jaycifer
@jaycifer@lemmy.world
- Comment on AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. 4 days ago:
I turned off autocorrect on my iphone at least a decade ago but left spellcheck on so I still get the red lines if I mess something up. It sounds like that could benefit you.
- Comment on AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. 4 days ago:
They’re not talking about individual features, they’re talking about locking the entire game behind a network (such as game streaming) so the game can’t be downloaded to be decompiled in the first place.
- Comment on "We're building an army:" Angry anti-renewable groups take to city streets ahead of state election 5 days ago:
Look at all the attention these 300 people are getting!
- Comment on Anon plays DnD 1 week ago:
They’re sugary and gross and delicious! I get them twice a year when I go on a trip with my other buddy that likes them.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I only get a minute of ign per day, so I had to skim the article. I played a lot of TW Warhammer and this mod until a few years ago, and the cycle was always the same. New dlc would release that breaks the SFO(Steel Faith Overhaul) mod this guy makes, a couple weeks later the mod would update bringing the new content up to par with the rest of the mod. I never minded because I could just play the new content in vanilla for a campaign or two and the mod has always been of a high caliber rivaling and arguably surpassing the base game.
It sounds like what’s happening now is new content releases that breaks the mod, and rather than wait for it to be updated and updated right some people are using AI to get the mod in a functional state then uploading the whole thing as their own. The article talks about submods but those have always existed for SFO and been fine.
I’d hate for such an iconic mod to be taken down, but if other people are uploading his work wholesale because they’re too impatient to play without it, I don’t know that I can blame him.
- Comment on "Why should we just give up the entire month of November?" – The indie games going head to head with GTA 6 2 weeks ago:
It’s a gameplay formula many people like (including mainstream crowds), a new GTA only comes out every few years which gives space to prevent that formula getting stale, and other AAA games are rarely able to implement that formula to the same scale and degree of detail. They tend to set a new standard from a technical standpoint.
I don’t much care for the series, but it’s not that surprising that it’s a big deal.
- Comment on Anon plays an RPG 3 weeks ago:
I broke this habit once growing when I decided to finish Mario and Luigi Partners in Time after a break. I had just reached the final dungeon, but before diving in I realized I had more money than I knew what to do with.
I went to the store, got like 99 of all the cool looking items, entered the dungeon, and went to town. Every turn was a question of whether to use a power flower, hammer, or what have you. I mowed through all those end game enemies and the final boss didn’t know what hit em. It was glorious.
- Comment on Anon's class fails expectations 4 weeks ago:
I wonder if Brandon Sanderson had read this when he was writing the Stormlight Archives. The main society seen in it has a caste system based on eye color.
- Comment on Day 795 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
All I remember from playing this DLC as it released was the eagle flight, lower feeling production values in things like animations, and how silly it felt to see an evil George Washington. It is a fun romp.
Your thought about the eagle ability being less fun makes me wonder if you’ve played or would like AC Syndicate. You get a grappling hook in that game that makes vertical traversal much easier.
- Comment on What is the most common stupid question you hear/see? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe it doesn’t come through in text, but that Liechtenstein question gives me zero impression that they’re trying to show off. It just seems like how someone would ask if they think they might know something but aren’t sure. What am I missing here?
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 1 month ago:
Okay, thank you for describing that, I drew a couple charts to help me think through the situation. The lettered frames represent the image sitting on the gpu. It’s called B1 because it’s a frame that needs to be interpolated from frame B, so frame B needs to be rendered first before interpolation can occur. The numbers represent units of time, so in the first chart at time unit 2 Frame A is being displayed on the screen while Frame B is being rendered by the card.
The first chart I drew I made an assumption that the interpolation is basically free due to my understanding that the DLSS functions use specialized cores that could be running in tandem with the rendering of frame B. Then I realized that was an assumption and went over it again assuming frame B needed to be fully rendered and so interpolation would need to take a unit of time before displaying.
I think this illustrates what you’re saying.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 1 month ago:
Because when I do it on a dedicated GPU instead of a cheap TV processor to hide the artifacting I like how it looks.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 1 month ago:
DLSS5 looks bad, but after using for a little while frame generation does have some use cases. It requires a high refresh monitor to be worth anything first and foremost to ensure there’s space for the interpolated frames between a high base frame rate. I use a 144hz monitor, so with 2x frame rate I still get a perfectly playable 72fps based latency.
I found it to be good while playing Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 because it let me turn up the other settings while consistently looking smooth. It’s a slow enough game that the increased latency isn’t noticeable.
It’s especially helpful for CPU bound games like Helldivers 2 and Victoria 3 because the interpolation happens after the main rendering. I could not get HD2 above ~90fps with my CPU, but with frame gen on the CPU only had to render 72fps. It also meant I could turn DLSS scaling off, which meant the generated frames were based on native renders and everything looked better. Victoria 3 went from a painful 20-30fps to a much more tolerable 4-60.
All that said it does have serious issues. The increased latency means I’ll never use it for a reaction time based shooter like Enlisted or Deadlock. A few games just don’t look good with it. Star Wars Jedi Survivor had poor performance anyway, but turning frame gen on both makes it feel like it plays worse while also adding terrible ghosting effects and artifacts.
I’ve been interpolating movies and tv shows since 2015, so I think I was better able to set my expectations for the downsides of interpolation.
- Comment on Anon has a paranormal experience 1 month ago:
The way they speak in snake in the Harry Potter movies would be an example.
- Comment on anon discovers the magic of pizza (and yaoi) 1 month ago:
Bisexual, heteroromantic.
- Comment on How did you guys deal with the death of a parent? 2 months ago:
This post and the comment from Lupus helped me a lot when my dad passed away: lemmy.world/post/22499928?sort=Top
My own advice is to do what feels right if you can. As my emotions cascaded over me when the doctor told us he was gone, one image went through my head. I saw myself throwing a rock into the lake my grandparents had a cabin on when I was growing up, from the boat landing my dad would walk to with my brother and me to skip rocks. So a day or two later my brother and I drove back to the lake, trespassed around the old cabin to soak in the memories, then skipped rocks for a while. I still suck at skipping rocks, and it didn’t fix things, but it was a little cathartic.
- Comment on How come not all people are organ donors? It's not like they will need them where ever they go. 2 months ago:
My dad was an organ donor when his brain died. The next day after the 24 hour period to confirm brain death, I was sitting with my brother and stepmother waiting to have the plug pulled when a lady walked into the room and introduced herself “as part of my father’s care team.” I don’t remember much of what she said because I was focused on waiting for the end and she wasn’t wearing scrubs so I didn’t really care what she had to say, but she left and after another couple hours I learned that she was from the Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) for our State, my dad was a donor, and they weren’t pulling the plug until they took him to a different hospital for organ harvesting.
The rest of that day was a blur but my stepmom was pissed, the next morning my dad’s body was in the same room, that lady was apparently fired, there was a new guy and gal as well as their boss to talk with us, they told us they weren’t going away. Eventually they agreed to perform the harvesting surgery there so we could walk to the OR with him. We were asked if we wanted a “hero walk” where the nurses and doctors take time away from actually helping people to clap for a corpse being walked down the hall, which was the dumbest fucking thing I’d ever heard of.
I wasn’t there when my dad’s brain died in the middle of the night. I thought I’d be there as his body functions shut down over the course of a half hour, but instead the last I saw of him before he was cremated was his still breathing corpse being pushed down a hallway. I got a text that his heart had stopped a couple hours later.
Across North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin there are only something like 350 organ donations a year because the body needs to be either very fresh and preserved or brain dead to keep the organs intact for harvesting. If you are a donor, it is very unlikely that your organs will actually be donated, but if they are, it can add a whole extra layer of shitty to an already awful situation for the family. Obviously this is just my experience and it’s probably unusual for people to be fired so it was probably an especially bad one, but you asked and this is my answer to your question. I’m still not sure if I’m going to be a donor next time I renew my license. I don’t think I will until I add a stipulation to my will to allow my family to override it if they feel a need to.
- Comment on Day 720 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 months ago:
Day 720?! We’re in HD now!
I got most of the way through Survivor recently before coming to similar conclusions as you. I remember the first game feeling really tight in its level design while Survivor feels a lot looser. I waited a few years before playing Survivor to let them work out the performance issues, but even on my 5080 and 9950x3D it was still chugging half the time no matter how low I moved the settings. It’s a real shame because I went back and played the opening section (which granted get’s a lot more work put into it) of the first game and I think it looked and ran better.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 3 months ago:
Relevant (irrelevant now?) video: youtu.be/kWSIFh8ICaA?is=zV2aBTaCQ7L4MQwi
- Comment on Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games 3 months ago:
The Dungeons and Dragons idle game has a champion that is composed of Nerds candy pieces. It’s actually a fun character concept because you can switch the nerds around to different colors, each one with a different class that changes how their mechanics work. But it’s just so weird seeing candy you can eat alongside Drizzt Do’urden that I never use them.
- Comment on How do I unrot my brain from AI, how do I start using ChatGPT less and less, and is improv a good enough way to fix an AI-rotted brain? 4 months ago:
My understanding is that the reason the brain gets rotted by AI is because you do less thinking per question/problem, leading to your mind thinking less in general and getting used to that. So the solution should be to get your brain thinking more to readjust back to where it was (and beyond!).
A day or two ago in another thread someone posted these two daily brain teaser websites:
You could try replacing some time spent scrolling each day with solving these. Minutecryptic especially is requiring me to flex my mind in new ways.
- Comment on 007 First Light sequels will be 'done by MGM and, theoretically, by Amazon Game Studios,' Amazon exec says 4 months ago:
I don’t understand, you’re going to not buy a game that you presumably want developed by one studio because a sequel that does not exist and is developed by another studio because that non-existent, effectively unrelated game might be worse? Why not just get the one good game you want and ignore the games Amazon develops?
- Comment on Why Games Now Take 6+ Years To Make 4 months ago:
If it was a button you pushed once instead of something you need to download and set up do you think they still wouldn’t use it?
- Comment on [Giveaway] I have some games to share with the world 4 months ago:
Man, I still think about that Humble Origin bundle sometimes. Being a broke high schooler at the time, $5 for Mirror’s Edge, Crysis 2, Dead Space, and more was a helluva deal!
- Comment on Day 645 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 months ago:
This doesn’t have anything to do with anything, but when I first glanced at the thumbnail on my phone, I thought it was the characters Beth and Summer Smith from Rick and Morty looking away from the camera at a cliffside view. The treetops kinda looked like their hair.
- Comment on Should I tell my dad that his mistake almost cost me a fortune? 5 months ago:
If he’s been a plumber for 40 years, then he obviously has a track record of not making enough mistakes to lose insurance.
- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 5 months ago:
Yeah, I see what you’re saying as well. I’m coming from the perspective of having worked at a chain pizza place for 6 years in the past and seeing drivers double check orders before leaving and sometimes having to drive back to deliver something they missed. I feel like that should be a reasonable expectation for Doordash drivers, but then the bag is sealed, presumably to keep the driver from messing with/eating the food, which also seems like a negative to me. If they can’t be trusted not to eat my food, how can I trust them to deliver it?
- Comment on Truly the smartest person of our time 5 months ago:
It sounds like if I watch any of his videos it will need to be with a critical mind and an eye toward further paths of research from other sources.
- Comment on Truly the smartest person of our time 5 months ago:
Interesting, this is the first I’ve heard of him or the channel. Thanks!
- Comment on Truly the smartest person of our time 5 months ago:
Who is this guy? Someone else mentioned Man Carrying Thing, but that’s a skit channel, and not in China like another person said.
