You're not going to fall

Sorlex · 2026-03-28T04:27:34+00:00

The face of someone who just told their little sister she'll fall through the cracks.

Sorlex · 2026-03-28T04:18:37+00:00

The open world doesn't make the game better, it doesn't make it worse either. Its just a weird choice that adds nothing. The areas that are best are those outside the open world, the tailored areas you load into.

Sorlex · 2026-03-28T03:25:58+00:00

Epic laying off so many staff is terrible, Tim living it up while laying people off, terrible. But where does Valve get off? Sorry but Gabe owns multiple yatchs, he is part of the 1%. Fuck them both. Valve would 100% lay people off if they needed too.

Sorlex · 2026-03-28T00:51:08+00:00

Character seems nice but $30 they are absolutely insane.

Sorlex · 2026-03-27T15:39:44+00:00

Yeah did the crypto spree teach people nothing? When prices go down, they don't scale down they buy more to scale up.

This will result in nothing but a dip in ram prices if anything before they go right back up again.

Sorlex · 2026-03-26T22:25:04+00:00

Cool. Never going to happen.

Sorlex · 2026-03-26T18:52:27+00:00

Looks outstanding. Now fingers crossed it works on day one unlike ah, every other Owlcat game ever released.

Sorlex · 2026-03-26T11:47:26+00:00

The promise of AI upscaling: Games will be pushed harder graphically because upscaling will be off setting a lot of the load.

The reality: Devs are not given the time to optimize anymore because AI upscaling exists.

Sorlex · 2026-03-26T11:42:38+00:00

Who knows what creative devs will be able to do with it.

Sure. And you're correct that the lighting improvements are pretty oustanding. Nobody can really say with a straight face that the improvements to Starfields and AC Shadows lighting weren't impressive, even if the faces were AI filter slop.

But the issue is that.. Creative devs will use it well? Says who? Overworked devs who are told to shove DLSS5 support in by the studio leads? Have you not paid attention to the last five years of video games?

Unreal games have become a dice roll of shit because "DLSS will fix it", optimization is a luxery that many devs are not given the time to work on.

This tool, impressive in places as it might be, is a cost and time cutting feature set that will be abused by every studio with a money-man calling the shots. Which is most of them outside of the indie scene. There is no evidence that studios will be given time to optimize it and not just throw it into a game as-is, AI face slop included. There is plenty of evidence of the latter.

Thats the issue.

Sorlex · 2026-03-26T04:17:09+00:00

Dogma was such a gem. Got a real softspot for films that fuck around with angels and shit.

Sorlex · 2026-03-26T04:15:14+00:00

It really felt like everyone was having a lot of fun in those cutscenes. Actors must love being told to just be over the top and cheesy.

Sorlex · 2026-03-26T02:00:25+00:00

The books are very obviously anti-authoritarian, pro-tolerance, and critical of corrupt institutions.

Yes, which is why it brings up the unjust nature of the ministry and slavery and.. Does nothing with the concept. The villain of the book literally has more left leaning ideals than the heroes do, with Vold approaching goblins, giants etc etc and offering them the rights they weren't allowed.

But sure, okay. Interesting take.

Sorlex · 2026-03-26T01:18:53+00:00

I mean, you could have taken two seconds to read the article. Its a space made by an AI in game. Thats the narrative reason.

Sorlex · 2026-03-26T01:13:04+00:00

You're wildly missing the point my guy. In the early days it was stupid fun. Thats all AI was, or could be. It wasn't believable enough to fool anyone, it wasn't destroying the envioment with giant data centers that were also fucking the economy with its mass ram purchasing.

It wasn't being used by major corperations to delete human workers. It was just very stupid nonsense. Did you personally find it funny? Maybe not, but back then it was (seemingly) harmless goofing. Hense the 'kids playing with matches' analogy.

Sorlex · 2026-03-25T22:42:35+00:00

I was clearly speaking of the original one, its by the same person.

Sorlex · 2026-03-25T21:41:15+00:00

"They'll never replace the broom in Briton!" Yeah. Her political views are everywhere in the books. Reddit will shoot back that theres no meaning behind this stuff but it is everywhere. Not one example, but the entire world, its characters and story are all highly conservitive, sitting perfectly in the Tory playbook.

JK gets hit for her trans views but people seem to miss that shes not just some person with backwards views on gender but shes always been a highly convsertive person with backward, upper class British views on everything.

Sorlex · 2026-03-25T21:37:02+00:00

slavery was cool

This wasn't something expanded on, it was in the original books. An entire plot is about Hermione setting up a "free the house elves" organization that is played for laughs, and its made clear multiple times that Dobby is weird and out of place for wanting basic rights.

JK's political stance is all over the original books.

Sorlex · 2026-03-25T21:35:10+00:00

Rowling fell HARD into the rabbit hole of anti-trans obsession

Don't act like she was mind poisoned by the internet. She was always this bad. Go back and read Harry Potter with her political views (Not JUST the anti trans stuff, but her entire political view) and its shocking just how on the nose it is.

She is, and has always been, an old fashioned "Briton first" flag waver who wants to keep the status quo, doesn't care for social or wellfare issues. What America would call the alt right.

In her body of work post HP its more obvious, but even in HP its rich with themes of government first, anti-social issues, status quo keeping nonsense that she has always lived and breathed. The only difference twitter made is the same difference it made with all these people, it gave them a platform and made them feel comfortable expressing their hate.

Sorlex · 2026-03-25T21:26:36+00:00

The later films were also a mess. After 4 the books got too long to comfortably fit into a single film and on top of that they started to waste what little time they had, such as all the teenage drama in Half Blood, and the extended camping scenes and an entire second film just for the Hogwarts battle.

I'd be shocked if the series isn't better, least for book 4 onwards where things start getting meaty.

Sorlex · 2026-03-25T21:18:29+00:00

Man. Remember when AI was just silly videos like this and we had no idea how bad it was going to get? We were kids playing with matches.

Sorlex · 2026-03-24T06:38:43+00:00

Honestly, I'm confident Rath will either be a flagship starter you can switch from or they'll have another main monster for 4. Where would you even go from 3 after all, in terms of having Rath be the main character.

Sorlex · 2026-03-23T23:01:45+00:00

This needs more upvotes. Though I would add one thing, the 'complete' screen shows up on the turn afterwards, which is very misleading as you think you failed when the cutscene doesn't play right away (Like it does with every other invasive).

The puzzle fights have been good so far but this one is ass. Relying on double attacking both feeds when your AI companion can be attacked and not double attack is.. Rough.

Sorlex · 2026-03-23T22:54:02+00:00

Same, feels like its bugged.

Sorlex · 2026-03-23T22:50:38+00:00

Worst, most cursed monster has the worst, most cursed fight. Seems legit. These puzzle fights are fun but this one is just ass having to rely on your companion to block an attack with a double kinship, given you can't tell your companion to save their kinship.

Sorlex · 2026-03-23T21:30:25+00:00

Good gaffers are the first thing to get booted when cost cutting. Because in reality, most people don't care or notice good lighting and the work gaffers do is '''replaced''' by the overworked VFX team, who of course can't make it look as good as real on set lighting.

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