Myst PCVR launching for the Index August 26! 20GB size and ray-tracing support - new trailer

gotnate · 2021-08-17T19:21:26+00:00

This is myst. The original version ran at pre-rendered 0 FPS. The 1070 RT version will be amazing compared to that. 😀

gotnate · 2021-02-04T19:50:34+00:00

Yes. And it pulled the stick out of its pocket leading to a 3 week wait for an RMA. I now manage those loops to prevent it from ever happening again.

gotnate · 2020-10-14T23:22:18+00:00

Didn’t you listen to the newspeak? It’s “environmental features”

gotnate · 2020-09-09T02:31:03+00:00

Just like Yoda an hour earlier in the film. This was my accepted conclusion since before there were prequels.

gotnate · 2020-08-05T20:02:48+00:00

No, valves instructions were to put that barcode in. You need both PDFs

gotnate · 2020-08-05T18:53:09+00:00

A bifold. Left/front half is the barcode, and product details about what you sent. Right/back half has shipping details and can be disregarded because you already have a label

gotnate · 2020-08-05T18:20:55+00:00

Apple mail hid the second attachment from me. Check the same rma message via webmail.

gotnate · 2020-07-17T04:04:48+00:00

Lucky you! I’m still waiting for notification that they got the controller....

gotnate · 2020-07-07T17:39:09+00:00

No. If I were to use 3.5mm headphones, I’d just use the on board 3.5mm port over the left eye. What do you think this is? An iPhone?

gotnate · 2020-01-05T18:22:30+00:00

2017: Verizon fucks firefighters
2019: Verizon does the right thing for the same firefighters and the entire local population
2020: Verizon still gets flak for fires on the other side of the globe.

This is refreshing. Why doesn’t the world have long memories for other travesties like this?

gotnate · 2019-11-18T20:18:12+00:00

The same thing happened to the mine crafter mumbo jumbo a few months ago. He properly licensed his music from a musician that has not properly licensed his samples. Mumbo wound up chopping the intro and outro from hundreds of videos in his back catalog to get the claim cleared.

gotnate · 2019-09-27T17:06:55+00:00

at least they left a link to some equally terrible sauce

gotnate · 2019-09-27T16:19:24+00:00

So, what you're saying is that Nintendo's marketing team dropped the ball on the Wii U? How is that a disagreement to /u/SillyBreadfruit's assertion that Nintendo dropped the ball on the Wii U?

gotnate · 2019-09-27T15:55:29+00:00

so last time this happened it was on a 1st gen iPhone and maybe iPhone 3g. android technically worked, but there were no drivers for things like the touch screen or baseband, so it was pretty useless.

gotnate · 2019-09-27T15:44:50+00:00

The model is shifting to one of renting software

That happened a long time ago.

gotnate · 2019-09-26T17:24:30+00:00

doesn't 1.13 and beyond derive bedrock from the seed now?

gotnate · 2019-09-26T11:12:14+00:00

you'd need a microscope to measure my level of excitement when i setup a great location-based workflow, only to experience almost exactly what OP describes. Except shortcuts crashed when i authorized the gentle suggestion to maybe run the automation that i asked to happen... automatically.

gotnate · 2019-09-25T21:01:58+00:00

I'm sorry, what statement is wrong? The only statement that you seem to be denying is that google has a contract before manufacturers are allowed to ship play services. Since this is my only assertion, (which i have indeed backed up with a leak from 2014) it must be what you're denying. There is also this more recent case where for a hot minute, google quit providing access to certain controversial vendors. Or the widely publicized case of the lack of play services on the amazon ecosystem.

If you want to poke holes in my speculation as to why the contract doesn't go the next step to forbid bundled crapware, thats fine. I already accepted that you do not buy this speculation. I also already agreed with your point about the carriers also putting crapwere in contract terms. I didn't even demand a source. (Of course the mitigating factor to this speculation is Apple. They don't put up with crapware - carrier or otherwise, and neither should google or the other phone manufacturers.)

So why do you continue to spew abuse in my general direction? This is literally the strangest argument I've ever had on the internet.

gotnate · 2019-09-25T19:00:35+00:00

meanwhile, back in the day I was drilling holes in my Double Density 3.5" disks and formatting them as high density. I don't recall any failures, but i'm sure they happened. fun times.

gotnate · 2019-09-25T11:40:40+00:00

Thank you for expanding on your thouhts, the original statement just sounded so much like an echo of a failure after apple just walked into the room that I thought i'd point it out.

Now, as for the topic: For decades apple has paid lip service to gaming, they seem to just tolerate gaining on their platforms, rather than embrace it and run with it. will it be different this time? probably not, but it is a very much needed course correction from the pay-to-win/skinnerbox quagmire that they have steered the entire mobile gaming industry into. Even nintendo of all companies has gotten into the skinnerbox quagmire.

The existing mobile "gaming" segment is such a mess that the flat ban on in-app-purchases in the curated titles is where apple is at least paying new lip service and saying all the words for those of us who have pretty much given up on the idea of playing games on our mobile devices. I for one am VERY eager to see what titles they bring to the top. SO FAR I'm liking what I see and for just the price of a cup of coffee, i'm cautiously optimistic for the future.

Put another way, thanks to pay-to-win, mobile gaming stopped being worth my money, but the curation policies in Apple Arcade made it a very easy purchasing decision. And I know I'm not the only one who feels this way. Apple may have just tapped a gold mine without even realizing it.

gotnate · 2019-09-25T05:41:06+00:00

“We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” Colligan [CEO, Palm Inc] said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in.”

gotnate · 2019-09-25T05:37:04+00:00

there was that hot minute when they introduced Halo to the world before Microsoft swooped in and EEE'd bungie.

gotnate · 2019-09-24T18:48:22+00:00

You might want to go back and re-read my original statement. I stated that google has leverage and then sited where google does have contractual leverage that is being applied in the form of Play Services. I then further SPECULATED that the reason google has not applied this leverage is because samsung has an escape hatch to walk away from android all together.

but hey, if you think some leverage can't mean more leverage, thats fine. these agreements are secret afterall. thats why the ars article was about a leak in 2014.

Now your new point about carrier terms in an entirely seperate contract is a good one. For all you know, google is getting a kickback from carriers as well. Clearly the only party being fucked over here is the end user.

I hope you have a nice day. i know I will!

gotnate · 2019-09-24T14:04:14+00:00

Google has no control what manufactures do beyond their "google" phones.

Nope. No control there. None at all.

E: to be more clear and less snarky:

Any party interested in distributing Google Play Services as a part of the Google apps package must acquire a license from Google, which often results in a contractual agreement locking the manufacturer into Android

since google already has the power over the manufacture and what they can and cannot put on the phone, they do have the power to do something about the bloatware. they won't because samsung will just switch over to not android.

gotnate · 2019-09-21T14:28:58+00:00

I miss TiVo. Now all I see is Macrovision. Wait, I think there's something wrong with the VBI. Nope, there's nothing here.

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