Cethin

The last I remember probably was Splinter Cell. I would say that series ending was when they totally shifted to the way they are now. Notably, the last one came out just a year after Far Cry 3, so it was almost done when they found out how much money they made off of it. After FC3, every game was made to fit that and AC’s style.

That’s true. I guess we have to wait for this to go through court. I would assume if they put Blade Runner in the prompt it could violate the copyright.

If they asked if they can use imagery similar to or from BR2049 then they’re clearly in the wrong, which it sounds like they did. If they just made an ad and it happened to look like it, maybe not.

It’s my understanding that Redfall was largely at the publisher’s feet. Bethesda was looking for a big buyout, and live service crap was the big thing. They told Arkane Austin what to make despite it not being what the studio knows how to make.

Sometimes it is the publisher’s fault.

Yep. I stopped playing Ubisoft games large because there was too much “content.” It was shit tier content exclusively designed to extend play time though. Make content players actually enjoy playing and they’ll appreciate it rather than be annoyed at you wasting their time.

Just download, seed for a while, and when you need to clear out space check what media you actually want to keep.

Anything not about straight white men will have people complaining about DEI bullshit. It’s never a reason a game has failed. They fail because they’re bad games. They might also include DEI stuff, but it’s not the cause.

Edit: correction, those games listed are about straight white men. Anything that includes a character that is not a straight white man will have those people complaining. They’re the most fragile people in the world.

If you’re dead, why the fuck do you care who goes to jail? Shouldn’t we care more about people dying than revenge after?

Yeah, it’s that easy to say and yeah, I don’t want to be one of the people killed, driverless or not. Cars are fucking deadly. 20 pedestrians die every day to cars. If we can get that number down but have them die to FSD vehicles, that’s better. I don’t care who or what is driving.

I’d rather not have cars everywhere, but if we do I want them to be as safe as possible (for everyone, not just the driver). If that includes FSD we should do it, even if the number of pedestrian deaths doesn’t hit zero (it never will) because the alternative is well above zero.

The bad news is people hitting and killing pedestrians is so common you don’t hear about it. Fuck Musk and all that, but some number of people are always going to get killed. Even the FSD system that was as close to perfect as possible would still occasionally kill someone in large enough numbers, because there’s too many variables to account for. If the numbers are lower than a human driving, it’s a positive.

We should be trying to move away from cars though ideally. Fuck electric cars, FSD cars, and all other cars. A bus, train, bike, or whatever else would be safer and better for the environment.

Yeah, with the need for the cartridges, I don’t know who this appeals to. I would think it appeals to people who already have a library of games, but they also probably have original hardware, and running on a CRT is probably ideal, not a modern display in 4k. The CRT hides the low detail from the time and has built-in AA, so it (subjectively) looks better.

So, if it’s not for those people, is it for new people? In which case they better be loaded because getting the games isn’t easy. In which case, getting an original console probably isn’t an issue.

For waste, yeah it has to be taken care of. However, nuclear is the only energy resource that we require to do this. All others tend to just let the public (or others in the area) deal with it. Solar also creates waste through mining. Wind is pretty good, but not perfect and the turbines aren’t yet recyclable, and you can bet they aren’t having to pay for their storage. They also will require some form of energy storage that nuclear won’t need, which will likely partially include chemical batteries, which are not environmentally friendly to produce, but again won’t be rolled into their cost.

The anti-nuke movement is largely funded by existing energy companies who don’t want to compete on even ground. They’ve had so many laws passed that increase costs. There are countries where nuclear is much cheaper, which shows that a large part of the cost is regulations, not fundamental costs. Even in the US it’s competitive with offshore wind and coal for cost though, which we still build both of.

Most nuclear waste does not need to be stored for tens of thousands of years either, like you imply. Some does, but not much. Yeah, we still need a solution for that small amount, but those solutions already exist, they just need to be implemented. Again, no other energy gets waste handling rolled into their cost. They just become negative externalities someone else has to deal with. Nuclear is just easy to capture the waste, so they store it. This should be a positive, not a negative.

It’s also ridiculously clean and safe. Even including nuclear accidents (which become less likely each time, and are now almost impossible), it’s next to the safest energy source. The only thing safer is solar, by a tiny amount.

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/charted-safest-and-deadliest-energy-sources/

It is a great baseline power source we should be relying on. Obviously I agree, it shouldn’t be everything. Solar and wind are ideal to make up the majority of the grid, but as a safe and reliable supply of power, nuclear should support them. It perfectly fills the gap left by them that otherwise requires massive amount of power storage, which is far from ideal. We should remove the regulations that have kneecapped them to protect traditional dirty energy and provide solutions for permanent waste disposal so it doesn’t artificially increase their costs.

That article is pretty inflammatory, on purpose I believe. It rolls all of the costs into one, including nuclear weapons testing, costs of the Manhattan project, and even the costs other forms of energy entail at times. It’s clearly an anti-nuclear article doing it’s best to make the reader believe the costs are higher than they actually are.

I do agree with the article that we need to implement solutions, but they aren’t difficult. We know how to solve it, and it isn’t particularly expensive. These videos give good insight into how easy to contain nuclear waste is and solutions that we already have for it.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4aUODXeAM-k

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lhHHbgIy9jU

It’s a loan, not a grant. I agree they should go to the private sector for the load if they want to keep the energy for private use only, but they are required to pay it back, with interest. The company is worth far more than the loan is, so it’s very low risk.

Nuclear energy is clean, but I agree this energy should be used for a useful purpose, which would bring down costs.

IIRC, the Concord devs were pretty good about MTX. They refused to add a battle pass even, for example. That obviously isn’t enough though.

Just a warning, Windows doesn’t always play nice when installed on the same drive as Linux. If you have two drives, try installing them on different ones. If not, there’s a risk that a Windows update can mess some things up. Usually it’s fine, just I’ve had issues with it and so have others.

Anyway, Linux is really easy now. I would recommend something with KDE, like the Fedora KDE spin as an example. KDE is very familiar to Windows users, though very customizable if you want too. It should be a very easy transition, as long as you go in not expecting it to be identical to Windows. You have to meet it where it is, which does require relearning a few things.

If you have questions feel free to ask. There’s also plenty of other users on Lemmy who would be happy to help.

You should use legal streams that you pay for so you know they’re stealing your personal data!

You mean a native version of GOG? I don’t think so, but you can use it through Lutris.

If it works on Steam it works on GOG. Nothing about proton is limited to Steam.