Enlightenment Accelerationism

The Law of Threefold Return promises that for every criticism you make three times the criticism will return to you. So you better make sure they're good criticisms

@TheZvi This is a tax on your time and cognition and it sucks

No no no, you see, prices are efficient so this means the price went down because you only searched for it once or knew to use an incognito window and your phone is fully charged. Don't get mad, get smarter!

@JPCatulus @MarsdanVM @ProudBavaria Who said it was bad ? I said it wasn't good. Plenty of things in life are merely okay, including videogames, without being a piece of shit

@MarsdanVM @EnlightenmentA6 @ProudBavaria This is nostalgia bias, I preferred the old versions as a concept but in practice it wasn't that different- is Victoria 3 a bad game because they've had to adjust the military system? At launch they didn't even have movable units- I'd argue that's a bigger change.

Why does this keep happening with Stellaris?

@Gutoun @ProudBavaria Glad we can agree. Can you tell me where I said it was bad, or are you disagreeing with some guy you've hallucinated ?

@EnlightenmentA6 @ProudBavaria Yeah, but not very good and bad are different things.

@JhenriqueSRS @ProudBavaria If you're overhauling core systems on the fly once the game is live, something is going wrong. If you're doing it repeatedly, moreso

@EnlightenmentA6 @ProudBavaria Stellaris is easily one of the best 4X games in the market. If it didn't have horrible performance issues it might very well be the best Paradox Games. Besides, games being "re-written" says nothing about their quality.

@Gutoun @ProudBavaria Many things which are not very good sell because they're offering something for which there is high demand but little supply

@EnlightenmentA6 @ProudBavaria To be essentially remade 4 times and as commercially succesfull as it is, it can't be a bad game at it's core. The game has a ton of issues that could probably be solved by a sequel, but Paradox want to milk it as long as they can.

@JPCatulus @ProudBavaria Code and game-rules are written. I am not talking about pop-up text.

@EnlightenmentA6 @ProudBavaria Nobody plays Stellaris for its writing lol

@tmidander @ProudBavaria I kinda liked it too

@tmidander @ProudBavaria They set out to build something more like their own spin on Gal Civ, it failed so they pivoted toward what they know (but not all the way) and the entire thing has been oscillating around that fulcrum ever since. Should'a called it a bust and tried something else imo

@thraxar @F_Konopasek @ProudBavaria Evidence suggests it will never be right. I do think everyone (the customers included) are throwing good money after bad on it

@EnlightenmentA6 @F_Konopasek @ProudBavaria I quite liked the early game of the release version. It just stagnated in the middle before getting good again in the end game crises. That middle was a painful slog though. The overall game wasn’t bad it just wasn’t right yet. I’m not sure it’s right yet now tbh

@F_Konopasek @ProudBavaria Did you play Stellaris 1.0.0 ? The first major overhaul had nothing to do with performance. It just wasn't a very good game

@EnlightenmentA6 @ProudBavaria Its a great game but it has performance issues ( it gets really slow late game). Thats why it was changed so many times

@GeForce_JacobF Why is it 4x brighter ? If it adds light to the scene that wasn't there before, that's pretty shit actually.

DLSS 5 off vs on example in Zorah, check out the improved occlusion, shadowing and material detail

@memeticsisyphus The Irish by large say that Irish Americans aren't Irish because they have not the culture or lived experience of Ireland...

What’s an Irish American?

@zanyfen @revenant_MMXX Right. So in this argument about what counts as being a fan of the thing, what experiences are required. Your position is that the question is effectively nonsense, there are no required experiences ?

Games are designed to be played, you might as well be saying you can enjoy a song without hearing it or appreciate a painting without seeing it. You are committing a basic error in which the component parts of a game are "the art part" when in reality the game itself is the art.

@_subtxt_ Like those mods they have a real "the sunlight is coming from nowhere in particular" problem

Even the environmental stuff feels a bit off in some of the comparisons. They remind me of the "photo realistic mod" for Cyberpunk that looks *technically* impressive, but feels like it really strips out the art direction and atmosphere. This isn't DLSS 5, but same vibe...

@RWApodcast Pay nuclear engineers from places that weren't stupid to do it

People are mocking this as "German autism" but it's just the physical reality. There's a generation-sized gap with no nuclear engineers, the plants are rotting and can't just be restarted, and a hundred other things. Re-nuclearizing Germany would take several decades

@DanielParker_13 @animalologist Not surprise tbh. It has a label on it which says "nobody wrote this, nothing was meant by this"

@EnlightenmentA6 @animalologist I will note that nobody has cared enough to push back against my criticism of the AI passage, which seems to indicate that the human passage (whatever flaws it may or may not have) is certainly much more striking.

Having worked on literary passages with thousands of high schoolers, I’m just gonna let y’all know that >50% of adults straight up do not know what the left passage is saying. It is opaque to them. At least 20% of people will struggle with the one on the right too, although probably not of the people who’d take this test for fun. They’ll ~all basically get & perhaps be moved by the right. At best 2/3 can even grok the left though. Genuinely. The syntax is too unintuitive for people who don’t regularly read old prose. If you struggle with it too much, you’ll also prefer the other one that came more naturally and carried similar emotional weight — perhaps even more, since your faculties weren’t overtaxed trying to understand it

@St_Rev But in anycase, the correct punctuation for a spoken sentence depends on how it was actually spoken... and the only person who can tell you how it was spoken in a novel is the author, so...

@St_Rev Sure, if we're tripping up here because the NYT author doesn't realise that guy is atleast maybe supposed to have actually said those things because of lack of punctuation, that's probably worse

The author *thinks* the correct sentence is "As well, ask men what they think of stone." The author is misreading the sentence, which has an elided 'May' at the beginning.