It’s difficult to find, Project Rene is over two years old now, this is some early test demo footage:

https://youtu.be/IKn3mskT5yM

Project Rene or whatever the hell Sims 5 was supposed to be was suffering from significant takeoff, vision, conceptual and design issues.

Every day, five or six designers would argue about if a feature was inclusive enough, a gesture was offensive, a Simlish term or phrase was close enough to a real life slur.

What they learned was that reality is actually quite cruel and biased and creating their perfect garden hedge-maze of a game removed the essence and life out of it. Sims 5 did not reflect the reality that players actually experienced or had day-to-day, and it was entirely the designer’s fault.

They had created the very thing they despised, a cookie-cutter digital suburbian barbie doll house. With multiplayer, ripe for trolling.

So yeah, I’m not surprised Sims 5 was cancelled.

Ergonomic chairs, high end sports cars, and staying active has kept my back in great shape.

Also, {{{posture check}}}

Before piracy there were demos and shareware, which let you see if your machine could handle the game or content and give you a vertical slice, and let you show it to friends for word of mouth advertising.

Then, Steam put a two hour refund window with no questions asked, which helped a lot of “this crashes on start, I can’t open this at all on a RTX 4090/high end PC, 15 FPS in the fog, etc”.

Developers learned from that and they began padding/gating content behind two hours of gameplay, so you wouldn’t know until 3-4 hours in that the game was grindy dogshit (SCUM, Ark, Empyrion, and countless other Early Access and sometimes full release titles like NMS on launch day for example).

So the correct thing to do, and it’s what I do: Pirate the game, make sure it runs/works and is fun and there’s no “gotcha” traps or hidden DLCs or other predatory mechanics involved, and THEN pay for the full title on Steam+DLCs and just continue the save.

My Steam Account has actually already been flagged over a dozen times for this because my primary savegames are like Razor1911.sav, and so far it’s still in good status because I am actually spending a couple thousand/year on content.

I have overclocked my AMD 7900XTX as far as it will go on air alone.

Undervolted every step on the frequency curve, cranked up the power, 100% fan duty cycles.

At it’s absolute best, it’s competitive or trades blows with the 4090D, and is 6% slower than the RTX 4090 Founder’s Edition (the slowest of the stock 4090 lineup).

The fastest AMD card is equivalent to a 4080 Super, and the next gen hasn’t shown anything new.

AMD needs a 5090-killer. Dual socket or whatever monstrosity which pulls 800W, but it needs to slap that greenbo with at least a 20-50% lead in frame rates across all titles, including raytraced. Then we’ll see some serious price cuts and competition.

It’s really uplifting when you put it that way, yes

As someone with 5,000 hours logged into virtual reality as of 2025, your comment leaves me a little confused. 😵‍💫

You mean “VR Ready” as like, a marketing terminology, right?

Because high-quality, full-body motion tracking virtual reality is available to everyone today for around $3,000-$5,000. It used to cost $140,000 in 1996.

I was bicycling at high speed, closed my eyes to enjoy the breeze, and slammed into a concrete pillar, pretty much skinning my right leg in its entirety.

I hobbled home leaving a trail of blood, making some people sick on the way, treated my wounds with hydrogen peroxide and bandages, it took 21 days to heal and was intensely painful.

As I was laid up in bed and staring at the ceiling, I thought:

"I only closed my eyes for 3 seconds at 20 MPH. I’m never taking my eyes off the road in a car. Whoever texts me can get fucked."

“I told you so”?

I’m a dimensional hopper, and the question I keep on getting asked is: “Do they have flying cars in 2025?”

I reluctantly have to tell people that, despite what we believe, the most important timeline is one where humanity remains alive, because in 80% of them, we’re all dead.

So yes, I do think in timelines.

But I also know that Schrodinger’s Cat is alive, and meowing.

P.S: Fun pandemic we all had and simply forgot about, huh?

The enormous irony here would be if the author used a generative tool to write the article criticizing them, and whoever commented that he doesn’t get the point is exactly right – it’s like 6 to 10 pages of analogies to unrelated topics.

It sounds like an interview question and not really an icebreaker, imo

I write in cursive and I have people ask me to read what I wrote.

I’m trilingual, so I figure I might have accidentally written it in Ukrainian cursive, but it’s English, so I look up like:

“You just have really bad handwriting”

Oh holy shit.

I think you’re actually right, it’s probably Denuvo tanking performance

You have to enable HDR in the Windows 10 settings, do Win+I, type “HD Color”, and then set your AMD display drivers to “Color Correction” in Display to adjust for the bad Win10 HDR implementation.

My recommendation is:

Temperature: 10000

Brightness: -10

Hue: 0 (default)

Contrast: 120

Saturation: 165

Then enable HDR in Dark Ages, followed by FSR and Frame Gen, if you want.

HDR is the key.

I have FSR working (Win10+ AMD 7900XTX), but it’s obvious that they have screwed the pooch in optimization.

I just finished Doom: Eternal yesterday before the Dark Ages came out and it ran fully maxed out at 1440p @ 240 FPS without upscaling and was gorgeous.

Dark Ages looks pretty much the same as Eternal, but runs at 120-144 FPS.

That’s still absolutely playable but how did it lose 50% performance in an IDTech game?

You heard that OP? That’s how you do it, it’ll still work on Linux.

“Essayons”