It’s been a while but there was something in the doom 3 engine that made it pretty good at render target efficiency right? I seem to remember they were able to do mirrors well, and it was also a gimick they liked to do a lot with the computer terminals you could interact with.

They took this tech a step further with Prey (2006), which used the doom 3 engine, to make portals you could see and shoot through. I can’t remember if the portals were dynamic though.

they might crater the economy so badly that it wipes out a ton of carbon use and buys the rest of the world some more time (albeit probably along with millions of people starving to death, akin to Mao’s famine)

download the podcasts ahead of time too smh

this is the future libertarians want

Mainstream gaming, is on aggregate, getting worse and worse over time. Everyone wants to feel empowered to stop that from happening.

You could punch upward, targeting management of stuidos and publishers.

You could look inward, and make a commitment to sincerely boycott games from companies that consistely release games in an unfinished state, use dark patterns to exploit gambling addictions for profit, mistreat their staff, etc.

Or you could punch down, and target LGBT creators, who are largely individual contributors and completely unrelated with any of the root causes of the decline in game quality. But this one is SO much easier than the other two, so maybe you’ll do this one so that you can feel like you’re doing something without really having to do anything. Especially since it confims some things you heard from politicians that need to distract you from how their only policy is to make life better for rich people.

death stranding 2 spoilers

he’s known for ages and had this one in his back pocket just waiting for the moment when you finally come out

recurring cost to rent a multiplayer server though, maybe that was it

some kids call their father “daddy” smh

They are and they must. There is no path forward that doesn’t massively disinvest from personal vehicles.

due to the way causality works it would be pretty difficult to tell a story in any genre where someone’s opportunities in life are not strongly correlated to circumstances from their past that are outside of their control (like their birth)

And he’s right! It might not be as good as the games that came before it or after it but that bar is so high that it can still be a great game despite it

Almost always food

we’re all forced to work within the system, normies do so without questioning it

yeah this is exactly how it works for “self-driving” cars: https://gmauthority.com/blog/2023/11/cruise-av-operations-require-1-5-remote-employees-per-vehicle-report-claims/

this reads like a bill wurtz lyric

Hard to tell the logo from the low res but it’s because it’s using playstation’s streaming game service.

Well, when a man and a woman love each other very much… they can visit each other in the hospital when they’re sick. For example.

I bought a PS5 so I could play PS4 games without having a jet engine in my living room and it’s absolutely fantastic for that. Also Demon’s Souls was very pretty and faithful to the original, very fun to get the platinum. Returnal was ok too.

(because he already knows, so being inundated with this information would be annoying)