Quoting: DrakkerHaving 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?

depends on the game type and skill rank. in competitive mode on mid ranks and higher, people just exchange tactical info. my last solo game was almost silent. if someone is abusing voice chat, there is report button that mutes them as well.

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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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Quoting: kit89If they had taken high fidelity renderings of the characters provided by the artist (doesn't need to be photoreal), and showed it running on a 4060 where the low definition character was replaced with the high definition version, then I think that would have been impressive.

Instead we saw exaggerated features, that didn't align with the original character, that required 2 5090s.

ai cores on nvidia GPUs take so much space, that if they were removed and replaced with rendering cores, there might not be any need of upscaling in the first place. Why do you think nvidia went for that ridiculous design? the answer is simple: scaling production. it is cheaper for nvidia to produce the same gpus for both datacenters and individual consumers, and ordinary gamers are paying the price for it since 2019. dlss 4.5 with transformer model for sure is a good upscaling method, but it largely doesn't have anything to do with ai cores, except pixel filtering to mitigate ghosting, that's all that ai cores do in the chain of denoise technique.

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On the bright side, for the first time in few years, AMD and Intel don't need to compete with the latest DLSS updates.

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generative ai was around for 3 years and delivered ZERO IMPROVEMENTS for our civilization.and a lot of negatives. the internet got worse, ai bubble made ram prices high, everyone got dumber.

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I am not a native English speaker, but I doubt this being a reason why I didn't understand the point of this lawsuit, nor almost any sentence of this legal bureaucratese nonsense.

I can see the lawsuit will fall apart, because Valve doesn't have anything to do with it.
Developers and publishers make games, they hire composers to write music, or buy licences for existing music. Then they publish games in Steam, claiming all content in games was obtained legally. What Valve can do with it, except take down games that break law, when they get DMCA complaint?

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I hate lootboxes, but at least Valve allows to sell them on steam marketplace, and add funds to steam wallet. Weekly drops from CS2 funded almost all games i bought in the last 4 years lol. So for me it is a mutually profitable business.

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Quoting: DarthJarjarWe might need to be very careful implementing that feature, because the OS broadcasting that the user is a minor feel like a very poor way of protecting them.
On the other hand, if this could be implemented safely, maybe we could have leeway this to require service providers to stop sending ads, addictive or radicalization contents to minors.

Sure, because there are no bad actors among app and service providers.

Sarcasm: according to californian lawmakers, the best way to protect minors is to broadcast their age bracket, account name, and IP address to anyone that asks for it in an automated fashion, so everyone should know that minors are right over there and you should not target them in any way, because it is against the law.

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Quoting: JoomI've been seeing that 590 has problems all over the place, but it's been perfectly fine for me on CachyOS. Makes me wonder if it's the Ubuntu maintainers that have somehow broken it, which wouldn't surprise me.

I had Stalker 2 crashes on 590 drivers, then I rolled back to 580 and the game was rock stable again. Good for you if you didn't have any issues.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: ExplosiveDiarrheaThank God US laws don't apply to the rest of the world... yet!

A common thing people say - but the reality is the opposite. If you want to do any kind of business or service in the US, the laws very much do apply.

Unless the laws of other countries forbid doing that, and then you need to have two business models or two models of a product.

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