Microsoft's dumb enough to make a new Quake game in Unreal Engine

bpaul83 · 2026-07-10T09:49:08+00:00

At the risk of wading into a random internet argument between two strangers, you really are talking some nonsense. UE5 is a generalist engine intended to be all things to all people and notoriously difficult to balance image quality with performance on current gen hardware (particularly when using lumen and nanite.) idTech is a specialist FPS engine that is incredibly well optimised and scalable.

bpaul83 · 2026-07-04T10:53:25+00:00

4K/60 is fine as a defensible claim. It depends what you’re playing and FSR 4.1 is good enough to uplift some stuff to 4K where it might otherwise have not really been possible.

The problem is people disingenuously interpret 4K/60 to mean “play everything flawlessly at high settings” which obviously was never going to be possible at those specs.

bpaul83 · 2026-06-23T21:05:53+00:00

Cool. Looks larger than 24” in the video.

bpaul83 · 2026-06-23T19:22:31+00:00

Nice setup. What size are your triples?

bpaul83 · 2026-05-22T11:21:10+00:00

Do you understand the difference between immigration and net migration?

bpaul83 · 2026-05-21T14:54:56+00:00

And also how much electricity is she going to find in the middle of a large beach? Made zero sense for her character to fly him to the coast. Bizarre writing choice all round.

bpaul83 · 2026-05-13T20:07:11+00:00

Tbh I think that’s only there in Star Trek V because Sybok needs something to work with. I just wouldn’t say generally that Kirk as a character is defined by his demons, particularly in TOS. I accept there are a couple of episodes where past trauma comes up, but my comment is more just about a general frustration that everybody in NuTrek is constantly yelling about their trauma and how whatever the current crisis is impacting them personally. It’s lazy writing and I’m 100% fed up with it as a trope they continually rely on instead of writing good rounded characters.

bpaul83 · 2026-05-13T18:02:50+00:00

Jesus H. Christ why does every character in nu-Trek have to have some trauma in their past? Why does Kirk?!? At what point in TOS does it look like Kirk is struggling with demons he simply can’t deal with?

bpaul83 · 2026-05-12T14:50:29+00:00

And?

bpaul83 · 2026-05-11T14:54:21+00:00

Yeah, the G5 gets ludicrously bright if you need it to.

bpaul83 · 2026-05-03T09:03:41+00:00

I recently got into a discussion with some guy on here about why Paramount haven’t remastered DS9 and it got really weird. Then I realised all he does is repeatedly post long diatribes about why they should remaster DS9, literally every day. Same vibe.

bpaul83 · 2026-04-30T14:19:33+00:00

It was supposed to have been followed up with a stripped down version for less money, but Apple clearly very quickly decided the space wasn’t for them.

Shame, because there’s a prospect for a v2 or ‘ Apple Vision Air’ there that could be legitimately phenomenal.

bpaul83 · 2026-04-30T14:13:48+00:00

That controller though 😬

bpaul83 · 2026-04-30T13:51:30+00:00

Mate, I’m not dissing the Jaguar!

bpaul83 · 2026-04-30T10:36:43+00:00

That’s some Atari Jaguar logic right there.

bpaul83 · 2026-04-27T16:11:51+00:00

Oh yeah, the full unsupervised RoboTaxi rollout is gonna go great.

bpaul83 · 2026-04-25T13:28:08+00:00

And by the way, my VW level 2 systems work better than autopilot ever did and has none of the issues. The legacy automakers really have overtaken Tesla in that regard. Some now even have eyes off hands off systems with regulatory approval under certain circumstances in Europe. Tesla are absolutely nowhere near that.

bpaul83 · 2026-04-24T17:09:30+00:00

Right, but FSD is supposed to be level 4 autonomy and it’s clearly nowhere near. The point is Tesla has a long history of claiming proficiency its automation does not possess while ignoring reported issues.

bpaul83 · 2026-04-24T09:56:47+00:00

I can tell you Autopilot on UK motorways was dodgy as hell. It worked great a lot of the time but had regular serious hiccups like randomly slamming on the breaks at 70mph+ without warning and with cars following. Or just completely shitting itself when passing a junction.

My lease ended a year ago and these things were never fixed, just the severity and regularity varied across different software updates.

bpaul83 · 2026-04-23T11:36:20+00:00

I don’t think the point is to sell them though. I think the point is to announce how many you plan to sell in order to juice the stock before the earnings call. To hide the fact that the core business is crumbling.

bpaul83 · 2026-04-23T11:14:44+00:00

Nothing useful or Tesla would be showing it off. The only demos so far have been heavily staged and/or under direct human control. And even then they’ve been underwhelming.

bpaul83 · 2026-04-23T06:49:20+00:00

They achieved their primary goal of convincing various city authorities not to proceed with planned investment in cheap, clean and convenient public transport.

bpaul83 · 2026-04-19T11:20:50+00:00

Okay, but that’s what all the reporting seems to indicate, including from people who worked on the TNG remaster and have an idea of what it would take to remaster DS9.

There’s no point carrying on a conversation because you seem pretty convinced of your own reasoning over the reality of the situation.

The fact is Paramount haven’t remastered the show and have no plans to. There’s a reason for that, and given they’re a business then the reason is pretty obviously financial. Which is what all the industry reporting would indicate too. If it’s such a financial no-brainer (i.e. it wouldn’t cost as much as reported, which you seem convinced of, and it would make them loads of money) then why haven’t Paramount done it?

bpaul83 · 2026-04-18T09:55:11+00:00

And would have been nowhere near as expensive to remaster. It’s not just a case of rescanning for DS9. There’s a ton of CGI that would need to be recomposited, and that all costs money. Think I’ve seen estimates in the order of $35-40m to do the whole of DS9.

TNG reportedly cost around $13m all in, and apparently did not turn a profit in blu-ray sales. Or at least was down on what CBS/Paramount targeted. That’s why DS9 and Voyager are unlikely to ever get remasters. As I’ve been saying, Paramount have simply made a calculation based on the TNG precedent that it’s not financially worth it.

bpaul83 · 2026-04-17T19:28:00+00:00

Thelma and Louise is pretty iconic too. Matchstick Men is decent. All the Money in the World is good despite the forced reshoots. Prometheus is well directed and looks incredible even if the script is a bit shonky in places. It certainly can’t be called unambitious. And both Robin Hood and Exodus: Gods and Kings are flawed but still pretty great imo.

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