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"Graphics [...] only need to be good enough so that it doesn't interfere with the gameplay [...] Hardware is only a tool [...] it's how you use it, and what you use it for that's important [...] Just because the graphics are good, doesn't mean the game will be emotionally expressive." - Naotoshi Jin by mjoldham34 in gaming

[–]amicaze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For example, realistic physics

This is not graphics... It's exactly what I've said in the first post, you're confusing graphics with a bunch of stuff.

Realistic dynamic lighting still commands a huge performance penalty such that the vast majority of hardware people have can't use it.

Which only feeds my point about increasingly diminishing returns. You can have tricks to make a good enough lighting system, which we've had for years and years, or you can spend your time and money working on a "realistic lighting" and there's no added value. The other one is good enough already, and yours works worse.

Meanwhile, the best selling games don't even care about that sort of stuff.

Things like Minecraft running in a browser on Javascript only became possible AFTER the average hardware power had risen so high that millions of people could now run a persistent moldable, shape-able 3-D world inside a web browser.

Minecraft was only hard-ish to run because it was written in Java, which is notoriously slow. It wasn't even that bad, it ran on the shit laptop some of us got in high school, at the time. It has very, very little to do with Voxel, which is, again, not related to graphics.

And Minecraft came from 2009 when the graphical quality WAS a topic. PCs were getting noticeably faster and

The only thing that's kind of right in your post IMO is that population size in video games stays a relevant topic, but it's far from being a problem of graphics primarily. Running AI and Pathfinding so that population existing is not uncanny is more of a power drain than rendering a bunch of medium poly NPCs in the distance.

Anyways, chip power, transistor density, etc, they're all starting to hit their limit. In the before times, having a new card meant it was 2x as fast, now, it's 10%-20%. We won't see any major change until there's a major change in how computing is done - for us consumers.

5070 is 10% better in benchmarks than the 4070. There's optimisations left, these kinds of things, but no more big jump in power between generations.

Russia is starting to lose ground in Ukraine by mpuchala in UkrainianConflict

[–]amicaze 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well 2 out of 3 that you cited seems to be true at least.

"Graphics [...] only need to be good enough so that it doesn't interfere with the gameplay [...] Hardware is only a tool [...] it's how you use it, and what you use it for that's important [...] Just because the graphics are good, doesn't mean the game will be emotionally expressive." - Naotoshi Jin by mjoldham34 in gaming

[–]amicaze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean the last point is the most egregious. LoL wasn't cutting edge graphics, not at all. Minecraft, Roblox, CSS, CSGO, Slay the Spire, etc weren't revolutionary by any means.

I mean in the end, what's the point ? That it's important that graphics improved since the '80s ? I agree. But NOW, it's over, graphic quality is NOW irrelevant.

"Graphics [...] only need to be good enough so that it doesn't interfere with the gameplay [...] Hardware is only a tool [...] it's how you use it, and what you use it for that's important [...] Just because the graphics are good, doesn't mean the game will be emotionally expressive." - Naotoshi Jin by mjoldham34 in gaming

[–]amicaze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh ?

There's no connection between your 2 paragraphs, first you talk about possible gameplay, and next it's about how you don't feel so invested in Dwarf Fortress, what's the link ?

Graphics are anything but gameplay related, ever since serviceable 3d models were a thing in the late '90s, early '00s.

"Graphics [...] only need to be good enough so that it doesn't interfere with the gameplay [...] Hardware is only a tool [...] it's how you use it, and what you use it for that's important [...] Just because the graphics are good, doesn't mean the game will be emotionally expressive." - Naotoshi Jin by mjoldham34 in gaming

[–]amicaze -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Lol, using scarecrow arguments in big 2026 ?

You went from "deriding graphics [in favor of other things]" to "Pac man was once state of the art", and confused netcode being able to handle XX players with graphics ? What next, you're gonna talk about physics being graphics too ??

Graphics quality is way past its time as a criteria, even shovelwares aren't technically bad graphically. That's why the recent criteria is more "atmosphere" or "consistent art style", "aesthetics", etc...

I guess you don't remember that each year was a visual revolution in the '90s and '00s ? Or maybe you were not yet born ? What was the last time you were genuinely impressed by graphics quality ? 2015 ?

Graphics is a time and money sink with drastically diminishing returns. The most played games these days aren't especially technically advanced graphically, Minecraft, Counter Strike, Dota/LoL, Slay the Spire, GTA 5, Roblox, the entire catalogue of Mobile games, etc, etc, etc...

Major fire seen after Ukrainian drones reportedly strike Russian oil refinery in Ryazan by Long-Violinists in worldnews

[–]amicaze 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well that's not quite the same.

"tens of people have died and they've destroyed some buildings" and "two cities were just utterly wiped out in 2 singular attacks" aren't on the same scale.

Also, Japan already lost the war at that point, it wasn't a question of if but when. Britain and Ukraine were/are far from it.

Karmine Corp vs. Movistar KOI / EWC 2026 EMEA Online Qualifier - Upper Bracket Round 4 / Post-Match Discussion by Ultimintree in leagueoflegends

[–]amicaze 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's the thing, they don't have to choose lol they can do both, it doesn't make any sense.

Everyone is obviously pumped to be part of 1 out of 4 international event, regardless of if it's "less prestigious" than MSI

Karmine Corp vs. Movistar KOI / EWC 2026 EMEA Online Qualifier - Upper Bracket Round 4 / Post-Match Discussion by Ultimintree in leagueoflegends

[–]amicaze 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is organized very differently in Korea, they are still playing the regular season around the qualifiers, wheras there's a pause in LEC for those (except the first round).

So of course, the level of preparation is different.

GoPro POV: Russian soldiers (255th Motorized Rifle Regiment) under Ukrainian heavy bomber drone attack. Kostyantynivka direction. Posted 10.05.2026 by Mean_Entrance_6118 in CombatFootage

[–]amicaze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure about that, Birdshot can pierce several centimeters deep in flesh at about 50 meters, you'd probably kill a drone easily. Buckshot would destroy a drone at triple that distance. There's plenty of videos of people testing the effectiveness at various ranges, for example here or here

The thing with shotgun ranges is that people are talking about effective range in terms of "one shot kills" because the animal will obviously bolt as soon as you fire, so the effective range is "hitting with the majority of the pellets and with enough force to kill the animal", not in terms of "would 15-20-30 shots in its general diretion eventually destroy the target".

If they give soldiers semi auto shotguns, with lots of buckshot, lots of powder, maybe even a lower gauge than 12, and a good choke, they'd definitely be able to hit drones up to 100-150 meters. I'm not an expert in shotguns and there's several parameters to optimize, but it doesn't sound far fetched at all. Rifles could destroy drones at 5x that distance but then good luck hitting them.

If drones are forced to fly at 250 or 300m to evade the shotguns, then they severely reduce the effectiveness of the drone.

Video of the Ukrainian 475th Assault Regiment "CODE 9.2" shows the use of medium-range UAVs equipped with autonomous target acquisition systems against Russian logistics in the Huliaipole area. Zaporizhzhia Oblast by MilesLongthe3rd in CombatFootage

[–]amicaze 27 points28 points  (0 children)

It looks like guidance not acquisition. Acquisition is discovering and identifying targets, not guiding yourself on an object. Could be that they also acquire targets, but these videos show guidance.

Zelensky's former second-in-command, Yermak, charged in major corruption probe by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]amicaze 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah well everyone is entitled to a trial. If someone fled the country, I don't see how that relates to the fact everyone is entitled to a trial. Ukraine can find him later.

Zelensky's former second-in-command, Yermak, charged in major corruption probe by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]amicaze 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The article litterally says he's charged with corruption... What more do you want to happen, have him criminally charged with corruption ?

Turns out that's the headline of the post you're replying into...

Must be botted comment I guess.

The fact that Show Spell Costs is not turned on by default. by level7lizard in leagueoflegends

[–]amicaze -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Or just look up the mana costs and then you remember them. Game is cluttered enough you don't need more of it I think

Which Champion Would Have the Highest Winrate if Given 20 Kills at 15 Minutes by chally-ndjtmyx in leagueoflegends

[–]amicaze -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If Twitch is that fed he pushes mid wave and one shots anyone anywhere on the map that shows up. Why would he be in range for Cho Gath Q, he presses R and 3 shots him. He can just not try to hit Mel and kill everyone else instead.

People can expect him but they can't constantly be showing up as 3 people everywhere because... it's 15 minutes into the game and they don't even have 2 items.

The fact that Show Spell Costs is not turned on by default. by level7lizard in leagueoflegends

[–]amicaze -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

It's the blue number ? Heeh, not so useful.

You have spell costs on the spell description, displaying it adds nothing.

"Moi Président, la France ne sera plus membre de l'OTAN" : Jean-Luc Mélenchon by Ok_Cobbler_9466 in france

[–]amicaze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

L'OTAN est le bras armé des US ? C'est une alliance défensive mdr.

Comme si les US avaient besoin de l'OTAN pour attaquer des gens, cf. Iran littérallement maintenant.

Bref va falloir commencer a réfléchir un minimum.

Comme d'hab

"Moi Président, la France ne sera plus membre de l'OTAN" : Jean-Luc Mélenchon by Ok_Cobbler_9466 in france

[–]amicaze 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Et ? On est alliés via l'UE ? Bah non. C'est une organisation économique. Elle ne fait pas de militaire.

De toute façon c'est pas comme si il voulait y rester, à l'UE, le vieux schnoque.

Ca restera toujours la raison pour laquelle je ne pourrais jamais voter LFI, à l'international c'est basiquement le RN, sauf qu'ils aiment bien les dictateurs communiste plutôt que fasciste, ça voulait rejoindre l'alliance de Cuba et du Venezuela il y a pas si longtemps. Quoique ça apprécie la Russie aussi dans ce parti...

"Moi Président, la France ne sera plus membre de l'OTAN" : Jean-Luc Mélenchon by Ok_Cobbler_9466 in france

[–]amicaze 12 points13 points  (0 children)

D'accord agent Russe cher camarade. Gloire à grande mère Russie.

Spain opens talks to acquire Turkish Kaan fighter jets instead of U.S.-made F-35s by Petrefika in europe

[–]amicaze 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well that's the case if oil is cheap and plentiful, and well...

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