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  • It's definitely an odd one, but hey, if Path of Exile is the thing that gets many people to go "hey, he's a liar", I'll certainly take it.

    More than happy to see this story spread, as it's hilarious enough to spread virally, but also makes Musk look pathetic and like a compulsive liar.

    I mean, seriously, he's the richest man on earth, why is his ego so fragile as to need to "prove" himself as a gamer, and to need to prove that so badly as to take a risk like faking that accomplishment live.

  • Drives me crazy how many churches still manage to conclude that drinking is an outright sin. Like... forget the conversations we can have about the particulars of drunkenness versus drinking basically everywhere it's mentioned, how did we ever get past Jesus turning water into wine to believe this was a sin in the first place?

    You have to jump through so many hoops of ignoring the obvious in scripture to even begin to argue for it, and yet it's a widespread belief.

  • I'm no patent lawyer, but every graphic in that patent describes a 540p image being upscaled to a 1080p image. No mentions of a 2160p image, although I didn't read the full text.

    I suspect this feature is more intended to allow games like The Witcher 3 or Wolfenstein that output a really low resolution to present a better image.

    Although, having tinkered with FSR3, I'm generally not impressed with AI upscaling at low source resolutions. I've heard DLSS does better in those conditions, but even at 1080p->4k there's noticeable artifacts and temporal instability. I much prefer it at 1440p->4k. So I'm somewhat unsure how much I'd even want 1080p->4k, although I'd certainly try it and see, and I kinda think I don't want 540p->1080p.

  • Politely, no one asked? OP asked a direct question, I'm doing my best to answer it, and you're... dunking on me about a point nobody was talking about?

    At best, this is an odd non-sequitur. At worst, it's toxic behaviour meant to shut down any discussion about a topic you personally dislike.

  • I'm assuming you're looking for a basic answer from Christianity. In that case, the TL;DR is that Humans are created in God's image. We're endowed with God's emotions, not the other way around, and emotions aren't necessarily bad, they're just corrupted in us by sin.

    God experiences all kinds of emotions in the Bible, he is "jealous" for us, he's also depicted as sad or angry in many cases. Even Jesus, a "perfect man without sin" feels anger and flips the tables of a synagogue when he sees people turning that religious practice into a corrupt business.

    So a religious answer to "shouldn't God be beyond human emotions?" would be that emotions aren't inherently bad. We should be angered by injustice, for example. Emotions can be bad, if you let them control you and fly into a rage for selfish reasons, for example, but they don't have to be bad.

  • Yeah.... to be fair, it does work, I personally don't pay for iCloud, but the way they aggressively push it and auto-enable it in so many places leaves less-technical users stuck with an unusable computer without more storage, unless they're savvy enough to know how to disable everything... which they aren't.

    It's a frustrating practice, and MS is no better with the way they force OneDrive down your throat.

  • 100%, but ideologically she's every bit as much a Jedi as Luke is here. He's not had any formal induction to an organization, so that can't be what Yoda means here.

    Yoda is also shown quite clearly regretting the kind of stagnation he allowed in the Jedi Order, which is exactly the reason Ahsoka was put in the hard situation she was. The Clone Wars very much set up her character as an emblem to show the rot that allowed Palpatine to rise, which Yoda acknowledges and regrets quite explicitly there. It's not a ridiculous inference to assume he respects her and would validate Ahsoka as part of the "good side", which is about all "Jedi" can mean in this context. She even explicitly and repeatedly tries to turn Darth Vader.

    Anyway, I do agree in that it's not a massive plot hole or anything, but I'd say that if we're ever explicitly shown Yoda meeting Ahsoka pre-Empire, this scene will be weird.

  • They've done a surprisingly good job of maintaining this scene, actually.

    Rebels: Kanan is dead by now, and Ezra would be lost in deep space at this point. Yoda also wouldn't know about either.

    Mara Jade: 100% still a Sith Assassin right now. Also not Disney canon or anyone Yoda would hear about.

    Ahsoka: This is the best candidate, since Yoda would know about her, and likely regret the decisions that forced her to leave the Jedi Council, making it weird to dispute her status as "Jedi". The most favourable assumption is that he assumes she's dead.

    All said, remarkable protection of an Episode 5 made before episodes 1, 2, 3, multiple TV shows, novels, and sequels.

  • Honestly.... I kinda can. This is an extreme and unlikely scenario, but there's a few things that make me think it's not impossible.

    A) Trump has publicly promised to back out of NATO.

    B) Trump is generally very pro-Russia.

    C) Trump has generally had poor relations with Canada.

    If the US backed out of NATO, they'd have a lot of military power sitting idle, and NATO would be significantly weaker, as well as doubly occupied in Ukraine. Russia would certainly be interested in such a thing happening, given the strategic importance of Antarctica, and how much it would take eyes away from them. I also don't doubt for a second that Trump would love to exploit our natural resources, especially oil, and the military importance of the top of the world. Not to mention it'd be an excuse to continue creating expensive military contracts and posturing as tough.

    This is of course, mostly fantasy, but Trump is nothing if not unpredictable.

  • Twins can be very close, especially as a kid with no concept of twins or sense to pick out distinctive details.

    My father has a twin brother who lives far away, with the most obvious difference between them that my father generally keeps a beard. One night, when my Dad shaved and came to tuck me into bed, he was met with an "Uncle so and so, when did you get here?".

    Of course now as an adult, I'd be able to tell them apart no problem, even if they did dress and style the same. I've observed their mannerisms and minor cosmetic marks with a keener eye as an adult. But as a young kid who couldn't even clearly tell his own father from his twin, I find a kid being unable to recognize a chance encounter he wasn't expecting very believable.

  • My issue is more with the math of it. Since it requires holding your frames until you've got one in reserve (can't generate an in-between until you know what's next), it fundamentally makes the game less responsive.

    That said, if you understand that, and like the visual smoothness of motion with more frames, then it's super cool tech. Not every game has to be treated like it's competitive Counter Strike, and I think it's really cool if you like it, but it frustrates me how poorly marketed and understood the actual technology and its compromises are.

  • Eh, FSR3 upscaling and FSR3 frame generation are different things. I'm personally a fan of upscaling, it's great for a sharper picture on my large 4k TV without spending a fortune on a massive GPU (I use a living room gaming PC), but not at all a fan of frame generation, as it introduces more input lag for the illusion of more frames. Not a tradeoff I'm ever willing to make, especially when VRR already does an incredible job of creating the illusion (and a degree of reality) of good performance when my framerate drops.

  • Sounds like a CEO who doesn't have a damn clue how code works. His description sounds like he thinks every line of code takes the same amount of time to execute, as if x = 1; takes as long as calling an encryption/decryption function.

    "Adding" code to bypass your encryption is obviously going to make things run way faster.

  • Very much still Max's to lose. Like... 57 points? If he DNF'd twice, absolutely, Lando could take it, but even if Lando and Oscar consistently 1-2'd, with fastest lap, the most McLaren could do, if Max places 3rd every weekend it's unwinnable without sprints (11pts a weekend, x5 weekends, 55 of 57 needed points advantage).

    In reality, even a decent Max Verstappen can lock out this championship with ease. So long as Red Bull don't catastrophically tank his car for a few of these weekends.

  • Shame that option #2 has these downsides. Personally, I'd probably prefer #2, and to live with some broken images.

    That said, lemm.ee is one of, if not the largest Lemmy instance, and has a certain responsibility to prioritize usability as a sort of "sane default" choice for many people looking into the fediverse. As such.... yeah, I give it to option #3 here. If I (or others) was truly deeply moved by the privacy concern, there are an abundance of alternative options for that higher privacy standard, including full self-hosting.

  • Mostly art things. I'm far from qualified to speak to it as an expert, I haven't played either version yet, but have friends who are very passionate about the topic.

    I think the easiest way to explain it is to refer to this Miyazaki quote:

    Most people don't believe me when I say this, but a certain kind of refinement, elegance, and dignity are very important to me. I'll usually tell the designers that flat-out grotesque or splatter type designs will not get past me. This has everything to do with my own personal sensibilities, and it is something that I apply to every design that I approve.

    Even if you just look at the tutorial boss (I clipped a a YT side-by-side for you here), the changes they've made here to add detail are basically all... grotesque. Gross hanging flesh, some weird hanging nipple thing, it's a very different interpretation of the original than what I believe was intended.

    This is obviously just one example, but it's this type of change that bothers purists. Now, mind you, I don't think this makes the remake trash or anything, but if you're interested in Demon Souls historically as the beginning of the Souls franchise, this kind of change is essentially revisionist history, and it's disappointing to me that the original game isn't also available in some way besides buying an old PS3 or emulating the game.

  • Eh, not much nefarious you can do by pushing data around. Taking a lot of CPU/GPU usage? Certainly, you can do a lot of evil with distributed computing. But bandwidth?

    Costs a lot to host all that data to push to people, and to handle streaming it to so many as well, all for them to just... throw it out? Users certainly don't keep enough storage to even store a constant 100Mb/s of sneaky evil data, let alone do any compute with it, because the game's CPU/GPU usage isn't particularly out of the ordinary.

    So not much you could do here. Ockham's razor here just says... planes are fast, MSFS is a high fidelity game, they've gotta load a lot of high accuracy data very quickly and probably can't spare the CPU for terribly complicated decompression.