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Quoting: ridgeNot a CS player myself, but, I always thought more FPS games should keep track of magazines rather than bullets. I think it's a great fit for CS :)

Worked really well in Battlefield, made it fun even, I think.

the issue with the new reload system, you just delete partially empty mags from the game instead of pocketing them for later. i think it should be fixed.

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Having dumped CS for Urban Terror in the past because I found it more fun and I like the whole mag reload thing, I'm tempted to give this version of CS a try.

I heard that game is now full of morons screaming stupid stuff on voice, is it true and should I stay on basic text comms?

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Quoting: discocatUsually when you announce a product, you try to show it in the best light, so my take on all this is that what they showed here (heavily edited result) is what they're the most proud of.

Nvidia generated all that content, those videos, those examples, being super duper proud of it like it was the best thing ever. They're genuinely convinced it's awesome.

Quoting: Stellaand completely deserved too. Nvidia itself has become a meme

Quoting: JarmerWOW that looks absolutely horrid. Their heads are so far up their own asses they couldn't tell? And then went on to be PROUD of that ...?

Based on what I saw in that YouTube video, I thought it looked awesome and has enormous potential... And I can't stand NVIDIA as a company!

Surely I'm not the only one?

Quoting: melkemindThat's why the game characters end up looking like Instagram models.

That's a bad thing? 😂

Quoting: BrokattI sincerely hope AMD and Intel won't follow but something tells me they can't help themselves.

Nah, I look forward to this - as long as it suits the particular game type! For example, it would make little sense to have such realism for say, Palworld... But it would be fantastic to see this implemented in The Last of Us.

Quoting: Jarmeras others have said, it 100% looks fake pornified. Which is just so misogynistic.

Again, that's a bad thing? 🤣

In all seriousness though, you're blowing this way, waaay out of proportion... This is no way "pornified"; even using the "Instagram models" comment above is grasping at straws, to be honest.

Quoting: EhvisDid they really pay off a bunch of studios for demo games so that those 7 people in the world that have a spare 5090 can use it?

Quoting: alka.setzerNvidia explicitly said that they were running two 5090, one for rendering the other for DLSS 5 processing so that they could maintain fluid fps on the demos. They also said they had DLSS 5 running in a single card on the lab (didn't said which, could be a rtx 6090). DLSS 5 is supposed to come out on Q4.

Quoting: kit89that required 2 5090s.

Meh. This will trickle down to us peasants in the coming years... It's a sign of what you can have now if you're rich, and what us peasants should expect in the future.

Quoting: KapelliniI haven't seen this mentioned nearly enough, it's enforcing instagram and tiktok filter beauty standards.

Good lord, here we go...

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I started using Linux cuz Windows became spyware.
Why would i want to actively install spyware like OperaGX on my system?

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Well I'll be damned, they actually ported it. One of the few Chromium based browsers that didn't support Linux is now available.

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50 GB is plenty for anything that's not video. My mobile data plan is 2GB and non-video calling and streaming applications don't use more than ~500 Mb a month.

But I can't see how they can possibly keep it free

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Saw my colleague using this at work, looks too cluttered for my taste. It is however nice to have a Linux version.

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I recently stopped using regular Opera on EndeavourOS because video playback stopped working properly. Does the gaming version require the same codec workarounds?

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I've been using Split View for a few weeks, and love the feature! You can enable it in about:config and search for "split" to toggle it to True if you'd like to try it before 149 release.

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Quoting: KapelliniI've heard a lot about this browser, and it's usually people citing privacy concerns. Is there any substantiated evidence about this browser mishandling/misusing/etc user data? I did a cursory search online and while I can't find a lot, that doesn't mean it isn't there. I'm easily won over by extensive customisation but I've been staying away from this browser due to it's reputation, and because my interest is often inversely proportional to the amount of effort put into advertisement and sponsorships. I was disappointed when CachyOS deprecated their browser, so I've been using Floorp since.

as a European company they have to abide by GDPR even if they are owned by a Chinese one.

if you are interested you could read their privacy policy:

https://www.opera.com/legal/privacy

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I've heard a lot about this browser, and it's usually people citing privacy concerns. Is there any substantiated evidence about this browser mishandling/misusing/etc user data? I did a cursory search online and while I can't find a lot, that doesn't mean it isn't there. I'm easily won over by extensive customisation but I've been staying away from this browser due to it's reputation, and because my interest is often inversely proportional to the amount of effort put into advertisement and sponsorships. I was disappointed when CachyOS deprecated their browser, so I've been using Floorp since.

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Quoting: Liam DaweI'm still not sure why you would want to actually use it.

Verbatim, same thing I muttered to myself when I clicked on the article.. 😃

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Didn't know about WiVRn. Well, I guess Meta Quest 3/3S is back on the table now as an option for use as a cheap XR screen.

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Not a CS player myself, but, I always thought more FPS games should keep track of magazines rather than bullets. I think it's a great fit for CS :)

Worked really well in Battlefield, made it fun even, I think.

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This is a super controversial decision. Reloading always worked this way in CS as opposed to other, more realistic games. To me this might be a fun way to stir the stale gameplay but people like their "forever games" to stay the same, well... Forever.

As of the long forgotten Danger Zone - to be honest I didn't like this attempt to introduce battle royale into CS. It would be much more interesting if it offered much bigger maps than the one(s) it shipped with. After all, the BR genre is much more about managing map space than gunplay.

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Do you think they re-released CS:GO because they expected people would be quite pissed off with those changes to CS2? 🤣

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To me, this feels like yet another case of certain people manufacturing drama.

We're not talking about a developer blindly using AI to generate code they don't understand and then pushing it out to users unchecked. This is a developer who knows what he is doing, uses AI as a tool to speed things up, and reviews the output. In that context, AI isn't replacing skill, it's supporting it.

As for the broader impact of AI on us as computer enthusiasts: yes, it's significant, and not all of it is positive. Hardware shortages and rising prices are definitely frustrating. But this isn't new. We've seen the same pattern before, whether it was laptops, crypto mining, or data centers driving up demand and prices. Every major tech wave creates temporary disruption before the industry adapts.

If someone's truly concerned about environmental impact or rising costs, there are straightforward ways to respond: stop wasting energy by playing PC games on demanding hardware, buy a energy efficient notebook second hand, and only use it for what you absolutely need.

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I enjoyed Clonizer.

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Here are some ideas from me on this issue:

Decentralisation - A country can't block an OS or App Store if it is properly decentralised. No one is legally responsible for such OS, because no single country is controlling it. (This goes in hand with anonymising the developers who maintain it.)

Geo-positional license terms - Any state or country which regulates age attestation laws gets hit with a 'you can't use this software legally in this place' license agreement. No need to put in age-attestation controls if people in a specific location aren't permitted to use the software.

Lobbying in the reverse direction - It is generally known that Meta is responsible for lobbying these new age laws in US States, such as California. The people (you and me) need to contact their local politicians and argue against these laws. We need to have a massive onslaught of messages going to politicians making them very aware that this is major overreach and the public won't put up with it.

Software Ownership License Terms - Adjust the licensing terms within the software that make it that the installer of the software becomes the Owner / Responsible Party for age regulation of the software (and make no changes to the software itself). It becomes the responsibility of the 'owner' (user) of the software to follow the letter of the law (adding in age attestation verification APIs). This basically criminalises all users, and makes it very hard to attack the OS itself.

I'm sure there are other ways to proceed. One way forward is to go back to putting the onus on social media platforms to identify child users. After all, Meta is responsible for "passing the buck" onto OSes and App Stores by lobbying politicians so that they can avoid big fines.

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Quoting: benstor214[apparently the GeForce3 was the first video card released with a programmable pixel shader. Though programmable shaders in general were already a thing for years before that.

Yeah, they implemented such idea in the GPUs first, but they didn't invent it.

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If there's one thing 495 hours of playing Noita has taught me, it's that combining spells to solve puzzles always brings horrible death utter hilarity! 😆

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I think of it as Mar-a-Lago face for video games.

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Quoting: WMan22That fixed the softlock bug, however music is still playing where it shouldn't so far. I can't even hear the doc's voice over the loud music, and there should be no music in the tutorial section.

Oh, that's a pity! Guess I will give the PS2 version a try with PCSX2 instead.

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They've also added artwork automatically being added to the Steam entry of the game.

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Quoting: sanInteresting! Thus far I’ve been using GPU-X for this purpose.

Thanks for this, @san, but don't you mean CPU-X?

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I have Zero Trust left. Worst of all the Bethesda games, just taking resources away from TES 6 at this point. The only thing that has the slightest interest for me is being able to upgrade whatever weapon you find again and again to your level, that is very needed just like we could do with Geralts silver sword in Witcher 3. Also the quantuum esssence or whatever it's called being able to upgrade space dragon shouts has potential but well see. Game play, npcs, hell the story are just so bad i really could care less.

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Interesting! Thus far I’ve been using [GPU-X](https://thetumultuousunicornofdarkness.github.io/CPU-X/) for this purpose.

For those who care, GPU-T appears to be a vibe coded project..

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It's like if Factorio, Shapez, and Screeps had a baby.

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I'm on Manjaro since about 7 years i think. It did break one or two times after an update, but it also worked back after a few lines found on internet. Other than that, it does what i want : i work, play (native or Proton/WINE), media, without really thinking about the OS itself.

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Quoting: JarmerWhich is just so misogynistic.

I haven't seen this mentioned nearly enough, it's enforcing instagram and tiktok filter beauty standards. It gave Grace lip injections. There are so many layers as to why this is awful. I miss the pre-AI world.

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