It depends. I’ve put over 200 hours into Starfield and didn’t experience any dull or boring parts. But I noticed them.
It’s an old-school game with decades old mechanics, which happened to push all the right buttons with me. But others find it’s boring.
Star Wars: Outlaws. Looks really promising.
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. I played through the base game twice, so I’ll need a bit more distance between the playthroughs.
Starfield, but only if there are significant updates, upgrades and expansions. I finished it twice back to back, so currently I’m a little tired of the game.
Any other single-player (action) RPG, that I stumble upon.
Lieber gar nicht regieren als schlecht regieren.
Nur diesmal halt nicht freiwillig.
Facebook / Meta is one of the few data hoarding companies that doesn't have "full control" of how their products are consumed / used and how much data gets collected in which way. Apple has the Mac, TV, Watch, and iPhone platforms. Google has the Pixels, Android, and Nests, Amazon has Kindles, Fire, Alexa devices, and so on.
Facebook doesn't have any of these. The best they can do today is being a parasitic add-on to a platform they have no total control over like "the others" do.
Making their own hardware is a key element, not a burden. But they're still treating it like the latter. If the Metaverse would already have been the New Thing ™, they'd have been the quasi-dominators of that territory because they're pioneering the hard- and software. But along came AI which doesn't need it's own hardware platform, and still nobody wants to live in the Metaverse.
Also, feature phones have cameras
I know the camera quality of this device category. They’re all crap, no exception. And even if you buy the best of the best it will cost you as much as a sophisticated smartphone that does everything better apart from maybe stand-by battery. Which is fine for an emergencyphone.
and some basic apps.
Mostly preinstalled because no app store, non-removable, and you never have to worry about missed updates because you won’t get any.
They’re not actually 80s cordless phones.
Agree, because they’re 2003 cordless phones and they suck for the everyday life of most people.
I have never met anyone else with this setup.
That’s what I mean.
Exactly. You’ll never know what you miss out on when always browsing communities you’re already subscribed to. Of course there’s also some trash on the frontpage.
Block them. I’m the least interested in sports and so I simply block all the related communities (except like Formula 1). Same with “subs” in a language I don’t speak.
And then there are simp communities where some neckbeards post images of “females” how they use to call women.
I think it’s a fad. The moment you need a certain app or feature these feature (-less) phones become frustrating quickly.
Take the idea of taking a break from your smartphone on a vacation. You end up without a camera, without a map, without public transport apps, contact-free payment, etc.
It’s directly in the headline: Gen Z is ditching the iPhone. That’s incorrect in two ways: A) it’s at best one in fifty people buying aforementioned feature phones and B) they don’t even know if all buyers replace their existing phone or buy it as an additional handset.
No they don’t. What a rubbish clickbait article.
All they say is that there’s a (niche) trend of a few people using feature phones with expected combined sales of $2.8 million. Versus the $200 billions of iPhones alone.
You made a real PowerPoint there.
“Customer” in an unemployment agency setting. Before you call a person customer, treat them like one.
I finished Assassin’s Creed Valhalla recently and it drove me up the wall all the time. I mean well over 100 h playtime.
And the game would sit there after every start and wait for me to “press any key”. And only after a keypress it would start checking for Add-ons which took ages. Why couldn’t it have done that already?
Plus the intro videos I had to replace with empty files because no-skip.
Annoying!
Die App war/ist super für meine Ansprüche. Nur die Synchronizität hing manchmal etwas hinterher, was aber nicht tragisch ist. Zusammen mit der (ebenfalls abgesägten) Live-Kachel genau so viel Mailprogramm wie ich brauchte.
Danke, Merkel!
And I’d almost bet these two to three titles run fine in Windows which is exactly the point: what is Linux’s advantage here concerning gaming?
When I want to play a certain title I don’t want something similar because that derivate runs on Linux. That’s maybe okay for casual games like a round of Solitaire where the Linux alternatives are fine.
Everybody chooses their own poison
“Spikes”? Come on, guys, .04 percent is a rounding error.
Loading screens for nearly every door. In New Atlantis you can jump from the highest building and glide with your jetpack back to your ship. But taking the elevator and the train gets you two unnecessary loading screens. That’s just not 2023 game programming.