• deafboy@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The only thing worse than unskipable ads are the waiting screens (press a button to continue) in front of the loading screens.

    I mean, the machine is capable of billions of operations per second. Why is it waiting for ME to push a button?

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      6 months ago

      So that if you leave the room to make yourself a tea or something while the game is loading, your won’t miss the cut scene / beginning of the action / lose the game because it started without you present.

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      6 months ago

      At least some games parallelize this. The game then already loads assets, caches shaders etc while the intro rolls.