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I played TW3 on release. It had some problems, but nowhere near the issues that Cyberpunk has. It wasn't fundamentally flawed like CP2077.
What fundamental flaws does CP2077 has? I mean except the problems on last gen-consoles, which is not a general flaw.
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The wire is art. I don’t have enough superlatives for it. I’m only sad that something so good and timeless will portray black people so poorly. I don’t mean the art portraying them poorly, I mean their literal state of being.
Surely that's part of its power though? The real-life facts of that existence are tragic of course, but shining a light on the issues is surely a positive thing.
The Impossible burger is pretty good. I was skeptical. They did a good job creating non animal meat.
The main From Software games (Demon Souls, DS, DS3, BB, and Sekiro). They really are special, and a cut above games like Witcher 3 or BoTW imo. I don't think I have ever played a game where nearly every element was best in class and worked so well together. The "stories" are brilliant, and the way they are told is perfect for the medium. There is an incredible world, that is awe inspiring and fascinating, with deep a…
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1. Okami. I've always been slightly frustrated by video games. Here we have the opportunity to create truly fantastical worlds with the only limits being what we can imagine and so much effort goes in to creating WW2 shooters or football games or whatever. When the first trailer was revealed for Okami at e3 in 2005, wow. That fake celestial language starts up, showing flowers blooming in the path of the sun god as sh…
2. Is this what you mean? https://parahumans.wordpress.com/
AMD's Zen microarchitecture. At the time, AMD was years behind Intel in both performance and power consumption. There were constant jokes about the Bulldozer cores burning people's houses down. The few remaining 'team red' loyalists had been hyping Zen were largely ignored. Then, boom. Over night AMD leapfrogged Intel, and now on the third generation has a firm lead in mid range desk top all the way up to high end se…
There are two parts to the story: architecture and process. On architecture, AMD deserves praise. On process, not so much. They didn't "git gud," they gave up. Which clearly was the right move for them, don't get me wrong, but I think all this partying in the streets about the TSMC monoculture is... shortsighted.
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Came here to say the exact same thing. I can't stop talking to everyone and their brother about it. It feels like a clear leap into the future. For the uninitiated, here are some highlights of what it enables you to do: - You can go to a friend's apartment with a Chromecast and just start playing games YOU own like CyberPunk & Assasins Creed within seconds on their TV (assuming they have a controller or you brought y…
> start playing games YOU own Except YOU don’t own them, google does, which exactly why I would never get stadia.
Hype depends on who you interact with, but a few impressions: I was really impressed with Jonathan Blow's The Witness. Exquisitely designed and thought out. The animated series Primal by Genndy Tartakovsky. A pulpy cartoon without dialogue unlike anything else animated from the US. The tv series Doom Patrol. Clever, revels in the absurd but still manages serious drama on what it means to not be completely human any m…
The Wire. I'd tried to watch it a few times, but only a few months ago actually got past the first two episodes. I think it helped that I quite quickly saw it as a morally ambiguous discussion of the institutional ineptitude of conservative western cultures in mitigating the effects of crime, rather than a typical 'good vs bad' cop show. With that mindset, the possibly-underwhelming finale of S1 is much more effectiv…
> morally ambiguous discussion of the institutional ineptitude of conservative western cultures in mitigating the effects of crime, rather than a typical 'good vs bad' cop show. That's a mouthful. Basically you're saying that the cops operated questionably due to or because of the conservative government's inability to effectively fight crime?