ReallyActuallyFrankenstein
@ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders) 1 day ago:
I was a crisp pixel diehard for like 20 years even despite growing up with CRT, because I remember in the 80s-00s trying hard to get the clearest picture (RF->SRGB->S-video->Composite) and it felt like, “what’s clearer than exact pixels?”
And then I tried a good CRT filter that emulates not just scanlines and noise, but subpixel effects, and it really changed my mind. The graphics really were designed to be displayed with those analog “imperfections,” and if you lived in that era, you kind of took for granted the things that worked well with the natural CRT blur while pursuing image clarity. Bringing back the CRT effects was a revelation.
Like, even handheld emulation filters that mimic how those particular LCD screens functioned often give a better experience since game designers took that into account.
I don’t know if someone growing up with only emulated square LCD memories would feel the same, and I’ll always take pixely LCD over bad CRT emulation, but I’d suggest to give it a try with good filters.
- Comment on How Would You Rank Quentin Tarantino's Films? 1 week ago:
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I’d swap Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight and Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown as blocks.
Pulp Fiction at the time was perfectly calibrated and groundbreaking, but I don’t think it holds up as well as actual film-making and feels gimmicky re-watching it - lots of needledrop moments but not a ton of character development. Jackie Brown is better but the pacing and script aren’t very tight. Reservoir Dogs was a few setpieces and filler. On the other hand, Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained are I think much more mature, tightly written and directed, and re-watchable. The Hateful Eight I think gets a bad rap because it seems like a small scope, but it’s again tightly written and reveals/develops characters in constantly interesting ways.
Agree on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood being at the bottom, though. That’s my reaction to most Hollywood-focused movies.
- Comment on 1 in 3 people 2 weeks ago:
I’m having a particularly braindead morning. Mario and Luigi are two people. 1 in 3 leaves the possibility of a third person being ugly and both Mario and Luigi being not ugly. Why does Mario conclude Luigi is ugly based on the 1 in 3 comment?
- Comment on Bloomberg: Sony Interactive Entertainment working on portable PS5 3 weeks ago:
Oh, if so, then nevermind.
- Comment on Bloomberg: Sony Interactive Entertainment working on portable PS5 3 weeks ago:
I assume it’s going to be a cloud connected screen that streams games. There’s no current way to get thermal and power requirements met for PS5 on a handheld. They’re just trying to remove the in-home PS5 requirement from the Portal.
- Comment on is that real? 4 weeks ago:
Don’t you dare speak that into existence.
- Comment on Why do Republicans bring up Kamala's "lies"/shortcomings as a way to claim Trump is better? 1 month ago:
There are three practical reasons Trump does this:
- Deflection: Trump doesn’t have an affirmative platform. As a populist strongman, Trump’s platform is situational and entirely based on what his supporters want to hear in any given moment. If health care is in the news, Trump will say his plan is coming in two weeks (it won’t ever come). If immigration is in the news, Trump will say he will build a wall and get Mexico to pay for it (he won’t).
- Deflection: Manipulating the media works. Trump knows that the more ludicrous things he says about Kamala, even if the media then starts to talk about how he’s wrong or fact-check him, the focus is still on the thing he said rather than Kamala’s platform. It’s subtle, but it really does focus the media effectively on whatever he says, and use his frame of that issue as the media’s frame.
- Filling the echo chambers and other spaces. We’re in our own echo chambers like never before. Trump says these things so that the people in the right-wing echo chambers have a plausible response to Kamala’s policies, or even just need filler for their broadcast/websites/Facebook groups. Ultimately there is only so much media people can consume every day. If Trump has filled all relevant supporter spaces with his own opinions & framing, there is no time or energy left to explore other opinions and framing.
- Comment on Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium Released 1 month ago:
License
Community License: Free for research, non-commercial, and commercial use for organizations or individuals with less than $1M in total annual revenue. More details can be found in the Community License Agreement. Read more at stability.ai/license.
For individuals and organizations with annual revenue above $1M: please contact us to get an Enterprise License.
Hmm… So even derivative models presumably will be subject to Stability policing use. I recognize most of us are non-commercial users, but I wonder if this is going to be a poison pill to the model fine-tuning community.
- Comment on Stable Diffusion 3.5 — Stability AI 1 month ago:
I’m barely experimenting with local SD lately due to life commitments, but using some of the free tools online I’ve found it actually has impressive prompt adherence, including relational wording and text in quotes.
- Comment on Netflix raises prices as password boost fades 2 months ago:
Hmm, it appears if we squeeze tighter, more blood will come out. Surely there is no natural limit to this principle.
- Comment on unzip 2 months ago:
Fortunately, she was just making a fourth-wall-breaking point about gender assumptions.
- Comment on Cereal 2 months ago:
Is that text from an AI image interpreter? It’s pretty good, seems helpful for search and disabilities.
- Comment on Important information 2 months ago:
Unless you use a Vichyssoise fork. It’s all in the wrist.
- Comment on PlayStation 5 Pro Blog Post 3 months ago:
Just for fun: this would have worked so much better if they price dropped the PS5 and introduced the PS5 Pro at the old price.
People are anchored into thinking the PS5 is a certain value, and if they did that, it would instantly make the PS5 Pro and the PS5 appear to be a bargain, and so much of the PS5-owning public would have bought another system because it would be “such a good deal,” while PS5 fence-sitters would jump at the core system. I’m not trained to say for sure, but I think while their profit margin would be lower they’d be making much more money.
- Comment on Deficiencies 3 months ago:
Sure, when I can, but the issue is I’m in bed for 8 hours and getting 4-5 hours of sleep…
- Comment on Deficiencies 3 months ago:
I’m all for people trying, so agree with this. But my experience: I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in 10 years (wake up and am half-asleep, half-awake most of the night). I went to a sleep study, did the sleep-in-hospital-with-electrodes-everywhere thing, met with three doctors in series after, and their conclusion was that I should sleep more.
I am not joking.
- Comment on America's Smartest Man Finds Something Interesting 3 months ago:
Oh, so right-wing men are the chad and everyone else is the soyjak.
Such an “interesting observation.”
- Comment on Think about it 4 months ago:
Mini-soda = Minnesota = Oregon
- Comment on Colorblindness check! 4 months ago:
No reason, just that memes follow demographics of the space. Lemmy is probably full of people who were in their late teens-through-twenties in 2007, so to that group, it remains a funny nostalgic callback.
And I’ll just predict that in 15-20 years Skibidi toilet and all the GenZ/Alpha memes will dominate middle-age spaces.
- Comment on 10 Years Ago, Hideo Kojima's P.T. Scared the Hell Out of Us on PS4 4 months ago:
It’s called Unreal PT. The last version I believe is 1.0.7, and it’s still hosted on the Internet Archive.
- Comment on Dutch toilets 4 months ago:
I’m confused, isn’t this a better spot for the drain hole? When you sit facing the wall? So you have a shelf for your comic books and chocolate milk?
- Comment on JetBlue makes you watch an ad to connect to wifi 4 months ago:
I understood the mildly infuriating aspect to be how airlines find a way to extract value from you at every step of your trip.
- Comment on Braid: Anniversary Edition "sold like dog s***", says creator Jonathan Blow 4 months ago:
Yeah, I had the same reaction - The puzzles were definitely “learn how to think a new way,” my favorite kind. I ended my play on one perspective-shifting pattern puzzle that I was so close to beating, so I kept pushing myself through the motion sickness, and just ended up disabled on the bed feeling ill and unable to move for two hours (without completing the puzzle).
I tried a bunch of things - permanent reticle in center of screen, disabling walk shake, etc. I still play high-motion FPS shooters with no issue. It’s just some games (The Forest was another). I am guessing it’s a middleware-introduced visual filter that adds 15-25ms delay to screen latency, just enough to mess with inner ear visual/motion sync in sensitive people.
- Comment on Braid: Anniversary Edition "sold like dog s***", says creator Jonathan Blow 4 months ago:
I appreciate letting me know about the anti-vaxxer conspiracy stuff. Makes me feel better about never finishing The Witness (not because I didn’t enjoy it, but because whatever filters were on there, it made me cripplingly motion sick for hours every time I played it).
- Comment on Anon sets the mood 4 months ago:
Sorry, your media server is just files you play on a browser?
I mean, not shaming, I just had never heard of that being preferable to Plex/Emby/Jellyfin.
- Comment on Anon saves their vacation days 4 months ago:
The really cool thing is that my national corporation has offices in NY and CA, and my team has members in both NY and CA. And we in NY don’t get paid out minimum unused vacation, while the people on my team in CA, who I work with every day, and who do the same job, in the same company, in the same country, do get paid out.
- Comment on Electoral College and The Numbers | USA question 4 months ago:
The practical answer is 3-4% above to counteract the right-wing effect of the electoral college. Yes, it all matters on what states she wins.
The theoretical answer is that Kamala could get less votes, just like Trump did in 2016, and still “win.” It’s not practical because the swing states are more conservative than the median population of the country as a whole, which means it’s extremely unlikely those swing states will vote for Kamala while Trump gets more votes elsewhere.
The places you need to watch are Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and to a lesser extent Ohio, Minnesota and Florida. The 538 polls will give you a sense of where those states are leading, and you can see different maps here. polling is imperfect, and frankly I can’t take the anxiety of watching that data day-to-day.
- Comment on Google's reCAPTCHAv2 is just labor exploitation, boffins say • The Register 4 months ago:
Side note: it’s become 100% reliable that if “boffins” appears in the title, it’s The Register. Damn, they love that word.
- Comment on My friend JD Vance has never cuddled a couch. 4 months ago:
I would actually be surprised if he releases anything of value. Trump refused to release his taxes, and emulating Trump’s destruction of democratic norms is a base-ante show of fealty right now.
- Comment on My friend JD Vance has never cuddled a couch. 4 months ago:
It’s fake, Mountain Dew isn’t mentioned once.