u/Shiggles

Seems like that isn’t going to be particularly productive for anybody but russia?

…always? It was “comparable to living as a British colonial subject” prior to decolonization. It’s certainly worse *now* but always is a weird one.

People like you defending this nonsense *is exactly the issue*, but you’ll never realize it.

So I’m paying thousands of dollars for a GPU to save the AAA company money?

Yes, but you deepthroating the technology *is now relevant to me*, because now it’s limiting my options on what hardware I can use to play the game, unnecessarily.

What’s the worst AMD card that can run it again? But it’s tooootally just because everybody has to have ray tracing, right? It would just be *inconceivable* to have, uh.. unrealistic light rays? That’s what my game has to have to be playable these days, fucking *light rays*?

Yes, it stinks that AMD’s ray tracing performance is so far behind. But ray tracing is an unnecessary gimmick, and mandating it is a stupid choice. Imagine mandating your game *has* to have V-sync, or motion blur, or depth of field, or any of these garbage settings a sizable percentage of the playerbase *immediately* disables?

…betting on who wins a chess match? A thing that absolutely happens in the betting community?

Honestly, the list of things people don’t bet on is probably shorter.

New *AAA* releases *that can’t be bothered to optimize worth a damn*. If those are something you just can’t do without, then sure, but it’s odd to be all doom and gloom over less than 5% of the games people will play this year lmao(15% of steam playtime in 2024 was new releases, it was a pretty even split between AAA, AA, and indie, and not every AAA game is optimized like ass).

I don’t think you get to play the “well you started ww2 card” when you’re trying your damndest to start ww3 lmao

Behind almost every peaceful protest was an armed group demonstrably ready to make things *very* not peaceful. Your school history book just likes MLK better than Malcom X.

No, but it will probably happen with his successor. Which will be deserved, to be clear, and I hope it involves some requirement of “fix your fucking democracy you clowns” so we get *some* benefit.

I do always find it morbidly amusing we care more about how horrifically unsafe the products are, but it doesn’t often get related to how awful it must be to work in a factory making this stuff.

Dude I love the guys that are like “well WaPo isn’t reporting it and the Americans didn’t email me specifically about their plans to resist so they must all be rolling over”

Because they definitely aren’t supporting anyone that resembles putler - I mean hitler

*Kunnegsgarbs

China states that eating food reduces symptoms of starvation

WELL I GUESS AS A DEMOCRAT I MUST ABSTAIN FROM ALL FOOD TO PROVE THEM WRONG

If only there was historical precedent for something like this… perhaps to do with Iran and hostages? No, that would never happen.

Play a new game for a few hours on deck, and there will be a little unobtrusive prompt box asking if you agree it’s “great on deck” near the play button.

I know Steam will ask you if you agree a game was truly “great on deck” after playing - I wonder if a certain threshold of people responding with no flags it.

“Chinese Imperialism threatens U.S. Imperialism”