Classified information being leaked does not declassify it, so that’s moot. In the US these guys would lose their security clearances (and almost certainly their jobs) at a minimum. I imagine it’s the same in their respective countries. You can maybe make an innocent mistake once (but not with TS) but this was…

They didn't mention audio! Maybe that's ok?

I mentioned this in another post but these big-time AAA first party titles have a use outside of selling games - they help sell consoles. Although it seems like Sony doesn't really need the help moving PS5s. 

And on the flip side Supergiant Games got Hades out 3 years after Pyre. You can pick and choose examples of all types but I think you’ll find:

Out of curiosity, does the X look significantly better on a 4k tv? I’m not some old man “back in my day 640x480 was all you needed!” kinda guy, but I imagine that 1440 output from the S on a 4k tv can’t look much worse than native 4k? The 1440 output needs to be upscaled anyways, right? Obviously that’s less ideal…

Asking a non-ray tracing card to ray trace shouldn’t have any impact at all. It’s not like your card can just decide to give it a try regardless! But the option should really be disabled. It makes me wonder what it actually defaults to (or maybe that's a secret way to disable AO for older cards).

There’s a lot of speculation going on here but honestly it seems to me every new graphics powerhouse release (I’m not really sure how much this is intended to be one) has performance issues on day 1 that need a patch or two and maybe a driver update to fix.

That’s good to know, though I see for 4k the distance would be too far. I'm kinda tempted to get a Series S for this use case - games with my wife usually aren't graphical showcases and if they're on game pass even better.

When games leave game pass they’re offered to subscribers with a deep discount, I imagine that drives lots of impulse buys.

And with games in particular, I personally (understanding I’m not everyone) almost never replay games, and if I do I don’t care about my old save games. So I don’t perceive any risk. If game pass yanks the game and I want to play it later I’ll buy it. If nuclear war mucks up all the servers and I no longer have access…

Only with Game Pass Ultimate, and then I'm at the whims of my internet speed instead of my internal network. Unfortunately my solution isn’t ideal forever, I still have a 12 year old 1080 tv that (presumably) won’t last forever, and the rpi (even the 4) apparently can’t stream 4k via Steam Link. I’d probably be better…

Per Microsoft, Game Pass subscribers tend to spend more (about 20% more) than non subscribers overall. IF that’s true then common business sense says they’ll need to be careful with price increases because if you drive subscribers into unsubscribing you may lose more money in the end. Game Pass is one of the big ways…

The list of games isn’t a secret and you can cancel (and resubscribe) anytime. Cancel right now and subscribe later if something pops up that interests you. There’s no guesswork necessary here.

My only complaint about Game Pass is it frustrates my attempts to go all-Linux! Also for Steam games I can stream them to a raspberry pi with Steam Link connected to my TV and use a controller and everything on my couch, which I only do for games my wife wants to play/watch too but it’s still nifty. Though I haven’t…

Also, and I don’t pay close attention to usernames so we might have already had this discussion, but essentially everything we know about Norse paganism comes from Christian authors writing hundreds of years after Christianization, for Christian audiences. They likely would have injected some of their world view and…

I know you’re making a good joke, but I have random name etymology knowledge I must share. People will sometimes ask why Jesus is a common name in some languages culture (like in Mexico) but not in English, and the answer is it IS! Only in English it’s Joshua. It’s not quite that simple, but language is weird like…

Hell, a big limiting factor to what we know about Norse paganism, which people don’t always seem to grasp, is that we actually know basically nothing about it. Everything we think we know comes from a few Christian writers many hundreds of years later, writing for Christian audiences. Snorri Sturluson was probably…

Notably “decide for yourself if the character is good” isn’t an option. I love that you don’t want to trust this guy’s opinion, a writer who’s work you can read with viewpoints, interests, insights, ans biases you can see and be aware of, but, what, upvotes on reddit is the way to go?

Does your deep dive of the lore mention when Baldur is killed by the former Greek god of war (who usurped Ares?) who was also the father of Loki? Probably not!

That would be almost silly given the relationship between Greek and Roman paganism. What, would they engineer a reason for him to kill Are-excuse me, Mars? Turns out his real REAL father is Jupiter, who’s just Zeus with a fake moustache on top of his already big beard?