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- Comment on They should suffer 5 days ago:
Do the humane thing and just abort them in the womb with an adblocker.
If you are using some apo where that isn’t possible, stop using it.
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand mirrors 6 days ago:
I mean, that is a pretty reasonable way to do a mirror, or a very glossy reflective floor (just throw a transparency/alpha layer over it and render it on top of the floor texture) back before… shaders as we know them today really got invented, and model poly count/texture res is not very high.
Like, I don’t think Deus Ex is on ‘the build engine’, but it certainly ultimately derives from it, and it does this.
Then you get to HL2, and while, to my knowledge, HL2 doesn’t literally have ‘mirrors’ in it, you can basically do that by making a render target camera, the kind that displays in the game as a TV screen of some kind… well you could just point that camera right out of where the mirror is, and have the render quality/resolution be lower than the quality/resolution of the rest of the world.
I am reasonably confident most modern games with mirrors … basically do that, just with an actual game settings slider to determine fidelity instead of all those settings that used to be baked into the map as it was with custom hl2/gmod/sourcemod maps.
Water, window and world space reflections can/could also be set to just… render the whole world again in a lower quality… but prior to that, it was more common to bake a static ‘reflect map’ into your compiled map, as realtime duplicating the whole world can often be waaay too demanding.
And of course now we have shifted over to the Real Time Ray Tracing paradigm, that is absurdly high fidelity but absurdly highly demanding, and that has neccessitated the development of frame upcaling and frame gen tech to balance out the performance losses from this absurdly inefficient lighting paradigm.
- Comment on ‘Power Rangers’ Writer Says ‘It Was a Mistake’ to Cast Black and Asian Actors as Black Ranger and Yellow Ranger: ‘None of Us’ Were ‘Thinking Stereotypes’ 6 days ago:
He was also green.
- Comment on carlos for scale 1 week ago:
I’m gonna need a Carlos to Cubit to Banana diagram.
With a slinky for scale.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 week ago:
Alternate solution: Live in a studio apartment lol?
Yeah, you’re on top of this and know your shit.
I just originally wanted to point out that there are generally workable solutions in case you had no idea… but yeah, you know your shit, and with games that need both super low latency on input registry and display output… yep, basicslly you still gotta go wired.
… Maybe get swoll, or put your existing PC on some kind of wheeled base, set a cable management situation with the living room TV and your room monitors and controller for just… moving the PC around?
Yeah I can’t think of much more than thag
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 week ago:
That all sounds about right, yeah, a DisplayPort cable would work… but basically yeah, there aren’t many (any?) TVs that have DP … ports, and a long DP cable can be fairly pricey…
A … relatively cheap wireless solution might work if you dropped the resolution down to 2K or 1080, but it sounds like you’re going for 4k?
But Im just spitballing, sounds like you know your setup and have looked into this.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 week ago:
Ah, true, thats fair, with the input latency.
There may be more effective solutions to that, but that gets complicated fast depending on a lot of technical factors, layout of your home, budget constraints, etc.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 week ago:
1: I agree that the remaining exclusives are still annoying, but it is quite a far cry from the 00s and early 10s, where … with some notable exceptions, basically only shovelware corpo IP slop was not console exclusive, and the norm was largely based on picking a console for a its game library as a huge factor, as almost everything super popular/good was exclusive.
2: You… know you can set up some kind of streaming box or other wireless solution from your PC to your living room TV, right?
I used to just carry my rig into the living room and hardwire connect it to my TV for certain occasions… now there are many ways to just do that wirelessly.
I rocked a multi monitor set up that also included the TV in my room for a while as well, all hardwired, would just set up the TV as an optional 3rd monitor to put on movies and lounge on my bed.
- Comment on Anon keeps it classy in the comments 1 week ago:
Its not the loss of blood circulating in your system that lowers your blood pressure. An average human has 4.5 to 5.5 L of blood, an average blood draw is like… 10 ml, 0.2% of all your blood.
The vasovagal response is somewhat common during blood draws, basically, its a stress/fear/anxiety response, your nervous system iniates it and then your heart rate slows and your blood vessels dilate, widen, and this makes your blood pressute drop… its not the actual blood loss itself causing your blood pressure to tank, its all the other parts of your circulatory system changing how they regulate your blood pressure.
Its pretty common to experience this effect mildly, and temporarily.
But… if you regularly feint from routine blood draws… that is actually potentially concerning, as it may indicate you are anemic, significantly malnourished or dehydrated, have circulatory system blockages, or just generally have significant hypotension, or have some other underlying problematic, very often treatable condition.
Again, routine, regular, every time you get a blood draw, you feint, completely black out?
Thats different than you get a bit woozy and then in 5 minutes you’re fine.
Ironically, you’ll need blood tests to check for a lot of the most common indicators of the most common things that cause routine feinting from a blood draw… you gotta get that bloodwork to start pinpointing root causes.
But it could also be that you just generally have very high stress levels, or some other mental condition.
Or it could be side effects from drugs you are on, including common SSRIs and other mental health drugs, actually contributing to your vasovagal response being so severe that you regularly feint during blood draws.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 week ago:
… You’re right.
People get abaolutely addicted to mtx, and at this point, you’d have to societally treat mtx, and legally regulate mtx like cigarettes, to actually address the problem.
Todd may have… invented the potion, or uncorked the bottle… but way, way too many people just keep gulping it down.
- Comment on p r e s s u r e 1 week ago:
Time Crystal Gender = Gallifrean
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 week ago:
Pretty much haha.
I have distinct memories of… actually having to look away when Alyx first gets sent through Kleiner’s teleport in the beginning of HL2…
Because my piece of crap eMachine could not handle the scene, when your view is centered on Alyx.
It would ctd every single time time, the 100% reliable work around was to look at the ground before the screen flashing/color inversion thing happens… I’m pretty sure my rig just could not handle that ‘negative’ effect on top of the … bloomy, glowing sparks/lightning from the teleporter, at the same time.
Other than only that scene in particular, the game ran well, lol.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 week ago:
Its Todd’s fault.
Fucking horse armor.
- Comment on Diagram for accuracy, ms paint edition 1 week ago:
… Did you also miss the text at the bottom of my comment?
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 week ago:
I remeber seeing my lifelong, die hard Nintendo fan brother, play BotW.
After watching for about 30 minutes, I said something like ‘oh neat, its like an open world, version of a Zelda game, with more voice acting, open world item durability mechanics, and Garry’s Mod style physics/build nonsense!’
I meant it in earnest. I did think this was neat, though maybe the item durabilty values or mechanics could have been tweaked a bit, seems like you often spend a bunch of time just re-grinding for good weapons that break too fast, with no repair mechanic.
But he thought this was entirely an insult.
He rarely played non Nintendo games, hated online multiplayer and never played an open world survival craft game, had never played GMod, and seemed to actually think these were all revolutionary game design concepts.
Meanwhile I’d been a mostly PC gamer since like 2003, played too much GMod, DayZ (back when it was an Arma 2 mod), and had even written some fairly comprehensive game modes (mods, basically?) for GMod, and had… just in general played a much wider variety of games.
When he decided to finally get a gaming laptop, he found Black Mesa when it formally, fully released for $$$, and he entirely did not believe me when I said that I had actually chatted with some of their dev team before, waaaay back when Black Mesa was just an insane dream of a bunch of HL2 adjacent dorks, many of whom talked and argued on ModDB and the old Facepunch forums before Garry nuked them.
… He also did not believe me when I told him I actually met, and took a picture with Ashley Burch at PAX, back when she was just Ash from ‘Hey Ash Watcha Playin?’, waaay before she became the voice of Aloy, and she and her brother did panels at PAX.
Same with Jonathan Coulton, the guy who wrote the ending songs for Portal and Portal 2, which my brother now finally discovered in like … 2022? When he finally got a gaming laptop.
I had the pictures, from a decade ago at that point, but he was so convinced I was lying he wouldn’t even look at them.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 week ago:
I mean, yes, but you need a … fairly out of comparable price range to a console, pc, to be able to emulate … most wiiU forward games? depending on specific game, your definition of a playable frame rate?
I was trying to mostly focus on the ‘console wars’ aspect of the whole thing, and how official releases that were console exclusives a decade ago on an Xbox or PS… basically those all just come out on PC a few years later now, though there are a few exceptions to this, I think.
Bringing emulation into the discussion makes the comparison exceptionally complicated, because PCs vary so much, in so many ways, and of course the legal … dark gray area, and how its often considerably more complicated than just plug and play.
- Comment on Diagram for accuracy, ms paint edition 1 week ago:
I mean you’re not wrong, but you’re probably also not right.
It probably would be quite unpleasant, hence the anesthesiologist.
A laproscopy is when an incision is made, usually near the navel, in the abdomen, and then a … basically mechanical camera snake… is inserted into the abdomen, to get a look at usually the organs in/near your pelvis.
Segmentecomy means they are also removing some kind of… growth on, or portion of, some organ.
I think lateral means the actual cut is being made on one or the other side of the patient, their right or left kidney, but it may also refer to the general orientation of the cut itself.
Not a surgeon, not sure.
So yeah, its a snake camera getting inserted into a cut in your abdomen so a surgeon can better see their hands, with a scalpel, taking a tumor or cyst off of your liver or something like that.
Not exactly what I’d call a pleasant insertion.
… Also you should try anal.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 week ago:
Ah, my American is showing, assumed you were ‘one of us’ lol.
Apologies.
But uh yeah… we are completely fucked lol.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 week ago:
Genuine question: How is MarioKart 10 different from MarioKart 9? Or 7? Or 4?
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 week ago:
You know the tariffs mean the Switch 2 may actually now cost $600, not $450, right?
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 week ago:
The Nintendo fanboys/girls are the real, true, ‘winners’ of the console wars mindset, the last holdouts.
Almost nobody really gives a shit anymore to tie their personalities to Sony or MSFT… because basically, console exclusives don’t really exist, and almost everything is on PC as well.
But Nintendo? Nope. The company still holds a death grip on their inhouse titles being exclusive to their consoles, and the nostalgia/stolckhom syndrome is apparently the strongest with the Nintendo crowd.
It took almost a decade for people to finally be able to admit that GameFreak is basically incompetent. You could not say that even 5 years ago w/o a deluge of insults.
The cope is strong with these ones.
- Comment on p r e s s u r e 1 week ago:
Ok so… what exactly would the gender triple point be?
… A person at their first rave, first time doing molly or E?
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 1 week ago:
I suggest you check out Decky FrameGen.
The technicals are … very complex, but the upshot is: It basically injects FrameScaling/FrameGen modes into games that don’t officially support them on AMD hardware.
So… I’ve done this with CP2077, and if I understand this right, basically it injects FSR3, but under the DLSS settings under the game’s options menu… and it works better than the game’s current officially supported FSR 2 for the Deck.
Elden Ring may also be able to benefit from it.
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 1 week ago:
Yep, I already said the Switch 2 makes sense if all you care about is playing Switch 2 games.
I am not trying to aruge that the Deck is just hands down, inherently superior in all cases, for everyone.
I hope there’s a way for you to put parental controls on your 12 yo’s Fortnite account’s ability to buy microtransactions, and that you have enough time to teach them how to identify and disregard all the dark patterns in the game that encourage irresponsible spending habits, as well as resist all the social peer pressure that comes with an MTX heavy game.
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 1 week ago:
The offical dock is $80, but you can get the Baseus Dock for between $30 and $40.
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 1 week ago:
Point by point:
1: I mean, I guess? I do not even have a mouse myself right now… but if I needed just a cheapo one for basic use… you can get something functional for $20 or under, a basic mouse you’d get for a work laptop type thing.
2: People have all kinds of ‘unusual’ Deck set ups.
The mouse dongle you just mentioned wouldn’t… really make that much sense, as … you can just hold it… and use the touch pads… or the touch sensitive screen itself…
But its actually not uncommon for people to dock their deck, sync it to a controller or M+K, and then stream it to a smart tv, or a dumb one via a dongle or direct connection to the dock. No, you’re not gonna get true 4k on any non retro game, but a good number of people do something like this.
3: … As compared to…? Your minimum 3x more expensive PC you can upgrade with even more money? Another console/handheld you… can’t upgrade?
Unless the Switch 2 can play Cyberpunk 2077 at better than 45 fps, with graphics basically medium/high, I don’t see how the Deck is ‘showing its age’ compared to other similarly priced handhelds.
Decky FrameGen is pretty neat. I think I managed to tweak mine up to an avg of almost 55 on the benchmark, and thats without mucking around in CET to squeeze out even more.
4: I absolutely understand buying a Switch 2 is your best option if you want a very straightforward, doubleplus legal, and expensive way to play Switch 2 games.
Like, if you’re super dedicated to current era Nintendo games, sure, fine, yep, get a Switch 2.
But if you just like games in general…
5: Pretty much yeah, I agree. Its possible to get it working with a Deck, but its gonna be a lot more hassle, and you’ll need peripherals, yep.
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 1 week ago:
wait wait wait.
Fucking… what?
… Are they trying to preempt the expected ‘GTA 6 MSRPs for $120, base edition and breaks all video game pricing’ thing?
I’m seeing $80 for Mario Kart World.
puts on eyepatch and peg leg
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 1 week ago:
So… its $50 more than an LCD, 256 GB Steam Deck (the Switch 2 is also LCD).
A Deck has two touchpads that work as mice.
And you can buy a real mouse with those $50 bucks you saved.
Oh right and it has a bigger screen, can run almost every modern to ancient PC game, and basically every retro game if you can handle an EmuDeck or RetroDeck guided installer, oh and it also just is a computer that does everything a mid tier linux laptop can do.
It can even run Switch games, and probably will be able to run Switch 2 games in… what, 2 years? 3 years?
I’m really not trying to rain on the parade here, but uh… yeah I do not understand the cost benefit analysis on a Switch 2 vs a Deck unless:
You really, really want to play Switch 2 games soon
OR
The Switch 2 somehow has vastly superior performance to a Steam Deck
… I kinda doubt that last one being the case, but the specs aren’t out yet (afaik) so I guess it is possible.
- Comment on Dan Erickson, creator of ‘Severance’: ‘I thought Apple would discourage us from critiquing the capitalist structure, but that never happened’ 1 week ago:
Everything is branding, a market demographic.
- Comment on omg 2 weeks ago:
… where x is positive.
Otherwise it has an imaginary component and is complex.
