Why should you be surprised by this? Appeasing the executive branches of the government under which you operate is simple generally accepted good business practice. You'd be dumb not to fall in line. Something as simple as stroking the ego of someone with a marketing term can move share prices when talking about any business that may allow a government policy to have a financial impact.

Just look at Anthropic.

I'm just hoping you can turn off all the raytracing shit. They put a lot of raytraced footage in the trailer and you can see denoising is doing a lot of heavy lifting, especially in the in-side vehicle scenes where shadow lighting is completely unstable and hugely distracting.

I prefer to have baked in lighting, than global illumination with shadows which look like they are on meth.

LOL. I don't know where people get this fantasy idea from that AnyPS5 will run anything at all on Linux better than the PS5. At this point it can barely walk games on Linux, let alone run them. Only the most basic of games are truly performant and playable.

GTA6 is a single player game. I suspect it'll launch like GTA5 did, and have anti-cheat added a long time later.

You would have definitely seen a PC release long before AnyPS5 would have made GT6 even remotely playable on PC via emulation. AnyPS5 at this stage barely makes 2D titles work at playable framerates. Having a heavily raytraced 3D game playable is a fantasy you can save for next decade.

I very much doubt it. While no official date was announced for the PC release, they very much always used language indicating a short timeline. Definitely not 2 years, and no exclusivity deals were announced targeting this timeline.

It looks like they used a fuck ton of Ray traced light effects to make the game look more natural and realistic. And yeah on a base PS5 which is basically running a RX 6700 or maybe a 3060 equivalent that's going to choke out. I suspect that they thought the PlayStation 6 was going to be out. I don't think anyone saw how much damage AI was going to do to our hobby. And they probably figured by now somebody would be making more RAM but with zero antitrust law enforcement nobody is going to take any chances...

As we recently discussed here, it won't allow that, whether because they didn't get the rights or because they decided not to do so. I would of course bet on the former, because R* wouldn't want the competition and they are not run by idiots.

Anyhoo, I wonder whether this version of the game will work on Linux. They have historically had a lot of problems with cheaters, which I have both been harmed by and benefited from at different times — when the big cash cheat was happening, they did take away most of the money that was given away, but they let people keep the vehicles and properties they'd purchased. They might well be tempted to utilize kernel-level anticheat, and I don't have Windows on my primary PC at all any more so that would be a hard deal breaker.

R* doesn't need my money, but anyway, they certainly won't get it if I can't run the game. The game probably won't run worth a shit on Steam Deck no matter what, and I imagine that the predictable effects on their decision making process won't be beneficial to me.

My epitaph once Krasnov sells us out to the Neo-USSR.

I had a coworker at Cisco in Santa Cruz (formerly the office was TGV, which they bought) who commuted from San Francisco who was an intern who absolutely did the work of a "real" employee. However you think the world works, whatever the laws are supposed to accomplish, this is reality.

It didn't eliminate either of those jobs.

You'll know eventually.

That's not how anything works.

NEVER AGAIN was supposed to be FOR ANYONE.

If they can do it to the Palestinians, they can do it to you.

This all works in exactly the opposite of the way in which you want people to think it works.

Why exactly is that? How do you profit from promoting genocide?

If there was competition in the market then no it wouldn't have done that but the same handful of people own all the grocery stores. Remember we put everything on the stock market and only a handful of people own enough stock that they actually have any kind of a controlling interest. Your 401k does not mean you have a controlling interest..

What does this means in practice is that there is zero competition in grocery shopping. The only limit on prices is the point where people actually start to notice that and stop voting Republican.

So they can fire a whole shitload of people and yeah it's slower for you to sit in the line ringing and bagging your own groceries and it's slower for everyone involved but you need food and they've got it so you have to put up with it.

There are a handful of alternatives but none of them at scale. You can drive an hour or two to a farmer's market I guess. There are expensive boutique grocery stores. Stuff like that. But realistically you're not going to be able to keep yourself fed with those. Not unless you have special circumstances. The majority of the population are stuck with the large grocery chains and they know it.

You could of course try opening your own grocery store chain to compete... Except they will run you out of business with low prices just long enough to bankrupt you and we don't enforce antitrust law.

We spent the last 50 years dismantling our Democratic institutions so that we could indulge in Petty moral panics. We are only just now starting to see the consequences of that. The real fun comes when the stock market finally collapses after the Epstein class is done looting our 401ks. If you're a baby boomer good luck dying before that happens because God knows you can't stop it.

If you were an NPC, how would you know? Besides your comments being posted as AC, I mean.

I didn't and don't but of course their excuse will be that this is the transitional period, and we have to wait for those jobs to materialize.

And there is a kernel of truth to it, in that if it were going to happen, it would take time to happen completely.

Ofc it's not going to happen, this is fundamentally different from prior shifts and it will only result in a net decrease. This would be a good thing if the wealthy didn't hoard all the wealth... Such as if we had the balls to take it. But, too many simps.