Not sure how much you can monetise the news feed for a game you already own… The publisher may already control all the things linked to it. If unmonetised things are “ads” now, then the whole Steam UI is a giant ad.

That’s already out isn’t it? Remastered and everything.

In the UK there’s a soft limit of 4.5 times your income.

This is the amount they’re allowed to do with no oversight.

But 15% of their mortgages per quarter can be over that, and as far as I can tell there’s no real upper limit, although they’ve been offering 6x mortgages in some places.

The entire economy has prioritised pumping mortgage money around, and so nothing will be done. The only real lessons from the last big crash was to limit bad borrowing a bit, and that is crumbling away too.

I don’t see any short term fixes that wouldn’t get their political parties booted out and replaced with a party that promises to pump the house prices again.

The prices are set by banks. The only limit on what somebody can sell you a house for is what the bank is prepared to lend you.

If the interest rates go down, the price goes up. If the term lengths go up, the price goes up. Prevent lending, and the landlords will buy it up because normal people can no longer afford them.

The system has been fucked for way too long, and in order to fix it, you’re going to have to upset a lot of people who have put their money into their home.

They’re all so desperate for an excuse to increase the price further, and I don’t know anybody who wants this.

We’re already at over 6 inch for phones. It’s plenty big enough. If I want to see something on a bigger screen, I’ll use a device with a bigger screen.

It gets clicks from angry people, that’s the only reason IGN do anything these days.

Sad that they bought Eurogamer, because they were one of the last sites that hadn’t gone to complete shit.

I’ll accept it’s a bug tbh. There’s no money in this.

Seems like it’s auto selecting the first “news” thing for the game rather than leaving it on the default game splash screen.

Now where have we heard that one before…

Be nice if it actually came down in price eventually though.

I don’t think he knows about second genocide, Pip.

I mean, they’re sort of right.

If there’s 150,000 identical homes for rent in an area, and 200,000 people/couples/families want to live there, then 50,000 are going to be shit out of luck.

The going rate is going to be the maximum that the 150,000th person out of those 200k is prepared to pay.

How do you fight maths?

Build more houses. Less competition means lower prices.

Social housing schemes.

Work from home being a right so you don’t end up with everyone needing to work in a massive city to make ends meet.

Tax landlords. They’re already charging the most the market will bear, and taxes would mean they can’t just snap all those homes up and offer them for rent. If buying and renting homes is a valid business plan, then the tax isn’t high enough.

They’re not. Steam survey has 4K monitors at under 4%. Well over half are at 1080p and below. There’s exactly 1 GPU in the top 10 above the nVidia x060 series.

The way things get reviewed, you’d think 4K was a minimum. I suspect the majority of high end cards out there aren’t even used for gaming.

Bill Murray always claims he was conned into making Garfield, but he still came back for Garfield 2.

Sometimes all you need is a big pile of money in exchange for what is not really a lot of work in the grand scheme of things.

They were already lazy because the hardware was powerful enough to hide a lot of sins.

FF7 Rebirth for example. It looks much better on the Pro, but frankly, it should have looked much better on the base console. And it came out well before the Pro was announced.

But at the same time, the majority of PC gamers are happily still playing at 1080p. Resolution was always overrated and an expensive thing to chase.

The only semi-exclusive from last gen was Cyberpunk, and I can’t really see things being much different. If a game engine was capable of running at 60 if you reduce the graphics, they’ll still offer that. If it wasn’t, then the Pro won’t be able to run it faster either. It’s pretty much the exact same CPU under both.

Video of those for people interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGoKsv2omBU

But this one is probably a prison or something.

The last thing we need is Pro consoles getting exclusives. That would be PS6 in all but name.

The PS4 Pro made some sense. The PS4 was underpowered on launch, and 4K became pretty commonplace shortly after they launched. It still had an underpower CPU, but at least you got an upscaled HDR 1440p image for most of the time which is good enough. Even PC gamers accepted upscaling to 4K once they gave it a fancy name and told them it was exclusive.

But here, you’ve already got a choice of pretty RT mode and 60 fps mode, and if you really wanted both of those at the same time, then you could lash out a big pile of money for a PC.

It’s 700 notes for half a generation of slightly prettier gaming. It’s aimed at the “turn everything to ultra and have a fit when it drops below 60fps” PC gaming demographic, who have no need for this.

Not sure how he passed as a 31 year old at age 6 to 10.

A quick look on eBay suggests the only people buying them seen are scalpers.

Hope they all get fucked on this one.

I saw a quote the other week that stuck with me.

It was from the widow of the guy who got shot at that Trump rally. Biden had apparently offered to speak to her, but she didn’t want to because her husband was “a devout republican”.

Politics and religion have merged over there. People are making this shit their whole identity.

Well it was the 69 year old that died, so maybe.

But if you’re 69, and have a heart condition, I dunno. Maybe try lube instead of poppers.