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[–] [email protected] 60 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Uncompressed textures and uncompressed audio for all languages at once (this started with the 8th gen consoles because their shitty CPUs couldn't handle real-time decompression), so a lot of space is being taken up by audio that's never used in languages you don't understand because at some point in the last 20 years the gaming industry forgot how to create checkbox installers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

But you could do it, which would give it a use in remote areas with poor electrical service given the ubiquity of both USB power and the BL-4C battery.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'd kind of hope everyone would know better than that after the disastrous Apollo I fire.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Backward-compatible Xbox 360 games will still be available for purchase on the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S stores, Microsoft says.

So no, presumably Microsoft just doesn't want to deal with the tangle of close to 20-year-old code that holds up the Xbox 360's store interfaces.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

What an idiot. The Mouse does not forgive. The Mouse does not forget. DeSantis can't surely believe Disney are just going to give up and walk away after he threw down the gauntlet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kbin. Kbity. Like kitty but kbin. Kbity!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Well, five times zero women checks out.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Great value for him, maybe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

On the Steam Deck? I've never heard anyone mention the amount of memory being the bottleneck on there.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The undocked Switch is in the same ballpark for raw power as the 360 and PS3, so as long as they've managed to sufficiently unfuck the game's nightmare spaghetti code, should be just fine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The busiest core routes should be served with light rail, allowing an efficient high-frequency service for the most common journeys, and most parts of a city should ideally have some kind of connection to that rail system within a kilometre or two. But you can't just put rails and stations literally everywhere, so buses (or trolleybuses with batteries if you're so inclined) remain useful for less common routes, gaps between stations, the neighbouring areas of rail routes or last-mile connections from light rail to within a short walk of a person's final destination.

Buses are also necessary as a fallback during maintenance or unforeseen closures on the rail network. Even if it's just a temporary station closure, that one station will likely be the only one in walking distance for quite a few people (especially if we're talking about an interurban network where a small, outlying town or village might only have one station connecting it to the rest of its metro area), whereas that same area could have several bus stops, giving pretty much everyone there a way to continue getting around, perhaps even to get a bus to neighbouring stations.

And bus routes don't change that infrequently. Certainly, not infrequently enough that you'd want to tie them to placing or removing fixed infrastructure like tracks or wires. Diversions also happen sometimes. All of this isn't to argue against light rail, but to argue for a comprehensive multi-modal vision of public transport. Let passengers use the right combination of services for their particular journey's needs.

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