Quoting: devnullIt's virtue signaling and identity politics, nothing more.

Exactly. Nothing more. (Not sure I'd use the same terms you do, but I don't care enough to take the bait.)

I know many people feel strongly about these issues for various reasons, but I still don't see why you pretend this is somehow relevant to the topic. So what if the game lets you choose a pronoun or put a beard on a lady? Makes no damn difference to my enjoyment of a game.

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Quoting: devnullTo dismiss that as trivial and "just get back to discussing gaming", when the devs themselves take such a political stance is a bit revolting.

I still ask: Why should we care. I just don't see what shocks you to the point of revulsion here. Artists and creators do have their own politics and opinions, just like the rest of us. I'd understand if they were spreading hate speech or something. This is almost the opposite.

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Ooh, this looks nice and relaxed. I really appreciate the polish.

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Quoting: TheRiddickIf you run NVIDIA hardware you might want to test games with __GL_NextGenCompiler=0 if you get graphical glitches because games like Deep Rock Galactic will give you triangle hell on some missions for example (Unity3D I think).

I had to do this a lot on 396.18, but is it still a problem with 396.24? Just curious, as the few (native) games I've tested are fine with the new compiler now.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeWhat? I knew about homosexual animals, I also know those are mutations (yes Dawkins himself said so in the video you linked. The "Pirate" is your mutation there. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, I'm saying that's just the way it is, and that yes some animals are bi, some are gay, but if there weren't a large portion of them that were straight/bi they would die off, right? Like literally no one would be reproducing and the species would have no progenitors.

I think you're mixing up the words "mutation" and "mutant" here. There would be no evolution without mutation, but it simply means random changes in (the DNA of) an organism, possibly resulting in a trait that might or might not be beneficial or significant. A mutation is not a ninja turtle or a gay animal. I doubt Dawkins said anything like that, and if he did, he was oversimplifying to the point of losing the message. Always an easy mistake to make in explaining science.

In any case, I don't see your point. Yes, a species would die off it they didn't reproduce. How is that relevant to the discussion? Why does that make you care if someone does or doesn't use a pronoun? As a native Finnish speaker, I find the whole concept of gendered pronouns totally pointless, but that's neither here nor there.

@Patola: feel free to correct my corrections on the subject of biology or evolution. I'm no expert.

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Quoting: devnullAs Gaming in a vm becomes more common (PCI passthrough rocks), it's not clear what happens to those stats. I have two physical machines with 2 GPUs each, does that count for example as one install? Two? Four? If one switches between OS's, does that change anything? How are even basic hardware metrics counted, is a vCPU a core or thread? Etc.

Naturally only the hardware available to the currently running OS is counted in the survey. If you happen to be running a Windows VM with a dedicated Nvidia GPU when the survey pops up, that's what Valve will see you gaming on. If you're lucky enough to get the survey on multiple VMs/hosts in the same month, they'll be counted as separate systems and IMHO for good reason. It's just a technicality that (most of) the hardware is shared. I don't know if it's still true, but you used to be able to review the data before sending it so you could make certain.

BTW, why do you think gaming in VMs will ever become common? It's a nifty trick and worth more nerd cred than dual booting, but not as much as not dual booting ;). In any case, it's not something a game developer would specifically target so they wouldn't care.

Oh, and of course a vCPU acts like a CPU core to the VM client. The whole point of a VM is that apps running on it see a fairly normal hardware setup and don't need to know the difference.

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Quoting: PatolaI will look forward to reading this book, but on this very same subject I've also got a hilarious book to recommend: Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation. It is not exclusively about homo/bi/transsexuality, but it is so funny (without oversimplifying anything, and always maintaining scientific accuracy) that it spawned a TV series.

Man, this sounds great for learning something without making it too hard. I'm surprised it hasn't been translated to German...

A book about sex... that doesn't make it too hard...

I absolutely did not giggle.

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Quoting: PatolaSorry but you need a better understanding of Evolution. I urge you to read books like the Selfish Gene by Professor Dawkins for a good introduction to the subject.

I suggest The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch by Terry Pratchett and professors Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart instead for a slightly less academic but a more entertaining read. :P

Hey, don't judge me. These books are actually not bad as far as popular science goes.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoAfter upgrading from Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS to Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS, the game works fine with the hardware listed in my profile and 390.48 drivers..

Seeing as you've got 8GB of ram, it will work even better if you upgrade to 396.24. This new beta driver fixed the problems I had with 396.18 in other games.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeNintendo HAS to be different, so the buttons are switched.... Died many times in Breath of the Wild due to that.

Actually those buttons have been that way since the SNES it's microsoft who decided to flip the A&B and X&Y buttons on their xbox controllers!

While this is a minor usability matter, I think the left-to-right layout is more intuitive than the opposite for us here in the west. In any case, Nintendo wasn't the only player on the market even back then, and there was no accepted standard for controller layouts. It's not a cultural thing either: Even Sega went with left-to-right A B C, while I remember seeing the monstrous Atari Jaguar gamepad going right-to-left.

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