Recent content by Chronicler

Saw an interesting theory about that. The gist of it is that Markiplier plays a lot of horror games with jump scares. Snake sees owner reacting with fear while watching his videos. Startle response can be pretty involuntary and immediately visible to even a snake. Snake lacks the context that...

I think if you enjoy anything enough, it can be pretty depressing when it ends. A good videogame, a good book, a good comic are I think the ones I've experienced, but I've heard others talk about getting depressed after the end of a great concert, or a cool convention, or a fun vacation. That...

Sprite art tends to be what I get nostalgic about. Booted up Final Fantasy Tactics Advance for the first time in a while recently, and sprite art was getting so beautiful towards the tail end of its use. The hardware was allowing for more elaborate sprites and the artists were getting better at...

Living every retail workers fantasy. "The customer is wrong and I'm gonna say it to their face!" Not gonna make his product any more popular though.

It sounds like the hardware requirements are still far too prohibitive to treat DLSS5 as a default. That demo was running on over ten thousand dollars worth of hardware i read. But I could definitely see that happening someday.

https://www.404media.co/ceo-ignores-lawyers-asks-chatgpt-how-to-void-250-million-contract-loses-terribly-in-court/ In more lighthearted news, this seems like a fun story. The CEO of Unknown Worlds Entertainment, known for making the Subnautica, wanted to fire a bunch of people, because he...

All anybody wants from a graphics card is just to relay the game, exactly as it was designed, with no crazy alterations, but if that's all your graphics card does, then any graphics card with similar hardware specs could do the same, so it doesn't make a super compelling pitch for why you should...

It seems to me that this is something you sometimes run into with graphics cards. They want you to buy their graphics card. They need a big fancy pitch for why you should be using them instead of the competing brand. But videogames themselves are art. There's intent behind the decisions about...

Mostly I game on PC. I have a switch lite that I sometimes game on. It's joystick is busted though. Works alright for turn based games but if I were trying to do like a lot of precise split second platforming I'd have a pretty bad time. Mostly the Switch Lite just gets used for Final Fantasy...

It's been a long time since I did anything on launch day. I was prepared for a certain number of non-fatal bugs. Quests that got stuck and such. I just wasn't prepared for all the straight out client crashes. You're doing something and then "Guild Wars 2.exe has encountered an error", have to...

Having a lot of the fun with the new Guild Wars 2 expansion. Well, it was "new" in october, but it was also crazy buggy back in October. Now it's a bit older, but I can actually play it without the client crashing. I think in the future I might be more cautious about buying these expansions on...

The issue of course is further muddied by the fact that there are at least a dozen different technologies that have been marketed as "AI" over the years. So people will point to an "AI" doing something useful and be like "How can you say AI isn't good?", missing that the AI in question is not...

Fate Grand Order is a mobile game that works on an energy system. You get one energy point every five minutes. Most quests consume 40 energy points. There are items that restore your energy but you don't want to waste them frivolously, so your play time is always limited by this energy mechanic...

Generative AI is fundamentally a tool to turn information into less reliable information. It doesn't know anything but what you feed it and then it chops and screws that and removes any link back to the sources it's actually pulling from. A statement from the Mayo Clinic saying in clear terms...

Back in the day, protecting yourself from "Spyware" was basic internet safety. These days, "Spyware" isn't even really a word people use anymore, because pretty much all the major software is spyware. We'd sooner need a word to clarify when the software specifically isn't spying on us.