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The issue with autonomous vehicles is not thier ability to drive safely and accurately under normal circumstances. Technology exists right now that will make that very possible. The problem is how such technology responds to moral dilemmas. For example, you're in your autonomous car and the breaks fail. If you turn one way, you'll plough head on into oncoming triffic. Turn the other way you'll drive off the end of a high overpass to a certain death. Straight ahead of you are a bunch of school children crossing the road. What does the autonomous vehicle do? It sounds reasonable to assume the autonomous vehicle would be programmed to protect it's occupants, but with that logic it will deliberately plough straight through those children as that's the scenario the occupants are most likely to survive. But the vast majority of people would do whatever it takes to avoid that because it's the wrong choice morally. The only option for the makers of autonomous cars would be to have them programmed to make the correct choice morally, which in the above scenario is drive off the overpass, killing the person who bought it. That way the children are safe and no other lives are put at risk as with the other two options. That would mean that people who buy autonomous vehicles would buy them knowing that, under certain circumstances, they are programmed to kill you. Would you buy such a car? The point is, there is no way that autonomous vehicles can be designed that everyone, both inside and outside of them, can fully trust them. That is why they can't work.

The type of game in question is the factor for me. First person perspective is nice for shooters and horror games, but is not great for strategy, melee combat, platforming and dedicated stealth games.

So DLC expantions and re-releases are now valid for GOTY? For fuck sake...

I'm posting under the assumption that controversies related to the business practices surrunding a game or the companies behind the game are not relevant here. Such complaints are understandable, but not actually related to the game itself. This is about games that are controversial because of thier content. Weirdly, I actually miss the days of people complaining about violence in games and that being considered controversial. I don't think it's been brought up since Hatred (or possibly GTA 5), and even that wasn't a huge deal. Sex and sexualisation of characters has come up sometimes, but not to the point whare it's been exatly mainstream news. These days most "controversial" games get to be "controversial" for, quite frankly, ridiculous reasons. It's usually a load of buthurt man-babies upset that a game has gay or black people in it. Or because a game has a woman in that actually looks like a woman and not some teenager's wet dream. Embarasment is a more familiar feeling than anger for me these days. I hate censorship as much as the next guy, there is just no need for it when we have the ratings system for games. So long parents respect both the ratings system video games themselves for what they are, an entertainment medium and not toys, children are pretty safe form content that is innapriate. Having said that, there has to be a line drawn somewhere. And let's be honest, there are good reasons why it's not gamers and the game developers that cater to them that decide whare that line should be.

I'm as disappointed as anyone to see that maniac going back into office, and watching Patric Harvey make that statement part of me cheers. However, the Scottish Greens were aligned with the SNP during those rancid years they spend crying about loosing the independence referendum and caring about nothing else during the process, least of all the Scottish people. And now, here we are again, to find him focused on something that's outside of our (as in Scotland's) concern. The correct and professional thing to do is what the other western leaders are doing. Offer thier congratulations as a baseless, soulless courtesy, justifiably fear the day this idiot moves back into office then, most importantly, get on with the fucking job! Nobody outside of the MAGA cult, especially people outside of America (Honestly, we were amazed America elected the first time, never mind twice) wanted to see the xenophobic totalitarian in the White House again, but what was Patric trying to achieve with that speech? Scotland already hates Trump, there was no minds to change with that statement. In the the end, it was nothing but a cry for attention.

I will never understand why people have a personal care about game sales because it's a measure of nothing that should matter to the average gamer. Sales numbers, wether they be large or small, say nothing about how good or bad a game is. They say nothing about about wether or not a game will suit your tastes or not. It doesn't yield any useful information whatsoever, so why even bring it up?

To describe this in one word, pointless. Not only has this been available on console since the launch of the PS4 and Xbox One, third party software for this purpose has been available for this purpose on PC for, if anything, even longer. This feature is actually built into the support software for graphics cards these days. I know that because I've used it. That software also has the advantage of being available to use with software not launched through Steam, so why would anybody use this? I'm not dissing the software not it's features, I'm sure it works fine, but anyone even remotely serious about recording gameplay on PC would be either using a capture card or premium third-party software and that's not likely to change.

@Knight Barida I have locked this topic and encourage you to instead post a new topic on this subject under the Video Game Deals sub-forum. Information or the rules and format for posts on that sub-forum can be found here.

Gender segregation in athletic competition is understandable, but for e-sports it's ridiculous. It's like having gender segregation for a Chess tournament, it makes no sense and can't be justified.

Saw this in my news feed yesterday. These idiots came back from the void whare we all hoped they would stay promising honesty and transparency. Within just a few weeks of that promise, they are asset flipping, trying to fund that asset flipping with a bullshit Kickstarter campaign and now trying to trick people into developing thier game for free. Fuck Fantastic. Glad to see they're not getting away with it, at least not in the eyes of the community.

Looking forward to seeing this flop and die within weeks and I hope both Ubisoft and the crypto-twats who lap this up loose everything they put into this.

For everything to come together for life on Earth to evolve as we know it was literally a billions to one chance. Whilst I have little doubt that other planets have met the correct conditions for life, I don't think there are as many of them in our galaxy as most people assume. Even if the conditions are right for life, there is no guarantee life would take hold, especially evolving to the point of sentiant life. Are there other sentiant beings out there in the universe? For sure, but it's very unlikely we will ever make contact with them.

Dualshockers' have made rejecting thier cookie policy on thier website ridiculously hard. Instead of reading thier article, I found the information detailing the rules on the FTC website. Link below. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/08/federal-trade-commission-announces-final-rule-banning-fake-reviews-testimonials Having read the new guidelines, I can't help but feel I'm missing something. I don't actually see anything in these new rules that would forbid review bombing, or at least not review bombing for legitimate reasons. If alot of people are unhappy with changes to a game, the company policies or whatever people will still be able to write or alter legitimate user reviews to make thier feelings clear. It seams to mostly target review bots, paid reviewers and insider reviews. As far as I can see, it's game companies that need to be concerned. More specifically, game companies that twist people's arms on storefronts and on social media for positive reviews, companies that buy reviews and have employees review the own games as well as other forms of manipulation. The only concern I've got is the possibility of companies claiming that review bombing as a form of review manipulation. However would have a hard time proving that when there are hundreds of legit accounts with no connection to each other saying the things because it's true. So I'm not that concerned, but if I have missed something here please let me know.

Rogue every time. They usually combine melee with ranged weapons, so actually offer great attack options without the vurnerbilty of a mage and tend to be more fun to control than warriors. Not to mention stealth has a tendency to be overpowered in RPG's.

The quick answer is no. They are not even remotely similar. If fixing mental health problems and trauma was as easy as planting one's ass in front of TV and handing the patient a controller mental health issues and social problems wouldn't exist. Video games are entertainment made to help you relax, test you reflexes and strategies, stimulate your imagination with stories and characters and all manner of things generally good for one's mental health, but it's not therapy. Therapy is to the mind is what surgury is to the body, by it's very nature is not entertaning or relaxing. It's invasive and uncomfortable because that's how it works. Quite frankly, people need to stop looking at arbertry entrainment as some sort of substitute for real help.

This topic is just spam from 5 years ago that didn't need dug back up. I've removed the other link as it's not genuine anyway and locking the thread.

I feel you. Magic is probably the worst part about Skyrim. It's so badly balanced against the player that it's crap both to use and fight against. Melee by contradiction is, if anything, overpowered, mostly because of how smithing works.

The platform makes all the difference here. Games consoles are designed to pair well with televisions, but PC's and normal televisions don't actually get along very well. Without the right optimatarions, PC signals tend to tear up and be unstable on normal TV's.

Just be glad you're not burdened with Cricket. That sport makes baseball look like a rock concert. Not only is it pompous and formal compared to baseball, it's way more tedious and slow paced. Cautious, defencive play is a huge part of the game, making an already boring game even more boring. In test cricket, it takes 5 days to play one game and it usually ends in a fucking draw! Motorsport is pretty much the only sport that holds my interest. I enjoy the technical and tactical side to it as much as I do action on-track, that's I can watch things like Formula 1 even when it does get tedious without getting bored. However, NASCAR is whare I draw the line. I admire the drivers as I know those cars are not easy to drive and they are being driven at incredible speeds, way faster than F1 cars, but there is a lack of sophistication and variety to the spectacle that just does not appeal to me. At least Indicar hold races on both ovals and racetracks, so there's some varaity.

Moving this to the Movies and TV sub-forum as this topic has nothing to do with gaming.

This is a gaming forum, not a gambling forum. Leaving this topic open is troublesome as it invites spam, so please don't discuss this on the gaming forum. If you much, you can open a discussion under the General Chat.

I'm locking this topic because this invites links to and the promotion of illigimate and, shall we say, "less than legal" activity. Legitimate stores such as Steam, EGS and GOG do have offers that include free games on occasion that can be discussed on the designated area if the forum here.

You will find few people who are a bigger fan of these games than me, but even I have to agree. It would be nice to see the dialoge scenes in the original redone to be more like HFW and possibly some of the gameplay changes as well, like the mele combat, but overall I just don't think it's necessary. It's too soon and the world does not need this.

The historical settings in these games, especially WWII, have really gotten tired. Largely because they keep relying the same, overused set pieces. Give COD some credit as they tried to expand on settings and themes of WWII with Vanguard. Battlefield would never do that. We would just get D-Day and the liberation of France as if that's the only place anyone fought in that war for 100th time. That is literally the extent of EA and Dice's imagination with WWII and I for one am sick off it. So yes, it's a good thing they're not going down that root for this new Battlefield, but that doesn't mean for one second that they will come up with a good game.