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You're right, and I upvoted you, but one issue is that unless people buy AMD cards anyway, they'll never have the research funds to ever match, much less beat Nvidia in the future. All things being equal (and they usually are for my needs) I tend to buy AMD over Nvidia to keep them in the race, so that GPU's don't turn into a monopoly. As it is, the duopoly we have now (excluding Intel, which I'm not sure will continue making consumer GPU's in the long run) isn't great for consumers right now.

The only reason AMD GPU's are even as good as they are now is due to the research money they got from Ryzen taking the fight to Intel.

Only thing shocking about this is that it took this long. Any drone capable of carrying a weapon was going to get one. I mean, look at Ukraine right now. Consumer drones with soda bottle improvised explosives and cardboard drones. I can see a future where most warfare is drone vs drone, to see who can hit the other's supply lines / storage first.

The way Russia's turtling with illegal mines, drones are basically one of the only ways to attack without taking massive losses while also moving slowly and being sitting ducks for artillery.

Sad, because I was a fan of them and bought all their games from Saint's Row 1 all the way to Gat out of Hell (although not in chronological order) and got Agents of Mayhem for free somewhere, but think they've made some bad moves lately.

I think it all started going downhill from Agents of Mayhem, and them screwing up with the reboot of Saint's Row was probably the nail in the coffin. I wish they'd just made Saint's Row 5 instead, with wacky time travel shenanigans and a more polished set of superpowers.

At the point where they decided to "reboot" to something old school and grittier (TOO old school, imo) they really didn't get what their fanbase wanted, and what new players who'd only heard of and experienced Saint's Row 4 would get excited about.

They could've probably taken Saint's Row up to 6 entries if they'd just iterated on the formula from 4 and possibly Gat out of Hell (I wouldn't know, I got distracted and didn't play it after I bought it, ironically). Similar to how United Front Games (the developer of Sleeping Dogs) could've probably stayed in business if they'd just made Sleeping Dogs 2 instead of that horrible "free to play" multiplayer asset flip of some of the least interesting elements of Sleeping Dogs 1.

Sad that the US can't get this yet, but in the meantime, Nokia's partnered up with Ifixit to make stuff like the G310 available. There's also the G22 and G42 in Europe. Apparently the G310 and the G42 have the same battery, according to iFixit's website. I'll probably get the G310 myself, if the reviews aren't terrible.

If it's too hard, then just stop charging them. Then they have to list NOTHING. So simple. At the very least, it'll just whittle down the fees they have to list to government mandated ones, which'll be a lot simpler.

Not shocking, it's Chicago after all. And it was 3 guys, and if it was reporters without security, they probably had valuable equipment to steal.

Yeah, in the 1920's to boot. If B-movie (or nowadays just any movie studio) were on here, they'd take what you just wrote, add time travel to it and make it into a movie without giving you credit. And they'd probably find some way to use AI in it too.

If you've seen the big eyes on the thumbnails for the "Pitch Meeting" videos on Youtube, which kind of look similar to Anime Eyes: yes, they do look horrifying.

Glad they're taking a break, and hope things work out for them. Making games is tough, and making games like this which are more on the niche side can't have been easy, especially since the profits probably weren't stellar either.

Honestly, I mostly don't agree with the term "Early Access", if you're charging money for it, it's released. If people are paying to play it and it's in an incomplete, buggy state, then they're not only beta testing and co-developing a title, they're PAYING to do so. They're paying to work, which is even worse than working for free.

I don't know many, if any games that are really worth doing this for (with exceptions like Larian Studios and Baldur's Gate 3 and the Divinity Original Sin series) because most games honestly shouldn't exist. There are way too many games and way too few people to play them. It's similar to Movies, TV, and Music. Most of the creative media out there should not exist and have no customer base or interest.

They're not made so people can enjoy them, they're made because of the creators' desire to make them. It leads to the atrocious workplace conditions and exploitative labor the entertainment industry at large has, and why it's so difficult to unionize or get fair wages, hours, or treatment. Even with the actually good games, there's way too many for people to actually finish in their lifetime. Now add the mediocre and bad games, and it's exponentially more impossible.

We basically are. The only good news is that young conservatives believe in and want to do something about climate change, so when the current crop of oil-funded deniers die off, we have some hope to limit the damage. That said, I'm seriously considering moving up north away north as far away from the equator as possible, and to an area with fresh water and farmland.

Then buying a gun. Never thought I'd need one after I left the Army, but as things get worse, I suspect that more violence will result due to scarcity and more likely: stress related to perceived scarcity that doesn't exist. It's always the fear that's more dangerous than the reality. We can probably get by with easy to grow, nutrient-dense foods that are boring to eat, like beans. It's the stress of not being able to eat "tasty" food that'll probably get people to snap. Gunfights over steak, etc.