#the n64-like games don't literally kill my surface

[cryptidmomochi]

what's been totally fucking batshit to me is that the ports/remasters of Rune Factory 3 and 4, fucking DS games btw, make my surface hot as a goddamn oven. I would literally have less of a problem just emulating the game. Other games of similar quality do not do this.

I can't run slime rancher 2 on it at all and even my actual fucking gaming PC can't run it nearly as silky fuckin smooth as slime rancher 1 even at the lowest settings. Maybe this is a slightly unfair comparison given slime rancher 2 isn't done, but at the same time, if they're not optimising their code from the start they're going to run into the same issue the among us team where the code is so jank that they'd have to redo it anyway, and that just wastes time.

There are some things that are just not super possible on old hardware. My dell pc can't play most games because it doesn't have, like a separate graphics card (or something. i don't honestly understand it). Won't even run sildurs shaders, which are the lightest shaders around.

I actually remember I couldn't run Starbound and Chrome at the same time on the dell. I couldn't do Minecraft and chrome either. I could also only run Minecraft if I also had optifine installed, presumably because there was some horrible jank related to the graphics code that optifine fixed. I shouldn't have to use mods to make the game run right!! This was at the time a computer that should have been able to handle these games just fine! Starbound is LITERALLY pixel art tf you mean it lags really fucking bad if I have the wrong thing open.

Shit like minecraft shaders and not being able to run Vampyr are why I ultimately upgraded.

Chrome running as ass as it does is a pretty big reason why I switched to Firefox even though Firefox doesn't have tab folders like Chrome does (which is a crime btw).

Putting the game's default settings in the middle or, god forbid, the highest settings, instead of starting them at the lowest so that the player can actually move if their computer struggles at higher settings is also a really annoying and stupid choice that I've seen made over and over and over and over again. If the graphics are making my computer lag really badly, it's going to be horrible and hellish to try to change the graphics settings.

Btw 25 kilobytes in the original Super Mario Bros

we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better