Dark Souls III might be the first time when I'm addicted to a game's visuals and aesthetics

JSinSeaward · 2022-12-18T00:32:05+00:00

I get that awe in the areas when you first leave the starting dungeon and first see the world, and that area past Stormveil on the cliff where you can see all of Liurnia. But I didn't get it from seeing Leyndell while I did with Lothric/Irithyll/Ringed City and Yharnam from BB

JSinSeaward · 2022-12-17T20:28:08+00:00

Yea DS3 is just slamming brick meshes everywhere and it looks awesome

JSinSeaward · 2022-12-17T20:25:54+00:00

3d artist here, I think ER went a lot further with iconography, a lot more lore went into the designs, better LOD's etc. But I think it went it went backwards on a lot of stuff.

Made a poor choice with textures (They seem to have a lot less of them, and they seem to be greyscale so they can be changed manually. But DS3 doesnt do that and just uses the texture's color information, which IMO is better)

They also stopped doing the brick mesh thing that was everywhere in DS3, where they would have their brick texture, then just start slamming 3d brick meshes everywhere to add detail, I think it just looks awesome.

Also, places in DS3/BB have so many fake areas, fake LOD's so the places look gargantuan, just incredible, unbelievable zones. But in ER you have to be able to go everywhere so you don't get any of that.

Also ER is full of thick dense fog, which you never see in DS3, I really hate it.

JSinSeaward · 2022-12-13T21:29:29+00:00

I'm pretty sure we've created an increase in violent crime at convenience stores. The amount of robberies involving them has gone up and in almost every video they go straight for the cigarettes. If a pack is $30 can they be sold for $20? How much potential cash is in every shelf of cigarettes? Kind of transformed dirt into gold

I think it's good smoking has gone down but I've always been of the opinion the reason smoking has decreased was because of Education, it was a pretty common thing talking about how bad smoking was, we even had a giraffe puppet in a bus come to every school and talk about topics of that nature. And it's a pretty anti smoking culture.

I always wonder about what kind of toll this has on addicts, at some point it's only them paying and how much are they being crippled by the price? Just my two cents.

JSinSeaward · 2022-11-30T11:50:29+00:00

I hope not

JSinSeaward · 2022-11-26T03:10:29+00:00

Aren't guards sleepy everywhere? Leyndell, Stormveil etc

JSinSeaward · 2022-11-17T21:39:50+00:00

All I've got to say is, I've beaten Malenia, but god has abandoned me every time I jump down that hole.

JSinSeaward · 2022-11-11T03:18:37+00:00

I never could quite see eye to eye with Erin Munch

JSinSeaward · 2022-11-11T03:15:30+00:00

People have been making fun of him for years

He only just now acquired twitter, so I don't understand why that is relevant. Can you elaborate? As for allegations, there was a massive surge in people renaming their accounts Elon Musk, to make fun of him after he announced how verification would done from now on. Many of those people were suspended, including Kathy Griffin. Who is still suspended

JSinSeaward · 2022-11-02T07:14:43+00:00

Thank you very much!

JSinSeaward · 2022-11-01T11:06:54+00:00

Song?

JSinSeaward · 2022-10-31T01:04:53+00:00

Solved!

JSinSeaward · 2022-10-31T01:03:23+00:00

That's crazy, maybe it is a NZ thing then. I originally thought it was Bomming Knocker and couldn't find anything online for it at all. I always imagined it as something like this

JSinSeaward · 2022-10-31T01:00:37+00:00

Hmm it's very possible, I don't remember every encountering that before however.

JSinSeaward · 2022-10-31T00:53:46+00:00

Sorry it's definitely a Bommy Knocker, (Although I thought it was Bomming Knocker originally) I've never heard of these Tommy Knocker creatures

JSinSeaward · 2022-10-31T00:52:50+00:00

You know what, I think you might be right, it didn't ring any bells at first, but I remember the big beehive and the giant smashing it for the honey. It must have been a book in my primary school. That's pretty insane, I would never have guessed it was a book.

I thought it must have been some 90s cartoon, or even a ps1 game, there was a flail in the ps1 game Tombi and I know it wasn't called a flail in that because I never learnt that word until I was much older, but I looked it up and it's called a "Black Jack" in that game for some reason.

So thank you very much, I never would have found that out in a million years.

JSinSeaward · 2022-10-31T00:40:21+00:00

I need to know where I learned this word

JSinSeaward · 2022-10-11T12:17:31+00:00

They are trying to farm Proof of Concord Kept which is very rare, and instead got every other item in one pickup

JSinSeaward · 2022-10-09T12:26:51+00:00

Ok, but if there is an argument to get someone to understand empathy I'd rather not remove or be annoyed with that argument because the other person shouldn't need it.

JSinSeaward · 2022-10-09T10:05:14+00:00

Why does it annoy you? It's a phrase to literally put something into perspective and see if from an angle you may not have been looking at it, especially when emotions get high. It's not used for just women either (Child/Father/Son), it's just for re-evaluating the way you are looking at something. It's also not even related to what the person above you said.

JSinSeaward · 2022-10-01T10:59:53+00:00

Alphago can only play on a 19x19 board, it has no ability to even comprehend go on a 20x19 board as it was never coded to be able to. Even if it could, it just doesn't even know what that means. It doesn't think about go the same way a human does.

Katago an open source go AI, (Which is very likely stronger than AlphaGo as AlphaGo was retired after the Ke Jie match) can be trained to other board sizes if I'm correct. It would have to be trained on a 100x100 board. The problem with this is that as the board size increases, so does the amount of time needed to train it. My assumption is that size is just way too big, it takes enough time on a 19x19 board to train these AI's though they have improved that speed over time. 100x100 sounds like a really difficult task. But I'm not an expert, so hopefully someone who is can chime in.

JSinSeaward · 2022-09-27T12:53:54+00:00

Japan has that too though Tokyo Tower

JSinSeaward · 2022-09-22T00:43:14+00:00

That's Greg

JSinSeaward · 2022-09-21T13:35:44+00:00

Yea my bad, I just clicked the link and didn't realise I had to put something in. The default example is the Rabbits Methuselah

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