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- Comment on Discord doesn't crop their emojis correctly 2 days ago:
This looks like bad scaling actually. This is something that might end up being variable between different android versions and screen sizes. This is why other on android show different results. And it line up with the artifacts you are seeing. The artifacts look like blocky scaling of anti-aliased alpha channels to me.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 1 week ago:
That’s a fair take. I’m sure they feared looking dated. I think that’s a misguided fear that you have when you don’t think the other aspects can live up to expectations.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 1 week ago:
Yeah, but it’s not just a toon shader/cel shaded shader.
I’ve seen footage, this game has full PBR and all sorts of fancy lighting. Etc. Reducing it all to “cell shading” isn’t the whole story.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 1 week ago:
He probally knows only a certain percentage of his audience will ever hear about this.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 1 week ago:
Eh, I guess it is. But it also isn’t. We have stagnated a bit in the rasterization and VRAM departments when you talk about affordable entry level cards that most people buy.
And the PlayStation 5 has not changed since it launched…
- Comment on My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card 1 week ago:
Some people get really judgemental about credit cards. Either about not using them, or about using them wrong.
This poster clearly explained how they were maintaining a healthy relationship with one, and you came in to argue with people about how they are “doing it wrong” and shouldn’t be part of the people using credit cards.
Did you know that credit card rewards disproportionately punish the poor? The rewards come out of the credit card terminal fees. And stores increase their prices appropriately to cover credit card fees. If you insist on someone not using credit cards when they are managing it fine, you may be suggesting that they be forced to pay more for their purchases.
- Comment on Watching DEAD LIKE ME and in Season 2 Ep 4 they line Donald Trump up in a perp walk with KNOWN DICTATORS! Unreal! 1 week ago:
The Some More News movie posits that we did this to ourselves by integrating him into our culture like this. IIRC.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 1 week ago:
You made this statement by using the most optimized high end VR title in existence. And the creators of the game their own engine!
Graphics do matter. That’s why you cited Alyx. Right? Because it has impressive graphics. Graphics in VR have generally stagnated for the past 5 years since Alyx came out.
- Comment on Despite fakery concerns, Stop Destroying Videogames campaign claim "around 97%" of their signatures are valid so far 1 week ago:
That’s a really good ratio considering the people surrounding the issues.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 1 week ago:
Only PCVR titles can even approach saying such things without looking like jerks. And even then, it’s probally counter productive.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 2 weeks ago:
WhatYearIsIt.jpg - Comment on UK police arrest nearly 900 at London protest for banned Palestine Action group 2 weeks ago:
huh, maybe they could have Naruto run raided Area 51 after all…
- Comment on Xbox fans are compiling lists of all the Activision, Bethesda, and Microsoft games still missing from Xbox Game Pass — and it's pretty huge 2 weeks ago:
The oligopolies rarely buy out smaller companies and keep to promises, or let those companies do what they did best.
They buy them to control competition.
Not putting these titles on their service isn’t a tactic to control competition, but it is indicative of their lack of giving a shit about what they have hoarded.
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 3 weeks ago:
Node shrinks drove a lot of this those have stopped being such large leaps.
- Comment on Tron and Tron: Legacy coming to 4K on September 26th 4 weeks ago:
I hope the 3D version gets the 4K treatment and ends up on Apple Vision Pro too.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 4 weeks ago:
The moles are many. They are resilient.
- Comment on Tron and Tron: Legacy coming to 4K on September 26th 4 weeks ago:
Broken link
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 4 weeks ago:
They took all the wrong lessons from the Destiny UI. (I find the Destiny version to be fine.)
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 4 weeks ago:
The UI design has always been a weak point in the game. Through all the revisions.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 5 weeks ago:
Hmm, I think there may have been some confusion on my part here. I’m fine with copyright directly serving individual authors and their families.
I’m not into how that is expanded and abused by corporations.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think they said a publisher was involved.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 5 weeks ago:
Nope, the kid is fucked. We need public ownership of his father’s work ASAP.
I’m just being silly and taking the counter view to the extreme
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 5 weeks ago:
Well, we need to figure out how to kill companies first. They own the copyright in the situations you would care about.
So, it kind of already works that way. If the company dies, no one is gonna come after you. Unless it was sold of to another company, that is.
- Comment on After stretching the definition of 'beta' for 8 years, Escape From Tarkov is finally hitting 1.0 5 weeks ago:
There is no limit to the stretching that can be done.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
It appears to be a company that makes software for power plants. I wonder how secure their software is.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 5 weeks ago:
Node shrinks are not as impactful as they use to be, in that area at least.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 5 weeks ago:
The ports must be bracing for chaos.
- Comment on A massive Wyoming data center will soon use 5x more power than the state's human occupants - but no one knows who is using it 5 weeks ago:
Maybe it generates AI porn.
- Comment on USB-C extensions are not allowed for a reason 5 weeks ago:
Weird, I extended lightning cables fine.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
