Yeah a bit ridiculous if you ask me. I just stumbled across the video myself on YouTube. Especially implying it was directly GN's fault people at LTT were getting death threats.
tl;dw EA was massively overvalued in this purchase, the people involved with these investment companies are shady to say the last and Jared Kushner was probably a key individual in making this happen as he's well connected with the investment companies involved and the middle east. Then as for why the Saudis bought it for a price nobody could refuse, it is probably a form of soft power.
Nvidia is an American company.
On the contrary, EA’s pretty healthy.
He shit on EA a lot, but I wish he had mentioned the classic Electronic Arts and their roots: Skate or Die, Ski or Die, 688 Attack Sub, Ferrari Formula 1 .. maybe he's too young to know about when EA published interesting games instead of just buying up everyone. Even the concept of The Sims originally came from them buying Maxis.
There is a lot of information here. The schozi-conspiracy meme humor attempt didn't really work. It's interesting he's trying to add in new metrics. I won't if adding "animation error" is going to meaningfully change benchmarks/reviews, or just correlate onto everything else. It seems like it's just another thing that can cause stuttering. I wish their simulated example ran longer, because I can't tell how noticeable it is at full speed. It does explain one of the reasons SLI went away entirely.
I mean, it's just 23 seconds worth of intro and a Pepe Silvia sketch on the outro. Be glad our Neanderthal doesn't have that TGWTG brain virus and he doesn't grace us with unfunny skits every two minutes of the video.
SLI/Crossfire was always riddled with sync issues which is why it practically died out, at least as far as gaming goes since NVLink is alive and well. At least in the enterprise sector since consumers are not allowed to build efficient computing farms ever since Ada. Fun reminder: original SLI, as designed by 3dfx, relied on rendering each subsequent scanline in a round-robin rotation between the two cards. First scanline gets rendered by GPU1, second by GPU2, third by GPU1 and so on. Now that was a disastrous setup that Nvidia quickly abandoned after buying out what remained of 3dfx and rebranding SLI to do more complex parallelization instead.
What? It was great, it actually almost doubled performance all the time AND let you run at higher resolutions.
Did either of you niggers actually use 3dfx SLI? It was available for one card in a period of rapid development. I don’t know a single person who used it. I’m pressing X to doubt on either of you having used it, especially because I know Slav Power wouldn’t have been old enough to know or care about SLI’s performance at the time.
Yeah, the Voodoo 2, it was great. I had two 12MB voodoo 2 cards, got the second one when the prices went down.
He looks near 40, pretty sure he remembers. Hard to say when EA peaked but for me the last time they released good innovative games was in the 00's with games like Spore, Mirror's Edge and Dead Space.
Somewhere around 2007~2008 I did somehow pick up 2x old Voodoo2 cards (just given to me) and had them sitting in a drawer with the SLI ribbon. I thought about doing some classic SLI for fun,, but then I got a job out of state and sold or gave away all my old crap. I have no idea where those ended up or if anyone ever used them again.
Spore was mid and was only ever good by the standards of the time. Anyone who continues to call it a good game has either not played it recently or is unable to separate the idea of good from personal nostalgia. It's just another one of those games that you're not allowed to say bad things about online because autists view it as a core part of their childhood and it's a personal attack on them if you say bad things about it. It's in the same group as lego star wars basically.
Spore was outright terrible. Not even mid. Nothing about that game is good. It’s not even good as a simulation.
The game part of it was really terrible and undercooked, but I did enjoy messing around in the creature creator when I was 12.
