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- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 1 week ago:
I can fault them for choosing to push the button and for just accepting that the result is “pretty” without rebuke. For defending the end result against those of us criticizing it. The companies may be responsible for the pushed adoption of this ridiculousness, but people are the ones happily going along with it and actively defending it.
- Comment on Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced 1 week ago:
People that issue death threats for shit like this are absolute trash excuses of humans. That said, DF is trying to double-dip here, sychopantically hyping a product unreservedly and then acting like they still have the credibility to act like objective critics. What a joke.
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 1 week ago:
That’s unfortunately a lot of people going by the amount of “fixed” (ie slopppified) art and photos I see going around online.
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 1 week ago:
That said, theres been so much focus on how it looks. IMO, its completely overblown, especially when all of this needs to be manually configued on a game-by-game basis. Devs can tweak the settings to their own preferences, and make things more or less extreme.
It’s wild that every defense of this garbage is “Just have devs spend even more time finetuning for this.” Yes, let’s double (or more) the workload of workers that are already overworked and crunched beyond reason, all for a “feature” that looks like garbage in it’s showcase demo and is so resource intensive that very few users will be able to utilize it, if they even want to.
- Comment on Maybe, maybe not 1 week ago:
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
a consumer GPU
That’s a stretch for a demo that’s using two GPUs working in tandem that each cost roughly a month’s salary of a US worker ($3k).
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
Good point. I was too distracted by the shadows/reflections on the ground appearing and disappearing for no discernible reason to notice much else in that shot.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
plugging themselves into the matrix, dick first.
That made me laugh. New to me, but that has to have been done already, right? I mean, the “jack off” joke is right there.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
I hope so. They’re going to be responsible for maintaining the art while we weather through this shit storm. Hopefully it all falls apart soon.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
You joke, but this is actually something people are trying to do.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
Was able to brace myself enough to skim through the video. Anyone that watches those clips and thinks that looks better has no place working on anything related to visual tech. Not only is the interpolation obvious and distracting, every scene, no matter the time of day, location, or anything else, has the exact same shitty lighting that washes out every shadow and color painstakingly added to the scene by actual professionals. Pro-tip: A white-balanced image is the starting point, not the end-goal. Making every game look exactly the same is fucking terrible, you hacks.
I can only hope this shit only finds its way into the AAAA dross that’s not worth playing already.
- Comment on The Ridiculousness of Film Compilations 1 week ago:
Is someone forcing you to watch all of these movies? If so, you should probably call the police instead of whinging online.
- Comment on big facts 3 weeks ago:
They also seem to believe wi-fi “powers everything”? What a loon.
- Comment on Control Resonant - Gameplay Reveal 1 month ago:
Here’s hoping this game gets out the door before he can do too much damage.
- Comment on Artsy darling Remedy Entertainment has a new CEO - a former EA exec and sports betting platform president - who is there to "accelerate growth" 1 month ago:
Fucking dammit. One of the few big-ish studios out there worth following.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 1 month ago:
Itch is exclusively indie devs, afaik, but since Steam started their Greenlight initiative, the number of games released per year has rocketed up. 2012, the year Greenlight started, only 441 games were released on steam. Two years later in 2014, almost 1500 games were released. 2017 released 5600. 2021 released 10,200. And last year had over 21k. How much of that do we think is really DRM’d, AAA published software?
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 1 month ago:
In terms of straight numbers, isn’t Steam’s large “advantage” there it’s offering of independent, mostly unregulated games from small time devs? Are those really using drm? Even if there are, I don’t really think most users are choosing Steam over GOG for access to “Asset Flip #57354”.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 1 month ago:
unessisaryunecessaryJust a little correction.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 1 month ago:
Just to be clear, distributing on Steam adds nothing functional to a game’s playability on the Steam Deck (afaik). A game from GOG can be played in a Deck just as well as one from Steam, albeit with slightly more effort.
That said, I know customers will flow toward the path of least resistance, so even a little more effort will push them towards a different source.
- Comment on Fable - Gameplay Teaser 2 months ago:
Oh, sick. I guess this is just PS5 cause it’s a Sony vid. Thanks!
- Comment on Fable - Gameplay Teaser 2 months ago:
PS5 exclusive? Uggghhh.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 months ago:
Terraria’s also getting it’s next major update in a week, so it’s a great time to get into it.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 2 months ago:
Didn’t they, though? fallout.wiki/wiki/Vault_11
- Comment on Dæmon core? What did I say about murdering people? 2 months ago:
Worse, the fool knew the risks and had a much safer alternative, but did it that way anyhow just to flex. Extra dumb since his longtime colleague had died just 6 months earlier from the very same core.
- Comment on no eggs were harmed in the making of this video 2 months ago:
Trucks are loud, and if they don’t hear scraping, they’re not going to hear shouting.
To be clear, I’m not trying to defend bad autonomous vehicles here - just pointing out that the dangers exist with any large vehicle. This is something that happens with trucks, so people should be aware.
- Comment on no eggs were harmed in the making of this video 2 months ago:
The “vehicle stuck under a big truck” thing happens with human drivers, too. If it’s in the driver’s blind spot, it’s gonna be there a while.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 months ago:
That’s a quirk of the medium I’ve learned to accept. Some games do it well by having chunks of “on-rails” bits and others of “free-roam” based on what’s happening in the story so that it makes more sense.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 months ago:
Biggest pet peeve of modern games is when the game repeatedly nags the player to go to the next mission or solve a puzzle. I like to explore games, to take the time to appreciate well made environments and lore, but when npcs or even the pc keep chiming in every minute with “[x] is waiting for me at the lab” or “I think I should [y]”, it starts to piss me off. Games are more than just sprinting from one objective to another. Can’t even take the time to fully look over a puzzle before the game starts telling you what to do next.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 months ago:
Games that offer stealth as an option over combat, but have mandatory combat bosses.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution was a great game, but this was a serious issue. The game has a (notoriously buggy) achievement for finishing the game without killing anyone, but every boss requires a loadout of lethal weapons to take down, leaving a minimum of slots for non-lethal alternatives. Very annoying.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 2 months ago:
Blocking a user only stops you from seeing them, not the other way around. They can still interact with your posts.
