So you don’t spend your whole day waiting to play when they push a ludicrous 50GB patch and you can’t play online without it.

I think if Sony want to push this they need to…

1. Make PSN available at least in all countries that Steam operates in.

2. Add cross-buy so if you buy a Sony published game for PC you also get it for Playstation and vice-versa.

Why even bother with a PC when I have a stick and a hoop?

If it can’t be played with a few bits of wood and plastic, then the game isn’t worth playing.

Last year brought us Baldur’s Gate 3.

In what way can “nerd things” not be mainstream?

Yes they are. A PS5 costs £389.99.

What gaming PC can you build for that?

You were more patient than me. I lasted about an hour of it. I just don’t think FPS gameplay and RPG stats gel at all well. Can’t stand Destiny for the exact same reason.

Call me a traditionalist, but I expect enemies that take bullets to the face to do the decent thing and drop down dead, rather than just take very slightly more damage.

Honestly can’t blame Activision for putting shit campaigns into CoD. Since Modern Warfare the focus has been almost entirely on the multiplayer side of things. I suspect most players don’t even touch it now. They sell millions regardless.

Infinity Ward’s original MW and MW2 are the only ones worth playing. Titanfall 2 as well, since it’s the same people.

I think raytracing can improve graphics (especially lighting) without needing insane development resources to be thrown at it.

In terms of simple pixel pushing though, I struggle to see much difference between last gen and this gen. The models and textures look almost identical. Only real difference is framerate.

I blame Far Cry 3 for this proliferation of open world bobbins. So much shit to do and almost none of it is worth doing.

Looks like there’s one mine left operating at any real capacity. ~100,000 tonnes a year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coal_mines_in_the_United_Kingdom#21st_century

Much of that mine’s output is apparently ground down for carbon filters, although it used to be used at a nearby steelworks that I think is now shut.

Domestic use of coal is pretty rare, most people not using gas or electric are using wood burners.

This is legit the picture they’ve got on their site trying to sell it.

I’m going to guess it ends up being an ASDA warehouse or something.

Edit: I forgot HS2 was supposed to stop right next to it, before it was cancelled. It might have been worth something then. But now it’s just some coal dust polluted land. I’m guessing they’re not going to be allowed to sell it for housing due to that.

Looks like it will be demolished rather than converted for wood burning.

What they’ll build there is anyone’s guess. I can find articles getting very excited about it being an “energy hub for innovation and business”, which means absolutely nothing, and makes me think they’ve received no concrete offers but want a lot of money for the land…

What?

There’s Ratcliffe-on-Soar and that doesn’t run all the time, and very rarely at anything approaching full power. It’s closing for good later this year.

Well the UK at least has this one sorted.

The last remaining one is a few miles from my house, and is scheduled to be closed in September.

Probably why they’re going after the emulators. Sounds like this thing is still well within reach of emulation, probably in the first couple of months of release.

What’s actually different in this version? Had a look at a quick comparison and could see bugger all differences… Is it just a resolution/frame rate bump?

For a company that relies 100% on modders for their games, you’d think they’d have an actual modding API built into their games by now.

When I was a kid I wanted to be game dev. Back then a game with three separate people for the coding, graphics and music was considered a big release.

Glad I didn’t get into that tbh, because it sounds shit these days.

I spent an afternoon once playing Infinite Craft, which uses some sort of LLM behind the scenes to do it’s combinations.

At one point I got 007, and found 007+007 = 0014.

The maths gets wild though, and because it’s been trained on text, it has no idea when it comes to combinations of numbers it hasn’t seen before. I spent ages trying to get it to 69420 and just couldn’t, although I could get 42069.

He was surprisingly good in The Fall of the House of Usher.