That sounds cool but the execution is very poor. The case doesnt jump out as a toystory case and then it doesnt match the style of toystory. It needs more grey plastic and rounded edges and less sharp glass edges.

No complaints from me. I’d rather slow and thoughtful than rushed.

This post hits hard. There’s a lot to respond to but i want to focus on the part about “definitive” experience because its actually one of the best parts of video games as an art medium.

In music you may want to chase the most authentic sound possible on vinyl but video games are far more than the graphics quality. Video games are not a single experience that can be packaged up and replicated across people. Every person comes away with a unique experience and this is great for discussion.

We may play the same game but in two completely different ways. When I’m sharing a video game with someone im not sharing in hopes they will have the same experience I had, I’m sharing because im interested in the experience they had.

I’m crossing my fingers and hoping to doesn’t absolutely destroy the competition in benchmarks but i think it might.

You can hate it (and I do) but their tech is pretty insane. Dlss to me looks like complete garbage but to 99% of people its fine and doubles their fps. I think they’re still an industry leader in hardware and ai.

I don’t think they fit the same niche. I played transport fever 2 and its transport tycoon with a coat of paint. Cities 2 is a completely different focus.

I really hope transport fever 3 focuses of more city design because i hate cities 2 so much and would love to see it fail.

Ive got 16gb of vram 2k monitor and this tracks pretty accurately. I almost never use over 8gb. The only games that I can break 10gb are games where I can enable a setting (designed for old PCs) where I can load all the textures into vram.

24gb is a very very tempting offer.

Oh yeah the British national archives really narrows it down.

Where can we read the documents this author is referencing?

Isnt bg3 simplifing DND to bring it to a more mainstream audience? Players definitely do not want deepass crpgs. Crpgs go very deep.

The lord needs to help these people. They’re cooked.

I hate this man so much.

Because you’re playing the right games. When you come across these type of games its so jarring. You open the game and the first thing you see is an ad then a link to the store.

I know but I still disagree with her comments and policy/position on many issues. The greens are to far to the left of me which means they’re probably way to far left for vast majority of the country. What she is saying is dumb and if it hurts the greens thats good but if that spills over and hurts labour then thats terrible for the economic and social trajectory of the country.

To me, every party except labour is harmful to the country.

The greens are so cooked. I hope to god they dont drag down labour. Right wingers constantly say “the greens and labour” even though labour has nothing to do with the scandal and opposes that green policy.

They have such bad optics with every age group except genz.

Its a cancer that is spreading across the world. My dad thinks covid isn’t real but also ivermectin is a wonder drug that the government tried to hide for some reason.

My point is not that there is no where else to buy the products. My point is that there is no point in the government stepping in and deciding that nz businesses now have to pay extra.

The US tariffs dont hurt us much. We can sell elsewhere and likely still complete in the us with the tariffs. However if our government tariggs us goods it will hurt us a lot. Extra costs on our top 3 US imports would make everything more expensive here, make our exports less competitive and do all this at a time when market capital is uncertain and liquidity is low.

These devices all do final stage manufacturing in the US. Switching out a system can cost a fuck ton. If I had a John deer tractor system and I had to switch it to a Chinese one there would be a ton of things that dont work together and require buying a new thing. Thats wasteful.

Nzers have more than enough reasons to boycott and avoid the us. I dont think it is a good idea for the government to make the decision for us.

Why do I have to be specific, the point stands on its own. Why should our businesses pay an increased price for American good? Our businesses will move away from American goods without the punishment of tariffs. Nz is not in the economical position for tariffs. We are already moving to create free trade agreements in Asia and the EU which is enough hurt to the us.

Our 3 biggest imports from the US are agricultural machinery, ICT goods and healthcare goods. So I’d say those are hard and costly to replace especially with vendor lock in.

Edit: Im trying to correct the record on this because I saw somewhere people were also calling Hipkins a spineless coward for saying NZ shouldnt launch reciprocal tariffs.

A lot of what we import from the US is machinery, im assuming its specialized machinery that is designed to work together with other products from that company as the US is notorious for closed eco systems. If we tariff the US then we are forcing our businesses to pay extra for those machines or pay the cost of refitting their entire fleet. Doing this at a time when markets are crashing and uncertainty is high is in my opinion supremely stupid.

I’m all for trying to hurt the US but nz returning the tariffs doesn’t hurt the US since the cost is paid by nz buisness. The US hurt themselves already by putting tariffs on us. NZ can chill and do its own thing, we can weather this storm pretty easily. The US has stabbed us in the back and even without tariffs I can bet that NZ businesses will be looking for non US suppliers where possible.