Been on Linux for gaming for almost a year now and completely windows free since November last year. It’s glorious.

I use Arch, btw.

The cost keeps increasing. That’s hilarious.

But of course he was building a bunker. There’s literally no surprises there. It’ll be the new den of rape for sure.

I think this question pits parents and others against each other, when it shouldn’t. Parental leave is necessary to raise a child. But at the same time, workers in general need leave for mental health among other things.

I also think this is more of a problem for places like America where leave is really, really unfairly distributed and there’s basically no worker protections. There should be plenty of medical and annual leave, as well as government support in case medical leave isn’t enough to get better.

I hope this is the tip of the iceberg for what’s to come.

Seize your country back!!

The first step is always the hardest after decades of oppression and misinformation!

Yes, because usually the people using generative AI for rapid concepts like these are the higher ups with no art experience, just a vision. Then they send it to a concept artist to ‘make it work’ without understanding processes or complexity or feasibility of what they’re asking.

AI had essentially become a tool for people with no high level skill to simulate high level skill, but without any of the understanding that comes from years of real world practice. Often it costs more money because the concept artist now has no control of the workflow and has to sink more time into trying to make a shit concept work properly with the medium.

Case in point: the upcoming Zelda movie’s concepts were all done by generative AI and there’s only one concept artist (usually at least 100) trying to make the shit concepts work for film.

They can’t do anything with landlines though, so i suppose that’s what it’ll eventually happen after age checks for everything.

But, again, why? All this is applied post production, so there’s no control from the artist’s perspective on what the player sees on their end. I’d much rather a static pipeline where I’m in control of the look and feel, while also providing the player with options for accessibility like gamma adjustment.

But if a tool enhances a texture in a specific way, for instance sharpening lines along a garment, or adding shadows to an object under a lamp, how is that different than existing texture mapping algs?

We already have all that. This ‘feature’ literally adds nothing of value to our pipeline because it is all applied after the product is shipped and on the player’s computer.

Further, because it’s a filter, it obfuscates what’s actually happening underneath. Why learn to predict what the filter will do when you can just not work with it and create scenes exactly how you want it?

This whole thing is providing a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist simply to recoup their investments. It’s a complete waste of energy, materials, processing power etc. Absolutely unnecessary.

But… Why though? As a dev, why would I go through the ideation process only to have it filtered through TWO GPUs? For what benefit? This type of filtering is completely out of my control as a developer, and I wouldn’t want my game to be attached to third party parasite companies and basically split my player base into two classes.

That photo has a really nice composition

Very interesting. I’ve never really noticed the difference.

And this is why indie games will probably have a second golden age.

Talk to your PC is just going to be Denholm Reynholm from IT Crowd.

Exactly, right? I remember streaming on discord was a pain because of all the lag and TeamSpeak + pigdin + Overwolf was so much better.

Now i use Legcord instead until my friends switch, which I hope is soon.

Some of my friends have registered on Flux but still use discord. It’s sort of just there until discord makes it unbearable for them to use but discord will never do that. They’ll just slowly tighten the noose until you get comfortable.

They pay for nitro, which to me is bonkers.

Bryce 3d

Welcome to Lemmy! Ignore the jerk in the corner.

Surf lifesaver

Is this because of AUKUS?

Most standard street lighting comes in 4000K for some reason. It’s completely dumb. I’ve spoken to Melbourne City council about this many times but there’s a perception (an incorrect one) that 4000K feels ‘safer’.

We should all be actually using PC Amber LED chips but noooooo… Too ‘expensive’.

Also all LEDs should have lens optics and move away from reflectors to get a wide range of beam angles to prevent glare and other bad stuff that comes with using LEDs.

And we should also be doing proper disposal of LEDs once they die because they’re essentially little computers.

… Ok, rant over.