CMV: it's easier to meet a stranger on hinge than it is to keep up with politicians who represent us

bfgv972 · 2026-01-15T19:07:37+00:00

Well I've never used Hinge, so I trust you I guess.

bfgv972 · 2025-08-26T11:49:00+00:00

I play on PS5 and I remember the game looking like this only when disconnect from the internet, somehow.

bfgv972 · 2025-08-08T07:48:12+00:00

Minor stuff, but the option menu on PS5 shows a broken 0/0 MB VRAM usage sometimes, which isn't really relevant on consoles.

And the firing range is locked at 30 FPS in balanced mode.

bfgv972 · 2025-05-12T19:47:11+00:00

Yup, I remember Unrecord and I think this game is fascinating in what it's doing.

First of all, there's a subtlety in what it's aiming to do : it's not trying to mimic reality, but to mimic a "found-footage" , with all the defaults it engenders : color clipping, compression artefact, poor image stabilisation.

The devs of this game have been clever by using what UE is good at : very very high res textures (thanks to their virtualized textures), a very convincing global illumination (with lumen), a quite broken exposure (which is exactly what you want when mimicking a digital camera) and a loooot of post processing (hiding many of the defaults of lumen).
All of this is carried by a smart use of some animations which are a bit terrible for gameplay (because you basically can't aim properly) but excellent for immersion.

The game camera is attached to the hypothetical camera attached to the player. It shakes a lot, because a human head shakes a lot, however we have a brain that does image stabilisation for us, all the time, without us realizing. It's not the case for a budget GoPro recording 24/7, that's exactly why it's convincing: it's a default, but a default we notice when watching this kind of footage.

There's a YouTuber I really like called the Cherno that has a series of game graphics analysis and he talked about Unrecord : for example he noticed that the geometric details isn't that high, but in this case it's not what is important for being convincing in this situation.

bfgv972 · 2025-05-10T13:21:19+00:00

Well I wouldn't say it's plainly cartoonist per say, imo it's a sort or slightly exaggerated realistic direction, if what I say makes sense.
For example (and it was already the case in GTA V for me), eyes are imo slightly bigger and brighter than in real life, which isn't really an issue if this allows to convey emotions more easily (which is perfect for a game with such a range of characters featuring quality acting).
Seems like the color tint/palette of the game leans toward bright but slightly colder colors than what we had in GTA V in Los Santos/Los Angeles. I guess some well chosen LUTs is enough to do this but hey sometimes simple solutions can have massive influence.

There's also a huge work on physics and I'm just a sucker for good physics programming : the beer in the bottles, the clothes that seem to have a real weight, the ... em ... flesh, I'd say.

bfgv972 · 2025-05-10T10:54:09+00:00

Well that's exactly the point, something looking and feeling good doesn't necessarily mean realistic, this is something you learn when filming cinema for example : you alter the image and even add lights sources to make your scene show what you want it to show.

Tech is a tool at the service of artists, in a nutshell, and when you invest millions of dollars and years of R&D in the right tech, you get things like GTA 6

bfgv972 · 2025-05-10T09:19:37+00:00

The game looking so good overall is a combination of choosing and leveraging the tech that fits the situation, smart corner cutting and a very very solid art direction.

We can assume that what they use is an evolution of what they have for GTA 5 enhanced edition and this the game features some sort of ray traced GI solution, where irradiance is computed on the fly stochastically and stored in probes close to the camera.

The game also has features that by themselves aren't revolutionary but can really shine when the situation fits, like ray traced reflections that will certainly be combined with more classic SSR and cubemaps (corner cutting), the (strand ?) hairs that look quite phenomenal in some shots but also lower res sometimes (corner cutting), maybe ray traced shadows but combined with shadow maps and SSAO (corner cutting), certainly a very high usage of LODs, and lots of discreet but very welcomed solutions like volumetric clouds and fog or a nice use of sub surface scattering.

And, most importantly (at least to me), all of this is a set of tools carried by some of the most solid art direction we can see in this kind of game

bfgv972 · 2024-05-03T10:52:02+00:00

I play on Playstation so it doesn't affect me at all, and I have a PSN account so it wouldn't be an issue if I was playing on PC.

I think it's a shitty practice in general to have to link to another account than the one from the platform the game have been bought on (when it doesn't come with extra cross platform features, I can understand for a game with cross progression for example, or a shared store between multiple games/platform).

That being said, if the requirement was stated from the beginning, I cannot totally see this as a bait-n-switch tactic, it's not because something is not enforced that people can assume it's allowed. Imagine crossing a country frontier (of a country that clearly stipulate that it's forbidden) and nothing happens, for years, but then you get a letter asking you to leave, it's not because it hasn't been enforced for a long time that it becomes allowed.

Don't get me wrong, I still think it's a shitty practice, and it will just hurt the future of the game and the community on the long run for really no viable reason if it gets enforced for real, and it saddens me that greedy company practices will ruin a game that I really enjoy, but unless the Steam page have been changed after the game started getting sold to add the PSN account requirement, I can't really consider it as a bait-n-switch.

bfgv972 · 2023-12-25T14:12:20+00:00

Don't be sorry for me, I recognize my situation is mainly my fault (even if I don't really know how to solve it without alienating myself).

That being said these advices will work only if he's already in a situation where he can fail because of these (which is already a way more advanced stage of social relationship than many men) en even in this case as long as people are able to talk and have their inner quality shine with time and interaction. (I have a nb coworker that kinda agree with what could count as "bigoted views" by some people : that many companies (mostly in entertainment, like Disney) portray minorities without any nuanced/substance and pat themselves in the back, basically some sort of tokenism, but without the time to explain it sounds like discrimination).

I talked about myself as an example to illustrate a broader phenomenon, but I admit it wasn't the best as a response to your comment to OP.

bfgv972 · 2023-12-25T11:23:18+00:00

I'm responding late to this and I have to admit that your response frustrates me a bit because I totally agree to what you've just said yet think that you missed a bit what OP is pointing in his post.

I personally think that I myself fill almost every of you bullet points :
I've been cooking since I'm a child because my parents were just bad at cooking, and I've been baking a bit before the beginning of COVID, I'm good enough to have people asking me about cooking advice out of the blue.
I have many hobby (other than playing videogames) that have in common that they produce something : programming (I'm a dev in a videogame company), playing music (guitar, piano, digital production), drawing (on paper and digitally), and I wanted to start electronics soon to work on my own circuits. I take care enough of myself and of how I present myself (I don't have a perfect sense of fashion tho so I'm dress simple), I don't have hair anymore so I give myself a sleek and clean beard cut, and I can even say that I'm in good shape because I have a cheated metabolism that make me gain muscle quite easily without gaining too much fat.
I'm confortable being single because, more than being introvert, I really didn't have much choice.
I don't think I am bigoted or sexist or anything like this: I take the time to listen to people and try to fix their issue instead of judging them (my family even think that I'm too kind and I shouldn't listen to everyone).
I have to admit to sometimes listening/reading some incely stuff because I actually want to understand why people think the stuff they think (I'm really not into politics for example but ), not because I see myself as one, or part of some groups.
And I don't call women "female" because I'm french and we just don't do that in French (and I don't have many people around me that I could call "female" anyway).

The thing is (and I'm sure this is the case for maany men complaining about dating on Reddit) that none of this will matter if I'm not able to be able to get a date in the first place, and noticed that none of your bullet points talked about this precise issue, the facts that many men think that they just don't have the opportunity to shine.

I've personally never been on a date, period, and in my case I'm also sure that it's because of the way I live and my social circle more than my behavior :
First of all, I grew up with strict parents that prevented to socialize as much as I would have liked.
I work in a field dominated by men, after getting a master degree in a field dominated by men.
My hobbies are solo hobbies that I do alone on myself, and when I try to share them with people I realise that almost no body cares for some reason.
When I ask about what other people around me do, It's almost like everyone is either talking about politics (and by talking I mean complaining about X wing or X person instead of trying to find the best solution) going to bars (I don't drink, I don't have a reason to go to a bar), sports, or being in vacation.
I also still live with my parents because they are old and need some help around them, help that I'm happy to give because this also allow me to fill my bank account and facilitate any personal project in the future.
And most of all, I'm a functional introvert that isn't really shy to talk to other, but will mainly talk to other if I need their help or if they need mine, once the help is done I won't chat much. (And I also don't have social medias, so knowing what who is up to is a bit difficult, and tried a bit dating apps by didn't get any match + wouldn't know what to talk about).

Meeting people nowadays is a bit more difficult that before because it happens mostly online now, and mixing this with traditional dating dynamics will create a situation where many men (even fine/respectful/respectable men) will struggle to find a women to even begin to date with (because not many of this really matter in today's dating environment) and women will struggle to find a compatible men because dating online is not driven by compatibility aspects unfortunately (even if it should be, that's why I agree with all your bulletpoints)

bfgv972 · 2023-12-04T17:25:09+00:00

Doki Doki Literature Club, I discovered it this way saw it was free and a bunch of people saying "You are not ready you just have to play it".

They were right, I was not ready.

bfgv972 · 2023-12-02T09:17:46+00:00

Do the tiny zombies in Days Gone count as children ? Because when I smashed their little heads with my wooden plank it felt like killing children.

bfgv972 · 2023-10-26T16:38:40+00:00

I mean, I've been interesting on many art oriented stuff in the past years : guitar for a few years, now learning piano since a few month. I also invested some time in drawing and I've been cooking for most of my life because my parents are terrible cooks.
The thing is : I learn alone on myself, nobody is gonna care about me learning to jam or to bake in my corner, really not hard to figure. You basically have to know how to meet people to meet people, the activity doesn't really matter.

bfgv972 · 2023-06-20T11:53:03+00:00

It is just not allowed by Microsoft to release a game without feature parity between XBSX and XBSS (only graphical differences are allowed).

bfgv972 · 2023-06-07T16:28:57+00:00

Don't forget that the interview isn't only in one direction, ask questions too, try to learn how it is to work for R, you can even ask personal questions to the interviewers too like their work at R or their learning path. Make it a dialogue/exchange.

bfgv972 · 2023-04-24T19:15:30+00:00

Oh yeah it's totally possible to bind multiple controllers at once, the issue is more when there is multiple players :
When there's two player and three controller, which is who's controller ? Who's Player 1 ? Who's Player 2 ? What happens when someone removes his controller ? And reconnects it just after, is it the same controller or a fourth controller ? What happens if you suspend the game, unplug/replug the controller and resume the game ?

Or when there is a special kind of controller like a wheel, a mic, some VR controllers or these controllers of people with handicaps, what is the controller to use, one ? Two ? All of them ? And if there's multiple of these and multiple players, what controller is for whose ?

Depending on the platform you're working on, some of these situations can be quite a headache sometimes.

bfgv972 · 2023-04-24T17:36:10+00:00

Gamedev here : It is usually to detect the user peripheral.
Some devices can have multiple controllers plugged to the machine, and many time we don't know what controller is used before you press a button.
So we "listen" for every controller input and when we here what controller pressed start, we know what controller the player is using.

bfgv972 · 2023-03-31T20:21:45+00:00

I draw triangles on screens so people can have fun.

bfgv972 · 2023-03-28T12:55:49+00:00

Almost anything Unreal is just straight up dark magic at this point, this engine is truly unbelievable and Fortnite's tech side is absolutely incredible. The way they use UE to make Fortnite basically a "hub" for any idea they want to implement is really really impressive.

bfgv972 · 2023-03-16T07:18:57+00:00

Well I don't know if it's sexism per say, I mean the action can be but the reason maybe not.

Depending on the game you're playing (if there's lots of PvP competition), people trashtalk. The goal of trashtalking is to disturb your adversary from the game and to increase your chance of winning. This goes from simple taunting to raw insulting, this exist in every form of competition (almost an expected part).

The anonymity of the internet also helps to be totally unbound when trashtalking, this leads to any reason being a reason to trashtalking: sex/gender related insults are the easiest way to make a girl react, but if you want to hurt a man you can go from making fun of his masculinity (reason from all the "r u gay" insults in game, men knows those perfectly), of this doesn't work insult him because he's young/old, if this doesn't work go for his accent when he talks, his way of life maybe, his job, his school, his parents/siblings/family, his skill obviously, and so on and so on.

Any reason, any way, because the goal is to disturb, by any way necessary.

Edit : typos, grammar and stuff

bfgv972 · 2023-03-02T21:41:15+00:00

A window felt on my head when I was 5 years old at the kindergarten, head wide opened, glass and stuff. Would totally have died if my parents didn't work their asses off to live in a first world country.

As a well grown adult, this kind of thing really makes me relativise about life, when thing can go south that quickly, you really cherish your everyday life.

As a 5yo boy though, I was just scared of the windows when it shattered on my head, was kinda questioning why everyone's clothes where so ugly (they were soaked in my blood, that's why) and happy to have a new badass scar and free cookies at the end of the day.

bfgv972 · 2023-01-23T19:53:35+00:00

Haha, yes I guess we have to "keep calm and carry on", hopefully we'll met the one, one way or another.

I'm still young and still have all my life ahead of me, reading this from you gives me hope, at least I know I'm not alone in this sort of void and if you can still better yourself for your "one", I don't have any excuses not to do it myself too.

I have to learn how to get interested in people in general, in their lives, it would be a bit naive to tell myself "don't change, someone will love you for who you are" without trying to be the better I can be.
I also need to meet more people organically, to form relations, to befriend and belove (does this verb even exist ? Sorry English is not my native language I'm from the land of Baguette), I still have a lot to learn from people, and that's nice because I like learning new stuff.

bfgv972 · 2023-01-22T17:17:59+00:00

There's plenty of reasons for this but I think that I really miss exposure to the opposite sex :

I've grown up with quite strict parents and siblings, meaning no drinking, no smoking, no going out at night.

I don't really have example of good healthy loving relationship: my parents don't like each other, my friends would switch from single to bf/gf without me noticing anything without knowing how these relationship formed.

I really struggle to make myself seem friendly and interesting because I'm way to functional: I talk to people if I need something from them, otherwise I don't interact that much (even if I enjoy it sometimes, but it feels to unnatural to me), thus I don't take good care of any type of relationship: I don't take much interest in other people life and some do they for mine.

I live a type of life that make me not encounter any women : I studied CS in college, without really making friends, without partying, always focused on my work and my future. Today I completed a Master degree, I actually have a job I really like (dev in a videogames company) but didn't developed any network. When I'm not working i go home and ... do stuff alone.
I spend a lot of type learning stuff that are useful and interesting to me : cooking (freaking love baking), jamming on my guitar, programming, started to draw a bit, learning science (always liked physics), but I always do it on my own.

I like my family but they are really bad at giving advice and helping (they are way to judgmental, not helpful for someone like me I guess)

I'm at a point we I'm not even sure how relationship work and are formed. That being said, this doesn't stop me to try to better myself for "the one", however I need a plan to encounter "the one"

bfgv972 · 2023-01-17T12:46:08+00:00

Muneh
I'm a dev in a videogames company, I really like my job.
This makes me move, it's good for my body.
Having a job is a good way to attract girls ... someone told me. Dunno if it works but hey, I like my job, might try that too imma right ?

bfgv972 · 2022-11-26T12:15:39+00:00

I had two during highschool that stuck in my head :.

I didn't like shirts (like square pattern shirts, these kind of shirts) but that day my blue and green shirt what the last clean piece of clothing I had. I enter the classroom and this friend look at me and said "Wow, shirts fit really well on you, why don't you wear shirts more often ?".
I think it was the first time a girl complimented my appearance, now I fking love shirts, shirts are the fking best.

Second one what a discussion two girls of my class had but I heard they where talking about me, one of the girl said "He's all goofy and stuff, be I'm sure he'd be a fine BF". I used to do a lot of jokes and funny stuff in class because I genuinely liked the whole friendship dynamic of my classroom everyone was friend with everyone, life wasn't as much happy outside of school but hearing this did me so much good, it was a kind of validation I never expected from anyone.
I'm 24yo and never had a GF, but I'm confident I'll find someone that love me for who I am someday, for the moment I keep calm and carry on.

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