I think software was a lot easier to visualise in the past when we had fewer resources.

Stuff like memory becomes almost meaningless when you never really have to worry about it. 64,000 bytes was an amount that made sense to people. You could imagine chunks of it. 64 billion bytes is a nonsense number that people can’t even imagine.

Because I don’t have a full time cleaner to keep the dust off everything.

Probably one of the VR ones.

Phasmophobia is tense and mostly because you can die and get no points, but there’s plenty of VRChat horror worlds as well. The quality varies wildly though, and you often face the worst VR horror of all: awful frame rates.

Those fucking dummies…

It is optional isn’t it?

Minibeard is there for if you get stuck. The puzzles just aren’t really hard unless you’re really not used to games at all.

Honestly the hardest part was the rhythm and bubble shooter sections at the end.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing.

RDR2 was long as fuck.

8K on everything is pure marketing BS.

4channers who blame their lack of muff action on their diminutive height are.

Wakkkanda it is.

The Witcher isn’t in Medieval Poland though, it’s in a fantasy land.

Rings of Power was far more dumb because there’s black people, but only in a few extremely important roles. Almost as if there’s some sort of reverse curse going on, where a baby pops out black, and they immediately make it their king/queen. Or more likely, they realised very late on that they’d made a very white cast, and made a few last minute changes.

And the replacement people all just assume that we’re supposed to be up to our waists in water.

Technical debt is a real doozy. There’s no value for the higher ups in fixing it, so nobody does.

New features just take longer and longer to add, under a teetering pile of your own shit.

I think part of the problem is the ideal underlying structure for your project doesn’t really reveal itself until several years in, and by then it’s a nice to have for some other time that never arrives.

Yeah, the AI stuff is suffering from this right now.

It has generated the best bullshit it can, and is now unable to differentiate it from the human created content it uses to learn from.

Pretty much any big name pizza place is the same story. A cycle of “make it smaller”, “make it out of cheaper ingredients”, “put less on it” and “make it cost more” has left most of them barely recognisable as pizza.

The best pizza near any of us is probably from a local family run pizza place.

The best value pizza is probably Costco.

I don’t know why everybody else continues to exist. A mountain of brand recognition heading towards oblivion.

My wife’s family used to mop the walls as part of cleaning.

It wasn’t until she moved out that she twigged that non-smokers don’t have to do that.

We’d all put on our scruffiest clothes before visiting my granddad, because they’d be going straight into the washing machine the second we got back. No wonder he kept giving us money, he probably thought we were poor as dirt.

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I did try that using Docker on Windows but it was an unmitigated hellscape. Just use the installers if you’re using Windows for it.

At that price there would have to be some pretty compelling arguments to upgrade.

Half a generation for up to 40% more raytracing power isn’t worth it.

A full generation for 2-3 times what a PS5 can do? Maybe.

Even then, there would have to be some damn good exclusives on PS6 to be worth your while. PS4 to PS5 was an easy argument, games ran at 30 pretty much all generation, mostly due to a comically underpowered CPU, and now they run at 60.

I’m struggling to even conceive of a worthwhile game that would bring a PS5 to its knees. I haven’t really seen a good argument for raytracing yet. Sure, nicer reflections, more accurate lighting, but we were pretty good at faking those anyway. Cyberpunk and Metro look really nice with the RT only editions, but they were perfectly playable without it.

We should really draw a big line under RT once it reaches a certain level of power, and go back to affordability. Game devs can’t put food on the table just catering to insanely high end hardware. My PC is still rocking a 1060. On the Steam hardware survey, there’s only one GPU higher than the X060 series inside the top ten. Budget hardware has got to be the focus.

I don’t even play online. I’m just there for the monthly games.

Honestly don’t know what they thought was going to happen. They’ve had some misfires lately with the PS5 Pro not being needed at all (the PS5 is a decent bit of kit, and certainly capable of handling everything this gen can throw at it), selling a remote access tablet/controller that doesn’t connect to their own cloud service, and even they’ve stopped talking about Concord.

RSS is what we had before algorithms that just pick adverts and far right fuckery.