But my guy, you provided context which shows that Borderlands 4 does run like shit on a 4090 in a lab environment.

Borderlands 3 on highest settings with a 4090, a worse cpu, at 1440p ran at 210 average fps.

You telling me that Borderlands 4 looks good enough compared to 3 to explain a 143 fps drop?

That doesn’t really seem to contradict the other person’s claim that much? In fact like your said if just a few other things are running on that person’s pc and eating some resources, their claim seems super believable in the context of what you just said so I’m not sure what your point is.

A reviewer/tester is going to be benchmarking in a best case scenario environment. Real people using their real computers will be experiencing a huge variety of other environments. Different temps, hardware settings, programs running, etc. None of that context excuses the performance, and makes that person’s performance claim believable.

Holy fuck that is so much worse than I realized it was. What a joke.

I’ve seen multiple people report they have to reboot after an hour or two or play because it has memory leak issues.

Holy shit you get 80 fps with frame gen on with a 4090? What resolution?

This is awesome to hear! I may spin it up this weekend just to check it out.

Masterpiece.

Well that’s not a combination I ever thought I’d see.

That’s wildly unfair. Even the games within those franchises are often wildly different from each other and many are widely considered hallmarks in game design. Plus, Nintendo doesn’t make Pokémon.

this was one of those rare examples where we can all come together to objectively declare these characters a train wreck.

I don’t think you know what objective means.

It was a pretty high profile release in the gaming world. Not like “primetime TV ad spot” high profile, but within gaming circles it was big news.

I will, respectfully, still disagree with that assertion. Just because Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty, and the like are on their umpteenth entry, does not mean that no more unique and novel games are being made.

Neither quality nor diversity are objective measures, and I’d certainly disagree with you that they didn’t improve.

Still working my way through Crosscode.

Spoilers are better when you can see what you’d be spoiling before you click on it, for the record.

Doubt it. Not with the money they take in.

I was talking about the mechanics.

don’t enjoy the battle royale game style.

I’m genuinely confused about what you want. Have you played Titanfall 2?

Wreckfest is stupid fun but more arcade than realism.

This initiative does not seek to be retroactive.

Gamers rise up

Never even heard of it.

“Look at all this paid labour he’s been doing, if he’d been getting paid!”

Dispatch is pretty cool, and I don’t doubt that an adventure game set in Exandria would be fun; I only said that I don’t think it will be the game most fans were wanting.

Given the talent at that studio and their only upcoming game, I would reckon this won’t be the genre of game a lot of Critical Role fans were hoping for but I’m still sure it will sell like hot cakes.

I’m not an EU citizen so I’m not politically informed enough to answer that.

To be clear, this is not an “online petition”. This is the beginning of a defined legal process in the EU.

I thought it was a pretty cool game. Fun setting and story (that obviously wasn’t completed, with the expectation of getting a sequel), and the graphics were nuts for the time. Honestly it still looks really good for today.

I don’t think anything I said implies that it’s all I care about friend, and I’d say you don’t care enough.

I don’t take issue with rich people. Owning boats worth US$1 billion is past the point of rich.

I do, that’s why I said something.

And nobody has “earned” that much wealth. Absolutely no one.

That’s for every individual reading this to decide. It will either mean something or nothing to you.

Personally, I don’t think billionaires should exist. Even the ones that I think have done cool things. And I definitely don’t think anyone needs 6 yachts in a world that is burning.

Casual reminder that Gabe Newell owns 6 yachts worth an estimated US$1 billion and that he is not your friend.

But that’s the entire crux of this situation. They are threatening to do that, and people are upset about that.

But they don’t hold a monopoly. And at least for now, they are private businesses. If your argument is that they should be nationalized, that’s a different conversation and I think we’d agree on more.

shipping company should be able to refuse to ship products from businesses they don’t approve of

Sure, I don’t have a problem with that. I would use another shipping company.

What about either of those companies refusing service to someone because of their sexual orientation or gender identity?

That is not remotely the same thing and a gross false equivalence.

We’re talking about platforming incest hentai games and you’re making a comparison to serving Black and queer people. I don’t think we’re going to see eye to eye on this, have a good one.

What if these payment processors have decided it’s bad business for them to process payments for incest porn games?

If you mean the games in question, well they aren’t obligated and they’ve clearly chosen they don’t care to bother anymore.

Well I find it a bit ironic to invoke the “free market” while simultaneously asserting they should not be free to choose who they go to market with. Isn’t the point of the “free market” that if Visa or Mastercard won’t facilitate the needs of the market, someone else will?

Arguing that corporate “beliefs” (image management) and interests take priority over societal order is ridiculous.

Good thing I’m not arguing that.

Power and water are public utilities (as is internet, in some parts of the world but not all). Payment processing is not. If you want to argue that it should be, we’d likely agree.