coyotino [he/him] @ theangriestbird @beehaw.org

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Biden/Harris fucked up on more than just Gaza. Biden took action to address inflation, but Americans have continued to feel like their economic situation is worse off than it was 4 years ago. This is because grocery store and gas prices remain inflated, while the average American's income has stagnated. In short: corporate greed. Biden has done little to address corporate greed, and Harris did little to assure Americans that she would combat corporate greed or make Americans feel better about their personal finances. All evidence suggested that she would be even cozier with the billionaires than Biden was. Not hard to see why people stayed home when they felt like their choices were a billionaire and a billionaire-sympathizer.

In short, STOP BLAMING YOUR ALLIES. Trump's win is HARRIS'S FAULT.

There's this for methodology, at the end of the article:

Good question - I did some digging. It seems the poll was commissioned by IMEU and conducted by YouGov, who has historically been a high-quality pollster. The poll seems to have taken place in late August. IMEU has this article on their site about it. I am not seeing any article on YouGov's site, but frankly their site is a bit difficult to navigate.

you don't have to convince me, friend. The fact is, winning a national election involves building a coalition with people that you don't see eye-to-eye with 100%. The Dems don't have a great coalition to begin with - if they win their highly-educated base and nobody else, they lose the election 100% of the time. They have to win over other people, mostly the very few groups of undecided voters. And in this election, it was clear that one of the few undecided groups available were Arab-Americans that cared a whole lot about what has been happening on the West Bank. And Harris did fuck-all to court those voters, so they decided to stay home.

can we PLEASE get a new leftist party going in the US now? The Dems have proven for like 6 cycles now that they do not have the juice to get it done. Even when they win, they underperform expectations and then sit on their thumbs instead of actually doing anything for the American people besides the most basic infrastructural shit. Players like Lina Khan are the exception.

i suspect it has more to do with the fact that she supported genocide against Arabs abroad, and she needed Arab-Americans to win this election.

blame Harris. The voters told her they would stay home if she didn't denounce genocide. She continued to ignore them and support genocide, so voters stayed home. The voters literally told her what to do to win and she didn't do it.

dang i'm sorry i missed this. this is so fun!

Do we really think the Kremlin could assassinate an oligarch that resides in a foreign country that is hostile to Russia? Genuinely asking, because I always assume US billionaires are effectively untouchable. I know Putin has assassinated oligarchs within his own country, but given that Putin is the reason they were rich, one assumes he built up a fair amount of leverage on them before they obtained power.

i know the kids hate all that genocide that i'm doing and planning on continuing to do, but maybe i can win them to my side if i make fortnite boring?

Big brains over there in the Kremlin

And they have the neoliberal policies to match!

nihilism helps keep this one at bay for me, personally. lol

there it is again...

wtf happened in this thread while i was away

uhhh....why is this in Gaming? I'm all for discussing the new DB, but i think this should land in Entertainment, no?

Any money in politics is bad for democracy, especially when that money comes from the 1%. I know the cat is out of the bag, and in the short-term we must of course fight fire with fire. But reading this headline does not make me feel good about the state of democracy.

This is not good news, even if I want Harris to win.

I mean...it scares all of us too. What scares me more is that basically every voter dislikes the money in politics, even the conservatives, but somehow it never changes. Almost like the US govt has no checks or balances for the intersection of money and politics

sounds about right from my personal experience. 40% of devs actually go out of their way to carefully design the lighting around it, and tweak lighting resolutions to get acceptable frame rates. the other 60% throw it in for marketing.

Edit: alright i have watched this video more and have more detailed thoughts. Many are pointing out that HUB used somewhat cherry-picked samples in this case, and they have a history of presenting RT in an unfavorable light (no pun intended). Now that I am thinking about it, I can see that a few of their samples are cases where the RT lighting produces softer, more realistic shadows or reflections, but Steve says the non-RT image looks better because the shadows or reflections look "sharper". Idk, they weren't that egregious, but it does give a weird vibe.

Regardless, I hope people don't look at this and go "wow I guess RT is pointless then!". The title of the vid suggests that we've had 6 years of RT with little to show for it, but I think I disagree. Part of the problem is that AAA game dev times are LOOOOONG, and devs are using engines from before the RT renaissance that they are comfortable with using. Accordingly, they stick with lighting techniques that they are familiar with, rather than trying to learn a new workflow. Combine that with the fact that the majority of gamers are still using last-gen consoles or 1080ti's, and so devs have to use the old method of lighting to ensure that they can reach a viable audience. In that case, RT is a bonus feature that requires extra work on top of building the pre-baked lighting model.

We're starting to see more UE5 games with "software" RT from Lumen, and these look great and can run smoothly on current-gen consoles. But even if the difference can be hard to see, the point is that RT lighting lets devs automate lighting in a lot of cases where previously they had to hand-place every lighting source. So moving to an RT future will mean that dev costs will go down, and smaller teams will be able to produce more visually-stunning games. It's just that we're in this weird limbo right now, where devs don't want to go to only RT because a majority of gamers won't be able to play the game, but gamers don't want to get next-gen consoles because to their eyes, the graphics look basically the same. And of course they do, because devs are destroying themselves to make the pre-baked lighting look almost as good as RT.