JohnEdwa

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[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Which was $4.4 billion in 2022 and is estimated to be roughly $3 billion for 2023, so the maximum fine would be 180-264 million depending on which figure is used.
For comparison, the net loss (not profit) for 2022 for twitter was 270 million.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Also because you can always lower settings or throw better hardware at the problem on PC so even a badly optimized port should eventually run acceptably. But if you fuck it up on console, you get Cyberpunk on the PS4 and have to spend a ridiculous amount of time and money to make it work.

And this is Bethesda we are talking about, at this point I wouldn't be surprised if the PC versions are designed from the get got under the expectation that the modding scene will come to the rescue and fix everything for them no matter how terrible their work is.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

DLSS doesn't run on older nVidia hardware either as it's designed to utilize the raytracing and tensor cores of the RTX series. I recall reading somewhere that while it could technically be made to run without them, without the specific cores optimized to do the calculations required it would run terribly. Then again it might just be a blatant lie ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
FSR on the other hand is designed to run on standard GPU hardware and seeing as the tech is open source they can't exactly hide any code that would break compatibility with nVidia.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Also something everyone else learned is not a good idea as perfidy results in the enemy assuming you are doing it and executing anyone wounded or actually trying to surrender. But Russia seems to have missed most of the memos documenting what actually did and didn't work during WW2 - like if you actually want someone to surrender, try not to rape, torture and kill all their civilians and soldiers, as that tends to make the rest of them angry.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Not that far as long as you are okay with a car as tiny as the Insight or the Geo Metro. Here's the two of em compared to a VW Up! for example.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 46 points 2 years ago

Because the building has a staff cafeteria and a restaurant, as one would expect from an office space of that size.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I know you are joking, but I'd imagine most people don't know how absolutely massive the CO2 emissions for beef are compared to everything else.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The first Fallout barely had anything, but Fallout 2 sure is something else having specific perks, traits and statistics about sex, a bunch of people you can have sex with and some you can get pregnant, and you can work as a prostitute or a porn actor. Or force some of your companions to do so.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 32 points 2 years ago

And every time you do, the next shit has a harder time sticking.
Stadia was doomed from the start because nobody was willing to commit to it in fear of Google killing it, and that meant it wouldn't get enough users and would get killed.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

The normal expected condition for a sword of that era is a mostly rusted away chunk of metal, when after 1900 years you have shiny metal and intact wood and leather, it really is near mint.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So this is why they want that browser integrity stuff.
Without the integrity a change like this would be absolutely wonderful - my ad interests would be "FuckOff" and "Nothing".

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Telemetry is not digital rights management, nothing happens if you don't have internet access or if you block the game with a firewall, you can still play the game fine. It's a bummer you can't opt-out of it completely obviously, but "they can collect whatever they want about you" is entirely false as long as you select "Limited Data" when it asks for your consent - they are GDPR compliant after all.

Here, I created a full image for you. Limited data is system & hardware specs, game crash logs & load times, network/server logs and online game data (e.g on an MMO/online match, H:ZD is offline game so doesn't really apply) and "Legal information required by law". Again, I don't know when any of these are sent - it might be always you boot the game, it might be only when you send a crash log.

 
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