I fondly remember the days of Neverwinter Nights Epic Level expansion with level 40 characters...
But at that point you (and your party) will obliterate anything that’s less than an existential threat to the universe. Level 9 and Epic spells were leagues beyond anything you have access to before. A well crafted Weapon…

The Larian account isn’t needed (unless you want the twitch drops), but I agree it could have done without the launcher, just give the option to switch render in the options followed by a restart.

Presumably a big loss as he will invest a lot of time in the game, and “disappear” from the outside world for a few weeks

With Trumps tendency to just refuse to pay people he hires when he’s not happy... I’m not so sure about that.

$40M in legal fees, and still his lawyers somehow manage to be the most incompetent selection of idiots imaginable.

Apparently, not from Republicans they don’t.

This is exactly it. It is a predatory tactic to extract more money from those vulnerable to those tactics. Not unexpected given the Greed Activision has been showing.

I mean this is Activision, I was expecting them to be greedy with the live-service nonsense, and they’re worse than expected still...

No, the game is designed to exploit people vulnerable to its loot treadmill mechanics, that has very little choice on their part. It is psychologically manipulating them. Nobody should be making excuses for that.

They indicated that you could have an Archfey patron, that’s not exactly a demon.

It’s all Unreal Engine V, the requirements asks for 150 GB of free space, the compressed download is about 80 GB.

Funny thing is though that unlike DLSS and XeSS, AMDs technology tends to be more hardware agnostic. FSR will work on nVidias 10 series GPUs and later for instance. Sure DLSS may be superior in quality, but won’t work on anything that’s not an nVidia card.

One important thing to note on your comments (which are valid mind you), Sony is relatively small compared to Microsoft.
Microsoft could buy up all of Sony for the spare change in their couch cushions if needed. (MS market cap is ~$2,500 Billion ; Sony is ~$115 Billion). The FTC does take that into account, which you…

Let’s be clear here, none of the reason above really matter to the publishers. The only real reason is that with digital only releases they’ll destroy the second hand market that was eating into their profit margins.
Add that the proprietary storefronts for consoles are often more expensive than physical copies and you…

Someone also made a custom “Titan” submarine for the submarine horror game Barotrauma, though I imagine the real sub won’t be at risk of being eaten by a hellish monstrosity from the depths of the moon Europa. 

if you want to get seriously cold, add some pure ethanol to the mix and watch that puppy go WAY colder still.

light could work, providing you’re working at wavelengths that do not get absorbed by water (ie. blue/green) rather than the standard red/IR generally used for communication lasers.
But radio and such is a bit problematic indeed.

As a woman, I really enjoy being able to play as a woman in games. Aloy is probably my favourite game protagonist to date, and I hope to be able to add this young lady to the list as well.

They’re allowed to store that data in the EU, and use that within the rules provided. That’s not wanting the access for free, it’s telling Meta that it can’t do as it pleases with the data.

Faced with unpopular policies and ideas the GOP will abandon democracy rather than adapting to the new situation, it’s as simple as that.