you mad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Countless services exist where you can buy captcha solving, though currently it's done by actual humans in developing countries for tiny pay. Yet another job that's going to soon be replaced by AI, though this time it almost certainly will result in some people starving to death.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

But there would be no-one to do so. In a copyrightless world George R.R Martin would need to have another job to pay the bills and wouldn't be able to dedicate his time for writing, and HBO or anyone else pouring massive amounts of money to create shows also wouldn't be able to exist as they would gain no profit from what they do as their creations would also be in the public domain. Unless you live in an utopia with universal income and replicators that completely eradicate any need for money or ownership of anything, copyright itself as a concept is vital, the issue is just how corrupted the current system has become - which is mostly due to the greed of Disney.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

To give an example, if all books were automatically public domain HBO could have created Game of Thrones without paying George R.R. Martin a single cent for it, then publish and sell "Game of Thrones: The Book", aka the entire Song of Ice and Fire series, again without paying him anything and stealing all of his profit in the process.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

As someone who just upgraded from a setup with a GTX 1060 and a 1440p monitor to a 3060 TI - which is something like 25% faster than the RX 6600 - I would suggest getting something a bit faster if at all possible. The RX 6600 is still a pretty good card for 1080p, but the extra resolution is a bit too much with most newer games. Though if you are okay dropping to medium settings or utilizing upscaling it won't matter as much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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.

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