ninealex.bsky.social
She/they | Game developer and more
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I just hope that something similar can happen across the country next year with establishment dems losing primaries to progressives
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I mean, trepanning is the first surgery, having been practiced for thousands of years. So I'm sure RFK Jr would love to see that practiced more too.
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Commodity trader forced to submit complaint in the form of a cuneiform clay tablet.
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A very important question when your swimming up stream and need to get past a dam
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Yea, when you create a giant room where anyone can shout anything that comes to mind, and any random can overhear it without context, you have created a discourse thunderdome. A real life analogue would be nothing but fist fights too.
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Game dev be like
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if 360 people play the game, then it actually took 1 hour to make 1 hour total of platforming.
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The internet has been an incredible too for the working class to understand the world and organize, so I wonder if the ability to create a never ending stream of misinformation is part of what excites the rich and powerful about AI
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I mean, there will still be objective reality. The internet and TV will simply cease to resemble it, fully separating from reality and devolving into pure simulacra. Which is worse in many ways.
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I'm a bit fed up with people all over making such bad arguments. When it comes to being pro RT there are plenty of good ones that aren't just misinfo, like what you mentioned with iteration times, and believe me I know. I've built maps in source and UE4
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Except, that's not what he said. I've linked the vid with timecode. In it he says in the dense urban areas where probe density is most needed, it has the same 0.5m probe density as Unity. Only places like the countryside, where GI is more uniform have lower probe density youtu.be/nhFkw5CqMN0?...
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if your "hundreds of GB bigger" statement is from that DSO article about Assassin's Creed: Shadows, that article was lying. The presentation it links as a source contradicts it, talking about how the game has baked lighting for low end systems, and it only takes up 9GB...
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Funny you should mention "just reading the headline." if you actually bothered to read the GDC presentation that article linked to, you would see that the article is blatantly lying to you. AC: Shadows has a baked solution.
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That's so cool. I wish I had an identical twin who could turn into a car
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And yet, if you go to the Steam Hardware Survey and add up all the non-RT GPUs, you get 19.99%. most of the RT cards make the list, so at least half of the ~10% other is also non-RT. Meaning~25% of people still don't have RT cards.
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See! Now your at least getting somewhere! Though, I do think it's unfortunate that this doesn't seem to be as visually obvious as Quake 2 v Half-Life 2. This has also got me actually interested in watching you guys' deep dive tomorrow when I have time. I'm very curious to see how RT helps
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This is at least close to a counter argument. However, my core argument is the question; what is there in RT only games like this to get that 25% excited about new hardware? What is noticeably different as Quake 2 v Half-Life 2? or is this just an assimilate or die situation with no noticeable pros?
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If you go to the Steam Hardware Survey and add up the percents of all the non-RT cards you get 19.99%, and that's assuming the entire 9.49% other are RT cards that didn't make the list like the Titan RTX. Really the number is closer to ~25%. I'm not dictating anything, I'm pointing out a reality
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Gamers don't understand how the tech works or why devs use it
Devs forget that they are making a product and gamers are the ones they need to convince to buy their game and possibly expensive hardware to run it
The middle class forgets that $180 is a lot when wages are stagnant and rents increasing
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It's somewhat contingent on tech companies dragging it out without share holders noticing though. As after that their stock prices will plummet and they'll have less capital for R&D. Growth from AI seems to be a great distraction for the moment, but it's looks like that might not hold
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This is a bit of a separate point, but while people with non RT cards should probably upgrade, we should all also get used to the idea of computers becoming more like an appliance that lasts decades in the near future. Though they may have another decade or more of hard fought gains before then.
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Additionally hardware has really been hitting a wall they've mostly been scaling by amping up TDP ever since Moore's law was pronounced dead in 2016. The gains have not been insignificant overall, but they seem to be struggling more and more every gen. cap.csail.mit.edu/death-moores...
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Trust me, I understand the difference in iteration times. I've done source mapping and spent too many hours of my life waiting for lightmass to rebuild lighting. But the average consumer isn't aware and doesn't care, and they're the ones being asked to upgrade.
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And before you mention iteration times with ray tracing vs baking, I'm aware. But the average consumer isn't aware and doesn't care, and they're the ones being asked to fork over at least $180 for a used 2060 Super or RX 6600 at a time when wages haven't kept up with inflation, but rents beating it
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Yea, except here's Quake II, a game from the year the Riva 128 launched, vs Half-Life 2, and here's Battlefield V vs Doom: The Dark Ages, games which have the same age gap. I'm not noticing the same kind fidelity increase. So please, explain how this is supposed to be a compelling argument
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Heck, the difference between Doom and Return to Castle Wolfenstein is one year less of a gap. Tech advancement in the 90s was crazy. Now, seeing people say I should upgrade for minor graphics improvements when wages haven't kept up with inflation, but rents have rose faster? literally why?
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yea, but the differences used to be massive. The upgrades felt compelling. "It's always been like this" isn't really a compelling reason to drop $180 on a used 2060 Super. Images 1 & 2 have the same time gap as 3 & 4, with 3 having the same release year as the 1060. There is a difference, but less
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I see some people point out how old RT is, but if you go to the Steam hardware survey and start adding up non-RT cards, you get 19.99%. Other is another 9.49% and by my reckoning every major RT card is on the list still, so most of that other is likely non-RT, making the upper limit 29.48%
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and yet, according to the Steam Hardware Survey, 19.99% of GPUs listed are models incapable of ray tracing. Another 9.49% are just listed as "other," I'm fairly certain I saw all major RT cards on the list, so the actual number is closer to 29.48%. Lets be generous and call it a quarter of systems
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Potentially less competition when you finish if no one can get funding though. That's kind of an upside if you can persevere
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my parents reading to me, and teaching me to read at the same time was probably one of the most important things they did for my development before I got to school
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I know Gundam already had latent homoeroticism, but I do wonder if Top Gun fans any influence
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Overall, LLM pushers seem to be desperate and struggling to find a profitable use case. Some of this is probably due to push back since many of its use cases are just evil, but it seems like at this rate it will burn itself out like crypto, NFTs and metaverse nonsense, which is heartening
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LLMs seem to only be useful for scams and misinformation. The only "useful" thing I've seen them do is be used for entertainment by streamers like DougDoug and Vedal/Neuro-sama, and even then they're only interesting when they have a person to bounce off.
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AI art already seems to have something of a self limiting factor in that they can't seem to make it able to iterate on a design or idea, making it nearly useless for production, and the second you can generate a million images in a style it becomes tacky and passe. value is in rarity after all
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AI image gen has gone from a novel curiosity that hallucinates trippy images, to an existential threat to artists and the environment. So it's understandable why it's become taboo to take anything but a hardline stance, but I'm not sure it's particularly productive
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tbh I preferred image gen tech when it hallucinated eyes and dog faces everywhere. That was actually interesting.
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He may have a minigun, but surely if we all rush him he can't kill all of us! Wait, you want me to go first? Don't you know I have a family and things to live for? how selfish of you not to charge to your death before me like I suggested.
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I've been saying for a while that ai is the radioactivity of our day. It has some limited legitimate uses, but it's being pushed as a cure all by quacks, and because of them it's going to kill people and ruin a number of things for decades
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Yea, back in the 90's and 00's though, there were rental places everywhere. My family bought very few PS1, PS2, or GameCube games. Instead I played a lot of games by renting them a week or two. Stuff we did buy was used, often clearance items from the rental place. Digital has been killing this
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wow, he sure ate a lot of books! no wonder he's so big!