No idea, I don’t block people either. I do identify them with a tag if I read something interesting or peculiar from them.

A few key Sony exclusives came out on the PS4, but overall in the industry third party games were hitting pretty hard (e.g. Sekiro, Bloodborne, Doom 2016, many indie games) that I consider part of the generation.

There’s an argument that the PS4 generation was pretty great too, but Xbox had their last good console with the 360.

Almost seems a nominal donation for them. 0.3 % of Meta’s gross daily profit.

What happened to “make Orwell fiction again” Elon?

Certainly, we’re going to have Musk and Murdoch pushing for Dutton to get in and our dumbass populace will buy whatever those two media networks are selling as usual.

Nice! So vindicating when that happens.

All I can say is that you’ll need them within 6 - 12 months of getting rid of them.

My Dad’s a carpenter and growing up this essentially describes our backyard. So much timber that gets left over at the end of the job that he’d grab for a carton of beer. So much of it soaked and white-ant ridden.

Perfect example.

This is the one hobby where you actually might use the thing you’re hoarding just in case.

I don’t think that’s a fair assessment.

Baldur’s gate 3, Elden Ring, and Tears of the Kingdom are all triple A in regards to budget and hardly what I would call flops.

I think Avowed will definitely have its fans. Performance issues like stuttering look like they’ll be an issue though, but it’s all stuff that can improve.

Defeating the purpose would be more like washing your disposable cutlery that you’re just about to throw out. Cleaning the house is important.

Yes. Everything is pointless and nothing is forever. Might as well enjoy the life we’ve got. Non-existence is better for some people, but I think on the whole life is worth living for most people.

Hard agree. Valve is known for quality of course, but Concord failed for a variety of reasons that wouldn’t have been immediately obvious.

Agreed, especially if the point is to breathe life into old hardware.

Yeah for sure that could increase productivity. Tbh I’m not sure how much the process can benefit from AI, for sure there are applications but I wasn’t under the impression developers would be multiple times more productive. Maybe I’m wrong there.

We’re certainly at a point where chasing higher and higher fidelity is adding development cost which doesn’t often pay off in terms of sales.

The future hardware still can push more pixels than what we’re experiencing with these consoles and high end PC hardware, but is the game more fun or enticing because of that?

He mentioned that game design and genre development is where innovation is going to lie in the future and I hope that’s the future we see

At least there isn’t evidence of microplastics being harmful to humans, but they certainly harm ecology.

I go one further and also use public/private key pairs that my acquaintances must use to decrypt the scrambled letters I mail them.