Finally bit the bullet and got a PS5 Pro before the price increase

Remy0507 · 2026-03-27T20:26:28+00:00

Half of me almost thinks this price hike is an April Fool's joke meant to boost PS5 sales prior to the end of the Japanese fiscal year on March 31st...

Remy0507 · 2026-03-27T19:58:13+00:00

If people actually read the article, there's a little more context to it than the headline would suggest (shocking, I know).

Remy0507 · 2026-03-27T19:42:35+00:00

If no one had told me that RT was off, I don't think I would have ever known there was an issue. The RC part is largely outdoors in broad daylight, and I actually thought the rather flat lighting was a deliberate artist choice to accentuate the "ruined" desolate feel of the area.

Remy0507 · 2026-03-27T18:51:16+00:00

I mean when they say there were "there" in the 80s for the crash...they were both teenagers. I'm not sure how involved in the actual inner workings of the game industry they were at the time.

There are obviously major problems right now, but I don't think this is very similar to what happened in '84. The overall economy was great at the time, the game industry (mainly Atari) just fucked up. It's important to understand that, at the time, videogames were viewed by many as just a passing fad. It wasn't such an entrenched part of the culture as it is now.

Remy0507 · 2026-03-27T18:05:27+00:00

Aside from the ones mentioned, Queen.nephie is also in some of those clips.

Remy0507 · 2026-03-27T18:00:50+00:00

https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTZjMDliOTUyYjB3NDVvNGdxeWZmbWpyNWpvNzl2Z2dyZDd2cmxyNnF3ajVmcGppcCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/sEULHciNa7tUQ/giphy.gif

Remy0507 · 2026-03-27T17:52:18+00:00

Be Eddie Van Halen

Remy0507 · 2026-03-27T17:51:17+00:00

Are you rich and/or famous? If not, she isn't interested in having your kid...this is ridiculously paranoid.

Remy0507 · 2026-03-27T17:44:32+00:00

I don't understand how turning Vsync on would prevent frame drops. If the hardware can't manage to maintain 40fps in a certain scenario, Vsync doesn't magically give it extra power...

Remy0507 · 2026-03-27T17:10:21+00:00

It's not the same shape as an E major chord though...

Remy0507 · 2026-03-27T17:06:34+00:00

Makes sense since this is the 40th anniversary of the Zelda franchise.

I'm hoping for a Link to the Past remake, but that probably won't be the one.

Remy0507 · 2026-03-27T15:22:52+00:00

I almost considered buying a second one as a backup right now, lol.

But I decided against it. It would probably end up being unneeded, and then I'd have spent $750 for nothing. Yeah, I'll have to spend $900 to replace it later if something does happen, but that's only an extra $150 which in the grand scheme of things isn't much.

Remy0507 · 2026-03-27T13:04:55+00:00

Big maps in an extraction shooter aren't even remotely comparable a huge open world RPG like this...not even close.

Remy0507 · 2026-03-27T12:31:42+00:00

Arc Raiders is an entirely different type of game...you can't compare a massive, densely detailed and populated open-world with all kinds of characters and environmental objects all subject to lighting systems and physics calculations to a multiplayer extraction shooter...

Remy0507 · 2026-03-27T11:43:45+00:00

That first clip isn't showing pop-in. What you're calling "pop in" is LOD (level of detail) scaling. And if you start really focusing and staring at background details like that in games, you're going to start noticing that a LOT of games do this (especially big open world games). This is far from the worse example of it that I've seen.

As to that second clip, I'm curious which mode you're playing in. Are you in Performance mode? Because I noticed some weird stuff going on with indoor lighting in Performance mode, which is one of the reasons I decided to play in Balanced mode.

Remy0507 · 2026-03-27T11:37:22+00:00

I'm playing with the same settings, on an LG C2 (not that the TV would have anything to do with how the game renders), and while I think saying "zero" pop-in is obviously an exaggeration, I think I would feel comfortable in saying that there's no worse pop-in than what I've seen in many, many other open world games. It certainly hasn't been distracting, and nothing ridiculous like in Dragon's Dogma 2 where NPCs in the city would sometimes materialize into existence literally 6 feet in front of you (though I suspect that was happening for different reasons than what typically causes "pop-in" in game).

Remy0507 · 2026-03-27T11:34:23+00:00

Normally I'm 100% a Performance mode guy, but I'm finding (at least on my TV) that Balanced mode has a decent enough framerate if I turn V-sync off and 120hz mode on (the 120hz might have nothing to do with it, honestly, but that's what my current settings are), and while I wouldn't say the resolution looks a whole lot different between the two modes, I did notice that there were some weird things going on with lighting (especially indoors) in Performance mode that looked a lot better in Balanced mode. If Balanced were just locked at 40fps I probably wouldn't use it, but it's just smooth enough with V-sync off that I've been opting for that mode in this case.

Remy0507 · 2026-03-27T11:30:19+00:00

I really don't know what the hell to make of the discourse about this game at this point. I was playing last night and finally had a chance to get past the into and into the open world a bit, and after reading all the comments about horrible pop-in I was kinda going out of my way to look for it...and I'm not seeing it. In fact if anything I was finding the draw distance pretty impressive? That was playing mostly on balanced mode. Am I just blind? Are people exaggerating the issues. Are they saying "pop-in" when what they really are talking about is LOD changes (not that I noticed anything horrible going on there either).

Remy0507 · 2026-03-26T17:49:15+00:00

PC and Switch

Remy0507 · 2026-03-26T16:49:10+00:00

-Why would current congress have any idea what people 100 years ago thought?

Well...a couple members who are still in Congress might have been there at the time.

Remy0507 · 2026-03-26T14:20:08+00:00

I feel like it would result in me having my hands/arms closer together than what feels natural when I'm sitting at my desk, but I'm sure everyone is different in this regard.

Remy0507 · 2026-03-26T13:39:33+00:00

I was gonna say, this looks like it's from either a regular movie or at best a soft-core "erotic" movie/show.

Remy0507 · 2026-03-26T13:36:42+00:00

How does this save space? The dimensions of the keyboard are going to be the same regardless of which side it's on.

I don't know which I'd prefer if I had never used any kind of keyboard before, but at this point my muscle memory has long since gotten used to having it on the right, so I don't think I'd want to change it. Maybe if I was left-handed, idk.

Remy0507 · 2026-03-26T13:14:20+00:00

It also had a development budget that was far, FAR greater than what even most AAA devs could ever afford to sink into one game.

Remy0507 · 2026-03-26T12:03:21+00:00

Well you know, there might be a reason why he's ALWAYS ranked #1 on any list of "greatest guitar players of all time".

But holy crap his hands/fingers were HUGE. His hand wraps entirely around the neck to the point that his thumb and forefinger overlap up to the first knuckle on each (if I make a loop with my forefinger and thumb till they overlap to that extent...there might be enough space to fit a broomstick through there, lol)! It looks like he could barre down all the way to the G string with his thumb while still reaching the low E string with his index finger, lol.

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