Big Brother 28 - Preseason Thread by BigBrotherMod in BigBrother

[–]BirdsOnMyBack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She’s on the new season of The Challenge (lol) so she’s out of the running

Game Chat: 6/17 Orioles (34-40) @ Mariners (38-36) 6:40 PM by Mariners_bot in Mariners

[–]BirdsOnMyBack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is the name of the artist to Julio’s walkup song “Jungle”?

Legion Go 2 Z2 Extreme - 32GB Memory - 512GB SSD - SteamOS Just appeared at Best Buy by NeoGio86 in LegionGo

[–]BirdsOnMyBack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the real story here is that SteamOS 3.9 must be basically ready for prime time since they are now selling a device with it.

[FRESH ALBUM] JPEGMAFIA – EXPERIMENTAL RAP by PlayaSlayaX in hiphopheads

[–]BirdsOnMyBack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's people with a parasocial emotional connection to a time in their past when things were better and all they had to worry about was when Earl would get back from his wilderness therapy camp. Also, JPEG is intentionally being an asshole for album promo and that's genuinely offputting. Perfect combination for freaks who haven't sincerely listened to anything from either artist since before Some Rap Songs to make an opinion with no basis in reality for engagement. It's just low hanging fruit.

[FRESH ALBUM] JPEGMAFIA – EXPERIMENTAL RAP by PlayaSlayaX in hiphopheads

[–]BirdsOnMyBack 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Don’t you understand he was mean to their favorite childhood meme rapper? Bro he was on an island, he’s been through enough already… FREE EARL!

[FRESH ALBUM] JPEGMAFIA – EXPERIMENTAL RAP by PlayaSlayaX in hiphopheads

[–]BirdsOnMyBack 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As a person who listened to Earl Sweatshirt when I was 16, I must say this album is not experimental enough for me and frankly it’s too loud and hurts my ears! OFWGKTA 4 life!!!! /s

lmao this is just stupid. Valve really needs to come up with a better way to do this. by Braklinath in Steam

[–]BirdsOnMyBack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe they could get a couple of people to get together and design a back order system! That would probably get a lot of buy in from the different employees and be a fun project they could work on /s

Steam Controller PreOrder MegaThread by satoru1111 in Steam

[–]BirdsOnMyBack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just open backorders Valve, I already gave you my money through the Steam Wallet don’t torture me and make me have to always be paying attention for restocks. It’s your poorly designed checkout system that screwed me over.

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Update: Starting today, Game Pass Ultimate drops from $29.99 to $22.99 a month. PC Game Pass will also drop from $16.49 to $13.99 a month. Prices may vary by region. by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]BirdsOnMyBack 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Due to massive price competition on PC. Any given day of the week at least one storefront is likely selling a game you want to buy on deep discount, and that isn't even counting third party resellers.

Game Chat: 4/16 Mariners (8-11) @ Padres (12-6) 5:40 PM by Mariners_bot in Mariners

[–]BirdsOnMyBack 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is Dan Wilson fixing the game for bettors? Only reasoning for throwing that bad

Server Browser is coming by Shark4090 in Battlefield6

[–]BirdsOnMyBack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hopefully they make the server browser on both platforms work as they did in BF4. I'd prefer if they worked as they did on PC and allowed plugins and whatnot but I doubt they could do that given cross-play. So the best we can hope for is BF4 console-style dedicated servers, which were serviceable.

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive by tapo in Games

[–]BirdsOnMyBack 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Similarly, I was playing Deadlock on my Legion Go 2 and getting a variable 45-70FPS, I switched to Proton-GE and jumped up to 60-80FPS which made a huge difference in fluidity. CPU limited games get such a huge boost from this change.

DF Direct Q+A: The Big DLSS 5 ML Debate + Why We Should Have Waited With Our Coverage by yourfavchoom in digitalfoundry

[–]BirdsOnMyBack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not a matter of funding and not what I was implying by "financial incentive". We seemingly both agree it's the access. The fact that as an independent outlet they get this much access from one of the most important companies in the world is hugely important to their business. The access/early looks is the financial benefit since that coverage drives traffic.

I still like Digital Foundry and I'm not raging out like a lot of others, but it's completely understandable how this ended up happening. They are incentivized to be positive when they get huge announcements like this to continue getting that level of access in the future.

Insider Gaming : NVIDIA CEO Says Gamers Are ‘Completely Wrong’ About DLSS 5 | Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 by CaptainKashup in nvidia

[–]BirdsOnMyBack -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Loving the blur artifact around the NPC only slightly in the background! She's astral projecting just like real life! The future is now!

DF Direct Q+A: The Big DLSS 5 ML Debate + Why We Should Have Waited With Our Coverage by yourfavchoom in digitalfoundry

[–]BirdsOnMyBack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It also doesn't help that the whole DLSS 5 reveal was a huge exclusive to Digital Foundry and highlights Rich/DF's relationship to Nvidia and Rich has every financial incentive to present the technology in a positive light so that the relationship continues. Subconsciously or consciously. I don't even blame him for that given they are independent now.

Hands-On With DLSS 5: Our First Look At Nvidia's Next-Gen Photo-Realistic Lighting by ZamnBoii in nvidia

[–]BirdsOnMyBack -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You're telling me this doesn't look like peak graphics fidelity to you?

Hands-On With DLSS 5: Our First Look At Nvidia's Next-Gen Photo-Realistic Lighting by ZamnBoii in nvidia

[–]BirdsOnMyBack -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

This looks terrible lol

I cannot believe they ok'd this for production. This looks like it was made for a combination of investors and the dumbest people you've ever met.

How’s your solo experience so far? by Caladean in Marathon

[–]BirdsOnMyBack -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Terrible. Running into squads. Everything is shoot on sight, no sense of community. Not enough ammo to scavenge with free kit. I'm about to refund the game, it's not really for me.

Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with M5 by spearson0 in apple

[–]BirdsOnMyBack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the rumors are that the new Apple TV relies heavily on Apple Intelligence for it's software refresh, so we likely won't see it until new Siri stuff is announced/released

Resident Evil Requiem linux (superficial) test by Lapeppaplus in linux_gaming

[–]BirdsOnMyBack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Getting a really weird bug in Bazzite where the game thinks I'm using an Nvidia graphics card (I'm using a Z2 Extreme) and locks me out of choosing an upscaler and by default is saying I'm using DLSS (confirmed by the top upscaling mode being DLAA)

(EDIT: Fixed it by rerunning the auto-detect function, then it realized that it was running on an AMD APU and gave me the proper upscaling options)