I want to see them to get the servers working 100% then have Ubisoft sue them. Then they goto court where Ubisoft will (should) lose their ass and set the precedent on what happens when you pull this shit.
My first goto would be a cellphone battery. Having a cellphone battery lasting months longer than what I had to deal with on my old phone. I welcome this.
FTC needs to force auto manufacturers to allow the vehicle OWNER to disable data collection at the very least. If it were up to me it would allow owners to disable the sim card and OTA completely. I personally don’t know anyone who uses the in car gps over google/apple maps anyway.
Wonder if this is the consequence of the MSFT buyout or just that they know it would be more in a negative spot light from the recent developments from the studio.
Isn’t that a prerequisite for enshitification? Publicly-traded companies are required (by law, I think) to maximize profits for their shareholders, even if that means utterly ruining their original product (Reddit, Boeing, etc.), yes? What do you think?
Transgender people in Idaho will no longer be able to use Medicaid and other publicly funded programs to help cover the cost of gender-affirming medical care under a new state law set to take effect in July....
In October 2002, Chechen militants took about 800 people hostage at a Moscow theater. Two days later, Russian special forces stormed the building and 129 hostages and 41 Chechen fighters died, most of them from effects of narcotic gas Russian forces use to subdue the attackers.
Donald Trump has so far been unable to obtain a bond that would allow him to appeal a $454 million judgment against him in a New York civil fraud case without posting the full amount himself, his lawyers said on Monday.
I honest hope, down to my core, that Larian becomes as big as Rockstar Games or Blizzard without all the ‘We need to keep growing’ BS for stockholders. Just make great games and the fandom will follow for years.
Sorry if this is not the right place to ask, but am I the only one who thinks that Star Citizen’s new server meshing technology is an old hat? I believe it’s the same technology that a few highly scalable Minecraft servers have been using for years. WorldQL introduced this back in 2021, but I think the idea was around even...
I feel like I can speak a little about this as I’ve been studying how CIG is implementing server meshing for the past, well a while, but in depth since the demo. For reference until they post the panel: youtu.be/xKWa4WoTkV4?t=4500
What CIG’s way of dynamic server meshing is the revolutionary thing. Currently, AFAIK, all games performing server meshing is built on a static zone mapping. Whereas CIG is using dynamic server meshing zones that will actually map to the interior limits of a room of a capital ship as an example. And this can scale out to planetary objects if only one player is on that planet. If no one is on that planet then it will only run in their tool Quantum, a non rendering backend game simulation.
Along the dynamic zone mapping is the authoritative way of transferring object containers. During the demo you can see the entity graph of the parent object (zone) and child object containers under an authoritative container (player). When a player transfers servers, you can see the movement of child objects from local to replication, and vice versa. This is a needed step as there are millions, and eventually billions of objects to be tracked of throughout the shard.
And last, CIG is building this as a global scale since they have servers in multiple regions where AWS is hosted. From the article and demo I believe this was all done locally with no latency. I do acknowledge that CIG’s demo was local as well so we will see how the net coding is affected when it goes to the EPTU,PTU and PU.
Me and group of nerds are trying to figure out how they are going to eliminate or minimize the latency and error correction or validating the transferring of the auth between the zones.
I’m not a CIG white knight by any means. Infact I’m very open on the piss poor upper management and very shady marketing practices. But with that said a lot of people just don’t realize that CIG is building 4 games, 3 single player (sq42) and one multiplayer. All under a billion and creating new technologies and art assets along the way. Compare to the rumor of GTA VI being over double in cost.
After Ubisoft shut down The Crew's servers, this group of modders began work to bring them back (www.eurogamer.net)
Scientists grow diamonds from scratch in 15 minutes thanks to groundbreaking new process (www.livescience.com)
Handy baseball guide (lemmy.world)
Biden and Trump to face off in first presidential debate on June 27 in Georgia (www.cbsnews.com)
Helldivers 2 delisted from purchase in countries where PSN is unavailable. (steamdb.info)
Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production (newatlas.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/16261249...
DEA to reclass marijuana to Schedule III (apnews.com)
Bout damn time
‘Gray Zone Warfare’ Releases Tomorrow On Steam Early Access (www.forbes.com)
How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me) (www.nytimes.com)
BlizzCon 2024 has been canceled (www.shacknews.com)
Does enshitification happen because companies are publicly-traded?
Isn’t that a prerequisite for enshitification? Publicly-traded companies are required (by law, I think) to maximize profits for their shareholders, even if that means utterly ruining their original product (Reddit, Boeing, etc.), yes? What do you think?
Over 100 staff at Just Cause developers Avalanche have unionised (web.archive.org)
Less than a day before first criminal trial begins, Trump attacks judge—again (www.motherjones.com)
Idaho closes legislative session with a slew of anti-LGBTQ+ laws (www.advocate.com)
Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 (jlai.lu)
Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform (archive.is)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17617609...
Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar (windowscopilot.news)
Idaho governor signs bill banning use of public funds for gender-affirming care (thehill.com)
Transgender people in Idaho will no longer be able to use Medicaid and other publicly funded programs to help cover the cost of gender-affirming medical care under a new state law set to take effect in July....
Gunmen in combat fatigues fire at crowds at Moscow concert hall, a big blaze follows (apnews.com)
Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it's not stopping (momentummag.com)
Trump has failed to get appeal bond for $454 mln civil fraud judgment, lawyers say (www.reuters.com)
Donald Trump has so far been unable to obtain a bond that would allow him to appeal a $454 million judgment against him in a New York civil fraud case without posting the full amount himself, his lawyers said on Monday.
Exxon CEO blames public for failure to fix climate change (thehill.com)
Woods argued the “dirty secret” is that customers weren’t willing to pay for the added cost of cleaner fossil fuels....
'We don't have shareholders, but we also don't think about them,' Larian Studios uses its stage time at the DICE Awards to speak out against a brutal industry climate (www.pcgamer.com)
Helldivers II Review Thread
Game Information...
Wizards of the Coast confirms it is not selling the d&d IP to tencent (www.pcgamer.com)
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 28th
What are you all playing! I’ve been playing a lot of lies of p and have been dipping my toes back into binding of Isaac!
Is Star Citizen's new server meshing tech plagiarized?
Sorry if this is not the right place to ask, but am I the only one who thinks that Star Citizen’s new server meshing technology is an old hat? I believe it’s the same technology that a few highly scalable Minecraft servers have been using for years. WorldQL introduced this back in 2021, but I think the idea was around even...
$600 Million And A Decade Later, Where Is Star Citizen? (exputer.com)