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Kick the front window out with your feet.
Do we have the technology to make windows that can smash from the inside but not the outside?
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#42The thing that bugs me about video games these days is that they all seem like a bunch of work instead of the fun of discovery.
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#43These are all examples of tradeoffs that have been made, and just collecting examples of the downsides of those tradeoffs without mentioning the upsides. Touchscreens are objectively worse than dedicated buttons, but the ability to have more than 4-5 buttons is a huge benefit. additionally, the UI can be less confusing because the button text can change depending on what you're doing, vsm a single physical d-pad and…
We're really discussing user experience which has gotten worse.
When trade-offs are being evaluated what are they in service of? I'm going to suggest it's something other than a great user experience.
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#44These are all examples of tradeoffs that have been made, and just collecting examples of the downsides of those tradeoffs without mentioning the upsides. Touchscreens are objectively worse than dedicated buttons, but the ability to have more than 4-5 buttons is a huge benefit. additionally, the UI can be less confusing because the button text can change depending on what you're doing, vsm a single physical d-pad and…
> but the ability to have more than 4-5 buttons is a huge benefit
I know what you're saying but being constrained by dedicated buttons, I would argue, forces you to think very carefully about the controls/user-interface. That discipline likely often leads to a better "interface".
Give a designer a touchscreen and they can add buttons, menus, nuanced features without restraint.
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#45I tried playing Civ 6 the other day with my friend, here's what happened; - Game crashed on startup - after searching online for a bit apparently changing your Steam Download Region can fix it. As in not redownloading the game from another region, just changing the setting. This worked. - Start game, started in Windowed mode and changing resolution caused the mouse to move super slowly. Restart game. Fixed. - Try to…
Honestly, I haven't seen anything like that level of issue recently and I strongly suspect the issue here is Civ Six itself.
The last multiplayer game I played was Halo infinite. It went great. Did exactly what it's supposed to.
ETA: I am on Windows... At a cursory glance it looks like changing the download region fixes an issue you encounter in MacOS after updating the operating system. Apple being an also-ran platform for desktop gaming is a long-standing issue completely independent of whether we're in the era of cloud and patching.
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#46“In truth, the evolution of vehicle technology has not been a good one over-all.” Safety-wise, nothing has scored higher than new EVs like the Tesla, so there is some progress. Infotainment-wise, that’s a different story…
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If you set your Xbox settings to "Go Offline" on console or PC after you lose the connection, your Game Pass games will work for up to 30 days before an active internet connection is required
AFAIK, you have to do this before. Maybe this has changed. The first outage I had, you couldn't even sign in. The second outage, you had to set it offline before your internet died. This was when Rogers was down in Canada.
FWIW Steam is the same.
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#49These are all examples of tradeoffs that have been made, and just collecting examples of the downsides of those tradeoffs without mentioning the upsides. Touchscreens are objectively worse than dedicated buttons, but the ability to have more than 4-5 buttons is a huge benefit. additionally, the UI can be less confusing because the button text can change depending on what you're doing, vsm a single physical d-pad and…
I don’t mind touchscreens in cars, but there are just some controls that are used all the time and should be buttons. I think most car manufacturers are figuring out that right mix…except perhaps Tesla who is insistent on removing ever tactile button for a touchscreen or capacitive touch button.
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#50Video games. I just bought my kids a switch to hopefully feel that nes era gaming. It kind of hits on it. Pre-xbox was nice. The game was pretty solid state. The systems were 'dumb' and performed the function they were designed to do. There wasn't 10 control configurations, touch this and that. They were games. It's sad with the newer Mario's that if you die repeatedly it gives you a powerful at the start of the leve…
Why is that sad?