Tesla is a massive stock pumping Ponzi scheme that just happens to have a poorly ran car company attached to it. People need to realize what the goal of Tesla marketing is really about. It will be remembered as one of the great investment scams of our time.
Lemmy needs to move away from downvotes altogether, or make it totally pointless. Just because Reddit uses it doesn’t make it a good idea.
Open world games need two types of fast travel. The first is your standard type, which is pretty much a teleportation ability. That should be greatly limited. At most, just for cases where you need to travel across the entire map, and should be hidden behind some kind of in-game explanation like “you’re taking a boat/plane/subway” or whatever.
The other one should be some way of moving really fast across the map so previously explored areas aren’t a chore to move across. Literally fast travel, and not teleportation. And no, conventional solutions like horses or cars is still not fast enough. It’s still minutes of mindlessly moving from point A to B in most cases. It needs to be truly fast. Spiderman 2 actually did explore this concept pretty well, with ideas like catapulting yourself or using a wingsuit to glide long distances. Other games need to come up with someway of allow players to cross huge distances in in a few seconds.
I don’t know about you, but it doesn’t really make sense as a product to me. If all it is is some extra raytracing features + slight resolution bump, then it’s not really worth it. Especially if it is a significant price increase over the regular PS5. And if you need significant development work to achieve those results, then I can see many devs just giving it a pass and not bothering to add any features.
Traditionally, the alternatives to Reddit were worse than Reddit. This is the first time that that is no longer true.
You can also make an argument that Reddit was the improved version of Digg. History can repeat itself if the Fediverse proves to a superior model.
Hydrogen is pretty much the only one that really works. It allows you to store energy for months on end, or ship/pipe it around for thousands of miles.
We’re slowing turning smartphones into dumbphones again. Many of us used to rock 10+ year old phones, since phone calls and texting doesn’t need anything fancy.
Hydrogen cars are EVs. The lithium-ion EV is the doomed technology, propped up by hype and subsidies.
It’s still something pretty close to a government mandated monopoly. Hell, most Tesla fanboys want literally just Tesla owning the entire car industry. And the Chinese car companies are all being controlled by the Chinese government. It’s closer to being one company than you think.
Then you may prefer something like oligopoly. The goal is to have just a few companies that only make one type of car with no other options. Cost of transportation will go much higher. The conclusion is still the same: very little or no consumer choices.
In the short-term, all types of cars will exist including PHEVs. It is the BEV fanatic that is trying to eliminate all alternatives.
They are aiming to ban all alternatives, or create subsidies in such way that only one idea can exist. That is consistently with a monopoly.
You probably didn’t see a BEV until the last several years. FCEVs will plunge in cost until they are no more expensive than ICE cars. That will be the real revolution.
FCEVs basically mean the same thing, and it will be viable for everyone and not just the rich.
Even better, look into non-BEV choices. Hydrogen cars are now a thing. But people are just weirdly desiring of a BEV monopoly, with themselves as the ultimate loser.
Ernest, the main developer of Kbin, has given an explanation of what has happened: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/544021/So-what-s-the-status-on-the-update-edit-ernest-responded#entry-comment-3006120
UE5 is nowhere near ready if Aveum is anything to go by. Let’s hope UE5 gets way better or it will spell disaster for a lot of companies.
AMD has partially been caught with its pants down on its GPUs. They’re claiming that they’re more power efficient, but really only in the context of laptops, handhelds and other embedded devices. They are not talking about the power/performance ratio, in which case nVidia easily beats them on the desktop.
They simply need a new GPU architecture that can handle all of the newer rendering concept being utilized these days. Desktop GPUs only use more power because we are looking at very demanding games that are ran at maximum settings. Eventually, these rendering ideas will show up on other platforms. At which point, either they admit graphical inferiority or waste more energy running those features than the competition.
It is shaping up to being another massive bubble…
Have you seen the steam stats? Very few people played this game.