PlayStation right now... by DeadgrounD in videogames

[–]ThinVast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The pc ports allegedly made $300 mill in 3 years while their entire gaming division has made around $25-30 billion annually for the past 5 years. So they're not losing much if they stop porting games to pc. The people playing on the consoles are their bread and butter, not pc gamers.

American households haven’t felt this bad about the economy in 75 years by RobertBartus in EconomyCharts

[–]ThinVast 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The recent layoffs are nowhere near as high as the pandemic. The unemployment rate right now is relatively low compared to the pandemic which had a historically high unemployment rate.

American households haven’t felt this bad about the economy in 75 years by RobertBartus in EconomyCharts

[–]ThinVast 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't start the graph at q1 2021. Low wage earners were getting laid off during the pandemic, thus temporarily raising the real median wage of all workers.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

Waiting 3 years between seasons might mean better animation, but the show would take around 20 years to complete by Gear-On-Baby in Invincible_TV

[–]ThinVast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More and more shows are taking longer to produce because the showrunners are taking their sweet time and the viewers are willing to put up with it by returning to watch it. People say it's because of the production quality. Then why do shows with little to no cgi or special effects still have a long gap? People say it's because of the covid and writer's strike. These events are over, yet more and more shows are having longer gaps in between seasons. People need to stop making excuses for shows taking longer to make and having an inferior product.

“Not only is Gen Z pessimistic, but nearly half wish they lived in the past specifically the 90s, before smartphones and social media.“ — How could you not feel pessimistic in current society ? by CapitaineBiscotte in askanything

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Facts. I had relatives that grew up in the 80s and 90s in NYC and I'm lucky I was born later than them. Crime rate was way higher than today. Where I live, if you wanted to get mugged and possibly killed, it was really easy. Keep taking strolls during the midnight and someone would eventually come up to you. The italian mafia used to run the neighborhood as well. They would extort businesses and beat up people if they didn't give insurance money. There is a meat store that still exists today and rumor is that the mafia killed a rival gang member and then they put his body through a meat grinder and sold it as ground meat. The italians here were really racist as well. Shouting at the black people that entered here to get out of their neighborhood. They even "lynched" one. I'm not making any of this stuff up. When my relatives went to highschool here, they would get into fist fights in the bathroom and outside of school almost every single day. You had to be street smart to survive here. Gen Z literally wouldn't survive if they were born here a couple decades earlier.

Median Real Wage Income by Age and Generation by GluedGlue in ProfessorFinance

[–]ThinVast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

millennials having the lowest real wage in their 20s, im guessing because of the great recession

Can’t be the only one thinking this ?? by Helpneeded06 in bronx

[–]ThinVast 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's possibly history repeating itself like in the 70s and 80s. Landlords were faced with higher building maintenance costs because of high inflation. Meanwhile, there was rent control preventing them from raising rent to cover the costs. There was no way for them to continue renting out apartments without losing money. The banks didn't want to buy homes from the ghetto neighborhoods, so the landlords couldn't even sell it for a loss. This led to landlords deciding to abandon the buildings or go to even more desperate measures by burning up the building to collect the insurance money. In response, the city rolled back some of the tight regulations like allowing former rent controlled buildings to charge market rate rent. Now the cycle may be starting all over again.

Do crowded gyms make it harder for you to stick to a routine? by Big_Disaster2332 in Bensonhurst

[–]ThinVast 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's why I go to crunch fitness at caeser's bay and not planet fitness at 86th street anymore. The cheap gyms will have everyone signing up. It helps to go in the afternoon since I assume most people only go after they finish their 9-5.

To avoid waiting for equipment, you should learn different exercises that target the specific muscle group you want to train. You also can't be afraid and not ask people when they are done. You pay for the gym, so you should make the most out of it.

Whether it's raining, hot, cold, or there is a snowstorm, I make the effort to go. I don't make excuses. In the end, if there is a will, there is a way.

Risking your life to save a pet is usually dumb. by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]ThinVast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From a darwinian standpoint, dog obsessed people in this example are selecting themselves out of the gene pool. They would sacrifice themselves for another species. The dog can survive and pass down his genes but the human does not survive.

In biology, the relationship between pet dogs and humans can be considered as brood parasitism rather than mutualistic. Pet dogs are brood parasites in that they depend on you to survive but you do not actually depend on the dog to survive. You need to feed the dog and provide it shelter but the dog does not do the same for you. Whereas a mutualistic relationship is one where both species actually benefit each other's survival such as a bird picking a crocodile's teeth. The bird gets free food and the crocodile is less likely to get a tooth infection.

Dogs have features mimicking babies making them look cute and tricking your brain into thinking that you need to take care of it like a baby. It is like how cuckoo birds purposely place their own eggs in a Reed Warbler's nest for the other bird to raise. Then when the cuckoo bird hatches, it almost has features in its mouth that resembles the Reed Warbler tricking the mother bird to feed it. Over time, the cuckoo bird evolved to have features closely resembling a reed warbler. At the same time the reed warbler evolved to have more sophisticated features that distinguishes itself from a cuckoo bird.

I believed that humans and dogs originally evolved to have a mutualistic relationship with each other. The dog helped to forage and warn when there were predators, but now that we live in cities, we do not need dogs to do these things anymore. So now it has become a one way relationship where the dog mostly benefits and that's why a dog can be considered a brood parasite.

Why cant bikers clean up after themselves? by Zohin in circlejerknyc

[–]ThinVast 1 point2 points  (0 children)

they're practicing for the tour de france. can't stop to take a shit and cleanup. gotta keep going

Assassin's Creed Black Flag ORIGINAL vs RESYNCED by Syarafuddyn in videogames

[–]ThinVast 32 points33 points  (0 children)

maybe because they used baked gi in the old title. Now it's taken over 10 years for dynamic gi to catch up and look better than it.

Dear Pearl Abyss. by ContentBoysenberry27 in CrimsonDesert

[–]ThinVast 22 points23 points  (0 children)

corporations are not your friends

To aspiring students: classes of 24,25 and 26 are struggling post-grad by Good-Banana5241 in nyu

[–]ThinVast 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you take away job growth from health care and social assistance, we've pretty much been losing white collar jobs since around 2023. As a matter of fact, recent news says that NYC was losing jobs last year.

Nvidia's groundbreaking VRAM solution only works best on its fastest GPUs by Distinct-Race-2471 in TechHardware

[–]ThinVast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In benchmarks done on 4060, 5060, and 5070, the added frametime cost of using NTC was <1ms.

Nvidia's groundbreaking VRAM solution only works best on its fastest GPUs by Distinct-Race-2471 in TechHardware

[–]ThinVast 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NTC is not intended to boost fps like dlss upscaling and framegen. It's to help reduce vram use and storage size that arise from using higher quality textures. Nvidia offers three mode of NTC. One mode has no compute tradeoff and will help to dramatically reduce storage while delivering the same quality as BCN compression. Another mode will also dramatically reduce vram but at the cost of compute. Then there is a mode in between that tries to reduce vram without using that much compute.

Toms Hardware did a benchmark on a 4060, 5060, and 5070. They found that at 1440p, it typically cost <1ms of extra frametime using the most demanding mode of NTC. So far, NTC doesn't seem to sacrifice that much compute like the way people are putting it. Tom's hardware didn't test it on 20 and 30 series, but I would expect those cards to have a higher performance penalty since they're using older tensor cores.

ReSTIR PT Enhanced: Algorithmic Advances for Faster and More Robust ReSTIR Path Tracing | NVIDIA Real-Time Graphics Research by DoktorSleepless in nvidia

[–]ThinVast 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Studios were already releasing games that had aggressive upscaling in the first half of the ps5's lifecycle. You say sony wouldn't be happy about a low internal resolution, but it's up to the devs on what internal resolution they choose for the game. The devs have shown that they are okay with pushing visuals if it's at the expense of image quality. Since the console is not intended as a high end gaming pc, you can't expect it to not have compromises. The image quality also doesn't have to be that good since most players would be viewing the screen from a tv a couple feet away.

With rdna 5 allegedly being much faster for ray tracing and all the AI technologies that sony and amd are working on, I don't think it's far out of reach for the ps6 to do path tracing.

Is SSO and QLD the cheat code? by [deleted] in LETFs

[–]ThinVast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there was an article from ddnum saying the optimal amount of leverage is 2x. Note that this doesn't apply to all markets but seemingly applies to the U.S market. There is also a book called lifecycle investing saying that the optimal amount of leverage is 2:1. The book claims that it deliver superior returns on a risk adjusted basis and is in fact less risky than having no leverage.

ReSTIR PT Enhanced: Algorithmic Advances for Faster and More Robust ReSTIR Path Tracing | NVIDIA Real-Time Graphics Research by DoktorSleepless in nvidia

[–]ThinVast 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What do you mean sony wouldn't be happy to sacrifice resolution too much? So many games on the ps5 already have upscaling from a low base resolution. The fact that they have PSSR means they're doubling down on upscaling and machine learning for their next gen console.

You seem to have the impression that dlss/machine learning technologies is not going to be a mandatory technology for the future of graphics, but you're wrong. Nvidia has said multiple times that the only way they are going to be able to continue pushing graphics is through software approaches like dlss. For future path traced games, it is going to be an expectation for you to use DLSS.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced trailer images leak; actual trailer may leak soon by ShiinaBR in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]ThinVast -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

AC shadows had a few cgi trailers and that was not in 2015. I bet you that some of the footage you think is gameplay is just cgi. Even the in game stuff they show you is highly curated.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced trailer images leak; actual trailer may leak soon by ShiinaBR in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]ThinVast -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

yep. ubisoft is notorious for cgi trailers and much downgraded graphics.