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Old man yells at cloud

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Re: Old man yells at cloud

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acdha wrote: post #134
jonas21 wrote: post #32

If you showed someone from 30 years ago a modern video game, a Tesla, or even TikTok, it would absolutely blow their mind. So the author comes up with some nitpicks and declares "technology has gotten objectively worse". I guess the title checks out.

The point is that this isn’t evenly distributed. A Tesla would be super impressive — but they’d also rightly point out that the giant dashboard TV distracts the driver, and moving the touchscreen controls randomly in patches is unsafe. That doesn’t mean we should give up on Teslas but it does suggest that we question whether every new aspect is as good as it seemed in the demo or whether the optimal balance is somewh…

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Post by kirkules »

throw8383833jj wrote: post #56

It's so true: * I can't even install Netflix on my Iphone 7+ anymore (the phone practically brand new, it is less than 6 six years old!) * Screens in cars replacing usable buttons, are a disaster. give me buttons and knobs. * the TV takes 15 seconds to start up??? and takes 10+ seconds to select a youtube video to watch. back when I was a kid, tvs turned on right away and you could change the channel in less than a s…

Omfg and car screens universally have an input lag of over 1 second, so not only do i have to take my eyes off the road to interact with it but i have to extend my interaction by several more seconds for any multi step process. Screens might even be okay if it weren't for the input lag

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Post by m463 »

wildhereplzhold wrote: post #125
m463 wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

touchscreens in cars might be ok for settings, and the kinds of things you do when you are stopped. But touchscreens have become a mess in cars. Telsa is a horrible offender. I believe the UI designers must have stationary mockups that don't move around like a car. Not only have they removed some dedicated controls, they have eliminated almost ALL dedicated controls now. The new model S/X cars don't have stalks - tur…

> The car guesses what gear you want to be in. TBF, most automatic transmissions do this, and I think that Teslas only have one gear anyways. Unless...please tell me they don't guess whether you want Park, Drive, Neutral, or Reverse?

Yes, it guesses forward or reverse

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by kirkules »

wildhereplzhold wrote: post #125
m463 wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

touchscreens in cars might be ok for settings, and the kinds of things you do when you are stopped. But touchscreens have become a mess in cars. Telsa is a horrible offender. I believe the UI designers must have stationary mockups that don't move around like a car. Not only have they removed some dedicated controls, they have eliminated almost ALL dedicated controls now. The new model S/X cars don't have stalks - tur…

> The car guesses what gear you want to be in. TBF, most automatic transmissions do this, and I think that Teslas only have one gear anyways. Unless...please tell me they don't guess whether you want Park, Drive, Neutral, or Reverse?

To put it into neutral you have to go completely expressionless, let your tongue hang out a little bit, and make sure your face is centered in front of the driver monitoring system

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Post by goosedragons »

adrr wrote: post #127
goosedragons wrote: post #13

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Its not a Switch in the article. There's also this bad trend where publishers literally leave pieces of the game off the disc/cartridge and force you to download the rest. Not a patch, the actual game.

Is it worse than the time when games came on multiple disks or cds and you had to switch during the game? How many cds did myst come on? Prior cds was floppies which you couldn't even install it on a HD because the floppies had copy protection on.

Yes it is worse. You have the entire game with a multi-disc game. Switching takes like 2 minutes max and can be done offline.

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Post by AJRF »

bb88 wrote: post #153
greedo wrote: post #121

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I remember playing WoW on my brand new Mac Pro (circa 2005) and a month later the GPU was burned out. Replaced the GPU under warranty, a month later it burned out again. Replaced it a third time (with a lot of side eye from the Genius Bar), and decided to stop playing WoW. Never had any more issues with the GPU. Was it WoW's fault? I would think that a GPU would prevent any application from damaging it, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯…

/s The universe is telling you to stop playing video games while living in your parent's basement. Seriously though thermal expansion can break copper traces and solder joints. There was a waft of people literally baking their gpu's in the oven to remelt the solder joints during that same decade.

I recall wrapping my red-ringed Xbox 360 in a towel to "solve" this exact issue!

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by goosedragons »

brigade wrote: post #139
goosedragons wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its not a Switch in the article. There's also this bad trend where publishers literally leave pieces of the game off the disc/cartridge and force you to download the rest. Not a patch, the actual game.

That "trend" isn't shipping incomplete builds, but rather that the engineering work to minimize delta update sizes simply isn't a priority for games with infrequent patches, and YouTubers can't tell the difference.

Uh no. I'm not talking about updates. I'm talking about the game medium literally not containing the entire game because the publisher is too fucking cheap to spring for extra discs or a bigger cart. Some examples include L.A Noire, Spyro Trilogy, GTA trilogy, Tony Hawk 1+2 on Switch, PC games like Doom 2016 or MGSV or CoD:MW II on Series X.

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by komali2 »

i was having a conversation about this with my friend the other day, his theory is that technology used to required you to exercise your brain a wee bit, that it enhanced your thinking. But now the focus is on making it as slimmed down, "easy" as possible, brainless as possible, unfunctional as possible.

It made me think about my understanding of the old GNU folks, that software should be free to modify, because everyone should be poking around in the software on their systems on their own. An ambitious dream probably, but I don't really hear about ideas like that in my day to day work anymore.

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by komali2 »

adamredwoods wrote: post #186
throw8383833jj wrote: post #56

It's so true: * I can't even install Netflix on my Iphone 7+ anymore (the phone practically brand new, it is less than 6 six years old!) * Screens in cars replacing usable buttons, are a disaster. give me buttons and knobs. * the TV takes 15 seconds to start up??? and takes 10+ seconds to select a youtube video to watch. back when I was a kid, tvs turned on right away and you could change the channel in less than a s…

* One reason i enjoy actual buttons on car devices, is that I can feel them when driving and not looking at them. * I bought a new Xbox just last Xmas. I bought the physical discs, but still had to download 100GB in data, which took a couple hours, to play the game.

Not to do a console war but the "pitch" of a console to me had always been "it just works." You don't know about computers, you don't wanna know about computers, you just wanna buy the disc, come home, put it in, pick up your controller, and play. The hardest part about the experience is supposed to be plugging the correct cords in between the console and your TV.

Nowadays you might as well just game on a PC because it's just as much work apparently, especially to play online.

Re: Old man yells at cloud

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Post by npteljes »

AJRF wrote: post #39

I 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…

Meh, old software was also shit. Fucking Windows was unstable for almost a decade, and that was just the base that you run the other things on. What you describe actually matches my old experience with games, things being borked all the time, clients not seeing each other, and so on. Modern games are often as simple and right clicking my friend in Steam Friends, choose Join game, and then it even starts up my game AND joins the friend. Of course, the experience varies per game. Overwatch is smooth usually, Rainbow Six Siege often behaves strangely. But there's nothing here about modernity at all. Games are like businesses, neither is perfect, all it needs to be is to be able to sell.
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