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Very strange way of saying RDNA4 chiplets simply didn’t work.

Asymmetrical sticks

Again! Why? When will they learn?

Anyone know what the AI is like?

I use Backgammon Machine on iOS since it has a pretty decent ML-based AI, which can be very hard (but is limited too, it can become predictable)

Shrek, Despicable Me, Every Disney movie ever, would also like a word.

The best kids movies are ones that put jokes in for the Adults forced to watch them - it shows they care about their audience, even the incidental one.

There is also the mediocre story, but hopefully they’ll learn the lesson that no, we don’t want something as automagically powerful as a dragonborn or whatever, it worked for skyrim sure, but it’s a not something needed in every title.

Working from a zero prisoner to hero was always the goal and should be again.

Real article: https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-manufacturing-business-suffers-setback-broadcom-tests-disappoint-sources-2024-09-04/

Verge is just trash opinions on a real article. We can get the trash opinions here :)

People wanted NMS, they wanted NMS to be good.

It was a let down when it wasn’t.

No one wanted this. No one thought it would be good.

It was a laugh when it failed.

They aren’t the same.

Concorde ran for 34 years, with only a single accident.

This lasted less than a bunch of Concord grapes. Maybe only the British resolve at the Battle of Concord would be less.

A (A Grade, not B grade)

AA A Advanced

AAA An Advanced Advertisment

AAAA An Advanced Advertising Arsehole.

iirc Square Enix called Forspoken ‘AAAA’

Monopoly Go is the only real AAAA

• Microsoft has their own controller protocol, xinput, it only works with xbox and PC

• Sony and Nintendo both use BT HID, but add their own non-standard extras to deal with trackpads and gyros, on PC there are drivers to deal with this (inc. w/Linux kernel, extra on Windows)

• For Wireless, Sony and Nintendo both use standard Bluetooth, you can pair a Switch or PS4/5 controller straight to a PC (though you will need extra software on Windows)

• Microsoft uses either their somewhat proprietary 802.11AC implementation (only works with their dongles - you will need extra software on Linux, fully supported in Windows ootb) or standard Bluetooth, their BT has the highest latency of any of the 3 major controllers, but their 5ghz 802.11AC has the lowest. BT mode requires no extra drivers and will work fine ootb on Linux or Windows. You can’t use a headset plugged into the controller or connected by BT (to the controller) if you’re connecting the controller via BT.

• MS has additional trigger rumbling/tension on the Xbox One/Series controllers, in Windows it will only work with MS Store apps - it won’t work on any Steam game :( on Linux it will work, but nothing really supports it either.

• Sony has a much better implementation in the PS5 controller, nothing outside Sony published games use it though - but it’s compatible on Windows with additional drivers (DS4Win) (not sure about Linux here)

• For Nintendo Switch on Windows you will need BetterJoy (previously, BetterJoyForCEMU) to support switch controllers properly, this also makes a DS4Win style gyro server, so anything that support ds4win will support Switch gyro too.

Also quite a few games have worse or non-updated versions on GoG (this isn’t GoG/CDPRojeckt’s fault, but it’s still a pain factor)

Similarly, sometimes the Linux or MacOS ports for a game don’t make it to GoG while the Windows version does.

They fixed that with 76, Both 76 and Starfield have physics untied from framerate.

Patents only last 20 years, You can copy the SNES dpad…

Steamdeck isn’t a perfect example either, but it’s better than here.

For a sticks-only (+ touch on the screen) setup, WiiU Gamepad is still the golden standard, centre of gravity is just right, stick placement is natural for the holding position with the grips, even the dpad and face buttons are comfortable.

Dual Pads - check

Ergo bumps on back of case - check

Not Intel - check

Symmetrical Sticks - check… but not like this - the center of gravity will still be out of whack and you’ll get sore wrists after a while. They need to be up top, like the WiiU Gamepad and SteamDeck. (somehow Nintendo got worse between WiiU > Switch, Switch is terrible for ergo all round)

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AMD Doing everything they can to make sure Intel and nVidia stay on top.

That’s what’s happening though.

Microsoft has implemented a standard Direct3D API for upscalers (DirectSR), so instead of game needing to directly target DLSS AND FSR AND XeSS, it targets DirectSR and your GPU driver provides the rest (ie. nVidia drivers will target DLSS, Intel XeSS, AMD probably nothing for now, since Microsoft’s built-in scaler is a port of FSR3)

This would only be better if Khronos had beaten them to the punch, this is Windows only, but at least it’s GPU vendor neutral.