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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

No bannable offenses? That's a banning

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I agree, but the commenter there is also correct, I wouldn't call it "private" either. There's no encryption, what you post is completely out there and public, and ultimately any server owner can track you as much as they want. I think it's more of a grey area.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Leave a tip and also some documentation on how to start a union

Okay but if there isn't a guy living out of a car with three doors, one hauling shopping carts, and an assistant trailer park supervisor/cheeseburger prostitute then I don't even care.

I confirm that again, as a potential customer who does but games like this, will then not be purchasing their product.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think it's psychology. When people make politics or certain stances their entire personality, then by disproving those items it's literally tearing apart their own identity. They are so unable to actually confront this that their brains will believe wild crazy ideas like conspiracy theories because even if it's insane, they are able to keep their worldview.

Their minds have been so warped to protect their identity that they will believe whatever they need to to be able to keep these views - to the point where it must be true, because if it weren't true the house of cards would collapse. So when you are arguing with them, you're not actually going to ever be able to penetrate this, because they will build up whatever they need to in their mind to protect it.

An interesting way to think of this (to borrow from the video below), is that as if becomes it is. Feelings become facts.

Take gay marriage. To a conservative white christian, it means nothing to them logically. 2 separate people are getting married which in no way effects them. However, gay marriage makes them feel as if their straight marriage is less important and the meaning of it has been deluded. To protect this worldview, since it's impossible for any fact or reasoning to back up their worldview, that as if becomes it is. To them, now gay marriage is diluting their straight marriage and it is less important. It must be. It has to be. If it's not... then what is their worldview? Their entire personality, their identity is based around these core beliefs. If it's not actually affecting them... then what is their identity? So their view isn't based on fact at all, and thus no amount of facts will ever persuade them.

Philosophy Tube did a great video essay on this, and I think it's completely worth a watch.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, I disagree with that. It's always been perfectly normal to have ultra graphics a bit out of reach so that the game will look great on future graphics cards, and 120fps is a ridiculously high number that should never be expected even with top of the line graphics cards for a brand new release. (Assuming 2 or 4k)

However, a 1 generation out of date graphics card should be able to easily play most things on High settings at a decent framerate (aiming for 60) on 4k settings, which Borderlands failed at horribly. Medium to low settings on a 4000 series card sounds like a gutpunch to me.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They've released some updates, I'm not surprised if it's gotten better

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Don't you know that gamers demand hyper realistic graphics? Even when there is a defined art style it doesn't matter. Realism.

It's famously why comic books failed to captivate anyone, and cartoons are never successful.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Completely agreed.i didn't want some assholes version who didn't like the source. I wanted the source material, on camera, with Cavill. That's more or less what we got with seasons 1 and 2, that's all we wanted to continue.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 70 points 2 days ago (11 children)

I've read reports that people can't get more than 30fps on low settings on 4000 series cards. I'm definitely not one to expect sweet 120fps on ultra on launch day, but a 4000 card not even getting low settings? They failed. Hard.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

If it was enough to piss off Cavill it's enough to piss off me. Netflix had something that truly could have taken on Game of Thrones and was too worried about offending someone.

 

I just heard Heart's Crazy on You and was thrown back to guitar hero, and wondered if anyone has tried emulating it?

I found some replicas, thinking about picking up a controller and seeing what I can do https://a.co/d/0ppR6rw

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/masseffect@lemmy.world
 

So some know here, I've been unemployed for a couple of months (but unfortunately starting a new job next week). In that time I've done a few projects, and this was one I've wanted to do for a while.

The Mass Effect Character Creator! Simply drop an image of a person and it will use a model I created to generate a character code for your player. I do not store any images uploaded

Now, there's a thousand caveats of course. The ME character creators are limited, there's not a ton of customization that they could do, but it'll do it's best. ME1 for some reason loves to put scars on the faces. 1&2 are similar enough they could be joined in the same model, but 3 was a whole different beast - however try the ME3 code in ME1 and you may be surprised.

Try it out, just boot up one of the games and start a new character, and plop in some codes! If you like, share the comparisons back here, I'd love to see who you're trying and how it turned out!

For now, please keep this to our little lemmy community, I don't have autoscaling turned on, and the CPU is fairly high when generating, so I'm going to just see how heavy the usage gets for now.

Enjoy all! Let me know how it goes!

How I did it:

  • Created a random code generator for each of the Slider bars in each game, and then generated 10,000 random codes. For each code then I had a macro that would paste it into the game and take a snapshot of the character. Of those 10,000 then I had a dataset. 10k images took about 14 hours of pasting and clicking and snapshotting for each game.
  • Took the dataset and then trained it from the Image -> Code. Took about 6 hours to train each model.
  • Source code for the backend is here

Examples I've done:

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Welcome to /c/Urbanism! (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
 

!urbanism@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/2915232

This is a space to explore and share ideas about how we shape the towns and cities we live in. Here we'll be making a place where we can openly discuss urban planning for not only large cities but also our small towns - including but not limited to transit, green spaces, walkability, traffic, and anything related to living in an urban environment.

Many of you already know me, I'm Scrubbles, passionate about Urbanism and excited to see what we can do with this community.

I welcome all posts about Urbanism - videos about it, articles, open questions, whatever you may like!

Minor housekeeping, rules will come as they are needed, my big two are "Don't be a dick" - meaning discussion is welcome and arguments are fine, but I don't tolerate personal attacks, and keep posts on target. Obviously these will evolve with the community.

Hopefully this will be my only "announcement" style post, but felt like we should kick it off somewhere. Welcome!

 

Has anyone else noticed this, across the fediverse, Lemmy specifically. A lot of new users, but also a lot of first posts that are very inflammatory/rage baity.

Do we have another legit influx of new users? Or do we just have some bad actors trying to stir the pot? Or maybe I'm imagining it.

 

I agree with her, but I wish she would have pushed the driving aspect a bit more.

 

Totally not related to another post in this community...

What fearmongering do you find laughably wrong? What do you witness everyday that makes others clutch their pearls while watching the news?

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/movies@piefed.social
 

A quick 7-minute short film I found enjoyable about loneliness. Surprised to find a copy online still.

 

"Be Ready for Today" They're so supportive and enthusiastic, and because of this they're killing off most of (maybe all?) of their WeMo line:

But hey, at least we know that they're very appreciative of us, and that they wanted to provide us with simple to use accessories, and that they're proud. Their empty corporate words make up for the pieces of ewaste we now have.

I believe WeMo with a lot of hacking can be controlled locally via a direct IP connection if set up through Home Assistant. It's a pain, and it still requires their app, so maybe try to set it up now before they officially end support. Even without this workaround, it's pure enshittification and Belkin is back on the "Don't ever buy" list.

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