When Google started using XMPP in Talk, 20 years ago, it was crap. I haven’t used it in probably 15 years but it wasn’t great then either.
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Not even a little bit. XMPP was rubbish.
I’ve only played a little since the new patch but it seems a bit better but my (very mid) PC still struggles performance-wise.
And BG3 has some pretty gnarly performance issues.
Please share these articles you speak of. From developers with real world game dev experience. Without pointing me to some 2 hour rambling YouTube video.
And do you seriously think that someone with minimal modding knowledge can “fix” texture compression and the actual devs of the game hadn’t known or thought of doing so too? Say what you will about the Starfield producers and management but I absolutely 100% guarantee you if they chose not to use that feature, it was for very good reasons.
instead of allowing big oil and/or corps to do what they want.
Yes only the peers are allowed to do that.
My wife is the exact opposite - she needs considerably more anaesthesia than most people. Every time she’s gone in for an operation the doctors have ignored her pleas and every time they are shocked when they realise she’s not properly anaesthetised. I have found most doctors don’t listen to their patients, especially women, let alone the family.
There are plenty of countries that don’t force worship etc without any sort of over the top “religious freedom”.
And if you read the other half of the sentence you quoted?