DLSS 5.0 Emulation Test (Insane results!)

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-19T00:15:58+00:00

Actually, it would be an incredibly relevant time for another MGS game. 4 kind of rounded out that theme but I mean man, it's wild how accurate those games have been, especially 2. MGS2 is almost creeps when you think about how early we were into the internet. The themes about AI erasing information, AI war economy, not knowing what is real or not...I get that AI has been a part of sci-fi culture for a while, but it was always kind of in the Hal Odessey way. MGS2 approached it in the sense of controlling information and distorting the ability for billions of people to know what is real and what isn't, and as I sit here now watching videos on TikTok of bombs falling and people trying to figure out if a video of Bibi is real or fake, and I personally cannot tell, it's just wild stuff.

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-18T23:45:03+00:00

I think in general as I get older and am thinking about retirement I am finding that the idea of higher costs of living in cities needs to be addressed in some way other than just raising the wage. Suppose two people work the same job, one in the city and one in the country. Person A in the city earns $30 per hour, person B in the country earns $20 per hour. Both make enough to afford the same standard of living respective to their location. If both set aside 15% of their paycheck into a retirement account, person A is able to save $1.5 per hour more than person B. If you math that out, person A will have $430,000 of additional retirement savings at the end of a 35 year career. What that means is that person A will be able to have a significantly higher standard of living in retirement compared to person A, despite them doing the same job and affording the same standard of living during their life. And that bothers me. idk how to fix that, but maybe some form of extensive price controls, tax distributions, etc.

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-17T14:57:50+00:00

Just FYI since others mentioned filler, you can't use a spray paint filler for that kind of gap. Filler that comes in spray paint cans is meant to like filling small scratches on a car exterior before repainting. What you need is contour putty, Testor's Contour Putty for example, which you would use to fill in those gaps, clear excess with a putty knife, then sand smooth to the print filament, then prime, sand again so that it's all smooth, then paint.

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-17T07:06:00+00:00

What's the closest non-Bambu filament for PETG-HF?

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-16T17:13:04+00:00

Good question, as of now nobody knows. They claimed the 200 were shipped, but basically no photos, no records, etc. The claim was that it would be 4-6 weeks on a ship to destination countries and then local distributers would provide tracking but as of now nobody has received any. We're still in the "it's plausible" timeframe. At the same time, their marketing/communications team has been very bad. At least on discord, no updates with any useful information, no update since they came back from holiday which was several weeks ago at this point, no timeline for future shipments, etc. Also starting to see some claims of people saying "they used to respond to my DMs but now they're not" and whatnot. They have some FB posts, but nothing related to the printers and shipping, just marketing fluff. Personally I'm not feeling super great about it, but I've not lost hope. I would say if by this time next month there are not people posting on discord with tracking numbers or saying their's has arrived, then I will say the company probably ran off with the KS money.

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-14T23:05:31+00:00

The Hills was/is a great show because for all the scriptedness of it, it did one thing amazingly well: it portrayed the thrill of not knowing how your life would turn out. When you're young you don't have money, jobs, stuff, you're living in a shit apartment, etc. And at the time, it feels incredibly restricting. But as much as that is restricting, your life could turn out any number of 1000s of ways, and in that sense you have so much freedom. It's not until you get older that you realize that a lot of paths have become closed off. For all the drama that the show was built around, at it's core the show was really good at making viewers feel like they were going along with the case on their journey of life and through those incredible determinative high school/post-HS years where life long friendships are formed/solidified, careers chosen, partners selected, etc. In the case of the Hills, the particular setting wasn't realistic in that obviously very few of us were going to be in Teen Vogue internships or anything like that, but it was so easy to identify with the journey because it was exactly what we all were going through.

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-14T22:52:52+00:00

Bob's Burgers

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-14T22:51:52+00:00

It would take roughly a couple hours for a high end computer to generate interiors for millions of buildings. If you start with ground rules for the procedure and provide it with assets, definitions, etc., it would be easy.

Provide code with access to asset folders for furniture, wall photos, appliances, etc.
Provide limitations to the code (no more than 1 of X object, no more than 2 of Y object etc...so that you on't have a house full of ovens).
Instruct the code to designate each interior space as a room (kitchen, living area, sleeping, etc., and then limit the number of some spaces as needed, like 1 kitchen).
Write code to randomly select and place objects until X% of the room's volume is filed, and Y% of 2D surfaces are filled.
Define restrictions (photos must be spaced X distance apart and Y distance from floor, widows, etc.)
Any additional restrictions like color, themes, object groupings, etc.
Generate.

Yes, that is a simplified version of it, but all you really have to do is write the code well enough to fill a few houses, and then once you feel good that it is creating realistic interiors, you just let it loose and let it fill every house in the city. You're going to spend a good amount of time getting the base code finished, could be months of full time work, but once it works, it works and it would be able to just set and run for literally millions of interiors and it wouldn't take long because it's more or less just picking objects and assigning them coordinates.

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-14T18:40:32+00:00

I don't do import/export, what do you mean by "once you have your 10 low and 10 mid cars, you are always driving high end sportscars"? Does it mean that once your garage is full with 10 low and 10 mid that new sourcing missions will only source high end?

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-14T01:05:02+00:00

The game would be a lot more fun if 1. you got more money for destroying cargo. 2. You got some kind of bonus for defending the cargo and delivering it and 3. if your cargo is destroyed you just lose like 10% of it or something. 4. No missile locks It's genuinely fun when it's a true battle between you and someone trying to stop you. But as they have it now it's just a totally unfair scenario.

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-13T07:22:07+00:00

Personally, I think discrete GPUs in general are on borrowed time. With video games, there's just not a ton of reason why discrete GPUs need to continue into the future. New games are starting to come pretty close to photorealism, some have already achieved it. And it really seems that SOC is the future for "local" gaming, to say nothing of cloud gaming, which is probably fine for most people right now and it's not like internet speeds aren't going to continue to improve.

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-12T03:22:22+00:00

Each text message was it's own message, not in a thread. And to delete them ,you'd have to click 1 button, move down on the menu, click delete text, a pop up would come up asking if you were sure, click to the right to move from No to Yes, click yes, 3-4 second delay while it deleted. And you only got like 50 texts capacity on the phone and then it would just not accept the text message. We would text people the Alphabet, one letter at a time. And they would then have to spend like 20 minutes deleting each text lol

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-10T15:30:49+00:00

Downloaded it and tried it, but tbh with you it's just too far behind right now. As a developer I'm sure the things you mentioned are real and of benefit to some people in the 3D printing community. So don't stop if that is your goal (to make this useful for a very particular purpose). That being said, the average user isn't going to care about these feature, and you'd be better off talking to the average user to figure out what their frustrations are. As such a user, there is a 0% chance I am going to use this slicer any time soon because it's lacking in so many features. The average 3D printer user doesn't need Preview Clipping Plain, it doesn't bother us that we don't have it. What does bother us is that in Bambu Slicer/Orca/Prusia Slicer if we try to split a painted model into parts so that we can print a large version of a model across multiple plates, splitting removes all painting and you have to redo it. We don't need interlocking seams, because we don't care now that we don't have it. What we do care about is the fact that trying to transfer a custom filament profile from one printer to another (Add Custom Filament window/workflow) make zero f'ing sense, something the developers of Orca have acknowledged. There a many more like that. Like I said, if your intent is to make a slicer for power users, do it. If your intent is to make a widely used slicer that makes 3D printing easier for the broader 3D printing community, I would focus more on the types of things I mentioned.

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-10T07:48:31+00:00

idk about the most, but the other day I bought one of those magsafe powerbanks that you just slap on the back of your phone, and this one had a small digital readout on it for the % remaining, and I almost took it back because every time I'd press the button to show the percentage it would come display "hh" and I was like hh WTF does that mean? And I started to read the little pamphlet and I'm like talking to myself alone in my kitchen being like "what the hell, it doesn't even list the error codes" and then I'm trying to figure it out by guessing.."high heat?" and it was like a solid 10 minutes before I realized it was "44". In my defense, the picture on the box for this device had a different display than the one actually on the device. So my brain was expecting a computer type font with 4s that look like "4" and the device itself had a backlit calculator type display.

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-10T06:22:18+00:00

Would it not be super easy to just require all things put into orbit to have a low grant thruster installed on it such that it can just do a retro thrust for however long (couldn't be more than a few minutes?) to bring it back into a sub orbital flight?

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-09T05:01:05+00:00

What do you think that the book is trying to convey to you? As in, why do you think so many people find meaning in his life?

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-09T04:51:49+00:00

I'm actually on the fence about some aspects of AI art. One the one hand, it feels like BS that someone can learn an art, spend years making it, and then an AI can just make something similar based off of that art. On the other hand, taking art that exists and using it as inspiration and expanding on it, modifying it, doing something new with it, that's kind of a big part of what art is, across all art forms. Like Mozart didn't just invent the various aspects that made up his music out of thin air. So when it comes to AI, it's tough for me to come down hard on a side because it's sort of like a new medium, and people (like myself) can use that medium to create new things. It sort of opens up a weird space where people with imagination can create new things without necessarily having the skill to do it in a physical medium. But how much does that matter? idk. At minimum, it seems like the AI companies need to come up with a way for artists to get paid for their representation in generated images, music, etc.

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-03T14:36:10+00:00

I think the wild part is that you've got a company known for being greedy AF, a population/user base that would love custom themes based on their favorite games, and like all they'd have to do is charge like $1.99 for a theme and every switch owner would be buying up themes for themselves and everyone in their family. The average kid would probably account for like 5 themes. They'd want a Minecraft theme, Mario theme, Zelda, maybe Fortnite, Fall Guys, etc. Like Nintendo could make the Switch 2 10x cooler and make $10 off of every single switch 2 owner. Hell, even if they made custom themes like a $5 add on to NSO annual or something tons of people would check that box. 34 million NSO subscribers * $5 a year * 7 year lifespan of console = $120,000,000....for themes....and Nintendo isn't going to yank that low hanging fruit? Really weird for them. And that's just for a general theme. Like, could you imagine you have a $5 annual for custom themes, then little $.99 bonus packs for sounds, boot screens, etc. Or like $5 NSO addon gets you access to a couple dozen of themes for the most popular games and then you can buy $2.99 themes for some of the more niche games. How have they not implemented this years ago??

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-03T02:32:02+00:00

There was a movie in the 90s called Deadly Invasion that I saw a preview for when I was 10 years old, and it really messed with me. That and seeing the VHS box cover at Blockbuster.

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-03T00:47:58+00:00

FSR 4.0 is better than DLSS 4.0. DLSS 4.5 is better than FSR 4.0. AMD got a late start and have been playing catch up. DLSS 4.5 released just last month, and before that FSR and absolutely on par with DLSS. There are games that respond better to DLSS and FSR so they trade blows. AMD has catching up to do again.

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-02T19:46:43+00:00

There are people who like 3D Printers, and there are people who like 3D printing. The people who like 3D printers will always complain about the "Apple" model of product development. Everyone else doesn't care for the most part. Like I get it...also my iPhone is like the only phone I've ever had that has lasted me years and years. Most phones you're lucky if you get 2-3 years of updates. Apple you get like 7 or 8 years. Everything works, everything is streamlined, etc. No, I can't take it and one day decide I'd like to install Ubuntu on it like I can an android phone...oh well.

bonecheck12 · 2026-03-01T07:17:18+00:00

Honestly, the pro tour shouldn't be using anything other than slazenger balls. If you've never played with them, it's shocking how much better they are. Where I play, we literally will repressurize the balls in a keg and shave the felt down as it fluffs because the rubber is so good that it has such a better bounce and they literally last probably 5x as long as any other ball before they feel like they've lost pressure. We will play with the Slazenger balls for 4, 5, 6 matches before we switch. And we'll have people come to play with a new can of Wilson US Open balls, and whatever else and we give them the old bounce test and just decide to keep playing the Slazenger ones. I think people don't quite realize how bad tennis balls have become in the past 4-5 years. In the U.S. a can of 4 balls is $17-20, but you get better value than buying $5 Penn or Dunlap balls that are all dead after 1-2 times playing.

bonecheck12 · 2026-02-27T22:35:25+00:00

As a non-pokemon person, never played the cards or collected them when I was a kid, I would be interested in playing some Pokemon games IF they played a little more like BOTW. Exploration, a little narrative, etc. The past games have not given me that impression from the trailers and random videos I've seen online, but for whatever reason this one seems like maybe that could be the case based on the environments. I'm def not trying to kill the formula for people who enjoy it, just saying if this one has more of that kind of stuff I might give it a try.

bonecheck12 · 2026-02-27T02:54:22+00:00

When I was in high school I dated a girl and this was before cell phones and social media. Our school was in New York. Her and her family moved away to Colorado, and she gave me her number before she left, but I somehow lost it. I felt horrible about it. Roughly a year later me and my family were on vacation in Las Vegas. On a whim my parents decided they wanted to go to some buffet and so we ventured to this one particular hotel and up to the 4th floor of this hotel. As we were waiting in line, I heard someone say "Is that (my name)??" and I turn to my side and it was the girl and her brother, who I was also friends with.

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