We ruined everything for Hollywood accounting and sportsball.

There’s DRM in your goddamn video cables.

You know it’s crazy, someone just told me that’s more dangerous than having them do nothing.

Experts who enjoy doing [blank] the hard way don’t enjoy the tool that lets novices do [blank] at a junior level.

Somehow this means the tool is completely worthless and nobody should ever use it.

PC gaming itself will hardly change, because AMD cards work just fucking fine. They’ve only ever been a little bit behind on the high end. They’ve routinely been the better value for money, and offered a much lower low end. If they don’t have to keep chasing the incomparable advantages Nvidia pulls out of their ass, maybe they can finally get serious about heterogenous compute.

Or hey, maybe Nvidia ditching us would mean AMD finds the testicular fortitude to clone CUDA already, so we can end this farce of proprietary computation for your own god-damn code. Making any PC component single-vendor should’ve seen Nvidia chopped in half, long before this stupid bubble.

Meanwhile:

Cloud gaming isn’t real.

Anywhere after 1977, the idea that consumers would buy half a computer and phone in to a mainframe was a joke. The up-front savings were negligible and difference in capabilities did not matter. All you missed out on were your dungeon-crawlers being multiplayer, and mainframe operators kept trying to delete those programs anyway. Once home internet became commonplace even that difference vanished.

As desktop prices rose and video encoding sped up, people kept selling the idea you’ll buy a dumb screen and pay to play games somewhere else. You could even use your phone! Well… nowadays your phone can run Unreal 5. And a PS5 costs as much as my dirt-cheap eMachines from the AOL era, before inflation. That console will do raytracing, except games don’t use it much, because it doesn’t actually look better than how hard we’ve cheated with rasterization. So what the fuck is a datacenter going to offer, with 50ms of lag and compression artifacts? Who expects it’s going to be cheaper, as we all juggle five subscriptions for streaming video?

peperony and chease

Oh my god, he’s doing the Dunkey “strand-type game” joke. We’re only a few steps removed from him re-recording the Lasagna Cat monologue.

Miku’s message to artists.

I think the majority of Lemmy users are American or expect American news to dominate. The thing you’re complaining about only happens because of that.

Given that everyone’s first assumption is that it’s about the US Supreme Court, obviously no. You have to meet people where they are.

Even for domestic US news, the same shit happens for state versus federal governments. Sometimes on websites that namedrop cities and politicians but don’t bother mentioning what fucking state they’re in.

As if misleading headlines are the audience’s fault.

“What if we redid the skeezy camera that nearly killed the Xbone, but pointed it at your children? We expect to sell one billion units.”

Yeah good luck with that.

Folks, they train on Disney movies. Intellectual property is not a factor.

Coming Spring 2034.

Iteration is innovation.

Even combining existing ideas can explore and refine a genre.

Lucille: “I don’t care for Tetris.bas.”

Aria Winningson‬ ‪(@aria.labeledrude.online‬)

rip gainax, you ended in a weird convoluted way that pissed a lot of people off

Software path-tracing has been on my bucket list, mostly to test a concept: physically based instant radiosity. If an eye-ray goes camera, A, B, C, then the light C->B forms an anisotropic point source. The material at B scatters light from C directly into onscreen geometry. This allows cheating akin to photon mapping, where you assume nearby pixels are also visible to B. Low-frequency lighting should look decent at much less than one sample per pixel.

I made an FPS on NES.

It doesn’t use any mappers or added chips. There’s quicksaves, a level editor. jump-in two-player co-op, and SNES mouse support.

I have not been arsed to add music.

All both of them?

Or like a hundred million?

Sony pulls this shit with every new Playstation, through the ingenious and difficult process of not making enough. “PS3 sold out at launch! New shipment sold out again! And again!” Meanwhile they’d moved fewer total units than the 360 in the same timeframe, but Microsoft made one big shipment instead of three small ones.

Fuck software patents.

Copyright made sense when it was a decade or two. Industrial patents seem basically functional. Trademark’s mostly truth-in-advertising for consumer choice.

But software patents aren’t about how you do something - they’re claiming the entire concept, in the broadest possible terms, and killing it. Straight-up murdering that potential. It is denied the necessary iterative competition that turns dogshit first implementations into must-have features. Nobody’s gonna care in twenty years.

Entire hardware form-factors have come and gone in a single decade. Can you imagine if swipe keyboards were still single-vendor, and still worked like in 2009? Or maybe Apple bought them, and endlessly bragged about how Android can’t do [blank], because fifty thousand dollars changed hands in the 3G era.

How many games would not exist, if Nintendo had decided they own sidescrollers? A whole genre, wiped out, because a piece of paper says those mechanics are theft.