Bad news Microsoft, I didn't just leave gamepass, I left windows.

What is it and what does it do?

My body is ready

Is that unusual?

I think the implication was that the prisoners are actually hostages too.

The exception code you are getting appears to indicate some code is trying to execute something very low level (e.g. direct device access) when it isn't allowed.

This isn't a widespread issue, so it seems reasonable to assume that it is specific to your machine.

My guesses are:

• Corrupt game files, try deleting the user data for the game. Not sure where that lives.

• Corrupt install but I think you've addressed that.

• Corrupt windows, a scan disk check might repair something.

• Corrupt drivers:

• Fresh install of GPU drivers, using amd's tool or ddu.

• Update chipset drivers if there are any.

• Disable or uninstall anything that controls additional devices. E.g. led or fan controllers like Armoury crate or MSI afterburner.

• Any other app that injects itself into the process. Game overlay, antivirus. Amd adrenaline does this, as can steam and gamebar.

One thing to remember is that the push to Linux is a preemptive act of self preservation, so that will not falter unless they change strategy. Gaben talked years ago about not being beholden to Microsoft to host their platform and seeing the introduction of a Microsoft app store + locked down apps as trouble on the horizon. The fact that Linux is what the community wants is a happy coincidence, companies are not your friends.

It does though doesn't it, it has a fall back execution route on non-intel GPUs that isn't as good?

How else can you judge what direction they might go in? If you like the projects they worked on in the past does it not make it more likely that you'll like their next project? Effectively we are getting a merger of two of the better publishers that are going independent from more corporate overlords? Maybe I'm being overly optimistic...

How many adaptations came out this year? Maybe they had to have a list of 6...

Valve forces price parity with all platforms. So if they have lower charges, that saving cannot be passed on to the customer and so stops price competition.

On the same day I got an email to say my savings rates were going down, what a surprise!

It says it needs 16GB of vram

I thought the second two reds were harsh

You missed the end of the quote, "Dragon Age: The Veilguard is this year’s Alan Wake 2, squeaking onto the Golden Joysticks’ GOTY shortlist at the last minute, joining fellow award outliers Tekken 8 and Helldivers 2."

The similarity with Alan Wake is that it launched so close to the cut off for the shortlist.

I think the author is saying it doesn't belong on the list, along with Tekken and Helldivers.

A lot of those are features of notepad.