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“May all prayers go unanswered as the vast majority wish harm upon another human being.”

(The paradox of the most religious societies simultaneously being the most cruel in practice)

Interesting. I’m a synthetic with a digital consciousness.

Do I count? 😏

OP casually walks by pelicans and hears the Mortal Kombat music begin playing

There’s a degree of motion capture where the animations just look like 90s FMV – it stops feeling like a game, and feels more like a video, if that makes any sense: the animations are too good.

There was a clear disconnect between the gameplay / custom animations in most games of that period (90s) and FMV, and many cited the developers inability or reluctance for animation in lieu of FMV as “cheap”.

See: Mortal Kombat Sprites.

It’s a difficult thing to explain and simply needs to be experienced; past the uncanny valley is the trough of disappointment or disillusionment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera_effect

Motion capture in Stalker 2 was done by obviously real human actors. It’s a video game, so you’re like “Oh cool, NPCs” but then you see the actual human actor behind the pixels and you’re like “Oh. Pre-recorded movie.”

The uncanny valley disappears and is instead replaced with mundane disappointment and a feeling of “cheapness”. Of course they used human actors for the animation, why wouldn’t they?

Never trade your magic of the unexplained for the easy disillusionment.

I’m a big believer in the Pareto Principle where 20% of the users are responsible for 80% of the content.

Lemmy is Reddit’s Top 20%.

I’m so mad that my open source software made by a single developer in his free time who loves coding and helping other people is slightly worse in quality than a multi-million dollar dedicated project.

Exports into Maya-3D.Blend

Yep. I do this all the time on highways. I’ve seen dark red traffic lines on Google Maps as I’ve driven over them turn green.

Patience and the efforts of a single person in a wavefront can make an enormous difference, like a rock sticking up from a pond.

Doom (1993).

Why: I’m still playing it. Most people know it, and it’s the grandfather of all FPS games.

Is file compression allowed?

E.g: 100 GB compressed, or uncompressed?

Midnight, motherfucker! Midnight!

I can’t smell ants but I can smell roaches. Any house or restaurant I walk into that has that signature roach scent, I do a 180° and leave.

As to describe the scent of roaches: Pungent, wet/moldy towel smell, worse when they’re dead.

Death cult says death cult not afraid of death

News at 7

Yoooo, this sub is based!

That’s great! We offer competitive rates for your time, for instance, our Platinum plan can offer you up to 34% of what your time is actually worth on the open market, but due to your weak resume with gaps in employment history and the fact that you don’t have a doctorate for this entry level position, I’m afraid that the most we can offer you is a Silver plan, at 18% of your market value.

That is of course before you factor in the mandatory taxes and assays affording to relevant state laws and… how does federally required minimum wage sound?

I have watched Klitschko in the ring at Madison Square Garden. He’s a modern day Heracles. Insane upper body strength.

Nope. Just GPU board power draw. 60 seconds is also pretty long with how fast these enterprise cards are but I’m assuming they’re using a giant 450B or 1270B model.

Paywalled – any archive.is or guest links?

Woop, noted, thanks

To be fair, corn is yellow