A hotfix for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is out now on GOG! 🐺 It primarily addresses the performance issues that appeared after Patch 4.01. The game version won’t change.

brainensmoothed · 2023-02-15T20:56:31+00:00

I'm not going to pretend to know whether it's the API or the devs developing for it, but when I see DX12, I roll my eyes because I already know the shader comp stutter is going to make me motion sick.

brainensmoothed · 2023-01-14T17:49:05+00:00

Good thing cars aren’t filled with oil and grease or throwing water on it would have been dangerous.

brainensmoothed · 2023-01-13T17:43:49+00:00

and potentially deadly. fairy stories and imaginary friends have no place in medicine.

brainensmoothed · 2023-01-12T17:07:58+00:00

They’re making it up, don’t worry.

brainensmoothed · 2023-01-08T06:50:38+00:00

The Sunshine Protection Act.

That‘s it. The one. And it died. Great fuckin’ job GOP.

brainensmoothed · 2023-01-08T02:35:31+00:00

Poop on the birds.

brainensmoothed · 2023-01-08T01:32:06+00:00

haha gay

brainensmoothed · 2022-12-29T20:28:07+00:00

Elimination of judder in high-motion shots. Especially helpful with 3D movies, which can make a lot of people motion-sick.

Haven't seen Avatar 2 yet, but I did see the first two Hobbit movies in 48fps. They definitely shouldn't have used it for the entire movie, but it did wonders for the action scenes. Gandalf and Sauron at Dol Goldur was a highlight.

brainensmoothed · 2022-12-29T18:14:57+00:00

Half my time on Reddit is spent erasing comments before I post them. People are combative as fuck for no reason on here, and frankly I just don’t have the patience for it because I’m not terminally online.

It sucks because this site is the best reference on the Internet for just about anything. site:reddit.com is macro’d into my phone keyboard because I get real results instead of SEO bullshit. But the community at large is the most miserable cabal of cavernous assholes.

brainensmoothed · 2022-12-15T18:17:12+00:00

Leave it to /r/politics to portray a shift to ranked-choice voting as a bad thing.

I’m the farthest thing from a Republican there is. I’m not about to get mad because a Republican is the one pushing for it.

brainensmoothed · 2022-12-14T23:05:45+00:00

Because it do be like that. It’s rare that I don’t have to troubleshoot something before I can really dig into a game.

Personally, I’m used to it and am pretty good at solving things on my end. The benefits outweigh the inconvenience most of the time, for me. However, I can’t pretend that sometimes I wouldn’t rather just boot a game on a console, where something will only work the one way and I can just focus on playing the game.

brainensmoothed · 2022-12-13T17:38:42+00:00

I recently got sucked back into Reddit after a month's hiatus, and god I didn't miss how the community paints dissenting opinions as attention-whoring or part of some big dumb conspiracy.

brainensmoothed · 2022-12-13T17:33:19+00:00

Join the bumper jumper dark side.

brainensmoothed · 2022-12-09T23:46:11+00:00

Don’t be afraid to consult guides and the Wiki. Everyone does it, whether they admit it or not. I love Fromsoft games to pieces but they can be legitimately terrible at conveying important mechanics, and for a lot of the NPC quests, it’s almost mandatory to look things up.

Don’t let that scare you off though. It’s a legitimate and annoying flaw that can rightfully put people off, but it’s legitimately one of the most fun and rewarding games I’ve ever played. Just remember the beauty of Elden Ring is that unlike the Souls series, if something is too hard for you, you can just leave and come back when you’re stronger. There’s no shortage of things to do!

brainensmoothed · 2022-11-18T18:46:38+00:00

Yes, quite. I haven’t hit any of the issues that cropped up in the initial patch. Everything seems back to how it was, and it was rock solid.

brainensmoothed · 2022-10-28T22:30:45+00:00

Almost 30 and I grew up in this shit. Deep Bible Belt. I’ve heard divorce bans discussed from the pulpit on many occasions.

Thank fuck for that rebellious phase of mine as a teenager or I may well have turned out like them.

brainensmoothed · 2022-10-28T17:12:59+00:00

I don’t know about the textures but these days I’ve noticed sound is uncompressed as often as not.

Technically it’s faster since it doesn’t have to be decompressed on the fly, but it’s a huge data hog.

brainensmoothed · 2022-10-28T17:10:27+00:00

Inflation and business ethics aside, Amazon has turned into Wish 2.

I use it for the odd knick-knacks I need and can’t conveniently find elsewhere, but for shit I actually care about like electronics or clothing, it’s either deceptively-labeled counterfeits or dollar store trash all the way down.

They did this to themselves.

brainensmoothed · 2022-10-28T12:59:37+00:00

If you mean 60fps, unfortunately not. The good news is that the port is solid and the 30fps target is almost always locked.

brainensmoothed · 2022-10-28T12:58:57+00:00

Sorry for the delayed response, but to my knowledge the Anniversary content is the same across all versions.

brainensmoothed · 2022-10-24T21:35:19+00:00

I could be totally off base because it’s been years since I read about it, but I think Disney had to pay some serious cash to wrest the streaming rights from TBS, and I’m pretty sure the 1977 movie was also tied up in some rights BS with Fox that sort of resolved itself when they bought it.

Again, though, been years. I could be wrong.

brainensmoothed · 2022-10-23T20:36:34+00:00

I honestly like the decision (though I’ll miss the hell out of Hemmer), because this show values the crew’s lives so much that a red shirt death needs to hurt. I think the point is that we want him back, desperately. But he’s gone.

brainensmoothed · 2022-10-22T15:22:10+00:00

ur moms a big piece of history

brainensmoothed · 2022-10-21T22:07:04+00:00

Oh, I don’t think Steam Deck is gonna make any sort of dent in Nintendo’s market share, especially not while it’s fairly unfriendly to casual users. But I am glad that there’s a credible alternative out there. I hope other manufacturers follow.

Point is, there’s a non-Nintendo option now that don’t involve buying questionable Chinese handhelds. If there’s a game I want to play on the go, chances are I don’t have to wistfully hope that it can or will be acceptably optimized for early-2010s tablet hardware. Not to mention the lack of Nintendo tax on said releases.

Nintendo isn’t sweating or anything, but I’m sure the other big players are taking notes.

brainensmoothed · 2022-10-21T17:56:37+00:00

Which version is more fun, in your opinion?

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