HarkMahlberg

Let's say I take your argument in good faith, that this would still suck even if it wasn't named GitS and that your rose-tinted glasses for the 1995 movie aren't affecting you here. Sure, I believe you.

You mentioned cinematography twice, so let me ask you this... what? Why? What part of the cinematography didn't click? Because I thought it was very creative!

We have high angle shots, low angle shots, bird's eye view, mirrors, characters in foreground/background with a rack focus. We have some different POV shots of the tachikomas, some shots of how cramped the characters are when piloting them, we have a couple different HUDs for different characters/factions, the final 2 bullets that Motoko fires is actually a gorgeous tracking shot, I think the slow motion works wonders for it.

There's a lot of variety to the shots and their composition, I think it gives the episode a lot of character. SAC has it's own character as a police procedural drama, but it's pretty plain by comparison. It's straightforward and non-distracting, which is totally valid, just a different style to suit a different show.

So, what part of the cinematography here did you not like? Or are you just throwing words around that you know have something to do with filmmaking?

I'd like to see someone at least explain why they hated it. My only complaint is the utterly breakneck pace of the first episode, but I didn't mind the aesthetic at all. The colors were strikingly beautiful, and the animation itself definitely reminded me of 80's anime. There's a charm to it's eccentricity.

I think it would be really interesting if Sony and Microsoft championed lower budget, lower fidelity indie titles instead of chasing unrealistic performance metrics. I think that's the way the gaming community is going to go anyway, given that fewer and fewer people are going to be able to afford a new gaming PC or even these new consoles. They want to play games, they just can't play the latest and and most power hungry games.

The Balatros and Animal Wells of the world have a golden opportunity to win over the hearts and minds of people left behind by the manufacturers.

I'm also curious about 2028 as a launch date. Console generations usually last about 7 years, with an extra 2 years of support for the previous generation. 2000 - 2006 - 2013 - 2020. 2028 adds a whole year to the cycle. Is that a recent response to the AI boom, or do you think it was always intended to be that way?

Can you imagine the Steam Machine being cost competitive with a PS6? Not that they'll be competitive on performance, but Jesus.

Good opportunity to remind people Gamer's Nexus printed their own Steam Machine front covers, if you're somehow considering buying an SM at that price point...

Oh no, not this idea again. Nvidia already pitched this concept a few years ago. Leaving aside the security blunder of giving a player an unbounded text box attached to an unpredictable machine, it was apparent immediately that it would become a reflecting pool for the absolute worst player behaviors. Every single female NPC would be instantly derailed by trolls asking to see her boobs. I don't think even Nvidia bothered with the concept after it's first showcase.

Those are the exact aspects where an artist's vision matters the most. A phrase like "the lighting in this game is incredible" is only true because someone spent an inordinate amount of effort on it. Same for writing, or landscaping, or even scripting, no matter how invisible it may seem. It's nuts to suggest that those are the parts we want to outsource to a lifeless, frictionless machine.

Don't be afraid to say that there is no good use case for AI, "a solution in search of a problem" is not meant to be responded to with "challenge accepted."

To add to Toynbee’s answer, any computer can become a server if you run some kind of program on it that provides that function. That program runs in the background continuously and waits for other computers, named “clients”, to send requests to the “server” computer.

Yes, that includes your own PC, even while you’re in the middle of using it. If you were running a website on your PC, i.e. a persistent background application that serves a website, you could type http://localhost into your browser and connect to that website. That makes your PC perform the duties of both client and server at the same time. Fun stuff.

It’s called “localhost” because, while a “server” is mostly referring to the software on the machine, the “host” refers to the software and hardware together. It’s “local” as opposed to “remote” because all computers that aren’t the one you’re on right now are remote, distant, away.

There’s not a finite list…? The word “web” or “Minecraft” is describing the purpose of the server. It’s an adjective.

If you tried to make a list, you’d have to include all video games with online matchmaking. “Call of Duty servers”, “Fortnite servers”, etc. Its an impossible task.

Bamco is having a HELL of a week huh.

No, it’s just an example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Paint

By binary formats, they mean files that are intended to be interpreted or executed by a computer.

For example, a program (my-app.exe) is a binary file. You use it by double clicking it, and the computer runs the program. If you tried to read the file by opening it in a text editor, you would only see gibberish and random characters.

Another example, an image (my-photo.jpg) is a binary file. It’s not a program, but you can view the image with a program like Paint. But just like a program, if you opened an image in a text editor, you would still see gibberish. That’s because the gibberish is interpreted by Paint so that you can view the image.

But source code (my-website.html) is not a binary file, it’s just a text file with fancy formatting and special rules on how to write it. You can open an HTML file in your text editor, and as long as you know the rules you can learn to read it.