I know. 😔

I mostly share these feelings because it illuminates the issue a bit for some people who otherwise have not considered it.

Ah, good point. I guess things would rapidly re-form in the favor of the fediverse if this law was overturned…

Sounds like a monkey paw situation to me!

Yet again, we have difficulty having shared definitions of the most basic words.

We really need to address this some day. So much conflict will go away once we stop arguing about the definitions of words.

Maybe words are too imprecise, and we need something else. But on the other hand, we have precise words for lots of things. But it’s considered elitist or whatever to use them. “$10 words” are often just very precise and replace a bunch of other words in a sentence.

Well, it’ll be a difficult transition. But in the long run, maybe not?

As long as the Fourth Estate gets their shit together.

It shuts down Truth social and all social networks. YouTube stops allowing uploads, the fediverse closes up shop, cats and dogs living together.

There is no Radical honesty on Truth social.

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.

Which is weird because it sounds like they tried really hard with the story, as in they tried to elevate it beyond the usual dick and fart jokes and snark. (They didn’t eliminate that stuff, but rather tried to have a balance) BL3 was terrible in that dept. it went way too hard on that shit imo.

Yeah, but it’s not just a toon shader/cel shaded shader.

I’ve seen footage, this game has full (highly stylized) PBR and all sorts of fancy lighting along with the cell shaded look. Reducing it all to “cell shading” isn’t the whole story.

Hi-Fi Rush is much closer to classic Borderlands than BL4 is.

This is how I understood it too.

He probally knows only a certain percentage of his audience will ever hear about this.

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…

Sure, newer cards have Ray Tracing stuff and new video encoder pipelines and some other things. But when you look at classic rasterization, and look at xx60 and xx70 class cards, it’s not the sort of leaps we use to have. Node shrinks are not what they use to be.

A 3060 is as fast as a 2070 super. Just as an example I have first hand experience with. There use to be much larger performance gaps between generations.

Weird, tools. Not more AI. Same thing, I guess.

Some people get really judgmental 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.

I wonder if either of them are actually the correct scene.

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 the game is impressive in many ways, graphics being a really big one. Graphics in VR have generally stagnated for the past 5 years since Alyx came out.

Graphics are why the interactions with bottles in that game are so impressive. Just to highlight one small thing.

Only PCVR titles can even approach saying such things without looking like jerks. And even then, it’s probally counter productive.

An example, for those curious, is Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Context collapse strikes again! Assuming my statements won’t be taken to their extreme is exhausting.

That would be absurd for me to suggest. I was not claiming that all “hacking” no matter how you define the word, as bad.

I was just stating the source of the problem here. Everyone is really sensitive about the fact.

That’s not the problem. The problem is people hacking software.

If we are talking about the software. The problem is the hacking of that software. I replied to a comment about the software.

The arms race is not the problem. Anti-cheat didn’t come first. The hacking of software did.

Cheaters being banned? What?