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Because there’s no DRAM in it. 😭

Teflon doesn’t last forever. But in most cases, it lasts long enough.

They might be seeing / thinking that there is less money in hardware now versus specialty, closed-ecosystem software. I think that’s why we haven’t seen Apple Silicon advertised that heavily lately.

It reminds me a little bit of the end of the PowerPC days. Everything had a G4 or G5 in it, but the software was the star for a loooonng time, and it stayed that way well into the Intel days. They’ll never shift away from Apple Silicon because it gives them enhanced verticals, but it may stay mostly under the hood.

I think that killing off the Mac Pro supports this idea. There also wasn’t another giant machine for geeks for a while after they killed off the massive G5 tower.

Once these lines are crossed, it’s extremely difficult to get governments to sit nicely back on the other side of it.

Cosmic is everything. It’s the way, the truth, and the life.

I… I really like it.

I dare you to stop stumping for Bethesda.

That’s the cool thing about opinions. Everyone can have their own.

Nope. Sorry if you need copium, but I played about 50 hours. It got really boring because planets are generally empty. Combat is OK, but not special.

There really needed to be improvements to flight. As it stands, you can’t even walk around your own ship while it’s underway. And that, as I said, is because of the Creation engine. It’s just not acceptable for a modern game. Bethesda knows this, they’re just milking what’s left.

Is it the worst game ever made? Not by a longshot. But it’s not a good one either.

PS- and if you like the game, great. That’s the cool thing about opinions. Everyone can have their own.

Its OK. They’ll be back to licking his boots tomorrow.

Sadly mods won’t fix the fact you have to play a loading screen.

The fact that Bethesda thought they could get away with their ancient engine once again is laughable.

Maybe. I find that to be a really weird business strategy. But, maybe their analysts are very confident that console gaming is rapidly dying. If not… shrug.

Part of a much larger trend of companies finding out that there is a limit to consumer spending, and most consumers are already beyond it.

So this is just one big circle jerk war?

Yes, and a key observation might be: the oligarchy being discussed more and more in the US is not constrained to the US. There is (in a practical sense, not an official one) a single world government controlled entirely by the rich who are currently circle-jerking.

Enhanced mode with a 40fps target (that dropped noticeably when using vehicles) or the Performance mode with a 60fps target

Having now spent nearly 40 hours with Starfield on PS5 and PS5 Pro, this is definitely the best Starfield has been

Lol k

But isn’t it just easier to point at the problem and complain online about it?

I am saying that you (and people like you) can’t keep doing the same thing and expect shit to change, and then put down people who are actually trying something different for once.

Not voting or voting third party is not new. It’s not “for once”. It has been tried again and again in the US, and again and again, the outcomes were as expected: whichever candidate between the two main parties loses more votes to the tactic, loses the election.

Stop pretending it’s novel. It isn’t, and it always fails. There is nothing virtuous about being shown evidence and denying it. That’s called stupidity.

You literally had a whole thread about AI slop that wasn’t there and now you’re trying to save face by changing your own goalposts.

Good chat.

What slop? You think a nearly 3-year old account is AI generated?

Just because you’ve never seen an em-dash before AI doesn’t mean that em-dash = AI. And btw, I never even used one.

Keep showing Democrats that no matter how disconnected they are from the American public, you will keep voting for them.

The US has a two-party system. Period. That will not change anytime soon, if ever. And that presents unique challenges that countries with different systems do not have.

I’m not entirely sure from your rebuttal that you actually understand this fact.

I don’t disagree that things are fucked up, and I don’t disagree that the Dems are a bad party which by and large do not support their constituents. But let me be clear: there is no path outside of voting Democrat that has any chance of success of changing anything in the US. The only path forward is voting for the single opposition party.

What you’re saying is: it won’t matter anyway. Maybe you’re right. I’m also not disagreeing there. But we know from evidence that there is no other option which has any chance. And if the whole house of cards falls – as it is likely to do – I’d certainly rather tell my children that I did what I could based on an evidential position, regardless of how futile it may have ended up being.

What I won’t do is pretend that a third party vote will help. I won’t pretend that not voting will help. Those are the farcical ideas of a naïve idealist.

There are literal fascists in office, in part because Dunning-Kruger told you not voting or voting for a no-chance candidate was a good idea.

Or maybe you think posting online is “action” or “protest”. In case you haven’t noticed, it does jack shit.

I am not prepared

Don’t worry. We know.