Elon Musk's Cybertruck is already a production nightmare for Tesla.

Fixed that for you, Financial Post.

Prez wrote on Nov 16, 2023, 11:36:
It remains staggering to me to think how much these giveaways have cost Epic.

Which is exactly why I grab all of them, even though I've never installed or played a single one.

Here's hoping he retires before he gets a chance to either ruin ES6, or prevent it from becoming a good game.

And FFS, get rid of that damned engine!

Quboid wrote on Nov 15, 2023, 12:31:

PHJF wrote on Nov 15, 2023, 12:22:
The article does not quote him as saying that. It quotes him as saying that per hour relative to other entertainment games are very cheap.

This! The headline is completely unrepresentative of the actual quotes.

Slightly. It is true that he doesn't come right out and say that plainly, but if you re-read the quote posted by jacobvandy from the perspective of a corporate CEO, you're naive if you don't believe he's implying that that's how he thinks game media should be priced as well.

It's time.

MrDevinoch wrote on Nov 9, 2023, 17:11:
My point was that if the game that has sold the most copies in the world can't even get a little enthusiasm among a group of passionate gaming enthusiasts, maybe we've become too cynical for our own good.

Taylor Swift is the biggest and most popular musician in the world, but I don't like that type of music nor do I get excited when she releases a new album.

Osc8r wrote on Nov 8, 2023, 15:58:
I'll just stick with my GTA 1 lan party memories.

I agree, GTA 1 & 2, with the top-down view, were much more fun than any of the 3rd person games that came after.

Hanneth wrote on Nov 8, 2023, 13:37:
Rockstar actually has been really cool for the most part, but they are making tons of money from online play, and yet they don't seem to do much about rampant cheating! This cheating includes players getting tons of free in game money, which Rockstar gets a lot of money by selling in game money. It almost seems like they don't care about people wanting to play their game. Other people getting free money doesn't exactly affect me, but when they constantly blow everyone up in the server, not allow them to get into any vehicle, not allow them to do missions, not allow them in their houses, or other anoying cheats, it just doesn't make playing fun anymore.

Aside from completely re-engineering and rewriting their entire networking infrastructure and multiplayer codebase (which isn't going to happen), there's nothing they can do about it. Everything is client side, which is literally #1 on the list of "things you should never do" when writing a multiplayer game. There's been plenty of other articles and leaks over the years outlining how Rockstar...well...doesn't have the best programmers - to keep it civil. Which should have already been painfully clear to anyone who's ever played GTA Online (not even talking about the cheating).

We taking bets on whether or not they've fixed this for GTA6?

A Jury Will Decide If Google's App Store Is an Unjust Monopoly

Unlike Apple, Android already supports side-loading apps, including other app stores (like Amazon, for example).

TREX1993 wrote on Oct 30, 2023, 13:22:
Valve says it's only interested in 'things our players care about.'

Players: "We care about Half-Life 3."
Valve: "Sorry, we're not interested."

You win the internet today.

Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 28, 2023, 10:36:
uBlock Origin will work with Chrome also. I also recommend it.

Not on mobile, unfortunately. There, you either need a different browser as suggested, or set up something like a pi-hole which can block all ads on all devices on your network, which I highly recommend. You can even include a VPN server so that you can get the benefits of the pi-hole while away from home.

Beamer wrote on Oct 27, 2023, 14:57:
I know we have quite a few sysadmins here, can any of you settle a debate raging in corners of my company?
... [snip for brevity] ...
Anyone have any experience?

A couple years ago I installed the MS Outlook app on my personal Android phone with the intent of connecting it to my work exchange server. After inputting the config info, it prompted me to allow permissions, one of which was also the ability to remotely wipe my phone. Without hesitation, I noped right onto the Cancel button, uninstalled Outlook, and instead made a home screen shortcut to the web app (PWA, I believe). I'll never give such high-level permissions to my personal devices which are out of my own control.

I did/do not have InTune installed on my phone (just my work-issued laptop), so I believe this is a setting that can be controlled by the exchange server itself (or maybe within Azure?). In any case, I'm not one of the sysadmins at our company that manages this, so my knowledge of that side of it is limited and unfortunately I cannot answer your concerns directly, though I thought I could give my experience in case it helps.

The Most Popular Halloween Candy by State 2023, According to Instacart.

I LOLed at Florida being Dum-Dums.

The Flying Penguin wrote on Oct 27, 2023, 10:55:
I have never scanned a QR code. It's just asking for trouble.

Only if one don't use their brain. Someone spray-painted some QR code graffiti on the side of a run-down building? Yeah, best keep walking. You go to a nice restaurant that has a handy QR code on the table to view their menu? I think you're safe.

This comment was edited on Oct 27, 2023, 13:28.

The UK’s Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law

This is terrifying. And still sticking with that "think of the children" bullshit excuse.

Hopefully it won't be too long until someone leaks some very compromising info about a few high-level government officials which used to be private, in order to show them the error of their ways.

roguebanshee wrote on Oct 24, 2023, 13:32:

Xero wrote on Oct 24, 2023, 13:14:
Wouldn't mind having the collection in the library though... Maybe even just to revisit MGS again.

Early reviews: Locked 720/1080p @ 30/60 fps (depending on the game), no graphics settings.

Basically a zero effort rush job hoping to prey on nostalgia. Don't buy this unless you like rewarding greedy corporations for being greedy.

This. They literally just packaged the old disk ISO with a shitty emulator. If you were to purchase this, extract the ISO image, then run that on a community-made emulator like Duckstation or RetroArch, it would run and look better, with more features and setting options.

#FucKonami

jdreyer wrote on Oct 25, 2023, 05:03:

Wilhuf wrote on Oct 24, 2023, 18:42:
Derek Smart.

Deret Smark.

No, stahp!

Sigwolf wrote on Oct 20, 2023, 10:04:

ZeroPike1 wrote on Oct 20, 2023, 02:37:
And my weekly reminder to start my EGS client. Thank you.

Start it, store partially loads, no freebies, close it. Repeat 2-3 times until it actually loads correctly, select free game(s), checkout hangs, click 'x', try checkout a few more times. Success! Close client again.

See you next week, EGS.

You don't have to use the client or even have it installed. You can grab the freebies from epicgames.com.

busfahrer wrote on Oct 18, 2023, 15:05:

Des wrote on Oct 18, 2023, 14:43:

jdreyer wrote on Oct 18, 2023, 14:13:
Nightdive Studios wants Microsoft to let them do remasters of Heretic and Hexen

SCHWING!

Exactamundo!

Thirded!

Oh hell yes, I'm joining this conga line.

RogueSix wrote on Oct 17, 2023, 15:31:
I'm a 4K gamer with a RTX 4090, and in 4K with a capable graphics card, the Intel CPUs RULEZ SUPREME. No contest .

Yeah, no. At 4k, the CPU doesn't matter much, which is shown by your own link.

RogueSix wrote on Oct 17, 2023, 15:31:
Finally, Intel users, like me, are much more mature and simply content with our PCs. Unlike AMD users, who constantly act like an obnoxious elitist cult that need to rub it in people's faces that they are a superior species because they are using AMD, us humble Intel users simply enjoy our stable, trouble-free high performance systems. We are a relaxed, easy-going and pleasant bunch. No missionaries.

Them's the facts, boys, and since I do not want to join an elitist cult of obnoxious missionaries, my next system will be an Arrow Lake Intel system cuz Intel RULEZ SUPREME at 4K gaming . And if the leap from Intel 7 to 20A will be as huge as expected then Intel will also RULEZ SUPREME in every single other benchmark next year.
Time to stock up on tissues in the AMD elitist camp! Looots of tissues. Very soaky ones. For all them bittersweet little tears when the AMDumbs take the arrow to the knee and to the throat at the same time (*giggle*)...

I'm invoking Poe's Law. It's sad these days at the frequency of being unable to tell if a post is satire or not.

Slick wrote on Oct 4, 2023, 11:25:
And I'd assume that many of those signatures are from people who don't actually care to change the pronouns themselves, but want to champion what they see as a downtrodden group.

Sounds like a good reason to me.