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If your stuff runs on Proton with minimal performance penalty, why put resources into not-proton?

"Controlled demolitions take weeks of planning" because under normal circumstances, the risk of waiting is not that high. That doesn't mean that subject matter experts aren't capable of making an intelligent plan in a short period when a building is catastrophically damaged in heavily populated area where waiting can very easily result in more damage and more risk of casualties.

As for "melting iron", if you're talking eyewitnesses before the demolition, they have no idea what was melted. If you're talking after, no shit they used demolition-grade explosives. It was a fucking skyscraper in the middle of a massively populated city that wasn't stable. It had to come down.

lol do you need an app labeled "porn"?

You can play whatever content you want.

The Vision Pro is a major change to the tech. It's not just the difference in resolution (which already fundamentally changes the experience by making text actually viable in more than title screen type giant letters). The quality and latency of the passthrough make it the first actual AR option.

This isn't some impulse, either. They've spent years building to this and waiting for the underlying tech to cross the minimum viable threshold. All of Apple Silicon, Spatial Audio, universal apps, putting ARKit on phones, and many more paths have been building to this. It's very clearly been their vision for a long time, and we've had leaks about them working on it behind the scenes for much of it.

It is kind of nice that it's set up in a way that makes third party side panels trivial.

You don't have to have played BG1 or 2 to be aware of the new game exclusively because it's the third.

Again, literally all of the hype was about Baldur's Gate. Larian was barely mentioned, way down the line, when people eventually got around to "who's making it anyways?". It wasn't even close to the primary driver.

It also came with massive built in world building and mechanics that are better than DOS2. They effectively didn't even have to design the gameplay. They just had to do the story telling.

An order of magnitude doesn't mean anything when the market is much more than an order of magnitude larger.

If you don't know for an absolute fact that the primary reason that BG3 pushed Larian past niche into a blockbuster success is the IP, you don't know what you're talking about. It's not even sort of ambiguous. The IP was all of the hype. The quality is just why the hype turned into GoTY.

An order of magnitude with the difference of volume of game sales over time isn't the giant improvement you're portraying it as.

It wouldn't have worked without a quality team, but Baldur's Gate is every bit as much of a behemoth IP as something like DOOM. There's a reason they worked so hard to get it. It's sure as hell made them a hell of a lot more than the 90 million cut they gave Hasbro.

You're underselling how massive the Baldur's Gate name is.

The exact same production in DOS3 wouldn't have near the same runaway hype train.

Some percentage of revenue for using other people's IP is pretty normal.

And I think it's hard to argue Baldur's Gate and using DnD isn't a meaningful part of its success. Divinity Original Sin 2 is a really good game with a lot of the same DNA (it's why I personally bought BG3), and it stayed pretty niche. The IP is a big part of it exploding.

They somehow spent 40 million lol.

I'm not really a fan of the subscription model, and want no part in WOW (also because the single game life suck is definitely not my thing), but WOW has been doing it for a long time, and in a way that they actually do have meaningful recurring costs per user to provide.

But yeah, hosting isn't magically cheaper because you're in a country with a broken economy, or a lot more stuff would already be hosted there. And the absurd tax rate doesn't pay any of their costs, so basically doesn't matter to their pricing. Supporting a broken hyper volatile currency is just not worth doing.

Now they have to pay (with tax) around 19,936 ARS a month to keep playing a game they already own. That's a 2,967% increase.

It's always been a subscription game, and never been "something they already own". If you do subscription shit, this is what you're subject to.

Abandoning support for fucked up trash currencies is something perfectly reasonable that a lot of companies have recognized they need to do. The fact that you have an insane government that tacks a 60% fucking tax on transactions in actual money isn't their problem.

I really want absolutely no part of people who don't understand code using LLMs to submit things they don't understand. That's a disaster waiting to happen at best.

If you don't understand every line you're submitting completely, you should not be submitting code. It absolutely does need to be restricted to people who know what they're doing.

I don't understand ever under any circumstances having your phone on anything but vibrate.

I get what you're saying. Merely being the impetus to make the effort has value.

It's kind of how I feel about pop science stuff like Malcolm Gladwell. Outliers is a little better than nothing, but there's a lot wrong with his core characterization of the research compared to reality. But if less people are going to read stuff like Peak or Range that use some academic rigor, is the partial presentation being popularized better? Or is the misrepresentation more harm than good?

I'm not entirely sure. But I do know to take his work with a heavy dose of skepticism.

(In this example, Ericsson (Peak) was on the initial research Gladwell jumps "10k hours" off of, which only explored the very structured training, with frequent feedback, of classical violin. Epstein (Range) sort of presents his as critiquing the original work, but mostly is really pointing to the flaws of Gladwell's presentation, before providing a different perspective mixing anecdotes with research supporting a broader base and showcasing how bringing ideas from other disciplines can have a lot of value to problem solving.)

I’m not saying that all self-help is bad.

I'm pretty damn close. None of it is actually based in any kind of evidence.

It already has legitimacy. It's their hardware that doesn't, despite the decent raw flops and high memory.

I don't mind fulfilled by Amazon. I'm selective, but there's still value there.

If I could permanently remove everything that isn't in an Amazon warehouse from showing up in search results the platform would be way less annoying, though. De-emphasizing that nonsense is a huge value add as far as I'm concerned.

Malware is malware.

They put a rootkit on your computer if you install their game.