Yeah, part of this is StackOverflow’s own doing. Much like Google over time, the quality of Stack Overflow has declined. It’s very hard to find the answers I need from it at times.

IIRC a lot of the technical aspects of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom engines are handled by Monolith devs. Thus, if you want a preview of how well Tears of the Kingdom will perform, Xenoblade 3's performance is a reasonable proxy until the Tears of the Kingdom isactually releases because I imagine a lot…

I mean, I worked there for a bit with Satya as CEO so I can report with experience.

FWIW that is no longer the culture at Microsoft as when Satya Nadella he waged extensively to put the kibosh on all the fiefdoms. Not saying they don’t exist, but the extensive infighting at Microsoft was a distinctly Balmer era thing.

Exactly this, she has a character arc in the game in that she starts off as a relatively helpless college student thrust into an extreme situation and learns how to take agency in the situation. It’s not like Leon’s going to give her a gun given that she’s untrained and more susceptible than him to Saddler’s mind…

I wonder if the differences in casting are due to rules around unions and the fact that the movie is under different, and likely more stringent, union rules.

You’re not wrong, but you aren’t right either. Since when have productivity gains not resulted in the owners of companies cutting cost by reducing the workforce? In the past this sort of worked out as people could go into other careers (big asterisk) but with AI that may not be an option anymore.

Big asterisk: This is…

Yes but how many artists will still have a job? The closest analogy I can make here is photography. Prior to the cellphone it was a reasonable career path to be a photographer for a media outlet or for stock photos. Now, the only real career path is wedding photographer it high end fashion/media photographer. All of…

What’s to stop someone putting up a statue of Stalin? Nothing! Just ask Seattle where we have a wonderful statue of Lenin that gets constantly defaced (it’s encouraged.)

Even with the SSD there are rendering budgets, this helps manage those.

For what it’s worth, Forspoken’s script isn’t that bad. Within the context of the game I found Frey’s character fairly well written. At the beginning of the game her initial wonder at the world and the cringy dialogue that accompanies said wonder is needed to show contrast when she realizes how messed up the…

It likely has to do with the fact the game has a black woman as the protagonist. There's definitely been some issues with the promotion for this game, but the way people are trashing it is ridiculous compared to other games.

The thing about the Luddites that most people forget is that they were cast aside and largely screwed over by the Industrial Revolution. Sure, we make fun of them today but they had some real grievances that makes them much more sympathetic when you start digging into the history.

We’ve already been through nearly this exact discussion with Marcel Duchamp almost a century ago, and as such I’m going to disagree and say AI art is art. That isn’t to say there isn’t a host of ethical and moral issues with it because there are, but you cannot dismiss it by claiming it isn’t art. To do so is to fail…

This is a game whose script was written in English first and is specifically targeting the global market. Not some niche Japanese game that was lucky to get translated to English. Beyond that, YoshiP in his statements talked about being accurate to medieval Europe as a reason for the lack of diversity, except medieval…

For all of its flaws, the pacing in Crysis 2 is phenomenally well done.

The vast majority of crypto GPUs are under volted, and thus aren’t running at 100%. This is because you can often get most of the performance with far less power, and electricity is the primary cost with crypto mining.

The simple explanation is she will probably get a divorce, lawyers are involved, and the lawyer for Amouranth’s husband likely told him that if he wants a shot at any of the money in the divorce he will need to get help, be remorseful, etc.

Go look at eBay, you can get a 3070 Ti for $350-$450. It was probably used in mining but it's probably not a big deal and Linus Tech Tips will have a video soon stress testing used GPUs that were used for crypto mining.

If every single business in the world hating Nvidia doesn’t get them to change their practices, I doubt that consumer discontent will change their anti-consumer policies.