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[–] scops@reddthat.com 98 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Corrupted Blood taught us that we needed to add the vital "I'm a malicious/selfish asshole" variable to our calculations.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Good catch. I was drunk when I wrote that comment on my phone. Either I misread the release date or I mistyped it.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Meh, the best way to play RDR was back in May ~~2014~~ 2010 on an Xbox 360.

Remake RDR1 in the sequel's engine you lazy bastards.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think it's a roundabout attempt to get us to wonder what the fuck Kick is. I'm not that curious.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My dad pays for the NFL.com package and YouTubeTV (not premium, and even more expensive package than that) so he can watch all the games. I dread every season because of the inevitable bitching about one or both services.

He has an elastic band he puts up to block the score ticker on the bottom of the screen, and he's constantly terrified that they'll cut away from the current game for an update on another one he hasn't watched yet.

I feel like there's a real market for the old Red Zone channel that DirectTV used to do. No commercials, no breaks, just snap, play until the whistle, then fast forward to the next snap. It only showed gameplay when one of the teams was in the red zone(hence the name), but I bet people like my dad would pay enough to offset the lost ad revenue if they covered the whole game like that.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 8 points 2 months ago

I like this. I'm not stealing it, just copying it for personal use.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 7 points 2 months ago

It's not so bad. I hope he stays on the ballot for his shellacking in November, then goes down with his wife (ayy) when they get arrested for the $130k they appear to have misused from the DHHS

[–] scops@reddthat.com 19 points 3 months ago

If you have the port and money for it, I'd recommend a separate drive for the second OS. Windows is kinda notorious for stomping over GRUB if you rely on partitions for your dual boot.

If you're worried about installing to the wrong drive on accident, you can always physically disconnect the existing drive until install is complete, then plug it back in and set the boot order in the mobo config.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 8 points 3 months ago

To clarify, the FTC is being urged to craft this regulation. They have not recently urged for this regulation. Gotta love the English language.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago

You, like the author, are just falling for console war nonsense

You are sprinting to the defense of a multi-billion dollar company to call me a console war partisan. That is some American-politics level projection right there. I was a Sega kid. We lost the console war at the turn of the century. Now I go where the games are.

If the Xbox is a console for people to play games, it's not the only console on the market, so it needs to compete. If it gains feature parity with its direct competition...except that said competition has a quality stable of exclusive titles, then the console is going to struggle. Like say, moving 20% of the volume that their competitor does. Microsoft's answer to this seems to be to forego adding the value of console exclusives to their own platform and instead releasing more of their first-party titles on Playstation and PC.

That's good for gamers, yes. It also flies in the face of any attempt to develop the Xbox as a platform choice. If I can afford one console per generation, why would I choose the Xbox over a Playstation? If I can afford multiple consoles, what does the Xbox offer that I don't get already with the Playstation?

[–] scops@reddthat.com 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You're calling Jason Schrier, a dumb author. He is one of, if not the most respected games journalists in the industry. You might want to take a moment and consider his words.

For my part, I do well enough that I could easily afford a good PC and 2-3 consoles per generation, and I've bought an Xbox and PlayStation since the start of both product lines. My Xbox One S was by far my least utilized console, to the point where I just couldn't justify buying one in the current generation.

I just don't know who the Xbox is even FOR anymore. If they put out a good exclusive, I'll think about getting it... on PC, but even then, that's probably money going to Steam or even EGS, because fuck the Windows Store, and most of the time I don't even bother buying it there because something else on PC or PS5/PS Plus has caught my eye and I don't feel enough FOMO to go back looking for it.

I should be one of Xbox's core customers. But they stopped giving me the time of day when they spent an entire E3 blathering on about being a media console back in 2013. They've done precious little to try to win me back in the decade since.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So, did he just find a heavy long-sleeved turtleneck sweater that just happened to have a bare midriff, or did he modify it himself to show off dat... cuirass?

 

From Steam's self-published stats.

Baldur's Gate 3 could not be preloaded and weighed in at 125 gigabytes on disk, so when the game left Early Access at 11am US Eastern yesterday, Steam's bandwidth utilization shot up 8x over a span of 30 minutes. I know personally, I saw my download hit over 600 Mbps across a 1 Gbps fiber connection.

Kudos to the system engineers at Valve. It is mind-boggling that they have built infrastructure that robust.

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