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A release table could be interesting, but what happened here was squeenix took a year to ship the PC version, which is just silly.

I get they're Japanese and devs there historically don't care much about the PC, but it's 2024 and if you're not doing a simultaneous launch, it should be much faster than a year (unless you have a VERY good reason, but you shouldn't).

There's too many games moving around on the indie side and the some-number-of-AAAs side to keep track of everything, and this one just kinda fell off my radar completely in favor of other things. (I expect GTA6 to do the exact same thing for much the same reason, so it's not specific to them.)

As for 15 and 7, I'll admit I probably didn't look further than a 'Has the FF15 battle system!' posted somewhere and went nah and just kind of never looked at it again. And, of course, I don't have that FF7 nostalgia, since I managed to never play it when it was current content - we were a Nintendo household and uh, I didn't even own a Playstation until like 2 or 3 years ago.

I prefer the chummer variety of future cyberpunk-y dystopia.

It has dragons!

Not to be one of the annoying 'I agree!' posters, but...

They're pretty spot on. For me, personally, FF15 was sufficiently un-fun enough that I skipped the 7 remake entirely when I heard it had the same battle system.

I also kinda uh, forgot FF16 actually existed since I don't do consoles and wasn't even aware it had come out on PC until I read this article, heh.

And this is coming from someone who, as a kid, would rent the NES/SNES Final Fantasy games over and over until I was good enough that I could beat them in one shot during a weekend rental period of Friday night -> Sunday before noon.

And yeah, Persona and Like a Dragon and even the mainline SMT games are freaking great.

Leveraging something they already run makes a lot more sense than building a bespoke thing for streaming the data for just MSFS. (In my defense, it is a game and game devs have done much sillier things than doing something like that.)

I just have begun to accept that I'm not the market for games anymore, because I'm unwilling to buy something that is most probably going to end up broken some point in the future once there's no more money to be squeezed out of it.

I'm just very opposed to renting entertainment because everything is temporary.

(Thankfully there's ~30 years of games to play that don't suffer from any of this live-service-ness so I'm not exactly short of things to spend time on.)

IIRC, it's more like 250 million, but 250 million is still basically half of whatever this generic-ass live-service FPS game ended up costing, and it's certainly not to the scope or scale of GTA5.

....how does ANY game cost $400,000,000?

No, seriously: does that include an unlimited drugs and hookers for the c-levels budget or something?

It's just living up to their part of the deal: if I'm going to get the dystopia part, I damn well better also get the cyberpunk part.

That's exactly what they're doing: the assets are going to be streamed and then probably cached in RAM, thus you need a lot of RAM.

Of course this makes me think that FS2024 is going to get live-serviced and killed at some point when they decide to stop hosting all that data and welp so much for your game you bought, too bad.

The main problem I'd have accepting crypto from my boss is that every crypto I've seen that's not explicitly a stable coin means I could be making my salary, or you know, 80% or of my salary depending on the mood of the market on the aforementioned card game and breakfast food sites.

And before anyone goes 'oh your boss would clearly just pay you more crypto to equal your value in USD', uh, that would mean that we're still not really using crypto as a currency but as a thing that's only worth anything because it's tied to a USD value and thus what's the point? Also lmao at a boss paying you more because of a currency fluctuation that's in their favor.

We're still in the speculation phase and not the stable currency phase, outside of some stable coins, which are even harder to get into or out of, because now you have to change your crypto for the other crypto to use it somewhere that maybe takes it. And of course, transacting between different cryptos is hardly free, so it's... not just there yet.

I kinda agree, but think the current generation of crypto is all pretty much 1st generation early adopter stuff that's never going to scale into anything useful.

It's still too compute intensive, too slow, requires too much trust in very sketchy 3rd parties (see: every exchange ever).

Make it not use so much power it breaks the grid and becomes a race between it and AI as to who is wasting the most power to do the least useful work, build it to scale to millions of transactions, and don't make me trust people who name their websites after card games or breakfast foods in order to use it, and I'll be much more interested.

(Also monero has the right approach to privacy, so do that too.)

Yeah, I've read about that. But, then again, the legal industry was probably exceedingly low on the likely-to-change-to-Linux probability list in 1999, as well. I've worked for some lawyers in the past and they're a shockingly traditional dont-change-anything-ever group. (Not particularly shocking.)

And it's the site that an American president came closest to dying in a nuclear explosion! (I mean that's not why it's notable, but it's a fun fact anyways.)

I for one look forward to the next Terminator movie, written by ChatGPT.

Lol, they're just renaming Remote Desktop to Windows.

So I can use Windows to connect to Windows, and run my Windows.

Truly a moment of marketing brilliance.

As someone who has gigabit, basically the only service that can reliably saturate that is Steam.

Realistically, the right math to do is a 'how many people are here, and how many 4k streams are going to be watched at once, and how many megabits is that' since almost nothing else you do is likely to do a sustained saturated use of your throughput for most (read: non-super-nerdy types) people.

Also if you have to ask, then you've never noticed and are in that 'don't really care' zone, and you can probably get whatever you want and be fine.

As usual, the American tourist causes endless problems for their host country.

(I'm American but you have to admit that we suck as tourists.)

Linux was the NFT or Blockchain or AI of 1999, so every tech company was jumping on board.

The sales pitch, as I remember, was that you could run your Wordperfect or CorelDraw shit on it, and not need to have Windows to use it and instead could join the future, which was Linux. Though, amusingly, their version of the future was running Windows binaries via Wine on Linux which, eh, okay but...

Of course, nobody used Wordperfect or CorelDraw at that point in history so I'm not entirely sure how that was supposed to sell you on buying not-Word and not-Photoshop.

A group of people who stand to lose all the rights that have been fought for and won over the last few decades, and depending where they live are at actual risk of being murdered and the lead for the don't-murder-me party is only 67%?

There's no hope for anyone.

It reads like an advertisement for software-automated pentesting that just forgot to include a link to what they're selling.

I don't know if that's the intent, but...

Also, if you want free pentesting, you could always just "accidentally" include credentials to something you push to GitHub. It's free, AND done by a human!

Edit: LMAO, it is an ad. A "contributed piece from our partners" line down at the bottom.

Make sure you come back and update me when you try it, and then find out that the cables are all stapled to the studs.

That's always extra fun to discover once you start running cabling.

Though, if you have good coax everywhere, MOCA is a legitimate option you should be considering, as it'll do gigabit (more than, even) and the adapters aren't particularly expensive compared to dealing with having to pull cabling through everywhere.