Sigh…

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/06/are-businesses-absorbing-the-tariffs-or-passing-them-on-to-their-customers/

And did you have a point on the cases of companies that didn’t? The answer to that is blatantly obvious and not that deep.

I have to agree.

I remember saying this way back when DLSS and FSR were first released and though I was excited at the fact my old card would last just that little bit longer with a hit to visuals that this would end up being a vendor locked, crutch that will be detrimental to gaming in the long run.

That long run didn’t take very long to get here and even worse than I thought it would have ever been.

Not surprising considering most companies have no plans to refund the consumer for the tariff costs they passed on because there’s no regulation forcing them to do so.

Oh my god you sanctimonious redditor. If you think that 90 percent of the functionality documented and there’s nothing special about the site then fucking do it yourself oh God King of Neckbeards. Fucking get to it then and stop bitching that others aren’t doing it.

And yeah, I handle my two sentence ADS tickets just fine at my software engineering job, get paid nicely for it and may I never have to work with your insufferable sounding ass that doesn’t seem to understand that just because you’ve coded one thing that it means you have the expertise to code all the things. It’s almost like software development covers more than just writing a website using square space.

And yeah, I’ve come to appreciate those who can make a GUI that not just functional but also looks good and flows properly, something that I know I’m not exactly great at since that’s not my software specialty.

Yeah, because I do software for a living, participate in open source projects in the domains I know WTF I’m doing and good at.

I am that perfect candidate for doing nothing in this particular situation because I’m not a person who’s going to downplay how hard it is to develop software unlike you who has no clue apparently what it takes to develop anything and then goes on to say how it’s “nothing special”, I know how hard it is to develop software and how hard even developing a simple front end GUI can be when that’s not your area of expertise much less something that is big as this.

But you feel free to go right ahead and be that middle manager that has no clue about what it takes to develop that “nothing special” while not picking up and write that full stack. Go ahead, I bow down to your middle manager expertise as you develop that “nothing special”.

Defeatism…rich when you’re not the doing the software and leading the charge there bud.

Well if there’s “nothing special” about setting up a full stack, interpreting and collecting data, write the database back end to efficiently store and retrieve the data, and create the algorithms to parse and massage the raw data to create the proper meaningful data to the user and plot them then it sounds like you’re the perfect candidate to get cracking on this project since it’s really “nothing special” and software development is easy.

Yes. I personally would rather see a project shutdown rather than see the zombie, enshitified version live forever.

So my argument from the start has always been that DLSS and FSR would eventually be abused by both the creators and the developers, using upscaling not as a tool to lengthen the useful life of older video cards but a vendor locked crutch worse than the whole era of “Nvidia, the way it’s meant to be played” bullshit.

And I think for the most part, it’s come true. Every new revision is locked to the latest cards, negating the whole original purpose. Developers are optimizing less and even started recommending it as preferred specs. The vendor lock is certainly real and only getting worse, especially with this crap

Also given that Nvidia themselves are stating to expect a massive drop in frame rate, one has to wonder if this is part of their plan for “You’ll own nothing and like it” strategy. I mean if it really takes a second SLAI 5090 with a massive power draw, then for most gamers, even those who have some disposable income, that isn’t going to be achievable especially now when a 5090 costs 5090. In swoops Nvidia with their Geforce Now you pay forever and own nothing since the scarcity brought on by Nvidia is now your only real option to play a game that doesn’t look and act like crap.

I never thought it would get this bad, this quickly honestly.

I don’t know man. We’ve seen how bad enshitification takes hold once a big corporation takes over. Honestly, in a lot of cases, I would rather have them fade and get forked vs relying on the enshitificated version to amble along, like git hub, source forge, all of the game development studios in the past decade.

More reasons to not buy from the Saudi/Kushner owned EA.

So this is pretty horrifying AI slop and absolutely ruins the art direction of the games and even worse than initial impressions when they first presented it.

Absolutely but at least they’re doing something for us Linux gamers.

Sadly, made by EA and with their acquisition, it’s going to be a pass, yarr, for me.

Like I literally said, I know they’re going full Idiocracy.

God damn, it’s like I can’t escape Idiocracy no matter where I go.

Part of me is outraged and angry at such a travesty.

The other larger part of me can’t bring myself to care that these idiots are taking themselves out of the gene pool.

All parts of me are sad knowing that in the end this won’t matter because they’re just going to full Idiocracy and unfortunately their stupidity will overcome all of us.

I doubt it was anything temperature related, I mean I highly doubt it was overheating on emulating this old game with 360mm AIO plus when I say crash, I mean this thing would crash basically on startup after flickering on screen for a few seconds.

Maybe it was windows 10 that I was running at the time, maybe it was just my particular hardware at the time, who knows.

Now that I’m back on Linux and a new system I’ll give it another shot but I’ll probably just wait for the remaster as I’m approaching the end of the year annual adventure game replay itch.

I also have it on my gog library but for me and my system at the time it would crash like no ones business.

Nice to see a developer being pro-consumer on these times of corporate greed running rampant.

One of my favorite adventure games and really hard to get stable with emulation so I’m actually pretty excited about this.

Done playing chess with a pigeon and you trying desperately to strawman.

Simply provide your citations for your original argument.