At most I could see it being a kind of novelty for stuff like movie theaters to add to the immersion. And the obvious ads bullshit.

DLSS and FSR are not comparable.

“FSR looks like shit” is not the same thing as “upscaling looks like shit”.

Yeah, there’s a reason any movie attempting 3D CG with any budget at all has used path tracing for years. It’s objectively massively higher quality.

You don’t need upscaling or denoising (the “AI” they’re talking about) to do raster stuff, but realistic lighting does a hugely better job, regardless of the art style you’re talking about. It’s not just photorealism, either. Look at all Disney’s animated stuff. Stuff like Moana and Elemental aren’t photorealistic and aren’t trying to be, but they’re still massively enhanced visually by improving the realism of the behavior of light, because that’s what our eyes understand. It takes a lot of math to handle all those volumetric shots through water and glass in a way that looks good.

Ranked choice enables actual sane candidates, because people are allowed to vote for people who aren’t insane without costing the lesser evil (because primaries massively benefit the most liberal/conservative in their respective parties) their vote.

Third party candidates are wasted votes now. Ranked choice lets you vote for them, then if they’re eliminated, you still get to vote for the less bad person.

No, I’m not. People don’t turn down free stuff with no strings attached. It doesn’t happen.

Because it’s free. I guarantee you 90% of people will take free shit if offered free shit.

Including it for free completely undermines the whole reason for removing the cable.

Then everyone will claim one and you’ll increase waste.

The whole reason they’re removing the cable is because of pressure from governments not to waste materials including it.

“To clarify: I had no involvement in the actual development of this official port, and neither did Flat2VR Studios,” the modder added. “They just bought all the rights to the concept and code of the unfinished mod (which tbh they didn’t really need to do), and then did it all themselves.”

I’m curious how much of his code they ended up using, but it’s really cool to reward the dude like that either way.

The regular game made me motion sick lol.

Because there’s very little overlap between people who need them and people who know that it’s an option.

The people claiming them would primarily be people like me who do know how it works, know that I probably won’t use it, but am going to take it anyways, because it’s free and because it is within the realm of possibility that I need another cable as a temporary replacement until I get another one.

That’s ugly as hell too.

They get a cash payout as a whistleblower. I could easily see not reporting it directly and reporting it through the channels that pay them instead. Also, if they contracted out, they may not have anyone with the basic understanding of tech to identify the issue even if “these requests shouldn’t have been filed” was reported up the chain.

It’s still negligence, but it doesn’t have to be deliberate fraud.

I could pretty easily see how such a bug could happen if the description in the article is accurate.

The right way to do it is to have the entire transaction in some pending state, and nothing is permanently saved anywhere until the transaction is completed. (This is called an atomic operation. It usually applies to distributed databases, but the same concept applies here, where the transaction takes a long time to succeed or fail.)

If, instead, you add it to the “reimbursement list” while putting the actual “make the pill” and billing part in the pending state, then forget to remove it when the transaction isn’t completed, you get the outcome described in the article.

I have one, and yes, it is bad.

But I wasn’t talking about resolution. 40FPS is semi-tolerable on a handheld. Anything less than 60 on a TV is a miserable experience, with or without adaptive sync.

I think the assertion is that it’s intended for actual low volume low value trade, and that a retailer operating in the US but packaging the shipments in China (to bypass the normal import laws that apply to companies operating traditionally and importing in bulk, then packaging here) is not how the exception is intended to be used.

The point (well, not his, which is about the absurdity of publishers using it as an actual official measuring stick) is that different people like different things. For some people a visual novel or walking simulator can be a 10/10 “game” for the story. For me, it will never be better than a 0, because I cannot enjoy a game without compelling gameplay mechanics. That’s an extreme example, but the point that different people put massively different value on different elements, many of which many players literally don’t care even a little bit about.

An 8/10 isn’t objectively a worse game than a 9.5/10. It’s the average of a small handful of opinions, mostly from people who played the game at surface level and not like an actual player would, that’s heavily and inconsistently influenced by a variety of practices by publishers trying to get their grades pumped up. Game reviewers are almost never actual journalists with journalistic ethical standards. They’re not being “less than honest”, but they’re inherently influenced in ways outside their awareness that break the core premise of a score.

Most reviews (including games) shouldn’t include scores at all. They should break down the different elements of a product, the strengths and weaknesses of each part, and let people draw their own conclusions.

I’m not talking about “PS5 level”. I’m talking about tolerable.

The performance on modern games is only playable because it’s a handheld. It’s painful on a TV. If you are looking for a device to play modern games on a TV, the steam deck is an awful buy.

The steam deck is fine for a handheld, but the performance on a TV is not even close to competitive with a PS5.

If they were free on demand for people who asked with their purchase:

None of the people who need them would get them.

Most of the ones that did get handed out would still be to people who never used them.

That’s what they actually did if you read the article. They don’t pass through the eyes the same when you’re on a keyboard now.