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Where are the improvements in AAA games?
  • I did play months after release and I have a pretty beefy PC so it was fine for me. I did only encounter stutters at one specific area halfway through the game but other than that, it was really smooth for me.

    Survivor improve Don the first one by expanding on the stances you had in the first game, a much larger world with a larger variety of enemies and tools you can use in combat. There's a hub area which is kind of cool but I honestly didn't really get the appeal of that. There's also quite a bit of cool moments in the story that were really neat but I won't talk about it because it's a spoiler. I liked it a lot actually and it's a shame all of it was overshadowed by the awful performance on launch.

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    Where are the improvements in AAA games?
  • To add to your point, Jedi Survivor was a huge improvement over Fallen Survivor. I'm not sure how you could look at that game and say that there hasn't been any improvement at all.

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    Lexar unveils the world's first SD cards made of 316 stainless steel
  • I know it's counter to what the thread is saying but I really miss plastic phones. They allowed for wireless charging and don't shatter so easily. Lumias had amazing designs and were built like a brick.

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    I Completed Assassin's Creed Blackflag And I'm Crying Why It "ENDED"
  • AC3 is kinda infamous for not being great but I think it was thematically the strongest. It just had a ton of pacing issues. If you liked AC4, I suggest playing through that to see Edward's legacy in a different light. Or read the AC3 book which tells the AC3 story from a different perspective from Edward's son, it also documents everything that happened after the game.

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    Huawei unveils world’s first tri-fold phone, the Mate XT Ultimate Design
  • It is pretty useful and convenient if your use case suits it but I don't think that fits the majority of people. For me my Fold 6 replaced my Kindle and Surface. It's nice to able to open it up to read ebooks and manga since opened up, it's pretty much the dimensions of a typical book. Also makes things a lot easier when I need to remote into a PC or SSH into stuff and is a really convenient sketch pad for ideas.

    It's also really neat that it's not ridiculously wide like every other phone out there nowadays since I have small hands.

    My Fold 3 lasted 3 years with no issues until I traded it in so I think they're fairly well built.

    In this case with the trifold, I personally think it's way too big but I'm someone who's never seen the point of tablets that were larger than 7 inches anyways. Always preferred a laptop at those sizes.

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    Is overwatch 2 really that bad?
  • I agree with you. Even though they're still not the kind of game so would play regularly, Overwatch 1 was extremely annoying to play with all the stuns, freezes and more. Overwatch 2 toned down and removed most of these which made it actually somewhat enjoyable.

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    ‘I couldn’t say no’: anger grows over topless medical exams in Japan schools
  • Not sure if it's just a Japanese thing but something similar is done here in Singapore. I'm not sure if it is the case for girls but for guys they did ask us to take off our pants.

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    Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.
  • GamerNexus and Level1Techs are pretty good at that since they target a much more technical audience. For mobile devices I thought Michael Fisher is also great. High production value and has a very different style.

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    Intel Core Ultra 200V promises Arm-beating battery life without compatibility issues
  • There were some benchmarks that showed Ryzen getting very close and in some cases beating with Zen 4 based Z1 Extreme already. They just aren't in laptops.

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    China: Two women spark debate after locking girl in plane toilet
  • That's literally not at all what they said. They mentioned that it could potentially help the child through a torturous flight. Whether or not that is indeed the case or not is at the very least a noteworthy discussion.

    Being obtuse about it, is not helpful in any way.

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    Microsoft backtracks on deprecating the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel | Microsoft has either backtracked or clarified its language to remove the note about Control Panel being deprecated
  • I found it easier to search for settings that are supported by it. It tends to catch things even if the wording you use isn't the exact name of the setting. The Windows search to bring up the control panel options from before they implemented the Settings app search has never really been reliable unless you recall what it's actually called.

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    Nvidia is ditching dedicated G-Sync modules to push back against FreeSync’s ubiquity
  • OpenGL is a bit more complicated since it's more than just a specification in practical terms. The documentation and tooling for OpenGL was really awful compared to Direct3D. This is a huge issue when developers are working on implementing features. For instance, the documentation for glReadPixels is incorrect for years and you would have to refer to the wiki for it instead. Yet, the only way you would know this is if you scoured the internet and happened to find a StackOverflow page asking about symptoms that may not even match your issue.

    Thankfully, Vulkan seems to be a lot better in this regard but I still curse the heavens everytime I need to go back to OpenGL when supporting older hardware.

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    Procreate takes a stand against generative AI, vows to never incorporate the tech into its products | TechCrunch
  • They specifically called out generative AI though. Stuff like separating photographs to individual pieces doesn't require generative AI specifically. Machine learning models that fall into the general umbrella of AI already exist for object segmentation.

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    About a year back, I posted on this Reddit about a work-in-progress version of this guide to creating a C# scripting engine that uses a modern .NET back-end instead of relying on Mono. I'm happy to share that I've finished the full set of posts and hope that it'll help someone out!

    Currently, the sample I have is currently targeted for Windows-only engines due to the reliance on Visual Studio and C++/CLI but I can definitely see this potentially working on other platforms using P/Invoke instead.

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    www.animenewsnetwork.com EGOIST Music Unit to Stop Performing in October

    Singer chelly to keep performing as reche, after working on Guilty Crown, Psycho-Pass with Supercell's ryo

    Vocalist chelly announced on Saturday that the music unit EGOIST will stop performing. The unit will hold its last live concerts in Osaka on September 23 and in Kanagawa on October 9.

    Separately from the EGOIST name, chelly has already been performing under the name reche since June 2021. In Saturday's message, chelly asked fans to continue their support for her work under the reche name.

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