I am aware, and I repeat my question.

I imagine entry level as slightly more comfortable than the cheapest hardware out there. 16GB DDR4 RAM is >€100. Motherboard, CPU, PSU all likely around that price too. CPU cooler €60 GPU €200. That all comes down to ~€600

Case €50. Monitor €150. HOTAS another €100.
Keyboard and mouse… if flight SIM is the primary concern I guess you don’t really need to spend on those.

Everything so far comes down to €960.
I suppose it can still be done… probably even cheaper than this is you hunt around for deals/second hand, I didn’t care to spend too much time looking up each individual component. When I did look up the DDR4 price I figured I might as well spend a bit more time; I didn’t bother going back so this comment is a bit all over the place. Also I’m assuming you’re not buying windows.

Easily, with an okay-ish monitor and peripherals, and today’s RAM prices?

I was going to +1 your comment for the link, but that statement is just reductive. You won’t convince others to join the cause with such generalisations.

Perhaps. But getting worse fps by buying the official version is pretty silly.

It’s a microsoft game, so no.

https://nogamesforgenocide.com/

I was rather charmed by the humour of Tactical Breach Wizards.

Epic sold Bandcamp again… a year or two ago?

When is Godus coming out of early access, Peter

The God of War reboot released on the PS4, where it also “didn’t need” loading screens.

The PS5 does still need some time to load anything, it’s not magic. You can expand a PS5 with M.2 NVMe storage, which is also used in many PCs.

The benefits of the PS5/NVMe storage are greatly reduced loading times and faster data streaming (which enables, for example, the ability to move faster through a higher fidelity NYC in Spiderman without buildings visibly popping in).

I use Ecosia nearly exclusively.

I don’t like it as much as DDG; which has a somewhat better privacy focus, more widgets, and better support for “bangs”.
But the bangs I really care about are still there, it’s European and working on a European search index along with Quant, and the trees are pretty cool too.

As is it still relies on either Bing or Google for the results, but oh well. So does basically every alternative search engine, and I’d rather go through Ecosia than directly through those two.

It’s better, yeah. But that doesn’t mean it’s good. Ideal would be them simply paying for a voice actor to record all the lines, which in the case of Arc Raiders they now thankfully appear to be doing.

In a vacuum, in this instance, I’m mostly inclined to agree.
It normalising the practice is what I dislike.

No-one else, or at least as high profile, was doing AI voicework in their games. Embark were essentially the first with The Finals.
One successful game/studio doing it opens the door for other studios to start doing it.

They don’t seem to have gone about it in a bad way, but it still further opens the door to more icky practices.

It can be useful for generating switch cases and other such not-quite copy-paste work too. There are reasonable use cases… if you ignore how the training data was sourced.

Furthermore Roblox “taxes” their “developers” at various points.

It’s been a while, but I believe there’s a percentage fee on the premium currency spent on the game, then there’s another percentage fee when you cash the premium currency out for real money.

Same. Waiting for it to get a bit more stable before I start pushing my less savvy friends to make the jump.

They removed the clown reaction, as well as the ability to get points for receiving reactions.
If that ever was an excuse, it no longer is.

Consoles, though I suppose those aren’t what you’re talking about.

And Playground Games is a subsidiary of microsoft? I’m not sure what you’re trying to prove here.