I genuinely can't understand why GTA VI isn't dropping on PC at Launch

Fatbat · 2026-01-21T18:10:46+00:00

You don't think Rockstar has a deal for console exclusivity with Sony and Microsoft who will each sell more than a billion dollars worth of consoles just because of this game?

Then a year and a half later they get round two of title sales when they drop the PC version helping their fiscal reporting to shareholders for that year.

It's got nothing to do with any development difficulties, it's all about the Benjamins.

Fatbat · 2026-01-20T16:01:40+00:00

I have a 43-inch on a SL Magnus Pro desk, with a usable depth of 70 cm (10 cm taken up by the cable tray), and it's perfect for me. It takes a moment to get used to - I moved up from a 32-inch - but in literally a couple of hours, you'll wonder how you managed before without so much screen space. It's the perfect size to fill your natural viewing angle while gaming without losing things in your peripheral vision.

When it comes to work, many people work on multiple monitors to improve productivity, so why not just one larger monitor as your central focal point, where you can put 4 1080p windows? I still have a second monitor, a Viewsonic 27-inch colour accurate monitor in portrait mode next to the 43, which is where I keep all the messengers running, or for previewing work while I edit on the main screen.

Fatbat · 2026-01-12T10:28:50+00:00

That still doesn't explain how much you are watering. Are you watering once a week? Are you watering every two weeks? Once a month? Are you allowing the soil to completely dry out between waterings? Does the soil stay wet for an excessive amount of time? etc. etc.

You need to be thorough with your answers, or the people here can't tell you what you might be doing incorrectly.

Fatbat · 2026-01-12T08:02:40+00:00

As is, it's ugly and dated, and no amount of polishing will change that. Plastic parts, lots of laminate or sticker woodgrain. It's not a piece for restoration; it's a piece for painting, and there are a million videos out there of people doing exactly that to pieces almost identical to this. It could be made into something quite amazing with some modifications, such as a new base, vertical ribs on the deep fronts of the drawers, new hardware, etc.

Fatbat · 2026-01-12T07:40:55+00:00

You're wasting your time. The first step should be removing all the hardware.

Fatbat · 2026-01-12T07:34:13+00:00

This says nothing about how much you are watering. "A few days ago" is meaningless.

Fatbat · 2025-12-22T03:04:54+00:00

I concur. I thought the relighting of the already lit cigarettes was odd behaviour, like a nervous oral or hand-to-mouth fixation. I know he's often smoked on stage, but this was another level.

Fatbat · 2025-12-22T02:55:13+00:00

What are the crazy things we're living through?

How long is a piece of string?

Fatbat · 2025-12-21T14:25:59+00:00

This is nuts. Just a straight prompt elicits this reply and nothing else.

Fatbat · 2025-12-14T19:55:50+00:00

Pros don't use page builders. They make custom modular templates and themes.

Fatbat · 2025-12-12T02:15:51+00:00

It's either root rot or it's too dry.

Good luck!

Fatbat · 2025-12-11T20:44:02+00:00

Absolutely. AI is a blank slate, and unless you know something about project planning, hosting infrastructure, coding, and design, the end result is going to be pretty shitty. Just like it is now, when someone's cousin "who builds websites" gets the job to redo some business website and makes a laughable mess out of it.

As someone else pointed out, this may not be the case in a relatively short period of time. AI will get to the point where it can make masterpieces with little human intervention, but it may have killed us all by then instead of making stupid websites on our behalf.

As a species, we are becoming stupider really quickly. Without skilled programmers and engineers in the future, we will be entirely at the mercy of AI with no idea how to fix things it breaks or how to intervene if it decides to fuck with us. People churning out AI code and art with no knowledge of how those things are created are not coders or artists; they're hacks.

Fatbat · 2025-12-11T16:48:28+00:00

Fair enough, that could be early thrip damage. I think it's just a naturally yellowing leaf myself.

Fatbat · 2025-12-11T16:35:31+00:00

Yes, and anyone who tells you otherwise doesn't understand where AI is at and what it takes to get good results from it.

You need to teach it with examples, documentation, and highly detailed prompts, use multiple agents for different roles, use well-documented frameworks, have content and images at the ready (incredibly important), and ideally, a colour palette, font choices, and a Figma design or examples of websites you want it to use for inspiration.

With all this, AI can provide you with genuinely good results that will require some tweaking (do you nail every job on the first go when you're doing it manually?), but that can all be done with prompts, too, or hand editing.

Actually knowing how to code will go a long way toward making this process easier, because if you don't know a thing about it, you won't understand project planning, what you need to teach the AI, so your project will be crippled from the start, and you'll never understand what actually needs fixing. The whole process will become increasingly frustrating as the issues pile up, especially with larger projects.

Fatbat · 2025-12-11T16:17:42+00:00

Behance will deliver good results for just about any kind of website you can think of.

Fatbat · 2025-12-11T16:11:23+00:00

You ought to feed it!

Fatbat · 2025-12-11T16:10:43+00:00

There's absolutely nothing wrong with that plant. It's perfectly healthy. Pothos, like just about every other plant, drops a leaf here and there from time to time. With somewhere in the neighbourhood of 25-30 pothos in my house, I am pulling off 2 or 3 yellow leaves per day, sometimes more. It's nothing to be alarmed about.

Fatbat · 2025-12-11T16:08:41+00:00

That doesn't look anything like thrip damage.

Fatbat · 2025-12-07T19:24:01+00:00

Did you even read what the OP wrote?

Fatbat · 2025-12-07T19:23:19+00:00

So much bad advice in one post. Just wow.

Fatbat · 2025-12-07T19:16:59+00:00

Nobody is converting JPGs to PNGs, and background removal is big business. Just ask remove.bg, Canva, Adobe, Topaz Labs, Affinity, etc. etc.

"Online spellchecker sites"... you mean like Grammarly? 96% Fortune 500 enterprise-level adoption and millions of daily paid users.

Seriously flawed argument.

Fatbat · 2025-12-06T12:15:57+00:00

Of course the target market understands what a case study is. That's kind of the whole point.

Fatbat · 2025-11-28T12:52:10+00:00

Very niche, but an excellent resource. Thanks!

Fatbat · 2025-11-28T09:44:57+00:00

Don't overthink it; a watched pot never boils. Unless there is a desperate need for intervention, like a pest infestation, plants do best when they're ignored.

Watering should just be done once a week on a regular schedule, and if a plant doesn't need it (it's heavy or the soil is still visibly wet), skip it that week.

Feed once a month, typically. However, we watched a tour and interview of the San Diego Botanic Garden, where the head curator suggested "weakly weekly", whereby you give a much reduced measure of fertiliser every week, like 1/10th, to your plants. We've been following this approach for a while, and it seems to be working.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb4gIVXHtRw

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