As someone who works in corporate America this is 10000% true. Giant corporations are hugely bloated, inefficient, slow, and stupid. I honestly can’t believe they are somehow the best way to do things in groups of people. I have never had less work to do than working in a huge corporation.

It’s no surprise that indie games can compete with them. Working in startups compared to huge corporations, I did more code and we got more done in shorter amounts of time vs big corps. There’s no red tape, there’s no committees or directors or people you have to please. There’s no political games, you just do your work. As simple as that. You come in, you code for 7-8 hours, you push your feature, and you go home.

In a megacorp you come in, you get 5 minutes for coffee before 3 people are pinging you on slack for some stupid downstream thing they didn’t read the manual on or was never documented, and then you have 5 hours of meetings, lunch, 2 hours of ad hoc meetings, and then Shirley has to swing by to ask you to take another HR training. So you get maybe 20 minutes of coding done in a day.

For you engineers who have never coded in a megacorp - As an example, most megacorps have an ID service (usually named after a comic book character). This is usually a real service deployed somewhere that nobody maintains anymore, but it’s where you get your… IDs from. Really wrap your head around that. It’s a microservice who is in charge of returning Guid.NewGuid(). Then they get pulled into meetings because the ID service doesn’t support this or that, they never thought of this case or that case, how can we upgrade off the old ID service to the new one. In a startup, you’re calling Guid.NewGuid()

Agree. If it comes out someday I’ll probably buy it and enjoy it. Even starfield I thought was fine. Not great, it was fine. BUT ain’t no way it’s been under development for 15 years. It’s been on the back burner. They’re terrified because they know they can’t top Skyrim, and that style of gameplay is no longer really accepted. (See - Starfield endless loading screens).

Idk why any shareholder holds Bethesda stock, I guess now that it’s Microsoft

Razer wolverine is wired but the best controller I’ve ever owned. 8 years and counting.

I self host my own llms and home assistant voice, having multiple models loaded at once is appealing. I am the exceedingly rare use case - and even I think it’s too much. For the same price I could get two 3000 series cards that would do what I would need.

Got assassin’s creed mirage. Was a decent game. For the $20 sale price I mean. Wouldn’t spend more than that

I’m not surprised, Acer has always struggled to figure out the consumer. I remember their terrible android tablets running Oreo.

Now it seems they forgot the portable part of portable handheld

Actually I was wrong, or they just switched it. There’s a torrent now, but still only on discord

Very cool. Hosted from a private discord and a private Dropbox link. Talk about the easiest way to get a takedown.

Perfect use case for a magnet link, but of course not.

Edit I was wrong, there are distributed options available

Same. As soon as I saw what a battle pass was I decided they were stupid. I’m not paying for temporary things

I’ve really had enough of YouTubers telling me that I didn’t actually enjoy games I’ve played, and trying to get me to jump on the hate bandwagon

How hard is it for them to realize this? Graphics are a nice to have, they’re great, but they do not hold up an entire game. Star wars outlaws looked great, but the story was boring. If they took just a fraction of the money they spent on realism to give to writers and then let the writers do their job freely without getting in their way they could make some truly great games.

Satisfactory for me. 2000 hours and counting

Cyberpunk 2077, RDR2 still wasn’t that long ago, Dragon Age Veilguard was actually a success convincing even EA, Star Wars Jedi series, the list goes on. It just has to be a good story, you can’t just slap some boring ass story in there.

Starfield was ruined because of it’s loading screens. I’m not someone to shit on a game simply because it was mediocre, or because it was fine. That’s what Starfield was, it was a fine, mediocre game - if you remove the countless loading screens.

But with them, it was so jarring. It took you out of the immersion every time, and they were there so. freaking. often. I think there were 3-4 loading screens per jump in space, every door, every area, it was bad. Worse than Skyrim, worse than Fallout. I don’t know how anyone in the 2020s thought that was acceptable.

Well they just started playing, I’ll let her know it might be changing. The UI and engine are just exactly the same, so they have pretty low hopes so far for it getting better.

Any overlay is going to add some level of performance degradation, it’s just how much is noticeable or acceptable. Claiming it doesn’t do anything seems more like this comes from the marketing teams vs the technical teams

Fucking preach. Entire problem with Ubisoft is their “formulas”. Zero risk, zero creativity. Boring games that all are the same. SO just started playing ac mirage and it looks and plays exactly like Valhalla. Which was exactly like Odyssey. Which was exactly like Origins.

Then they’re all like “why are people bored with our games?!?!!”

End of blood and wine was basically his farewell anyway. He got his vineyard, his lover came to join, he was done

For me it’s that it could be used to do much MORE with the same investment. Look at Skyrim. Where we had Lydia and a voice actor for a few lines of dialogue (and they were shared with many other NPCs), with AI they could effectively make Lydia a full fledged companion where you could ask them questions and talk with them, for the same cost as the original version.

Instead they’re trying to REPLACE actors as you said to save money. No, it should be IN ADDITION to everything. You still need to hire the voice actor, train their model, PAY FOR THEIR FULL LINES, and then you can do some AI stuff too at the end to round out the character more.

“threat confirmation of ban forced sale”

I’m really tired of the media and the sensationalized headlines that it’s being “banned”. It’s not. It’s a forced sale or a spinoff. It’s just that byte dance can’t operate it in the US anymore, they are free to sell it or spin it off as its own non-Chinese backed company and continue standard operations.

Same my friend, same. I’m starting my new factory on Friday and I’m getting ready for the math.

Btw if you’re not already, we’re here at [email protected]

Once again the executives punish the workers, as they scramble to figure out why their products won’t sell.

Hot theory, maybe those executives should be the ones leaving, let the workers do what they do best without the limitations put in place by management.

Business continues to realize the limits of the AI hype bubble

Yeah agreed, I’m more surprised they didn’t scrub every reference to it on the training set like you said that it’s in the model at all is surprising. I may try to run it myself and see what it does with the same question

I wonder if that’s a UI block like if it’s mentioned then throw error, or if the model itself has a block in there. From this, it looks like it’s baked in and of course they haven’t poisoned it

Zero way they haven’t already been forgotten. Microsoft wants everything online all the time now

Exactly. The whole “emulating the switch” thing for money isn’t just emulation. Emulation has always had a touch of piracy because it involves hacking items to run old games on newer hardware but with the goal of preservation.

Charging anything at all makes it pure piracy, and doing it on their latest games obviously is playing with fire. If you are charging money to play Nintendo’s latest games, I don’t care if you try to label it emulation, that’s pure piracy and you just drew a massive target on your back.

Making a copy of a CD to give to a friend is an annoyance to a company, but you probably aren’t going to be singled out. Making 1000 copies of the CD and charging $2 for each is obviously piracy and you’re going to catch their notice.

I fell in for mixed reality, and I should have known better. They just killed the entire ecosystem. Standard Microsoft behavior

The saving grace now is that you can burn through DA2 in a couple of days if you’re really dedicated to move into inquisition. It’s too bad with the gameplay since there are some hugely key plot points revealed in it

Still desperately trying to get us to leave steam I see

Yes, my sarcasm was tongue in cheek that they obviously have to say that because the large providers are horrible, and that I never have had to even call customer service

Kind of true, maybe? I have a small local provider. I pay for 1000/1000. I get consistently 950/1100. I have not needed customer support since the day I turned on the modem.

So, if by customer service they mean they serve customers so well that I don’t need to think about it, then yes! 7 years and counting with them.

man my phone just isn’t my friend today

Keeps users in their wallet garden. Marketers love shoving shit in users faces whenever they launch the game. Inside the game it’s bad for. To advertise whatever other garbage there is, on their launcher they try to grab your attention for their other crap

I think too many people confuse “This game isn’t for me” with “This game isn’t good”.

I personally do not like No Man’s Sky. Not my thing, tried, twice, just not for me. I decided that it’s not my thing, other people like it, so great! I’ll play other things more suited to me.

I think it’s weird to go and make a whole post saying “It’s underdeveloped” when it (I believe?) won best redemption and it has mostly positive reviews. This would be a fair post if instead they had said “This is why I personally don’t like No Man’s Sky” instead of “It’s broken and needs fixed”. No, people like those systems, it’s your opinion that you don’t.

God yet again microsoft adding shit no one asked for. They keep thinking they know what gamers want, and they just don’t. I’m using steam, I’ll use theirs. Yours just adds bloat. Fine if you want to make it optional, but like all things microsoft you have to dive 18 settings in to find out how to disable it.

I don’t really say that do I?

Doesn’t mean I’m not a forgiving person who understands problems happen. At this point, if you expect a game to work perfectly you can’t buy day 1. Software is too complex to not expect any bugs day 1.

Hey you! You with your logic and reasoning and reading the issue notes from developers. You aren’t a real gamer, get out of here with that! We’re here to dogpile on a new game here!

I am not saying you can or you can’t, but if you could, and I’m not saying you can, I would have full DRM-free backups of every Blu-ray I own.