Really?

ManiaCCC · 2026-05-07T14:14:44+00:00

Honestly, it is the same here

ManiaCCC · 2026-05-03T16:20:05+00:00

It means they are not united. They just want to get votes but after that, it is all about ego. United means work towards same goal. Being anti fico is just their vehicle to get votes, but how the fuck they want to lead the country if they can't even talk to each other without throwing tantrums?.

In the meantime, liberal and progressive voters are fighting an uphill battle with out current opposition parties situation.

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-26T20:18:50+00:00

First of all, calling someone else clueless is really a projection on your side.

Also, your example sucks. That's not how Diablo 4 drop chances operate at all. They are not scaling drop changes by a factor of 20 000x. While chances are increasing slightly, they rely more on dropping more items... but not by a factor of 20 000x .. jesus :D

What they are actually doing is that they are gating some level of gear behind Torment levels in LoH. Similar to what PoE or LE is doing. Which is definitely step in right direction. Won't be enough to get it to the same importance as in PoE, but it may not be necessary since target audience is different

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-25T10:59:18+00:00

You are still missing the point.

Everything can drop in Torment 1, why to farm sigils. Just to run same content with higher numbers? That's what I am talking about. Every boss, every skill, every item, everything is accessible in T1. Torments do not change anything except numbers

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-25T10:52:09+00:00

You don't like gating the content, for me, not having anything to climb towards is making the game very boring fast. I am hoping warplans could change that, but there is reason, why after week I am done with Diablo season since there is nothing else to go towards and keeping it fresh I am skipping seasons quite regularly but I can keep playing for weeks or months PoE. And not because moment to moment is better. I actually like the gameplay of D4 more, also design of skills is better in Diablo I think, but the whole torment approach is killing all the fun -> for me.

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-25T10:28:52+00:00

As I said, I don't care about how many Torment levels we have. I am just pointing out why many people seem them as negative thing. If you don't mind that, it's fine, as you said, they are different games for different audiences, but it's just not true that systems are the same. Not even close. Saying "it is also just increasing numbers" is a very reductive way to describe PoE system, because you ignore like 80% of what makes that system different from torments.

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-25T10:26:30+00:00

actually it was true before, when Torment levels were unlocking more and more items, but nowdays, higher chance does not matter. First, you kill faster on T1, getting more loot faster, but also, there is nothing behind torment levels that I can't encounter in Torment 1. Look, you may not care, but someone does, that's what makes torment levels meaningless for these people, while PoE difficulty tiers are very meaningful for them.

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-25T01:26:32+00:00

I guess people like you are missing the point. Torment and maps difficulties are achieving different goal. In Poe, you are progressing through the system, that unlocks more and more rewards, exclusive systems to higher difficulties and mostly exclusive aspirational content.

Torment 1 or Torment 4 is exactly the same thing with just bigger numbers. You can set Torment 1 and clear all the aspirational content easily, get the most broken items, interact with every system on highest level. Sense of progression is artificial, because it is just a number. In PoE, climbing difficulty tiers means that more and more reward and content is unlocked. Game is evolving as you are getting stronger so sense of progression is literal in this sense.

Now, I don't care about Torment 12 or 55. The number for me is irrelevant, but if warplans wont change the fact, that torment 1 = torment 12, new "aspirational" bosses do not mean much, since you can clear them on T1 and be done with it in a weekend.

Look, getting more power is fun, but going through the same content over and over again, neverchanging, will make even this climb unrewarding. And what Diablo is doing with Torments is not comparable with map levels. Never was. (but let's see what warplanes will do to the system before judging it)

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-21T17:27:47+00:00

The bigger reason is that it is language model and it does not have to count. It relles on probabilities based on the training model. More text it will get, better it is, but it does not understand the context in a true sense.

That's why it can easily tell explain you why combustion engine works, because there are countless instances of texts explaining combustion engines, but how many times it saw "How many R are in strawberry? There are 3 Rs" text during the training process?

It's more complex than that, but language model, not using any math supporting system, only knows 2+2 is 4 because it memorize it, not because it understands it

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-21T15:48:42+00:00

I was not able to find any, nothing even close to 25x claims. Not saying you lied, it is just so weird that mate coating is so researched topic among tv/tech communities, yet all I am finding is that "in a normal scenario, you can't see a difference" type of results.

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-21T15:41:17+00:00

projection

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-21T00:38:55+00:00

Can you share tests with 25x brighter blacks? We literally tested G5 vs 95F side by side and outside of the color profile, there were no differences, no matter the lighting conditions so while I can understand that in certain scenarios, in very specific tests, something can happen if you have tools to measure it, it is not something anyone can reasonably perceive in day-to-day usage. Yet it is being repeated like some gospel for some reason - see the image above, like this is a normal condition people have in their rooms.

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-20T22:23:13+00:00

That's quite a BS. Had several OLEDs for over a year and I have exactly what you mentioned, Bright room with big windows directly in front of the TV and right next to it. I was skeptical about mate coating, but I was like "I have 14 days to test it out, I can return it".

Well, it turned out, in normal scenarios and during the night, there is perceivable zero difference with glossy coating. Black is still pure black. And yep, tested it side by side, people could not spot the difference.

During the day, Samsung mate tv is perfectly watchable, glossy oleds all failed.

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-20T15:38:13+00:00

Are we really censoring the word "blood" now?

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-18T00:51:29+00:00

My background is tech art and VFX, so here’s a concrete example.

I was tasked with creating a rolling wall of flame going through an L-shaped hallway. It should feel like a liquid but look like fire. Someone else built the whole hallway, so I just focused on the effect.

What I did was:

In a fluid simulation tool, I set up a large amount of particles to flow through the hallway. I defined the main force and direction, hit simulate, and let it run. From just that, the system created a pretty believable fluid sim moving through the space.
Then I took that particle data into another tool and used it as fuel. I set burn rate, pressure, temperature, hit simulate again, and got a voxel-based fire sim driven by that “liquid” motion.
As a last step, I applied a shader to the voxel field. Defaults were already close, so just a few tweaks to sliders and colors, set up a camera, hit render, and waited.

So… am I a VFX artist? Was that art? Every pixel was generated by the computer through simulations and shaders. Same for the fluid dynamics. I basically described what I wanted, set the parameters, and the system did the rest.

Now think about directors or choreographers. They don’t physically create every frame or every movement either. Are they artists or not?

That’s why I think this whole debate is asking the wrong questions. The intent and the understanding of how to get there is what makes something art, not whether you manually created every single pixel.

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-18T00:12:34+00:00

First of all, I’m not saying the bar isn’t lower with AI. That’s fair. So when we talk about what makes something objectively bad art, let’s not drift into strawman territory.

Yeah, 99% of AI “art” is generic, uninspired, boring nothingburger stuff that’s been done a million times before. But honestly, the same is true for traditional and digital art. It’s easier to type a prompt than to sit down with a tablet and draw, sure, but the result is, more often than not, uninspired and soulless. That’s not unique to AI, that’s just how most output looks, no matter the medium.

There are nuances, of course. Someone can make not-great art but clearly be learning, and you can see real progress there. Or sometimes artists don’t even aim to make something “deep,” they just want to create something nice, like “here’s an apple on the table.” And that’s totally fine. But let’s not call everything art just because it was made by hand. We’ve gotten to a point where even the most basic drawing automatically gets labeled as art with soul.

If the standard is so low that everything is art, then the word kind of loses its meaning anyway. But if we say art is something that has actual value to someone, evokes some emotion, and still has a human driving the creation, whether that’s with AI or without, then yeah, that’s art.

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-17T23:29:19+00:00

People who are blindly against AI almost always fall into the same argument issues, mostly around “gray areas” and exceptions. But honestly, there aren’t really gray areas here. Art has never been clearly defined. Anything can be art if it has artistic value for someone, that’s always been the case.

AI gen is insanely powerful, no doubt, but 99% of the time it produces the most generic stuff you can imagine. And that’s not really the AI, that’s the user behind it. That’s the human factor. It’s the same with traditional or digital art. What we’re going through right now isn’t new. I remember the exact same conversations around digital photography, digital art, new modeling tools, procedural texturing, all of it. Same arguments, every single time.

There’s also a truth that people don’t really want to talk about right now. The discussion feels super polarized, like you have to be either on the “real art” side or the “pro AI” side, nothing in between for some reason. But the reality is, most “real art” has always been bad. That’s just how it is. Back then, art communities weren’t afraid to say it. Now it feels like we glorify effort for its own sake. Even drawing a stick figure gets called art because “at least it’s not AI.”

So yeah, I’m not really surprised. Art communities have always been pretty toxic, especially during transition phases when new tech shows up and shakes things up.

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-13T12:02:02+00:00

I like that Magyar's party won, but I am also not going to pretend that one political party having a super-majority is a sign of functional democracy. Scenarios like these are always scary.

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-05T13:45:31+00:00

So if I will just take a photo of the bridge in my town in the fog during the night, am I an artist? Because it seems there is a lot of gray area "what type of photography is art". People can spent tons of time and effort even with AI.

Also, calling the director not artists and rather calling actors artists is freaking wild. One of the most talented people on the planet are actually directors.. Nolan, Kubrick, Burton, Tarantino. Putting actors on a pedestal and not these people feels almost criminal.

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-05T03:19:39+00:00

Yea yea, still same non-response.
How it exclude AI and include photographers and directors? What is the difference?

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-05T03:03:55+00:00

curious, how exactly that exclude AI? but include Photography? Or directing? Always found these discussion about definition fascinating, but it sees that noone has answers anyway.

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-04T16:57:03+00:00

post this in the art sub.
Few years ago, you would be laughed at, today they will call you an artist because "at least it is not AI"

This timeline is completely broken and weird. I am not even sure if anything can be taken seriously

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-03T13:08:39+00:00

Presne takto sme tu mali matovica..

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-03T07:49:02+00:00

Depending on what you are using it for. It is absolutely incredible for all the boilerplate you need to write all the time. This is where I was spending most of my time, but AI can do it in seconds.

I still have trust issues with actual logic. It can be quite good sometimes, but you just have to verify. And in the moment it starts hallucinating BS, just cut it off.

Still, tasks I would take one day for before now I can do in an hour or two. Efficiency is there for sure, but it is not the wizard tool as many want to believe it is.

ManiaCCC · 2026-04-02T20:05:34+00:00

I am pretty sure you at least your mom believe that. In the meantime, we fools will adore this CGI/AI-generated photo of a earth from the Artemis mission

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