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- 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 6 days ago:
How you tweak it for your personal viewing is up to you. You already can run it through a AI tools to add detail or smooth effects or even turn it into a cartoon if you want to.
Will take some time, will use a lot of energy, will require a decent card or a lot of credits but this can be done today.
Personally I don’t think anything will improve it, as I don’t care for it already. Just had to say it as your claim it’s the best trilogy ever is subjective. Much like the results of processing it with AI.
- Comment on Dominos using AI for ads. 1 week ago:
As someone who never sees ads anymore, I would expect everything to be AI now. Is this a surprise? The 70’s had composition and light table trickery, then came air brushing, then came photoshop, and now AI. Seems like a logical progression.
Not seeing ads at all fixes that.
But I said this before: the Advertising company that goes out of its way to make crappy, hand made art that is obviously not AI or even CGI or Photoshop, and makes everything look like it was made with love (real love or fake doesn’t matter) for the sake of the product is going to make a fortune.
- Comment on British supermarket Morrisons selling AI birthday cards (£2) 2 weeks ago:
Its hard to care frankly. Disposable greeting cards are looked at for ten seconds and then into the bin. Maybe its time to retire that practice instead.
- Comment on The prices of these NFL games…nope. 2 weeks ago:
Lots of good sports, even American football. It’s fun to play.
But no sport is worth paying money to watch.
- Comment on Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games 2 weeks ago:
I mentioned the key as a tool in general, not necessarily related to the PSP. Just all devices. Or even updates that could change the way a game worked, making it not work anymore.
**Lets look at the license from Sony: **
Here is my license agreement from my PS1:
“The Software is licensed to you, not sold. You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and personal license to play or use the Software for your private, non-commercial use on the system or device it was intended for.”
And their current agreement with a PS5:
“The Software is licensed to you, not sold. You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and personal license to play or use the Software for your private, non-commercial use on the system or device it was intended for.”
**30 years and its almost exactly the same. **
That is what I said. Nothing changed.
You are wanting to talk about physical vs digital ownership, but I already said I wasnt talking about that, but it also didn’t change, as they had exactly the same words during the PS1, you just didnt see it because you were not a developer. You were not allowed to share, transfer, use anything digitally transferred.
Yet there is a history of nothing changing for the consumer as well:
By the time the PS2 came out, in Japan they were selling online games. As well as the PS3 and even the PSP GO. All with non transferable licenses.
So even in those cases, its been constant and nothing changed today that hasnt been around for a very long time.
Now lets talk about software promised and removed, and this is one example, but it is sony and was huge:
Sony sold the PS3 with Linux support. Sony said I could put another OS on it, or I could get Yellow Dog Linux. There was a presentation that said I could watch movies, program the ps3, listen to music, view photos, etc.
Then they updated the firmware and took that away. They mandated the update, and broke the software, even when I owned the Disc it was on.
Same as it ever was: if you have an online device they can screw you. Its a hardware issue, you have no control over that so, as it has been since the ps3: never buy sony.
- Comment on Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games 2 weeks ago:
Sigh. Whatever.
The license doesn’t change. You are arguing about the ability to revoke it by taking it from you physically. That is two very different things.
The license did not change. If you download a game and turn off the internet, guess what, it isnt going away. If you clone the drive and restore it, it isnt going away.
These are just weird semantics. There is no reason (and it has happened before) that the same thing couldnt happen with a physical device as long as you connect it to the internet. They could revoke the key from a physical disc just as easily buy banning it from the device if they wanted to.
- Comment on Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games 2 weeks ago:
But that has nothing to do with anything. The rules are still the same.
- Comment on Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games 2 weeks ago:
Except it’s always been this way?
- Comment on Well that's my vacation ruined 2 weeks ago:
Weird that you think ports have anything to do with it.
Did you actually downvote me, lol?
Just say you don’t know anything about it, it’s not like it takes any effort. I also enjoy watching my shows and listening to my music on the plane with WiFi.
I have been traveling for days now and it’s been zero issues as usually.
- Comment on Technology Connections - My water heater is cooler than yours [58:44] 2 weeks ago:
Nice way to dehumidify a room.
On the other hand all the ones I had are never hot enough.
- Comment on Well that's my vacation ruined 2 weeks ago:
Don’t really need to, but you could get around that easy enough if you wanted to.
- Comment on Well that's my vacation ruined 2 weeks ago:
Of course you can connect to home, that’s just using the internet.
I don’t think I have been in one with such bad WiFi I couldn’t stream in years.
- Comment on Well that's my vacation ruined 2 weeks ago:
Its so much simpler and you have a remote.
- Comment on Well that's my vacation ruined 2 weeks ago:
Why not a streaming stick? You can watch anything you have at home, or jellyfin and also everything you have at home.
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 3 weeks ago:
Whats the point of this? Yes things were cheaper in the past.
- Comment on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? 3 weeks ago:
I think most people know, but Luanti is more of a minecraft type voxel engine with a game launcher at this point.
From there you can play several variations of voxel type games and manage them.
I say that because if people think its just Minetest with a new name, that isn’t quite accurate.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games has joined a lawsuit against Sony's move to digital-only sales: 'You won't have any choice at all' 3 weeks ago:
This is stupid. The choice would be don’t buy sony.
- Comment on Supermassive Games announces layoffs, up to 75 positions to be affected 4 weeks ago:
Who?
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 4 weeks ago:
I love a good beer. Budweiser is not a good beer, and the thought of a zero version sounds even worse.
But there are great beers and even very good non alchoholic ones.
My issue is that beer is a lot of calories, particularly the good ones. Even the zero alcoholic ones.
Don’t drink your calories is a good rule of thumb.
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 4 weeks ago:
Its weird to have a look back at shit food and say, it was a bigger shit food back then.
Fast food is always the worst choice, given that its mostly salt, sugar, and fat, plus preservatives, they are doing you a favor.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 5 weeks ago:
I miss the old days, when they made all sorts of innovative software.
Ad for electronic arts, 1984.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 5 weeks ago:
Never really got the appeal of walmart, they have only had some I wanted maybe twice over the last 20 years.
Oh well, yet another reason to never go somehwere.
- Comment on 10.99 for a beer with..... ai pictures on it. 5 weeks ago:
Hyphens are for, you know hyphenating.
Such as in well-known.
Emdashes add emphasis and provide visual breaks.
Its weird that AI glommed onto then so much though.
- 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:
Slop has a long history as word used about art. Joeseph Cambell mentions it, people criticsed hollywood of it, publishers complained about it.
I remember those days using the term slop for lazy, uninspired, thowing anything that stuck on the wall, etc. AI is just a logical progression of the same term.
- 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:
I mean yes… kind of. You can go to your library in gog and download (slowly and limited and broken into 4 gb chunks for some damn reason) which means no client needed.
But steam does have games that are DRM free after that first install. Ones that you can copy directly out of the folder it put them anywhere and run.
There is a list here pcgamingwiki.com/…/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games… although it suggests its about 600 games more that arent on the list yet.
- Comment on New clean energy comes out. *look inside* It’s just boiling water again… 5 weeks ago:
Both explore how characters must mask their true identities to survive a corrupt patriarchal system managed by a villainous uncle?
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 5 weeks ago:
Clean? As in sterile like a hospital?
I think your example is the other extreme, but a little bit of color and a few personal items is a huge improvement over the sanitarium look.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 1 month ago:
I don’t think steam will ever have those things. But streaming devices are dirt cheap. The issue is codecs.
On the other hand I do have Plex and jellyfin on my steam deck to watch my shows when I am flying.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 1 month ago:
Oh well. They dont want to sell my the game, then I don’t need the game.
PC is the only chance at you controlling the hardware, so it’s the only choice.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 1 month ago:
When I saw them bait and switch Linux again with the ps3 I was done.
Ps2 the last sony.
