Yeah I think most people thinking we can just replace YouTube do not understand the scale of their operation. What YouTube does is many many orders of magnitude bigger and more complex than anything happening on the fediverse. PeerTube is a joke by comparison. There is a reason that even when VC money was flowing like crazy, nobody was able to even think about launching a competitor.

On top of that, no platform can seek to replace YouTube without offering the same or better creator compensation. Free services will never meet that.

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Lots of MMOs work that way. I’m not talking about the fact that the game is multiplayer, I’m talking about the fact that the core gameplay does not offer the same uniquely immersive experience currently only found in single player Bethesda games like Skyrim or Fallout 4.

One example: The way Bethesda games track an enormous number of physics enabled objects across their open worlds. I feel like most games in the last 10 years have made a point of simplifying their physics systems to a point of near-nonexistence.

Bethesda knows that when I dump 500 wheels of cheese on the floor of my house in Whiterun, I want it all to still be exactly where I left it when I come back 20 hours later.

And the simulation complexity, which leads to an endless sea of bugs. Imitators typically just leave a lot of this out. But Bethesda knows that when the player dumps 500 wheels of cheese in their house in Whiterun, they better still be there and fully physics-enabled when the player comes back 20 hours later.

These kinds of games are extremly difficult to build. Skyrim still does things I haven’t seen any game other than Fallout 4 do since.

I don’t buy this. TES Online and actual TES games are so fundamentally different that they do not have the same audience. There are probably millions of people who will buy TES6 but have no interest in playing an MMORPG.

If the bottleneck is something like AI or physics calculations on the CPU then lowering the rendering resolution won’t help achieve a higher framerate unfortunately.

I suspect most games shipping this gen without 60 FPS modes are CPU bound.

40 FPS is such a good compromise. It feels great on a compatible TV.

I don’t care for the Warhammer universe, or Tactics games all that much. Tactics game Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus held my attention for far longer than it should have thanks to its incredible sound design.

Reddit does, but my fellow netizens do not. I’ve experienced way too much frustration running into dead links and deleted posts when hunting down old obscure information to willingly put that burden on others.

The problem is other people can’t find that data.

If Reddit doesn’t back down, I will likelky be shutting down my subreddit. But I’ll put it in read-only mode rather than killing it entirely, because there is useful information there and I don’t want to contribute to link rot.

If everyone took this approach then no show would ever run to completion.

“It is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.”

ME ME ME ME! I created /r/flashcarts over on Reddit, and I’ve been wondering if there might be an appetite for a similar community here.

The smaller scale might mean it is more pragmatic to have a community dedicated to all of the above rather than just flash cartridges.

I think it’s uses go beyond that, but not necessarily for consumers.

This seems to be the device Microsoft promised HoloLens would turn into. There were a lot of cool and interesting uses developed for HoloLens, some of which ended up falling short because of limitations of the hardware like a really narrow field of view.

If this thing turns out well, then I’m excited to see how Apple makes a cheaper more consumer-oriented version going forward.

Brave’s CEO opposes same-sex marriage in the US and donated money to anti-LGBT groups. It’s why he was ousted at Mozilla. As a result I cannot in good conscience use anything from Brave.

The headset announced today seems more aimed at industrial and commercial use like the HoloLens, and the price reflects that.

If the rumor mill is to be believed, a cheaper more consumer-oriented device is expected to be announced sometime after the Vision Pro hits the market.

I love how weirdly unapologetically uplifting this game is. WIth a post-apocalyptic premise, and a name like Death Stranding, you would expect something dark, violent and depressing. And while it does have these elements, they play second fiddle to the game’s positive message about community and working together. All reinforced through both story and well thought out gameplay systems.

I think this is really driven home by how heavily the player is punished for killing people. It’s not just some Splinter Cell-style radio message about trying to keep casualties to a minimum. If you actually manage to kill a single person, you pretty much have to drop anything you were doing and devote the next half hour to cleaning up the mess you made before it literally blows up in your face.

I primarily game on PC. I also own a Switch and a PS5, and most major consoles released since the NES.

All my old consoles live in plastic bins with all their relevant cables and controllers. Most have flash carts or mods that allow me to load ROMs off external storage. When I want to play some SNES or PS1 I just pull the relevant box off of the shelf and plunk it down by my RetroTINK or my PVM.

I keep finding myself on Twitter not by choice, but because it is the news outlet for a lot of individuals and other entities. Even if readers like me have largely moved on to other places, there isn’t really a one-size-fits-all alternative for microblogging.

Just this last weekend we had weather events disrupting my local Pride festival, and Twitter was the only easy place that they were able to quickly distribute status updates. Bluesky is still in private beta, and Mastadon doesn’t really work at all for this particular use-case.