Even thought I was already prepared, it was still much lamer and boring then I thought it would be. She clearly just baited him, claimed to be a victim, pretended to cry and be upset, just to cause some uproar and get some clicks.
A strong person can survive 15 seconds of online talk without rage-quitting and crying. In fact, a strong person makes the other rage-quit.
I would not discourage people from using nvidia, it just isn't as smooth sailing with it sadly.
I'd argue Linux is never a smooth sailing, which is its main problem since forever and what is stopping it from rising. If you have an opportunity to reduce the risk, especially if you're not a tech-nerd and new to Linux, I'd really try to focus on that.
What sold me completely on Nobara was how easy the driver setup process was because that's something that completely drove me mad.
From my experience, I never trust when a distro says it's "focused on easy driver setup". It was already the point of Ubuntu way back in the years, or Pop!, Zorin, etc. Not to say it's a lie, but it's never as straightforward as they claim, because there are just way too many different specs possible.
Install Nvidia drivers
The best thing you can do for Linux, is not use Nvidia. Just don't. The drivers are just bad, and no distro can ever fix that. If someone wants to give Linux a fair chance, I'd say invest in a decent but not expensive AMD GPU first. You'll save yourself headaches, and it will still run about 90% of indie games easily. It is possible to use Nvidia on Linux, but it's very likely it won't give you a good impression on Linux at all.
I've tried a few distro, the only one so far that really worked for me is Mint. Almost everything works, and I haven't done a lot of setup. Even softwares like FL Studio (Audio workstation) with complex audio system works almost perfectly through Wine (which really impressed me). I also use Godot with C# on it and it works just fine as well.
Community manager is a false job anyway. What great game would have been made even better with a CM? Absolutely none of them. It's completely out of place for a game developer.
If the dev team is open and transparent enough with its players, most, if not all of them, will naturally check their community on their own. Having a central point checking the community means this person gets to control what is transmitted to the dev team or not. As such, it's an incredibly attractive jobs for any activists.
Sure I guess, but it's posted from Helldivers 2's account (both Steam and X). Even if they didn't write the message itself, they are perfectly fine with everything said, and didn't bother adding anything to it or clarifying their views.
I wish one dev, one day, would at least be honest rather than print out [GENERIC PR NOTICE #127]. Account linking to protect players? Uphold company values, from a company like Sony? Build a community? That's BS and everyone (with a brain) knows it.
Just be honest for a second and say Sony if your publisher, and they told you to do it because they want full control on the game and its players.
And maybe that one dev can also realize that they can just remove the cross-play feature with PS players if they don't link their account. That way, it's up to the players to decide what they want.
The facts:
- Orange man bad.
- Men can be women.
- But we don't know what a woman is.
- More people bad because climate change.
- But more immigration good.
- White people are all racists.
- Black people dindu nothing.
- Racial profiling bad.
- But hiring people based on race for diversity reason good.
- Diversity is when no straight white men.
- Mean tweets bad, but sending death threats to right-wing people good.
- Vaccine is safe and effective.
- But doesn't prevent infection, doesn't prevent illness, and doesn't prevent death.
- Orange man bad.
- Government is oppressing people with systemic racism and sexism, so we need more government to regulate everything.
- If you disagree with us, you're a homophobic transphobic racist misogynist bigot that should go straight to concentration camp for "re-education".
In my thousands of hours of PvP gaming, I've maybe met like 2 or 3 actual hackers. It was always an overblown issue. I was reported by several players once because I did the impossible thing of doing, not 1, but 2 headshots in a raw. Yes, apparently, for some players, it's impossible to just do 2 good hits in a raw, it has to be hack. Luckily the admin realised it was bullshit and nothing happened. That was like 10 years ago, now it's probably much worse.
Personally, I'm more tired of everyone going "Please add full kernel-level anti-cheat in my games I can't stand cheaters", and they even want this in cooperative games (the reason why I didn't get Helldivers 2, I was waiting for that game for a long time, until they announced they are using a kernel-level anticheat).
With cheats now using AI, and built at hardware level, even kernel-level anti-cheats are completely powerless against that. My personal wish: Bring back community servers, bring back the feeling of actually playing together with online friends and not just random people with a matchmaker that you're never going to play against in your life, and with admins kicking out whoever stirs up drama for no reason (either because he cheated, or because he's complaining everyone is hacking).
No one calls Stellar Blade woke, while it has one of the most badass woman in modern gaming (the game's not even out yet, but the bar is so low it's not hard at all). In fact, the woke-crowd is the one trying to get this game cancelled, while the anti-woke crowd is like "Please port to PC too".
What is woke is not having one random black guy or a woman, it's having the exact same black guy stereotype (with that haircut), or the man-jaw "strong and independent" woman. Or it's having people of a completely difference place in a setting where they don't belong at all, and without any explanation. (like having black European medieval knights or black Japanese samurai)
Because eclipses predictions were always accurate, sometimes to the exact minute or even second it will happen, and you can physically confirm they are right. Out of the dozens or hundreds of climate "prediction", we can physically confirm none of them has been true so far, not even close.
Correctly predicting an eclipse makes money, since people will travel far to see it and buy special glasses and such. There's no money in incorrectly predicting an eclipse, so even corrupted people will have to make correct predictions. Having someone stay healthy brings no money to the pharma industry. Having someone stay unhealthy for as long as possible, makes pharma very rich, so corrupted people have an incentive to keep people sick in any way.
UK killed 750 000 dogs and cats to prepare for WW2 due to possible country-wide food shortages (and that was still at the very beginning of the war, when all infrastructures were perfectly ok).
If a country is attacked from 2 opposite sides by the 2 other biggest military power in the world (both with an army size far above yours), and suffered constant bombing, local revolutions, and other small operations all over your territory to cut resources, wouldn't you expect some logistical issues too? Even the tiny war (in comparison) between Ukraine and Russia right now has impacted logistics on a multi-national level. Remember the logistic nightmare that was at the end Afghanistan war by Biden, where all countries where in panic mode to retrieve their soldiers and equipment?
Regarding the French version: He used "mâles" to refer to men. In French, it's purely reserved for animals of scientific talk, not day-to-day like this when referring to men. It can't really be translated, but it's basically a huge sign of disrespect, treating men as just animals acting on instinct.
Progressive and Christian are oxymoron. One requires you to constantly evolve your viewpoint around the modern society, the other has a fixed viewpoint based on the Word of God (that is immutable and eternal).
2nd, the idea of a pope is completely backward. No one is above or lower, the only example to follow is Jesus, not who ever is in charge of the Church.
That list has to be a troll of some kind. Lara #1, Agent 47 #3, Sackboy #5, 2 characters from BG3, Ellie from Last of Us but not Joel.
the poll was engaged with by over 4,000 players from all over the world.
Since they wanted the most iconic video games characters ever, it would have made more sense to choose non-gamers, and just ask them "Can you name this video game character?".
Ah yes, the classic "Hide behind fake death threats".
Also, I speak French. There's no "pretending to not understand the original text", it can't be interpreted in any other way than what it was and what everyone interpreted it as. The Google translation was just fine.
It's re-inforced by the fact that the 1st and 2nd edit doesn't mean anything in actual French. I get what they mean, but the sentence should be something like "Par quelqu'un qui, on croirait, n'a jamais vu de femme". Is IGN France even written by a French? I wonder at this point.
Ok, so I guess they won't have a problem if we make children read the Bible and pray to God then? It won't make them Christians, so it's fine, right? Right? It's just about "helping them learn about the world around them"
I guess genes can have some influence on it, at least indirectly. But by far what seemed to be the biggest impact was the musical surrounding and transfer of experience. If you were taught by the best composers in the world, and if you happen to have a little bit of musical talent on top, it's just very likely you'll eventually become a very successful composer if you put some work into it.
Mozart was taught almost everything by his father, who was an excellent musician (composing maybe not so much) and initiated him with stuff like Bach. Mozart and Beethoven met many times and it's likely Mozart gave him some lessons as well. Beethoven was also a student of Haydn (another very big composer), then Beethoven was Czerny's teacher, which was in turn Liszt's teacher (maybe the most famous pianist in history)... The more you dig into it, the more links you find between the most renown musicians / composers.
Somebody has to figure out a way to get kids off the internet.
You mean, like simply not giving them a smartphone? By simply controlling what your kids are doing, just like how humanity has done it for thousands of years, until the last 20 years or so when parents started to rely on technology to do the "parenting"?
Once again, we seems to be hemorrhaging basic features. A thing that vast majority of games had in history, even the bad ones, is now missing on a $70 AAA game from one of the biggest developer in the world (being able to start a fresh new game). What's the excuse this time?
Kim Belair (CEO of Sweet Baby Inc): "Terrify them with the possibility of what's going to happen if they don't give you what you want."
What a nice consulting firm, you hire them, then they threaten you if you don't do what they want. Basically, it's like hiring the Mafia to help you make a game.