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@GrumpyOldM95916 @grok @sdm107 @matthew_elliott Pensions make up aprox 40-45% of the total welfare spend.

@grok @sdm107 @matthew_elliott @grok How much of the £332.9bn is state pension?

The Government will collect £331bn in income tax this year, and spend £333bn on welfare. In other words, we now spend more on people not working than we raise from those who do. And the cost? Debt per person has risen from £11.5k in 2000 (inflation adjusted) to over £41k today.

@ARCRaidersNews Bros living in a different reality.

Watching Tfue play ARC Raiders makes me question if we're playing the same game. Like... how?

@RyGilliam Every person I know with kids has more time to play at weekends, so this just doesn't make sense to me.

My trio of extremely dedicated players — all with 100 hours in 2 weeks (took PTO) — literally cannot play Friday night, or at all on Sat/Sun most weekends. Gotta reiterate that I’m extremely excited for tomorrow. But this sucks so bad. It has to at least be open Monday night.

@Ziegler_Dev I'm fine with them being weekend only activities, it just makes sense, but I also understand the frustrations of those who can't game at weekends due to prior commitments.

Cryo and Ranked are coming and we're excited to see players battle it out over Tau Ceti and traverse into the big scary moon-like ship in the sky. We've put out a few posts about Cryo, poured through the variety of comments and feedback we've seen so far, and wanted to take some time to explain some of the initial decisions we've made around Cryo and Ranked with regards to weekend scheduling. So without further ado, here's what we have been thinking: We are of course always iterating and are open to looking at other options in the future, but the Ranked/Cryo Archive weekend decision is really built around three points: - Preparing: We acknowledge that players will lose a lot of gear on Cryo and Ranked because it is intended to challenge you to your limits. As a result of that, it's important that Cryo and Ranked feel like an event you can schedule towards, grind gear up to do, etc. The loop of spend time grinding gear to spend it in Cryo or Ranked is reflected in this choice as a weekly cycle. - Economy Talk: We have some great rewards on Cryo that kind of break the bank when it comes to economy and power gain. If we were to look at having it open all the time, we'd probably have to adjust how frequently you can earn these rewards so that we don't flood the game with amazing loot all of a sudden. - Logistics Time: Cryo and Ranked both have entry requirements (gear ante) that are built around the idea of you matching with other players on an equal investment level. They also both have a high level requirement to ensure you've experienced enough of the game to understand the challenges inherent to the game. This inherently makes the amount of people in that queue at any time unpredictable. Both of these experiences also need a consistent flow of players in the queue to make sure matches are full to retain the challenge. To reduce the match times and allow players to find matches quicker, making it a scheduled event means more players will show up during that window and feed the queue pool better. We also acknowledge that there are likely some who cannot participate on the weekend or are excited about the experience and want to no-life it for weeks, and we appreciate that. We'll be looking into what we can do to retain these considerations and potentially accommodate this in the future. Things we may iterate on in the future: - Staggering Ranked and Cryo queues more so they overlap less - Looking at changing the days we do either Cryo or Ranked - Changing the ante values of Cryo or Ranked - Looking at any other conditions (solo experience, crew fill experience, etc.) and iterating on it! Marathon is an evolving game and part of evolving is seeing how this initial launch plays out and adjusting as we go =). Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming and we'll update you when we figure out the next evolution.

@EatRatLove @JOverrated You are not wrong. Even during peak time in the UK, it's taking 5 minutes to find a single match.

@JOverrated Shit's not looking good then, entire regions of the playerbase are still unable to play the game most of the day to a bug in matchmaking basically region locking the game

I hate to say it but Cryo Archive/Ranked will make or break Marathon.

@zythxm Don't think, just do it. You will love it.

really thinking about getting marathon

@ronsterd89 That it's AI.

What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you see this photo?

@MarathonTheGame is looking really healthy. Looks like people can't get enough of it, myself included!

@isolatedrook They turned MM of for duos, so I have no idea.

How are we feeling about Perimeter duos? Do you want it to be expanded to other maps as well?

@cin_Aamon That's actually embarrassing. My 6 year old isn't even that bad.

This you?

@nathINSANE As I said yesterday in another thread. Marathon is one of the best live service games I have played in a long time. It's fresh, it's polished, it's brutal, it's addictive, its exhilarating, and just straight up fun.

So is Marathon still alive? Is it good?

@Abel36939839 @Senninsage Read the article you absolute troglodyte.

@NotEdzy @Senninsage Yea thats why there is no fog in RE9 video, no light reflection from store light and no light from street light. Cant generate a circle and face gets reshaped

You mean what is the developer doing? They're the ones who did it. Nvidia didn't do anything. That's the character model as the developer meant for it to look.

@MarathonGG_ I think it's a great idea. I loved weekend trials.

How are we all feeling about Ranked being locked to weekends 🤔 Let us know your thoughts down below 👇

@Abel36939839 @Senninsage Look who is talking out their ass now. “The AI model is trained end-to-end to understand complex scene semantics such as characters, hair, fabric and translucent skin, along with environmental lighting conditions like front-lit, back-lit or overcast” nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/…

@NotEdzy @Senninsage Its literally generative AI that does not know where the light source comes from and cant even generate normal circle

@analistadebits Just remember developers have detailed control over intensity, colour grading, and masking. So the image on the far right is purely dependent on the developers implementation and how they want it to look.

Diferencias entre Ray-Tracing, Path-Tracing y DLSS 5 con el rostro de Grace en RE Requiem.

@Jonjae_The_Mad @Abel36939839 @Senninsage They have control over Intensity, colour grading, and masking. nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/…

@NotEdzy @Abel36939839 @Senninsage just quoting nvidia documentation

@SBAMembersOnly @isolatedrook No. I will bitch about how others play the game however and whenever I like. Thanks.

@NotEdzy @isolatedrook Your bitching about ppl “trying to hard”. What you used to do and what you do now is two different things. Stop bitching about how other ppl play the game cuz average players may not be able to

This has to be addressed and soon. Just because you call it 'tech' doesn't change the fact that its an exploit that gives one shell a massive advantage over the others.

@Jonjae_The_Mad @Abel36939839 @Senninsage and colour grading.

@NotEdzy @Abel36939839 @Senninsage "DLSS 5's AI enhancements are implemented as a unified system across supported games, rather than customizable per title, limiting developer tweaks to intensity and masking."

@Abel36939839 @Senninsage That doesn't even make sense. That's factual information provided by Nvidia on how the tech works.

@NotEdzy @Senninsage Sure buddy keep telling your self that

@TheChunkeyNinja @BellularGaming They have control over masking, they can mask out what they don't want/like/need.

@NotEdzy @BellularGaming Yes but it is still a generative process. No matter what weighting you apply, the result will be to some degree unpredictable. You could not for instance tell it to only generate specific features. Freckles in different spots, warping in facial structure or lip shape etc.

It slurps up motion vectors + colour buffer so it’s inferring the relationship between 3d geometry based on training data That training data isn’t the games own rendering pipeline (so, at a top level, the resulting art style). Meaning it’ll feel out of place on close up objects