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  • magiccupcake@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.worldIs overwatch 2 really that bad?
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    25 days ago

    Ehh I disagree, I played consistently ow1 for years and ow2 just wasn’t as good.

    I mainly missed tank synergies. Without it the game just wasn’t the same. The other tank changes were just insane too. And I preferred the full 6v6 experience.

    Then they had to go an monetize the shit out of it, when I already paid for the game! The last straw was either paying for new characters or grinding like hell.



  • Well let me clarify a bit why I think they are the worst.

    They have the full complexity an an ICE car, with the added difficulties that arise in a full EV

    You need to build and design a car that has all of the downsides of ICE cars. Complicated engine, emissions management, fuel, air intakes.

    With a lot of the downsides of an ev. Large heavy, expensive batteries.

    Meanwhile you get limited upsides. Evs get lower maintenance and transport costs and ICE cars get range.

    Plug in hybrids will have harder maintenance than either, while not getting the fully reduced transport costs as it’s not as efficient as a full ev.

    Here’s where traditional hybrids win out, their battery can be really small, correspondingly cheap and more efficient.

    Lugging all that extra weight around decreases the efficiency of the vehicle, where for full ev that matters a lot.

    When running in full gas mode your lugging around a heavy battery for nothing, and in a full ev mode your lugging around a heavy engine for nothing.

    The High-medium range of full gas would be better served by a traditional hybrid, and the low-medium range would be better served for full evs.

    I’m sure there is a narrow window for plug in hybrids, but again that is going to be rare and shrinking as evs get better.

    While you can’t fix stupid, we do have to think about how a product actually gets used vs it’s design.

    If nobody is plugging their plug in hybrid, then maybe the manufacturer should remind them, even if its only outlet level power.

    To me it is also a symbol of overconsumption. Buying a vehicle that will cover 100% of your use cases vs buying for 99% and renting a more suitable option for that 1%.

    I do think this argument for me would change if manufacturers took a different approach. If they took something like a traditional hybrid, like a Ford fusion, and stuck a modern battery in and added a simple plug would be great. Then increase the efficiency a bit and maybe someone could get 10 miles of battery from a regular outlet.





  • Imo your best bet is to see if you can find someone else’s used gaming computer.

    Roughly ~400$ gets you pretty far for hardware 3-5 years old

    The energy efficiency will be much worse, so depending on how much you use it you may want to account for that and get slightly newer.

    In my personal experience look start in amd’s Am4 platform, as it’s quite upgradable up to a 5800x3d.

    But to start something like a 2700x or 3700x are solid cpus.

    Equivalent Intel cpus are an option too.

    As for gpus look for 1000s series nvidia 1070-1080 and onwards. Less than might be too weak.

    Similar for amd. Vega 56/64, 5700xt etc.

    Huh the 1080ti came out 7 years ago, so I was a bit off.








  • They’ve had fab problems for years, in that it cost them a ton on money and much longer than desired to shrink nodes, so they’ve fallen from a leader in fab production to being behind.

    Not to mention there’s not much money to be made from fabs, unless your tsmc.

    AMD, Qualcomm, Nvidia, Google, Apple, are all huge tech companies that design their own cutting edge chips, and only Samsung is another company that both designs and produces chips.