EncryptKeeper

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Sounds like he wants to have his cake and eat it too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MOUSE: P.I. For Hire releases on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I read the reviews too, 95% of which contradict you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MOUSE: P.I. For Hire releases on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
You’d be surprised at how many games run on Mac natively. RE2 Remake on a MacBook Air is surprisingly good.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MOUSE: P.I. For Hire releases on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

it’s a shallow game covered in style.

That’s not a preference, and there doesn’t appear to be any evidence that it’s even true. If the game was shallow the reviews would not be overwhelmingly positive.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MOUSE: P.I. For Hire releases on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
The reviews are overwhelmingly positive. Out of nearly 2,000 reviews less than 100 are negative at all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a matter of motivation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Then they’re not volunteers. They’re PRN.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a matter of motivation⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Most firefighters in the U.S. are volunteer, and make no money at all. Being paid per call is not the norm.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a matter of motivation⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Volunteer firefighters are unpaid. That is what volunteer means in this context. They make $0.

There are some places where they get tossed a few bucks per call, but most of them don’t make a cent.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The president largely doesn’t have too much power. Problem is the other two branches of government conceding theirs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a matter of motivation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
You think the guys who don’t get paid at all are paid pretty damn well? I don’t follow.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a matter of motivation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
And yet there are still people who those strings completely for free.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a matter of motivation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
For sure
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a matter of motivation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The United States
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
This is a big reason why I’m hyped for Steam machine.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Idk man I’ve been a PC gamer for decades, and in my long career in IT have been a subject matter expert on both Linux and Windows systems and this is just straight up cope.

Drivers and compatibility issues and such are much better now than they were 15 years ago, but at the end of the day you buy a console and you get a guaranteed 8-10 years of running every game with zero problems. Thats something we will never, ever get on PC. It’s just not possible.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s more cost efficient, and less of a headache to deal with anomalous problems like bugs and driver issues that can be as specific to your unique combination of PC hardware.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Th prices of every component involved in making a PS5 have exploded.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Store Dynamic Pricing Is Real⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Steam games are either on sale, or they aren’t.

But on the PlayStation Store, I can see a game is on sale and text my buddy who lives down the street about it, but when he opens the store it’s not on sale for him, only me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
lol I don’t know if this is supposed to be a bit or not.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Why would you think that a PC would need a loading screen when a PS5 doesn’t…?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I LOVE seeing AI-related CEOs come out and say stuff like this.

This is not something you come out and say publicly when you’re confident in your product and genuinely believe it stands on its own merits.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH - PC Version Launch Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s why I adored the first game but couldn’t bring myself to finish the second.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH - PC Version Launch Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You couldn’t zip line with the carrier initially, that came with the directors cut.

The zip line networks were definitely too strong in the first game, but that’s still leagues better than DS2 because with zip lines you at least have to complete a delivery to get the network online, then go out and set up your zip lines. It took some setup work.

In DS2 you just throw your cargo in a truck and go.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I can only pray to god that I never become this lost.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am only now discovering the sheer addictiveness of Sid Meier's Civilization.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
CIV VI really dives into board game-like qualities and while it’s a double edged sword, I think what it does, it does very well. There is room in the series for experimentation and trying new angles. The problem with VII is it doesn’t seem to even know what it wants to be or how it wants to do it. It’s unfortunately a mess that I don’t think they can fix.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox as a platform is officially dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I meant TechQuickie.

But Techlinked also
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox as a platform is officially dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a show about tech news?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox as a platform is officially dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I still tune into TechQuickie every once in awhile and I noted how start the difference is between shows like that today and five years ago. All news is bad news anymore.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resident Evil Requiem currently peaking at over 300,000 players on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The last 10 years or so, there was a sort of “Old RE” and “New RE” set of fans. The new games have really kept their distance from existing lore, and the gameplay has been very different from the older games.

This is the first new Resident Evil game in a long time that promises to bring the old lore back to the forefront, as well as merging the two styles of game.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Now that several of the points you’ve made have been proven concretely wrong, and you just keep moving the goal posts further and further each time, I feel like your argument has been muddied to the point that I don’t really know what it is anymore. “Yeah Xbox was the first to build a product like that, but we used to have 30 different products that did some of those things, entirely separately from each other without any integration or cohesion, most of which have been largely lost to time because the way Xbox did it was so much better it became the expected standard for the next 20 years for everyone else to copy, so therefore they don’t get any credit”

OK.

Let’s recap:
- You thought that infrastructure doesn’t have an associated cost in the real world like it does on Xbox and PlayStation.
We proved that was wrong because there are all kinds of fees, taxes, and mechanisms in the real world that exist to fund infrastructure.
- You thought that game developers on PC invented the unified identity system that’s now an industry standard, which is the thing you’re paying that subscription for.
We proved that was wrong because Xbox Live was the first to do it in 2008. Prior to Xbox, there was no app that provided this functionality.
- You thought that the infrastructure behind these things doesn’t cost any many and that Xbox only started charging for it out of greed because they were making billions of dollars in profit with or without it.
We proved that you don’t know the difference between revenue and profit, or the fact that this infrastructure and hardware subsidization lead to Xbox being unprofitable for years after you thought they were profitable.

Now you’re changing directions to other products that did something entirely unrelated to what we’re talking about, in order to find some parallel in an entirely different market. We’re REALLY grasping at straws here now.

Think of any other system that incorporated already existing features together to form a more convenient enjoyable experience and you’ll see that there isn’t a subscription fee.

Such as?

Public malls

You mean those things that have proven to be economical failures? This just disproves your own point??

smart phones (still replaces multiple products without a data plan)

So hardware that doesn’t cost you a dime to use day to day unless you… use their infrastructure to make it interact with other people in a more convenient way? You mean exactly like Xbox Live

Like you’re arguing against yourself at this point so you don’t really need me anymore? I’m just going to “declare victory and walk away” so to speak unless you can figure out what point you wanna make.