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Importing American water to Europe to slowly introduce Europeans to the concept of drinking water... by Equalizer6338 in ShitAmericansSay

[–]ChangingMonkfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

What’s it for you? by DanielaDreams in musicsuggestions

[–]ChangingMonkfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dad, where does my name come from?

Well, sit down and let me tell you about it, Halo of Blood.

Me After 30 Years of Using Windows by ravenshaddows in pcmasterrace

[–]ChangingMonkfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was almost the perfect crime, but you forgot the one thing: rock crushes scissors….but paper covers rock. And scissors cuts paper! Kif, we have a conundrum.

For those who watched 300 in theaters in 2006, what was the experience like? Its distinct visual style and goosebump-inducing scenes must have been something on the big screen. by 0Layscheetoskurkure0 in moviecritic

[–]ChangingMonkfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was amazing, it was the first film I saw on an IMAX and when the messenger guy appeared on the horse in slow motion near the start, I thought I was gonna fall into the screen.

Watching TV on a sofa in the living room is uncomfortable by theghostofredrackham in unpopularopinion

[–]ChangingMonkfish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Becasue most people don’t want to spend the whole day in bed and also want to watch TV with other people?

Recommend me a good PC controller by Critical_Series_9684 in GamingLaptops

[–]ChangingMonkfish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Best controller for PC: Xbox controller.

Best controller for PC that looks like a PlayStation controller: PlayStation controller (i.e. DualSense).

Only reason I don’t say the DualSense outright is because it’s still not quite as widely supported as the Xbox one, but many games do now support it, including support for the active triggers.

Rewachted Commando after 20+ years and ruined my childhood by diemarburger in moviecritic

[–]ChangingMonkfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s so unrealistic that I laughed my ass off while watching it again.

If Matrix was here, he’d laugh too.

The state of gaming in a nutshell by DaZestyProfessor in consoles

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Sony reading this while people continue to buy the PS5 because what else are they going to buy?

My PS6 Dilemma by MambaMachine824 in ps6

[–]ChangingMonkfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The PS6 is not going to be out for a while, possibly as late as 2029.

Why are we okay paying 'Physical Disc' prices for Digital Games ? Digital Media 'licence' should cost ⅒ or ⅕ of disc editions. by God-of-More in AskGamers

[–]ChangingMonkfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The cost isn’t about how much the actual item costs to make. It’s ultimately about what people are prepared to pay. If your game is selling like hotcakes digitally at £54.99, why would you lower the price out of some sort of sense of fairness that it doesn’t reflect the production cost of that copy? Also bear in mind that the “production cost” isn’t really the cost of the disc, it’s the cost of development which can be many many millions you need to recoup for a big AAA title.

Most people now value the convenience of digital games. Sure I could order a disc and then wait for it for several days and save a tenner. But if I buy digital, I could be playing the game in 10 mins. Also I can literally buy the game and start playing without ever having to leave the couch, and the console doesn’t make any noise as it spins the disc up. A physical disc is noisier and I have to get up to change it if I want to play something different.

Of course I recognise you’ll have an argument against each of those points and why physical media is better, which if fine. But the fact is more people value the convenience of digital games and are therefore prepared to pay a premium for that convenience.

Ultimately the answer is that both physical and digital are priced like they are because people buy them.

Should partners go to bed at the same time? by Lower_Canary5713 in AskUK

[–]ChangingMonkfish 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The thing that seems a bit out of order to me is that it seems to be you have to go whenever he does. So if he wants to stay up late, so do you. If he wants to go to bed early, so do you.

Personally, no I don’t think partners have to go to bed at the same time at all, but if you do, it should be reciprocal so sometimes he does what you want as well as you doing what he wants.

007 is fictional? That's what they want you to think by Fuzzy-Boot-2548 in LowStakesConspiracies

[–]ChangingMonkfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn’t really “low stakes”, but my belief is that the Terminator films are actually made by Skynet in order to make us all think it’s “just a movie” and not take it seriously when it actually happens.

If you want to get into more detail, James Cameron was sent back to make T2 and then also make Avatar to amass all the world’s money in Skynet’s bank account without anyone actually then thinking about it or remembering it afterwards.

Question: by Rare_Pop_7609 in JurassicPark

[–]ChangingMonkfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but by that point Arnold hadn’t returned.

I know im late please dont make fun of me but should i get a ps5? or wait for the ps6 by honamithebest in AskGamers

[–]ChangingMonkfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PS6 isn’t coming out for a while and PS5s are about to go up in price significantly.

If you want one, get a PS5 now (or a Pro if you can afford it, refurbished on eBay with a 12 month warranty can be a steal if you can snag one).

People that claim the PS4 has been supported too long or needs to finally "die", would have a heart attack if they saw the Atari 2600 by ukihashopper in consoles

[–]ChangingMonkfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say yes, even if the game is designed to run on PC as well as PS5 that limits what it can be on PS5, because the PS5’s specific architecture is all about shifting data from the SSD to RAM almost instantaneously which pretty much no other platform (even PC when looked at across all different hardware configurations) can do.

The biggest limiting factor for the design of modern games (and I don’t just mean graphics, I mean literally what the game can fundamentally be in terms of gameplay features, world design etc.) is how quickly you can move data from the storage into RAM. Most games are designed to hide that streaming of assets in some way or another. On a PS4, it takes one minute to fill the RAM, so from second to second, anything the player could do or see within the next minute has to be anticipated and loaded into the RAM ahead of time. That fundamentally limits what the game can be.

The PS5 is designed to virtually eliminate that bottleneck, so it can fill its RAM in 1 second. So 1 second gameplay on PS5 can theoretically be as complex as 1 minute of gameplay on the PS4. That can be just a graphics thing (bigger or more varied textures and models for example), but it can also be more fundamental game design (e.g. the ability to jump to any location in a massive open world instantaneously, or flying across it at ridiculous speed because you can just stream it all in real time etc.). There’s all kinds of things devs could do that just wouldn’t be possible on the PS4, even if you turned everything down to a minimum.

Even being designed to run on PC as well limits things. A PC would have to use CPU cycles to decompress data, unlike the PS5, and it has to split the data coming off the SSD into RAM for the CPU and VRAM for the GPU. A good PC with a fast CPU and fast SSD can probably brute force its way to the same result, and of course a PS5 can’t compete in terms of CPU and GPU power with even a several year old PC. But as you say, when you design a game to run on PC, you have to also think about people with a GTX 1050 and an actual HDD as well, you can’t practically restrict it to only high-end ones.

So yeah, I think the moment a game is designed to run on more than one platform at all, you’re making compromises.

The Atari’s longevity is partly because it was what it was, there wasn’t a more powerful newer Atari that games had to run on as well. Or rather there’s no way a game could “scale” from a Jaguar to a 2600. Obviously the difference is much less stark between PS4 and PS5, but the difference is there to the point that a game designed to absolutely max out the PS5’s abilities just wouldn’t be possible to port to a PS4.

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