Overon wrote on Jan 7, 2023, 14:16:

Hardline Mike wrote on Jan 7, 2023, 12:11:

Bill Borre wrote on Jan 7, 2023, 12:01:
I wonder how long it will be before people get fired for making pedophobic comments.

What? Pedophobia is the fear of small children. Why would anyone get fired for being scared of small children? Well, I guess unless they are a kindergarten teacher or some other child-care related job. In which case talking a lot of shit about small children is probably a bad idea.

What the first poster is doing is making a bad faith erroneous analogy between trans people and pedophiles. In other words what the first poster is saying is "If you say bad stuff about trans people that's transphobia which can get you fired. Pretty soon you will not be able to say bad stuff against pedophiles otherwise they will call you a pedophobic and you will be fired."

Remember how homophobes would (and some continue to) try to associate gay people with pedophilia as if the two were closely related? That's the same thing the first poster is trying to do except to trans people. It's the modern conservative "groomer" narrative. The first poster is lamenting that there are social consequences to publicly hating on group of marginalized people on Twitter if your job is in public relations. Employers tend to frown at that kind of public behavior being associated with their company because it bad for business.

Overon wrote on Jan 5, 2022, 11:59:

Bill Borre wrote on Jan 5, 2022, 11:45:
I kind of regret being part of this guy's initial success by buying Wing Commander games back in the day.

Yep you are an enabler and you should feel shame. ;p

Overon wrote on Jul 29, 2020, 22:47:
They will start selling the roadmap for a modest fee.

WannaLogAlready wrote on Mar 20, 2020, 05:39:

Slick wrote on Mar 20, 2020, 03:54:

Simon Says wrote on Mar 19, 2020, 20:43:
Expect another update when they adapt the PS5 storage I/O pipeline into a chip for motherboards for PC gaming in the next few years if their promise of a "loadless" paradigm for 1st party titles turns out to be true.

Would be nice having this bottleneck removed from PCs too. Right now something prevents taking full advantage of NVMe drives, this tech removes those bottlenecks, but it requires a new chip and new programming protocols.

I'm skeptical that it will require a new chip. I'm sure it can be done with firmware and offloaded to the CPU.

But the elephant in the room is that the PC is now the lowest-common denominator in gaming, we're what's holding developers back.

With it's billions of spindle drives and non-M.2 SSDs, the PC platform is now a massive liability for game designers. Pretty hilarious turn of fate. I'm surprised I haven't seen any Op-Eds tackling this irony, it's all I've been able to think about for the past few days.

How do you even program a game that's meant to use 5.5GB/sec transfer speeds for 80% of your sales (on console) and still somehow have it work on a PC with a 100MB/s spindle drive (check steam hardware stats, there's lots of em), or even a traditional 550MB/sec SSD? We're not talking about reduced loading time, the game itself just wouldn't work, there would be huge hitching ALL THE TIME.

So stuff like sharing the new console spec features with the PC is great, I mean variable rate shading is a gamechanger for people looking for high-fps high-rez gaming (will be getting a 1440p 240hz Samsung G7 when it launches).

A new paradigm, we´ll be hearing more of this.
May be a practical PCs and PC Pros divide.