This isn’t true and dismissing the anti-cheat issues because you don’t play these games is quite ignorant when they are some of the most played in the world. Just off the top of my head, all Battlefield games, PUBG, Apex Legends, Valorant, Rainbow Six Siege, Escape from Tarkov, League of Legends, Fortnite, Destiny 2…
I think it’s easily good enough for general use. It’s only certain types of gamers (anti-cheat support is still pretty terrible), and people who are heavily attached to a specific Windows program that they spend a lot of time using, that will have trouble switching across full time. For everyone else, Linux is superior because it runs so much faster than the now incredibly bloated Windows. Depending on the distro, it’s also arguably simpler than Windows too.
Yeah, they seem to be stuck between the nostalgia bait of the original and special-effects driven attempts to capture younger, modern audiences. The Super Mario Bros. Movie was a good example of how you can update the look and feel of a multi-generational product whilst retaining enough nods to older fans for them to feel included.
It’s a franchise built on boomer/Gen X understandings of video games and technology. We are in 2025 now, young people don’t give a shit about this stuff, yet they still try to pitch these films to a younger audience. The actual base concept of being trapped inside a video game has been incredibly popular with younger audiences in the last decade or so - look at all the stuff that has come out of Japan. The difference is that those films and TV series used modern video games as their inspiration, so younger audiences intuitively understand and connect with their worlds. TRON as a franchise is like some 50-year-old dad forcing his teenager to play some shitty 2D video game whilst rambling about how much fun he had with it back in the day. Your audience doesn’t care and it’s embarrassing that you haven’t worked this out yet.
I like them, they build a bit of suspense before the start of the film and help settle me into the right mindset for watching.
It hasn’t changed much.
There are 5 or 6 new maps (making 9 total now), 2 are smaller and limited to certain game modes. None of the new maps are great, a couple are quite bad.
Some new game modes added like Ecalation.
Visibility is still appalling.
Inconsistent footstep audio hasn’t been fixed.
Shotgun secondary on Assault wasn’t removed, so there are still loads of OHK shotguns in every match.
The movement penalties that existed in the beta are heavier (bigger weapon sway when landing from a jump, etc).
Physics engine is kinda fucked. Infantry movement feels floaty and you can bounce off objects and fly in the air like there’s low gravity.
Spread was increased and gunplay feels worse. Sometimes the recoil feels inconsistent, like there’s a bug and the game is not registering your input (like in 2042). I’ve also found the hitreg a bit inconsistent. I switch off targets that should be dead but one of my bullets hasn’t registered damage so they are left alive with very low HP.
They added a ladder as a default gadget to the Assault class. There are head glitches everywhere now, it’s very annoying to attack into on game modes like Breakthrough.
Not sure if this was the case in beta, but smoke is locked to Support so you basically have to play that class on game modes like attack Breakthrough if you want to reach the objective.
If you liked it in the beta, you will probably still like it. If you disliked it, you will probably still dislike it. If you were on the fence like me, you will be glad that you only paid for a month of EA Play Pro and not the full game.
Why didn’t he just edit out his death, like he did with all the debates he lost? Is he stupid?
I’m not sure I’d call those methods easy. They are all way more time consuming and annoying than Android is currently.
If you’re in the EU there is now at least one alternative app store. iOS hasn’t opened up anywhere else in the world AFAIK, so it’s still a pain for everyone else. You used to be able to use the AltStore without jailbreaking iOS (maybe you still can), but the process was annoying and didn’t feel particularly secure as you had to provide your Apple account details.
I don’t think people are doing it because the new phones have better specs. It’s more a social status flex or because tech consumerism (buying new toys) is a default hobby now for many.
Relative to what? Better for the planet than what? I’m not really sure what your point is here, you seem to be implying that a secondhand market for Android phones doesn’t exist (note: it does, and Android phones are still much better value secondhand because they lose value so quickly relative to iPhones).
I find it very strange how many people in the comments here think the solution is to buy an iPhone. Maybe you are all just rich and can afford to spend $1000+ based on vibes, but considering the Android market still has a massive value advantage I’m not really sure what the point of switching is. This all feels very similar to how some Westerners decided Chinese tech and even the Chinese government were suddenly problem-free just because Americans elected Trump for a second time.
In all fairness to smart watches, mine is what turned me on to regularly checking the UV index.
Can’t you just do that on your phone? Surely if the UV is high, you just plan accordingly for the day? Sunscreen, wide brim hat, stick to the shade where possible, etc. I can’t imagine what benefit constantly checking the UV on your watch gives you. Even if it did happen to fluctuate for some reason, you would be wasting so much time constantly ducking in and out depending on what your watch says at any given moment.
Sideloading being so easy on iphones
Is it easy? Apple has only made that change in the EU AFAIK, it’s still a closed system all around the world.
I’m just saying Apple doesn’t make anything close to a cheap stripped down $200 model.
Yes, I think that’s exactly the point people are trying to make to you.
I just can’t wrap my head around sinking that much into a phone when you replace it every year
Usually the people who replace their flagship phone every 1 - 2 years aren’t paying full price for it, or at least not upfront. They are receiving trade-in and pre-order discounts, or spreading the cost out over a 12 - 24 month period through a plan with their telco.
Surely cost relative to income is more relevant than cost relative to the rest of the market? Something doesn’t magically become cheap just because everything else is ridiculously expensive.
Very excited for this! He is one of the few directors that I consistently enjoy.
The increase in learned helplessness as a result of algorithmic social media is disturbing. People really think they have no control over what they see anymore and that it’s up to the rest of us to “just stop doing X/Y/Z”.
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