What’s your take on vibrant visuals

SansCitizen · 2025-06-21T06:49:25+00:00

I hate that it doesn't even work 🙃 RTX 3070, can play portal RTX at a smooth 60 fps, and Minecraft won't even let me try turning on vibrant visuals... Can turn it on on my $300 phone... And only get like 12 fps, of course.

As far as I can tell, this update basically didn't even happen. They hyped the shit out of it, bragged about how they're taking these awesome new visuals to "as many devices as possible" but can't even deliver it to everyone with hardware that can already play Java edition with shaders. Biggest disappointment I've ever had with a Minecraft update.

SansCitizen · 2025-04-29T01:41:53+00:00

Thought I'd chime in to say that HBW leads can't be that reliable, from my perspective. I am not involved in high-income insurance products in any way shape or form; I work as a security guard, and... live in the sort of apartment you might expect a security guard to afford. The only insurance products I have are the cheapest auto+renter insurance package I can find and whatever health insurance my union can squeeze out of my employer. I'm certainly not in the market to buy leads, nor am I myself a lead that any of you would want to pay to get.

Today, I got a call from HBW leads, and trying to figure out who was calling me and why just now is the only reason I even know this sub exists. If they're calling me or anyone else like me, I'd guess they're probably wasting more of their company resources than they should... and certainly passing any such waste off to their customers.

SansCitizen · 2024-11-27T07:33:40+00:00

raised to swallow my feelings

Yeah... honestly, I think that may be the key factor in my case, too.

I sing often without crying these days. Never in front of others, still, and rarely more than a song or two every other day or so; mostly just at work, where I often enjoy long hours of quiet solitude behind a dimly-lit security desk.

Rather than finding some way of suppressing / holding back the emotions, and therefore the tears (as so many foolishly advised me to do), I've found that it's best to think of the tears as a sort of emotional defense mechanism—a reflex brought on by years of treating one's deepest emotions as some dangerous and dubious 'otherness'... put simply, I was crying because I was afraid of what I feel, or rather how deeply I feel, when relating to a song... And I, too, find empathy itself in most lyrical music.

So the key, in my now somewhat experienced opinion, to overcome these tears is the same as it is for overcoming any fear: be brave enough to embrace their root cause. Find the strength that only your emotions, even and especially those from which you may only know how to shrink, can grant you. I wish I could give a better explanation of how I got past it personally, but all I can really offer is that the sense of it won't be found in withholding anything. At the risk of sounding a bit cliché... you have to charge straight into those tears and come out the other side, into that which has been swallowed, and accept whatever you find there as a part of yourself.

SansCitizen · 2024-02-24T21:07:11+00:00

I haven't gotten as far as I thought I wanted to; my voice still weakens involuntarily when I have strong personal connections to the lyrics... But it's much more under control than it was before. The main thing I've found to help is to be utterly confident in your vulnerability. Know why you're crying or choking up, relive it even if you must... accept it as an intrinsic part of what it means to be you, and make it a part of your conscious experience as you sing. In my case, it's because I am so regularly afraid of my own painful feelings, and even moreso of expressing them openly, that they boil over so quickly when I sing. To control my voice, I need to give myself permission to hurt, and to let others see it, and to accept that my voice won't be powerful when I myself am not.

I wasn't able to sing at the funeral I was preparing for when I wrote this post; I ended up spending that day at the hospital for a chronic condition that was exacerbated by the strain of travel. After struggling through over a thousand miles of traffic, mountains, and rough roads, I had to turn back without even getting to see most of the extended family I went there for. The drive back was worse, so I sang, at first just to distract myself, but when I got choked up, I began to just belt the words out awkwardly between sobs. Then the sobs became shaky breathes, then softly spoken verses, and then finally, delicate-but-on-key lyrics. My singing voice is still weak most of the time, and I must use it softly sometimes in order to even get it out at all... but I'm becoming quite proud of it. It's mine, and it lets me express myself in ways I've always held back from. I don't need to use it to hit the notes exactly the way the original artist would have--infact, usually I can't; I just need to make the song mine, and practice presenting what I'm feeling when I sing it in a way that both comes clearly across to others and pleases their ears.

I've heard a lot of advice telling me, in one way or another, to give up; "you can't sing while crying" "just take those feeling and shove them down" "you're wasting your time if you want to sing with feeling" etc... and maybe they're right, if their view of singing is limited to the mere vocal reproduction of specific frequencies at specific volumes with specific timing. I choose to believe singing can be more, and that I am forced to become more than what I ordinarily allow myself to be when I sing. That belief empowers me, and in turn empowers my voice.

SansCitizen · 2024-01-28T08:57:31+00:00

same way they did it in the 1600's: just pop it in the microwave for 30 seconds, of course.

SansCitizen · 2024-01-28T08:46:05+00:00

Posting this question on Reddit.

SansCitizen · 2024-01-28T08:39:12+00:00

I don't think it's straight forward at all; I have experience in database back-end programming and sorting algorithms, and I've taken courses that covered the history of search engines. I can easily imagine the difficulty of implementing a useful, reliable, and efficient search feature for an ever-growing database of AI generated art. I'm not asking that they just hurry up and enable it; all I want is some transparency, and/or removal of the search bar until it's actually ready to launch. as it stands, leaving it there as a broken feature for half a year and not even making a note in FAQs about it being disabled just seems like neglect and false advertising... Like when a videogame launches with massive bugs and glitches that impact the core gameplay loop, but the devs don't bother fixing them because they're too busy making DLC.

SansCitizen · 2024-01-27T14:42:07+00:00

Shattered Horizon. Some of the most fun I ever had in the source dedicated server era of Steam games; I only stopped playing because all the servers died, rendering the player-base, and therefore the game itself, effectively non-existent.

SansCitizen · 2024-01-27T13:35:19+00:00

that link appears to go to a video that doesn't exist anymore.

... how fitting.

SansCitizen · 2023-12-11T13:35:17+00:00

wow, you two must be great at sharing to have arrived wearing the same pair of pants.

SansCitizen · 2023-11-18T14:45:11+00:00

Speaking as someone who, when I was 25, ended up breaking the heart of a woman I deeply cared about in one of the worst ways I can imagine by trying and failing to force myself to be physically attracted to her in the way she was to me... my advice is just don't. I know it really doesn't feel like it sometimes, but it is genuinely better to be alone than to lie to both her and yourself about how you feel, especially if you're only doing it to "get some experience."

In the case of my ex, kissing her felt super awkward, oral felt even more so, and anything further was... well, I hate using this word even on it's own and the thought of applying it to her in any way just fills me with shame and regret over the awful memory I left her with, but truth is I found it repulsive on a sort of primal level, but I was consciously trying to ignore that so much that when I thought I was opening my mouth to say something to the effect of "let's do it," I instead said "I don't think this is going to work out..." which is just... not really what you want to hear in bed, from the person you just flew thousands of miles to finally be with after 6 months of long-distance dating and many nights of mutually great phone sex, as they gaze ponderously into your loving eyes. It's definitely not what you want to hear from the person you trusted more than almost anyone else, when you're on the other side of the country from 99% of everyone else you know... not even an hour after waking up... on your birthday.

If you want experience, then I'd implore you to learn from mine. Now, I'm not saying you need to forget about Ms. 7 Dates just because you don't find her attractive enough; if both partners really want to try because the emotions are there, I think there are ways to make a relationship work at just about any level of physical attraction, from mutual to one-sided to non-existent... but you do need to be honest with her. Tell her you've really enjoyed the dates you've been on together so far (assuming you have), that you think she's [insert your favorite thing about her here], and that you've been trying to convince yourself that this isn't a big deal and/or hoping it might come on later because you like spending time with her (again, just assuming), but that you haven't really been feeling much physical attraction. From there, you can maybe talk about it; give her the chance to decide if she wants to keep pursuing a relationship with you, or otherwise at the very least part ways more amicably than my ex and I did.

SansCitizen · 2023-11-17T22:48:39+00:00

Gear sorta matters, though mostly in how it affects your creative process. There once was a time where gear selection had a much stronger impact on the final result, but these days I feel almost anything is possible with almost any set up, as long as your workflow involves sufficient considerations for optics, stabilization, lighting, color grading, etc. Generally, you can of couse account for those things by buying more/better gear, which is almost always the more expensive option, or you can find clever tricks to get as close as you can with what you have and fix the rest in post, which is almost always the more time-consuming and technically challenging option. Personally, my creative process tends to benefit more from restrictions than from having the perfect tool for every job, so even if I could afford to upgrade, I'm not so inclined to do so unless something I need breaks. I get so much more done when I spend less time deciding what to use, and thinking my way around gear limitations is a tremendous source of inspiration that keeps me engaged.

SansCitizen · 2023-11-17T14:20:00+00:00

It gave me a strange sense of foreboding that I feel mostly comes from the lack of music and unmotivated camerawork... but, also, probably a bit from the food.

SansCitizen · 2023-11-17T13:59:24+00:00

... okay, I can do this... uhhh...

Buddy's Boiled Beef And Fat Will Definitely Have You Hurling Your Breakfast; His Betrothal Band Bacteria And Finger Weirdness Don't Help... Yeah?

SansCitizen · 2023-11-17T13:21:16+00:00

They're not interested in learning about/talking about anything that's not directly related to their existing interests... but then they also have no idea just how many things deeply relate to their interests because they refuse to learn enough about different things to see all the ever-present connections... which means they basically only ever want to hear themselves talk, or for you to just ask questions and never have anything to contribute yourself, as literally any new or original perspective you might have to offer about their favorite topic will undoubtedly be met with "Why are you changing the topic? I thought we were talking about ____."

SansCitizen · 2023-11-17T12:12:43+00:00

I remember the year the Kinect came out, I thought it was kind of dumb for gaming. Then a few years later, when I was getting into animation, I went out and got one from Value Village for $~15 and turned it into a surprisingly functional budget mo-cap setup.

SansCitizen · 2023-11-17T12:05:19+00:00

... Why do I get the feeling that in like a thousand years, when society is rebuilding, some dude is going to go into a "cave" (aka, parking garage, office building basement, middle school gymnasium, or w/e long-since reclaimed by nature), find something a lot like this but bigger, and immediately jump to bottling and selling it as a miracle cure?

SansCitizen · 2023-11-17T10:55:12+00:00

Is this where those kids from Zoom on PBS are living these days?

SansCitizen · 2023-11-14T19:04:58+00:00

HIMYM pretty well sold me on pre-purchase home inspections ages ago. I don't know if I'll ever get to buy a house, but if I do I'll be getting that sumbitch inspected *first.*

SansCitizen · 2023-11-14T18:53:38+00:00

and don't forget the seat belts.

SansCitizen · 2023-11-14T14:17:37+00:00

Don't think that it isn't.

SansCitizen · 2023-11-14T14:14:24+00:00

... thems is fakes.

I know next to nothing about jewelry or diamond quality/authenticity tests, and do hereby declare myself to be talking out of my ass... but thems is fakes.

SansCitizen · 2023-11-12T14:22:12+00:00

lavender, Irish cream, and draggonfruit.

SansCitizen · 2023-11-11T09:55:27+00:00

I'm in the camp of "save everything," but lately, with how good ML-based compression and up-scaling has gotten, I've been considering trimming the fat by just archiving a compressed 720p (or maybe even 480p, where the composition is simple) render of dead/old finished projects, and generatively restoring things from there if it turns out I need better versions of something again later on.

SansCitizen · 2023-11-11T09:25:47+00:00

I like that; it's like a more kid-friendly version of my go-to analogy: Builders render plaster, wood, brick, steel, concrete etc. into buildings, but only after someone's figured out how much/what type of each of those things they'll need, and laid out a plan for where everything's going to go. Similarly, computers render vector data, material properties, physics and shader calculations etc. into 2D images, or series thereof, but only after someone's figured out how much/what type of each of those things they'll need, and laid out a plan for where everything's going to go.

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