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@LegoKingo I always figured it's meant to be like "free men", as in the native people not beholden to whatever house is running the spice mining operation at the moment

What do you think the "fre" in fremen stands for?

@DaveOshry This one gives me extreme "Just put in everything from everything" vibes, like the game the Palworld devs made before realising they forgot to put Pokemon in it, too

I was iffy on Crimson Desert then I saw it had BotW style climbing and suddenly I was locked in lol

@Conmom222 @WaluigiApologst @thenatewolf the pyramids weren't built by slaves

@WaluigiApologst @thenatewolf I doubt the slaves gave a rat's patootie about any of that. Except the taking a leak part.

When they were building the pyramids, were they allowed to pee down the side, or did they have to walk all the way to the bottom? Obviously no poops but I’m wondering about pee.

@ShriekingNoises Yeah this guy has

Has anyone actually done a study on why small business owners are uniquely insane?

@jib_loger_alt what other fail states could there possibly be in a game where you control a cartoon train?

I know this question is probably already answered in the game, but why is the train falling off the tracks even an option in this game I’m confused?

@disrupthehuman damn, you must really hate Devil May Cry then

i too love it when my "action game" presents me repeatedly with enemies most properly described as "things to absorb damage".

@valkyrie786 @sinscersei I mean, we do know exactly what went wrong

@sinscersei Ugh her obsession with Paul & his kids was the scariest thing. Alia scared me like what went so wrong to create such a monster.

i’d rather the incest between paul and alia stay more in the subtext i think it’s much more interesting that way. when i was reading dune that’s exactly what stood out to me the subtlety of it. and for me it works better because their relationship is already inherently unsettling

@imactuallykoo1s They're hiding the fact that the earth is flat and surrounded by a great Cyprus Wall from us

It was created by a video game designer on the spot because there was no Arctic flag, and it just kinda stuck. That’s it.

@themarinadove This is really funny considering Duncan Idaho is by far the most homophobic character in all of Dune

@patternscreamr2 Sorry I just noticed I'm talking to a child, carry on

@patternscreamr2 All animators are overworked and underpaid, that has nothing to do with you insinuating that it's impossible to animate a character flying without it looking stupid

genuine question for the people saying the animation is bad here: how else are you supposed to animate flying?

@BellularGaming I hate this stuff, but I would be careful about sharing this specific graphic. It's an AI generated image itself

Lots of these are the DLSS 5 pass being opinionated on how light should interact with those surfaces, based on training data. Decent chance their training data has more women wearing lipstick than men. Similar for other changes.

@IanCutress 1 It's releasing later this year, it can't be that early 2 Yeah no shit 3 "The guy trying to sell me a pile of shit said lots of people are lining for his pile of shit"

@flowzr91 I saw the demos live. I asked about more fast paced environments rather than open world games. They said three things. 1) This is still really early, like really early 2) Lots and lots of optimization to be done 3) These are the studios who wanted to work with us first on this

"Hey, here's a demo that's still early and unoptimized, coming out end of year hopefully. We're still getting it to work and this is an early alpha." "We shoved it onto two separate GPUs to ensure the base game runs fine and the DLSS works well enough for the demo." "We have 5090s, so why not run it on those. We could have used two GT730s for the lolz, and you would have asked why, but we had 5090s on the desk." Everyone starts screaming 🎶OMG 🎶 🎶 IT REQUIRES 🎶 🎶 TWO 5090s!!1!🎶 🎶 WONT SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN 🎶 I really can't fathom the dumb. You know console games are made on dev kits that are vastly faster than the consoles they run on. It's well documented, especially in early cycle design. To anyone that claims I'm pro NVIDIA or I'm not taking people's complaints seriously, go look at my previous NVIDIA tweets. I don't get passes for events. I find issues with their messaging all the time. This is just one where seemingly most of the TechTube space couldn't be bothered to apply the most basic critical thinking, or didn't ask a basic question or two. Instead, let's jump straight to drama and have it as the cornerstone of the outrage and content. Because clicks, I guess. There are a thousand other things to mention about DLSS5. I gave them a ton of feedback when I spoke to the engineers at the demo in person (most of the time it looks like a repositioning of the light source more than anything else, it was shown on games that aren't that high in graphics fidelity (I'm actually disappointed in modern AAA if this is what we have), half the time it looks simply like the additional tesselation we saw in DX11, and it can ignore a number of doubly-relected shadows). Here's the kicker though. NVIDIA has thousands of employees working on its gaming portfolio. I've seen so many people complain 'why did they work on this when they could have worked on other stuff'. They ARE working on other stuff. You might be able to only think about one feature at a time (make sure you remember to breathe), but these things are all developed in parallel with other features. If anyone has enough money to have teams invested in researching and developing a bucket load of features, it's NVIDIA. Also, you can turn the feature off. Imagine complaining about a TV channel you don't watch, just because it's on the guide and the cable service promoted it and needed two 8K TVs to do so because it was early 3D. I'll say it again. I really can't fathom the dumb. Or rather I can, and I'm just amazingly disappointed on this hardware critique. I'll get backlash from other media just for this post, sure, that much is certain (and thanks for obliging, much appreciated). But perhaps I should just bring @ctnzr on the show for an interview later in the year. He's a really cool dude anyway.

@reddRockman Hey buddy, you should go and tell whoever this dipshit is that it doesn't affect geometry

@flowzr91 @aevanko That's a different frame of animation space cadet, sit down.

The people who worked on the game model should be happy that I think most of us agree the Slop Filter is ridiculous and the real model is the only thing we want. Really thought this was an early April Fool’s joke but here we are lmao

@illderness_tips @themarinadove Guy who lived a couple thousand years constantly so high off his own supply he thinks he's seen the fundamental laws of the universe change

frank herbert geeked on mescaline thinking he’s the reincarnate of william shakespeare while writing down “YOURE TAKING THE WORM TRIP, LAD” in children of dune

@BourgeoisBogan @BrodieOnLinux I mean, this is kind of true for all art created under capitalism. Your intent will always be constrained by your budget, the sensibilities of the target audience, or the people you're accountable to in one way or another. Still different to someone else just changing your art.

@flowzr91 @BrodieOnLinux I sort of agree, but if you are a game director at Capcom, and you're not the one who decides your budgetary constraints, or which concessions you needed to make to get the project approved, the games artistic intent has already been 'erased' at that point, no?

One argument I'm often seeing about DLSS 5 is regarding "artistic intent" which is dumb, both Bethesda and Capcom both signed off on it so an AI filter is there artistic intent. But just because that is your intention, it doesn't suddenly mean that it doesn't look like shit.

@BrodieOnLinux Except it doesn't just happen when you work at a big company, twitter has been rampant with people slapping AI filters on people's art that they post here too. There is no point in making a distinction here, it's bad no matter who it happens to.

@flowzr91 Yep, that's what happens when you work at a big company. I didn't say I like how it works, but that's what happens when you work on a game that has multiple thousand people working on it.

@BrodieOnLinux If the person who made a piece of art isn't the one who decided to slap an AI filter on it, it's their artistic intent being erased. It doesn't matter if it's an indie artist posting their work on twitter, or an artist working at Bethesda.

@flowzr91 No I don't work at a big company because I don't want to be a number on a spreadsheet, a lot of people don't like the system so they leave to make indie titles.