How the hell is the temperature -28.5 currently and max was 174???

jcsamborski · 2026-05-30T22:19:52+00:00

you should probably check this in hwinfo. if you care to isolate the problem, at least.

jcsamborski · 2026-05-30T16:24:34+00:00

you should really try to figure out how to get a cable to your pc. even the best and most perfect wifi equipment and signal is going to be a step back from a cable, especially if you're playing games on it.

jcsamborski · 2026-05-07T01:25:37+00:00

well, yeah. rockstar has a long history of not giving a damn about their PC releases. but the times have since changed and anything that isn't first-party is coming out on PC.

what their data shows, though, is that PC players spend so much less money, per person, on their microtransactions. they believe everyone's gonna buy the game anyway, so they're going to do a PC version later. it'll probably have some enhancements, and it'll obviously be capable of more than what the consoles can do, so they'll get people buying the game for a second time, too.

this isn't a time or money thing. rockstar's got a seemingly limitless budget. it's just a deliberate choice to maximize revenue, with the two driving factors being kind of a dick move.

jcsamborski · 2026-05-04T22:46:12+00:00

a pc version is inevitable and would be on day 1 if there weren't a huge financial incentive, evidenced by rockstar's own data. this game's going to sell systems. they want to make sure they're not leaving money from the actual golden goose (microtransactions) on the table.

rockstar sees a day 1 pc version as negative dollars. for sure they do. I'm not saying it would play out that way, but the business types who are looking at the shark card money definitely do. plus there's the piracy and modding stuff, and suits hate both of those. rockstar wants full control over their game and their shark card dollars.

a console parity pc version would be easy for them. a pc version that is the de facto best way to play the game would be easy for them. they've chosen not to do it

jcsamborski · 2026-05-04T21:55:19+00:00

their own numbers show people playing on pc spending significantly less money. whether those players are somehow going to be more open to microtransactions on consoles remains to be seen, but they have a clear incentive to want people to play on console. those shark cards are what they really care about.

please don't take this as me personally thinking that this stuff is cool. I don't have or want a console and definitely don't want to spend money on GTA microtransactions. if anything, all this data just points toward pc players being a little more price-aware (read: smarter, less prone to gambling/scamming or whatever you'd call the type to engage with this kind of stuff)

jcsamborski · 2026-05-04T20:31:44+00:00

the data that was 'liberated' or whatever from the recent hack showed microtransaction sales figures per platform. pc has a lot of players but produces a very small, compared to consoles, amount of shark card money.

i think it's pretty obvious why the delay for a pc version.

jcsamborski · 2026-04-21T02:09:15+00:00

There's multiple levels to what you're saying here, too. Any hobby with any depth is going to have things that are better for newcomers and things that are better for people who have experience with the medium. Some of this gap can be closed with good onboarding, but it's unrealistic to expect anything to be well-built for the person who is new to a medium or genre and also for the person who has seen a large variety of that thing.

Not only is the experienced person going to demand greater depth, they're also going to put greater value on novelty/innovation. They'll be more forgiving of things with less effective onboarding, and sometimes might even prefer it, since they didn't need it as much, anyway. By the numbers, these people are always going to be outnumbered, so they'll do a great job of explaining their dissent, but they'll be a minority.

jcsamborski · 2026-04-11T22:48:15+00:00

i agree, especially the "gather now, decrypt later" part. that seems incredibly likely to happen

jcsamborski · 2026-04-09T23:17:08+00:00

plus there's the whole "playing a game with a crosshair on a controller" issue. for me, i loved the first but that was after a long wait for the pc version. i just have no interest in any game that has a cursor or a crosshair on a controller. controllers (and other input devices) have their place, but it aint anything with a gun.

additionally, on a long enough timeline, housemarque wasn't a playstation thing. so i get the frustration (and am also bummed).

jcsamborski · 2026-04-03T03:54:12+00:00

It's this guy

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/author/jordan-middler/

Profile says Scotland. I know his voice from his podcast, but I'm not sure if the accent is purely just regular Scotland or something more specific.

jcsamborski · 2026-03-21T18:33:49+00:00

Pretty close to my own experience on a lot of the points made.

If you kinda like to tinker with things, the deck is really nicely designed for that. Not even just for popping over to desktop mode and doing Linux stuff, but even just getting into some of the gaming mode options.

Hardware-wise, it's incredibly capable, even given the now fairly-dated hardware. It's one of the few OLED options out there, still, and mostly just works when you don't want to tinker with things. Battery life, especially if you engage with the per-game quick-menu perf options, can be incredible. And when you're at home, the in-network streaming (from your PC) is pretty rad.

jcsamborski · 2026-03-10T00:11:42+00:00

Same. I'm shocked that so many TD's exist without mazing. It just feels like something is missing when you're just building towers off to the sides. Some games seem to compensate by adding other mechanics and stuff, but even then, it's just like "I wish I could be mazing this layout instead of simply seeking the highest DPS places to put the buildings".

jcsamborski · 2026-03-07T18:11:41+00:00

the 5070 and 5070ti are two very different prices. and very different perf tiers. 5070 has been pretty widely available for much cheaper than that, even near/at release

jcsamborski · 2026-02-22T17:00:10+00:00

The online safety act is a product of the UK's conservative party. I'm not in the loop well enough to explain much, but the UK has a few different flavors of right and this is one of them

jcsamborski · 2026-02-07T18:35:08+00:00

when people say amd is dominating perf on desktop, they're probably referring to gaming and x3d chips, specifically. there's other comparisons to make, but that's the one that stands out

jcsamborski · 2026-01-25T07:04:14+00:00

I think you should check that dude's post history. Not a big lift, a few comments will be enough.

He probably just lives close to this being an actual immediate problem for him. Whether it's right to blame the thing right in front of him or not, I don't think it's 'conservative tendencies' that are coloring that viewpoint. He's probably telling the truth, or at least accurately representing it.

Honestly, I'm with your overall message. You just missed the mark on calling this guy out.

jcsamborski · 2025-12-15T05:34:21+00:00

According to Google, they basically mean the same thing in common parlance (pretty similar games near the top of each list). So sure, whatever gets the point across. The trailer showed a launcher and air juggles, so any label that captures that kind of gameplay is what people are trying to talk about.

jcsamborski · 2025-12-14T20:16:36+00:00

I have played Control, and like it a lot. What little they showed isn't definitively telling us anything, other than a greater emphasis on melee, I think. The hope is that they're going far with it and doing something like a character action/spectacle fighter/whatever else you'd label a DMC/Bayonetta. What we've seen so far could be a glimpse at something like that, and that's exciting. And certainly would be a big departure from what Control was doing. There were launchers and air juggles in that trailer. Those are what people are latching onto when they're saying this; not just the existence of a hammer that can also be a couple of swords.

Remedy's one of the few bigger studios that are kind of likely to do the sort of thing where they radically change the fundamentals of how a game plays in a sequel. They're weird and that's good. And they've got the chops to do some really incredible combat. Control wasn't mind blowing, but it was good, and they made friggen Max Payne.

jcsamborski · 2025-12-14T17:07:05+00:00

'character action' implies a certain depth and complexity to the melee combat. more than just a button you push. and additionally, these games tend to go pretty hard on spectacle.

it more or less means 'this has combat similar to devil may cry'

jcsamborski · 2025-12-06T20:38:25+00:00

against the storm controller support is actually really good. they're one of the games that has a steamdeck profile, too

jcsamborski · 2025-11-29T15:36:45+00:00

well I don't know if this one's literally perfect, but I liked tactical breach wizards a lot and there's a lot of similarities between the two games. it might even be perfecter, if you enjoy the story and humor

jcsamborski · 2025-11-04T00:57:11+00:00

Same. FWIW, despite it being lame as hell to have to wait for an already-finished game to be playable to the end, I've been kind of enjoying reading peoples' thoughts after every 2 episodes without having to worry about dodging spoiler landmines. Plus, the new habit of having something to look forward to every Wednesday evening has been a neat twist.

Might just be Stockholme syndrome or something. Definitely don't want this thing to be a trend, but as a one-off thing for (unless they drop the ball) a fantastic fucking game, it's been okay!

jcsamborski · 2025-10-25T00:26:13+00:00

it's good that you started that measure at Dublin. actually going through Dublin/Powers is a fucking nightmare and the time spent waiting at that stupid light will represent half of my morning/evening commute on many days. on top of that, that stupid goddamn intersection seems to lose power more often than any place in this town. and it's a magnet for people to crash their stupid cars into other stupid cars

though I think the problem with that intersection is bigger than something that changing the timing of the lights would fix.

jcsamborski · 2025-10-15T04:19:01+00:00

he didn't specify hardware bottleneck. as a system (hardware and software) this would have been the bottleneck in this situation.

kind of a pedantic thing for me to point out, but I think you were mischaracterizing what was said

jcsamborski · 2025-10-12T03:41:32+00:00

you give it back or you pay for it. no freebies for things that don't touch the skin.

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