Probably because nobody was using it.

307 users over the last month is barely worth keeping the server running when mastodon.social is getting 249 thousand.

If this carries on, we’ll have exploding semaphore flags by the end of the week.

Both?

I mean I’m no fan of Israel, but Hezbollah ain’t exactly the Red Cross.

At that price there would have to be some pretty compelling arguments to upgrade.

Half a generation for up to 40% more raytracing power isn’t worth it.

A full generation for 2-3 times what a PS5 can do? Maybe.

Even then, there would have to be some damn good exclusives on PS6 to be worth your while. PS4 to PS5 was an easy argument, games ran at 30 pretty much all generation, mostly due to a comically underpowered CPU, and now they run at 60.

I’m struggling to even conceive of a worthwhile game that would bring a PS5 to its knees. I haven’t really seen a good argument for raytracing yet. Sure, nicer reflections, more accurate lighting, but we were pretty good at faking those anyway. Cyberpunk and Metro look really nice with the RT only editions, but they were perfectly playable without it.

We should really draw a big line under RT once it reaches a certain level of power, and go back to affordability. Game devs can’t put food on the table just catering to insanely high end hardware. My PC is still rocking a 1060. On the Steam hardware survey, there’s only one GPU higher than the X060 series inside the top ten. Budget hardware has got to be the focus.

In my experience they mostly seem to watch somebody else play a video game.

Just lob it in the bin.

That is a ridiculous price for a games console.

And PC gamers can stop looking smug because GPU prices make that unreasonable as well.

We need to rethink raytracing, because chasing it has just made everything unaffordable.

The man’s a consummate bullshit artist, but I can’t deny he used to be one of the best. Populous, Theme Park, Dungeon Keeper, Fable…

The last 10-15 years have been a bit of a write-off, but before that, even when he was shitting out games, they were still better than most people could even dream of making.

RSS is what we had before algorithms that just pick adverts and far right fuckery.

Because they’re also drug users.

TVs have been available in 120Hz and VRR for a while now. Even my 2017 OLED supports 120Hz, albeit only at 1080p.

That said, I don’t see the need to chase that with more expensive hardware. Any game with a choice of performance vs resolution, I find myself swapping to performance mode. I can see extra frames, I struggle to see extra pixels.

I’m not sure the disc drive can be saved at this point. There’s big games that didn’t even come out on disc, like BG3.

Hates stuff the west does.

Loves stuff China and Russia do.

It’s the same stuff.

Looking at the domain name, they’re in Mali. Things must be cheap out there.

I’ll never forgive him for what happened at Black Mesa.

So did I, which is why it’s extra creepy when Glen Powell, the most generic white guy imaginable, tries to bang one of them.

I’d almost completely forget the whole movie by the next day, but my wife continued to think about it and then sent me this about the ending. Which makes it even worse than the ending you’d guess at about ten seconds into the film.

I haven’t seen the movie or read anything about it.

But the writer also wrote a sequel to God’s Not Dead, if that gives any indication of where this sits on the reality/lunatic spectrum of right wing shithousery.

If Aaron Sorkin wrote it, I’ll let it be.

This ain’t that though.

Most Will Ferrell movies would have been much better without Will Ferrell.

Twisters: Forgotten me already, huh?