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[–] stom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

You're inferring a tone where there isn't one.

I was asking if this is a common misconception as I had assumed the userbase here was generally pretty tech savvy, and confusing GPS with internet seemed particularly strange.

[–] stom@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago

There is no "uplink", eg transmission of data from the client back to the satellite.

[–] stom@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Is this what people think? That you need an internet connection tion to use GPS?

[–] stom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

trust the lighting would work in a life-like manner

Ah we've had raytracing for a long time already, and you can download something like Blender and play around with it yourself. You'll quickly discover that just because it conforms to some real-world principles (and works in a reliable manner) doesn't mean it's a magic tool that Just Works and immediately makes anything look good.

You still have to setup your world lighting (point/sun lights, skyboxes, emissive materials, whatever), adjust it to get the look you want, and your hardware requirement for testing this are now increased.

Raytracing is nice because it can make things look even better, not because it replaces parts of the workflow.

[–] stom@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

There is absolutely nothing about raytracing which makes it "easier" for devs compared to a traditional render pipeline.

The extra performance rquirements alone mean you're going to be doing more work elsewhere to make up for it, and that's ignoring the current bugs/quirks with RT in whatever engine you're using.

[–] stom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Power button is a perfectly valid way to turn off a modern PC. They don't kill power the way they used to, they send a signal to the PC to shut itself down. Exactly the same as using the start menu.

[–] stom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

"Sad they never released the doc"

They released hundreds of updates and god knows how much extra content, what DLC were you wanting?

[–] stom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes... That's matchmaking.

[–] stom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Matchmaking requires servers.

[–] stom@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No idea what the fuck that is supposed to mean, or how its relevant to the comment chain.

[–] stom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You had to ask? Do you want to buy a bridge?

[–] stom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

From the channel Ordinary Sausage on YouTube.

It started off funny, got disgusting pretty quickly.

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