I already post a bit before and got down vote a lot and I laugh in their face and tell them to stick their fingers somewhere private if they check the news a month later. And no, it's not even a month, the stock crash happened in less than a week and soften stance "open for communication" quote arrived shortly after.
They are trying to do this to prop some social distractions as always but this time, also like past couple times involving youth and video games, back fires hard and eventually achieves very little. (for general population) But hey, it generate enough buzz and make them distracted from other economical issues.(like crash of their builder mega company, compare to the short market crash of video game sector, lol. )
Ubisoft does not have enough new games releasing that's in good enough state to justify 7.99 per month let along 17.99 per month.
I bet there are terms and trickery if people tried to do 17.99 and play games like new Prince of Persia and Avatar and then unsub. (that's my cynical side coming out, but it's ubisoft. )
Or, for ubisoft, you wait a couple month and then boom, big sale for the game released 1~2 months ago.
So all the GOP politicians just cowards in the face of death threats because 2nd amendment and people can just go assassinate them? Did I read this right as I thought GOP is all about small gov and protect your stuff/property with your guns. Like they don't have the slight courage to call it and fucking say this is a cult and I will defend my family like they defend their gun rights? Is US as a whole tolerate this type of behavior and not hunting down those and jail if they send out death threats while they swatting people from fake internet calls. What a hypocritical country I have to say.
edit: after reading the link entirely, I am glad to say that some people's head is still clear and thinking. But unfortunately the GOP political figures are disgraces of US's founding fathers, more like shit stains of democracy.
Hate to say this but what a big blob of BS because the ownership class find out pretty early that if no one else is making money to buy the shits they make, they can't make more money. (We will skip the pre 1900 slavery scenario, as they can just force you to work and just keep you alive is enough as slaves are "production equipment" like cows/horses. )
People generate value if they do or make something other people want, currency invented to cover that value gap so supply, demand, skill and rarity, efficiency and many different quality of your work/product/service decides how many $ you get when people want your service. At least, that's how it all should be in equal footing. But since money == power when the scale goes up, since ancient time successful merchants holds a lot influence in politics and cause unbalance in wealth distribution. They can only push it so far until they get hunting down and stuff taken, but usually by other influential political/business figures that does the raids.
Having said the above, a lot of small and medium scale business owners values their employees a lot, especially those that truly have the skill set that compliments their business. And, do I need to remind you to do a bit of study of history, the invention of machines, tele-communication and then the boom of computers(especially general purpose ones), yet global population keeps going up and up instead of all starved to death cause the jobs these past things replaced?
And, just to do a quick review of how much people hates the automated phone support menu system transition from traditional to modern voice recognition ones. Or how many internet goer hates the auto generated useless pages plague our search result and provide nothing useful, waste our time click and read just to serve some ads? Yeah, like many worried before, what if computer replaced our jobs? Well, they need people to make the computer work. AI isn't going to be fully automated and self improve, we are pretty far from that. many successful model needs guided training, and usually prevents additional feedback into the system to avoid degrading the performance.
that's why I argue you can't put "best" and "all time" together. If the title says "best game of their time but got snubbed by medias" then I might have a couple of my own to provide as example.
IMO, it's hard to claim best game of all time unless it ages well, and not just some unique gimmick the game provided at the time.
Ie, I don't like Tetris but for sure it is one of the best game of all time.
However, if what you mean is good games that somewhat get outshined by others or lacks media attentions, then I agree. There are plenty of other games, and I think people would have bias toward their favorite genre/type.
Link to a better explanation by FluffyQuack, Capcom has added this drm to games for a long time. Not really affecting mods in general, don't know about the linux/steam deck compatibility.
OP, I've blocked any channel that has his head in the thumbnail on youtube, but I will make an exception to your account because you are cool and on lemmy. But next time I will block the account that post link that has this head(or other head I don't like) in the thumbnail.
Since they are bought by Amazon I think any service they wasn't on AWS would have been moved to AWS. Basically, on demand video streaming service (netflix, youtube, etc) does have finer control of how they want to re-encode and have like bit rate throttle on the server/client side so you don't see too much buffering if internet connection is acting up. This means they can throttle you down to 360p like youtube auto if their data center isn't fast enough to fetch the high bit rate yet and then feed you the higher quality one once they got it. (or down grade if your connection goes bad) But twitch stream is like I have a 10Mbits stream incoming and I have to copy, run a 2nd pass on the fly for different resolution, duplicate to outgoing servers and send to user all under 46s delay. I am not expert on the backend side and only have some experience dealing with streaming around 20162018. So to me that's incredible feat but the short timespan means they can't crunch the output bit rate even if it's pretty static video. Compare to youtube, if I uploaded a 2030 minutes video in about 12GB on disk, it took them about 35 hours to re-encode, even if the source is already encoded with AV1. (I am not partner so I join the queue like any normal pleb on the internet.)
edit forgot to respond to the cloud GPU thing, I think AWS will be charging Twitch the same way as other company, so AWS aren't really "losing" money if Twitch choose to use cloud instance with GPU(which would be kinda dumb). They need higher throughput for the data in/out so whatever the CPU ingest part I mentioned above is just to breakdown the stream and feed to user as quick as possible. They are not going to waste anytime to give you better quality stream with lower bandwidth cost. they just feed you whatever fits into their bandwidth budget basically.
very typical for people that never even run or host their own server from data center or even cloud service.
live streaming is worse in bandwidth consumption compare to youtube with same resolution input to output. Like youtube can do whatever they like to keep the outgoing low even if you encode according to spec. But streaming with the demand of like 4~6s delay their 2nd pass to try lower the output bitrate is just not gonna be as good as youtube. That's why twitch still don't have 4k stream, they have new beta programs thanks to newer codec on newer GPU, as otherwise their data center is gonna get crushed hard.
Yeah, I post somewhere but how they do the monetization is gonna change how I am gonna buy the game. I had the original helldiver free from ps plus, like it so when steam on sale I bought it later with all the DLC included. I would support them if they did a good job on PC, but only so when it's reasonable.
I do not mind the skins or cosmetics too much, but more like contents affects how you play the game, helldiver 1 has this issue that's why I bought when all the dlc are included.
Crossplay is in, good thing Sony wasn't so dumb for once. (still not gonna buy this on ps5, but I like Arrowhead so I am buying on PC if the reviews are good.)
I don't install Facebook app on phone and find ways to remove/disable if come pre-installed.
Pretty much all social network platform are browsed with a container tab.
I look at the link before I click, if it's super long or some google redirecting shit I just DDG and search the keywords myself. (is there a firefox extension that does this automatically?? removing the redirect/tracking link and convert back into normal link)
it's viral game what do you expect?