Game Developers publishing games that only play correctly on obscenely expensive hardware is strangling PC gaming.

you clearly don’t use Twitter, the feeds and trending tab have been completely broken for months, it’s been down repeatedly, they’re taking away 2FA so it’s become less secure, and Musk let all the self-proclaimed Nazis back on.

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it gave millions of people more Covid due to mass disinformation, does that count?

Laptops are still incredibly thin and powerful and they allow you to change out a lot of parts without soldering.

lmfao “just use a different internet 4head”

I've also noticed that the window for acceptable in-game specs has changed too. It used to be that the target was 1080p and 60 fps which even the lowest end card can do now. But now people want to be able to play at 1440p 120+fps or even at 4k 60fps. The 1060 can generally get 50-60 fps at 1080p. We've seen a huge leap in power these last three generations and card prices are reflecting that.

They're already struggling to move hardware. CPU and GPU sales have plummeted. Steam seems far too entrenched to be ousted when people are tired of multiple launchers and all the others are dogshit. I collect every free Epic game, I have hundreds, and I've never given them a cent.

KSP 2 has a 2060 as minimum and a 3080 as recommended.

Schizophrenic echo chamber is not culture

What gets me is her reaction to the image cropping feature in that her reaction to something being slightly biased is to shitcan the whole thing rather than idk adding more black people to the dataset. Really speaks to the ridiculous mindset and indicates to me that it was a good thing that she got fired.

The galaxy is full of random bloated software and is overpriced, though that latter bit is probably par for the course for an iphone user.

“Runs everything” on what settings? That’s a caviar

Found bezos

Except when they have a monopoly. Try to go without any Google or Microsoft services. The US can't even remove Turbo Tax, an entirely useless service that served as a pay gate for regular people to pay tax.

It's easier to remove government administration than to forego giant corporation's products.

We removed the Trump administration. We can't remove Elon Musk.

A lot of things, yeah. The problem is broadly that their manufacturing is already so expensive that it doesn't make sense to sell it without all the other parts. Like my moonroof blew out and it needed the glass, and the rails replaced. Hypothetically I could get a used part to replace those five things (four rails one glass). But no such used part existed. Instead I had to purchase the entire roof assembly and replace the entire roof. It turns out that moonroof glass is a loss leader for SUV makers.

It's always the little things

Thats not a hardware problem. It doesn't matter what GPU you have with that game, it still stutters. So why pay $1500 when you will have the same experience as a $500 card?

Meanwhile I bought an MSI laptop in 2018 on Black Friday and other than the case falling apart, there have been 0 issues.

From where I'm sitting, this is a really weird take. I get that it's upsetting to see the culture of an online space destroyed; that's the reason I rarely visit Twitter any more. It is, indeed, a festering shithole these days.

The idea that regulation would somehow have prevented that, though, is dubious. It's just as likely that regulation would have prevented the culture the writer enjoyed from ever appearing in the first place.

The problem here isn't a lack of regulations; it's a simple matter of one guy being in charge of a popular platform and enacting his own agenda on it (in addition to that one guy having a cult following that includes a disproportionate number of toxic assholes). It's unfortunate that Musk's priority with Twitter seems to mainly be to piss off as many people as possible for clicks (a tactic familiar to anyone who's followed other media for any length time), but how could you possibly regulate that in a way that wouldn't stifle innovation elsewhere?

I just don't see how any attempt to use regulations to enforce user behavior at a government would be anything but a dismal failure. It'd be subject to the priorities of whoever's in charge at the time, and it seems to me that this is one of those cases (and as a flaming liberal it pains me to say this out loud) where free market forces would do far good more in the long term than any legislation would. If Twitter continues to be a shithole, people will continue to create alternatives, and users will continue to flee.

This all just sounds like it's treating Twitter as a platform that's too big to fail, so it must be "fixed" rather than to let it go the way of countless social media media platforms before it for which there were better alternatives. We don't need to force Twitter to be better; we just need to let someone else do it.

Because Twitter never had outages before.

If by “working fine” you mean “goes down during Super Bowl” then sure

Tech sector is both laying off and hiring a lot. There are published statistics on this on google if you’re interested

It’s a private company. Who cares. If ppl don’t like it they can choose another platform. Or better yet build their own and not sell.