VindictiveJudge

@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If the materials rendering part were integrated into the rendering pipeline as a standard thing that could be called with an API, that could be pretty good. Just pass along some info about the material and let it render like any other basic shader. But because it’s a post-processing shader that needs to analyze the entire image and work out materials on the fly to objects that have already been rendered, it murders the frame rate and can make mistakes on its guesses. There’s something legiyimately interesting burried in there, but this is the worst possible way to implement it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pygmy hippo calls out your bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Before Moo Deng we had Fiona chomping legs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has seen it all before⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  NASA calls our star the Sun. NASA calls our moon the Moon or Earth’s Moon. They use solar and lunar anyway, except for a few instances where they use Greek, like ‘heliosphere.’ It’s inconsistent with everything else and it bugs me, but that’s what they do.

  New species the last couple years have been named after David Attenborough, Mothra, a teacher, a cartoon character, and one that uses ChiShona in the same way that Latin is more commonly used. Latin is still used, of course, but with decreasing frequency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has seen it all before⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Using Latin to name things has been falling out of fashion over the last few decades. But a bit more to the point, you will not find a scientific paper that names the star we orbit ‘Sol.’ That is strictly sci-fi. It’s always ‘Sun,’ ‘the Sun,’ or ‘The Sun.’ We should start calling it Sol in official capacities because it’s consistent and less confusing, but we haven’t. We do the same thing with our moon - it’s always ‘Moon,’ ‘the Moon,’ or ‘The Moon’ rather than Luna. If you want the standard changed, you could try petitioning the International Astronomical Union.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has seen it all before⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, our star’s name is The Sun. We do call the system the Solar System, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This crazy assassin character, who doesn't know what shampoo is, somehow would bother shaving her armpits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Ford’s attitude is similar to Guinness’ attitude - it’s not that he hates Star Wars, it’s that he hates that it’s completely overshadowed his other work and nobody ever talks to him about any other part of his career.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one spells "lose" anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Similarly, everyday is an adjective. Every day is when something happens daily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excellent rant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And a surprisingly large number of species can do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whew, I better take a break⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless Steven Seagal has been doing a bit since his career tanked thirty years ago, it’s serious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VR controls are the worst⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Steven Seagal, the guy in the gif.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Woke Veggie Tale Leftists Won't Tell You About This One⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Norse were in the only area you can really island hop. The Pacific has tons of island chains, but the Atlantic is relatively empty. It has some islands near Africa and the Americas, but nothing like the chains connecting Japan, Hawaii, and Indonesia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The legendary PS2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your PS1 was indestructible? The optical drive on every one I’ve ever seen had some sort of significant issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need an adult⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Similarly, the red fox is clearly orange, but English speakers were exposed to that species of fox before developing a word for that specific color. For bonus linguistical oddities, ‘orange’ was used for the fruit before it was used for the color.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, there are these things called candy cigarettes. They are candy shaped like cigarettes. Despite simply being things like bubble gum or chocolate, it turns out that people who ate them as kids are about twice as likely to smoke real cigarettes as adults. This has resulted in them being banned as advertising tobacco products to children in a good number of countries. This add for nonalcoholic beer specifically saying that minors can buy it can easily be argued to be the same kind of thing, with the same kind of legal response. If consuming non-alcoholic beer as a minor results in significantly higher rates of alcohol consumption as an adult, then ads for non-alcoholic beer that target children, like the one shown, might be worth a ban.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, Deathloop is set in Tyvia…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Death of the Outsider is the game after 2. It’s technically a stand-alone expansion rather than a game, though; it’s more like Dishonored 1’s Knife of Dunwall and Brigmore Witches expansions than it is a proper Dishonored 3, it just runs on its own executable rather than from a menu within Dishonored 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically, Deathloop is Dishonored 3. Death of the Outsider kind of killed the base gameplay premise that Dishonored 1 and 2 were built on, though, so I wouldn’t expect a true Dishonored 3… ever, really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF Is Happening To The Video Game Industry?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  teams of hundreds of devs are working 996: 9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week

  And probably being about as productive as if they were working 9 to 5 four days a week. Exhaustion is really bad for productivity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to be on both startrek.website and world, then Stamets revealed what a shitshow st.ws was and I abandoned that account. And what do you know, one of their moderators was suddenly very publicly an asshole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re making it in Creation 3, which is almost certainly a new iteration of Gamebryo/Creation Engine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refer to the chart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is, it’s the same voice actor, but they didn’t use the usual filter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have some blank floppies I use as coasters. Seriously, though, just changing the physical format the games are distributed on would be a very smart move.

  Nintendo not just keeping physical media but going back to cartridges with the Switch and now the Switch 2 has been a fantastic move for them. They increased the price of their console, same as MS and Sony, but it hasn’t gone up nearly as much since the system has barely any storage space in it. And it doesn’t really need the storage because games don’t need to install to compensate for the relatively low optical drive read speeds. Sure, games are the same price or even a bit higher so total cost of ownership after a few years is probably comparable, but the lower buy-in cost has caused them to rapidly gain market share.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon ruins christmas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t have land, but it does have ice. People have walked to it from Canada.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or it could be LLM slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 2's co-lead designer was asked to make Baldur's Gate 4 after Larian declined: 'Having to compete against Baldur's Gate 3? That would be insanity'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if they really want to use an existing series for the brand recognition, they could do Neverwinter Nights or Icewind Dale or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨50 Iconic Vehicles From Video Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They also list the Fenrir motorcycle and cite the movie Advent Children instead of the one game it appeared in, which is Dirge of Cerberus, even though they cited the X-Wing as being from Battlefront.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes the key function works by keeping critical files on the disc and never installing them to the system. Might install the art assets but not the executable, for instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Games haven’t actually been played off of the disc in ages, though. The system typically just uses it for installation to the HDD or SSD and then as a key to allow the user to run the program.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Blueray Discs, which max out at around 30-40GB of data at the top of my head

  Single layer BDs are 25GB, but dual-layer BDs are 50GB and released simultaneously in 2006, 2010 introduced triple-layer discs with 100GB capacity, and we’ve had quadruple-layer discs at 125GB since 2018. I’m not sure I’ve ever even seen a single layer BD, to be honest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon the Hutt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And in addition to being essentially a narco-state, the Hutt Cartel is also a rump state, being the remnants of the Hutt Empire, which was the largest and most powerful nation before the rise of the Galactic Republic.