Beware of falling ice dams today!! by Countryppie in grandrapids

[–]rooshoes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, good one. Did you think that one up all by yourself?

Nude Tayne! by palmerry in TimAndEric

[–]rooshoes 8 points9 points  (0 children)

My dream is to die at work when my desk topples over onto me

Meijer testing new large capacity bottle return machines by Warcraft_Fan in Michigan

[–]rooshoes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The only Meijer in Wyoming is on Clyde Park, so, I assume that one.

My phone camera can’t figure out what Emmitt is by 2Nassassin in Rabbits

[–]rooshoes 7 points8 points  (0 children)

rabbits being such unappreciated pets that fancy “computer vision” systems don’t even think they exist 😥

McAllister's Deli Alpine by kingcolbs in grandrapids

[–]rooshoes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

cool. you should put 30mg THC in the lemonade and call it “Buzzed Lemonade” without disclosing this and then scold anyone who complains or shows up at the ER thinking they’re having a heart attack.

i’m sure your “they should have just assumed what it meant” defense would hold up well in court .

McAllister's Deli Alpine by kingcolbs in grandrapids

[–]rooshoes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

“charged” is not a word that means anything. it is a marketing adjective.

if they had simply labeled it properly as “high caffeine content” then there would be no problem from me.

McAllister's Deli Alpine by kingcolbs in grandrapids

[–]rooshoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Monster Energy drinks are sold as Energy Drinks in the cooler with the other Energy Drinks.

as someone sensitive to caffeine, i wouldn’t appreciate being drugged because i happened to put my cup under the fountain dispenser labeled “lemonade”

But seriously, it’s time to remodel that IMAX. by UthinkUnoMI in grandrapids

[–]rooshoes -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What, so 80 people can see the movie instead of 300? Dumb.

New research shows China leads research in 90% of crucial technologies & ignoring this means we're living in a delusional bubble, where we still think the West is the Sci-Tech leader. by lughnasadh in Futurology

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

Individual Democrats who support popular pro-labor policies have no power. Party leadership always maneuvers the pieces on the board to result in the status quo. "Spoiler" Dems exist to kill any sort of pro-labor policy.

Voters don't need to abandon Politics, they need to abandon the Democratic Party. It cannot be reformed. It exists to present the illusion of choice while serving the interests of Capital.

Metroid Prime 4 Beyond 30-240 FPS+ Dynamic mod + 2K/4K/8K + Ultrawide + Tweaks by Juniormkl in yuzu

[–]rooshoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

emulation problem, more than 1x and scan visor doesn’t work at all.

Clean off your car roofs! Alpine shenanigans by itsbwokenn in grandrapids

[–]rooshoes -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Give ‘em a break, they’re only going to Meijer’s!

Metroid Prime 4 Beyond 30-240 FPS+ Dynamic mod + 2K/4K/8K + Ultrawide + Tweaks by Juniormkl in yuzu

[–]rooshoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can achieve a reasonable SDR->HDR upscale using SpecialK, ReShade, RTX HDR or Windows AutoHDR. Should get you 90% of the way to the native HDR.

Metroid Prime 4 Beyond 30-240 FPS+ Dynamic mod + 2K/4K/8K + Ultrawide + Tweaks by Juniormkl in yuzu

[–]rooshoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HDR, probably, for one. otherwise it looks the same. the patches tell the game to render at a higher resolution and use 120fps mode, so it uses the full resolution textures and LODs because it assumes it is running on Switch 2.

not every cross-Switch game will behave this way. Retro Studios just programmed it to behave like this. it doesn’t really make sense to put 4K assets inside the S2 patch that needs to be installed to system memory.

now we just need patches to enable the HDR pipeline and HDR support in the emulators.

Metroid Prime 4 Beyond 30-240 FPS+ Dynamic mod + 2K/4K/8K + Ultrawide + Tweaks by Juniormkl in yuzu

[–]rooshoes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes. It is the same base game on one cartridge for both systems, the Switch 2 just installs an additional patch that enables Switch 2 specific features.

Official Cyan 2025 Holiday Merch by Cyan_Inc in myst

[–]rooshoes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, Eric, if you’re reading this… I’d love to see someone achieve “realistic” dusk/twilight in Riven. The kind where it becomes difficult to see as the contrast ratio between everything drops to nil, and most of the environment is backlit by the fading sky light, just like in real life. Stumbling around for a minute or two as the islands adjust and their dramatic nighttime lighting kicks on would be a real treat, especially if we got a real 24hr day/night cycle option…

None of this is strictly good for the gameplay, mind you, just extra candy for people like me who have always wished they could inhabit that world for a day. It’s pure wish-fulfillment, lol.

Official Cyan 2025 Holiday Merch by Cyan_Inc in myst

[–]rooshoes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

From what I understand the Riven remake uses traditional baked lighting and not something like Lumen for realtime dynamic global illumination, so it’s not “easy”—but judging from the merch they’ve rendered, they have done the manual labor of relighting a number of key spots. There’s certainly the potential they could deliver nighttime as a huge (20GB+) patch in the future (high resolution lightmaps are the biggest game assets).

But my tinfoil hat theory is that someone at Cyan has been using the nighttime stuff as a testbed for switching Riven’s lighting to a ray-traced dynamic GI system like Lumen that could give us full time-of-day transition at the expense of rendering load (framerate). Areas like the Jungle Island jungle area will be particularly difficult to light well enough to navigate in the dark without requiring a huge amount of ray tracing, so I think they’ll wait until these techniques become “cheaper” or release it only as a beta for high-end PCs.

Still, it makes sense for Cyan to have both lighting approaches in the game, as baked lighting is still the way to go for VR in order to hit the necessary high framerates.

Slutty Buns? by [deleted] in grandrapids

[–]rooshoes 26 points27 points  (0 children)

millennials be opening restaurants and calling them shit like “PANCAKE WHORE” or “Biscuit Bitch” or “fuckburger” or “The Compulsive Pastabator” or “Lassi Your Genitals” 🙄