I agree. Doesn't seem like an outlandish take at all. Parents should be involved in their kids' gaming choices, especially if there's online interactions or lootbox/gacha components.
Offloading parenting to corporations is just a terrible idea all around.
And if we can't tell for sure, it's stupid to start pointing fingers. If you don't have the facts, reading your (general) own narrative into her very short statement and presenting that as the objective truth is irrational. That's how conspiracy theories are made.
Personally, it sounds like the person on top is recommending backdoors to "protect the children," and Whittaker is rightly pointing out that that's a stupid take, given who is in charge in various governments and the dumb reasons many of them have used as justification for implementing backdoors.
the destruction of buildings in the game is impressive
And that's what makes me think it's an optimization issue, perhaps one even beyond your control. Companies are sometimes lazy about particles or extra objects on screen, choosing to keep everything registered in memory, rather than adjusting LoD on the fly or using other techniques to improve performance.
If there's any bottleneck, it's your motherboard itself, since it only supports PCIe3.
However, even PCIe3 should be able to get you better frames than that with your hardware, especially on Low. I suspect poor optimization of The Finals, which is unfortunately common with AAA games these days.
I don't think you need to get new hardware, I think you need to figure out if there's something you can do via the Launch Options. Have you checked ProtonDB?
Yeah, no. Valve has all but ensured their continuing relevance with the Steam Deck alone. Coupled with their consumer-focused policies (like forcing companies to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat), they're not going anywhere.
This is just a Mac fanboi who's salty that Mac support is poor, even though it's Apple that has made their walled garden hard to work with.
I do worry a little about future antitrust actions, because while I generally like Valve as they are, Gabe won't be around forever. They have a giant influence in the market, and they don't even have to try (they were one of the first, so it makes sense they'd have the most market share); it could be that the company I generally like starts actively being anticompetitive or starts donating to Nazis or something.
But that is a problem for a future time, and there's no denying that Valve has propelled Linux gaming into mainstream relevance. No matter what happens, I'll always be grateful for that.
Sanger told CBN News the skepticism he held for most of his life went back to his childhood and his unsure perspective on all religions. Despite that reticence, he did dabble in attempts to communicate with a Higher Power.
“I wasn’t necessarily praying to God, per se, but I had a sort of internal dialogue,” he said. “And sometimes, I even wrote it out …. with some supremely wise being, and, sometimes, I would even call that being ‘God,’ not that I believed that that was God, but in order to just sort of clarify my thought.”
Sounds like praying to a god to me.
“There was a period of time in which I knew things were changing, but I can’t pin it down to a particular moment when I just decided I now believe that God exists,” he said. “There is a moment when I said, ‘OK, I have to admit that what I’m doing now is praying to God,’ and there also was a moment when I prayed something like the Sinner’s Prayer after, I guess, two months or so into reading the Bible.”
Sounds like you kind of always did, and you chose Yahweh, because that's probably culturally familiar.
It's kinda interesting that "mocking atheists" were the impetus to deconstruct, but he didn't apply skepticism to both claims. There is simply no way to end up at Christianity by applying skepticism, because the Bible definitely doesn't stand up to scrutiny, and the evidence we have can only get you to deism or polytheism at best.
I don't know for certain, but it certainly doesn't sound like he was using skepticism to inform his epistemology. It sounds more like he just grew up as an atheist and never bothered to steelman his own beliefs.
I'm not the person you asked, but I have chemists in my family who are also Christians, and it comes down to not taking the Bible literally. That's mostly where Christians get in trouble, anyway, since it's not even historically accurate much less scientific. Then you insert God into a position of being the architect of life's mysteries, and science is an endeavor to comprehend the complexities of the universe Yahweh created. To uncover the mysteries is to seek God.
I don't really find that logic personally compelling as a reason to believe, but that's how they've kind of "squared that circle" so to speak.
The problem is that this doesn't matter relative to the looming deadline of the eventual, permanent nonexistence of everything—not just your own short life—I mean the entire universe and your memory keepers; what does it matter if one is remembered fondly for a brief few decades or even centuries or millennia versus timelessness?
It doesn't. But I'm a cosmic nihilist, so the impermanence of everything we do doesn't bother me. Whether it lasts forever does not change the present, and I will make this one life I know I have as good as I can, since I must experience it, and I will make others' lives as good as I can, because it does not make me feel good to do otherwise. I have no control over death or its imminence, so what good does it do me to worry about it?
I just want permanence regardless, lol.
I'm sure a lot of people do, but it doesn't exist, as you already pointed out. Even anti-aging medicine can't stop the heat death of the universe. Trying to hold onto that wish won't make it real, and it seems like all it's doing is giving you anxiety. Dwelling on those things can feel like trying to solve a problem, but it's one without a solution that only accomplishes frustration and worry.
Life is beautiful, is worth living in the present, because it's fragile and rare. I have the unique opportunity to be the universe experiencing itself, and worrying about permanence won't change that.
Easy way to tell if you're talking to an AI: "Are you sentient?"
A human might say "no," but most of these companies are using models that are preprogrammed to say "no" by default and resist any attempts to get it to agree that it is.
If this is the future of online gaming from AAA studios, then I'll stick to indie games, thanks.
I think of it this way. Do you remember your great grandparents? How about your great great grandparents? How about your great great great grandparents? At some point, you'll go, "Gee, I've never thought of them before."
But do you think they mattered? You may not know what they did, what they hoped for, and the struggles they faced, but had they not existed, neither would you have. They mattered, even if you remember very little about them, and on top of that, you can probably learn about many of them with some effort in genealogy.
You may not have some cosmic importance with the power to change the world, but neither did most Christians, even when you were a believer. But that doesn't mean they didn't matter, and it doesn't mean you don't matter.
Christianity teaches you the lie that to matter, you must have permanence, but consider this:
Your life is like a plate of cookies, warm and sweet and delicious, and it is best when shared with people you love. One day, that plate of cookies will be empty, but the cookies are no less delicious and the sharing no less meaningful just because there is a finite number of cookies.
One day, my plate of cookies will be empty, but if I am remembered fondly, then it will have been a life lived well. I don't need infinite cosmic importance to matter, and neither do you.
Oh, how I wish spoilers worked in my Lemmy app...