QuadratureSurfer
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- Comment on STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Potentially Banned in Russia Due To Potential 'Justifying Terrorism' 5 days ago:
The physical copy comes with some goodies, or else you can pre-order through GoG, Steam, Epic Games, MS Store, or Xbox.
- Comment on Vehicle combat in Scaravan 66 looks nuts and I want it now 1 week ago:
Direct link to the trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=InEY6skrfl8 - Comment on Tower at Nine 1 week ago:
Additional shots and cutaway can also be found here: www.artstation.com/artwork/x3d8GY
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- Comment on Of course someone has Doom running on Nintendo Alarmo now 2 weeks ago:
This is starting to tick me off. Now you’ve got me all wound up!
- Comment on Why is Nintendo targeting this YouTuber? 2 weeks ago:
But he does have a guess as to why Nintendo targeted him. The first copyright strike landed on his video about the MIG Dumper and the MIG Flash, a pair of devices that let you turn genuine Nintendo Switch cartridges into digital files and then carry around an entire library of those ROMs in a special microSD-equipped flash cartridge for your console. I’ve watched the video, and while Crandall does explicitly take an anti-piracy stance, it’s easy to imagine these gadgets being used by bad actors, too.
“I think the first strike was simply due to the fact that they wanted to minimize attention around the MIG Flash cartridge and dumper […]"
Looks like he also mirrors his channel on Odysee, so the removed videos can still be seen here: odysee.com/…/mig-flash-v2-and-cartridge-dumper-re…
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 4 weeks ago:
It wouldn’t bother me if you were still able to earn the mount in-game.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Official Launch Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Looks like they’re also planning on releasing without any DRM:
- Comment on 'It even breaks my heart a bit': Denuvo pushes back on its haters, says Steam forums are a 'very toxic, very hostile environment' 4 weeks ago:
What do you mean?
All I see are hearts and love ❤️❤️❤️❤️. /s - Comment on Can You Cook a Steak with a Hairdryer? 4 weeks ago:
This guy is like a character out of Homestar Runner.
- Comment on [SomeOrdinaryGamers] Twitch Is A Disgustingly Evil Platform... 4 weeks ago:
For those who want to avoid Google/YouTube here’s an alternative link to his Odysee mirror of this video: odysee.com/…/twitch-is-a-disgustingly-evil:f
- Comment on Here’s Gary Oldman fighting space Goombas in over an hour of new Star Citizen Squadron 42 gameplay 4 weeks ago:
Here’s a direct link to the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H-0x4xk2Xk
- Comment on Palworld developer has no idea why Nintendo’s suing over its Pokémon-like game 2 months ago:
Though Nintendo’s not going after Pocketpair because lamballs look uncomfortably similar to wooloos, we do know the company is famously litigious in protecting its brand.
So no one really knows what exactly Nintendo is accusing them of yet.
Here’s an older video by an attorney that did a deep dive on Palworld and its legality: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns3ATH556NU (Warning: long video).
- Comment on Violent racing simulator turns force feedback up to 11 with an ejection seat — sim project debuts in crash and smash video 2 months ago:
Direct link to the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnkXpJCoY9c
but the Tank Simulator also looked great: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXGwaJBB_J0
- Comment on Flappy Bird’s original creator says he has nothing to do with the new game 2 months ago:
Flappy Bird wasn’t the first to even implement a game like this.
I remember playing a very similar game with a helicopter and another one with a worm long before that app released for phones.
Flappy Bird is just the game of this type that ended up going viral in its time.
- Comment on Would you recommend any of the Star Trek games? 2 months ago:
I see “TOS point and click” and can only think of “Terms of Service point and click”… what does this actually stand for?
The other side? TOp Side? It’s definitely not “Thoracic outlet syndrome”…
- Comment on Darth Vader's original voice done by David Prowse. I think they made a wise decision overdubbing him with James Earl Jones. 2 months ago:
They also gave him a fake line to deliver and didn’t reveal that Darth Vader was actually Luke’s father during the filming of that scene: www.soundandvision.com/news/100104hamill/
It’s such a great moment! The fake line that was put in there just to try and keep the secret was “You don’t know the truth: Obi-Wan killed your father!” But as much as I enjoyed leaking false information, it was a wonderfully hard secret to keep because (Irvin) Kershner, the director, brought me aside and said “Now I know this, and George knows this, and now you’re going to know this, but if you tell anybody, and that means Carrie or Harrison, or anybody, we’re going to know who it is because we know who knows.”. -Mark Hamill
- Comment on Blue Protocol's western release has been cancelled and its Japanese servers will shut down early next year 2 months ago:
Released last year, and going to be shut down by January 18, 2025
Looks like a free to play MMO with microtransactions and a season pass. No refunds will be given out.
It’s not the best example for the Stop Killing Games movement, but it at least highlights the trend of studios that are releasing games and then dropping all support soon after.
It would be great if studios started planning for an end of life transition where players could spin up their own servers, or at least allow some sort of offline mode so that the game doesn’t just become completely unplayable.
- Comment on I Made a Smashable TV in Unreal that Simulates Every Pixel 2 months ago:
I think the going saying at this point is “2 more years”.
They’ve definitely continued to pump out more features over the years. And some players have finally gotten to test out jump points to the next system “Pyro”… But I could easily see them continuing to develop this game for another 3-5 years before we see it in beta.
- Comment on I Made a Smashable TV in Unreal that Simulates Every Pixel 2 months ago:
Star Citizen is another game that has implemented this level of detail, you just can’t smash the screens, yet…
- Comment on I hope you've got a spare 190GB kicking about for God Of War Ragnarok on PC 3 months ago:
To your first point, you’re right, this post isn’t about a study. It’s about how much space a game is taking up on a drive. However, this thread started because we’re comparing the game to a study about how much space the library of Alexandria would take up on a drive as well. Comparisons that require understanding how much space images take up in a game (like textures used for 3d models and such).
Again, I did make a small effort to look up that study. I would appreciate it if you could link to it since it’s apparently so easy for you to find.
Part of the point of being on here is to ask questions and have a conversation with the public. I was giving the original commenter an opportunity to talk about a subject that I found cool and interesting, which he apparently knew more about.
Again, you’re misunderstanding the question about 4k stuff. I’m wondering if they included images at all in the study that the original commenter is talking about, the ask about quality is secondary, but important to keep those numbers relevant.
To answer your questions about “what good is a study…” and “can I make a study…”, go back an re-read my example on the Pokédim since that explains why it a study should include include an explanation of how they came up with their numbers.
- Comment on I hope you've got a spare 190GB kicking about for God Of War Ragnarok on PC 3 months ago:
No chatGPT (or any LLM) used for any of my replies to you.
But, if you could please link to the study/conclusion so that I could read about it, I would greatly appreciate that. Especially since you seem to have easily found it after a quick search.
I am honestly wanting to know more.
- Comment on I hope you've got a spare 190GB kicking about for God Of War Ragnarok on PC 3 months ago:
Can you link to how they estimated it? I gave it a quick search and my results didn’t seem to be anything useful.
It doesn’t matter what language it’s in or which encoding we chose. It’s not an exercise in optimization.
In a way, it really does matter or else these numbers are meaningless and won’t mean the same thing to someone from the future (or past). Just think about how big 15GB was ~20-30 years ago (before compression became popular for websites). Telling someone in that time period that there were 13-15GB worth of information in a library would have severely underestimated just how much information was actually contained (unless were strictly talking only about text here).
Why would they store it in 4k?
I think you misunderstood my question. I wasn’t stating that they would (or should) store it in 4k, just wondering if their data storage estimates included maps/drawings/paintings that could have been in the library as well as what sort of quality they would have used for that kind of storage. Images can easily use up tons of data depending on what format you’re using.
Let me try explaining it in a different way. Imagine we had a small device that created a pocket dimension while also being able to shrink objects inserted into it down to about half it’s size. Let’s also say that the pocket dimension was big enough to store 100m³ And somehow this fits the entire contents of the Library of Alexandria. Let’s call that device a pokédim. Some research paper could say, “the entire contents of the Library of Alexandria can fit in 100m³ of a pokédim!”
A few years go by and the pokédim gets an upgrade and it can shrink objects down to 1/100th of it’s original size. Now, the problem with someone reading that previous statement is that it is no longer relevant.
What the statement should have been is, “the entire contents of the Library of Alexandria can fit in 100m³ of a pokédim when shrunk down to half its size!”
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- Comment on I hope you've got a spare 190GB kicking about for God Of War Ragnarok on PC 3 months ago:
Now I’m interested in a source for that.
How did they come up with that measurement?
I’m assuming text would use Unicode so that they could capture more letters/symbols for different languages?
Also, are they including maps/images using 4k resolution images?
Are they re-rendering any statues/artworks as 3D models?
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- Comment on If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe 3 months ago:
You can look at posts/comments with kbin to see who liked what (used to show dislikes as well, but not anymore). Example: kbin.run/m/gaming@lemmy.zip/t/…/favourites
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