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fuzzywombat

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  • Arc Raiders Is Already One of the Biggest Extraction Shooters Ever on Steam

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  • Not all kernel level anti-cheat are the same. Riot's Vanguard and whatever Battlefield 6 uses requires TPM and SecureBoot and they quite invasive. I believe Vanguard just runs in the background even when you're not running the game which is awful. Arc Raiders devs made some pragmatic concessions to allows the game to run on Proton and Steam Deck which is pretty good.

  • Arc Raiders Is Already One of the Biggest Extraction Shooters Ever on Steam

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  • IGN put out a first preview video of Arc Raiders couple months ago and it was borderline hit piece. The quality of the video was unbelievably bad. They made the game look muddy, dated, and choppy. This wasn't IGN trying to showcase the game on some realistic typical gaming hardware. In reality the game is well optimized and visually really good on moderate level hardware. I hear the game looks fantastic on consoles. Maybe they'll do a full review now that the game is finally released but I question the journalistic integrity of IGN.

  • 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames

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  • This guy will get tons of flak and maybe even death treats for criticizing Valve. For whatever reason there is a rabid cult like following for Valve and Gabe Newell. I remember several years ago I said something like "Valve is still a company that's out to make money at the end of the day" and several of my gaming friends instantly were no longer friends. It's quite hilarious for me to just think about that even today.

  • Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado wins

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  • https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2025/summary/

    The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."

    Last few words are almost like they're thumbing the nose of one specific person.

  • White House Deploys Carrier Task Force to Norway in Anticipation of Peace Prize

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  • I can see Trump threatening Norway with a tariff if he doesn't get the Peace Prize. He is so petty and shameless he would actually do it.

  • Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody"

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  • Raising the price of hardware twice since May and now raising the price of game pass by 50% is not something a company would do if they're interested in competing against Sony or Nintendo. Clearly Microsoft has thrown in the towel on XBOX. Only thing left for Microsoft to do is announce cancellation of next gen console altogether and do layoffs. I don't know when that will happen but it's inevitable at this point.

  • Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced

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  • 50% price hike means Microsoft is basically betting that less than 1/3 of the current subscribers will cancel. Microsoft is also betting that some will not cancel but just downgrade to lower tier instead. If more than 2/3 of the subscriber remain a subscriber then Microsoft will come out ahead.

  • Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire [prices going up]

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  • At one time XBOX fanbase were so desperate to play games like Halo and Gears of War that they were wrapping their dead XBOX 360 in a towel and putting it in an oven to resurrect it. That sounds so insane but it actually happened. Fast forward to now, Microsoft has raised hardware prices twice since May and now raising price of their game pass by 50%. Clearly they're no longer interested in increasing XBOX market share or even retaining it. They've pivoted their strategy to milk their current XBOX fans as much money as they can until the brand is completely dead.

  • Star Citizen’s Manchester office shows off its newly opened ‘briefing room’ theater space

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  • We already have a large cult/religion that started out with an author and a book so I can definitely see another one forming from some guy and a video game.

  • Inspired by another pic on here, finally figured out the astrophotography mode on my phone camera - 5min exposure in rural Wales

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  • Very nice! Suddenly I feel very... small.

  • Unbelievable. Our bed for a three day river tour in Borneo to see the orangatans.

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  • That's not a bed. That's a buffet table for mosquitos.

  • Steam refunds Destiny 2 players with over 2,000 hours of game time after Bungie’s game becomes unplayable in numerous countries

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  • Seems like Bungie is a raging dumpster fire at the moment. CEO responsible for current state of Bungie just bailed when his stock options became vested. The person leading the studio now is the infamous GDC "beware of overdelivery" guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6HqAhabFBA

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  • People keep saying $32k was stolen by malware. No, that did not happen. Malware did not reach into someone's bank account and withdrew $32k. Here is a simple fact. Crypto is not money. If your brain says something like "it works just like money, or it's worth just as much as money so it's basically money" then you're most likely to get scammed at sometime in the future by putting your actual real money into crypto. It's that simple.

  • Xbox consoles are getting a price increase. Again.

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  • Microsoft spent billions on XBOX brand over over the past 23+ years but seems like they're just done with it. They must know raising the price for the second time will be a final nail in the XBOX coffin. Is there a plan for a next XBOX? Does it even make sense to make the next XBOX? Is there even a reason for anyone to buy the next XBOX? Currently Microsoft's marketing message is basically just spend $400 to $800 on a hardware and then pay $10 to $20 monthly ($120 to $240 a year) indefinitely for access to games but if you stop paying the monthly fee, you have an expensive paperweight because you own nothing. Oh and game pass price could go up at anytime over the lifespan of the console.

  • NVIDIA are investing $5 billion in Intel to develop new chips together

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  • I think this means Intel's Arc GPUs are dead. $5 Billion seems like a small price to pay for NVIDIA to remove a potential future competitor off the market.

  • Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing

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  • I was watching a streamer playing this game on AMD 9800X3D with RTX 5090 GPU on 1440p and was barely able to get 100 fps. All the settings were on medium with DLSS Balanced turned on. This game is definitely not optimized.

  • 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you'

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  • I was planning on picking up B4 when the GOTY edition goes on sale for $20-30 couple years from now. I figured performance issues will be solved by then. Now I think I'll pass.

  • Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’

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  • We really need to change the mindset about what the internet experience should be. I think everyone got too used to the idea of centralized services like Google search, Github, Discord, Twitter, reddit, and etc. and that didn't turn out well. We need to go back to federated protocol based system instead. Let's go back to the decentralized federated architecture of email, web, irc where no one corporate entity is the sole owner of said service. I think Lemmy and Mastodon are good start but we have to start replace things like Google search, Github, and Discord with decentralized counterparts. We have to learn from our past mistakes and start reconstructing a better internet infrastructure one piece at a time. It will take lot of effort and patience but it's really the only way out of the mess we put ourselves into by being addicted to simplicity of centralized corporate controlled systems.

  • Xbox fans are compiling lists of all the Activision, Bethesda, and Microsoft games still missing from Xbox Game Pass — and it's pretty huge

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  • Game pass business model needs to fail because if it succeed we'll be buried in post capitalism dystopian reality where we don't own anything.