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Google Street View Has an Extremely Weird Side: How to Find It – CNET
Forspoken’s PC system requirements are still weird, so let’s fix them
Thanks to the joys of late code delivery, a few of us are just now getting to grips with talkative Squeenix ARPG Forspoken. While Alice Bee hammers her review together, I’ve been on my usual hardware bullshit, mainly investigating the peculiar system requirements that were released last week.
These aren’t just an odd collection of specs because of the sheer weight and breadth of their demands; they also overtly target resolutions and framerates that hardly anyone is going to be engaging with. Who on desktop plays at 1280×720? Fewer than 0.3% of Steam users, apparently. And personally, if I’ve spent the cash on a 1440p gaming monitor, I probably wouldn’t be satisfied to watch it display my games at just 30fps. I’ve therefore been finding out what PC hardware Forspoken actually needs to run both smoothly and at more realistic resolutions. Maybe then we can update those system requirements to create some very-much-unofficial, but hopefully more useful, spec guidelines.
Yes, Wikipedia looks weird. Don’t freak out.
If you took a big sip of coffee on Wednesday and tried to dive down a Wikipedia rabbit hole, you may now have a wet screen, because get this: Wikipedia looks different.
Perhaps your brain rejected all the new white space, or the way the “sticky” new table of contents hovers while you scroll. But also maybe you just hate change.
There’s no right way to react to a thing happening on the internet, so whining and nitpicking, along with inexplicable fear, are to be expected at a time like this.
However, according to Annie Rauwerda, the Wikipedia editor and superfan behind the Twitter account Depths of Wikipedia, the update, called “Vector 2022,” was in the works for a long time, and had been discussed nearly to death before the changes were rolled out. “Wikipedians have spilled more than 200,000 words on the page for Vector 2022 feedback,” Rauwerda wrote in Slate. That word count means, she notes, “There’s a corpus longer than Jane Eyre (and almost as long as Moby-Dick) about button positioning and table formatting.”
But nothing has fundamentally changed. The links you’re used to seeing in a long, exhaustive sidebar on the left — y’know, “Main page,” “Contents” “Current events” “Random article,” and the rest — are still there. You just have to click the little double carrot icon in the top left corner to bring them back.
And once you get used to the new maximum line width, users of monitors with high resolutions might appreciate not having to read single lines of text as long as the entire Gettysburg Address.
But according to Rauwerda, the new design has already seen a substantial backlash, and it’s only been one day. Swahili-language Wikipedians held a unanimous vote, according to her Slate article, and officially requested that the changes be reverted. And in a wider vote about whether the new version should be the default, true democracy does not appear to be in evidence, since “the 165 people who voted to oppose the redesign outnumbered the 153 supporters.”
So if this gets you fired up, and you just need the old Wikipedia back, well, join one of the long, long, discussion threads about that. Or, since this is Wikipedia after all, just customize your experience, and leave the Wikipedians to their weirdly aggressive arguments about steam engines.
Forspoken’s PC requirements are out and actually kinda weird
Persona 3 Portable is messy, weird, and lovable on modern platforms
Aged RPG systems with a bleaker, more endearing tone
The Weird Wake Phenomenon Behind Many Loch Ness Monster Sightings – Boing Boing
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