“I literally had it as a centerpiece on my dinner table”

Battlefield 2042 is awesome now, why the heck are BF players angry now????

The irony of an Xbox exec bragging about releasing games.

No. It’s an archittectural difference, and you actually just mentioned a lot of the problem.

TLDR: Combined memory pool doesn’t need to recopy things, and console OSes are very lightweight and single-tasked.

PS5 and Xbox Series use a single pool of RAM for both the CPU and GPU. Once the CPU has made a call for an asset,…

Yes, that’s why I prefer to send “We’d Really Rather You Didn’t” letters.

i mean I said it in the post, it’s “time and not having EA forcing the release of an unready game to meet an arbitrary timeline”

It has more to do with the culture of the company inside and out of software. I’ve always thought it was insane too, but that’s what unhealthy culture does, it brainwashes people. Hell, medical residents frequently work 24 hours shifts even though we know decision making quality declines drastically after 8-10 hours.…

There’s definitely some overly-draconian measures in this article that are an exception, but I can’t stress enough about how the “crunch” aspect of this isn’t specific to video game development, it’s a major issue in technology as a whole.

It’s about punching down, and if there was at least one trans writer we knew of in the team to make sure that any jokes or criticism of anything trans has at least some representation and lived experience behind it, it’d be a very different story. You can have gritty, cynical humor without being an asshole to people…

Perhaps one that won’t continue to demean people that are most at-risk of being murdered?

Cue the wave of cis people whining about this like it actually affects them. As is the usual, the conversation won’t actually be lead by trans folk, but people who don’t have a horse in the race arguing what’s best for people they know nothing about.

Reveal you’re a transphobe who doesn’t know the first thing about the topic without saying it.

Yeah, they’re doing the classic bad-faith-argument thing if pretending actions have consequences and are ideologically-charged, while inaction is neutral and harmless. Failing to provide trans kids with affirming mental and physical healthcare is itself a threat to the health and lives of many trans youth.

For the ULTIMATE example of affordances go play some Commodore 64 or Amiga games, before WASD and arrow keys plus space to jump, shift to run, etc. became standardized.

It wasn’t rare to see a game where the control scheme was ‘I’ for left, ‘P’ for right, and ‘J’ for jump, or ‘Y’ for down, ‘U’ for up, ‘I’ for left and…

Love your reply. Years ago I had knockdown argument with the lead designer on a GBA game who insisted on swapping the standard jump and attack button assignments (A for attack, B for jump) because in his mind, the action the player performed the most (in this case jump) should be on the primary button.

Counterpoint, this level doesn’t suck, you suck.

I mean, it’s not really supposed to be a tactical, dynamic fight, it’s supposed to be a mad scramble just to stay alive while you unload every single bullet and pipe bomb you have into the thing. The game stocks you up plenty beforehand and there’s ammo littered everywhere in the environment where the fight takes…

You don’t need to replace your thermal paste, BUT you do need to open up your PS4 and clean it. You need to clean the fans, and the thermal chamber vents. I had the same issue with a very loud PS4, I opened it up clean out all the dust. That’s all I did. After that it was wisper quite again. The dirt and dust really…

As a data scientist/statistician , I really don’t understand the hatred for Metacritic. Averages can be a good way to orient oneself when exploring data and trying to understand an underlying process. It’s only the first step but it’s still a useful metric. The problem occurs when people rely too much on one number…

It is, essentially, just that, a stuck up corporate campus. It was developed by the Woodlands Development Company, a division of the Howard Hughes Corporation, and is stubbornly unincorporated (so not even a town).