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  • I won't pretend to know how it would have gone either way. Had it actually not happened in the timeline that it did happen, it could have easily been different. The momentum, the media narratives, the quickness with which the Democrats united behind Harris, all of these things caught most everyone by surprise. I could see any of those things being wildly different had Biden chose to step down much earlier. We don't like to admit it, but irrational, unknowable elements like "vibe" and "timing" have always played a huge role in elections.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 Now Available on Mac
  • Yep, this game has been long in the works with the mac port, so unfortunately they haven't had the chance to use metal 3 and metalFX. Hopefully they will add at least FSR 2.0 in the future, because 1.0 is pretty bad. I also go back and forth between that gaming pc and an m1 max mbp, and the dlss implementation is a lot better. Still, I do use FSR on the mbp, but I turn on antialiasing to smooth things out.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 Now Available on Mac
  • I think we're pretty spoiled by the relative silence of these macbook pros. Try playing BG3 on pretty much any pc laptop, and you'll see. On my desktop with a RTX3080, I actually limit it to 60fps otherwise it'll sound like a jet engine. I have a Fractal Design North case with a beefy AIO also, and it's no slouch in the airflow department. The game just gets heavy, especially in certain areas with lots of NPCs.

  • Amazon’s First ‘Fallout’ Show Art Is AI Generated
  • That’s clearly not kitbashing, when you have a car completely backwards and don’t even bother to fix it. Why would the perspective be mostly correct yet be backwards? You’d have to pull from two sources that had a) the exact same art style, b) have the same perspective, yet c) have one of the cars be backward. And finally d) not give a shit about it to correct it.

  • Disapproval of Elon Musk is top reason Tesla owners are selling, survey says
  • Your generalizations about US consumers has no basis in reality. You really think people would buy these mass-market products if they weren't good? Just look at the consumer satisfaction surveys. I'm far from a Tesla fan, but for a long time, there weren't truly good competitors to Tesla EVs. iphones have always and continue to be some of the most highly rated phones on the market.

    And what is wrong with voting with your wallet and choosing not to support the business of a terrible person? That's about the only power you have as a consumer, so people should exercise that power if they see fit.

  • Is having an Android really a deal-breaker for some people?
  • Lots of iPhones cost way less than $1k, and there’s plenty of Android flagships that cost over $1k, and they’re all decent phones. Sure, go ahead and judge people for spending money on a device they use every day.

    And what I said about the ‘default’ phone is true, and that’s for normal middle class families. Far from the elite. I’m just reporting the facts, it’s maybe people have a different frame of reference depending on where they live.

  • Is having an Android really a deal-breaker for some people?
  • Do you live in the US? Maybe not, but iPhones have something like a 50% market share here, and in some regional cases a lot higher. For example, in southern California where I live, iPhones are easily in the majority of people's hands. The point is that this feeling is probably more a 'your problem' issue, and it's hard to make a case that people use these phones as a way to feel exclusive if the market share is so high. There may be some issues of exclusion amongst teenagers etc., but teenagers are going to teenager. I'm just talking about the US though. In some emerging markets there may be a case made for the iPhone to be seen as 'luxury,' but this hasn't been the case in the US for a while. iPhones are seen as an ordinary, almost default phone.

  • Diablo 2R Micro-Stuttering

    Since D4 servers are going down for maintenance, I took the time to hop onto D2R cause I recently got it on sale lol.

    It runs smoothly except for some annoying micro-stuttering that happens fairly frequently. I tried limiting it to 60 fps, 58, etc., and it made no difference. What gives? I'm running on a 12700k 32GB RAM/3080 10GB, and it BETTER not be VRAM issues (I already have to run D4 with high texture settings to keep it from doing momentary stutters).

    So is D2R really just terribly optimized or what? The game has been out for a while now. I searched this problem and no one seemed to have a definitive solution. Crazy to me that D4 runs better.

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