ShortFuse
@ShortFuse@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon fixes their games 3 weeks ago:
Most “film grain” is just additive noise akin to digital camera noise. I’ve modded a bunch of games for HDR (RenoDX creator) and I strip it from almost every game because it’s unbearable. I have a custom film grain that mimic real film and at low levels it’s imperceptible and acts as a dithering tool to improve gradients (remove banding). For some games that emulate a film look sometimes the (proper) film grain lends to the the look.
- Comment on Anon fixes their games 3 weeks ago:
Bad effects are bad.
I used to hate film grain and then did the research for implementing myself, digging up old research papers on how It works at a scientific level. I ended up implementing film grain it in Starfield Luma and RenoDX.
The gist is that everyone just does random noise which raises black floor and dirties the image. Film grain is perceptual which acts like cracks in the “dots” that compose an image. It’s not something to be “scanned” or overlayed (which gives a dirty screen effect).
Related, motion blur is how we see things in real life. Our eyes have a certain level of blur/shutter speed and games can have a soap opera effect. I’ve only seen per-object motion blur look decent, but fullscreen is just weird, IMO.
- Comment on hate your job? how about you die and still have to do it 4 weeks ago:
You remember Steve from IT? The only one who knew how to manage our backend infrastructure? Well, after that unfortunate plane crash, we uploaded the entire contents of his laptop, cellphone, and personal cloud to an artificial AI. We were able to revive him to bring him back. Even better now, because we have him resurrected in simulated form, he now exists in a perpetual state of working at the office and no longer needs to go home to rest or be with his family. That means with the new 24x7 productivity, we are expecting increased profits for this next quarter.
- Comment on Norwich restaurant charges £100 for a pineapple pizza 2 months ago:
Seriously. They probably sell real dry pizza. Pineapple without enough tomato sauce on “pizza” is trash.
- Comment on Time is an unstoppable force 3 months ago:
Only 1900s kids would understand.
- Comment on What are the best games you can play on a laptop? 3 months ago:
Tunic
Sea of Stars
- Comment on Jesus Christ 4 months ago:
It’s a joke, my dude.
- Comment on But thats all Dan Harmon 4 months ago:
They have inverse colored beards.
- Comment on Jesus Christ 4 months ago:
It’s pronounced Geez not Jeez
- Comment on What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up? 5 months ago:
1F919 - Call Me Hand
- Comment on Mom of the year 5 months ago:
Best I can do is M. Night Shyamalan on Peacock
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 5 months ago:
Aliens would extract out bile and earwax.
- Comment on The mark 6 months ago:
spending
- Comment on Break science with this one weird trick 7 months ago:
Something something ground loop detection, maybe.
- Comment on i'm on a boat!! 8 months ago:
I heard people used to just float around before Newton invented gravity.
But I’m not sure. I think that’s just hot air.
- Comment on TIL we have a cricket team 9 months ago:
World = USA + Canada
Of course.
- Comment on Anon reflects on e-sports 9 months ago:
The transmission is still the same with the exception of things like VRR and DSC. We still send a VBLANK signal which is the electronic signal to tell a CRT to move up to the top of the screen. We don’t change the way things are sent. It’s still top down, left to right. VSync and HSync are still used but make less obvious sense on LCDs. Digital displays translate this.
Because LCDs convert these signals, we call the time it takes to do the conversion “draw time” but this isn’t as important today. What matters now is the time it takes for a pixel to change one color to another (response time). Because a CRT would fire electrons, the next frame would essentially vanish pretty quickly. LCDs don’t do this.
Conversely OLEDs are plenty fast, but can’t reproduce the same pixel response without inserting a blank frame with Black Frame Insertion which sacrifices brightness and is being slowly removed.
Still, most “lag” comes from transmission time. It takes 1/60s of a second to transmit a full frame at 60hz. Divided that 2 to get the “average” lag and CRTs would measure at 8.3333ms. LCDs were happy to get to 10ms.
Now we can do 120hz which is way more important since even if CRTs are faster, you can get the whole image out in half the time, which “averages” at 4.1666ms, making even a “4ms” slow LCD on PC better than the console running at 60hz on CRT.
And while CRTs could reach high resolution, these were limited by their HSync speed which usually means lower resolution, because a CRT could only move do quickly horizontally.
Today that translates to an OLED is best for emulating any console that ran at 60hz and better or as good pixel response time if you are willing to do BFI. The main reason why the competitive Melee community still uses CRT is mostly pricing, second to FUD.
- Comment on En riktig översättningsmiss 9 months ago:
I will start calling my JSON Web Tokens impregnated goblins.
- Comment on Byeee 10 months ago:
Is this Google AI?
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 10 months ago:
Of course they have milk! With vodka and some Kalua/Bailey’s!
- Comment on Let's go! 10 months ago:
There is a whole world waiting for me outside. I have to… (already gone)
The underlining feels like this is part of a sticker set but the person didn’t actually know English.
- Comment on Monopoly 10 months ago:
That’s three ad-hominem attacks. But sure, those are your “arguments”.
- Comment on Monopoly 10 months ago:
Stop deflecting and stop trying to gaslight me. If prisons are the same as jails then why dispute? Why even bring it up? You’re retroactively trying to save face.
I am fully aware how prisons and jails are similar and how they are different. You’re the one who was trying to correct somebody and then got downvotes to oblivion.
- Comment on Monopoly 10 months ago:
I don’t have to distract with cheap ad-hominem attacks when I can quote your words right back to you:
Prison. Not jail.
Jails are temporary holding areas until you get to see a judge. Which means you could still be innocent at that point.
- Comment on Monopoly 10 months ago:
Yep. That’s the right definition. Not what you said.
- Comment on Monopoly 10 months ago:
You should read what you link to:
Jail and prison are often used interchangeably as places of confinement. If you want to be specific jail can be used to describe a place for those awaiting trial or held for minor crimes, whereas prison describes a place for criminals convicted of serious crimes.
- Comment on Monopoly 10 months ago:
- Comment on So which is it? 10 months ago:
Show me potato salad!
- Comment on Waffle Squarf 1 year ago:
Yeah, this is from the Google Maps business page from last year. The E turned to F around 2019 based on other photos.
- Comment on Waffle Squarf 1 year ago:
