Bimfred

@Bimfred@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IO Interactive have fixed the crazy PC specifications for 007 First Light⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fidelity creep is also a thing. Unless you’re going for a deliberately retro look, you need high detail assets and lots of them on screen at once. Otherwise you’ll never hear the end of “gaem bad cuz PS2 grafix lol.”

  Environment textures are huge. Main character textures are huge. And you’re not loading just one file, you’re loading multiple files per model. The diffuse map, the specular map, the reflection map, the normal map, the subsurface scattering map for any organic models. And gods help you if your character model has interchangeable parts, because you’ll be loading the whole set of textures for every element of those as well. These things add up very quickly.

  And you still need space in the RAM for your code and physics and worldsim calculations, animations, everything going on under the hood. So I dunno, 16 doesn’t sound outlandish these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IO Interactive have fixed the crazy PC specifications for 007 First Light⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The OS takes its chunk of RAM. And I’d imagine most people don’t close all unnecessary background processes when launching a game. So they’ll have Steam and Epic and Discord and the management software for their RGB (multiple, if the individual components are mismatched) and their browser with like 30 tabs open in the background. Under these circumstances, it’s not outside the realm of possibility that 8GB of RAM is gone even before the game is launched.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if I told you that refusing to trade your life time for money is a good and respectable choice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Respect” is commonly used in two wildly different ways. To some, it means being treated as an authority. To others, it means being treated as a person. Then there’s the absolute shitstains who say “If you won’t respect me, then I won’t respect you,” and what they mean is “If you won’t treat me as an authority, I won’t treat you as a person.”

  Being treated as a person is given. Being treated as an authority is earned. And if you on’t do anything to prove you’re capable of being an authority, you don’t deserve to be treated as such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or that everyone else is just as horrible as they are, so they’d feel justified in being a sloppy fart of a person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Must be lvl 11 genius⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is bullshit. I’ve been staring at it from every angel. They’res no hippo in this picture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I lose Virtual Desktop for my wireless VR, 3ds Max and Solidworks for CAM. If all I did was gaming, media and browsing, I’d switch. Which is why my HTPC, only used for couch gaming and media, is running Bazzite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The basics (getting the OS installed, some initial settings to your liking etc) is quick. Managed to go from “completely untouched build” to “we gaming on Linux now boys” in a couple hours and most of that was waiting for BG3 to download on my 100Mbit connection. Pretty much everything I needed worked right on the first boot. Then again, I didn’t have much data to transfer over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX" Anime Announced with Visual, PV⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, looks like the ankles should have good range of motion. If it’s enough to be able to plant both feet flat on the surface, I think it’ll be at least acceptable at standing poses.

  The design is dope, but the HG kit is gonna be absolute sticker hell. Or they might just abandon the idea of color accuracy without paints entirely. Those dabs of yellow all over the place, the trim on the torso, pretty much all of the head that isn’t red or white.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Because if you launch something from Earth, you inherit the Earth’s orbital speed around the Sun. At that point, whatever you launched, will just continue to orbit the Sun. It takes less energy to accelerate to a solar system exit trajectory than it does to scrub off all of the excess velocity and end up on a trajectory that intersects the Sun.