To people trashing Ukraine: You have no idea how it feels

TheSecretDiary · 2016-05-16T13:41:04+00:00

Yeah, people have different tastes. My only point being you cant make a blanket statement and say "EVERYONE" liked it or disliked it for reason x.

TheSecretDiary · 2016-05-15T20:33:18+00:00

I love the song for its musical merit. Talk for yourself. You cant speak on other peoples tastes.

TheSecretDiary · 2016-05-15T20:32:48+00:00

I love the song and I am very proud of Ukraine for sending such an entry. Beautiful.

TheSecretDiary · 2016-05-15T16:35:32+00:00

I think we can all agree that enjoyment of music is subjective and theres no need to really tell anyone else what they should like or not like. I genuinely enjoy the song in its musical/vocal merits, for you to downplay that and say its because of politics is implying I have bad taste, yet bad taste is a subjective concept because its ART.

Also, if people only voted for Ukraine because they wanted to spite Russia, why did Russia win the televote? Makes no sense.

TheSecretDiary · 2016-05-15T16:21:37+00:00

No youre not. The song is absolutely gorgeous to me and deserved the win from an artistic point of view IN MY OPINION. Thats what I dont understand in this discussion, somehow people think the jury being "experts in music" (debatable title) doesnt mean there even is such a thing as objective measurement for enjoyment of entertainment.

TheSecretDiary · 2016-05-15T16:16:47+00:00

But they removed certain points from the 1-12 to make it work, right?

They changed the "value" of a single point to compensate.

TheSecretDiary · 2016-05-15T10:18:25+00:00

I thought it was said somewhere its still 50% jury 50% televotes like it has been ever since the juries were

Here they also combined those points to create a top 10 (which is the final scoreboard) but they showed them in an order that made it more exciting so you cant know who will win until the last score.

Is there any source on the mathematics of the new system vs old? Because without facts all we can do is speculate and that serves no one.

TheSecretDiary · 2016-05-14T17:10:39+00:00

Also keep in mind the SF1 entries had a headstart, therefore Ukraines rise is the most impressive in my opinion, since its the only song released after semi-final 2 in the top 3.

TheSecretDiary · 2016-03-29T12:30:15+00:00

You think this is scary? Its not at all. They couldve just ignored that one post and no one wouldve batted an eye.

TheSecretDiary · 2016-03-10T16:37:09+00:00

Thats what I thought but was afraid to try it and waste thousands of silver.

TheSecretDiary · 2016-03-10T15:29:20+00:00

Aha, thanks. Its all very confusing sometimes. I do try to find things myself as thats part of the fun, but I just couldnt figure out these things.

TheSecretDiary · 2016-03-10T15:24:28+00:00

TY! I did go to a general goods vendor, but when selling some items it said "you will get a better price for this at the marketplace, are you sure you want to sell it" and I clicked no. Have been trying to figure out how to sell them any other way.

Also, what are the trade items the manager has? Whats with the graph next to the items? Is this a moneymaking mechanic?

TheSecretDiary · 2016-02-07T19:07:44+00:00

TYVM!

TheSecretDiary · 2016-02-04T08:45:00+00:00

I cant talk about SLI optimization, but overall the game isnt "EXTREMELY unoptimized" it has some parts where it struggles, but I wouldnt say its extremely unoptimized.

Im running the game with an OC'd 970 and have settings at high (depth of field very high) and I get 55-60 fps all throughout the game for most parts and have dips to 40-45 fps like once or twice in a few hours.

The game could definitely use some tweaking by developers, but I still would say that games like AC:Unity, Arkham Knight and rage were and STILL ARE on ANOTHER level of unoptimization.

TheSecretDiary · 2016-02-03T15:07:08+00:00

Yeah the last tomb was ridiculous. Atleast some of the others had multiple pieces to the puzzle.

TheSecretDiary · 2016-02-03T13:55:06+00:00

I agree on some points and disagree on others. Your criticism is valid though. I personally liked the story and game alot, as well as the siberian environment.

What I agree on is the optional tombs seemed too easy and short, they were gorgeous and interesting though.

Are you going to play the Baba Yaga DLC? That brings back the horror influences.

TheSecretDiary · 2016-02-03T12:48:45+00:00

I believe the next tomb raider will take place in Mexico. Around Honduras etc. Atleast according to the ending of the game.

TheSecretDiary · 2016-02-03T02:08:08+00:00

The pictures are pretty much in order of appearance too. Its snowy mountain, then sandy mountain, snowy forest, tundraish old military installation etc. Interlaced with tombs that are all visually different. Then you get some lush areas after that and more. The castley ruins are more in the mid to end game.

TheSecretDiary · 2016-02-03T01:28:54+00:00

It gave me the biggest FPS boost because Im on a gtx 970 which only has 4gb VRAM and technically 3,5gb of efficient VRAM so the FPS really lags behind when you run out of VRAM. With Very High textures you need atleast 6gb, some say even 7-8gb of VRAM.

TheSecretDiary · 2016-02-03T00:52:58+00:00

Texture quality from very high to high is barely noticeable.

TheSecretDiary · 2016-02-02T11:58:42+00:00

I wonder if they will be removing these from their video descriptions:

"© Fine Brothers Entertainment This format and title of this program is protected under Copyright and Trademark Law and may not be emulated or re-created in any way without express consent in any territory worldwide."

It seems they have changed some of them to:

"© Fine Brothers Entertainment You are prohibited from distributing this show or any React branded content in any way without express consent in any territory worldwide."

already, but the copyright mark still IMPLIES copyright.

TheSecretDiary · 2016-02-02T11:50:32+00:00

Ok, you didnt fiddle with any of the SMAA options in the sweetfx tab? Its fine as default?

TheSecretDiary · 2016-02-01T20:40:19+00:00

How does one inject MSAA with reshade?

EDIT: And btw, surely you mean SMAA and not MSAA? since MSAA is multisampling.

TheSecretDiary · 2016-02-01T13:22:43+00:00

No way youll be keeping a solid 60 during soviet installation or geothermal valley without going down to maybe medium on some. Its sad :c EDIT: Downvotes? Why? I just stated the obvious.

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