keyringlight

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by keyringlight 10d ago
From what I remember it was a project for Coffee Stain (the studio) to train up/onboard new hires, having started as a modding team with Sanctum for UT3 and later a full standalone release. Then they ran with it for a while after it st
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by keyringlight 11d ago
That lack of care is the part that's annoying to me, combined with them being one of the largest corporations that has the resources to throw at those issues if they chose to do so. Quality issues aside, there's lots of similar as
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by keyringlight 19d ago
I think any movement is gradual and for it to be significant it would need to be sustained, people love dramatic sudden changes but it's going up against decades of momentum. As you mentioned mobiles, that took a long time to transitio
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by keyringlight 19d ago
A tangent to this which annoys me is not specifically windows, but the way the ecosystem has evolved over the years, by guidance/enforcement or lack thereof from MS. Unless you're very careful about what applications you install a
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by keyringlight 22d ago
I'm pretty sure some versions of DOS had a defrag tool, or at least windows 9x had a DOS mode equivalent where you could see the block map getting moved around.
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by keyringlight 24d ago
And there's an example of one of the contradictions of modern PC gaming, for as much as it'll get hyped as a mostly open platform with a lot of freedom (in comparison to consoles), there's an awful lot that has coalesced on a
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by keyringlight 25d ago
Depends what they're used for, if it's for lightweight-demands mobile communications and simple tasks then I'd definitely agree. However the phone has become the personal computer for many and covers a broad range of tasks, l
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by keyringlight 25d ago
Internet radio is still going strong: https://www.radio-browser.info/
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by keyringlight 1mo ago
I'd add the gold rush for hardware to mine crypto coins, depending what component you're looking at. What stands out to me is that you can't rely on pricing acting predictably any more, it used to be that when a new product&#
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by keyringlight 1mo ago
One challenge I see is that to work well and stand above 'easy' implementations the game would need to provide a rich context for the AI to exist in and interact with. Skyrim is a richly detailed world with an engine that allows t
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by keyringlight 1mo ago
On the bottom [0], youtuber/cooling specialist/tuner der8auer did an interview with an intel engineer a few years ago. One of the points they bring up is that it's not a pure gain to have less silicon between the logic and th
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by keyringlight 1mo ago
The Bethesda Morrowind-onward RPGs had their engine roots in Gamebyro, which was fairly widely used by other developers as well. That said I think there's a question about where the value comes from, as their customization to it 25+ ye
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by keyringlight 1mo ago
I've only seen the ./ category moderation style in one other place and it's really a shame as I think it has great value if it can be linked up with filters besides raw thresholds, of course balanced against how it would be u
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by keyringlight 2mo ago
IIRC, Epic had (still has?) the source for UT4 available as they were trying to push community contributions, mostly on the playable content side but I'm fairly sure they had the core game there, based off what is now a very old branch
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by keyringlight 2mo ago
I'm fairly sure it's one of the reasons both MS and Sony went with AMD hardware from 2013 onwards, they can make use of the security/virtualization features their server platform has.
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by keyringlight 2mo ago
I think proximity is a good measure, what different types of news do you need to know and will impact your decision making on different time scales? There's probably a very small amount of things I really need to know (practically) ins
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by keyringlight 2mo ago
The challenge lies with whether the things you go to reddit (or any other service/product) for are concentrated or exclusively there, such as discussion or information on a particular topic. There's a lot of communities where they
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by keyringlight 2mo ago
I'd also wonder about the average display equipment in use, the environment they're viewing in, and versus what our eyes are capable of.
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by keyringlight 2mo ago
Something I can't fault nvidia for is long term vision. If you ignore all the non-gaming uses, I can't see significant gains to be had by keeping evolving rasterization based rendering, which presumably would hit diminishing retur
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by keyringlight 2mo ago
I'd add the move from feature phones to smart phones and later tablets. Early adopters were getting them 2007/08, 5 years on from that the platform was well on its way to maturing and with a broader range of hardware and the softw
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by keyringlight 2mo ago
IIRC winget is another mechanism with a CLI front-end that resembles a package manager. What it does is either hook into the windows store (another channel) for packages, or points to an installer which likely runs silently in the backgroun
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by keyringlight 3mo ago
I got curious and I had a windows xp ISO lying around, apparently it does support migrating from win98 onwards which surprised me a bit, win95 has to do a fresh install. From looking at the various .inf files it seems to pull a lot more inf
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by keyringlight 3mo ago
For the kinds of games where DRM free matters, where they don't have a prominent online/multiplayer side or the equivalent of playing the game 'from the disc', is the console subscription really an issue? I don't ha
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by keyringlight 3mo ago
I wonder if this signals anything about Sony's attitude to blu-ray movies. Aside from games one of the reasons their consoles have sold well is because they've been excellent physical media players. The PS2 for DVDs and the PS3 on
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by keyringlight 3mo ago
I wonder where all the artists who used to make the wide range of styles for XP went after MS made it harder to apply themes to windows, or what factors contributed to attracting artists to start making that kind of customization. I think p
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by keyringlight 3mo ago
Isn't that a consequence of it being a fairly open platform and no certification gatekeeper before a developer can release/update their game? The platform isn't specifically steam or where mouse/keyboard is unavailable o
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by keyringlight 3mo ago
For what it's worth, my ASUS motherboard from 2017 has their overclocking utility branded as "AI suite 3" (implying there were 2 before). I think having a buzzword to slap on products that fits the latest trend is a checkbox
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by keyringlight 3mo ago
It was also around the time of the early netbooks, when the premise was a lean laptop and you'd do tasks that'd usually be done with relatively demanding local clients by the browser, as google and others were improving their onli
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by keyringlight 3mo ago
That's an interesting dividing line, and I think also needs to be compared against big companies setting opt-in/out defaults or the "Yes/Maybe later" patterns. What I find curious is that there's been the oppor
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by keyringlight 3mo ago
I'd say that comes down to the difference between requirements (i.e. will it run at all, does it use features only found in win11) and support, and the developer's decisions around that. I can appreciate not supporting win10 even

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