Hey, me too. To me trains don’t feel too polished, yet. I hope they’ll work on them a bit more.

Is this weird right-wing echo chamber still a thing?

There is an easy solution to prevent “review bombing”. Don’t make shitty games and don’t act like an idiot in public.

Why deliberately go into vendor lock-in?

Good luck with finding an idiot company dumb enough to buy them with only one extremely failed product.

Maybe Mozilla will do it? They currently sink large amounts of money in AI bullshit like that.

But no way, big tech buys them.

We all know the three golden rules of nowadays gaming:

1. Do not pre-order
2. Do not play on launch day
3. Wait for the first patch before considering a game “stable”

So you need an ad blocker for that, too?

I wish they’d make this game good

It should have been optimized to run good on common PC configurations. It should have mods since day 1 via the Steam Workshop.

This would have solved 99% of all complaints.

Not again … Well, let’s wait a week or so for the clients to fix that.

We’ve gone full circle!

Haha, yeah. Screw them.

How come they always change to a new shitty design once you accepted them previous shitty design?

In my fantasy everyone will crash. Small studios, big studios, all publishers. Everyone.

And then studios with creative new ideas will rise from the ashes while big studios making games solely for their investor’s income will stay down. It will be a better industry afterwards. With nicer studios and more creative ideas.

… this is unrealistic, I know.

Ah yes. Video game crash 2024! This would clean up so much bullshit in the industry.

It will be a shared world multiplayer-first service game so it can be an AAAA game like that recently released Black Flag add-on that got out of control.

I stick with CS1 and mods.

Adding it to my list.

Nope. Proper logo design and graphic arts cannot be replaced when exceeding a certain level or professionality and experience. Logo design and graphic arts are much more than just placing pixels at calculated positions.

replacing jobs that AI can’t actually do.

Yes, that’s dumb. But that’s not my point people don’t get here.

The thing is: If the quality of your work is worse than an AI’s job, you WILL lose the job one day because of an AI.

Since artists were mentioned several times: This also counts for artists. If your work is not unique then you will be replaced. If people like your style you wont’t be replaced.

If you job can be replaced by an AI, then your job was useless anyways.

Again? I remember they did this years ago when releasing Chrome.

They don’t allow any new MV2 extensions in the store, though.

Since Chrome does not “disable uBlock Origin” but Google deprecating manifest V2 in favor of manifest V3 it will be done in Chromium because Chromium does the heavy lifting and Chrome is “just a Chromium based browser”.

Yeah, the individual pixels are just too small to count, but for me the overall look is worse when setting the reduced resolution.

I read something about 1080p on the Fairphone. Mmmh, so the resolution is better, but still not for me.

I don’t say the device is bad, I just don’t consider it as a modern phone. If you want to support their idea, go for it. But for that price tag you can get better hardware.

How do you justify this?

Based on the specs, the build quality (according to data sheets stating its plastic), and some of the features (especially the low-res screen) and the software and components (e.g. the outdated UFS, no WiFi 7, the old BT standard, the small battery, etc.)

Personally I don’t care much about the screen so long as its color calibration is decent. I use my Pixel in 1080p, 60Hz to save on power and I don’t see the difference in pixel density between 1080p and 1440p or larger resolution screens in the 6" size band.

I have a Pixel 7 Pro and I absolutely see a difference. Maybe I’m just used to it, but setting it from 1440x3120 with 120 hz to 1080x2340 with 60 all animations feel like they “stutter” and the text quality is noticeably worse.

On a TV screen a few meters away from me I couldn’t care less. But the phone screen is less than an an arm’s length away from my eyes.

Overall, the Fairphone 5 is a low-to-mid tier phone with a top-tier price tag. If you support what they claim to do and if you have no issues with not buying the best phone in that price range, get one.

I’m a simple man, I just use DejaVu Sans Mono without any ligatures or other fancy stuff.

Works everywhere.

I used “Instant Gaming” a few times without any issues. The initial registration is a bit annoying with their confirmation process, but after that everything works wonderfully well. Their prices are great, especially on older (i.e. not just released) games and DLCs. Never had any problems with or after activating the stuff using the keys I got.

A prequel is just a sequel but the game designers were lazy.

But they like money, so they did it anyways.

a decrease in quality mods and mod tools will choke reddit to death.

Thanks to Reddit i learned Docker and everything needed to self-host a lot of cool stuff - without even visiting Reddit.

Low-end hardware and a pretty much closed CPU you can’t do much with for 700 Euros? No, thank you.

You clearly have a different opinion on what “playable” means. But yes, in this case it’s “playable”, I guess.

[GTA 6 has] been leaked in a playable form

You mean that crude alpha test code? I would’t say GTA 6 was leaked in a playable form, but hey 🙃

Also: The world has become super toxic regarding basically everything mocked in GTA. I highly doubt GTA 6 will be even a bit like previous versions. It will end up as toned-down unironically “woke” cashgrab. To me, GTA ended with GTA V.

As long as they can continue milking GTA Online there won’t be a GTA 6, and if there will be a GTA 6 it most likely will be online-first.

Disasters are the first thing I tun of when starting a new city.

I wish the Flatpak version wouldn’t crash on startup, though.