Doom the Dark Ages is possibly what they’re referring to. ID skipped lighting in favour of Ray tracing doing it.

Bethesda Studios also has a tendency to use hd textures on features like grass and terrain which can safely be low res.

There is a fair bit of inefficient code floating around because optimisation is considered more expensive than throwing more hardware at a problem, and not just in games. (Bonus points if you outsource the optimisation to some else’s hardware or the modding community)

RX580 remains a power efficient champ. The old hot hatch of the GPU world.

One of the interesting things I notice about the ‘reasoning’ models is their responses to questions occasionally include what my monkey brain perceives as ‘sass’.

I wonder sometimes if they recognise the trivialness of some of the prompts they answer, and subtilly throw shade.

One’s going to respond to this with ‘clever monkey! 🐒 Have a banana 🍌.’

I’m pretty sure the green dog is normal. It’s certainly as crazy as most small canines.

If possible, I recommend giving Alyx a go, even if you have to borrow a headset, visit a friend, arcade, ect.

Not an option for everyone of course, Alyx aside VR is fun and while the entry requirements are getting lower it’s still a leap.

Valve will probably summarise the main story change in HL3, which will be a very WTF moment that’s kinda on brand with the scenario.

As TachyonTele suggested, you may want to play or read into Half Life Alyx. Time travel got involved.

To add to the other responses, and I suspect the real reason, is that Coco is listening to Audible Audio books regularly and/or music. It’s mentioned and then dropped by the article fairly quickly.

Interesting how every comment on the article is doing the “you’re a terrible parent, how could you do that” routine when I’ll bet it’s there because Coco either took the first one in or asked for a second one. Kid wants, kid normally gets one way or another.

I was once looking at a robot lawnmower to tend to my ageing parents lawn. I was looking at prices over a thousand bucks and thinking seriously.

My parents hired a local handyman to do it every few weeks for a small sum that across a year would still be less than the robo mower and do a better job at it and without the hurdles of maintaining that mower.

That realisation had me reevaluating automation as a whole.

Yep, was the case in all TES games before Oblivion as well, typically more strength in starting male characters but more intelligence in female characters varying depending on the character’s race. Only went away in Skyrim as they’d simplified the stats so much that starting stats were more uniform.

Possibly, Bungee is working with Sony right now. They went hard on this sort of thing, Concord and Helldivers 2 being other examples of the push, Concord famously failed, Helldivers worked. Methinks this may actually have been built from older LLM summaries of the deep lore in a few ways, there’s surface knowledge, but things that should have been obvious have been missed.

Sony fired a scattershot of games into the market into trendy genres, many will fail, but they may be expecting it.

I’ve seen a few of the famous quotes, but the Marathon itself is too spherical to be the old flying Space Spud. Bungie has often referred back to Old Marathon but this feels off. It’s like someone is doing this only reading Wikiquote and a few summaries. I did see hints of Tau Ceti’s spaceport being nuked, and the involvement of MIDA as a contractor, so there’s a few hints of the deep lore.

They’re cagey about the story as well, suggesting they don’t have a written one yet. I’ll bet they were starting towards a proper story and an author keen on the original Marathon left with the pieces sat idle in the meantime as the game grew.

It also feels incomplete, lots of pve features despite pvp extraction as the stated goal. I think this was intended to have multiple game modes, several factions trying to find something left behind, Tycho making a move on the ruins controlled by fragments of Leela. Throw in a bonus UESC force Sent by a hint from Durandal who is still off having his own brand of fun elsewhere. Perhaps Straus’s plans with the Colony long term come up.

A dream perhaps. On an Idea for a new Aleph One Scenario.

Even before subscriptions became normalised cars had a support cost, parts and servicing, especially for genuine or genuine reconditioned parts.

Strictly speaking, you can avoid the dealers and the part costs by working with mechanics, wreckers or aftermarket manufacturers but those have extra costs and voided warranties.

Parts sales are a major income stream for manufacturers, especially as they need to compete on car sales, but once you’re locked in on that car they mark up the prices on the parts long term.

Though admittedly enshittification means worse and more expensive parts and legal threats to aftermarket manufacturers.

Thanks for surfacing this one, it’s always fun to get the older perspective and realising they’re very human.

There’s magic and then there’s complexity in tech (at least this is how I think about it).

Video calling, pure magic, simple to use with major benefits.

Complex business management software that requires a degree to use? Complexity almost for complexity’s sake to lock an organisation into a support contract.

Web stores? Usually magic, especially with refined payment processing and smooth ordering. Can verge into over complex coughAmazoncough.

Internal network administration (Active Directory) and cloud tech, often complexity for complexity’s sake again.

One of the requirements is full secureboot and recovery arrangements that didn’t exist when I installed back in the 8 days. Now I can reinstall over the old drive and that will do all the plumbing that enables 11. So the hardware is 11 compatible, but the existing software install isn’t.

*Edit to answer the question, no, it’s not too late. Most compatible CPUs have a lesser firmware TPM, but most mobos have a slot for a vendor specific hardware TPM. Which is what I got.

Or you add the chip and it still doesn’t want to upgrade because you don’t have secure boot enabled.

Ah, blessed be the almighty Foon. Nameless Mod was a absolute ride, I should replay it.

There are 4 or 5 different Americas, maybe more.