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Source is CenturiiChan.

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That or the opposite of Zeneau.

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The Deftones managed to pull off what they were heading toward in their self-titled album, which was deeply iffy back in 2003. Going from Around The Fur and White Pony to the likes of “Good Morning Beautiful” or “Lucky You” was jarring. Even promising tracks like “Minerva” felt unpolished and off-brand. “When Girls Telephone Boys” had the right energy but wasn’t exactly an easy recommendation for new listeners. It’s the kind of song where you think you know the lyrics, and then you read what they’re supposed to be, and you understand even less than you did before.

Saturday Night Wrist captured more of the frisson from their earlier work. “Cherry Waves” and “Kimdracula” in particular. But it’s considerably more relaxed than anything previous. Even seemingly frenetic tracks like “Combat” feel halfway to pop. Diamond Eyes has more of the vibe but less of the polish. It does let parts of each song stand out more. “Command / Control” and “You’ve Seen The Butcher” aren’t great songs, but they understood what was good about them, and let it come to the fore. “Risk” is solid.

They finally nailed it for Koi No Yokan. The first song is so-so - as is tradition - but beyond that it’s just A+ material. Spacious, detailed, bombastic, and like little else. The classic vitriol comes out in “Leathers.” The gentle new stuff becomes “Entombed.” The dreamy frisson evolves into “Rosemary.” It’s unambiguously a fantastic album.

No idea what the fuck happened on Gore. They had it and they lost it. The first track is one of their best songs ever, and then it’s half an hour of ehhh. The album only picks up for some transitions on either side of “Phantom Bride.” For about two non-consecutive minutes, Sergio Vega and Stephen Carpenter get to flex, and then it closes with a track that just leaves you wanting.

Ohms veers back toward the right idea. It’s a lot more 90s than even their self-titled album, between the opening track and the middle run of “The Spell Of Mathematics” through “This Link Is Dead.” Tracks like “Error” are novel, and modern, and clean. Holy shit, the things this band has done to clarify and distinguish all the work they put in. I can’t even listen to 80s wall-of-sound sludge anymore. Better to convey the world’s loudest guitar than a whole orchestra constantly going hard.

But now I want to check back in after another twenty years, because they pissed off the bassist they’ve had since Diamond Eyes. I have no fucking idea what they’re going to sound like next. I might be more interested in whatever that guy does without them.

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Well, not to repeat myself, but Koi No Yokan is really really good, and there’s a reason millennials cannot shut up about Around The Fur and White Pony.

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The 1911 Overture.

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Every Florida driver with chrome shit on the back of their car.

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Pointless censorship is Lemmy’s dumbest trend.

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“How much are they?” is a question.

“How much they are” is a statement.

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Incorrect.

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Why think that work you how?

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Descriptivism doesn’t mean people can’t fuck up.

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But if you lose in gameplay, you have to start over.

Some devs do not understand what failure states mean.

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And MGS3 gives you a chance to shoot the third boss before you’ve fought the first boss.

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90% of everything is garbage. If AI changes that ratio, it won’t change it by much.

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The most visible uses are stupid - but the technology can easily improve actual human effort. Starting from text and churning out ten thousand tiny variations is just a demonstration of how far it can be stretched. You could feed in a sketch and get get a finished texture, with all the wonky false-color channels. You could change a voice actor’s performance to sound like someone else giving that performance. You could filter in-engine footage for cutscenes that look eerily realistic while staying on-model.

None of which will fix the scope creep that’s slowly killing the industry by turning every project into a five-year-long gamble the employs a thousand people and still manages to crunch for eighteen months straight. Guys. There’s game jams where teams that’d fit in an elevator produce fun products in a matter of weeks. You wouldn’t need to fixate on magical future technology if you committed to releasing a game about once a year… instead of making ev-er-y single pitch the biggest and bestest and prettiest thing evarrr.

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Neural networks are magical anywhere that near misses are good enough.

Companies keep using them as if they’re infallible, when lives and fortunes are at stake.

Tech is not the problem.

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The tech is not the problem.

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Source is CenturiiChan.

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Which is ridiculous, it’s a fine webcomic.

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Load-bearing whitespace is a mistake.

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ProJared: “The E stands for Developer and the A stands for Graveyard.”

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They’re very thorough.

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Look, machine elves are union. Some people cheap out.

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Everyone was on vacation!

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Sleve McDicheal for MVP.

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Babar!

Gollum.

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Some birds come out half-baked. Needed another week in the egg.

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As told by an obsessive vet playing Fallout co-op.

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Hot take:

Yes.

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The Hindenburg was just a high-visibility hint that airships were not working out. Lighter-than-air craft, like jetpacks and flying cars, fall under the category of technically feasible inventions that are terrible for a wide variety of reasons we’d desperately like to ignore.

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But the government is doing an investigation against universities to root out “wokeness”.

Which is a course of action rooted in politics.

Specifically, fascism.

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Pic unrelated, it’s Loom.

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AI upscales the original Grim Fandango assets

Ehhhhhh.

It looks nice enough, overall, but the process ate some details. Didn’t the remaster itself already bodge that on some assets? Like naive upscaling and smoothing mangled the text on a label.

It is a crying shame they couldn’t find the original Lightwave files, because modern computers could knock them out in 8K in like five minutes.

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Hitting a locked 1000 Hz and nitpicking the frame-pacing is not the point of high refresh rates. It makes exact framerate irrelevant. Even for mundane double-digit framerates - this would work the same as FreeSync. Frames would appear the instant they are ready. There is no difference between 60 FPS and 59 FPS.

You can limit an efficient game to 240, and if it doesn’t hit that, who gives a shit.

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Could it be that people are opposed to secret police regardless of the colors on their flag? No, it must be a western psy-op.

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See a doctor.

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That or someone fucked a dolphin.

Florida, 50/50.

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This is aimed at fighter pilot IQ.

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Sorry, you’re right, that wasn’t fair.

This is aimed at fighter pilot maturity.

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Javascript carcinization.

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Abraham Lincoln drops a hard R.

mindbleach ,

Kirk out-bluffs a child.

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A shit-covered truck floating in space leads to Amelia Earhart.

That’s not even a joke. That’s the actual synopsis.

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Kirk and the Gorn.

Davidge and Jerry, Enemy Mine.

Predator, ugly son of a bitch.

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Y’know the worst episode of Stargate? Same writer, same plot, more racist, neon sets.

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Emancipation. Short-haired blonde badass is captured and objectified by a sexist warrior culture, until she kicks someone’s ass to get out of it.

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Star Trek having more baseball than dogs means humanity really fucked up our exports.

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Robot LARPs Mayan pantheon.

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