If this carries on, we’ll have exploding semaphore flags by the end of the week.

Both?

I mean I’m no fan of Israel, but Hezbollah ain’t exactly the Red Cross.

At that price there would have to be some pretty compelling arguments to upgrade.

Half a generation for up to 40% more raytracing power isn’t worth it.

A full generation for 2-3 times what a PS5 can do? Maybe.

Even then, there would have to be some damn good exclusives on PS6 to be worth your while. PS4 to PS5 was an easy argument, games ran at 30 pretty much all generation, mostly due to a comically underpowered CPU, and now they run at 60.

I’m struggling to even conceive of a worthwhile game that would bring a PS5 to its knees. I haven’t really seen a good argument for raytracing yet. Sure, nicer reflections, more accurate lighting, but we were pretty good at faking those anyway. Cyberpunk and Metro look really nice with the RT only editions, but they were perfectly playable without it.

We should really draw a big line under RT once it reaches a certain level of power, and go back to affordability. Game devs can’t put food on the table just catering to insanely high end hardware. My PC is still rocking a 1060. On the Steam hardware survey, there’s only one GPU higher than the X060 series inside the top ten. Budget hardware has got to be the focus.

TVs have been available in 120Hz and VRR for a while now. Even my 2017 OLED supports 120Hz, albeit only at 1080p.

That said, I don’t see the need to chase that with more expensive hardware. Any game with a choice of performance vs resolution, I find myself swapping to performance mode. I can see extra frames, I struggle to see extra pixels.

I’m not sure the disc drive can be saved at this point. There’s big games that didn’t even come out on disc, like BG3.

Looking at the domain name, they’re in Mali. Things must be cheap out there.

I live in the East Midlands, so I’d agree. Just about everything around here is a former something town, be it mining, manufacturing, whatever. Anything that isn’t is some picturesque place is a scrabble of smackheads and vapeshops.

Really need to start giving tax breaks to big companies to build their shit in unpopular places and have good public transport so people can get to it.

I can’t begrudge people wanting to stay in a house they’ve lived in for years, raised a family in and probably lost a partner in. Wouldn’t be easy to say goodbye to that.

It’s easy enough to turn radiators off and shut doors to rooms you don’t use.

If you’re upset over this because you’re genuinely going to struggle, then you should probably see what benefits you’re entitled to. Chances are there’s something you can claim.

Hoever, I suspect most of the people who are upset are Daily Mail reading, £600,000 house living types, on a massive final salary pension, who are annoyed that this means they might have to sit in economy class when they fly to their fifth holiday of the year. And those people, can get bent.

Is that a great idea? Most of the New Towns became shitholes.

I know somebody from Skelmersdale, and the only place they’d been that was worse was Blackpool.

If I remember correctly, the problem was the scheme explicitly forbade the council from building a replacement house.

I think that was later changed, but by then the damage was done and the housing stock was decimated.

I do think you should be able to buy a council house that you’ve been living in if you want, but at the full market rate of building another equivalent home, and it should be enforced that they do build another. If a council currently has no plans for building more, then tough titties, you’ll have to go on a waiting list.

Because they’d heard of them.

The power of the fediverse is nothing next to the power of the normieverse and a couple of billion dollars in advertising money.

Work only lose 20% of my time, but I gain 50% free time.

I punch those numbers into my calculator, it makes a happy face.

They’d get a lot more people onto heat pumps if they didn’t block grants on any unit that can cool as well as heat.

Even then, I think I’d still want gas to heat my hot water. The electrical system can’t cope with doing that on demand. I used to have a hot water tank, and I’m not going back to that. Combi boilers are so much more convenient.

Heating systems can afford to be slow though.

I’m pretty sure I saved more than this 30% (which given it’s in a headline, is going to be an absolute best case scenario) by going to Agile Octopus.

Guess they’ll die. What a shame.

That’s what happens when you fail to maintain things for 30+ years, syphon off all the money for shareholders, and then cry poverty when the government decides that just flushing everyone’s shit into the river isn’t an acceptable way to deal with it.

Tighten the rules further and nationalise any company that can’t keep up. Should never have been privatised in the first place. I, a fairly normal person, cannot pick and choose which company provides my water like I can with electricity, gas and internet. So what’s the point of having a company run it?

Musk just happy a British diver didn’t get there first.

Not to worry, I’m sure all those people who wanted to “tek r cuntry bak!” will be lining up to wipe old people’s arses.

But we’re not just piling more and more on the grid. It’s replacing something worse, and those things wouldn’t last forever anyway.

The last coal power station in the UK is due to shut down in a month or so. Within a year or two it will be demolished. Would we be doing that without solar and wind? No.

Just existing has a carbon cost. It’s our duty to keep it low.

Needs more western prisoners to trade for his goons.

If you want the worst, it’s Medal of Honor Underground.

I mean, fair play for trying to get a cutting edge PS1 game onto the GBA, but why would you persist if that’s all you could do with it?