coffinwood @ coffinwood @feddit.de

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Agree. I'm playing Far Cry 6 and somehow got the feeling it's even slightly worse (more stupid) than the 5th entry.

The map is filled to the brim with NPCs and animals, yet I've rarely witnessed such a dead world. Not a single NPC has a purpose or life. Cars outside the render distance disappear from the game too: turn around and that vehicle is gone like in those 1980's video games. Turn around again: new NPC.

Finished a checkpoint / road block: your car is gone Baddies reappear in enemy areas although I just cleared it out. Such a lack of persistence is almost an offense.

Not one car that doesn't sound their horn at me because they think I'm trying to ram them off the road. Arcade games from decades ago were less dumb.

"Customer" in an unemployment agency setting. Before you call a person customer, treat them like one.

I finished Assassin's Creed Valhalla recently and it drove me up the wall all the time. I mean well over 100 h playtime.

And the game would sit there after every start and wait for me to "press any key". And only after a keypress it would start checking for Add-ons which took ages. Why couldn't it have done that already?

Plus the intro videos I had to replace with empty files because no-skip.

Annoying!

I never forgave them making Jim Phelps a bad guy. Worst entry in the series for me, but I really wanted to like it. Sounds petty, I know. It just dishonoured the original series.

I happened to sell an old PC recently, from 2010 IIRC. It had a Windows 8 license that could be "upgraded" to Windows 10 which would run fine on this machine until at least 2025. I think 15 years is quite okay. After that it could still run Linux like forever.

With all respect, that's rubbish. I won't comment on this further.

More free OS updates? You can upgrade your PC from Windows 7 to 10 for free (even to 11 if you have TPM2). That will be decades of free updates and upgrades.

Not to mention Linux, FreeBSD, and the like.

And I'd almost bet these two to three titles run fine in Windows which is exactly the point: what is Linux's advantage here concerning gaming?

When I want to play a certain title I don't want something similar because that derivate runs on Linux. That's maybe okay for casual games like a round of Solitaire where the Linux alternatives are fine.

"Most".

Everybody chooses their own poison

"Spikes"? Come on, guys, .04 percent is a rounding error.

Windows runs 10 out of 10 games, Linux does 8 of which 4 only barely run at all.

Don't get me wrong: Windows really is the worst OS, except all the others.

I wanted to watch the Clarkson-Hammond-May "Top Gear". Only on BBC iPlayer. Only in the UK.

The roundabout 22 series' and specials simply do not exist outside of that. What are you supposed to do? I would have paid the BBC, but they even discourage the use of VPN's themselves.

Almost every game. I just can't afford most games for the full price so patience isn't a virtue but a necessity. Currently I'm waiting to play FarCry 6. My old GPU couldn't handle it, then I got a new one and another game sale happened. But as soon as I'm through with AC Valhalla I might give it a try.

The only full price PC game I played from release that I can recall was No Man's Sky (my hot take: it was great from the start). And I got that one gifted.

The next waiting will be done for Starfield, I think. But that's more for stability ("ripeness") and mod situation.

"Real" batteries would be too big because they need casing. Phone batteries on the other hand are fragile, because: no casing.

As I said, there's no need for quick-change batteries like in an xbox controller, because most people can go years on a single one.

But a self-service battery change when it's ruined should be a thing. Preferably without glued-in parts.

The only phone I had to even consider changing the battery was a Windows phone in 2015 and the replacement battery was the same age (and degraded state) as the old one. I don't get the need for quickly swappable batteries.

According to this article, Samsung doesn't block that, it's just badly implemented:

https://9to5google.com/2023/07/27/galaxy-z-flip-5-google-wallet/

And Kevin thought the police were after him when he stole that toothbrush from the store.

And even an infinite number doesn't mean all. There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1, none of them is 2. So the multiverse wouldn't have to include one that contradicts its rules.

Sounds interesting. I read Ross Brawn's & Alan Parr's "Total Competition". Maybe touches the same topics from another angle.