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    1 year ago

    For missing the FOV option, most of the time it’s some boneheaded decision to keep the console and PC games identical, as the console versions are optimized to handle exactly the amount of stuff that could be on the screen at once with the default FOV. There really is no real reason not to add it in the PC version - quite a few games do have a disclaimer akin to “If you increase the FOV, you might see graphical glitches”, but that’s fine.
    As for the super ultrawide there is an actual obstacle, the UI. You often can’t use the same one as you either have them horribly stretched, sitting in the middle kinda blocking your view or spread uselessly all the way at the edges. So someone has to actually do some work to make it work.

    As an example, here’s Starfield super ultrawide comparison between the default FOV and 120 degree FOV. You can imagine the performance cost and possible visual glitches you might get from doing that.




  • It’s an investigation because they don’t know every single thing yet, like if the boy even was alive or not when he got thrown overboard as there are eye witness reports saying he was slumped and unmoving in his wheelchair hours earlier.
    What started the murder & suicide investigation that does not have any other suspects was surveillance video evidence that disproved the initial assumption that the mother jumped after him to save him. Not a lot of possibilities for who get the “murdered” and who the “murderer & suicide” labels there.



  • why sell the company instead of enshittifying your platform yourself?

    Because it’s a lot easier to find someone who thinks they can do it than it is to actually successfully do it yourself - as we are currently seeing with how wonderfully incompetent Spez is with Reddit.
    When Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion in 2013 - only to sell it for $3 million in 2019 - was Tumblr bringing in millions and millions of profit? No. But Yahoo thought that they would be able to make it.
    Elon Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter, it hasn’t turned any profit either (and never will enough for him to get his moneys worth, but that’s just because Musk is an idiot).

    But yeah, quite often it does feel like a scam. Or kinda like… gambling? You hope someone will pay a lot for your company, while they hope they can make it turn wildly profitable, both may or may not come true.


  • A houses value is not theoretical though. You own land and a roof to live under

    But that doesn’t mean you can turn a profit from it, or even break even. If you want to do that you have to sell it to someone, and there are multiple reasons why you might not be able to - maybe you spent too much money renovating it and now nobody wants to pay that much. Maybe a bunch of new housing was built and the value crashed. Maybe Detroit happened and the location and land it sits in is literally worthless and nobody wants to live there. - until you actually find a buyer for it all houses have only a theoretical value, as do all companies.