ThunderComplex

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[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 5 points 4 days ago

Amogus but you have to pay $5 per match to get the color you want and $10 for a chance to become impostor

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I get what you’re trying to say but I’ve definitely experienced performance problems even on lowest settings.
The issue isn’t that everyone tries to run the game maxed out. The issue is that fundamental problems are often left in the games that you can’t just fix by lowering quality settings.

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 21 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

No. The thing is AAA games are now being released in an unoptimized state way too often. Even if you still get good FPS microstuttering and short lag spikes still occur frequently.

Of course this can make you wonder if this is a you problem and you just got too sensitive.

Nope, this is an industry problem. Why would you optimize a game? No, legitimately asking. It doesn’t affect sales numbers, it often doesn’t significantly tank your steam review score (that most publishers don’t care about), there are practically no downsides to not optimize your game.
But if you do value optimization, it lowers dev velocity, requires more training/awareness for devs and artists, and you won’t be able to ship as fast anymore. And on top of that you get… nothing. A few more sales maybe?

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago

I had a super underpowered PC I grew up with and it influenced my imagination. For a long time stuff I’d imagine also ran at like 15-20FPS. Really weird effect.

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 8 points 3 weeks ago

The very tl;dr is that Apple has been catering to shareholders first and foremost to the point that all else suffers. To elaborate a lil more:

The video shows an internal email from the iPhone VP of marketing that basically says they should only add features that are good enough and that what the iPhone already offers could be considered too much. “ Anything new and especially expensive needs to be a rigorously challenged before it’s allowed into the consumer phone”

Then there’s the thing where Cook allows stock buybacks which Jobs didn’t. I am not sure what this means exactly but it plays into the broader point that Jobs was a product genius and Cook is a financial genius. (also, they spent $77 billion on stock buybacks, this will be relevant in a second).

Lastly there is AI. Apple is lacking in AI chips so there was a request to double their amount, which would’ve cost about $10bn. But this request was denied. So they had to not just work with their own aging chips, but rent cloud computing infrastructure from Google.

tl;dr Cook is cooked or something idk

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 13 points 4 weeks ago

“No” -John PlayStation

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you think $32k is so much to spend on MTX to call him John Microtransaction I’m sorry to say that he's probably still just a medium sized fish.

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

That also sounds like a challenge

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 10 points 1 month ago

Well, the only evidence I found at a quick glance is that the movie was released about four months before ChatGPT. And it had been in production since about 2020 which is obviously way before LLMs became a widespread.

So I think that’s a strong case it wasn’t written by AI.

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 5 points 4 months ago

This implies the PS5 pro is the PS4 pro pro pro

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