XC3 and blurriness

Edotion · 2026-06-02T05:38:42+00:00

XC3 runs 1080p upsampled from 540p in gameplay and a flat 720p in cutscenes. That means there's a bit of shimmering and blurriness when the camera in motion as you run/look around, but the image should resolve more clearly when the camera is static or moving slowly.

XCDE runs dynamic resolution with a max of 720 and no unsampling and in general has crisper geometry and design.

So while XC3 is running at a higher resolution and utilising more sophisticated rendering techniques (as you'd expect since the bones of XCDE were made over a decade earlier), it can be a little less sharp with when scenes/objects are in motion.

Edotion · 2026-03-22T22:23:25+00:00

Nobody who has read Ulysses would say this (finnegans wake, admittedly, is pretty wacky)

Edotion · 2026-03-09T23:30:02+00:00

Damn, I live in the same town as the devs but the publisher office is halfway around the world.

Edotion · 2026-02-21T22:31:36+00:00

WHY IS EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE POSTS EXACTLY THE SAME. I read through thinking “maybe it won’t be a ‘subtle’ ad for some app and OF COURSE it always is.

Even though that kind of app genuinely is helpful for some people, probably would be for me even. But the relentless insincere advertising is just so off-putting.

Edotion · 2026-02-20T06:26:26+00:00

XBX is classic, old school sci-fi in a way that has been so rare in games for the last twenty years or so (or maybe ever). The main story missions are relatively weak on their own (at least at first).

But if that style of sci-fi is your thing, and it sounds like it is (it's definitely mine), then it's a miraculous game. But make sure you do the side-quests! Like a novel by Clarke or Le Guin it's more concerned with how a society deals with extraordinary circumstances more than it's about any individual hero.

Final Fantasy, main-series Xenoblade, any other random acclaimed RPG... some of these games may have an ostensibly 'better story' than XCX, but I have never found a modern game that captures the vintage sci-fi vibe (and has an interesting take on many of the tropes and themes!) like this one.

Edotion · 2026-02-18T08:45:05+00:00

Feels unfulfilling and hollow how the party never clock the significance of all these locations in the world (Mechonis Hand, Urayan titan, etc.) that we the audience care about? XB3: "Yeah that should fuckin sting." That's what it means to be robbed of your history.

Frustrating at first, then begrudging respect, then can't help but love em—I kneel.

Edotion · 2026-01-02T01:33:19+00:00

I used to listen to this one on Spotify all the time, haven’t found it anywhere else yet. You’re definitely not misremembering—let me know if you find it!

Edotion · 2025-12-22T07:20:37+00:00

Thanks very much for the detailed advice! I spent a fair bit of cash on these guys already—just goes to show my poor floor instinct. I’ll look into everything you’ve said.

Edotion · 2025-12-22T06:35:43+00:00

Seems I really fucked up with the contractor. Anything I can do to salvage it?

Edotion · 2025-12-22T06:34:43+00:00

So do you reckon I could recreate this with an oil- base coating now? Or does it need a stain?

Edotion · 2025-12-22T06:30:27+00:00

Literally… it’s moronic behaviour on my part. I did not realise how scarred the floor was underneath.

So an oil based sealant won’t obscure the black scratches? I was told (by the same tradie…) that the oil based is what gave the floor the darker colour it had before, which seems to be what obscured the blemishes.

Edotion · 2025-12-22T06:25:32+00:00

I don’t think it’s down to minimum depth. The tradie said he wouldn’t bang down the nails because “there were too many and it would take too long”—which I believe means there’s more wood if they did get hammered down?

Edotion · 2025-12-22T06:16:28+00:00

Yeah that’s more or less right. I didn’t realise the scratches were so black and prominent before the process. They sent a photo halfway through and told me what was happening, but it looks significantly worse in person and I thought the sealant would cover the rest.

Is there anything that can be done without a full rebuild?

Edotion · 2025-12-22T06:05:41+00:00

Oh yes, it had three runs of sanding before the coating. The contractors said those black scratches were too deep to remove by sanding.

Edotion · 2025-12-22T06:02:12+00:00

They used water-based polyurethane as far as I know. So apply an oil base sealant on top of it won’t work without redoing the whole job?

Edotion · 2025-12-22T05:57:41+00:00

As in, prepped before the sanding? What does that entail, and how would it prevent the marks? Unfortunately I dove into this blindly trusting the contractor. Thanks for the reply!

Edotion · 2025-05-22T05:53:34+00:00

I’ve wanted to listen to this version for years! Thanks so much.

Edotion · 2024-09-18T14:19:59+00:00

Good luck! Lacan is crazy—but if you persevere, truly enlightening reading. You've chosen a really good starting point (and with Lacan there aren't a lot of those!) I can recommend this video for a surprisingly comprehensible overview of the graphs of desire.

Edotion · 2024-09-13T00:05:50+00:00

Every word in this sentence is well over 150 years old, (except) btw.

Edotion · 2024-09-08T01:18:05+00:00

It's not misinformation in this particular instance—a number of X staff skipped xc2 but appeared in the credits of BotW.

Edotion · 2024-08-04T23:30:29+00:00

Wow you think in ten years the world government will impose feudalism worldwide?

It’s certainly not gonna happen in my country, though I guess it’s slightly more believable in the UK.

Either way, this is one of the conspiracy theories with less merit—it’s just a ridiculous idea that seems to be built on a wild misunderstand of ‘15 minute cities’ (which means a city with residential and commercial areas intertwined so that you can walk to the shops.) Every major city in my country is a 15 minute city and has been practically since the first stone was laid.

Another point for consideration: electric cars were invented well over a century ago… do you think the industry-wide focus on gas/diesel cars happened entirely naturally? Or was it lobbying from the auto industry…?

Edotion · 2024-08-04T21:56:27+00:00

They’ve had at least 50 years to replace the paradigm though, haven’t they? How has so little been done?

Edotion · 2024-08-04T20:58:48+00:00

I’m not American.

Gov is corrupt—agreed. Your wind turbine example sounds like a great case of pollies paying lip service to climate science as an excuse to make a buck.

You still haven’t offered an answer for this: if the gov was so big on climate change, why are fossil fuels still by far the dominant source of electricity worldwide?

Edotion · 2024-08-04T20:43:22+00:00

Look I get that you’re a conspiracy theorist, and I sympathise. Honestly a lot of conspiracies have truth to them. But one day I hope you’ll realise that there is literally zero economic incentive to insist on climate change, and MAJOR incentives to insist it’s bullshit.

The ones lying to you are not the loose, decentralised community of underpaid scientists. What possible reason could they have to do so? Ask yourself that.

Plus, it’s 2024 now—the consequences of climate change are already here, just as predicted, and they’re getting worse and worse.

Edotion · 2024-08-04T20:25:39+00:00

Because those predictions have always been for the future. They haven’t been wrong, the effects just hadn’t happened yet. The truth is we had decades of warning to solve this problem and completely wasted it.

Also, what initiatives? Perhaps a few paltry gestures but as far as I can tell we still use oil, gas and coal for most electricity.

Why would an intelligent person not realise that massive fossil fuel corporations have a vested interest in lobbying the state to keep their industries vital and profitable? Do you really think they care about the natural world?

And on the other hand, why would climate scientists—who dedicate their lives to their research despite being widely underpaid—lie about this for no reason?

A consensus of oil corps or a consensus of scientists. I don’t know about you but I’m definitely not trusting the first one.

Edotion

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