The article you just theoretically read contains what, in your arbitrary definition, would be “legitimate” uses of it. That aside...who cares? It’s a game. I wrote more here and actually deleted it because honestly if that isn’t good enough you should spend some time reflecting. I notice in your list of possible…

We’re in the middle of a resolution shift, and that’s a major driver. If you’re at 1080 I think a high end 9 series gpu may still be working ok. 1440 requires 78% more pixels shoveled through the pipeline, and 4k more than DOUBLE 1440 (4x 1080). On top of that you have advances that really ramp up requirements for…

I remember having those arguments on message boards in 1998 and 1999 about games like Metal Gear Solid and FFVII. As stupid as that sounds now is how every similar argument today will sound in enough years so I figure it’s smart to just skip to the end and not have the argument. The day will come when the Witcher 3 is…

A significant issue with early 3d games is that they were meant to be played on comparatively small CRTs at 640x480 (and even the concept of resolution is different for a CRT than displays now). Blowing them up to 50 inches with millions more pixels really makes the old 3d models look bad. For whatever reason sprite…

I had to dial down the sensitivity on the left stick’s y axis, and remap the trim controls. Ideally you apply constant pressure to the elevator to get your desired attitude/airspeed and then trim away that pressure so you can release the stick, so you need to be able to hold the left stick steady while adjusting trim.…

There is definitely turbulence, you’ll actually get knocked up and down as you pass over obvious points like transitioning from water to a city, at least in a small plane. However I think the live weather feature is a bit broken and it looks like you never get over like 3 knots windspeed?

I think every standalone WW film should find a way to temporarily resurrect Steve.

I think the villain can grant desires or something, so I figure he tempts her with a resurrected Steve but he’s more than happy to sacrifice himself again to help save world, cue bittersweet ending and the credits.

Heh, I finally got it working so I'll go check it out. It's the one in Winnie TX that I'm thinking of in particular.

Heh, I guess that’s why disproportionately tall towers and obelisks are always symbols of evil or at least ominous in stories.

I learned to fly around houston, and a bit east of there are a couple of radio masts that are among (like top 50 or 100) tallest structures in the world (structures includes more than freestanding buildings). They’re around 2000 feet tall. Puttering around at 2000 feet and seeing these things miles away rising to…

Hah, also trying to multitask while working from home?

I have my laptop hooked up to my PC’s keyboard and mouse with a KVM switch, and I was thinking I’d be clever and download it while working on the laptop. I learned hitting the kvm switch (I guess the equivalent to pulling out the kb+m’s cables) freezes the installer. Not going to apply to a lot of people but sucks for…

I know no one cares but this was kinda funny - so I was closing and restarting trying to get the download to resume, when suddenly the game proper started! It was going through some setup menus but all the text was like the internal labels (the graphics slider choices were onboarding.graphics.preset, some of the stuff…

The map data is streamed (the map database is like 2 PB, including satellite and plane imagery, photographs, height data, etc), then there’s what I believe is a cloud AI service that analyzes the map data and uses photogrammetry to generate all the models and terrain and stuff, then the game itself is responsible for…

My punishment for posting this is that after leaving for a few minutes and coming back it was closed, with no explanation offered and no status. I launched it again and it looked like it was starting for real only to end up back at the download screen. On the bright side it only says 60 gb and I estimate I was…

Imagine buying it on disk knowing your download speeds were way too slow, only to have to essentially download the whole game anyways, ugh.

5 dollars on PC, 1 dollar if you're signing up the first time. Even if you'd prefer to buy it on steam ultimately it's hard to argue with at least testing the full game for a month for a buck.

I’m installing it now and there was no freezing and it’s hauling ass so hopefully all the other latecomers don't have problems. Reading these comments I feel guilty at forgetting how spoiled I am, I just did the google speed test (while downloading the game no less) and I’m getting 400 mbps.

As noted on, I think, this very site, the patch didn’t add 66 gb, a lot of it just replaced existing stuff because of the way the patch delivery sevice works.