Hond
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- Comment on Schlip schlop 3 days ago:
What?
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 - Official Gameplay Teaser Trailer 1 week ago:
FM3 onwards these games were full of DLCs, special editions, VIP status for faster progression, live service content, fomo mechanics, gambling, etc pp
The “story”, “writing” and “characters” are also painfully bad. Cutscenes arent skippable. You can mute those bland corporate written assholes though.
Gameplaywise it isnt a nice little campaign like in FH1. Its more like a sandbox where the game shits out a new car for you at every given moment but desireable cars are locked behind seasonal/weekly events and grinding. then the map gets clogged up really fast in thousands of races and other activities which you can do however you feel like. If your after a more guided experience your out of luck.
Still pretty solid games with great artstyle, tons of cars, very good driving physics, tons content etc.
But after the Forza Motorsport 2023 desaster i dont trust Microslops marketing one bit. Playground Games trackrecord is still pretty good they overtook Turn10 long ago. But i’m going to wait it out until the honeymoon phase wears off and the more critical opinions start to appear.
- Comment on doraemon statue 1 week ago:
pet the kitty
- Comment on Solid Plan 🧓 1 week ago:
My retirement plan was to go into the woods to die before i come too much of a burden for the rest around me. But then somebody reminded me that forests probably wont be a thing anymore until then. So even my slightly sarcastic but very dystopian plan for retirement wont work out.
- Comment on We didn't have this option as kids 1 week ago:
Is this a screenshot of Imessage, which was printed out on physical paper, which was photographed in a shitty angle, which was projected onto a screen, which was again photographed and then for whatever reason superimposed on a stockimage of a laptop with a dslr on the side?
- Comment on Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028 2 weeks ago:
We asked Moore about whether memory suppliers are inclined towards catering to the AI sector, leaving consumers behind, and here’s what he had to say: “Well, first I would want to try to help everybody understand that the perception may not be exactly correct, at least from our point of view. So I would never want to tell someone what to think or that they’re wrong, but our viewpoint is that we are trying to help consumers around the world. We’re just doing it through different channels. We still have a very sizable business in the client and mobile markets. We are also, of course, servicing our data center customers.
And what’s going on right now is that the TAM and data center is growing just absolutely tremendously. And we want to make sure that, as a company, we help fulfill that TAM as well.”
Thats a lot of words for just saying “Yes!”.
- Comment on My tender eyes and ears 2 weeks ago:
All Pixel phones with Tensor SOCs have “AI” Chips. So even the Pixel 6 and 7 come with a NPU.
- Comment on My tender eyes and ears 2 weeks ago:
I’m a huge nerd so take everything with a grain of salt how my experience translates to a non-techie.
Storing and playing music with Android is pretty straightforward. You just copy your music into the music folder. Then use either the media player your phone comes with or choose one of the 1 million other options on the playstore/f-droid. But i never liked Itunes to begin with. Not with the Ipod i had 20 years ago and not with the Ipad i had 10 years ago. It just gets in my(!) way of how i want to do things. If your whole music library and management revolves around itunes… uuh yeah, idk its going to be a new learning experience i guess.
Good quality camera shouldnt be an issue. Especially coming from a SE. Look up Samsung/Google/Apple camera blindtests on Youtube. The differences are minuscule and mostly about how they handle whitebalance (yellowish/blueish tint) and how pronounced the contrast in the shadows is. The UI of the camera will be different. But if you just point and shoot without needing more advanced settings it will be just fine.
If you want to use GrapheneOS or a custom ROM in general: Buy a Pixel and flash GrapheneOS. If your not a nerd other custom roms will be a huge pain to install. Graphene has a pretty straightforward web based installer which guides you through the process. The cheaper “A” models had pretty often issues with their batteries. But atleast Google just reimbursed everyone in those cases. I’m still on my Pixel 7 and i dont see any reason to upgrade until its support ends. Camera is still great, performance is still great, screen is great, battery life is okay. Choosing anything between 8-10 series Pixels should be just fine. Older ones have a shorter support period. Newer ones a slightly more expensive and a bit better. Pro models have a bit more ram and a telescopic camera for more zoom. Nice to have but i(!) wouldnt pay extra for that.
- Comment on Cube me 3 weeks ago:
The finer the chain link the higher the resolution
- Comment on If 2025 was a joint 3 weeks ago:
that fake tan looks horrible.
- Comment on Just shut up and RAM me already 4 weeks ago:
Hugging my Ram before i get myself a dude, a child and a cat.
- Comment on GOG and CD Projekt founder Michał Kiciński acquires 100% ownership of GOG 4 weeks ago:
gib analysis in comments pls
- Comment on So how was your year in review? 5 weeks ago:
The data is certainly there. The best way to read it is that they specifically make no attempts to analyze it.
Which becomes a bit of a moot point considering that with the fediverse some rogue instance can collect and do with your data whatever they want.
Still a pretty good joke.
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- Comment on Looks legit. What do you all think? 5 weeks ago:
have you seen the generated stuff by that new google banana nano whatever model? we’re fucked. just looking a bit closer on the details isnt enough anymore.
- Comment on [Hustle] Be Like The EU 5 weeks ago:
as is tradition
- Comment on Beans aswell 5 weeks ago:
🍕
- Comment on Hi, I am TotallyNotForeignNational and only have the best interests of america in mind. You can trust me because this is reddit, not xitter, and I say good things about the American president. 1 month ago:
lmao i dont need critics in my thinking. radical left wing media already critizes enough.
/s
- Comment on ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026 2 months ago:
Had my money on a 2027 release for the PC after the first trailer dropped in late 2023. Looks like i wasnt pessimistic enough even though i accounted for a console exclusive year and a rather big delay. Maybe by 2028 the AI bubble will have popped and GPUs are affordable again.
- Comment on Darkenstein 3D free on Steam 3 months ago:
Sweet. I didnt want to throw any shade towards the developer btw. Just in case.
- Comment on Darkenstein 3D free on Steam 3 months ago:
Ugh, not available in my country because of stupid laws. My steam account is old enough to vote and drink liquor. But god forbid i could see the shop page of a game which wasnt rated properly.
- Comment on How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics? 3 months ago:
My guesses(!): Big topics are already crowded by big channels which get an algorithmic boost because of their past success. Its harder to get your slop prominently shown and establish your content slop farm with these topics. While with niche topics its easier to get your video to the top of the search results.
There are tools opensource tools like https://n8n.io/ to automate the creation of slop content. From what i heard its piss easy to setup. Like here is a half an hour tutorial to set you up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u54cy2nQigThen you shit out the slop content and hope your channel picks up. If it fails to drive numbers you abandon it and start with the next channel with the next topic variation. If you get lucky and the algorithm blesses you, you shit start to shit out hundreds of videos.
As seen eg in the video of redlyne about the dead internet theory. Where he looks a bit into the slop channels on youtube and other stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnJKOYOkRMk - Comment on No, commuters of Bus Bound's Steam Next Fest demo, I will not stop publicly transporting you to the scene of accidents 3 months ago:
Tried the demo. Its 42gb to download, lmao. Its UE5. It runs like ass. Like my 5800X3D and 6900XT combo isnt the very best anymore. But it can handle every big AAA game with gorgoues graphics just fine. But Bus Bound seems to be the limit. Better upgrade to a 5090. Seriously i barely hit 60 fps on medium(without lumen) and upscaling. The artstyle pf the game doesnt even shine even on ‘epic’. But on medium it looks like 10-15 year old game and runs like ass. Also TSR/FSR/DLSS/XESS is a must. If you atleast want a clean image with low graphics: though luck. Temperal artifacting and smearing are on the table. Now eat shit.
The intro of the game is super low budget which isnt an issue but isnt a plus either. Driving physics are so barebones that i feel like its a barely touched UE5 premade physics asset. Collisions are laughably bad and worse then a lot of the PS1 racing games i played a few months back(this isnt an exaggeration). One time the busses(eseses?) collision box got stuck in the asphalt of a (slight) downward slope and the physics exploded. Amateur hour.
Now to the positives: The game made me finally read into getting Optiscaler running on Linux to spoof FSR4 on my RDNA2 card. Its pretty solid for an upscaler. I will try it now with Control where the image quality always bothered me.
Anyway: Fuck RPS and Saber Interactive for their misleading little adverticle.
- Comment on Phones may come without bundled USB cables in the future, if OEMs have their way 3 months ago:
You pay more for less so the numbers go up.
Its just not you numbers.
Ditch your friends and play incremental games instead, i guess.
- Comment on There's a type 3 months ago:
Why did i never came across this masterpiece?
Ooooh, because its the gayest movie i’ve ever saw. Its gay af.But yeah, it holds up. Had a blast watching it after the trailer. It has the german je sais quoi i normally miss in german productions. Just the way people talk is already fucking refreshing. Its still scripted but not that stilted ‘TV-language’ nobody talks like in RL which surely is a phenomenon you know of from your mothertongue.
Apart from that its a greatly crafted intentional B-Movie with great sets, camera work, lighting, acting, premise, characters and script. IDK how the comedy hits for non-germans since its very german coded. But in a good way. Just tons of tiny tidbits of relatable punches at our culture unlike seen almost all of the time on our linear tv screen.
Oh yeah, motherfucking H.R. Giger was creative consultant on this movie. Like whaaaaat?! Also seeing fucking Iris Berben in this movie and ham her acting up to a perfect level was insane. Like i dont give a shit about the german movie landscape but Iris Berben is a name even I recognize.
Anyway. 9/10 Movie. Thanks @CubitOom@infosec.pub
- Comment on There's a type 3 months ago:
Why did i never came across this masterpiece? This might be very best trailer for a german movie i have ever seen. I hope the movie itself lives up to the trailer. Must be atleast a decade i was excited to see a german movie.
Thanks. Gonna check it out.
- Comment on does the quality of downloaded youtube video increase after being downloaded? 3 months ago:
But YT definetly fucks something up when stable volume is enabled. My non audiophile ass can notice it instantly even with podcasts. It sounds significantly worse.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 4 months ago:
Nothing but to agree. But we are way past the point of facts. This fallacy implies just projection of your own competency onto morons who just dont care. Your enemy doesnt care.
- Comment on *A clean colon is like driving on a country road on a sunny day...* 4 months ago:
fair enough
- Comment on *A clean colon is like driving on a country road on a sunny day...* 4 months ago:
I dont get it. There was never snow in my asshole???
