For someone who about this time last year would not touch "rougue-likes" or "rougue-lights" with a ten foot pole I've been playing Slay the Spire, Rogue Legacy, Monster Train and Vampire Survivors.

Will Phil Fogg ever play a full length game again?

What do you think of the Yoshida story? Sad state of affaris for the helth of gaming I think.  Or maybe we'll just play games like I have been this week.  To invoke the Dead Kennedy's, "The AAA took my gaming away".

^ sounds like my qualms with the recent Monster Hunter games.

Switch 2 Virtuous interview:

Similarly, the Nintendo Switch 2 supports hardware-accelerated ray tracing, but barely any games are using it. Does it even make sense, or should hardware resources be focused elsewhere?

Eoin: Hardware ray tracing is a widely discussed feature in this generation of consoles. The Xbox Series X and PS5 support it for lighting, but maintaining stable frame rates can be challenging. Epic’s Lumen offers support for software ray tracing on the GPU as a lighter option for a lighting solution, although with Unreal Engine 5.6, focus is shifting toward further optimization of hardware ray tracing capabilities.

On the Series S, hardware ray tracing for lighting has not been widely pursued as an option. That is noteworthy as the Switch 2 has less ray tracing power than the Series S, and DLSS may not significantly close that gap. Beyond lighting, however, hardware ray tracing continues to be widely used across all platforms for reflections and shadows. This is where I see the most potential for the Switch 2, as it has sufficient power to deliver high-quality shadows and reflections at reasonable resolutions and frame rates.

gamingeek said:

Sounds like you need Snowrunner in your life.

That reminds me. I need to get back to Mudrunner. I was enjoying it but I get sidetracked easily.

Our closest theater is showing a fiftieth anniversary showing of Jaws in late August. We have our tickets snd I'm pretty excited.

Ravenprose said:

"Oblivion Remastered Patch 1.2 Detailed, Adds New Difficulty Options, Improves Performance, More"


Finally making it run like it should have on release day? Better late than never, I suppose. Once this comes out, I'll continue my playthrough. I was enjoying it but the difficulty and performance issues really hurt it.

In a way, it's reassuring as it indicates that Bethesda is still Bethesda, they have not all been replaced by competent programmers over the years, it's still the same team that brought us such fiascos as Skyrim on PS3.

What's the power rating on the steam deck battery? Switch 2 is 5220 mah.

Even when I slap the lightest, thinest powerbank to it, it feels almost too heavy.

Is the steamdeck quite heavy then?

Man, Nvidea's worth has grown tenfold in the last 2 and a half years.  We all saw this coming and we're all fools for not buying as much stock as we could back then.  To be fair, I haven't entered the stock market myself (yet).  Did anyone get in on this?

Good on you.  I kind of agree, but really, how much bigger can they get?  It already boggles the mind.

robio said:

And anytime I try to make my own decisions in the world of investments, I always lose money. So about a year ago I found a knowledgeable group that seems to be a lot better at this than I am and it's been working out.

Exactly the reason I haven't dared to make the plunge yet.  I need to find me some knowledgeable people.  Also, I need to find some savings.  With our renovations dragging along for years on end I just keep pouring money into the house.