It is super neat to have numbers on this.

Looks like anything above the nano pro is more powerful than the Steam machine as long as you don’t pick the weakest GPU in the configurator.

The architecture is certainly a big issue.

Nothing else really maps 1:1 to the PS3 CPU. The main overhead is not from translating the libraries. It’s emulating the CPU/recompiling the code.

There would likely be no efficiency gain from running the games on software that more closely matches the PS3 OS.

It’d be like the difference of using windows instead of proton to run games. Not always better. Sometimes worse.

That’s because you can’t truly delete a comment in a chain without breaking it.

If others replied to your comment, you deleting your comment would break the thread.

So a placeholder gets left behind.

Makes sense to me, actually.

It’d be an easy way to get and also store the DRM-free offline installer, in where you don’t have to permanently allocate active storage to keep the installer around.

Two things can be true.

So what is it you actually wanted to add?

If you aren’t bringing up practical difficulty to argue in favor of theoretical impossibility, what are you adding?

How is difficulty relevant in the face of the importance of preservation?

As for python… What?

Why would you emulate for python, when what actually happens is that new interpreters get written? It already runs across several operating systems and processing architectures thanks to interpreters existing for each one.

Python isn’t some hobby language anymore. Far too much serious infrastructure uses it for future interpreters not to get made.

So?

Emulate.

As long as the application doesn’t rely on something external like a server that no longer exists, it can always be run.

This isn’t about a hardware system changing. If you can either find the original hardware or simulate it, it should run. Not just go “expiry date passed, fuck you”.

You’re saying it can sometimes be practically impossible. That doesn’t mean it has to be theoretically and actually impossible, too.

You’re right.

Burning the book in case it might offend some future reader is reasonable.

/S

Yeees! I keep wondering how the hell they’re funding the remake trilogy. There are dozens of us!

Aside from it being split into 3 games, this is how I feel about the FF7 remakes.

They are so very full of love and obvious developer passion. The gameplay systems are internally consistent, the charachters are adorable, the world is beatiful. Once you own the game, it doesn’t ask again. You can just step into the world and live there until the credits roll.

I was worried, and I’m still worried, that some squenix exec will ruin it. But it hasn’t happened.

Remake and Rebirth are simply good games. Anything bad you could say about them is subjective. I know the gameplay and charachters don’t jell with everyone but I love it.

Same goes for the modern Resident Evil games, Armored Core 6, Horizon and GoW.

There are still good AAA games. But they for sure aren’t the rule anymore, but the exceptions.

They can’t avoid employing artists, and every now and then they fail to stop them from making something good.

I thought about it more.

I really don’t like it. Not because there’s no precedent, but because it doesn’t work thematically.

Fey being alive, actually, undermines so much of the story in the previous two games.

It means Kratos and Atreus and the many scenes where they gradually accept she is truly gone, are wrong, actually. It means Odin was right, and that Kratos and Atreus not helping him unravel death, prevented them from reuniting with Fey.

That’s just insulting. If you’re not gonna elaborate then don’t say anything at all.

TLDR: It’s not a lack of context that bothers me. It’s that no context that would work within the narrative themes of the games, exists.

Long version:

The part of her journey that’s in GoW/GoW:R happened before her death. GoW Laufey takes place after that, not before.

I’m worried that this new game is muddying the thematic weight of GoW, and GoW Ragnarok.

Fey is (was) DEAD. Kratos and Atreus accept this and spend the two games mourning, moving on, and finding themselves in a world without her. While honoring her life and living in a way that does not erase or ignore the fact that she lived. They learn many things about her that they did not know, and feel her love for them live on in the things she has set in motion. They embrace her presence even as she is truly gone. The narrative stresses this multiple times.

That she exists, anywhere (after her death), undermines this.

It undermines the underlying difference pinning Odin against Kratos.

Kratos and Atreus accept death, and that it is something beyond that which can or should be understood. Odin does not, and seeks to unravel it like it’s just another law of nature. Like gravity.

The mask should not be explained. Death isn’t a mystery to be solved. It’s an unknowable to be accepted as such.

The games are about being at peace with that.

Laufey not being gone literally means Kratos and Atreus are wrong in their acceptance that she is gone.

Hell. It means Odin had a point.

The only way this works is if it’s a spin-off that NEVER ties back into Kratos’/Atreus’ timeline, but that they are doing this at all is not a good sign to me. I do not trust them to not undermine their own themes in the face of the potential fanservice that reuniting Fey, Kratos and Atreus would be.

It’s not a lack of context that bothers me. It’s that no context that would work within the narrative themes of the games, exists.

They have written themselves into a corner that I suspect will inevitably lead to events I don’t think should happen, and explanations for things that should not be explained.

I’m genuinely confused.

What do you mean? What did I miss?

Why are you downvoting me for having an opinion, and why are you passive aggressively shitting on my ability to comprehend media?

And unless this comes to PC, I’m not in for any suprises. But I’m more than willing to give Laufey a chance if it does.

What?

Laufey does a ton of things in the first two games, but none of it is posthumous action.

The entire plot of the first two games can be boiled down to how a person who is dead and truly gone, can still be a huge presence in your life through the memories, places, and actions they undertook when they were alive.

Everything we see are things she said and did before she died. Some of it is on a somewhat supernatural level due to her abilities as a giant, but unless I truly missed something, none of it “occurs” after she dies.

In fact this entire new game (that Laufey is “alive” somewhere) directly contradicts what Kratos sees when he steps into the light of alfheim, basically confirming that’s where she (or what’s left of her) is.

This is a retcon.

It would be both.

They seem to be describing a potential defect in the correction that can occur, which causes “lens flares”, “blurring” or “smearing” of bright points of light. This is especially bad at night due to the contrast between lights and the darkness of the night.

It’s similar to a the effect you get with a camera when there are scratches or dents in the lens surface, or if it’s greasy. Except it’s in your eye.

Eye surgeries always come with risk. When they go wrong, you can even end up with worse vision than before.

If life is comfortable for you, I wouldn’t change anything.

I’m not sure why the surgery wouldn’t help with near-sightedness. It modifies the shape of the lens in your eye, essentially applying correction directly to your body.

How much can be done and in which direction, depends on the individual. As you’re essentially working with a subtractive tool (using a laser to remove stuff) to modify the optical material in your eye. You’re limited by the shape and amount of material in each persons eye in the first place, and you can’t make changes that would require adding material. As such, there is a maximum amount of correction that can be applied before you run out of usable material, and it varies from person to person.

If more is neded beyond that limit, you will still need glasses.

I know the feeling.

It feels SO WIERD to think about how long I’ve been on the fediverse.

It still feels so new and fresh that the idea that I’ve been posting anime girls for years now just feel incorrect.

I…

Do not know how I feel about bringing back a charachter who does SO MUCH because of her absence.

Too bad I won’t be finding out if it works, as Sony won’t be porting this to PC.

Oh good.

That the plan got frozen wasn’t nearly as publicized as it initially passing.