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  1. Comment on Introducing XBOX backward compatibility on PC in ~games

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    Assuming your PC even has a DVD drive in 2026, it can't read Xbox or 360 discs.

    Assuming your PC even has a DVD drive in 2026, it can't read Xbox or 360 discs.

    5 votes

  2. Comment on Introducing XBOX backward compatibility on PC in ~games

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    JSRF is also at the top of my list, but unfortunately I don't expect it to ever happen because of music licensing issues. Mercenaries is a great game that already exists in the backwards...

    JSRF is also at the top of my list, but unfortunately I don't expect it to ever happen because of music licensing issues.

    Mercenaries is a great game that already exists in the backwards compatibility program, and it never got a PC release back in the day. I'm hopeful we see that at some point.

    3 votes

  3. Comment on Introducing XBOX backward compatibility on PC in ~games

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    Starting with the Xbox One, backwards compatibility profiles for older games have included higher rendering resolutions, added features like vsync and anisotropic filtering, and occasionally...

    Starting with the Xbox One, backwards compatibility profiles for older games have included higher rendering resolutions, added features like vsync and anisotropic filtering, and occasionally higher framerates. This is all stuff accomplished by the compatibility layer itself.

    In rare cases they've gone in and replaced low quality assets with higher quality ones, an example being Final Fantasy XIII which ditched the notoriously poor quality Xbox 360 FMVs with the high bitrate versions from the PS3 release.

    I would hope all of this stuff makes it to the PC version of this program

    6 votes

  4. Comment on Avengers: Doomsday | Official trailer in ~movies

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    No idea how much merit there is to them, but there are rumors that post production has been a disaster as they struggle to piece all the footage they shot into a coherent movie.

    No idea how much merit there is to them, but there are rumors that post production has been a disaster as they struggle to piece all the footage they shot into a coherent movie.

    5 votes

  5. Comment on Help me choose a HiDPI monitor for work in ~tech

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    I have been telling people for years to never connect your TV to the internet

    I have been telling people for years to never connect your TV to the internet

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Four awful new privacy-eroding features from Meta in a month in ~tech

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    They don't care about you at all. You aren't the customer, you are the product.

    Meh I think for any platform that makes money via ads, its pretty much impossible to assume they'll care about your privacy.

    They don't care about you at all. You aren't the customer, you are the product.

    3 votes

  7. Comment on The end of reading is here in ~books

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    These pieces are almost certainly being pushed by tech oligarchs who benefit from this.

    These pieces are almost certainly being pushed by tech oligarchs who benefit from this.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Does anyone here own a Humane Ai Pin they’d be willing to part with? in ~tech

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    Supposedly Apple is going to release one later this year, and I bet it will be just as stupid.

    Supposedly Apple is going to release one later this year, and I bet it will be just as stupid.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Dbrand has cancelled their "Companion Cube" Steam Machine case, because they didn't ask Valve for permission in ~games

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    In the case of the PS5 side panels, I always thought it was a deliberate marketing stunt. Nobody in the court of public opinion was going to side with big evil Sony over those ugly things that...

    In the case of the PS5 side panels, I always thought it was a deliberate marketing stunt. Nobody in the court of public opinion was going to side with big evil Sony over those ugly things that arguably shouldn't be copyrightable. The inevitable redesign ended up looking a lot better than the infringing or OEM side panels. The cease and desist from Sony got them a tremendous amount of free marketing for their revised design that actually made the console look sleeker.

    In this case though, I'm not sure. People generally like Valve, the design was much more clearly an infringement of their IP, and it's not like dbrand could possibly be sitting on a better looking kosher alternative to replace it with. It makes no sense as a marketing stunt.

    3 votes

  10. Comment on ‘Minions & Monsters’ fizzles over July 4th weekend with franchise-low $61 million debut, ‘Supergirl’ suffers brutal 74% drop in ~movies

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    Really bizarre decision to go this direction. That's the kind of movie that I would get excited about, but as a "cinephile" I tuned out of any and all marketing as soon as I saw one of those...

    Jesse Eisenberg, who’s in the film, had been saying for a while that it’s for cinephiles and there’s a lot of Old Hollywood references. And it turns out he was right.

    Really bizarre decision to go this direction. That's the kind of movie that I would get excited about, but as a "cinephile" I tuned out of any and all marketing as soon as I saw one of those talking yellow Tic Tacs because that is not at all what Minions (or Illumination in general) are known for. This is literally the first I'm even hearing that I was supposedly the target audience.

    6 votes

  11. Comment on Vatican declares Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicates bishops in ~humanities

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    Yes but we're talking about a situation where the people listening and sometimes even the people speaking don't actually understand latin. If noone is around who can understand it, then they're...

    Yes but we're talking about a situation where the people listening and sometimes even the people speaking don't actually understand latin. If noone is around who can understand it, then they're literally spouting gibberish from the pulpit.

    3 votes

  12. Comment on Vatican declares Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicates bishops in ~humanities

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    what value do these meanings have if they are completely unintelligible?

    by using a liturgical or "dead" language the holy meanings won't change over the centuries due to linguistic drift.

    what value do these meanings have if they are completely unintelligible?

    2 votes

  13. Comment on Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses in ~tech

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    They may be realizing that mass adoption of these things just isn't going to happen, so they're pivoting to making the product profitable. I hope the whole thing crashes and burns.

    They may be realizing that mass adoption of these things just isn't going to happen, so they're pivoting to making the product profitable. I hope the whole thing crashes and burns.

    20 votes

  14. Comment on IBM claims world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology in ~comp

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    This has unfortunately been true of new node "sizes" for a long time now. TSMC 5nm, 2nm, etc. are just marketing terms. The transistors haven't gotten smaller in a while, they're just getting more...

    The "sub-nanometer" designation is confusing to me because it seems not to refer to anything physical on the chip, but rather serves as a proxy for some other space efficiency improvement.

    This has unfortunately been true of new node "sizes" for a long time now. TSMC 5nm, 2nm, etc. are just marketing terms. The transistors haven't gotten smaller in a while, they're just getting more densely packed together.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on ‘Supergirl’ fall to earth with $68m worldwide opening in ~movies

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    I was never a superhero fan before movies made superheros popular. There was novelty in the shared connected universe of the MCU and I think that fueled its meteoric rise. Once that novelty wore...

    I was never a superhero fan before movies made superheros popular. There was novelty in the shared connected universe of the MCU and I think that fueled its meteoric rise. Once that novelty wore off (and perhaps more importantly, the execution of that aspect of that MCU fell off a cliff), there was nothing to keep me and other people around anymore. These movies started to have the same problems their source material was already notorious for: Constant reboots, meaningless deaths, and convoluted interconnected storylines that end up going nowhere.

    I don't think superhero movies are automatically bad, it just takes more to get me interested in one now that the novelty is gone and the average quality is kinda in the toilet. Supergirl actually sounds like a movie I would really like, if the execution was good, but it sounds like it isn't.

    15 votes

  16. Comment on ‘Supergirl’ fall to earth with $68m worldwide opening in ~movies

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    The trick to a good Superman is to make the stakes something his invincibility can't solve. This applies to other super heroes as well even when they aren't invincible. The Dark Knight works in...

    The trick to a good Superman is to make the stakes something his invincibility can't solve. This applies to other super heroes as well even when they aren't invincible. The Dark Knight works in part because Batman can't just brute force a solution to the problems presented in the film. He has to choose between saving Harvey and saving Rachel. A big part of act 3 needs the people on the two boats to make the right choice while he hunts down the Joker. These conflicts provide highly effective tension without needing Batman himself to be in any personal physical danger.

    37 votes

  17. Comment on ‘Supergirl’ fall to earth with $68m worldwide opening in ~movies

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    Super heroes dominated the box office for a solid decade. I'm just tired of them at this point and just kinda space out when trailers for them come up

    Super heroes dominated the box office for a solid decade. I'm just tired of them at this point and just kinda space out when trailers for them come up

    41 votes

  18. Comment on How to buy cheap Claude tokens in China in ~tech

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    Please do not feed the AI datacenters

    Please do not feed the AI datacenters

  19. Comment on ‘Donkey’: Eddie Murphy ‘Shrek’ spinoff sets summer 2028 release in ~movies

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    Just because something makes a buttload of money doesn't mean it's any good

    Just because something makes a buttload of money doesn't mean it's any good

    2 votes

  20. Comment on These tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too in ~life.style

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    Even if the glasses can do it perfectly, how much more convenient is it to perform this task on your glasses than it is with your smartphone? It's certainly slightly less cumbersome than pulling...

    As it is, I can only see getting occasional use out of smart glasses, like identifying plants and bugs on a hike

    Even if the glasses can do it perfectly, how much more convenient is it to perform this task on your glasses than it is with your smartphone? It's certainly slightly less cumbersome than pulling something out of your pocket, but is enough so for the average person to justify spending hundreds of dollars on an extra device?

    4 votes