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nik282000
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Like you said though, just buy a prebuilt and you’re already there
As long as Microsoft doesn't push an update that fucks up your machine, or you don't boot for a few weeks and have to wait 2 hours for an update...
Even the biggest Steam update takes a fraction of the time of a 'routine' Windows update. SteamOS/DeckOS is a huge quality of life upgrade over a desktop.
Keep the liquor bans, keep the tariffs on US products until the 30 days are up. A month of pain to make the point that Canada is not just an economic appendage.
It is interesting to see that Canadian apathy has suddenly turned into a united stand for Canada.
American (and Canadian) politicians have fucked over Canada every step of the way for a long as I can remember but it was always done with the thinnest veneer of diplomacy to cover up the absolute disregard for an entire country's population. This is the first time that a politician has been dumb enough to fuck over not only the people of Canada but also it's oligarchs. Canada's ruling class has decided it's ok to revolt against our neighbour's bad behaviour and so it's being spun by the news and politicians as 'Canadian Patriotism.'
edit: I see this is a bit controversial. I'm not saying that it is bad that, right now, Canadians are unified in identifying the bad guy and saying "no, you've gone to far." I'm saying that we should have been saying this for years but our politicians, the rich people who direct them and the media companies that they own, have been actively stopping us up until now.
Totally agree about 4k, it useful for work (its like 4x 1080 screens!) but for gaming it's so much overkill.
Ray tracing is a conceptually lazy and computationally expensive. Fire off as many rays as you can in every direction from every light source, when the ray hits something it gets lit up and fires off more rays of lower intensity and maybe a different colour.
Sure you can optimize things by having a maximum number of bounces or a maximum distance each ray can travel but all that does is decrease the quality of your lighting. An abstracted model can be optimized like crazy BUT it take a lot of man power (paid hours) and doesn't directly translate to revenue for the publisher.
The only downside of raytracing is the performance cost.
The downside is the wallet cost. Spreading the development cost of making a better conventional lighting system over thousands of copies of a game is negligible, requiring ray tracing hardware is an extra 500-1000 bucks that could otherwise be spent on games.
Game engines don’t have to simulate sound pressure bouncing off surfaces to get good audio. They don’t have to simulate all the atoms in objects to get good physics. There’s no reason to have to simulate photons to get good lighting. This is a way to lower engine dev costs and push that cost onto the consumer.
Ray tracing is a money grab.
I'm sure that enough people are mad about this that we could all chip in and have concrete road barriers dropped off in front of the entrance of every one of Ford's private and business properties...
I mean devices with non-replacable batteries, once the battery fails the entire device must be replaced. Single used then trash.
Fuck the flavours, ban single use batteries in every application.
I'm not but the majority is.