People tend to imagine owning an electric vehicle and doing exactly the same things with it that they do with a gas car, so a 5 minute charge on the way to work every week or two. But that’s not what you actually do.

You can tell people about home charging and that you haven’t been to a charging station in six months, but they won’t really get it until they drive an EV themselves. You only fast charge on long trips, and by the time your car needs charged you need a break and a coffee. My car charges pretty slowly and it’s still ready to go before I am.

Even electric trucks do okay on 350 kW charging - driving time rules mean that if you plug in when you take a break, the truck won’t run out of miles before the driver runs out of hours.

The big charging number gets the attention, but installing more chargers in more places is really what’s needed. And 50 kW chargers for charging trucks overnight.

Microsoft is moving away from allowing anything to run with those low level permissions after that CrowdStrike incident where rogue security software bricked millions of Windows PCs, so that might take out kernel anticheat as collateral damage.

FYI, there’s a modern Descent-like game called Overload.

It has VR support.

Fun fact: Overload supports VR.

It didn’t make me motion sick, so I’m confident nothing ever will.

As we saw with Intel GPUs performance isn’t even the main issue, it’s the drivers. How many games will run on it without crashing or having bizarre performance problems?

You can’t even assume those people are people. There’s a lot of bot powered disinformation out there.

Nah, there was a time when you’d get a new card every two years and it’d be twice as fast for the same price.

Nowadays the new cards are 10% faster for 15% more money.

I bought a new card last year after running a Vega 64 for ages and I honestly think it might last me ten years because things are only getting worse.

You sure that guy wasn’t playing on a potato? (Or a brand new Nvidia 5060Ti 8GB?) Low VRAM makes a lot of games look like crap, because it’s either dropping textures or running like ass when you overflow VRAM.

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Apparently, but not flawlessly.

Last I heard about Mac gaming, games had to support Apple’s proprietary Metal graphics API, so a game can’t run on anything else.

Apple are trying to throw their weight around and forcing developers to go Mac exclusive like they do with iThings, but Mac users are such a tiny segment nobody bothers.

8GB GPUs still have a place, and that place is the $100 price tier.

Sorry, best we can do is microtransactions, fear of missing out and AI slop. That’ll be $90.

Punching up isn’t bullying.

We’ve all had Kerbal Space Program missions that went like that.

No, I mean that if lots of developers are using Denuvo wrong, it’s Denuvo’s fault for being too difficult to use correctly or not providing enough support to developers.

Even if it’s the developers using it wrong, if lots of developers are doing that then it’s a fault with Denuvo.

If one car hits something, it’s a problem with that car. If lots of cars keep hitting something, it’s a problem with the road.

Okay, but if lots of games are doing it wrong, it’s still Denuvo’s fault.

The thread is great.

Tentacles dropped out of the top 25 for the first time. Times are a changin

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If you believe it hasn’t occurred to them that they won’t have to pay wages any more, I have a bridge to sell you.

Just because you really enjoy golf doesn’t mean you want every movie to have a half-assed awkward golf game stuffed into it.

It’s a rainforest, I think.

Struggling with a tough foe? Remember, just keep your Health above 0 while lowering your enemy’s Health to 0. Works every time!

- World of Warcraft loading screen

Obligatory reminder that the Third-of-a-Pound burger failed because people thought it was smaller than a Quarter Pounder, since it had a three in it instead of a four.

For games that aren’t fast moving, you don’t need 240fps in the first place.

I played an MMO at 40 FPS for years. With a freesync screen that matches the frame rate instead of stuttering or tearing, it still feels fine.

Why won’t the government just give them the money and trust that they’ll do what they said? It worked out great paying companies to roll out fiber years ago, that’s why we’re all on reliable, high speed fiber internet today.

The free trial isn’t a business model. It’s a demo.

You only have a F2P model after you add the aggressive monetisation.

Okay, but if they packed it full of microtransactions and premium currency, it’d be a worse game.

Unless you mean you just want the publisher to make less money, which isn’t an option they’re going to be interested in.

I for one definitely feel like big corporations are pissing on me.

Whatever compromise anyone tries to come up with will be ignored and exploited as hard as advertisers possibly can.

A compromise that actually works would depend on advertisers actually complying. The advertisers that do will be vastly outnumbered by the advertisers that don’t.

So we’re getting the arms race either way.

I’m not interested in my computer striking a balance between my needs and the needs of people seeking to manipulate me into buying things.

I paid for my computer, it serves my needs. Yes I do run Linux, how did you guess?

If you still have your job, you can start on Factorio mods.

People are playing it on Steam Deck. Handhelds might not be viable for high end raiding, but there’s a lot more to the game than that.

That’s kind of why I switched. I was spending time and effort trying to force Windows to obey, I decided I might as well spend that time on an OS that wasn’t actively fighting against me.

My mom says my disk is big enough.

They’ve done new lighting and stuff like DLSS that applies to the entire game, and they’ve also done a bunch of new textures and art assets for some of the game.

You joke, but I did a ten year old dungeon earlier today and the group talked about how much more colorful it was.

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Okay, but they’re still calling it GOD OF WAR RAGNAROK DELUXE EDITION.

Headline is dumb. If capacitors are better at being batteries than batteries are, they just become the next generation of batteries.

It also calls all the customers who don’t want to be locked out of the product they paid for ‘fickle’ and brought up gamergate out of nowhere, so I’m honestly not sure what sort of agenda they’re pushing.

This. Removing the $200 Android tablet from the dash isn’t going to make cars suddenly $5,000 cheaper.