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Have you tried having another kid?

The online mode a not worth it unless your idea of a good time is getting blown up ever 5 seconds

Honestly it’s like talking to a conspiracy theorist.

What are you talking about, what’s “an accounting thing” do you even know what base load is? Go look up brownouts, actually for that matter go look up the term baseload because I don’t think you’re using it right

Building a dam causes massive amounts of ecological damage, plus unless you’re building it in the middle of nowhere you’re probably going to be turning people out of their homes, out of their entire towns. We could never build enough dams to be able to meet demand so even trying would be pointless. You would be destroying huge amounts of landscape for no reason.

Kinetic batteries can only store power up to a point, the more power you want them to store the larger they need to be. Again to compensate for base load you would have to have a either a lot of kinetic batteries or a few enormous ones. Plus they are maintenance intensive since they are giant spinning things, or great big heavy falling things.

Heat batteries are a good idea and have relatively little in the way of downsides, but they only work where it’s hot, not just sunny but hot. So the number of places you can build them is limited.

If only we could get hold of some astrophage or something.

Well you still need baseload. You can’t forget about it just because it’s inconvenient.

Well I’m not going to buy the book to find out what they are so all I’m going to go ahead and say is this. Yes there are solutions such as battery storage (although they do tend to be extremely explodey) and using the power to pump water around, or using mirrors to heat up salt in insulated containers, but they are all very specific solutions that will only work in very particular situations, which we don’t always have.

I like the idea that the real reason for all of the atrocities is that people don’t have enough power to play Xbox.

It’s very infuriating talking to people about this because they never really accept that nuclear power is necessary. They spend all their time complaining about how it’s dangerous (it isn’t) and how it’s very expensive, and how you don’t have a lot of control over its output capacity. And yeah, all of those are true, but so what, the only other option is to burn some dead trees which obviously we don’t want to do.

Just because nuclear has downsides doesn’t mean you can ignore it, unless of course you want to invent fusion just to spite me, in which case I’ll be fine with that.

I could probably get away with putting solar panels on my roof but I think my neighbours would have something to say about a wind turbine. They’re pretty loud.

As a very much code oriented person I don’t think I could even give you useful feedback on music.

Presumably I would just hand over a dev build of the game and see what they thought made sense. I wonder what the AAA developers are even saying to control the music direction.

That would have to be the weirdest advertising strategy in the history of all advertising.

My our game, it’s really shit

The cam girl porn was the valuable bit. I sure as hell know nobody wants the Borderlands code

So why hasn’t someone in charge taking his Twitter account away from him?

You know how some people have seen eye dogs, well he needs a thinking brain person. Anytime he is in public there should be someone stood next to him who interrupts him before he has the opportunity to answer, and gives the corporately sanitised answer he should have given.

It’s not that he’s a tool it’s at the game it has poor performance. And being a tool is just a guarantee that issue will never be fixed.

So in a way I kind of do blame the team, they must have done testing they know what the performance is like.

Was he?

Personally I’ve always thought of him as a bit of a prick.

Any interest I had in the game, which was already fairly minimal, was completely obliterated when the price was announced.

2K can actually release a functional game though. The problem is they get greedy after the fact.

I mean I sort of agree, but I’ve both used custom engines and seen people trying use custom engines and you have this problem where the engine was designed for a game, rather than for any game. So if the original game didn’t have a particular feature the engine has no capacity to do that thing, so every time you want to make a new game in that engine, you basically have to rewrite the engine.

It works if you build an engine to be an engine, but as you say that’s extremely expensive and time consuming and you probably am not going to get any benefit out of it. You could try selling the engine, but you’re unlikely to make much progress unless there is a significant improvement over the other options already available.

I don’t understand how Sony would allow a game on their platform that doesn’t actually run. Like surely they will require to provide some kind of advanced copy for them to review?

If your engine is crap then you don’t get brownie points because it’s custom.

After all, Starfield is on a custom engine, and it had exactly the same problems as Borderlands 4.