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KoboldOfArtifice@ttrpg.networkto Greentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon turns on raytracingEnglish3·3 months agoWhere is RTX being forced into? Haven’t seen a game where it’s not an option you have to toggle on first and it’s not like RTX is a lot of additional work for the developer, seeing how it in fact reduces the work necessary to make a scene look the way it should.
Yes, it’s stupidly expensive and not every game manages to benefit massively from it, but it can lead to some very pretty environments in games and it seems perfectly valid in those cases.
Also, some people do quite enjoy admiring the way the materials of various things end up looking. Maybe it’s not the majority of players, but some people quite like looking at details in the games they play.
KoboldOfArtifice@ttrpg.networkto games@hexbear.net•Planescape: Torment: Think Smart Thoughts BasedlyEnglish3·9 months agoCan’t help you out regarding any mod recommendations but thought it’d be worth to support your position. In the end, videogames are meant to be fun. The way you’re supposed to play it is the way you enjoy it. It’s naturally always worth hearing other people’s perspectives and see if maybe they have merit for you, but it’s not cool to tell other people they’re wrong for how they enjoy their entertainment.
KoboldOfArtifice@ttrpg.networkto News@lemmy.world•Vance mocked for saying eggs cost $4 — while standing in front of a dozen for $2.99English1·1 year agoYour point specifically doesn’t stand. Not the one you made in your comment. You’re getting incredibly upset over being corrected when the correction was genuinely well meant and important to the discussion at hand. I’m sorry that this is something that angers you, but your hurt feelings don’t change the fact that what I’m bringing up isn’t pedantry but a correction on a misconception which is being propagated for political gain.
KoboldOfArtifice@ttrpg.networkto News@lemmy.world•Vance mocked for saying eggs cost $4 — while standing in front of a dozen for $2.99English11·1 year agoI know what events you’re referencing and misrepresenting, yes.
The correction was entirely on point because the framing of this being an example of rampant inflation and thus a major governmental failure is misinformation propagated by the Republican party.
While it is certainly imaginable that the erratic pricing of eggs in particular could have been handled better by the Democratic government, it’s entirely false to present it as just one example of a wide reaching problem as the price increase in this case is unique to this product. Inflation has been happening and is comparatively high, putting a lot of pressure on lower income households, but it is not effectively apocalyptic as it is presented here.
Your response is completely unwarranted as in no way was I even attacking or talking down to you.
KoboldOfArtifice@ttrpg.networkto News@lemmy.world•Vance mocked for saying eggs cost $4 — while standing in front of a dozen for $2.99English31·1 year agoInflation describes the decrease of the value of your money. When a currency is affected by inflation, all prices go up as you require more of that money to equal the same worth of goods.
If eggs shot up to a price of 8 or so bucks and then went down to 2.69, you weren’t being affected by inflation as it is unheard of for a currency to suffer such insane inflation and then immediately recover from it.
What happened in your case would have been a large shift in supply and demand, possibly brought on by the mentioned problems in the egg production, or price gouging by whoever was selling these. Possibly also just a mix of those.
KoboldOfArtifice@ttrpg.networkto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•I'm looking at you, ubisoftEnglish11·1 year agoIn no sense did I say that other people’s dislike for their games is a problem. I take no offense to that. I myself am literally of the opinion that the newer AC games are hard to enjoy and insulting to the players time.
Nonetheless, I can acknowledge that it’s a source of comfort for some, even when I fail to enjoy it. Making them feel bad about it just isn’t OK.
KoboldOfArtifice@ttrpg.networkto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•I'm looking at you, ubisoftEnglish1·1 year agoI’m sorry, but “Really? Ubisoft though?” is not just rubbishing Ubisofts practices. It’s condescending to OP.
The fact that just because I criticized your choice of words makes you assume that it’s in defense of my own tastes is unreasonable too. Is there not a chance someone might sympathise with someone without sitting in the same exact boat as them?
Point is, many people would feel bad about being approached the way you did and it is not exactly unreasonable to think that they would.
KoboldOfArtifice@ttrpg.networkto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•I'm looking at you, ubisoftEnglish32·1 year agoThere’s so much attempted shaming in these comments. People like some of their games and some like them a lot. Even if you don’t feel like they’re the best, Original and Odyssey still carry the attachment people have for Assassin’s Creed and Anno 1800 has no real direct comparable alternatives.
Stop trying to make people feel bad for just wanting to enjoy something they like when they are the victim of these companies trying to make their life harder. The fact that Ubisoft treats their customers like trash isn’t something to rub in someone’s face, it’s too bad that some people’s hobbies are locked behind something like that.
Das Kommentar klang schon recht ernst und definitiv im Kontext angemessen.
KoboldOfArtifice@ttrpg.networkto News@lemmy.world•Dead woman found entangled in baggage machinery at Chicago airportEnglish3·1 year agoI see many comments discrediting this somehow, but I want to put my two cents in as someone who does work with sensor based AI assisted processing in real time and safety reliant environments.
Just because a concept can be thought of that sounds reasonable and maybe even works in simple tests, that doesn’t mean that it’s actually useful for the real use case. Many typical approaches to creating models that can solve computer vision tasks such as this can result in unstable results and no system that has a considerable false positive rate would be tolerated by any airliner. This isn’t even to speak of the false negative rate which might then still be rather high, which still leaves the system useless.
Naturally it’s not to say that no such system could be created, but they can’t be just whipped out like some people here claim. If, as people here are already assuming, the problem happened because someone climbed onto the conveyor belt and was carried in, then this type of problem is sufficiently unthinkably rare that most companies didn’t think about it much either.
Clearly greater security is necessary, but people are being unreasonable with how trivial they portray the solution as being.
KoboldOfArtifice@ttrpg.networkto Games@lemmy.world•World of Warcraft: The War Within's pre-patch event has been fixed, removing 90-minute wait times and turning its weekly quests into account-wide dailiesEnglish1·1 year agoI think their main problem was that it was again reliant on the same ramp up that is typical for Pre-Patch events.
The lack of communication in that left people assuming that the current speed of acquisition was all there was, when most likely there was no worry about missing out even if you joined in the last week. People with alts also had a massive advantage.
Could have all been solved with more communication. While you can’t make two first impressions, it still seems like a fun enough event and the rewards are neat. Not enough to play the game just for the event, but I doubt that that’s ever the intent behind these. They’re just there to set the mood a bit for the upcoming release.
Their claim does have support in so far that the early testament contains a lot of work written by polytheistic people that later in would become the monolatrists and even later monotheists that we know as Jews, further branching off into what today are Christians.
This does not mean that Christians in any sense are not purely monotheistic. Not only are they so, it’s one of the most critical parts of their beliefs, to the point where even believing that their one god has in any way shape or form some kind of tangible division is considered strict heresy from trinitarian churches which form the mainstream of Christianity and have done so for hundreds of years.
Edit: There is a great video by Alex O’Connor interviewing Esoterica on that topic in particular and they talk about the evidence that supports the viewpoints.
KoboldOfArtifice@ttrpg.networkto World News@lemmy.world•LGBTQ+ apps & online spaces are no longer safe for UgandansEnglish7·1 year agoMaybe not news in the sense that it’s a new development (though the title implies it is a deterioration), but still very much worthy of reporting. Just because something is typical doesn’t mean it is unremarkable.
KoboldOfArtifice@ttrpg.networkto PlayStation@lemmy.zip•[Playstation Lifestyle] The Sims 5 Has Been Canceled – ReportEnglish2·1 year agoIt’s pretty sad as I was especially excited for the moddability and also as it was the only project the now presumably defunct developer worked on.
But I think it’s still better to cut it off early than to release something that is just not fulfilling a certain standard. It looked like it was much earlier in development than it was from the screenshots.
Really hope the other entries in the genre step in and manage to get the Cities Skylines effect going again.
KoboldOfArtifice@ttrpg.networkto PlayStation@lemmy.zip•[Playstation Lifestyle] The Sims 5 Has Been Canceled – ReportEnglish2·1 year agoThe stated reason was that the games development was not proceeding at a pace that gave the publisher confidence in it. It’s not too surprising after several delays and rather rough looking gameplay material shown in the ramp up to early access.
Either works, though the usage in the comic is certainly more archaic. But that’s also intentional, as it gives it a more grandiose and maniacal tone.
KoboldOfArtifice@ttrpg.networkto Gaming@lemmy.zip•Escape from Tarkov is offering players in-game currency as a bounty for reporting cheatersEnglish1·1 year agoIt’s not quite that simple. Crowdsourcing has many of the drawbacks that AI has too.
While it can have a higher reliability in detecting nonsensical inputs or inputs that it’s simply unfit in processing, that comes at an intrinsic cost in scalability. Some tasks can’t be effectively crowdsourced for, either because of volume or urgency.
Machine Learning systems learn to approximate decision making and thus can attempt at learning from crowdsourcing efforts. It is notable though that depending on the use case, model and training method, machine learning algorithms can potentially be better than the data it was trained on. Or much worse, it’s very fickle.
It is definitely still the case that crowdsourcing is a really important tool and oftentimes machine learning relies on it’s efforts. And it naturally can solve tasks that we don’t have a viable automated approach for.
KoboldOfArtifice@ttrpg.networkto Baldur's Gate 3@lemmy.world•Wake me up when September startsEnglish2·1 year agoThey are, but, even as someone who really enjoyed playing them without any nostalgia for them, I would have liked them all the more with a better combat system that is properly turn based and three-dimensional as the one in BG3 is.
I know for a fact that there is a sizeable portion of players that don’t think that BG3 is strictly or at all better, but at the same time, a lot of people can’t get into BG1 because they really don’t enjoy its combat.
I’d absolutely adore a mod that gives us the BG1 story in BG3 and I think it would really boost accessibility. It would also be an enormous amount of effort to represent it well, especially in a way that tries to capture it in a recognizable form.
KoboldOfArtifice@ttrpg.networkto Cool Guides@lemmy.ca•A cool guide to Epicurean ParadoxEnglish4·1 year agoYou make the claim that a will relies on some idea of chaos, which definitely requires some actual explanation.
The amount of choices one has is irrelevant in the comparison to random chance. If the person uses reason to decide for one of several options, they, in the most common sense, clearly have acted out of free will. Assuming that a free will exists in a physical universe, but we’re in metaphysics anyways.
I am not sure what it even means to create choices where there were none. If you end up making a decision, then it clearly was an option to begin with, by the definition of what that word means.
What pointing out the paradox here entails is that amongst the presumptions we made, at least one of them must be false. The argument used in the OP does not disprove the existence of some divine being at all and it’s not trying to. It’s trying to disprove the concept of a deity that has the three attributes of being all-powerful, all-loving and all-knowing. In the argument given, it is shown that at least one of these attributes is not present, given the observation of evil in the world.
Your comparison to light being described as a particle and a wave is to your own detriment. The topic of this duality arose in the first place from the fact that our classical particle based models of the universe began to become insufficient to correctly predict behaviours that had been newly observed. A new model was created that can handle the problem. The reason this is a weak argument here is that no physicist would ever claim that the models describe the world precisely. Physical models are analogies that attempt to explain the world around us in terms humans can understand.
In your last question, you make the mistake of misunderstanding the argument once again. You grant the person omnipotence and leave it at that. The argument is arguing about the combination of omnipotence, omniscience and all-lovingness. The last of these deals with your question directly, explaining the drive to make the changes in question. The other two grant the ability to do so without limitation.
This chart isn’t reducing that much at all. It’s explaining a precise chain of reasoning. It may or may not be missing some options, but you haven’t named any so far that weren’t fallacies.
Heya, I have been looking into Fate and have to say, I am somewhere between intense intrigue and confusion. I have already heard of Fate before since I saw people like adapting it to all kinds of general contexts to supply freestyle roleplay with some degree of structure.
Now, as someone who is a DnD Forever DM trying to explore these options, I am feeling a little unsure in regards to how this ends up feeling in actual play. Do you think you have examples of any actual play series where the setting is a High Fantasy one? I looked it up, but I mainly find things in more modern settings, which is fine, but I feel like I’d have an easier time if I saw someone tackle something closer to my goals.