Lol. True. Although I always think she lands in bed like a model from PvP Halo 3.

Me going through TSA…

I want to look and smile that the good boi, but I must look ahead and ignore him, because he is at work. Also because I have indica gummies on me so I can sleep on the plane. So I need to play it cool.

Yeah, I wonder why they never added the option to combo new visuals and old sounds. MCC will only allow old audio with the old graphics.

That said, it’s still one of those games where I get together with my middle aged friends, and no one thinks much about the game’s in-game presentation until someone toggles the graphics, then people suddenly realize a LOT more has been updated that they realize.

IMHO, they did a better job than most at recapturing how the game felt when you played it back in the day. Not all of the creative choices were perfect, but nailed a lot of it.

IMHO, it depends on the game and the remake. The old Halo games are probably the best case study on what to do and what not to do.

Halo CE - Don’t do that. The game was old enough to warrant major texture, geometry, and animation upgrades, but the developer also completely changed the art style.

Halo 2 - Do this. It’s the old art style, but with more detail. The game looks like how you think it looked, until you toggle the old graphics on and see how it ACTUALLY looked.

Halo 3 - Do this. The game was in good enough shape to just need a few frame rate, texture, and resolution bumps. New animation and geometry wasn’t needed, and avoiding that was the right call.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254844144?sortBy=best

And it does the other way too. There are tons of big features missing from Microsoft’s ecosystem that exist in the their competitor’s products.

I work for a tech company that is a Microsoft shop, and all the Silicon Valley hires that are used to macOS and Slack complain every damn day about feature gaps.

Doesn’t work for all menu bar icons, and sometimes people just want to hide stuff as with the old classic macOS Control Strip.

Been super common in Android land for a long time. It’s only been recently that manufacturers have been committing to 7 OS generations / years of Android support.

It’s not really rare anymore now that there is legislation around it. Apple is putting this down in writing because that makes them compliant with PSTI.

Apple really needs to fix the latter for non-CarPlay head units. People have been complaining about that for decades.

CarPlay finally fixed this, but it hasn’t been addressed for non-CarPlay cars.

I don’t have time to read through this now, but I’m curious to see what the full T&C text looks like. For example, what happens if your new phone is broken out of the box? Do the terms cover this use case?

Admins. Thank you. Users. Thank you.

Mods?

Seems like the main driver was not the demand mentioned in then headline, but the massive price drops mentioned in the article.

Yeah, just saying that most of Valve’s value is probably in their software. Their hardware installed base is pretty small compared to others.

Looking at the sales estimates, the numbers appear pretty modest compared to the other gaming devices. They’re probably under 5m units sold since early 2022.

Got it. Removing RAM modules now.

I was a massive fan of the OG Xbox and the 360, and every generation since the 360, I’ve grabbed an Xbox with the hope of getting a taste of those glory days.

I’m over it. Microsoft is making dumb decisions up and down the org these days. Their decisions make me sad at work, then sad on the couch after work.

To be fair, you’re not paying the developer. You’re paying the developer to pay Reddit.

Looks like the FaceTime cameras are all finally landscape, not portrait.