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It's not ideal, but you're getting probably the best hardware in the market in return. The M series still dominates Windows CPUs, and the build quality on most $1000 laptops leaves a lot to be desired.

I really wouldn't mind a remake of Left 4 Dead 2 with better netcode and more official maps.

That's a shame. It looked like a pretty good survival game, but the very lackluster launch and being released around the time Palworld & Enshrouded killed it.

Here's an alternate link: https://archive.is/EwaZR

As for indies, there's also a ton that are good. Just recently we got #DRIVE Rally, Victory Heat Rally, WHAT THE CAR?, Aero GPX, and some others I forgot.

It will stay an echo chamber until mods step up and start removing low-effort posts. Also, people are downvoting me in favor of a fake account with one post lmao. That's how bad it is.

When sockpuppet accounts are posting to unrelated communities, no shit I'll complain. "Rich people are bad" is not a showerthought and you know it, but I guess let's just spam the platform with this nonsense and keep making new accounts to boost these posts. What's wrong with that?

So I guess showerthoughts is going to be the new platform .ml users will use to complain about capitalism? OP is a brand new account and this was their first and only post.

Yes, I will keep calling this out.

Seriously. I don't doubt a lot of effort is going into it but I've been hearing "gimp 3 soon" for like 3 years now

There's a web demo here: https://swordfish90.github.io/cheap-upscaling-triangulation/

Looks nice on games with simple graphics, but I'd still never use it on pixelated games.

I haven't played Overwatch for a while but for a time there was a notorious meta called GOATS (3 tanks, 3 supports). It was an insanely aggressive meta that focused on rushing straight into the enemy team, tanking them, and killing them before they can react. The only way you can counter it is by also running the same team comp and hoping to kill them faster.

It ruined ranked games for a few months and the devs apparently had no idea how to fix it without nerfing tanks or supports hard - which would make playing them feel terrible. That's why OW added a role queue and enforced 2 damage, 2 tank, 2 support teams.

That said, I think aggressive metas are way better than turtling ones. Nobody wants to idle around and take pot shots until someone gets bored.

Niantic will just keep falling upwards forever, huh?

Their reviews are usually not that critical. That said, I don't think they're really a great source for gaming journalism anyways.

If you want to see a very critical review of the game, check out Skill Up's review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF-Kd2BBpx8

Review thread here: https://lemm.ee/post/45992027

General consensus seems positive. I'm excited to pick it up on release, it's been ages since Bioware did something good.

Not unpopular. Lemmy politics is a garbage dump, the entire platform was created as a safe haven for commies and we're still reeling from it, with many users (especially from .ml) sharing biased news and "memes" that are nothing but propaganda and DAE AMERICA BAD????

Having political takes isn't necessarily a bad thing but when your entire personality is "capitalism is bad" then you're an insufferable twat ruining the platform for everybody else

Cyberpunk is a good example of gorgeous raytracing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pkuU0cGQu8

The problem is that proper raytracing is way too heavy for most machines, so game devs don't bother. The Cyberpunk example on max graphics would need an RTX 4090 just to run it over 60fps. No point in pushing tech that nobody can run yet.

Raytracing on older games looks great because they already weren't intensive to run, so developers can get away with maximizing raytracing while still running fine.

The post is from 2 years ago but it does pose an important question which few people really talk about. The Fediverse isn't scaling.

Any distributed system is inefficient, for one, because it lacks the economy of scale.

Sure, it's probably worth the tradeoff, but what happens when we actually get so many people that servers start to collapse? Lemmy has ~45k active users, but let's say we jump to 1 million active users. Small servers will stop working due to too much traffic, medium servers will need way more money to process the thousands of images per day, large servers will become too centralized. We're already slowly going that way with the instance count steadily going down and users/instance going up.

None of this matters now but within the next 5, 10 years I think we really need a game plan in order for these platforms to succeed. You can't just increase the servers to spread the load, the load on all instances is steadily going up.

That's hilarious. Even when Kick isn't the one doing anything, there always seems to be drama surrounding it.

FYI the title is misleading, it was apparently scripted and it doesn't seem like Kick will be paying her $50k.

Why would a game connect to the fediverse...?