Quoting: Ehvis

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Quoting: EhvisThe vulnerabilities get a surprising amount of press compared to the risk they pose for the average person. I know just enough to realise that there is no reason to worry about these issues for any of my use cases and they I can even safely turn off all the mitigations. It does make me wonder how many people actually think that their computer might get hacked from these problems.

If a carmanufacturer had a malfunctioning car alarmsystem or doorlocking mechanism it would probably get similar coverage even though most people would still be able to park their cars on public roads.
Not sure if this is even that much coverage.

Well, the number of cars being stolen by exploiting the smart key system is actually quite substantial. And you if it wasn't for it being mentioned once or twice, I wouldn't have known about it. On the other hand, I have never heard of any hack or data leak with an in-the-wild exploit of these CPU vulnerabilities. As I understand it, it is just not a reasonable attack vector for anything other than hosts running multiple virtualised servers. And even then the chances of doing anything useful are not that great.

Fair point. It is however not just an academic exercise but an actual threat to computer security. With WebGL enabled we are talking about a remote exploit. And if it were not for the mitigations we probably would already have seen it in use.
But I guess I agree the problem is blown a bit out of proportion.

edit: Hardware vulnerabilitys like Spectre are not limited to x86 but affect all Processors with speculative execution.

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Quoting: EhvisThe vulnerabilities get a surprising amount of press compared to the risk they pose for the average person. I know just enough to realise that there is no reason to worry about these issues for any of my use cases and they I can even safely turn off all the mitigations. It does make me wonder how many people actually think that their computer might get hacked from these problems.

If a carmanufacturer had a malfunctioning car alarmsystem or doorlocking mechanism it would probably get similar coverage even though most people would still be able to park their cars on public roads.
Not sure if this is even that much coverage.

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This is exactly what I've been looking for :)

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Quoting: elmapulthere is no such a thing a san world without exclusives.
there is either:
'sony get 20 exclusives, microsoft get 20 exclusives, nintendo get 20 exclusives, and everything else is multiplatform'
or
'almost everything is windows exclusive, other platforms have to try emulators to maybe be able to run something wit an crapy performance and an experience that vary from game to game, varing from run fine to run with tons of bugs.'

i used to be against exclusives too, but nowadays i see that this is an utopy.

microsoft is playing dumb breaking their own exclusivity deals because they know that, in an world without exclusives, anyone with the biggest marketshare win.

If a game is developed for only one platform it is not an exclusive. It becomes exclusive at the point where an agreement is done with whoever to exclude a certain platform from development.
It is one thing to not care about a platform. Actively hindering that platform to prosper is a different thing.

Also I do not agree with your statement on Windows becoming the only gaming platform without exclusives. Yes Exclusives sell consoles. Without exclusives consoles would have to offer another benefit over the PC. If they can not do that they would die (rightfully so). However Linux and MacOS have been around without attention from game developers and do obviously offer a meaningful benefit for the user over Windows, therefore there will always be Linux and MacOS users and there will always be a market of Linux and MacOS users to sell their games to. That would also apply to any cloud gaming platform, arcade hall or any other gaming platform assuming there is a meaningful enough benefit offered or a market to capitalize on.

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Epic started timed exclusives on PC and now Stadia follows their lead. I can only consider that anti-consumer. Such practices greatly reduce the chances of me spending money on your service.

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1. Any Anno game
2. Any the Settlers game
3. Any codemasters game

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Even my RX580 has 8GB of VRAM. I get that GDDR6 is expensive and Nvidia also has only 6GB at the same price but they should at least make an 8GB Version at some point.

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Walking Simulators don't have good gameplay. You play them for the Story. The first games story was good at the beginning but mediocre overall. Before the Storm was a total disappointment. Won't touch this one at all.

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So we got the bethesda games, that use Vulkan anyway, RDR2 and ferals Linux ports of the TR series to use Vulkan, right?
I was hoping for more Vulkan adoption outside of Stadia but we'll have to wait how this develops in the future.

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Quoting: KimyrielleApparently somebody cares. If not, you'd expect protagonist gender being picked randomly and thus the distribution between male and female leads should be 50/50 - but with the overwhelming majority of all games using male protagonists, you can't really argue it's random. The question is really why in 2019 it apparently still matters enough to systemically prefer male over female characters...

I am not arguing the spread of lead roles is determined by random picking nor am I arguing it should be. It is the Writers and designers creative freedom to choose whatever they deem fits. I would however explain the male/female spread with historic military- or otherwise male dominated scenarios rather than a conspiratorial systematic agenda to keep women out of videogames.
Anyway the point I was trying to make is: Gender does not matter.

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