Blackmist

@Blackmist@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How deprived is your area? Look up your postcode as new data for England released⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No need. Just count the houses with Union Jacks up to calculate your deprivation index.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Even as a kid, my record was 5 wanks in a day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC Master Race⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not true. You can use Netflix without PSPlus. You can even play Fortnite (and a few others, mostly the online only games) without it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  One man’s quest to own all the leather jackets on Earth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hmm breakfast⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right, they don’t.

  The other two cheese platters are out of shot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Billions in investment. Trillions in speculation. All on something that makes less money than Genshin Impact.

  Fun times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC Master Race⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So PC GamePass isn’t a thing? If Valve offered a solid subscription offering, gamers would be all over it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC Master Race⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you updating the GPU to for $200? A 1060?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, one man’s mission to soak up as much money from religious nutters as possible.

  Just as the church has always done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That dream of an AGI just a little further away every day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨monumentale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s one I found today that just reads “this is a fucking abortion”

  I don’t remember doing it, but it was almost certainly me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but this is a shop for MTG nerds. They ain’t most people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC Master Race⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but all those people buying wonky 2GB “PS4 equivalent” GPUs ended up pretty quiet when games later in the generation started using more and more VRAM.

  The PS4 CPU was a joke, but it could use a lot of textures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC Master Race⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  PS5 (discless edition) did until the USD took an almighty shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The main advantage in 4K TVs “looking better” are…

  1. HDR support. Especially Dolby Vision, gives noticeably better picture in bright scenes.

  2. Support for higher framerates. This is only really useful for gaming, at least until they broadcast sports at higher framerates.

  3. The higher resolution is mostly wasted on video content where for the most part the low shutter speed blurs any moving detail anyway. For gaming it does look better, even if you have to cheat with upscaling and DLSS.

  4. The motion smoothing. This is a controversial one, because it makes movies look like swirly home movies. But the types of videos used in the shop demos (splashing slo-mo paints, slow shots of jungles with lots of leaves, dripping honey, etc) does look nice with the motion interpolation switched on. They certainly don’t show clips of the latest blockbuster movies like that, because it will become rapidly apparent just how jarring that looks.

  The higher resolution is just one part of it, and it’s not the most important one. You could have the other features on a lower resolution screen, but there’s no real commercial reason to do that, because large 4K panels are already cheaper than the 1080p ones ever were. The only real reason to go higher than 4K would be for things where the picture wraps around you, and you’re only supposed to be looking at a part of it. e.g. 180 degree VR videos and special screens like the Las Vegas Sphere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think game patches were even charged to the developers, which is why a lot of them were loath to patch minor bugs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I canned Humble when it became apparent that I was just buying next months free Epic games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Really, I think multiplayer should be free (it’s not like multiplayer games don’t nickel and dime you on top of that anyway) and the game subscription peeled out of it. I’m only interested in the “free” games anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it got you a better experience than whatever it was Sony were doing at the time, which was a weird ethernet adapter, and seemingly every game reinventing the idea of how online should work.

  I don’t think it ever needed to be charged for, it just needed to be designed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if the Xbox Series S/X could have played my Steam library at that price, I’d have bought one in a heartbeat just to use as a gaming box.

  But they’ve already hinted that the next one will be a lot more expensive, and at that point you might as well just buy a PC…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great to see some actual progress over there⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ratko Mladic has let himself go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What we’ve learnt over the last decade or so is that it’s a lot easier to generate bullshit than it is to verify it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great to see some actual progress over there⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great to see some actual progress over there⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Many Brits lose any capacity for coherent thought whenever the threat of Muslims are involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they though? The top valued companies in the world are balls-deep in advertising and data collection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they’re pretentious twats who can’t even use it correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thames Water ranked worst supplier in England as firms’ ratings hit record low⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If Severn Trent is considered the gold standard then god fucking help us all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only one in 50 bike thefts result in a charge, shocking figures reveal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  British Transport Police won’t even look at the video of them stealing it unless you give them a 2 hour window in which it went missing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨William Hill owner says it could shut shops if Reeves raises gambling taxes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One less parasite of the poor in the high street.

  Can we shut their websites too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starmer lays out vision for much-criticised digital ID scheme⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Has any government listened to them?

  Seems like something to stop us immediately reaching for the pitchforks, and make people feel they’ve done something.