latenightnoir
@latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Could you fcking not. 2 hours ago:
And will continue to do so, yes! Aw, nuts, this thread made me sad :-<
- Comment on Could you fcking not. 2 days ago:
I haven’t seen that one, no!:( It just starts with the spider gripping a raspberry:(
- Comment on Could you fcking not. 2 days ago:
I have deep-seated arachnophobia and deeply appreciate the grotesque, and I still feel so bad for the spiders, c’mon! I at least hope they died of natural causes well before someone decided to try using them as a grabber toy… Like, at least that!
- Comment on nice smile 2 days ago:
Two words: moisturising lotion.
- Comment on poor jeremy 2 days ago:
Ooh, Jezzer! Oh, the drinking we could’ve done together afterwards!
- Comment on How krilling! 2 days ago:
If someone tried this with me, the second photo would depict someone laughing maniacally, because that’s one hell of a joke from where I’m standing!
- Comment on call of the void 3 days ago:
“I’m so sorry I’m repeatedly punching you in the teeth, I have no idea how to stop! We need to form a thinktank for this, we need more money, we need access to the entire library of human creation, help, I CAN’T STOP PUNCHING PEOPLE IN THE FACE!”
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 6 days ago:
The increased accessibility of SM1 most definitely helped. To be very honest, the thing which got me into 40k was the excellent Dawn of War series. Not only was it one of the first fully 3D RTS games, but every one up to and including the two Dawn of War II titles are absolutely brilliant strategy games (with II being closer to Kill Team with reinforcements, granted).
Heck, I still play Dark Crusade regularly, one of the tightest and enjoyable RTS campaign modes I’ve played to date!
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 6 days ago:
It is such a minor improvement, though. Especially, as you’ve mentioned, on a 1080p screen. And, sorry to say, but having to waste 150+ Gigs of space for a 20-30 hour game is a complete waste with, as I’me said several times, immensely diminished returns.
Let’s take UE5, for instance. Texture streaming has become necessary because we can’t afford to have a cogherent texture map loaded in all at once, precisely because those textures are stupidly large. This causes so, so many performance issues, that I’d argue it’s been a downgrade even coming off UE3.
I’d rather have a smooth and OK-looking game which doesn’t require me to get a second SSD just to fit it all, than to face significant stutters every time I do a 180° turn because the engine is struggling to load Gigs of uncached textures, which, again, barely look any better.
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 6 days ago:
Oh, no, with literally hundreds of books’ worth of backstory beyond all of the “your headcanon is valid” bits, we are well and truly beyond simple fluff.
Fluff is those 3 paragraphs of contextual flavour text you get on the back of a board game box.
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 6 days ago:
Very much, yes! Chaos is the clearest, most stable faction in the entire lore in terms of characterisation and intent!
Honestly, I think the ambiguity behind the Imperium’s portrayal stems from a sort of pandering to the popularity of the faction itself, maybe even to blunt the sharpness a bit, make it more accessible to new inductees. Easier to sell a “slightly Theo-Fascistic” galactic empire than “we need to sacrifice literally thousands of people marked as Other to a corpse and, yes, corpse starch is exactly what it says on the tin. Oh, and we’ll need to lobotomise about 10000 of you because our biotoxin planet-wiping nukes need polishing.”
It’s a pity, because that’s exactly what drew me into 40k to begin with, that feeling of “wow, this stuff’s beyond horrific, my morbid curiosity is tickled seventy shades of pink!”
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 1 week ago:
Never asked!😕
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 1 week ago:
This is why I either went with Chaos (during my adolescence, mostly outgrew them) or Aeldari. I mean, they aren’t that much better from a lore perspective, but at least they give everyone a chance to suffer equally…
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 1 week ago:
Did several, the CPU is fine. Of course, it isn’t fine when a new game suffers from unpatched memory leaks and unoptimised respurce consumption, which has become the trend rather than the exception - looking at Cyberpunk 2077 for demonstrating to publishers that gamers will buy literally anything out of inertia.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 1 week ago:
I don’t doubt that! My point was that a 9th-gen i7 is beef enough to handle literally everything I’ve ever thrown at it, games or otherwise, yet some newer games with very few graphical enhancements (I’m talking not even ray-tracing) are so poorly optimised, that the hardware isn’t to blame. UE5 in general, for instance, is a hot mess, not in terms of graphical fidelity, but in terms of software bulk and resource consumption. And it really doesn’t look THAT much better when compared to UE4.
I’d rather just stop buying half-baked software than be strong-armed into expensive and unnecessary upgrades to play a game which was clearly rushed to market and is oftentimes incomplete not just from a software perspective, but also from a narrative and feature perspective.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 1 week ago:
Honestly, I find 4k in general to be entirely unnecessary. Anything above 1440p is redundant imho, as diminishing returns kick in very fast as the density increases.
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 1 week ago:
Yep. Popularity hasn’t yet died down, but having a bunch of closed-minded “anti-woke” (i.e. Fascists) people dogpiling onto 40k as though they’re begging to be Servitorised in the service of the Emp’rah is… dismaying, to say the least.
Worst part is, one can’t even have a conversation with such fans, as they instantly shoot down any and all subjects which they deem even marginally related to “woke stuff,” sometimes with disturbing zeal. How such an obvious satirical dystopia can be misinterpreted in such a way is beyond me…
- Comment on The Purge 2 weeks ago:
This would have been a useful upgrade during Uni…
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 2 weeks ago:
Well aware of that, but no game has ever had issues with it so far, so…
And I even run it without any OC, because it handles everything I throw at it juust fine.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, yeah, forgot the deets. 9700k, none of the cores were overworked, 60% seemed to be average usage across them.
And, yeah, checked in NPC-heavy areas, where the stuttering, lag, and frame times were the worst, and I didn’t have it set to “Ridiculous” - using a combination of High for textures and Med for effects (like shadows and lighting), running it at 1080p on the 3060 and 1440p on the 4080 Super (bumped it up to native, basically).
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 2 weeks ago:
It’s not just that, Vice City was set in Miami, I’d argue it had similar vibes/aesthetics (accounting for the difference in time and setting), and it felt significantly more cohesive and well-designed in terms of aesthetics.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 2 weeks ago:
Agreed, it was a major step forward in terms of mechanical complexity, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that everything I saw was made out of plastic, y’know? Cars included.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I always remove the default upvote:))
And thoroughly agreed, currently playing Dune Awakening. It’s been about two weeks since launch. I fell through the map twice, and keep getting ganked by solo mobs who pin me to walls, because I’m unable to move or dodge. A single enemy. Blocking my movement completely.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 2 weeks ago:
Seriously, even GTA III had a MUCH better defined atmosphere and feel than SA!
And the Riddick games were, indeed, gorgeous! In a grim as hell way, but gorgeous!
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, this wouldn’t have been an issue, ever, if we wouldn’t have switched to “release fast, fuck quality, crunch ya’ plebs!” It’s yet another solution for a self-generated problem.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 2 weeks ago:
The first F.E.A.R. had excellent dynamic lighting, I’d argue it had the epitome of relevant dynamic lighting. It didn’t need to set your GPU on fire for it, it didn’t have to sacrifice two thirds of its framerate for it, it had it all figured out. It did need work on textures, but even those looked at least believable due to the lighting system. We really didn’t need more than that.
RT is nothing but eye candy and a pointless resource hog meant to sell us GPUs with redundant compute capacities, which don’t even guarantee that the game’ll run any better!
Upgraded from a 3060 to a 4080 Super to play STALKER 2 at more than 25 frames per second. Got the GPU, same basic settings, increased the resolution a bit, +10 FPS… Totes worth the money…
- Comment on If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine 3 weeks ago:
Shove it right up my eyeballs!
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 3 weeks ago:
Look, I agree that from a purely logical standpoint, there ain’t nothing there. Personally, I believe the Universe is enough as far spiritual anchors go. But from an “I’m just breathin’ here” standpoint, I genuinely couldn’t care less. As long as people don’t hurt others out of their beliefs, they can knock themselves out believing whatever they so desire!
To be perfectly honest, I also think it adds a bit of flavour to the world as long as it’s benign, I’ve had the immense luck of meeting a few religious people who took the good things out of The Text (generalising) and forged their own very personal relationship with the divine! They were the kind of people who took Free Will as being the highest imperative at the end of the day, people who would have fundamentally tried to respect existence even without the pre-existing framework. I’m thinking here specifically of my godfather (raised in an Orthodox household), who’s a middle-management kinda’ Priest (I don’t know the ranks, I’m sorry…).
Having these examples in mind, I prefer all the more to live and let live, as long as they do so as well.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 3 weeks ago:
I’m of the “I don’t know, whatever” persuasion=))
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 3 weeks ago:
Oof! One of those moments which kinda’ make one wish there wasn’t an afterlife…
Thank you for the tidbit, though, and fuck Fascists regardless!