Of course he is. His entire wealth is rooted in arapatheid. The irony of him claiming to be a victim of racism is so dissonant from reality that I genuinely struggle to find good words to describe it.
If someone already owns Tunic and is considering this, I would say to just directly donate the money.
Or just like... Donate through the bundle and consider trying out some minor projects created by people who are trying to make something cool? Why turn down access to these games out of some form of perceived superiority? This notion that since you've never heard of these other titles they can't possible offer anything of value to you is kind of a spit in the face of struggling artists of all types.
The experiences people are reporting with this game are so strange to me.
I loaded the game today during a 1hr break at work on my Legion Go. It took ~10 minutes to do the shader compilation, I opted to turn frame generation on, and the game defaulted the settings to high, which felt awful. After turning the settings to low, turning the upscaling quality from "Max Performance" to just "Performance," adjusting the sharpness up from 0.5 to 0.6, and then disabling other features I don't care about (cloud textures? I barely look up) or outright hate (why games continue to push aggressive motion blurring is beyond me - it looks horrible), I started playing.
I experienced a stutter whenever I step into a new space, or load a new cutscene, but it smoothed out in a fraction of a second. While the graphics don't look the best, the game plays smooth. I did the opening sequence with no stutters, got to the not-tetsucabra fight, and maintained 45+ fps throughout the entire fight, with no stutters or issues. At points, the monster ran into a cave, which aided my hand-held PC and kept the game running at a smooth 60fps for those sections. This is directly in-line with my experiences running the benchmark on Legion Go, which averaged ~45 fps on nearly identical settings.
I haven't yet run the benchmark or played the released game on my home PC, sporting a Ryzen 7 5800 and a 3070 ti, but the demo, which was less optimized and frame generation did not work during, played "fine." I was unimpressed with the performance relative to the graphical fidelity in that play (though I am of the opinion that the more gritty, realistic aesthetic is ugly relative to the vibrant worlds of Generations, or Rise and unapologetically think they look better than even World).I can't say I had problems or felt that performance or visual quality would impede my enjoyment of the game.
This article notes specific stuttering and runs the frame health tests to demonstrate it. I suspect they're onto something that I am not experiencing for some reason or another. That said, I ultimately think the 4k, 144+ fps gamers running expensive GPUs are offended that they can't play this one on the highest settings, and are review bombing the hell out of this title. I'm not sure what the deal with all the "ThAt'S nOt HoW fRaMe GeNeRaTiOn WoRkS!" screaming relevant to low end systems is about, as I am experiencing notable improvements through it.
I encourage people to test on their own hardware, rather than taking reviews at face value, as I've begun to believe that whatever issue is occurring is deeper than "Capcom didn't optimize!" Use the benchmark, and take advantage of Steam's refund policy.
Many Steam games are actually DRM free. You can just copy the game folder onto a flash drive, sometimes modify a single file, and then run it from the flash drive in any PC.
You should still buy from GOG first imo, but I wouldn't entirely count out Steam.
I literally had to look this up just now. Such a high profile game did such a huge thing and somehow I am just now hearing about it? Insane, tbh.
I chose to pirate Minecraft back when Notch was charging $20 CAD for a game in which the health bar didn't work, and I've been nothing but validated by every decision around the game since.
Reminder that the same MOU also insisted that Trudeau makes it illegal for any province to require vaccinations for any reason, while the base presenting it is simultaneously calling him a dictator and claiming he's been over reaching with his authority.
I'm torn, tbh. They seem genuinely stupid enough to convince me that they don't understand the hypocrisy, but they're also malicious enough for me to believe that they're playing stupid. It's schrodingers fascist; they could be though of as simultaneously stupid and cruel until they get enough power to actually act and be properly defined.
Wait, this was ACTUALLY a quote from a famous dictator? I thought I was just being snarky and connecting this comment to the kind of rhetoric famously used by dictators. I didn't realize this is specific rhetoric used by a specific dictator.
You don't even need to read between the lines anymore. Insane.
There's a massive difference between "believing you are the wrong gender is mental illness" and "being born/sorted into a gender that doesn't represent you causes mental illness." This is the latter.
Racism is the result of systems which disadvantage people of a given ethnic group. These people by definition cannot be victims of racism, because they come from the advantaged social group.
They are victims of prejudice. Prejudice born of the fact that they are the benefactors of a long history of racism in South Africa. While I am sure not all of them are deserving of this prejudice, I suspect the ones calling it racism are.
What a fascinating sentence.