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- Comment on Tomb Raider I-II-III Remastered details enhancements, new features 11 months ago:
The original games are so old that it is quite messy to get them to run on PC these days and the remake changed the gameplay quite substantially. So this remaster is quite welcome and probably a lot cheaper to produce than a full 2 and 3 remake.
As for Anniversary, the story there is a bit weird, as Anniversary and Legend are basically completely independent games that have nothing much to do with each other, Legend is a reboot and Anniversary is a remake, it’s only with Underworld that the the story of those two get wrangled together into a trilogy. Only the first game is taken into account there, all the other sequels of the original game are ignored.
- Comment on Why is AI Pornifying Asian Women? 11 months ago:
Yawn, are we still repeating blinding repeating this utter nonsense from a year ago?
- Comment on Why is AI Pornifying Asian Women? 11 months ago:
Published on December 16, 2022
Please ignore this article. It’s completely out of date.
- Comment on The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance 11 months ago:
Peak Firefox was back in 2010/2011, almost 14 years ago, it has been steadily dropping market share ever since. This is not a new problem by any stretch.
- Comment on The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance 11 months ago:
which goes a long way to scaling back on the reliance of google donations.
$3 million is about 0.67% of the money they get from Google and that money isn’t even going into Firefox development.
- Comment on The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance 11 months ago:
The day Firefox shutters its doors is the day the internet truly dies.
Firefox is little more than just a Chrome clone itself. It doesn’t do anything to set itself apport. If they cared about an open Internet they should have put some effort into building it (support RSS, Torrent, IPFS, etc.). If Firefox dies tomorrow, nothing much would change as the rest of the Internet already didn’t care. It might however make room for a browser that actually cares about privacy and an open Internet, instead of just using those words for marketing purpose while still having telemetry by default.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It’s not just the playing, even the buying can be a chore, as you’ll have to dig through dozens of different versions, DLC, and season passes to figure out what you are even buying, most of the time the actual online shop doesn’t even tell you, you have to search around forums to figure out what you get. Starting one of those Ultimate Edition that includes everything also means spending 5min clicking though dozens of “You just bought DLC” notifications.
Getting late into a game series is also always “fun”, as you can’t even tell what is a prequel, sequel, spin-off or whatever, as most content no longer puts a number in the title. That’s another trip to Wikipedia, as I have yet to see any online shop providing that information.
Needless to say, I stick mostly with older games. I can’t stand how every modern game needs to have skill trees, collectives, level ups and hundred different weapons that all look and feel the same.
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 1 year ago:
Anybody remember Euphoria?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
- Another World
- The Longest Journey
- EF2000
- Comment on Epic Games to update Unreal Engine pricing for devs not making games 1 year ago:
Gimp was competition for Photoshop some 25 years ago. Photoshop has improved a lot since those days, Gimp hasn’t. Gimp isn’t even the best graphics app in the Free Software space anymore.
- Comment on Striking actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI 1 year ago:
- Comment on Striking actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI 1 year ago:
Modern models need about 5sec of audio to replicate a voice. The days when you needed a large amount of audio for replication are gone.
- Comment on On this day in 1908, the first animated film was released: Émile Cohl's "Fantasmagorie" 1 year ago:
Even earlier examples animation’ish tech that predates film would be the Magic lantern in 1603, Phenakistiscope in 1831 and Zoetrope in 1834. Though all of them where limited to a couple of dozen frames at best.
Wonder if it would have been possible to have invented longer animation before film, having a long strip of frames mass produced by a printing press might have been possible, but probably not very economical.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Not wrong, but isn’t that like the whole tech scene? The videos are either utterly impractical stuff for entertainment, advertainment or playing numberwang with specs. Actual useful advise is extremely rare (e.g. what printer should I buy).
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
How much do you think anybody cares about $800 water blocks? That is a product that is completely irrelevant to the target audience even if it did work as intended. Billet got a lot of free press out of it, they should be happy.
- Comment on [Discussion] According to you, what was the most unnecessary and worst sequel of all time? 1 year ago:
No one seemingly remembers a giant marshmallow man attacking the city and ghosts running wild?
We had COVID running while and a large number of people were pretending it wasn’t happening. We have a f’n war going on in Europe and it’s treated like little more than some minor annoyance. And that’s while they it is happening. People going back to normal after a big event is over and cleaned up is pretty believable, especially when there are no more ghosts floating around.
Also it’s not like everybody forgot forever, the people of the city come together at the end for a song.
“the statue of liberty isn’t an action figure. It doesn’t have joints and can’t walk.”
They sprayed it up with slime real well. That’s actually a part I really like about Ghostbuster2, all the tools and slime have pretty well established functions. Vigor is also a way more impressive villain than Gozer, which I always found rather unimpressive to say the least.
- Comment on [Discussion] According to you, what was the most unnecessary and worst sequel of all time? 1 year ago:
Most of modern StarTrek is pretty much up there, especially Discovery, as that wasn’t just bad by itself, it also seriously fucked up the timeline beyond repair and utterly failed at actually doing anything interesting scifi wise. It turned a franchise that used to be thought provoking into mindless pewpew with lots of crying and a complete lack of competency and professionalism. The “fan service” is also excruciating, as it’s just name dropping things from MemoryAlpha, while completely failing at doing anything interesting with them.
I give Lower Decks a pass, as that at least understands StarTrek, doesn’t mess with the timeline and actually continues where TNG/DS9/Voy left off. But most of the rest should better be snapped out of existence.
It’s especially depression as we are right now in a time were serious progress has been made with AI and where a bit of though provoking scifi could actually work quite well, instead we just get reruns of old tropes.
- Comment on Christopher Nolan Forgot To Credit Over 80% Of VFX Crew On ‘Oppenheimer’ 1 year ago:
I don’t believe that.
Given how extremely lackluster that nuclear explosion looked, it can’t be that far off from the truth.
- Comment on Marvel Studios' The Marvels | Official Trailer 1 year ago:
I don’t think the rehashing is the problem, but the world building. When MCU started out it was just a bunch of dudes who can punch a little stronger than the average guy or wore a special suit. Nowadays the MCU is three layers deep into multiverse, quantum realms and time travel magic and has heroes that can reshape reality. It’s very hard to care about anything when literally anything can happen and nothing follows even remotely consistent rules. Even within the same series they f’ things up beyond believe. Remember when quantum realm was this spooky thing of indeterminism? Nowadays it’s full of regular people, cities and looks no different than any other alien planet.
When the MCU stays more grounded it is still watchable, e.g. No Way Home had plenty of good or even great moments, but if you try to figure out how the multiverse logic of that movie works or how to reconcile it with everything that came after, it’s a complete unfixable mess. Also doesn’t help that they can’t follow their own setups (Thor joins the Guardians… for 5mins).