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Microsoft flat out said it in an investor meeting years ago…

It’s not exactly a secret


Cyberpunk had bugs, for loads of people ground reaking bugs.

But I got it on PC launch and didn’t really notice anything bad after tweaking settings.

Mindsete (from what I’ve seen) doesn’t even have good bones, everything is shit except cutscenes visuals and the content of what they’re saying sucks.

I don’t know how they could save this without turning it into a brand new game


Why deal with Ubisoft BS on PCs and their Client. Where older games force you to sign in to play them. When I could just have them on one box.

Yeah, but the advantage of PC is games “last longer” graphically.

Old games like those on PC you can max out all the settings and even use mods to further enhance it.

On an old console, you’ll always be playing at the same graphics it was released with


Boycott, Divest, Sanction

Basically saying to not give Israel any money due to their human rights violations and genocide.

The fact that it is illegal for some Americans to advocate for BDS is a pretty big reason for people to say we need to do it



Like every other post OP makes, yes, it’s obviously to get people to play their game.

I searched the channel expecting it to be the only video and also OP:

https://www.youtube.com/@tutorialsbyluke/videos

But instead they just faked the acreenshot, it’s not even a real video


Like waiting 6 months for them to panic over low sales and put on 50% sale?

Maybe, or maybe I’ll wait for the ultimate edition with all dlc to hit $40


Yeah. I think someone used the term “historic” appropriately, that it’s old

And people are assuming it was used as an exaggeration like “this is a big deal”.


As of a year ago, GTA 5 had made over $9,000,000,000.

That’s a billion with a B.

Mostly off micro transactions to children.

They don’t need to charge $90, but if people will pay it, they’ll charge it.


More importantly it was limited by physical media back then.

Like, DVD level physical media, there was a hard limit for everyone, so there was a huge focus on optimization to save space

Now that almost all games are downloaded, they can be as huge as they want. So optimizing for file size is often the first place that gets cut. You might not keep a huge game installed, but it’s rare to avoid buying a game due to file size.


churn out a “quick” remaster, try and beat Skyblivion to completion, and milk the cash cow dry. It’ll almost certainly be a muddy sepia, soulless, bugged to all fuck travesty.

I literally can’t tell if you’re trying to be sarcastic because you’ve read any of a huge number of articles about the leaks, or completely ignorant of them and just happened to get everything completely opposite on accident…


I’m starting to think this isn’t just a money grab…

Tech oligarchs want us to offload critical thinking to their own AIs, who will give us the answers they want us to have.


HOW does this genocidal state have such an insane stranglehold on our country?

Before AIPAC there was another Israeli organization that donated to politicians.

After years of fighting a committee ruled that it had to register as a foreign agent.

So Israel created AIPAC and then gave Max donations to the people on the committee that decides who has to register as a foreign agent.

Which is why AIPAC has never had to register.

As both parties continually got rid of campaign finance law, AIPAC kept increasing what they gave, and started throwing insane money at anyone critical of Israel in the primary when it’s cheap.

Over decades they’ve bought the only two options and ensured the only two options were peo-Israel over anything else

The worst part …

They’re not the only organization, even foreign country. Doing this to ensure they always win.

Luckily while Ken Martin does have a pro-Israel bias, while running Minnesota he was one of the few state chairs who refused to work against anti-genocide Dems in primaries or generals. Which resulted in Minnesota being one of the progressive strongholds despite no one guessing it would shake out that way a decade ago.

So I want to be clear:

The people fucking up the DNC for decades is gone, we need to support the new DNC to keep it out of their hands. The people running the DNC six months ago wants the current DNC to take the fall so they can move back in.


Part of why it’s so ridiculous some Americans are legally prohibited from participating in BDS, is people only know if you tell them.

You can just not buy it and never mention why.

And unfortunately, lots of people aren’t even aware it’s illegal:

https://www.newsweek.com/pro-palestinian-protest-states-colleges-illegal-bds-1895292


Honestly, game pass on PC is such a good deal it’s basically free

But yeah, I should have said “free” instead of free.


Nope, never said it sucked, never even said which way that mattered…

But if you read the article:

Concurrent player numbers on Steam have been okay but not great, peaking out at a little over 6,000 concurrents during Atomfall’s first weekend of release. The 1.5 million player count is no doubt driven largely by Atomfall’s presence on Game Pass, where everyone can give it a spin for no more cost than what they’re paying for their subscription anyway.

6k on steam…

The single largest platform for PC games.

Meaning most are on Game pass.

We can’t say everyone who tried it for free would have bought it. Which makes these numbers less valuable.

Does it make sense now?


Being free on Xbox and PC thru game pass really makes these numbers less valuable…


That would mean a lot more if it wasn’t in the same reply chain as you clearly not knowing what you’re talking about about…


but at the cost of competitive fairness??? No thanks.

You do realize current CoD is matchmaking based on engagement, right?

If it takes 3 matches of getting stomped to exit the game, it’ll give you an easy win every 3 games.

If the first number changes, so does the second.

That’s not even getting into how buying skins artificially reduces the second number.

Like, after accounting for just those two things, it’s kind of absurd to complain about fairness unless it’s competitive mode, and I’m pretty sure those already have pc/console splits.

Player input uniformity is one of my biggest gaming gear grinding situations. It’s especially problematic with my favorite genre of games: competitive FPS games.

That’s how it was split…

A PC controller would be matched up like a console controller. Now pc controllers will be grouped with PC mouse players…

You typed a lot but don’t seem to know what you’re talking about about bud


Yet with the sudden closure of Monolith Productions and cancellation of its Wonder Woman project, that particular success seems doomed to life in the vault. Though the Nemesis system was due to be implemented in the Wonder Woman game, Warner Bros. still owns the patent for the system, which stands with an expiration date in 2036.

The fact that a game mechanic can be patented for over 20 years is fucking insane…


If you have gamepass it’s fine for a 20 some hour play thru.

But I wouldn’t recommend anyone spend money on it, it’s probably going to get huge discounts soon.


What did avowed do wrong?

That’s what I’m talking about…

It’s not that they do anything wrong, it’s that the don’t do anything well.

It was less an RPG and more just a fps shooter with the same bare minimum of RPG elements as every other fps shooter.

The biggest games are the blandest because they’re trying to appeal to everyone. But even people not into RPGs can like a good rpg. Which is why BG3 and CK2 KCD2 are so popular.

Big studios aren’t underestimating their audience, they’re just counting on video game enthusiasts buying every major game.

I ran thru it on game pass, and it was alright, but I was kind of just going thru the motions. So I said “terrible” but I meant it was terrible at being a big budget triple A RPG.

It felt like a generic fps from 20 years ago, the only flavor was from existing IP pasted over it.


Avowed was pretty terrible too.

The problem with AAA games is they’re trying to make a game everyone likes, compromises on everything, and ends up with something no one likes.

BG3 and CK2 tho set out to make great RPGs and had faith people wanted great RPGs.




Fuck bro, how many accounts are you spamming this from?


It’s not just games, it’s TV and movies too.

Cramming sex into everything made sense when we weren’t constantly 5 seconds away from being able to see pretty much any kind of porn someone could imagine.

Now tho, that stuff isn’t a reason to watch a show. If you just cared about that, you’d watch the clip online


Ding also apparently wants NetEase to focus on games like the multiplayer mobile game Eggy Party

Oh great, another remake…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0OSfbPJFa4



Rather than playing on a high-end PC, I spent most of my time with KCD2 using medium settings on a mainstream build, complete with a Ryzen 5 3600 CPU and RTX 4060 or RTX 4070 Super graphics card. Even with the older and/or mid-range components, frame-times remained solid when targeting 60fps.

I have no idea what they’re doing if a 4070 super only got 60fps on medium… I was getting 50-70s on 4k ultra with quality upscaling and no frame gen

Or why it’s “older and/or mid-range”.

Like, you can’t buy a 5000 series if you wanted to, a 4070 super is better than what most gamers are using today

The author is aware that there’s a big bias where reviewers have the best rigs, but they’re drastically out of touch with what most people are really using




Cyberpunk was basically an unfinished alpha when it was released.

I played it the day it was released on pc, the only issue was how shitty the cars drove. But you could change the setting so bikes were usable

Consoles were different, but PC I never really had issues.


The gold standard in games retaining playerbases in this genre is Baldur’s Gate 3, which still puts up over 100,000 players nightly, though it released just over a year and a half ago.

“Released”…

Going off memory but I think BG3’s act 1 was out before cyberpunk or close to the same time. I had 100+ hours before the game released, and it was with huge gaps of play time. I think it was in Beta for at least two years.


Then you’ll probably need the newest x3d.

But you’re going to have to wait for people to get their hands on it to know for sure what will bottleneck it


The x3ds are the best for gaming… Which means overkill if not using a higher end gpu.

But it depends on what gpu and motherboard you have, then if you’re just trying upgrade CPU or build new.

Tomshardware isn’t as good as it used to be, but they do a good job with their comparisons for cpus and gpus.

If you’re not changing your GPU anytime soon, use an online calculator to find out what CPU matches it so you don’t bottleneck. A little either way isn’t a big deal.


pretend like I said anywhere that ALL I do with it is game,

No, I said no one should buy this for gaming…

No one should buy this for gaming…

You’ve misunderstood everything I said, and now you’re taking an attitude because you don’t know what’s happening. Which honestly is a very normal reaction, it’s just the threshold that’s surprising.

Me explaining anything to you is just going to be frustrating on both sides, so I’ll take the easy step to make sure it doesn’t happen again.


You said that buying a CPU like mine, with a slightly smaller cache, was a bad idea specifically for gaming.

For the same reason buying a Camaro to sit in traffic would be a bad idea…

You have one, and it’s going to be fine for gaming.

But for someone who has yet to buy one, they could pay less and get better gaming performance from an x3d.

If it still doesn’t make sense, I’d advise asking someone else


I don’t think I’ve seen the cpu ever come close to maxing out

You bought a Camaro for an hour long daily commute stuck in traffic.

It’s not going to be bad, it’s just if all you do is game then you’re not using what you paid for. You could be getting the same performance for much less price and electricity.

Gaming performance might be a little worse than an x3d (probably not), but you’d need a crazy card for a cpu bottleneck so it doesn’t matter.


No one should buy this for gaming…

Great CPU, but if you’re gaming you want the x3d because of caches and other “small” improvements that give huge graphics gains.