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So I asked for a long overdue raise about a month ago. Today, I got their counter-offer to end my employment after 20 years at the end of the month. Yay for starting over at 45 yrs old!

Fandom has acquires several vg journalism sites, including GameSpot, Metacritic, and Giant Bomb, from Red Ventures

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/fandom-acquires-gamespot-metacritic-and-giant-bomb-other-sites

Elon get told to fuck off by Melmyk

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1576989220937269249?t=XgSLo8wuEhRTNj1I_t8upA&s=19

Quake 1 Is Now Ray Traced!

A modder has written a source port of Quake which enables path tracing. It looks gorgeous, especially in motion.
Announcement trailer with gameplay: https://youtu.be/8mHn96yD3uY?t=26 (starts at about 30s)

The modder, sultim-t has been working on a port of Half Life 1 to path tracing, but put that on hold and instead released the Quake mod. Installation seems really simple, and it works whether you have the original 1996 release or the recent Steam re-release. Word is more complex Quake mods like Arcane Dimensions don't yet work when path traced, but time and tweaks will tell.

Screenshots: Skybox colours flood the rooms below: https://i.imgur.com/zheu4z9.jpg
E1M1 takes on a new look: https://i.imgur.com/JO3rzsA.jpg
(from RintrahXBromion on the ResetEra forums)

Download the mod on Github: https://github.com/sultim-t/vkquake-rt/releases/tag/1.20.2-rt1.0.1

I can't actually run the mod, because I don't have an RTX-capable card. But this looks so cool I had to tell you all.

So according to Variety, Fandom bought these properties from RV for $50 million. RV bought the Cnet group, which included most of these properties, for $500 million in 2020. Interesting to think what a small fraction of return RV is getting here. Oh and I'd never been to a Fandom site before. Holy god, that is a wretched layout. Source: https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/fandom-buys-tv-guide-metacritic-gamespot-1235391144/

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What? Ordered a 512 gig steam deck last night thinking it would be ready sometime early December and I would have time to ruminate on it.

It’s ready now, like 18 hours later, for payment amd shipping. They certainly turned those times around…

Hurricane Ian: Who is Ron DeSantis' wife Casey?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63084196

DeSantis is asking people not to donate food and water but to donate cash directly to the Florida Disaster Relief fund which he has put his wife in charge of.

As clunky as it is now, it's been far worse in the past:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TJ1b_bNIQko/maxresdefault.jpg

This is what Halo Infinite was supposed to look like on their current engine https://youtu.be/Fmdb-KmlzD8

Except it had worse graphics, no biomes, no animals, and trees more static than those in even psychonauts 2. (The copy and paste early 2000s trees were the worst offender to me. They didn’t react to the wind or being hit with a vehicle. It’s so jarring for a “AAA system seller” level game like this.

Where did the time and money go?