Hi Jensen!

Yep, existing for old cards would be great, but it was never even supported properly on old cards, instead it became a crutch for game performance on all GPUs and Nvidia started locking newer versions behind their new hardware and paying developers to implement it and advertise it.

DLSS has always been a plague.

Im allowed to express my opinion on a topic or someone as much as anyone is. If you dont like that, you dont have to engage with it. If someone disagrees with me or calls me an asshole, that’s fine, I’ll take their opinion onboard, but I wont lose sleep over it.

Hounding someone would be commenting about them in every location possible, which I am not doing. If multiple people share my opinion and have posted it elsewhere, thats also not hounding.

It’s always the extreme comparisons…

You must simply sit in an empty space and do nothing in order to avoid links to some disgusting actions or morals. You arent stupid, you know that.

I avoid GitHub as much as I can, but you know it’s impossible to completely avoid it while still using many FOSS projects. But lets see, if I visit GitHub to download a project, I am only using up their bandwidth, costing Microsoft money, not giving them any. Youll argue the clicks increases their popularity and thats worth more etc and on and on…

Hardware… yes of course… the food you eat… yes… its pointless comparisons. A classic argument technique though.

The talking point is AI and I avoid AI as much as I can.

Lmao. I have nothing but respect for FOSS projects and have donated plenty of money to many.

What I am not supporting is the use the of AI, if they want to, then they can, I will just stop using their project.

Yes, you are an asshole if you dont disclose it and the comments I’ve seen from him just cements that for me more.

AI can fuck off, we havent needed it for decades and decades, we dont need it now.

These AI people are so delusional. They contradict themselves immediately.

But I have over 30 years of programming experience

Then you don’t need AI.

In many ways, it couldn’t have been implemented in a worse way but it was AI that bought all the RAM, it was OpenAI. It was not AI that stole copyrighted content, it was Facebook. It wasn’t AI that laid off thousands of employees, it’s deluded executives who don’t understand that this tool is an augmentation, not a replacement for humans.

??? The common denominator is AI. By using it you are part of the problem. All mainstream AI is trained on stolen data.

I’m not a big fan of having to pay a monthly sub to Anthropic, I don’t like depending on cloud services.

Then don’t?

There are massive issues with AI tech, but those are caused by our current capitalist culture, not the tools themselves.

The “tools” require large amounts of storage, RAM, electricity, water etc etc. The only tool is the end user.

Anyway, I was suspecting that this “issue” might come up so I’ve removed the Claude co-authorship from the commits a few days ago. So good luck figuring out what’s generated and what is not.

So they are just an asshole and their excuse finding is just irrelevant.

It’s not free to play because they are being generous. It’s because it enables the most exposure to the most predatory model.

Would they have made the same amount of money with a paid game? Probably not, most free to play games know they arent interesting enough to sell like that.

Selling the game after the fact is just gross, not them being nice. The trend that needs to start is any online games just being playable offline from the start, or for free in the end.

Or we wait for legislation to hopefully force this, without any extra purchases needed.

Unless you are buying DRM-free, ownership isn’t implied for any game. They don’t need the money to make the game playable offline, that work has already been done, charging for it is just trying to get one last cashout.

Hey that game you’ve been playing all this time, them purchases you’ve made, well if you want to keep playing, you have to pay us!

Silly question. They haven’t made a game for free.

Live service games exist to extract as much as they can from people through the form of MTX. They should use that money to plan for the eventual shutdown of their game, not then ask people to pay for it. Just make it paid to begin with and scrap the in game purchases.

No. They can’t prey on people with “micro”-transactions and then ask for money to get a game that should have been playable offline anyway. That’s abusing the live service, free-to-play model for as long as it benefits them and then also asking for the price of a game afterwards. Let’s not let them set a precedent here.

Disagree, it should be at no extra cost.

My original PSP still works fine. It’s an absolute unit.

I wasnt a fan of the 2000, felt cheap in comparison, but was much lighter.

PSPs were great little handhelds!

Omfg! I’m so happy they added co-op I really didnt think they would

The average gamer and consumer will never wise up, especially with social media keeping them stupid.

We know, but the one good thing AI has done is help bring these other issues to light.

However, having no supply of hardware because it’s all been “preordered” is a much larger issue than scalpers.

Some companies have protections against scalping, some dont care, but the biggest issue there is people buying the “scalped” products. They just cant help themselves.

Developers are forming more unions, its picking up pace, so there’s hope there. It’s also partly a customer issue too, buy and support the games made ethically.

I’d say we should just stop buying these games, but it seems people have no standards anymore and will just buy anything marketed to them. Even if its a 30fps obvious cash grab.

Cant speak for Elden Ring, havent even watched any, but Cyberpunk is a good example of a poorly made game.

Its more of a movie engine now than a game engine.

Avoid all AAA and UE5 games and youve dodged 90% of poorly optimized games.

Yep. If some software requires Discord for support and updates, I find other software.

Sounds like a lack of education. The focus should be there, not age verification.

It’s hard to get away from consolidation. I see things like Stoat getting popular, though it looks like development slowed down?

Teamspeak works fine, most use Discord as a voice and quick text app rather than a social network anyway. And honestly the whole “forum” aspect of Discord needs to rot anyway, perhaps this would stop companies relying on Discord as their news and support outlet, because fuck that.

The whole internet is adult-by-default, so why are we doing any sort of age verification?

But please Discord, keep ruining the platform, cause an exodus.

Do you have a source for that? All I can find on their Steamworks site is the rules on Steam keys being restricted, not other versions. Maybe I missed that email part in the news.

You dont like games that look like you have grease smeared over your monitor?

It only applies to Steam product keys though, so developers cannot sell cheap Steam keys on other platforms while still taking advantage of Steam’s services.

Epic Games Launcher would always end up a pile of shit anyway. Tim Sweeney is a fuckhead and he has lots of investors to please.

I’m hopeful Valve, and by extension Steam, will be fine. The employees are like minded, I don’t see it going public and derailing once Gabe has left.

We were not discussing that. It’s about a label on DRM-free games, marking them as such.

“people like you”

People asking about their certification process?

Even if I was complaining, Sony should want to improve their process without the need of it.

I thought consoles had their long winded certification processes? Do they not catch these types of games there?

The final final update?

If there’s not riots from what is already happening in the US, then there definitely won’t be from a video game being banned.

That’s a very out of touch take.

Yeah, I mean I still give them a go, but ultimately I think first person is better suited to shooters.

If Division 3 has a beta or whatever, I will probably try it too regardless. If the game is good enough even with TPS, then that would be great. I doubt it will be anything remarkable though, given Ubisoft’s implosion.

Well yeah that’s the thing though, you are filling in the blanks. I can’t remember all the marketing material, I think they did cut a lot of the map though.

Even if they did manage to make it expansive and interesting enough, the third person would ruin it for me. It was clearly made with slow camera movement of controllers in mind.

Yes, the whole reason they started on this game 11 years ago is because Mojang banned a whole bunch of MTX. Hypixel lost a lot revenue because of it (good, literally exploiting children) and went to make their own game.

Hytale will be drowned in MTX eventually.

It has always been a pile of shit anyway, but yeah.

It’s gonna be the real name thing, honestly. But I do feel GTA VI is going to be a lot more “censored” than the previous titles, I hope not.