MYYYYYYYYYYYY promoting drug use??!! :D

I don’t know why, but this hits the hardest.

Anti skip was awesome. I remember showing my friend’s dad and tapping it and stuff and it keep playing and his eyes went wide. Then he bought a minidisc player and blew MY mind.

Hey sometimes it’s easier to send stuff that way. I’m not lazy, you’re old.

I think the technology (including things like TAA), may…sigh get better. Or it’ll find its proper place in the medium or stack because people will learn how to properly use it or work with it, and efficiently.

Like in our other conversation about Minecraft clouds. Mayybe, over time (melodramatic reluctant pain) even things like TAA will find a place. Gamers will have discussed and aired their complaints, devs will also then take notice and then try new things, and standards and conventions will settle, HOPEFULLY in a direction that’s pleasing to everybody involved.

I’ve seen it before, it’ll likely happen again. Just gotta keep talking about it and keeping the community aware and active with constructive conversations and criticisms. Also we need a new Total Biscuit.

Ah I found it. Interesting that it’s a partial/combo, but no thanks. I’ll absolutely try it, but I feel like I may have already seen stuff TAA partials that and it’s now just a smeary top-half of my camera/screen.

I’ve seen so many games use TAA and I stg, every time, I wish I could turn it off but a lot of newer games you either outright can’t, it’s totally locked to any advanced graphics, or you can turn it off but a ton of stuff totally breaks, like foliage… Which is such a bizarre and frustrating problem.

Man. I went back and played some native raster graphics games with no AA.

It was like I took the drunk glasses off. Everything made sense again. The headache went away. I could see. Object permanence in the engine was insane… Because it all just was.

In the late 00s and early 10s we had bad console ports. But before then, things were actually amazing. And after, when TB putting up a stink about options finally got traction, games were reaching a screaming peak and things were finally figuring it out. I really do believe that right now, we’re just in that awkward early-phase of a technology (like the latest 90s with the earliest 3D being really awkward) where people are trying new things and, regardless of rhetoric or stubbornness, will eventually have to face the cold, nuanced truth, no matter what:

TAA is dung and should be flung into the sun.

This guy games.

Also, if your game can’t look decent without any kind of DLSS or AA, you need to stop and fix that before relying on AA. Personally, I can’t stand the blurriness of any kind of AA, including DLSS, and almost always turn it off.

Games are not still images and our brains are super good at motion interpolation between discrete pixels. To me, it always looks sharper and clearer and truer to life (I have very good vision irl, so blur is unwelcome, and TAA is just… Why would you want that outside of being an effect like being drunk or stunned?).

Fuck TAA. 100%, forever.

The most confusing part of that is that alpha are millennials’ children. Meaning people from my generation spawned those things. What.

No.

No, it’s when you become aware of too much shit and enter the next level of needing to learn more coping skills. It’s like suddenly growing legs and realizing there’s a whole world out there and people who never grew legs are like woah miss bigshot with her LeGssss ooooo so SpEcIaL think you’re so FaNcY so WoKe and then form an army of undeveloped against you and they win and you just facepalm for eternity as you scrounge for ways to help them grow legs but they now think growing legs gives you autism or something stupid.

Ignorance is bliss is no understatement. I’m so tired.

My parents.

I realize now, that if an adult non-ironically says this, then it’s likely they are the ones that will never learn.

It looks like the peas were added on to the picture later, but whoever took the peas image put them on the wrong side of a plate. And then somebody decided to just flip them in photoshop instead of trying for another peas picture and thought nobody would notice.

Because it looks like the shadows on the other stuff are correct, but the peas have different lighting, and if you look at them actually upside-down, they do look normal again.

And blurred out with whatever is in the bottom left of the picture. Could also be a composite.

It’s like a whole new tier of stupid.

You’ve figured out people with good will and that are trying to do it correctly? Yeah well…

Now, you’ve leveled up and have to deal with actual bozos and people with fried brains

People all over the world like McDonald’s for different reasons. That’s not a serious question.

Can this not be Reddit? Please? Reddit culture sucked and I left there for good reason. It doesn’t have to be funny or clever anymore. It’s just real people having real discussion, intelligently, on a real level, yeah?

Most Americans are educated, but it’s a really diverse country with lots of issues. There are plenty of people in countries that use metric that don’t even understand metric or fractions, too, as most people are the exact goddamn same, especially now with the internet. A&W burgers were a specific type and I don’t remember them being very good. I think that’s why they failed, not because people couldn’t maximize the value. If anything, I think it was a death spiral in a company known for putting soft serve and soda together, not 1/12th of a pound of shitty beef.

They probably weren’t making much money, had to cut back, shitty employees cutting quality because they don’t care and bad leadership, and people stopped going even more, and then leadership blamed literacy instead of their own repeated fuckups and that nobody really liked them anymore.

Mmmmm… Doubt.

I grew up with a mcds and an a&w nearby in the 90s and 00s. A&W is kinda like Wendy’s: their food just kinda sucks. I don’t look at value that closely unless all other things are equal. So saying “nobody bought our burger because they all can’t read numbers” is kind’ve a petulant behavior unless it’s proven imo… it’s like making excuses for your failures.

People just LIKE McDonald’s. And and brand loyalty is real.

The average American literally works in random-ass fractions all the time and doesn’t rely on everything being base ten.

I really want to believe that, as an American. I really, really do. How would a legitimate way of testing that go? There’s no feasible way to test EVERYBODY, so you’d have to consult the statistics people, who I am not.

I was about to start looking into median ages and education rates and literacy, but I really don’t care that much about this as I lay in bed and am about to go to sleep, so I asked chatgpt, which then gave me a long answer with this at the end:

Yes, the average American probably knows that 1/3 is greater than 1/4, but a noticeable percentage—especially among adults with lower educational attainment or math anxiety—may hesitate or answer incorrectly, especially outside of a clear, direct question.

And my intuition tells me this is likely right on.

I just wanna pee in peace and safety without being looked at, talked to, heard, smelt, harassed, raped, beat up, mugged, arrested, or executed.

One time I was at the mall with my partner and some friends (all girls) and we were drinking bubble tea and shopping and hanging out, it was really nice. After a couple hours, we all had to pee and walked towards the nearest bathrooms. Everybody else got to go, and I was just too uncomfortable to go into either of the bathrooms, so didn’t and was just physically uncomfortable for the next few hours while I held it.

I wish it wasn’t an issue and I could deal with my own transition without the added riling up of people and possible legal issues of GOING PEE.

I honestly just avoid doing stuff now because it’s so stressful and risky. I can’t even leave the country anymore because I can’t risk getting my documents confiscated and put on a list trying to get a passport. I feel like a second rate citizen in my home country. Land of the free: only if you’re a cishet white man.

Aww it’s so cute!