Because cars are a useful tool made up of physical parts that can wear out, while games are an entertainment product made of ever-changing software. You need a car. You don’t need video games.

Yeah but what expectation could they have had that they’d need to communicate with Bethesda in the first place? The game’s been “complete” for several years at this point, and IIRC Skyrim Special Edition (the Skyrim version of what happened here) was both announced in advance and released as a separate game, so mods that weren’t getting updates could still function. In light of that, it seems reasonable for the developer to expect advance warning at least in the form of a press release prior to the update being made available. Should they have reached out every week asking whether Bethesda had any plans to update a 10-year-old game?

I’m not OP. I’m just chiming in with info I gained from selling TVs for several years.

Yeah, but LCDs miss out on the ability to go greyscale to save even more power in emergencies. Due to the way LCD screens work, the same trick would likely increase the amount of power draw it incurs.

The battery life and black levels are always going to be better on an OLED, no matter what you do to the LCD. There’s no chance of backlight bleed on OLED screens, either.

It’s also used for the FIFA games, if I’m not mistaken.

Yeah but they haven’t been good since 2007. Fallout 3 was the last good Bethesda game.

There’s also O3DE, though I don’t know what kind of state it’s in.

Someone posted the section it violates further up in the thread.

Then they either have some exemption or end up benefiting from the law in some indirect but significant way.

Back in the day, console exclusivity meant you could take advantage of system-specific features such as the ridiculously powerful SIMD core in the PS3. Now, 2/3 major consoles have nearly identical hardware, and the third is an overclocked smartphone, so there’s no real benefit to system lock-in.

Wait seriously?

The last time someone reigned him in, we got Spore.

I had very little trouble with Juggernaut once I started fighting him from the air. He has a very low max firing angle and you can get a nice, clear shot on his butthole from directly above him.

I’d like to direct your attention to the prior games in the series we’re discussing, which have no such issues despite being made by Fromsoft. This “hurr durr issa Fromsoft boss get used to it” schtick is fucking insufferable and ignores the 15 years of history that company had before making those godawful Dark Souls games.

The arena is honestly pretty close to how it was in the old games. Hell, in 4A, if you beat White Glint in the story missions before beating her in the arena, you got to skip the arena fight entirely on account of her being dead.

Forcing players to use a specific build goes against the entire spirit of the series, though.

In 2 and (I think) 3, there was a fifth class of legs called “hover” that basically acted like quads do in hover mode in AC6, but bound to the ground unless you boosted. IIRC, they had the easiest time getting airborne from a boost, but had no unboosted jump. Basically, they were faster treads that could move sideways.

They’ve been gone since at least 4, though.

Yeah the arena disappointed the very shit right out of my ass. I just finished it last night and expected the S-rank contenders to be even slightly more difficult than the D-rank ones, but they weren’t.

They did away with floaters in this one :(

It’s a Dark Souls boss, not an Armored Core boss. AC bosses in previous games were usually (with the exception of For Answer) just other ACs with really good AI piloting them, not giant, unique things with mechanics that you don’t see anywhere else.

That alone is enough for me to wish they’d called it something else.

Yeah, but it usually doesn’t downclock as aggressively, right? Or is that entirely dependent on the CPU scheduler?

Iirc, a lot of them also have efficiency as a secondary priority, since whatever the chip is running will always be plugged in.

USB DACs are quite small now. I don’t mind having to plug mine into my phone to use wired headphones.

E-ink technology uses some pretty fascinating chemistry to display more natural paper-like on-screen textures as opposed to regular digital Word documents and PDFs.

I have a feeling this author might just be fucking stupid.

I’d personally kill for a monitor like this because I work with text all day, every day.

If it catches on, it’ll come down in price. The race to the bottom will happen, it just hasn’t had time yet.

Gonna tack Pillars of Eternity onto that list. It’s so fucking good. The modern Pathfinder games are similarly excellent, as well.

There was a time where about 70% of the apps I ran on my Windows machine were written in GTK, and that was long before I even touched Linux.