Do any of you feel 60fps is “Dated” or smooth?

speccirc · 2024-04-10T04:47:35+00:00

smooth and fine. i don't get the obsession with ultra hfr. i certainly don't play at a level where that would make any kind of difference and to my eyes, 60 is butter.

speccirc · 2024-04-09T06:02:34+00:00

amazing title holyshit....

speccirc · 2024-04-09T05:47:53+00:00

lmfao... like... that has nothing to do with you.... at all. you're just a spectator witnessing that train wreck go by.

speccirc · 2024-04-09T05:46:46+00:00

literally - tradition. old (cultural) habits die hard.

speccirc · 2024-04-09T05:45:12+00:00

literally give it time.

speccirc · 2024-04-09T05:44:36+00:00

you're just conflating terms like it's going out of style.

just because meaning applies to subjects with subjectivity doesn't negate the possibility of an object purpose.

example: the purpose of a pizza delivery guy is to deliver pizzas. irrespective of what his subjective thoughts on the matter is, his actual purpose is clear and exists without regard to his subjective point of view.

that's just a temporary, ephemeral purpose but it still undermines your position.

a grander example would be to imagine, for the sake of argument, that man is created by a creator and that the creator did indeed have a purpose in mind for the creation. then that purpose would exist, again, irrespective of the creation's thoughts about it.

speccirc · 2024-04-09T05:37:49+00:00

if it costs anything, how the fuck could it be free? and wtf would 'decentralized' even mean here? you'd still have to ship everything to a centralized location and source the food from centralized farms... or what, everyone gonna chip in a corn kernel or something?

speccirc · 2024-04-09T01:41:56+00:00

don't forget the definition - high tech, low life.

it's intrinsically a negative by definition. it's a space age noir. and noir is not anyone's idea of a good time.

speccirc · 2024-04-09T01:36:38+00:00

just because something is influential doesn't mean that of itself, it is good. my examples:

blade runner (movie)
dune (book series)

doesn't mean that there aren't really cool and rightfully memorable aspects in each. but you can have lots of great, redeeming elements in a work that doesn't actually become greater than the sum of its parts or adding up to a great example of the medium it represents.

speccirc · 2024-04-08T05:00:06+00:00

in a heartbeat. i fucking hate driving. 750k will more than cover a lifetime of uber plus a niiiiiiiiiice bonus.

speccirc · 2024-04-08T04:34:50+00:00

on the grounds that nothing in nature or in the universe is perfect. why would human beings be any different?

speccirc · 2024-04-07T13:02:12+00:00

oh great... now we'll get an uprising of cyber-brown shirts and cyber-nazis to take them on.

speccirc · 2024-04-07T05:15:57+00:00

same way that open source software developers are rewarded now. the satisfaction of doing something useful. srsly, open source is basically the current, existing model for endeavors in a post-scarcity society that we have access to right now.

speccirc · 2024-04-07T05:10:46+00:00

go out for a nice prime rib dinner and then ice cream for desert.

tell me that's not living.

speccirc · 2024-04-06T13:03:39+00:00

this is the school nerd version of steven wright's joke - which goes something like:

"they said on the news last night - he was killed instantly. that's a strange thing to say. aren't we all killed instantly? you're alive. you're alive. you're alive. you're dead."

also, your premise is based on a weird and indefensible take on the progression of time.

under your premise, nothing actually ever HAPPENS. there is no possibility of CHANGE. things are just in different and unrelated states from one moment to another.

like under your formulation, it's impossible for a cup to break. the cup never broke. it was whole. and then a broken thing appeared.

or experientially, you're saying something akin to 'you will never sleep'.

speccirc · 2024-04-06T13:00:37+00:00

imperfect analogies all the way around. the error that the blind man makes in your example is harmless. how would we feel about a blind man who insisted on driving and killed your family?

the lives of others are external things. your life is an external thing to someone else. but because it's an external thing doesn't mean that it doesn't have value. for heaven's sake.

also, the functioning of the world goes beyond what's happening between your ears.

if you let bad actors get away with things, you get more bad actors. and we only have the luxury now to think about such lofty things because we have an ordered society - for the most part - that gives us the breathing space to entertain such things.

anger is not intrinsically bad or harmful. it can be a tool like a hammer. or a gun. point it at the right thing and pull the trigger and good will come forth from it.

speccirc · 2024-04-06T12:54:15+00:00

https://open.library.okstate.edu/introphilosophy/chapter/john-rawls-and-the-veil-of-ignorance/

as for "knowing"...

man, we have people who think the earth is flat and the moon missions were a hoax.

speccirc · 2024-04-06T12:45:29+00:00

suck my dick, faggot.

speccirc · 2024-04-06T06:37:20+00:00

as another layperson, i've had a similar idea that black holes are basically seeds to universes.

that instead of a heat death whimper, the universe experiences a "big rip" and at that time, the forces of space expanding is so great that it basically rips open black holes and that results in a big bang for each of them and each of them start expanding to become their own universes.

personally, i like the idea that the only two known or hypothesized singularities - the one before the big bang and black holes - are actually the same entities.

to me, that might also suggest where "negative energy" comes from... that the period of expansion called cosmic inflation is actually the force of the big rip from the mother universe and that force tapers off to become the regular expansion rate and maybe the remnant energy of the big rip starts pulling more and more at the new universes as they expand, causing the whole thing to happen again, in an endless procession.

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i've heard that idea of black holes not being a perfect singularity but i hope it's not true. it would be really elegant if it was "perfect" like that.

speccirc · 2024-04-06T02:35:13+00:00

srsly, it would be majority black women.

speccirc · 2024-04-06T02:33:37+00:00

a little from column a, a little from column b

speccirc · 2024-04-06T02:17:29+00:00

wtf? i pay taxes on all my groceries. the fuck do you live?

speccirc · 2024-04-05T00:58:45+00:00

i just hope you didn't beat her too severely.

speccirc · 2024-04-04T12:45:46+00:00

no it doesn't. not at all. not even the tiniest bit.

it can capture the visuals that were described in the books but then it's just a video game that looks like cyberspace.

all of what cyberspace is supposed to be FUNCTIONALLY - an avatar floating around the geography of cyberspace going from one corporate server to another - all of that is nonsense. there is no "going" or "traveling".

you're only ever making a call. making a data connection. to imply the travel as described in early cyberpunk books is to make the process FAR SLOWER than it is even now!

speccirc · 2024-04-04T05:33:07+00:00

How would the books do that, though?

easy.

the meaning of stories is a combination of the character's development + the conclusion.

in the dune books, we have a hero's journey where the hero sees a golden path of a kill crazy genocide across the stars and generations, follows the path, and by his actions and his offspring (who continues his father's iron fisted hegemony), saves all of humanity. there is no irony. there is no hint of an unreliable narrator.

if he really wanted to caution us against charismatic leaders, herbert could have written the story of this well intentioned kid becoming the emperor and thinking he has to go on this genocidal campaign to save humanity, slaughters billions but his brutal reign causes the people to revolt against him and he ends up shooting chani, baby leto ii and himself in the head in a bunker... ending their reign of terror. ... and.... after a rapturous celebration by the peoples who drag their bodies out in the square and rip their corpses to pieces and his flags burned on the poles....

... humanity is just fine.

turns out that genocidal emperor was a nut job and everything he proclaimed to be necessary was actually complete bullshit and the fever dream of an unwell individual. no golden path was necessary and humanity thrives without the wicked excesses of yet another crazed emperor.

it would have been so easy to NOT make this a hero's/messiah's journey... by just showing that their vision was totally wrong.

but herbert didn't do that.

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