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Wouldn't have been that bad if the push for ray-tracing didn't come together with a higher price. Isn't the point of ray-tracing to make things easier for the developers to work on lightning and shadows and such? Apart from the obvious graphical fidelity.

There's absolutely nothing good about it. I've been reluctant to get into RT because it just doesn't offer that much to me and seems to have launched us into the upscaling and frame generation era of gaming because the oh-so-wonderful ray-tracing capable GPUs actually need some crutches to deliver their killer features. And mandatory ray-tracing now, alongside the mandatory DLSS to see any benefit from a 5000 series card from Nvidia are absolutely going to contribute to me doing my best not to buy into ray-tracing for even longer.

I know it's lost battle because of how many have either happily or silently jumped ship, but it's now a matter of a principle. It's not even that kind of situation when one is not enough until there's one too many to ignore - it's just me not feeling right about it; even less right than before.

I'm the old man yelling at the clouds.

Not happy about these Indiana Jones type of system requirements. I was coping that DOOM: The Dark Ages won't have mandatory ray-tracing, even though I knew they'll be using either identical engine or some "minor" variation of it, because. well, id software, idetch engine, etc. Fitting name!

DOOM (2016) and DOOM: Eternal ran extremely well on my GTX 1080 paired with Intel i5 3470. Now I won't be able to run the new title with same GPU paired with Ryzen 5 5600x. There's a lot of people in the comments in various places saying it's totally fine or just arguing with people that are not in favor of such demands.

And there won't be any multiplayer.

The mighty have fallen.

Another gem, thanks for sharing. God damn.

This is actually great! Welcoming your example to my now collection of two, alongside Wealth, shown to scale.

There's enough people in what I assume to be big gaming communities, like active and paying and stuff, that are defending this, citing that other stuff got more expensive, too... and somehow not many agree that incomes have not risen proportionally. Them temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Somehow I think that most people defending this kind of crap are too young to actually have a first-hand feeling of how much prices for everything have risen.

Opinions on that one time Microsoft closed Arkane and the studio behind HiFi Rush, despite the latter's success and the fact the former made Redfall a slop because of total mismanagement? I'm curious in how nervous that makes you as a developer and how common this bullshit is as seem from within; from outside, it's basically all I remember about AAA because I don't often interact wit the scene apart from reading.

It's 11 in the morning for me.

And the rest of your comment - yep, I now get it. Completely agree. So good job on trying to spread it to more minds.

I don’t get you americans

I'm Russian, living in Russia, who's never even been abroad.

But no, you can find thousands of the posts saying “peaceful ways have been all tried and failed”.

I was agreeing with you the whole time, saying that violence is never the answer and does eventually bring peace and prosperity.

Im just going by history. hitler, stalin, polpot everyone thought themselves to be the low class and went on to kill millions of the low class.

If I consider myself to be the upper class, will that make me upper class? Most likely not, so I don't see how that makes literal top figures of their state at their respective time anywhere near "lower" classes.

The tyrants you've mentioned also all lived in the 20th century and operated within very hierarchy-based political systems, at least in terms of influence. Each had immense power of their country and everyone around, and especially everyone lower in the hierarchy. There is nothing "low" class about any of this.

“kill ceos” will end up with timmy who used to work the cashier walking along a mass grave and shooting blindfolded sara from call center, thomas who runs a joinery firm and their daughter abby in the back of the head so they fall into a grave they dug. Its how these things work and its what the people who call for violence want in to end up as.

This is what I'm agreeing with.

You just seem oddly focused on the class aspect of this, especially the "lower" class, in a way that seems condescending and patronizing. All I'm saying is that it seems very disrespectful and a wrong thing to focus on.

I agree with your anti-violence stance, but can't ignore the reasoning behind it.

I don't believe there's some special class that either accumulates or breeds violence. I don't believe that the "lowest" class, whatever that might be, is fixed on killing its kin. The people ruling Nazi Germany certainly weren't the "lowest" class when they were making their impactful decisions, many of which killed members of other classes, not theirs.

Neither Trump nor Musk are "low" class, yet they tend to hold the more absurd and anti-human views, separating people into worthy and not-so-much and believing they can make destinies.

There are dangerous people in our world, which are often attracted by power, often any sort of power they can rise to. Violence included.

Regardless, violence only breeds violence, for so many reasons that no comment can hold. Violence traumatizes and creates examples and "Why can't I, too?.." questions, etc.

Nah, it's just drugs. I mean, I think Elon Musk strikes me as a person who'd love to have the... for the lack of a better word, "courage" to perform the Nazi salute under such circumstances when actually totally sober, but a guy that had to fake Path of Exile 2 success is simply not gonna throw a Nazi salute on stage, even in front of people he sees as supports and loyalists.

I wonder if that absolutely bizarre specimen has been truly sober in last years. Or ever, if we count being high up your own ass as an altered state.

Gonna reply in English because I don't want to screw it up with my German.

I'm sorry and I didn't mean to be offensive. I was just trying to say that when someone is young and has some medical conditions affecting their cognitive abilities, it explains a lot and turns many things benign; often calls for empathy, too. That Musk moron, however, has neither excuses nor redeeming qualities to act like that.

And I might have misused the Entwicklungsstörung term, but I thought autism isn't considered an impairment or a medical condition.

This and what Putin's presidency turned out to become in the long run is what I now happen to imagine largely felt like to witness the Nazis rise to power.

You just don't know what's coming before it's actually there. The historical evidence even shows that the Nazis weren't that out-of-touch with reality at first, at least in terms of what was largely acceptable back in their day - like rights to land, borders, with many countries and nations being in a very turbulent state after the first World War. It's only after they got the power and set up the frameworks, like gradually oppressive laws and manipulating opinions and values through propaganda, that they went to do what we ultimately associate them with.

Putin spoke very high of "the west" and democracy and such at first, but quickly showed his true self when the Kursk sank, then with Beslan (the Nord Ost), then many more times, but back in the day, without today's hindsight, it seemed so... plausibly deniable? Like people could just vote him out the next time or excuse some things with the same traumas and biases that still brewed in the generations born in or shorty after the USSR. Now a full-blown tyrant, modernized to dictate through deceit, looking wild compared to his first days - a proper example of boiling the proverbial frog; turning the dial little by little, either compounding into some greater evil or simply revealing its true self, both equally inconsequential in the end.

Trump and Musk, similarly, have for the most part been interesting characters, so bizarre that excepting anything more felt naive, beyond the realm of possible. And yet again, unless there is enough backlash early on, people like this will keep pushing, until they lead us to the edge.

I never wanted to see for myself how something so terrible can rise to power, seemingly past everyone's attention. It's dreadful to think that the lessons of history are bets learned on one's own mistakes, that the Germany's experience is not enough to generate the unrest that keeps such people out of power.

I'm not even on the same continent as these two, but I know they'll be influencing a whole lot of change around the world, change that will never benefit any way.

The more things change...