Thing is, not that many apps use Google Play Services. In fact, afaik F-droid explicitly forbids the use of gsm. I’d understand blocking sideloading of the apps that do use it, but if they are going block every single one, that seems a bit draconian and spiteful. Like I understand why they would be displeased with the harsh treatment they received from the US, but I don’t think revenge is a good reason to hamper the user experience.

Honestly I like ribbons quite a lot as a design framework and hell, even padding can improve the UX, it’s just a shame that neither of these elements have been used well in a decade.

Dunno man, it is possible to accept they make good games while still condemning their corporate bs…

They gotta be desperate for the money considering how much of it they’re hemorrhaging every waking minute.

Captured? Give them back!

That one time Bethesda wrote an interesting quest. (I’m sorry, Starfield has taken a toll on my mental wellbeing)

it’s not about the reward, it’s about sending a message (of dopamine to your brain)

and allegedly is a nazi…

Honestly I think that it’s models like these that output things that could be called art.

Whenever a model is actually good, it just creates pretty pictures that would have otherwise been painted by a human, whereas this actually creates something unique and novel. Just like real art almost always ilicits some kind of emotion, so too do the products of models like these and I think that that’s much more interesting that having another generic AI postcard.

Not that I’m happy to see how much SD has fallen though.

hey, when devs actually design the game with raytracing in mind like in Control the performance hit is fairly minor (and that game really benefits from all the pretty shiny floors)

A man who never eats pork buns is not a whole man

Oh no! Poor people!

Oh no! Now one incredibly wealthy corporation has slightly more money than another incredibly wealthy corporation :(

Oh, I see :) Thank you for clarifying.

It’s really impressive what they’ve been able to achieve then.

Wow, had no idea the first one was made with such budget constraints… Though I am curious where you got the budget estimate for 2 as I haven’t found anyhting.

Ehhh well, I’ve kinda regained a bit oh hope after starting Alan Wake II, but yeah the big three (EA, Activison, Ubisoft) are hilariously bad.

B-but you don’t understand! Rockstar has been hinting at it with the moon phases and the constellations present in some random promo art! It’s happening any day now!

Policy’s one thing, how/whether it’s applied is another.