jdreyer wrote on Jan 9, 2021, 20:43:DarkCntry wrote on Jan 9, 2021, 19:58:
I don't much care for Biden/Harris' overarching platform because it doesn't adequately address the real situations in the nation, nor does it allow avenues to start alleviating these issues, but I don't disagree with much of your statement.
Either way, I didn't vote Biden/Harris because of their platform but because of it not being Trump....and the fact that we're stuck in a forever two-party system.
Well, good luck with that whole "doesn't adequately address the real situations" thing. Even if Biden had plans for doing that, no way to get it through congress. I agree with you that incremental change isn't going to cut it, but it won't be possible to get that stuff through congress without a 60% majority.
Dunkirk wrote on Jan 9, 2021, 20:39:bigspender wrote on Jan 9, 2021, 17:50:
Also I hope the national guard shoot up those MAGA fuckers. That would actually go a long way to making america great....by swiftly removing some of the worst people in society...
This is an even more egregious incitement to violence than what got Trump banned from Twitter.
JediPunisher wrote on Jan 9, 2021, 20:06:
I find it surprising that Biden gets so much support here within the gaming community.
Joe Biden is on record against video games, which he believes promotes violence.
He even called gamers "little creeps" and said video games "teach you how to kill people."
jdreyer wrote on Jan 9, 2021, 19:50:DarkCntry wrote on Jan 9, 2021, 19:47:JediPunisher wrote on Jan 9, 2021, 19:42:
Detached from reality? Have you seen Biden lately??
During his campaign, Biden often asked voters to support the "Harris-Biden" ticket.
Just recently, he said,
"I took it to instill public confidence in the vaccine. President-elect Harris took hers today for the same reason,"
You know, even if what you're saying is actually proof of anything, it's not a real big deal. I can guarantee you of the 80 million votes for Biden, a vast majority of them didn't vote for him, they voted against Trump. If the day comes during his term where Biden is no longer President, it still will be a far better situation than having Trump for another 4 years concreting his groundwork to never leave office.
First, men who make it to 79, like Biden, pass away at age 89 on average.
Second, Harris would make a fine President, should Biden pass away prematurely. She's smart, articulate, charismatic, and knows the law. She's had to weight evidence and make tough decisions for decades. That's what a president does.
JediPunisher wrote on Jan 9, 2021, 19:42:
Detached from reality? Have you seen Biden lately??
During his campaign, Biden often asked voters to support the "Harris-Biden" ticket.
Just recently, he said,
"I took it to instill public confidence in the vaccine. President-elect Harris took hers today for the same reason,"
JediPunisher wrote on Jan 9, 2021, 19:03:
Banning the current President of the United States from social media for supposedly inciting an angry mob is a bad idea.
Trump only has a few days left in office, and this sets a precedent that could come back to bite them very soon.
Soon-to-be President Harris (we all know Joe won't last long) praised those peaceful protests over the summer as the "New Coalition of Conscience" and even helped raise money to bail them out.In August, Senator Kamala Harris spoke to former comedian Stephen Colbert about the riots that rocked the country throughout the summer. Harris gleefully said that "they're not gonna stop," come the election. "This is a movement, I'm telling you," she said.
Colbert noted that media just wasn't covering these riots by the end of August for some reason, and Harris seemed to think this was a problem.
Harris nodded, "Right, that's right," she said. "But they're not gonna stop. They're not gonna stop. This is a movement, I'm telling you. They're not gonna stop. And everyone BEWARE, because they're not gonna stop."
"They're not gonna stop before election day in November, and they’re not gonna stop after election day. And that should be–everyone should take note of that, on both levels.
They're not gonna let up," Harris said with pride, "and they should not. And we should not."
The August 30 interview came after 30 people were killed in the intensive rioting from May through August, and billions of dollars in property damage was reported.
https://channel411news.com/2021/01/07/flashback-kamala-harris-celebrated-blm-and-antifa-riots/
OpticNerve wrote on Dec 12, 2020, 17:07:
More people are going to need to also post their CPU as well as their GPU specs when they talk about Cyberpunk 2077's performance. As important as the GPU is when it comes to the game, Cyberpunk 2077 is HEAVILY CPU bound and could be the main reason why someone's performance might be a lot better than another who has the same type of videocard. Based off of what some of my developer friends have said, it's most likely due to shoddy coding and if this reddit post about a simple AMD CPU oversight is actually true (going to test out the "fix") this might be a hint of this being the case: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/kbp0np/cyberpunk_2077_seems_to_ignore_smt_and_mostly/gfjf1vo/
Dacron wrote on Dec 12, 2020, 03:35:DarkCntry wrote on Dec 12, 2020, 03:28:Dacron wrote on Dec 12, 2020, 01:14:Acleacius wrote on Dec 11, 2020, 23:42:
If your not profitable after selling 3.7 (?) million units in 24 hours, you are fhuuked.
@ $60 a pop, 3.7mm units ($222mm) wouldn't have made GTA 5 profitable in 24 hours.
(gta 5 = $250mm development, marketing cost, $298mm adjusted for inflation)
And you figure that CDPR had to go through quite a few pushbacks for release dates, thus increasing overhead. On top of that, you have talent costs for people like Keanu and the musical licenses and even this game could have easily equaled GTA5's money numbers. It's still a pretty big deal when a developer can attest to being in the green so quickly after launch, let alone doing it on a project of this scale.
"could've, should've, would've"
Both are released. Cyberpunk was profitable in 24 hour. That's the point I made, it was factual.
If you want to lecture Rockstar/Taketwo how to release games for higher profit (despite holding records pre-Cyberpunk), go for it. But Cyperpunk was profitable, day 1, and squashed GTAs records.
And thinking Cyberpunk had greater costs over music licenses compared to GTA 5? Have you ever played either?? GTA 5 was nothing but copyrighted music, Cyberpunk you have to look for it.
Dacron wrote on Dec 12, 2020, 01:14:Acleacius wrote on Dec 11, 2020, 23:42:
If your not profitable after selling 3.7 (?) million units in 24 hours, you are fhuuked.
@ $60 a pop, 3.7mm units ($222mm) wouldn't have made GTA 5 profitable in 24 hours.
(gta 5 = $250mm development, marketing cost, $298mm adjusted for inflation)
Satoru wrote on Dec 8, 2020, 17:51:
digital rewards requiring online activation using Gog Galaxy sounds great and I’m sure everyone on the GOG forums will love this idea......
Oh wait sorry this is gog, the userbase is literally imploding
MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Dec 8, 2020, 16:42:Darks wrote on Dec 8, 2020, 16:22:Wolfen wrote on Dec 8, 2020, 16:20:
I'm baffled by this.
So am I, this is not something that just randomly occurs to people. You know if you have some kind of ailment that causes Epilepsy. This person had to have known they were susceptible to it.
We're starting to meander away here, but, no, not everybody with epilepsy is aware they are at risk until they actually have a seizure, sometimes into their 20s or 30s. There is no catch-all test for children/infants for potential photosensitive seizures in later life. It's also not like people expose all kids/teens to flashing lights until some of them actually have a seizure either.![]()
jacobvandy wrote on Dec 7, 2020, 21:21:DarkCntry wrote on Dec 7, 2020, 19:22:Overon wrote on Dec 7, 2020, 18:50:
Wow so 57 GB download initially and I'm hearing about a 43 GB patch on release day? Damn. Why are patches so inefficient? The replacing more than 70% of the game.
Really depends on what they are patching. If they are patching assets as well as general code, then patch sizes can easily equal (and sometimes exceed) original file size.
In this case, I do feel that this Day 1 patch is probably going to be far heavier on optimization fixes than underlying code fixes....but we'll see.
The reported 43GB patch was on Xbox, my guess it's that's already folded into the PC pre-load. IF it had any relevance to the PC version. But yeah, there will still be an update on release day.
Overon wrote on Dec 7, 2020, 18:50:
Wow so 57 GB download initially and I'm hearing about a 43 GB patch on release day? Damn. Why are patches so inefficient? The replacing more than 70% of the game.
Satoru wrote on Dec 7, 2020, 18:58:
Im not sure how the assessment was 'incorrect' given that person literally went on and on an on about how GeForceNOW was the best thing since sliced bread and then concluded that because of people should cancel their steam/egs pre-orders. Not sure how any sane person would read that post and think "oh yes they were definitely referring to the 100% purchase thing because they totally constantly... never mentioned it at all, as opposed to GetForceNoW which 99% of their post"
In any case the GOG community is already imploding upon itself because
1) They hate GeFORCENOW because its DRM
2) oh and some extra preorder goodies require you to authenticate through GOG Galaxy and... yes there is definitley calm debate about.... oh wait no the entire forums are on fire
Oh its so funny to see the GOG fanboys and the CDPR fanboys are all infighting now
Satoru wrote on Dec 7, 2020, 18:50:DarkCntry wrote on Dec 7, 2020, 16:38:
Probably because buying it on GOG is 100% of the purchase given back to CDPR....nothing to do with Geforce Now....
If you were this much of a fanboy ofr CDPR you would have already ordered it on GOG.
Satoru wrote on Dec 7, 2020, 16:16:Slick wrote on Dec 7, 2020, 13:52:
Also, YES! TO ANYONE WHO STILL HASNT GOTTEN THE MEMO, CANCEL YOUR STEAM OR EPIC PREORDER AND BUY ON GOG YOU FUCKS.
Why? You can use GeForceNOW with Steam and play the game
Why would anyone cancel their pre-order on their preferred platform just because magically what they already can do on Steam is now magically available on GOG?
"Hey look GOG Galaxy is now 'barely kinda not really' almost comparable to Steam after 3 years! Cancel your steam preorder even though you can do literally this with steam right now" is surely a hot take
wtf_man wrote on Sep 21, 2020, 18:26:Spektr wrote on Sep 21, 2020, 18:16:
I have a bad feeling about this...
This doesn't bode well at all for Id games running on OpenGL/Vulkan. And I guess id software games on Linux belonged to another era.
In fact it doesn't bode well for pretty much anything I can think of.
Is MS trying to become the Disney of video games?
Did I mention that this doesn't bode well?
It also doesn't bode well for any more Zenimax / Bethesda / iD games going to GOG.
There are zero Microsoft published games on GOG.
Dev wrote on Sep 10, 2020, 11:46:
aka "that 'free' ea game pass we added actually isn't so we will raise the price for everyone even if you didn't want the EA pass"
Beamer wrote on Aug 13, 2020, 10:25:JohnBirshire wrote on Aug 13, 2020, 10:13:
People be installing 50 different launchers just to get 100's of free games that cost a grand total of two days of minimum wage.
Actually, most EGS games have been worth well more, several considerably more, and honestly, what harm is a launcher if you only run it when you use it?