Actually around half the budget of an AAA game is just marketing cost. Which feels wasteful, but if you need to recoup hundreds of millions it might be necessary.

Actually around half the budget of an AAA game is just marketing cost. Which feels wasteful, but if you need to recoup hundreds of millions it might be necessary.

I don’t condone this, but we already had $60 games 10 years ago. If you simply add inflation you’d be at $81 today. That doesn’t even take into account that modern games also have larger budgets compared to back then.

Video games really are a cheap hobby comparatively speaking. I still wait for sales of course :)

Windows 11 finally allows you to simply uninstall OneDrive. Before that you had to do weird registry hacks, that often broke something :-/

It’s no longer an edge case if faulty self driving becomes the norm.

Want to kill someone in a Tesla? Find a convenient spot and paint a wall there.

Doesn’t even have to be an artificial wall, for example take a bend on a mountain road and paint the rock.

I also just got a warning, lol. Fuck them, I really need to come here more often :-/

Gravitated back to Reddit due to lacking content unfortunately…

I get all that, but it’s still not what I’m trying to explain. If TAA is forced in a game that supports DLSS/FSR it’s still not used in the image itself, but rather just the motion vector data gets piped into the new algorithm.

Otherwise even with DLSS/FSR active you’d have all the smearing and bad quality of the original TAA implementation, which you simply don’t.

So it’s just pedantic if a toggle in a game appears on/off or at all, if the engine just uses the motion vector data and then uses DLSS/FSR/XeSS or what have you to actually do the anti-aliasing.

TAA just means temporal anti aliasing. Temporal as in relying on data from the previous frames.

The implementation of DLSS and FSR are wholly separate from the old TAA. Yes, they work on the same principals, but do their own thing.

TAA as a setting gets disabled because the newer methodes fully overwrite it. Some games hide the old setting, others gray it out, it depends.

What? All Ray Tracing games already offer DLSS or FSR, which override TAA and handle motion much better. Yes, they are based on similar principles, but they aren’t the mess TAA is.

True AGI would turn into the Singularity in no time at all. It’s literally magic compared to what we have at the moment.

So yes, it would easily solve the climate crisis, but that wouldn’t even matter at that point anymore.

Don’t forget about spending thousands of hours in Diablo 4. And now he’s eyeing up Path of Exile 2.

Hard working my ass, he spends more time on Twitter than I do at work.

We’re talking about losing weight, not bulking up!

It’s even worse than that:

21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024. 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).

So 1/5 can’t read at all, and over HALF can’t read better than an 11 year old.

Windows 11, but I already tested out every combination of settings. Windows settings and BIOS CPU settings. Most high performance settings make things just a tiny bit faster, while the laptop blasts the fan at full speed (the fan sucks too, it’s too loud for what it does).

The cooling just sucks, the CPU boosts and then runs straight into thermal throttling and has to cut back. It has been like this since day 1, maybe it got worse in the past 2 years, but it was never good in the first place. Colleagues with the same model had plenty of issues too (and the lead sent it back to the IT department and demanded one model higher up with a beefier CPU, but he’s also not happy with it).

It’s a 3 year lease, the laptop will be gone in a year and then hopefully I can choose my next one. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like Dell is currently offering models with AMD CPUs…

Dude, I’m not opening up my work laptop. It’s going to be replaced in a year anyway.

The thing has been a piece of shit when it was brand new, it’s not the paste.

Ah, T15 Gen1 with 48 GB RAM. The Intel CPU throttles hard unfortunately, I’d much rather switch to AMD (or a desktop…).

Fortunately the company has so many issues with Lenovo, they are switching to Dell now.

I have all 3 D:

The old part really does a lot of work here. New ThinkPads are utter trash :-/

I got excited to get one for work (having heard about the old ones) and was sorely disappointed. It thermal throttles if you look at it wrong, it keeps having BIOS issues with Lenovo being no help and the USB-C display connection (To a Lenovo monitor with their inbuilt docking station!) is iffy.

Trump literally said Israel should finish the job. You’re getting both genocides and probably a few on top!