ParlimentOfDoom
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- Comment on Valve contractor discussed his work on implementing foveated rendering within Turnip, the open-source Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan driver. 1 day ago:
If he hadn’t left it in the sun too long, it wouldn’t have foveated…
- Comment on Microsoft want to record your face and feed it to a generative AI, telling it to go off and design a game from your frown 1 week ago:
Why use a picture of a Sony game as the thumbnail?
- Comment on [Frame] Landed on the waitlist, two friends as well (Europe) 1 week ago:
Imagine being disappointed your weren’t chosen to overpay for this…
- Comment on Instagram boss says users will be ‘overwhelmed’ with brand content in algorithm-free world 2 weeks ago:
And whose fault is that, allowing all that brand content on the platform?
- Comment on Star Citizen spinoff Squadron 42 has been delayed yet again, citing everyone going gaga for GTA 6, even if it isn't coming to PC yet 4 weeks ago:
Spinoff? It was the original idea.
- Comment on The US Senate are investigating Roblox for prioritising "revenue and engagement metrics over the safety and well-being of our children" 1 month ago:
Not ignoring. Actively denying the elephant is there.
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass May Soon Work on Linux 1 month ago:
Why bother? They’re shuttering most of the developers they bought up
- Comment on "Machines that weren't game machines before will become game machines": Take-Two CEO predicts that streaming will help fix the industry's hardware pricing problem 1 month ago:
They’ve been predicting this for like 15 years. It’s still laggy as shit
- Comment on Dyson is crap (mostly) 1 month ago:
But now most of them are made from trash metals that stop out from simple hand turning. I hate Phillips heads so much.
- Comment on "I would fight it tooth and nail": The Sims artist would challenge any mandate to reduce diversity after EA Saudi buyout 2 months ago:
Next week: layoffs announced, including management
- Comment on Report: Microsoft will make even more of its games exclusive to Xbox — as multiplatform strategy totally fails. What's going on? 2 months ago:
They need to actually release a game for this to matter…
- Comment on Xbox layoffs mean that Elder Scrolls Online's roadmap is "shifting" just two days before Season One's release... the plan put in place for the MMO after the last round of cuts 2 months ago:
This is all new Netflix shows sadly.
They assume no one is paying attention, so they’ve made it so you don’t have to pay attention (every single thing they do, they explain as they do it)… Or want to.
- Comment on Xbox Games Studios loses two top execs, days after Microsoft CEO calls for company "reset" 3 months ago:
Not surprising given the new leadership is an LLM shill with zero connection to gaming at all and send to be there to gut all the studios Microsoft just spent billions purchasing. How this company can be so mismanaged for so long is astounding
- Comment on Stop Killing Games-backed California bill targeting online game shutdowns "isn't going to be an easy thing" to enforce, says the politician behind it 3 months ago:
…live service games shutting down is like the main reason for these bills in the first place. They are absolutely not excluded.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games-backed California bill targeting online game shutdowns "isn't going to be an easy thing" to enforce, says the politician behind it 3 months ago:
Any game currently live when the law rolls put should be included. If game is already shut down, but the company releases a new game, one could argue they should be forced to comply as well.
- Comment on "We have found ourselves over extended", new Xbox CEO says amid reports of plans for major job cuts 3 months ago:
Buying the largest video game publisher while spending ungodly amounts of money on stupid datacenters will do that.
- Comment on The big Dino Update for Dwarf Fortress announced for June 25 3 months ago:
Dwarfassic Park?!?!
- Comment on "Trust that we're going to be smart about this" Amazon Game Studios boss says of 007 First Light sequels, while insisting he didn't confirm who'll publish them 3 months ago:
Why? It’s been years since any corporate game publisher has handled their products remotely well…
- Comment on Gothic remake lockpicking backlash raises the fascinating question of whether anybody really enjoys lockpicking in RPGs 3 months ago:
A progress bar?
- Comment on Sci-fi RTS ZeroSpace combines StarCraft with Mass Effect RPG choices and look, they've got a Homeworld guy doing the mechs 3 months ago:
Oh man, you weren’t kidding. They got that half-Tellurian (Garrus) looking dude, just a straight up Asari lady, and a Krogan analogue.
- Comment on Krafton have reportedly agreed to pay Subnautica 2's devs that $250 million bonus, following strong early sales 4 months ago:
Agreed to “stop trying to beach their contact”
- Comment on "It felt like we had needed couples therapy": Dishonored devs Arkane making Thief or Blade Runner games sounds ace, but might have sparked a creative director scrap 4 months ago:
Restating gibberish doesn’t make it less gibberish
- Comment on "It felt like we had needed couples therapy": Dishonored devs Arkane making Thief or Blade Runner games sounds ace, but might have sparked a creative director scrap 4 months ago:
What in the every loving fuck is this headline trying to say?
- Comment on Steam's NSFW and Mature tags ditched by Valve in favour of "more descriptive" ones like Sexual Content and Gore, as part of wider revamp 4 months ago:
My kid would love that
- Comment on New York's case that Steam lootboxes are "gambling" is a free speech violation that "will have an impermissible chilling effect on protected videogame design", argue Valve 4 months ago:
No one is forcing you to charge for that type of mechanic. What a stupid defense. It’s gambling. It’s advertised to children.
It doesn’t matter how much you like valve for other reasons. They are in the wrong here.
- Comment on ChatGPT Gave Out My Address and Phone Number 4 months ago:
While I agree AI shouldn’t be doing this. Address and phone numbers have never been private. We used to send whole books of exactly that information to EVERYONE’S house on a yearly basis.
- Comment on If you drop (or throw) your new Steam Controller it will scream at you 4 months ago:
They couldn’t have NOT done that and cut the cost a bit? What a stupid feature.
- Comment on Microsoft will reportedly invite 7% of their US workers to retire early, as the Xbox division talk up "strong cost discipline" 5 months ago:
folding laptop
Is that not… All of them?
- Comment on Valve look like they might be rolling out 30-day Steam price tracking for everyone, making it easier to spot when game discounts are at their discountiest 5 months ago:
So a less useful IsThereAnyDeal
- Comment on "I couldn't protect it" Pete Hines says he left Microsoft-owned Bethesda because he didn't want to watch it be "damaged and broken apart and frankly mistreated, abused" 5 months ago:
You do realize that they significantly modified that engine between each title. It’s not literally the same version as 30 years ago…