Today I Learned: Loading Ready Run isn't Deathist and will employ ghosts and spirits. It's just Paul isn't one of them. Heather checked. (Wouldn't this be more of an HR issue than a Spiritualist issue?)
Heather is correct to highlight the issue with "Replica Guns". The firearm used in the Rust Movie shooting was listed as a "replica gun", specifically a replica of one made in the 1880's, the period the movie was set in. That "replica gun" is a fully functioning .44 Long Colt. My thought when you said they were making replica guns from the Toom Raider series, are we talking simply plastic models designed to look good on somebody's shelf or in a shadow box... or are we talking actual replicas of Desert Eagles?
Heather, I'd like to postulate that there are more timely sources of News, but not better sources of News. Checkpoint+/Chillpoint are very unique in their news presentation that isn't matched elsewhere.
I appreciate that LRR were the only news source that pointed out that Arrowhead was just as culpable for the Helldivers 2 fiasco as Sony, which is entirely true and strangely under-reported.
The main benefit of faster refresh rates isn't "smoothness", but having the information updated as quickly as possible. On a 60Hz display, if something happens right after the screen updates, you don't see it happen for 1/60th of a second, and while most people think that doesn't matter because most humans have a reaction time of a little over 1/10th of a second at best, it all adds up. Additionally, while reaction times are slow, humans are really good at timing in general when they see something in motion, and need to anticipate it. Rhythm games, anyone. ;) Honestly, it's still diminishing returns, and I think 1000Hz is getting pretty far into that, but it's still a cool thing. For any gaming that relies on motion much (FPS, fighting games, rhythm games), I highly recommend anyone who's on a 60Hz screen to try a 144Hz. All that said, the marketing will focus on things like blurring and stuttering, because most people won't consciously perceive the latency advantages. Also, 120Hz TV kind of falls into uncanny valley, IMO. There's only 30 or 60FPS of content, so the TV has to guess what's in between, and that tends to cause weird shimmering on outlines of moving objects, etc, and while it's happening too fast to clearly pick out, I think your brain still knows it doesn't look right.
With the hunt showdown thing I'm reminded of TF2 on the xbox 360. No pay load, no load out, no nothing, just base tf2. We'd waited for ages on the promise that "it was coming" only for the Xbox 360 to be replaced before we ever got any more news.
Last I checked, Blurbusters, who have looked at the psychophysics pretty thoroughly, are confident that 1k+ Hz will continue to yield perceptual improvements
The Minecraft AI tool is actually just Serge and James, kidnapped and locked in a dark room, forced to answer questions for a machine that reads them out in ScarJo's voice to the player
Re: games loading and all those splash screens. I *LOATHE* any game that makes those unskippable. Like, sure, make them unskippable the VERY FIRST TIME I run the game, but after that just don't show them (preferable) or at least allow *any* control input to skip them. I'll employ a commandline option if one is present. I generally cba with renaming/deleting pertinent video files, because I just know a patch will bring them back. I've chosen to play the game some more, let me just get to that with as little friction as possible. FTR: I quite often let end-game credits just run and run whilst I check stuff on my second monitor. I'll notice a name here and there and listen to the music. The worst thing is a game where this pauses if the game loses focus.
Man, it's really weird to hear people talk about Edmonton. I didn't even realize there was an Apple store in Kingsway and I live here. Apparently it's a Jump+ store which is like an officially recognized Apple reseller in Canada. Weird.
Beej's theory about how Nintendo Stores warp space... 🤣🤣 Where is the Mario Pipe near the San Francisco store going to be that takes you to the Tokyo store? Heather counters with the warp where all the San (saintly) towns are right next to each other. 👼😄
"California's a really big Province" Y'know, I've heard Americans slip up and call Provinces; States, but I think this is LEGIT the first time I've heard a Canadian slip up and call a state a Province. XD Now to question if that's just because I don't watch as many Canadian Content Creators, or if it's because it's easier to disambiguate the two when you actually understand what a Province is...
Speaking as a Canadian, I'd say it's the second one. (At least for me.) We have to deal with the difference frequently (such as filling out online forms that assume American addresses). Americans, presumably, don't have to deal with this nearly as often since the USA is such a cultural and economic juggernaut.
Today I Learned: Loading Ready Run isn't Deathist and will employ ghosts and spirits. It's just Paul isn't one of them. Heather checked. (Wouldn't this be more of an HR issue than a Spiritualist issue?)
Can't go to HR if you're not human anymore. gotta go to SR or spirit relations. Which is what dr.crusher had in that one episode of tng
Heather is correct to highlight the issue with "Replica Guns". The firearm used in the Rust Movie shooting was listed as a "replica gun", specifically a replica of one made in the 1880's, the period the movie was set in. That "replica gun" is a fully functioning .44 Long Colt. My thought when you said they were making replica guns from the Toom Raider series, are we talking simply plastic models designed to look good on somebody's shelf or in a shadow box... or are we talking actual replicas of Desert Eagles?
Heather, I'd like to postulate that there are more timely sources of News, but not better sources of News. Checkpoint+/Chillpoint are very unique in their news presentation that isn't matched elsewhere.
I appreciate that LRR were the only news source that pointed out that Arrowhead was just as culpable for the Helldivers 2 fiasco as Sony, which is entirely true and strangely under-reported.
The main benefit of faster refresh rates isn't "smoothness", but having the information updated as quickly as possible. On a 60Hz display, if something happens right after the screen updates, you don't see it happen for 1/60th of a second, and while most people think that doesn't matter because most humans have a reaction time of a little over 1/10th of a second at best, it all adds up.
Additionally, while reaction times are slow, humans are really good at timing in general when they see something in motion, and need to anticipate it. Rhythm games, anyone. ;)
Honestly, it's still diminishing returns, and I think 1000Hz is getting pretty far into that, but it's still a cool thing. For any gaming that relies on motion much (FPS, fighting games, rhythm games), I highly recommend anyone who's on a 60Hz screen to try a 144Hz.
All that said, the marketing will focus on things like blurring and stuttering, because most people won't consciously perceive the latency advantages.
Also, 120Hz TV kind of falls into uncanny valley, IMO. There's only 30 or 60FPS of content, so the TV has to guess what's in between, and that tends to cause weird shimmering on outlines of moving objects, etc, and while it's happening too fast to clearly pick out, I think your brain still knows it doesn't look right.
With the hunt showdown thing I'm reminded of TF2 on the xbox 360. No pay load, no load out, no nothing, just base tf2. We'd waited for ages on the promise that "it was coming" only for the Xbox 360 to be replaced before we ever got any more news.
Last I checked, Blurbusters, who have looked at the psychophysics pretty thoroughly, are confident that 1k+ Hz will continue to yield perceptual improvements
As someone living in Asia, the tiny cramped-ass Daiso is wayyyy more accurate to the everyday experience.
The Minecraft AI tool is actually just Serge and James, kidnapped and locked in a dark room, forced to answer questions for a machine that reads them out in ScarJo's voice to the player
Huh, I hadn't realised the house of knives was a chain. But we have (at least) one here in nz, so it's either that or just a coincidental naming.
Edmonton also has 2 Lego stores, Southgate and WEM.
Re: games loading and all those splash screens. I *LOATHE* any game that makes those unskippable.
Like, sure, make them unskippable the VERY FIRST TIME I run the game, but after that just don't show them (preferable) or at least allow *any* control input to skip them. I'll employ a commandline option if one is present. I generally cba with renaming/deleting pertinent video files, because I just know a patch will bring them back.
I've chosen to play the game some more, let me just get to that with as little friction as possible.
FTR: I quite often let end-game credits just run and run whilst I check stuff on my second monitor. I'll notice a name here and there and listen to the music. The worst thing is a game where this pauses if the game loses focus.
Man, it's really weird to hear people talk about Edmonton. I didn't even realize there was an Apple store in Kingsway and I live here. Apparently it's a Jump+ store which is like an officially recognized Apple reseller in Canada. Weird.
Beej's theory about how Nintendo Stores warp space... 🤣🤣
Where is the Mario Pipe near the San Francisco store going to be that takes you to the Tokyo store?
Heather counters with the warp where all the San (saintly) towns are right next to each other. 👼😄
Kyoto has a Nintendo store. I just went to it.
"California's a really big Province" Y'know, I've heard Americans slip up and call Provinces; States, but I think this is LEGIT the first time I've heard a Canadian slip up and call a state a Province. XD
Now to question if that's just because I don't watch as many Canadian Content Creators, or if it's because it's easier to disambiguate the two when you actually understand what a Province is...
Speaking as a Canadian, I'd say it's the second one. (At least for me.)
We have to deal with the difference frequently (such as filling out online forms that assume American addresses). Americans, presumably, don't have to deal with this nearly as often since the USA is such a cultural and economic juggernaut.