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Yeah, I also remember some games allowing you to choose compressed or uncompressed textures when they first started to be supported by new cards

Mumble is so good!

I mean we had that

I jumped ship like five years ago. Their intentions have been clear for some time.

Young again

Save it for your self-radicalizing Facebook group.

/s

Transphobes do not have psychological phobias. You’re being overly literal.

There’s a strong argument that we shouldn’t be using psychological terms in this way, in the same way that we shouldn’t casually describe things as “schizophrenic” or “autistic”, but there is no ambiguity about what is meant.

Because it’s not an issue. This is the system functioning as intended. Changing this behaviour would cause dramatic performance degradation for the 99.999% of the time when the device you are writing to isn’t removable media that you want to eject right away.

What “optimization”? It’s obviously not 120GB of code. It’s all texture data, which is certainly already compressed.

I’m pretty sure the main point was getting another million or ten sales for relatively little development cost.

what a cowardly thing to say. you could have just walked away, but your fragile ego wasn’t done humiliating you.

A river floods every year. If someone builds a house next to it and the river takes it, is the river evil, or is the person suffering the consequences of their own ignorance? The consequences of capitalism are predictable and inevitable. The behaviour of a dollar is almost as predictable as that of an electron. Why do people pretend like we don’t know what is going to happen?

Oblivion was the last time Bethesda got any of my money, and I’m not about to pay them again.

“Middle class” IS working class. It’s a false distinction that only serves to undermine our only tool against the ruling class, class solidarity. (I think we’re kind of saying the same thing.)

“Middle class” contrasts with “upper class” and “lower class”, not with “ruling class” and “working class”; it’s the wrong perspective.

Even if this were true, it does not address the moral argument that is at the root of this discussion. It’s a way that you distract yourself from the moral component of your choices. It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not, it doesn’t even matter if you believe it or not. It just has to distract you long enough that you get past the point where you might accidentally engage your empathy, and have a feeling you don’t want to have.

Where are you getting your information?

The majority of all the plants that humans grow are fed to livestock. That’s just the fact of the matter. It’s not conserving anything, rather it’s incredibly wasteful. Human food crops could have been grown instead, on a fraction of the land.

And again, you don’t really give a shit. It wouldn’t change your behaviour to discover you are mistaken, it’s a disingenuous argument. It’s sophistry.

Gaslighting

That’s willful self-delusion.

This is not true. The vast majority of farmed animals come from high intensity operations and the vast bulk of the food they eat is grown agriculturally. This is one of those happy little lies people repeat to themselves without verifying because it provides them with a shred of moral license. They don’t really care whether it’s true or not and finding out it is false won’t change their behaviour, it’s a totally facile argument.