kadu

kadu, 7 months ago

Oh, so it’s already corrupted by sin, I see

kadu, 7 months ago

This will significantly boost my collection of hentai games

kadu, 7 months ago

Donate to BRAVE

I’d rather eat a shoe

kadu, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

4G coming from 3G is a massive increase in mobile bandwidth

EDIT: I don’t get the downvotes? 3G supports a peak download of 100 Mbps, but that never happens because it’s super sensitive to network congestion. 4G on the other hand can support many more devices at a theoretical link of 1000 Mbps down. So just as I’ve said, going from 3G to 4G is a massive jump in bandwidth.

kadu, 7 months ago

I just claimed 4G is significantly faster - which it is, regardless of being on North Korea, Brazil or Australia. They have an internal network with a few important pages, and clients (such as libraries) use 3G. Upgrading to 4G will be faster.

kadu, 7 months ago

Millions of parallel complicated calculations, over sixty times per second, using gigabytes of information, to carefully determine the color every subpixel in a panel with 4 million glowing dots needs to be to perfectly reproduce interactive anime titties on my screen

kadu, 7 months ago

Sixty times per second means 60Hz, the most common display standard in use. Even on higher refresh rate panels, videos are absolutely dominated by 30 FPS and 60 FPS capture.

kadu, 7 months ago

I’m a completely different person before my first cup of coffee when beginning the day, and the contrast between me with and without caffeine keeps increasing.

Won’t stop drinking coffee though. Depression already took most of the enjoyment I could have, I won’t sacrifice coffee.

kadu, 7 months ago

I’m not sure about how things are today, as I only played Warzone during the first couple of months of the release… But the main reason the game took a long time to load back then was shader pre-compilation, and honestly, I prefer that over the massive stuttering mess most other games that skipped this step would become.

kadu, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Well… I’m not going to dispute most users probably prefer Google.

But this data point means nothing. Yahoo? Seriously? I’d rather go to the local library and ask the clerk for a search term instead of relying on Yahoo.

You can’t conclude users won’t tolerate anything but Google just because you made a deal with a pile of trash. Windows defaults to Bing and most of my family members didn’t even notice it’s not Google.

kadu, 7 months ago

I don’t really see how your reply relates to my point, to be honest.

I’m talking about how Mozilla can’t claim users only like Google based on their test with Yahoo, because Yahoo sucks. That’s like concluding people only eat filet mignon after serving them with a plate of shit.

kadu, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Honestly though, “boss used a healing potion” or “boss used Heal Me Daddy spell” is bad game design, and somewhat immersion breaking.

It shows you couldn’t balance out the skill and pacing, so to artificially lengthen a fight, you simply dump more health.

It’s in the class of mechanics that disrespect the player’s time: it wasn’t a long fight because you had to figure out some hidden pattern, it wasn’t long because it was hard, it wasn’t a mistake you did… You did everything right and almost killed the boss too fast, so the game artificially removed your progress.

You can have healing mechanics that aren’t lazy: elemental affinities, a healer companion that can be defeated, etc

kadu, 7 months ago

It’s not a lie, but it’s also not what the headline wants you to believe.

When they say “Improved DirectX 11 performance by 52%!” what they actually mean is “this DirectX 11 game improved by 52%”

So yes, some games are seeing good improvements, that’s not all games and not “DirectX 11 performance”

kadu, 7 months ago

It does indeed help performance on the Deck. Though not much in Act 3, which is still heavily CPU bound and isn’t efficient at all in the way it handles multithreading. In fact, Baldur’s Gate 3 still suffers with treating modern CPUs as if they were Core 2 Quads.

FSR 2.2 also does still suffer with some heavy occlusion artifacts, but in the Deck I find them much more tolerable than on a monitor.

kadu, 7 months ago

Nvidia’s latest driver patched several issues with Wayland sessions - perhaps the experience will be a tiny bit better now

kadu, 7 months ago

It’s a good game, but not an action RPG - the combat is heavily turn based. Thanks though!

kadu, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I can’t test it (not colorblind) but many recent developments have been made with Microsoft’s help, and for all their faults, Microsoft is usually quite good with accessibility so perhaps it’s the good version.

kadu, 7 months ago

You’re totally right - developers are known to only interact using X86 assembly.

kadu, 7 months ago

People are mocking this change, but DLSS can be truly transformative - it looks significantly more stable and visually pleasing than FSR or God forbid the built in temporal AA used in these engines.

Nowadays I’d honestly enable DLSS even if I didn’t need any extra performance boost.

kadu, 7 months ago

Yeah, people often ignore this aspect when comparing mods with official patches.

If a mod introduces a game breaking bug that screws your save 20 hours in, or if it causes incompatibilities with some subset of hardware, the mod developer will just update their Nexus Mods pages with “tehehe, sorry guys, I’ve made an ooopsie”.

If the official game developer ships the same issues, it would be a catastrophe that would cause problems for many paying customers and even full blown refunds.

I love mods, but there’s a massive difference in the number of steps and QC needed for a modder to introduce a new feature vs the official devs.

In the case of DLSS though, it should have been here from day one - and it probably would’ve been if the game didn’t have so many ties with AMD.

kadu, 7 months ago

Companies that sell these DRM schemes, or the groups of companies that come up with the “standards” and ask for a licensing fee, don’t actually believe the solution works to prevent piracy - the investors also do not believe this. They’re just happy to get a tiny fee whenever somebody in the world buys a CD, DVD, streams on Netflix, buys a monitor, a cable, a console, etc.

It’s like creating a closed source media codec, but even easier because you can justify it’s cost with fear.

kadu, 7 months ago

It doesn’t help that IBM’s custom hardware was literally called IBM PC, and modern PCs are just heavily iterated versions of that. From that context, Mac was indeed a different kind of computer.

kadu, 7 months ago

I’ll use Haiku OS as my main desktop OS before I ever call Linux “GNU/Linux”

kadu, 7 months ago

Same in Brazil - in fact, if you tried to pump your own gas the employee would probably get scared and call the cops lol

kadu, 7 months ago

What is allowed during your tournament or during online matches can indeed by controlled by the publisher. Go nuts.

What I install on my PC is my business only - and if I want to have Ken be brutally smothered by Chun Li in an erotic kitty costume, it won’t be Capcom who will stop me.

kadu, 7 months ago

I’m in that boat, to be honest.

I’d rather have a 1080p file encoded with a nice modern codec, like HEVC, than a 4K massive file that really doesn’t add much to the image.

kadu, 7 months ago

If I recall correctly, some EU government bodies are doing just that! They host their own Mastodon instance.

kadu, 7 months ago

In fact, Chrome on iOS is Safari. The same applies to Firefox.

Apple doesn’t allow apps to parse JavaScript arbitrarily, so browsers are just a Safari WebView with whatever UI and tracking they want to add on top.

The exception being one weird browser I can’t recall the name of that actually renders everything remotely and just streams the final contents to the iOS client, but that’s a bizarre approach.

kadu, 7 months ago

Yep, that’s the one!

kadu, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

That’s usually available with the modern digital inputs.

These “in-between” TVs that had the analogue inputs and digital inputs can’t display an analogue signal directly, so they have an internal ADC inside, and given how TVs are always using the cheapest integrated media chips, just imagine the latency introduced by one coming from ~2013, 2015.

If you want actual low latency for analogue, get an analogue only CRT.

kadu, 7 months ago

Latin derived languages can’t simply use “words like officer, firefighter” to solve the problem because all nouns are gendered, including those not related to living beings at all. You could create a gender-neutral title, but it would still be masculine or feminine in a sentence.

kadu, 7 months ago

“They” as a gender neutral singular pronoun is not a new phenomenon.

But you’re still not understanding my point - I’m not saying people can’t adapt or that language never changes. I’m talking about how the entire grammatical structure of a sentence in Latin languages will force a gender - there’s no way to avoid it. You’d have to modify pretty much all classes of words in order to achieve gender neutrality (apart from masculine neutral) and even then, it would have some irregular ambiguities. This type of change doesn’t happen - you can’t wave your prescriptivism wand and suddenly make everyone change 80% of the words on their vocabulary.

kadu, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Latin itself carried a neutral form for nouns. It was abandoned and absorbed into the masculine form, which is now the “neutral” form.

This happened centuries ago - and is also why every modern Latin based language follows the same pattern.

Using the masculine form as a neutral form is quite literally the entire point being debated here.

kadu, 7 months ago

I have nothing against that. I also have nothing against gender neutrality in language. In fact, I wish Latin never lost its gender neutrality in the first place.

I was just explaining why it doesn’t magically work with romantic languages like it does with English - we can’t just say “police officer” and “singular they” and go be happy.

kadu, 7 months ago

Since the S7? Not at all - they’ve been doing that much earlier. The Galaxy Note 3 was Exynos based in India and some other regions, but Snapdragon based in the US and Europe.

kadu, 7 months ago

And there are games with DRM on GOG.

If the platform actually enforced non-DRM, it would make more sense.

kadu, 7 months ago

Old-School RuneScape is still the best designed MMO:

It doesn’t require you to choose a class and miss on content, you never have to “reset” or “prestige” an account and restart, the skills, the world and the quest are deeply intertwined, you’re not forced to follow one specific order or way of doing things - but there are natural entry points into quest lines for those that want some direction. As hard as levelling some skills are, once you conquer even 1 exp your effort is never lost or reduced.

Perfect MMO design, IMHO.

kadu, 7 months ago

The combat is by far the weakest point of the game, that I agree with. It fits well with the idea of keeping it in a second monitor while you watch something else, but it’s not engaging alone.

But as for the graphics, using RuneLite plugins you can get a really interesting look where the game still uses the old school models, but a modern lighting system, improved textures and smoother animations. It actually looks super good.

kadu, 7 months ago

You’re not wrong, it’s your opinion after all.

But keep in mind I said “perfect MMO design” and MMOs where purposely designed like this: you’re supposed to be talking to people around you, making friends, stumbling around the same players in your next mining trip.

Today we talk via Discord, WhatsApp, talking via a game is… Irrelevant. Finding another player? Of course, that’s trivial. The Wiki is almost complete. So people only focus on the RPG part of MMORPG. RuneScape gives you the incentive, time and space for the MMO part too - this forces skills to be somewhat idle.

kadu, 7 months ago

Hey, I’ll take every oldschool MMO friend - doesn’t matter if we come from different tribes.

kadu, 7 months ago

They aren’t.

But Android is Android, users can install any APK they want

kadu, 7 months ago

Path tracing is not the future - it’s the present.

kadu, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

The bike doesn’t go vroom vroom really loudly so it’s not manly enough, obviously

kadu, 7 months ago

New Nintendo DS

kadu, 7 months ago

Lemmy (and Reddit) react pretty aggressively to this data point, but it’s true nevertheless: meat consumption. Meat consumption is the single most powerful impact you as an individual have when it comes to climate change, and it’s significantly ahead than everything else.

Would a healthy dose of ecoterrorism against the top 100 most lucrative brands in the world be better? Yes. Does removing animal products from your diet also significantly reduce emissions? Yes.

As a biologist, I can’t tell you how to live your life and what decisions are worth it or not. But if you’re asking what impact you could have, this is it, it’s not a mystery or speculative assumption - cut out meat from your diet.

I’m not even a vegan. But things are what they are. We can’t pretend this isn’t true just because meat tastes good.