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  • Yeah, and a great post too - because some of your points here just point out that everyone ELSE have deprecated PhysX as well. Unity and Unreal both dropped it long ago. It’s basically a moot point for 99.9% of people playing games.

    Instead of using a PPU on the GPU, most people have focused on GPGPU physics calculations instead. The idea behind PhysX was a difficult one to launch in the first place. Given that most chip real-estate is going to these VPUs, I’m not surprised at all that they ditched the PPU for a more generalized version.




  • It only ever got deployed in a few dozen games

    Is the only sentence in the entire article you need to be aware of.

    This is rage-bait.

    This is a list of the games it affects:

    • Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia
    • Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
    • Crazy Machines 2
    • Unreal Tournament 3
    • Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction
    • Hot Dance Party
    • QQ Dance
    • Hot Dance Party II
    • Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
    • Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason
    • Mirror’s Edge
    • Armageddon Riders
    • Darkest of Days
    • Batman: Arkham Asylum
    • Sacred 2: Ice & Blood
    • Shattered Horizon
    • Star Trek DAC
    • Metro 2033
    • Dark Void
    • Blur
    • Mafia II
    • Hydrophobia: Prophecy
    • Jianxia 3
    • Alice: Madness Returns
    • MStar
    • Batman: Arkham City
    • 7554
    • Depth Hunter
    • Deep Black
    • Gas Guzzlers: Combat Carnage
    • The Secret World
    • Continent of the Ninth (C9)
    • Borderlands 2
    • Passion Leads Army
    • QQ Dance 2
    • Star Trek
    • Mars: War Logs
    • Metro: Last Light
    • Rise of the Triad
    • The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
    • Batman: Arkham Origins
    • Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
    • Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel


  • Nobody gives a crap about the emotional manipulation that your type so often employs. Calling names doesn’t change the fact that we’re not responsible for the things that happened in the past. We’re not required to 'right the wrongs committed" because we didn’t commit them.

    That would be like jailing someone’s family because the father stole bread to eat. That’s not justice.


  • Colonists aren’t us. We aren’t them. We don’t have to pay for their sins. It was a vastly different time back then, and the rules have changed. The same way I’m not responsible for slavery. I don’t owe anyone for the sins of my (fore)fathers.

    Go look at other countries immigration laws, and many of them are much worse than ours. Every civilized nation has them, and using emotional weaseling doesn’t absolve people of needing to meet those requirements.











  • How many phone numbers do you know off of the top of your head?

    In the 90s, my mother could rattle off 20 or more.

    But they’re all in her phone now. Are luddites going to start abandoning phones because they’re losing the ability to remember phone numbers? No, of course not.

    Either way, these fancy prediction engines have better critical thinking skills than most of the flesh and bone people I meet every day to begin with. The world might actually be smarter on average if they didn’t open their mouths.


  • I think Windows 7 was the last version that wasn’t there for the purposes of advertising and collecting data in the effort to achieve recurring revenue.

    Legitimately Microsoft was trying to make it a better product until Windows 10. 10 was a better product on accident, but it’s also where they started sliding down that slope…