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- Comment on Experimental Build Of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 AI Slop Filter Leaks And Turns Beloved Video Game Characters Into Uncanny Valley Weirdos 5 days ago:
Dipping your monitor in shit is better than TAA. These upscalers have caused developers to use them as a crutch. Instead of making a performant native game with good MSAA options, they speed run the game and then slap DLSS (or the alternatives) on at the end for 60fps.
I get it's not usually their fault, with crunch times etc, but it's still a decision someone makes, that the customers could push back on. NVIDIA is spearheading it as a means to sell GPUs, locking newer DLSS versions behind new hardware and paying studios to support and advertise DLSS. I mean, at least until the AI boom, now they couldnt give a fuck about us little guys at all.
- Comment on Back to the future 5 days ago:
Problem is, cases dont even handle it anymore. The bumps are too big that you are gonna need a thick case.
Samsung S23-24 is a good example of an acceptable bump, a case flattens that out and isnt bulky.
- Comment on Back to the future 6 days ago:
Massive annoying bumps to make the rest of the phone 0.1mm thinner. No camera bumps should be the priority design, not every increasingly large ones that even cases can't obscure now.
- Comment on Experimental Build Of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 AI Slop Filter Leaks And Turns Beloved Video Game Characters Into Uncanny Valley Weirdos 1 week ago:
DLSS is a plague.
- Comment on Day 769 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Caught the addiction
- Comment on This crazy assassin character, who doesn't know what shampoo is, somehow would bother shaving her armpits 2 weeks ago:
You are forgetting that acting is a job. One the actors have the freedom to decide and negotiate their terms.
It's perfectly reasonable for a character to have armpit hair, even if that personally offends you.
The actor can decide what to do with the director or whomever. You dont need to project your own opinions onto some random actor, they have their own.
Also, it is absolutely fucking okay to expect consistency in a film/show.
- Comment on This crazy assassin character, who doesn't know what shampoo is, somehow would bother shaving her armpits 2 weeks ago:
Exactly, but even so, it's an actors job, many lose weight, gain muscle, grow hair, lose hair, all the time for the role. Such a strange thing to be angry about, let the actors decide themselves lmao. What's with the new trend of people getting offended on behalf of others?
- Comment on Day 764 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Yes, this is official Oldschool Runescape.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 2 weeks ago:
So you admit there is value. Got it.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 2 weeks ago:
Dont list your game on Steam then, sell it yourself.
- Comment on Day 761 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
If you want to relive it, MadSeasonShow on YouTube has been doing a blind playthrough for the last couple years and it's pretty nostalgic to watch!
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 3 weeks ago:
I was, as that is what people usually mean with XCOM 3. A sequel to XCOM 2.
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 3 weeks ago:
He wasnt involved in the reboot series IIRC. Jake Solomon was the creative director.
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 4 weeks ago:
I think you are confused. I am simply saying, the developers, the individuals, who designed and created the previous games are not at the studio who owns the IP. Unless they are all rehired at Firaxis Games, the individuals cannot develop another XCOM. Do you understand now?
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 4 weeks ago:
They have made stuff for me, just getting them back together to make another XCOM is very very unlikely. Do you understand how IP ownership works?
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 4 weeks ago:
Yes, lots of layoffs and devs just moving on.
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 4 weeks ago:
Because the industry has changed a lot over the last decade and XCOM would be more likely to be dragged through the dirt than to be faithfully resurrected.
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 4 weeks ago:
All the devs have gone, it would be a shell of its former self. If the original developers are still together somewhere, we would be better off getting a new IP.
- Comment on How do you make friends online? 5 weeks ago:
Making friends through text can be hard. Obviously you want to be in a space where people share the same interest as you, as a common interest you can discuss.
If you play video games, it's a lot easier the break that ground. Chatting to people in-game is a good way to make friends as you always have a bounce back topic as you learn more about each other.
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 5 weeks ago:
Most playstation gamers. Most gamers do not use playstation. It's a small drop and most won't care. Unfortunately, of course.
I don't play on modern consoles and I don't buy skins. I preach it, but everyone can make their own decisions.
You are 100% right, there's so many good indie games out there to enjoy. I hope more people avoid predatory models and buy the good stuff instead.
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 5 weeks ago:
No tangible amount of people are going to put their money where their mouth is. Gamers have time and time again shown that they can be screwed over. I mean look at the state of the big games now and games as a service taking over, people are happily paying $20+ for a skin in a game, something that used to come included with the game as an unlock.
- Comment on Game Pass Was Supposed To Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the Company 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I get it. We just dont want to set a precedent either. How long until games are exclusive to game pass? You know thats the path they want to take. We gotta reject the service before it takes over and screws everyone.
- Comment on Game Pass Was Supposed To Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the Company 5 weeks ago:
People dont want a subscription to play games, it only made sense as an extension of Xbox Live. Outside of that it was mainly used as a way to demo some games for a month, or play that one game for $1.
Just buying games has way more value overall.
- Comment on Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach 1 month ago:
Sure, in the grand scheme of things, but per user, not getting $70 from me costs them more.
- Comment on Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach 1 month ago:
It's more costly to the developer when I dont buy their kernel AC game.
- Comment on Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach 1 month ago:
Anti-cheat should be server side. Cheats are done on external hardware now as kernel AC chased them into the undetectable zone, well played.
No game is worth sacrificing your entire PC to play.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It costs time and money to make them smaller, big studios dont want to waste that and know their games will sell regardless.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 months ago:
You are right, the indie space is booming. I meant big gaming, the mainstream triple A crap. But some kind of shitty practices being accepted by people in AAA games, does bleed down to some smaller studios indulging.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 months ago:
Gaming is so fucked.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 months ago:
Nobody in the right mind is buying AAA games at launch. They always go on sale a few months later.