carl_dungeon

@carl_dungeon@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why was 1995 video games console very pixel art graphics but music was high quality and images were great??,⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s bitrate and computation based. Playing back a waveform through speakers takes very little computation and doesn’t really have all that much data.

  Computing billion of pixels per second by doing exotic math between thousands of entities with millions of individual physics calculations and then ray tracing all that and doing it 100 times per second… dude, that’s many many many orders of magnitude more complicated.

  To put it in perspective- a heavily compressed song almost fits on a floppy disc. A heavily compressed movie almost fits on 600 floppy disks. A decent quality movie takes 4000 floppies. An hd movie- 10,0000. A 4K UHD etc etc film? Close to 50,000 floppy disks. That’s just video, there’s no physics, no ray tracing, no rendering, no bump mapping, no animation, no anything, just displaying data. Now imaging doing all that, but 5x more per second and add all the things I said.

  Graphics cards of today are more powerful than an Empire State Building sized computer of the 90s, probably more powerful that most of the computers on earth put together in the early 90s.

  Why did games look basic? Because we had basic level computational power. But why was sound so good? Because sound is like stacking wooden blocks when modern games are like colonizing mars. Different orders of magnitude in complexity and scale.

  A single smartphone image is easily 3x bigger than a high quality song- and that image needs to be rendered hundreds of times a second for a modern game. It’s not even the same sport.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point. I believe it’s $$$ and is tough for smalls. Best of luck on your search!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve worked for a small business in tech for 15 years- it’s a great company that cares for its people. I think some of what you’re describing is just the nature of larger companies. The bigger the machine, the smaller the cog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt Steam⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To disrupt stream, you’d need to be better than Steam. Also, what am I gonna do with my existing 1000 games in steam? I DON’T WANT 5 GAME MANAGERS.

  All these companies think people want 10 streaming services, 5 steams, 7 spotifys. WE DONT. We just want 1 that does everything we want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Power Prices Can Go Negative and What It Means⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just further spelling out the case for energy storage. It seems like there would be tons of profit potential for just running a grid scale battery storage facility plant- if you can charge at negative wholesale and sell at peak, then you would not only stand to make a profit, but you’d help even out the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a fucking joke

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take-Two CEO believes AI will actually increase employment and productivity⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So they’re hiring?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you like the smell of bookstores?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love that smell. Libraries too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Nintendo Switch 2 the end of innovative consoles?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll reserve judgement until I have one, but here’s my $.02:

  The Wii U was wildly innovative and a giant flop. In the end, it was a big clumsy prototype for the switch IMO. The switch was the perfect evolution of some of the ideas the U had, like bringing the stationary console into your hands rather than just a tiny pocket console.

  The GameCube didn’t do anything really that wildly innovative after the n64, it just had discs and a more comfy controller.

  The Wii was pretty fresh, but in the end, relied a bit too heavily on gimmicks, the key parts of which I think were successfully captured by future motion controllers like the joycons.

  The DS was super cool, and I love mine, but most games ended up primarily using a single screen, and the other screen just kinda sat there or acted as a map. Switch has a larger touchscreen which makes up for loss of stylus in a lot of ways.

  The 3DS was cool for a minute too, but the effect was eye strain inducing and had limited value IMO.

  I think it’s great to come up with something totally new now and then, but changing for change’s sake probably isn’t good, and axing a form factor that has been so wildly successful sounds risky.

  Nintendo has always operated on a tick-tock pattern (gameboy -> pocket -> color -> advance -> ds -> ds lite & 3ds). Plenty of evolutions between form changes.

  Phones, computers, tablets, and now consoles are all reaching their inevitable optimized form- large screens with good I/O. While boring to look at, at the end of the day it’s about the experience of using the device, not how wacky the console looks/works.

  I don’t doubt that Nintendo will have more wild ideas in future systems, but I personally dont want a dual screen switch with an attached printer and a VR headset- I want a bulletproof hand held that does what it does very well and provides value. The entire switch concept is so well executed and seamless- don’t take that away! Make it better- battery, heat, graphics power, ergonomics, charge speed, Bluetooth, build quality, etc. make all those things as good as they can be. The switch 2 looks like it improves on many of those things without taking anything away, so I’m pumped to get my hands on one!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of us trust scientists, shows a survey of nearly 72,000 people worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would I trust someone that spends their life trying to understand reality and makes data driven predictions that help improve people’s lives? That’s crazy talk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X raises Premium Plus subscription pricing by almost 40 percent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not make it $1000? In fact, they should charge at least $100 a month for any type of access, we dont want a bunch of povos trashing up Twitter right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the issue is that Google owns the browser and the search engine and has such market dominance that it can break web standards at will because it’s not like you’re not using chrome right? Right!?

  The saddest thing about all the antitrust stuff is that Firefox gets something like 75% of its revenue from Google paying it to default to it, so by making things less monopolistic, they might unintentionally be killing Firefox, the only other major contender to chrome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a Quest 3 really worth it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure he said have less children, not start death camps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk changes X terms to steer lawsuits to his favorite Texas court⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you still use twitter at this point, you’re asking for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People love Amazon music? It fucking sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would I find my phone if I didn't have a phone to find my phone with?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use my watch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Donald Trump was black, would he have made it this far in politics?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the klan votes black.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple must pay 13 billion euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good, I’m a fanboy, but corporations need to pay their share and then some.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fallout 4 wasn’t bad, it was a lot of fun for a few playthroughs. You can make some valid arguments about steps backwards from new Vegas, but it did a lot of things well too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Is Why You Should Never Store Your Retro Game Collection In A Shed | Time Extension⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It might- but you’d have to worry about the chemicals in the adhesive too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What standard is trump being held to again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants to implant millions of people with Neuralink brain chips⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Him first

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was Elvis Presley a pedo?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because no one cared about that 60 years ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realme’s 320W fast charging can fully charge a smartphone in four and a half minutes⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  assuming the phone has a way to dissipate the heat generated.

  Yeah that’s a big assumption. My phone gets hot charging at 20w, don’t you think there will be heat dissipation issues at those speeds?

  Chemistry has improved, but even a Tesla will not let you super charge all the time- I’d need to see some real data before I believe that a battery charged 100 times fast has exactly the same health as one charged 100x slow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People still use twitter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people complain about multiple streaming platforms existing?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because what people really want is an iTunes like service that just has everything for a single price rather than 14 streaming apps that have content overlap but also exclusives and rotating temporary content licenses costing $20+ each with ads.

  There was a period of time when I gave up pirating because Netflix+prime was good enough to watch just about everything, and on-device search easily searched both platforms and provided a unified search/watch experience. It wasn’t worth the effort of finding and storing content yourself.

  Fast forward to today, you search for something, it belongs to some fucking random service you don’t currently pay $17.99 a month for and then halfway though a season, it drops from the platform and goes to another streaming service you also don’t pay for. It’s just endless bullshit and nickel&diming now.

  I’d happily pay $60 a month for a single service that just had everything and saved me from all this bullshit, instead I’d be forced to spend $300 a month for 23 services I barely use just to have access to the catalog of content I want.

  Another example of this done well is steam- I just want my whole library in one place, I don’t want 5 different game libraries each with their own crap. Consequently I’ve spent thousands of dollars on steam over the years because of the unified experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I spent ~$35 on new cables and my LAN speed increased 6x⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can get gigabit over 5e, you don’t need super expensive cables. That said I ran cat 6 through my whole house and am able to fully saturate the bus, about 115 MBps (920 Mbps) which accounts for the TCP overhead. I haven’t tried 2/5/10G on it bull I’ll probably upgrade in a few years, I don’t expect to have much trouble getting good speeds. Your biggest issue was you might not have had all the cable pairs in your wire, or your cables ends might have been crusty, or you could have had bad kinks in the wire causing packet loss, or some real absolute trash quality wire. In general, 5e and 6 are plenty for most people/situations to get good speeds (1Gb+)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court blocks the FCC's efforts to restore net neutrality... again⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well duck whatever court that is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prison Architect 2 Has Been Delayed Indefinitely, Pre-Orders Are Being Refunded⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, looking forward to it!!!