There already are games in the vehicle. They’re just all pretty lightweight. The newer GPUs have a lot more power for the newer Autopilot and FSD processing.
They can only be used while parked, and help kill time when waiting for people or while charging if you are on a slower charger or have a longer charge time between segments.
Or you know… While sitting and charging or waiting for someone I could instead use the much more powerful GPU that is already in the vehicle and used for vision processing. The one not doing anything while parked.
The games have never been able to be played while driving. A quick search would have told you that, but you’re assuming the worst because you aren’t willing to do even the most basic check and would rather blather on about a fictional situation you think is the case.
That’s why you’re getting down voted. The thing you’re complaining about doesn’t exist and never had. It’s a pointless comment that just shows you don’t know what you’re talking about about, AND didn’t read the article.
However, we now learn that Tesla is dropping the feature. The automaker wrote to people taking delivery of new Model S and Model X vehicles:
Tesla is updating the gaming computer in your Model X and your vehicle is no longer capable of playing Steam games. All other entertainment and app functionalities are unaffected.
It doesn’t sound like current owners are affected by the change.
Notice the phrasing of New vehicles and writing to people expecting delivery of them, not current owners.
Most likely they just don’t want to continue having to support it at all going forwards.
Tech debt is a big issue with codebases as time goes on. Steam isn’t necessary, and usage likely wasn’t very high, so the time to maintain updating it was likely determined to not be worth it. So you end support where it’s at with the currently deployed user base and let it die naturally.
That doesn’t have any bearing on whether Tesla wants to officially support it on more vehicles.
If something breaks, people will blame Tesla first, even if they changed absolutely nothing. The average person has very little technical knowledge and essentially thinks of all of their electronics as a magic box that just works, until it doesn’t. They don’t care about the how, the why, or the who, they just care about whether it works or not. And if it doesn’t, the first person they blame is whoever makes the box, even if they have nothing to do with the software the person was using.
You probably wait in your car a lot more than you realize. I pick up friends to go various places as I’m usually the designated driver, I’m often waiting out in the parking lot for people to come out. It may only be a few minutes, but a lot of the regular built in games (not steam) will load up in just a minute or so and occupy that time.
Or waiting at the cell phone lot to pick people up from the airport.
Charging waiting is likely the most common, but unlike what most non-EV drivers seem to think most of those stops are only about 15 minutes on a road trip. You aren’t charging up fully each time, you just charge up for the next leg, and a buffer, and the car calculates it all for you. Otherwise you really should have a home charging solution, it’s cheaper and you always have a full charge you don’t need to think about. If for some reason you need to fully charge at a supercharger, that can take longer. Just like your phone can charge to 50-70% super quickly and the rest is slow, the car battery is similar, just much larger capacity. So that can take a while longer. The longest I’ve ever had to charge though for a nearly full battery from about 20% was 40 minutes. And that was because I was going to a very remote area, away from major highways with no charging infrastructure, so I made sure I had enough to make it back.
Most people probably would just play on their phones, but the in car games just provide an alternative. Just like Netflix and the other streaming services in the car. They’re there for those waiting times, however infrequent they may be.
Yeah it only works when parked. You can’t even shift into drive without closing the games.
On the newer vehicles with a screen in the rear seats, the games may work when driving. I don’t have one of those to know for sure, but I think those allow at least things like Netflix in the back for child entertainment.
Any bets on how long it takes the Satanic Temple to have the Seven Tenets be included as well?
I. One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
II. The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
III. One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
IV. The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one’s own.
V. Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs.
VI. People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one’s best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
VII. Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
With a smaller budget they can’t afford to go after people that can afford actual accountants and lawyers to delay constantly.
They instead can really only go after low earners who can’t afford a lawyer at all and have to deal with the IRS directly by themselves, and will just take whatever deal is offered.
It’s literally the reason why the IRS recently had their budget increased and so they’ve been going after the rich that everyone knows aren’t even paying the lower percentage they are supposed to.
To be fair, advertising in sports games is essentially expected. Advertising is all over the place in real world sports.
We all know that’s not what EA is talking about here though. They 100% are trying to figure out how to get that sort of advertising into other shit where it doesn’t fit well. You know they’d put real world ads into a single player Star Wars game right now if they could get away with it.
A group of influential Republican senators has sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, and threatening him with “severe sanctions” if he does so....
There’s an additional aspect. An interpretation of the end-times prophecy. Some believe (primarily evangelicals) that God promised the Holy Land to the Jewish people, and that reestablishing Israel’s political boundaries will begin the end times. So as much as they may hate the Jews, they must be in power in Israel.
At launch the PSN linking was required. It was only disabled because the PSN servers were causing some of the overall server issues at launch. They made the decision to temporarily remove the requirement to get the game more stable while Sony fixed their server issues. I highly doubt Arrowhead though that would take nearly this long, so the number of affected users would be minimal. But clearly it took longer than planned, or Sony took this long to let them know the issues were fixed and they needed to require linking again. Given Sony’s rather spotted history, it could be either honestly.
Linking clearly was intended to be brought back at some point once that issue was resolved. The only bad decision Arrowhead made was not making it more clear to people between then and now that login would still be required at a later date.
The Steam page listed the PSN requirement from day one. The sales page setup should have prevented sales in non-PSN regions, that not being done looks to be due to Sony as the publisher failing to limit that as they should. That’s either sheer incompetence or greed to try to get as many additional sales as possible and try to force people onto PSN after the fact. Maybe both.
To be honest, the contract requirement for PSN isn’t the issue here. It was there from the beginning, and disclosed on the sales page. Sony’s shit servers were an issue, and the ultimate root cause of all of this bullshit. If the PSN servers weren’t dogshit to start with none of this would have happened.
As much as it sucks… This is how you properly shut down a studio.
Severance for employees, winding down existing operations, maintaining support for released products, and asking for studios that have the room to proactively reach out.
Instead of hiding it all from employees until they’re suddenly laid off without warning and everything shuts down almost immediately.
For Helldivers specifically here, the PSN requirement was listed on the Steam page at launch. It wasn’t enforced, but it was disclosed.
Not saying I agree, it’s a shitty move that definitely seems like it’s being forced by Sony who couldn’t care any less about publicity. But this requirement was already there for anyone that bothered to read the store page, even if it wasn’t enforced at the time.
You know, if you’d asked me 6 months ago what Unity could do to lose even more goodwill with gamers, I would have said there was nothing, they were at the bottom. The fact that they were able to not only find but also pick literally the worst option on the planet is quite the achievement.
A former EA and Zynga executive? One that specialized in mobile? Jesus Christ.
I’m gonna say going all in on mobile and abandoning everything else to languish. Acting like it’s still 2002 with Angry Birds and Candy Crush being the biggest games on the mobile market. That simple physics and matching block games are a quick turnaround with massive profit potential. Viewing mobile as the beginning of a massive gold rush, ignoring the fact that it was over a decade ago and the easy mobile money is now gone. Ignoring that competition came and saturated that market years ago.
They’ll probably use some sort of justification based on mobile market share, Windows PC usage dropping for many in favor of tablets and phone-only usage. Ignoring the fact that they make a complicated video game engine geared towards complex, demanding, and immersive games, not towards the casual mobile market.
I would have made this same prediction even without the new CEO coming from mobile, so that just compounds the chances of it happening IMO.
I’m pretty sure the DEA has a ton of funding directly tied to Marijuana enforcement, they can’t just deschedule it entirely without losing that funding immediately. Those funding requirements need to be reclassified for other uses.
I do have to generally agree, however this is also easily the weakest part of the game. The game doesn’t hand hold you through explaining everything with full screen explanations like some games, and there’s a lot going on with the map screen to notice the difficulty and matchmaking functions when you first jump into the game. However, it is right there. The first couple missions it steers you towards are so simple and short you definitely don’t need teammates to complete, and from my experience they basically assume you won’t have any. After you play a couple short missions alone, it makes sense you’d look at more in the interface, it’s not rocket science.
However, the high number of loading screens and animations to get into and out of a party simply to make it “look” nice is absurd. An animation of the ship jumping to a planet, then an animation of you coming out of a pod onto the ship, then if you are kicked an animation of you doing the exact same thing back to your ship, taking 30-60 seconds to run through. Animating it all for a single ship to deploy from, versus a standard matchmaking room is just a waste of time for matchmaking. It looks cool and for friends is awesome, but to just play the game, it’s a massive waste of time. This is made even more annoying with players kicking people from their teams for any number of reasons so all of those nice looking loads just waste that time and the kicked player then needs to walk all the way back through their ship to get to the map and try again. This is the most annoying part of getting kicked honestly.
I think part of this is also a good chunk of the community either not knowing how, or not utilizing the party privacy functionality. So people aren’t putting themselves into things like friends-only or closed parties when they don’t want to play with randoms. And then there’s always the toxic players kicking people simply for not playing the meta.
A party leader kicking players within a couple minutes of joining a party should negatively affect that player in some form to ensure people use the privacy system correctly and help stop some of this meta toxicity. Like an inability to call stratagems for some time in mission (and it not counting until actually playing, so they can’t just sit on the ship to wait it out). They already have the in game propaganda system setup, declare the player anti-democratic or something to make in game punishment seamless with the lore.
You can play the entire game without anyone else. Just close your party and pick a mission. No one will be able to join your in-progress mission if your party is closed. It’s not even that difficult until the higher difficulties, you’ll just spend more time doing things alone without having a full team to sweep through enemies and objectives.
The game is built around playing with a group though, that is how it is intended to be played from the ground up.
It 100% intends you to play with others. It is not meant to be played single player, it just can be if you insist. You will not get the same experience.
That being said, I’ve played a ton on PC with no mic, just using the in game target and item marking system and a couple text messages occasionally, without any issue. Playing with randoms isn’t a big issue most of the time.
Just don’t take it too seriously. Half of the fun to be honest is not noticing someone threw a stratagem for a 500kg bomb into that crater you’re jumping into kill the bugs and dying to a massive explosion. The game tells you everything a player calls something in and there’s a light from God showing you where it’s going, but sometimes you just miss it. Or the guy was prepping to throw it and died so they dropped it at their feet.
Just don’t take anything too seriously. It’s not that kind of game.
It is a great game even if it essentially required multiplayer. You might be able to borrow a friend’s copy through steam’s family library sharing or something like that to try out.
There’s no like ranking system or anything to worry about messing up a friend’s account as a new player.
The Community Info. Depending on the website layout it is often displayed on the side of the screen, as a sidebar next to the main content. It usually has things like community rules. Some layouts and mobile apps refer to it as the sidebar, community description, or the community info.
If that happens, the Dems have a more than decent chance of taking control of the house since so many Republicans have left recently. It only takes a couple to break ranks and the Dems have a majority. If that happens though, the Repubs will just go on the offensive blaming everything they have done to prevent anything from actually being passed this entire cycle on whatever Dem Speaker is in place. And their base will eat it up because they just accept what they’re told at face value.
The better option is just to leave Mike in place and guarantee his position as long as he’s willing to compromise a bit. Note how Mike no longer looked like he was a hostage when he announced the recent Ukraine aid. Hold that over his head to force him to work with the Dems until the election.
On the contrary, Lemmy has a massive bot problem. Bots are cheap to operate, and unlike major corporations who make security and spam a focus, federation allows them to leverage smaller servers with poor sign up requirements to hide across the fediverse.
Getting really tired of these idiots trying to shove multiplayer and/or MMO mechanics into single player franchises or attempting to justify a shift to live service.
So the judge decided that HIPAA just doesn’t apply for, “protection”… okay I can see that being a possibly reasonable situation, so the patient is requesting the government do something on their behalf right? Oh, no, it has nothing to do with any patient request? Well then seems like plain government overreach to me, and undermining superseding federal law over protection of identifiable medical information. This will get thrown out on appeal immediately.
Cain appreciated the performances and storytelling, but singled out how the show nailed the Fallout “vibe” as its biggest achievement. “I was just looking at all the props,” he said of one scene. “I realized after a few minutes went by that I had not followed the dialogue at all, because I was so engrossed by it...
This isn’t the Biden admin. This is because the DNC set the date for their convention to officially select the party candidate so late that it’s after State deadlines. Who knows why they made that decision, it’s not the first they have, and the DNC aren’t the only ones. The Republicans did the same thing in 2016 when Trump was elected. Alabama had to pass a law to extend the deadline for the RNC to select late that election.
Let’s get the initiative on the ballot and we can just decide this for ourselves, bypassing the Legislature and preventing them from messing with it in the future. The Legislature has very limited ability to amend public initiative ballot measures in AZ.
Tesla drops Steam gaming support inside its vehicles (electrek.co)
Louisiana is about to force the Ten Commandments in every classroom (www.friendlyatheist.com)
A bill sponsored by GOP State Rep. Dodie Horton would shove Christianity in students’ faces...
Google accidentally deleted a $125 billion pension fund's account (qz.com)
Kamala Harris drops F-bomb as she urges young people to break barriers (www.theguardian.com)
Republican who voted twice against Israel aid wants to impeach Biden for threatening to hold it back (www.businessinsider.com)
EA is looking at putting in-game ads in AAA games — 'We'll be very thoughtful as we move into that,' says CEO (www.tomshardware.com)
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Congress’ Odd Couple—Jeffries and Johnson—Mystifies Lawmakers (www.thedailybeast.com)
EXCLUSIVE: “You Have Been Warned”: Republican Senators Threaten the ICC Prosecutor over Possible Israel Arrest Warrants (zeteo.com)
A group of influential Republican senators has sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, and threatening him with “severe sanctions” if he does so....
Helldivers: We are talking solutions with PlayStation, especially for non-PSN countries. I am doing everything I can to speak for the community - but I don't have the final say. (twitter.com)
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Paladin Studios has shut down after almost 20 years (www.videogameschronicle.com)
The idea that the Manor Lords dev should 'just hire 50 people' to update it faster is 'fundamentally not the way things work,' says publisher (www.pcgamer.com)
MRW I hear a music track that Rule(s), but I can only understand every 4th word. (lemmy.world)
I’ll take Eminem, Ludacris, Snoop, 50 Cent etc. over mumble rap any day. Though in the end love what you love - it’s just a meme about my opinion.
HELLDIVERS™ 2 - HELLDIVERS™ 2 Account Linking Update (store.steampowered.com)
Well, well, well. I see Sony wants to kill all the goodwill their game has garnered with this linking bullshit.
Pregnant women in Missouri can't get divorced. Critics say it fuels domestic violence (www.npr.org)
Unity appoints former EA and Zynga executive as its new CEO (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Stick a fork in it, it’s done.
"Number of different devices" fail to keep Trump awake in court (www.salon.com)
DEA to reclass marijuana to Schedule III (apnews.com)
Bout damn time
The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook (www.pcgamer.com)
Embracer CEO suggests he must shoulder much of the blame for a ‘long list’ of mistakes (www.videogameschronicle.com)
62 percent of Biden voters want to replace both candidates on the ballot: Poll (www.thehill.com)
Arizona state House passes a bill to repeal 1864 abortion ban (www.nbcnews.com)
Third GOP lawmaker says he will support effort to oust Mike Johnson from speakership (www.npr.org)
R.F.K. Jr.’s Environmental Colleagues Urge Him to Drop Presidential Bid (www.nytimes.com)
RFK Jr, like the other third party candidates, is running as a spoiler to help Trump — his staff have even said so:...
Deus Ex Director Says Future Of Immersive Sims Is Multiplayer (web.archive.org)
Scared the shit out of me ngl (lemmy.world)
Anti-trans Missouri A.G. can now access trans people’s medical records (newrepublic.com)
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Original Fallout lead Tim Cain loves the new show, but remains baffled by how 'destructive' fans can act toward 'people who are trying to create things' (www.pcgamer.com)
Cain appreciated the performances and storytelling, but singled out how the show nailed the Fallout “vibe” as its biggest achievement. “I was just looking at all the props,” he said of one scene. “I realized after a few minutes went by that I had not followed the dialogue at all, because I was so engrossed by it...
Meet a Missouri dad who went from a ‘full-on bigot’ to fighting bathroom bans on behalf of his 16-year-old daughter: ‘When it was my child, it just flipped a switch’ (fortune.com)
Better late than never! 🥳
Washington becomes latest state that could leave Biden off their November ballot (abcnews.go.com)
Arizona Republicans Shut Down Effort to Repeal 1864 Abortion Ban (www.jezebel.com)
Truong My Lan: Vietnamese billionaire sentenced to death for $44bn fraud (www.bbc.co.uk)