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rafaqat

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13 hours ago, Alex W. said:

I miss when Ken Kuturagi was in charge and we could count on Sony really shitting the bed in some inventive way. Like on the PS3, not only were developers expected to make games using only the Cell (no GPU) until Naughty Dog showed it was impossible shortly before the planned launch date, but Ken Kuturagi decided late in the chip’s development that it needed 8 cores, not 6, completely obliterating IBM’s ability to turn a profit manufacturing it. And so IBM used literally every bit of contractually permissible thing they had learned in also developing an Xbox 360 CPU for Microsoft, to salvage the situation. 
 

Just outstanding bullshit. Whatever happens with the PS5 it will sadly be too similar to the Xbox Series X to really screw things up.

 

Is there a good book on the above?  

Got a few good ones on the Nintendo shitting the bed era.

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I think the headline is doing a lot of stretching.

 

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Radical plans to give all adults £500 and children £250 in vouchers to spend in sectors of the economy worst hit by the Covid-19 crisis are being considered by the Treasury.

 

The proposals, drawn up by the Resolution Foundation think tank, which has had recent talks with the Treasury about its ideas

 

There's no suggestion Sunak has an opinion on it at all.

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Alex W.

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1 hour ago, Boozy The Clown said:

To spend in pubs, cinemas, restaurants etc.. There's no way it'll be spendable anywhere but Covid deathtraps.


500 vouchers for £1 off a pint of Carling, Foster’s or a selected Real Ale at Wetherspoons.

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Am I losing it or does this thread have a bunch of posts from other threads in it all of a sudden? I made a post about Observation in the Game Pass thread, yet now I'm seeing it here. Now I'm seeing a load of posts about Tories and Covid-19.

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25 minutes ago, Pob said:

Am I losing it or does this thread have a bunch of posts from other threads in it all of a sudden? I made a post about Observation in the Game Pass thread, yet now I'm seeing it here. Now I'm seeing a load of posts about Tories and Covid-19.


I don’t really understand the observation posts; someone seems to be posting about think tank fantasy £500 Voucher schemes in lots of threads.

 

(haven’t checked the apple one, or the HDTV one)

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2 hours ago, Stanley said:

As if that scheme will ever happen under the Tories. 

 

To be fair, you'd have said the same about the furlough scheme too.  It's amazing what the tories will do when they panic.

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26 minutes ago, Dudley said:

 

To be fair, you'd have said the same about the furlough scheme too.  It's amazing what the tories will do when they panic.

They had no choice there - pay people or trigger complete social & economic collapse, with this it’s like, let people buy iPhones, or don’t. 

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4 hours ago, Pob said:

Am I losing it or does this thread have a bunch of posts from other threads in it all of a sudden? I made a post about Observation in the Game Pass thread, yet now I'm seeing it here. Now I'm seeing a load of posts about Tories and Covid-19.

 

Glad it's not just me. I posted something in the Covid-19 thread and it ended up in here so I hid it.

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21 hours ago, Alex W. said:

Parasite’s not a low budget movie though. It’s just not a Blockbuster Summer Movie Event, which seems to be the only type of game that gets the time of day as a major event. The bread and butter of the Oscars is movies like Parasite but gaming’s equivalent are all Marvel movies.

 

It's big budget by indie standards I suppose but low budget by Hollywood studio standards. The gaming equivalent of the Oscars (an awards ceremony put on by the industry itself) is either GDC or DICE, Untitled Goose Game was the gaming equivalent of Parasite this year as it won at both.

 

Looking at the history of both awards, major studio games have won most years but as they are peer awarded, clearly even game developers think the premium prestige games usually are the best things released that year but their taste ain't terrible usually.

 

RE: The Oscars, a criticism of that awards show is that it doesn't reflect popular taste leading to ever declining popular interest so they've been fiddling with it for several years to get more populist stuff like the Marvel movies included, even if most of Hollywood doesn't care for them.

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