“You can’t rule out the possibility that executives are idiots, but that shouldn’t be your default belief. I don’t think there is any obvious path that would have doubled the revenue from Id games.”
Equal parts textures and arranging duplicate data next to each other for fast streaming
Some of us quit when we couldn’t use RiF. Literally dozens of us
The differences are mostly around consent. Eg. You cant quotetweet without the author setting a flag to allow it
But they dont generate it themselves, making twitter uniquely bad
I firmly believe humanity can turn earth into another venus. Some proportion of us would do it just out of spite.
Heat pump heating/cooling is the way forward. Then it can keep you going when the freeze comes.
But you could use it for slower access solid state, and then set that up as virtual memory.
Youd be swapping like crazy but itd be so cheap compared to the same amount of real ram.
I think this might work for many people just browsing the web. Maybe even games
Wait, the plan was to get recurring revenue out of single player games by tying them to gamepass.
This failed, for entirely predictable reasons, and now MS is holding a load of very mature, stable game studios and needs them to make checks notes double the revenue (actually, profit). This simply isnt posssible.
Theres a story out from early in the year about MS requiring a 30% profit margin across the firm which when applied to games is just nonsense. Not ambitious or unrealistic, nonsense.
Games is a terrible fit for MS and the companies who allowed it to buy them for stability are realising that.