Friendly reminder that there are a bunch of fantastic indie games out there that don’t have insane graphic card requirements for a smooth frame rate.

I’ve made the mistake of driving in manhattan once, and it taught me two things. How to maneuver within gridlocked traffic, and why you take the subway in NYC.

That… and the damage to subspace caused by speeds over Warp 5, which soon gets forgotten about.

Xbox is dead outside of being a different logo for windows. I think it’s obvious to anybody remotely watching the industry that all they really care about is game pass at this point. Even at the game awards, they were essentially absent outside of a game pass ad, and recently put a finance guy in charge of Zenimax.

I would love to say this won’t end well for them, but they probably crunched the numbers and determined they could continue the same revenue with minimum effort. Enough people will probably stick around on game pass, even after the recent hikes, to keep it as a solid revenue stream.

I sold my Xbox six months ago after it sat collecting dust for a year and a half, glad I did.

I spent $50 a year on wallpapers once as a monthly subscription. It was to support an independent artist that hand painted video game scenes I enjoyed, produced 1-3 new paintings per month, granted access to his back catalog, and the deliverable was high quality scans I could download and use at my leisure.

Since he is an artist, and you could feel that each painting took weeks to complete, I felt justified.

Never had a desire to pay for an app with generic wallpapers though, or to financially support someone who generates my annual salary per sponsorship deal.

Perhaps I’m missing something, but isn’t Cursor simply a VSCode fork with some AI extensions integrated into it? Hate aside, what is the actual technical value of the product?

I see you have an MBA. I’m impressed by your business sense and wish to follow you on LinkedIn.

“Something changed” is an off ramp for those who are in too deep to back out without a mental crisis caused by accepting reality. More then they deserve, but it’s a way out while saving face.

That, in and of itself, is not something that can bridge this kind of a gap, but it’s an indication of the ways in which money has been spent while refusing to account for the actual costs of what these programs are.

This is what I see as the important bit, and indicates both a level head and clear communication. We need more politicians across the board who can answer directly like this, and not try to inflate or exaggerate.

Well well well, look who likes using banking apps and tap-to-pay.

Kind of an extreme viewpoint in my opinion. I personally have no issue with an indy or first time dev using AI assistance for a passion project, my issue is when large studios are replacing talented folks with soulless slop.

What I found interesting was the rationale behind the 16 available colors. Black and white, RGB, CMY, gray, and dark versions of each outside of B&W. Makes so much sense, but I never thought of it that way.

I think they’ve always been like this for some of their posts, and honestly I’m considering getting a paid subscription to support them. Sucks, but they’ve been putting out quality content in exchange for your email address and some metrics - I’d call it a fair trade.

Thanks for sharing. I’ve been using my OLED as my primary display, and the last firmware nagging really got to me.

Since you’ve posted this, I did a factory reset wiping my network info and disabling every non-tv feature.

And here I thought LG was better than Samsung at this.

That sounds like a problem for a future quarterly report.

Sure, but other studios, outside of Rockstar and Mojang, don’t release a game 14 times over 14 years.

When they do launch their game for the 14th time, it typically works.

I’ll give it to you that Bethesda gets a lot of hate over their aging engine and bugs at release, but this game has been released to death, it should either be bug free and over-optimized, or not released at all.

Is there any other source that backs up this headline, because the article it’s attached to clearly doesn’t.

Temporary line shutdowns like this are fairly common in the automotive industry, just ask anyone from Detroit. An adjustment to meet demand does not mean the line is canceled and everything is doom.

Not just embarrassing, but confirmation that XBox is dead and Microsoft is woefully out of touch with gamers. I doubt the 19.99 GamePass can save it.

The problem is the general public just wants to log into the popular app and engage with the algorithm. The moment you try to explain multiple servers and an ecosystem decision paralysis kicks in. Mastodon might have another wave of active users soon, but I’m worried without the handholding and marketing of a large company most users simply won’t jump onboard.

No, I prefer default Firefox. The product is sound and doesn’t raise any actually security or privacy issues for me. A little bloated? Sure. But doesn’t really affect me to be honest.

I’ve played the custom fork game for a few years with Chrome - I’m not interested in lagging versions or random bugs any more, and because of that experience I now simply want things to work as expected and be updated frequently.