Isn’t that the point of major version upgrades? To make breaking changes?

What is to upgrade? Smartphones/phablets were always going to reach a peak, where the innovations that can be made are small. Screens look amazing, cameras are incredible, it’s all at a point where phones do everything we want them to really well. Upgrades now are just iterative, battery improvements are welcome, improved camera sensors would be cool, but we dont need any of it, even faster SoCs, brighter or higher resolution screens are pointless now.

They can’t really do much more, we dont need thinner, they are worse. Folding could be a potential avenue, but it’s not there yet, they are far too fragile. There’s going to have to be some new breakthrough tech to make a lot of people buy new phones, until then, they will have to keep trying to sell AI and some other bullshit features.

They have to be paid, they say the driest “jokes” and the crowd goes wild. They are like the lowest common denominator of comedy (if you can even call it such).

Man American talk shows are so weird. Do they have applause and laughter prompts?

Its because its used in schools, they learn it, they become reliant on it, its in their workplaces, at their home.

Its why Microsoft dont really care if you pirate Windows, the more people using it, the more reliant they are on it, then they cash in big time at the enterprise level. Same with Photoshop etc etc.

If we taught how to use Linux instead…

It does? It’s pixel art sure, but the quality is higher, it’s crisp.

Cyberpunk 2077 is blurry, with weird ass checkerboard rendering. It uses lots of approximation techniques. You can’t disable the forced TAA in game, you have to modify ini files or use mods. And if you disable it you get a whole bunch of new problems.

Cyberpunk 2077 suffers deferred rendering, relying on TAA or DLSS (hello ghosting). Developers chose to trade quality for detail. Sure you get more light bounces, more realistic reflections, but you also get a worse overall image.

It’s not thinking, its just facts. If you are happy with the look of Cyberpunk 2077, then thats fine, no need to get defensive. But the other games certainly dont have “shitty graphics”, they just dont have the style you like.

How do you think we ended up with capitalism

You mean you don’t like certain artstyles. Because them games have better graphical fidelity than Cyberpunk, they are just not chasing “realistic” features.

You most likely have encountered a bug, more than one even, it’s just not been impactful enough for you to care or remember. They have ironed it out a lot since though, so most of the major ones have probably all gone.

I’m glad you can enjoy it though, that’s great! Sounds like you have had a good time.

I’d like to live in that idealistic world you have in your head, but we don’t live in that, humans are selfish by nature, so we have capitalism. Doesn’t mean we cannot control it, keep it fair. One person makes a cool piece of art? Sure, I’ll pay them. You are looking far too deep into it, I’m sorry. You’re going to stress yourself out.

You determine your own worth of something. But thats literally what paying for something or a service is. Balatro is worth its price to me, I can play it for hours now, not touch it an play it for hours in a year, two, whatever. Someone made a nice game, I buy it and play it, it’s about as simple as capitalism gets in games.

Not everything has to have infinite value forever, I will get bored of a game and will never play it again, does that mean I should have never bought it and enjoyed the experience it gave me??? Am I missing your point here or is that just a wild take?

There’s no Battlefield moments is the problem. It’s incredibly soulless and basic.

The gunplay is just awful, no gun has identity, they all just feel so similar. Point and shoot, hope the enemies dies before you do. No skill in it anymore.

The maps are so, so, so bad, they have zero flow and are clearly made to try and support every single gamemode, same problem BF4 had, but at least that game executed on a few.

Teamplay, as you say, is completely gone, they want everyone to feel special at all times rather than them having their moment. They could completely remove classes and it would make no difference to how the game plays.

And Arc… yeah, the falloff is inevitable, that’s the most generic looter/extraction shooter I have ever played.

I would have expected someone to say with Halo 4 rather than Infinite.

I can see that, if the style of humor doesnt click with you, then it’s got a pretty repetitive mission formula which can get boring.

I think GTA 6 is (and will be) very overhyped. I dont see it living up to the previous titles at all.

Most recently Battlefield 6 and Arc Raiders.

I think Battlefield 6 is basic enough to capture the stray call of duty crowd, but it’s very dumbed down and not at all a Battlefield game.

And Arc Raiders, as I have said in another thread, is incredibly bland. I think thats hyped and popular because it’s the first real taste of an extraction shooter for consoles.

Not that quickly that you dont get your money’s worth though. Balatro is a good mobile game honestly, for a quick run when you have time to kill, but I wouldnt find myself sat at my PC playing it.

Most overrated game of the last 5 years. Technical failure, sold on lies, bugs upon bugs, illusion of choice, horrible combat and an empty world.

Silksong isnt AAA. But yes, every triple A game is shit. The marketing is just very good, people are told they are good games and they should enjoy them. Truth is, all the good games are indie games.

It’s not irrelevant at all. I can recognize most cars from a distance, the tesla design isn’t special. The sharp edges of a cybertuck are an aesthetic choice that effects the car overall, if you have to make your car so fucking dangerous to stand out, you did something very wrong.

Design affects and is affected by all factors, a car looking a certain way is not an irrelevant factor to anything else. If you are ignoring how they interact, then any cosmetics are irrelevant themselves as at that point you no longer have a car, but a shell.

They dont have a door handle for… aesthetics. The cybertruck is a dangerous piece of metal because of… aesthetics.

It’s all part of the overall design of the cars. So I’d say it’s pretty relevant.