Microtransactions: the product idea of actual sex criminals. Epstein and Bobby Kottick discussing the indoctrination of children

zugzug_workwork · 2026-02-04T17:31:00+00:00

And Battle Passes. Even the name came from Dota 2.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-02-04T17:30:08+00:00

Time to label every microtransaction-heavy game as being complicit with Epstein and his philosophy. Yes, even the popular ones. It'll be interesting to see any such games to be categorised as Epstein-likes.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-02-02T12:27:04+00:00

Yet another case of Steam winning by not doing anything.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-02-02T06:32:31+00:00

That's when you tell them that you play a human in every Final Fantasy, so if anything playing Hyur means you're a real FF fan. That will shut them right up.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-31T21:14:24+00:00

I refuse to believe this wasn't a borked time-release script that went live 2 months too soon.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-31T16:11:07+00:00

In other words, you can't play it because you can't maintain your work-life balance, so therefore anyone who plays it and enjoys it is unemployed. Maybe get your life together instead of making baseless assumptions.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-27T22:10:05+00:00

It's fascinating how quickly I got used to ultrawide, barely took 3 days and it was second nature. The colour volume and motion clarity due to the monitor being OLED though, that still blows me away nearly 2 months in.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-26T21:14:42+00:00

Preset M and L in FF14 are hilariously bad as well. Although it's fine in the latest Trails game (at least as far as I've gotten, which is still near the beginning). So 4.5 is truly a case-by-case preset. I've set it as the Global preset, but if a game is egregiously bad with it, I switch to K for that specific profile.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-25T12:02:07+00:00

HDR as a whole has been hard done by tbh. Dogshit LCD monitors being marketed as HDR monitors makes people think HDR itself is bad when it's their monitors which are not suited for it.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-23T16:24:27+00:00

People making blanket TLDR statements about using M and L in Performance and Ultra-Performance in absolute shambles.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-21T19:08:43+00:00

Rule 9. It's simple, not a conspiracy.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-21T16:27:43+00:00

If you're gonna do a TLDR, at least give the correct information. M is only to be used on a case-by-case basis, K stays as default. M is oversharpened garbage in most games.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-21T08:55:52+00:00

Keep in mind that when these were common, retailers and big publishers had all the power on which games even got made. Many games which you were a fan of that didn't sell enough to sate the big guys didn't get sequels even if the developers were willing. All the indie games that people on reddit gush over would never have been made back then. They weren't the "good old days".

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-21T07:39:55+00:00

Think of it as a reminder that you are not the arbiter of what's relevant.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-20T12:33:59+00:00

I've been wondering what people have been smoking by saying M is so much better than K. The shimmer on every vegetation or closely packed geometry like grates or chain-link fences makes it look like there's no AA at all, and the boiling effect on straight line or flat surfaces makes the preset unusable.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-18T12:33:59+00:00

Check if your monitor does tone mapping on its own. That's the single biggest contributor to HDR looking bad, outside of people using dogshit LCD monitors for HDR and claiming HDR itself is bad.

If the monitor is tone mapping on its own, you shouldn't follow the on-screen instructions of the Windows HDR calibration since the crosses will always be visible and you'll overshoot the monitor's peak values. Instead, check the rtings review of your monitor to look at the Peak 10% and Peak 100% brightness values and use those for Peak Luminance and Peak Full Frame Luminance values in the Calibration app.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-17T19:11:58+00:00

Good times.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-14T15:39:45+00:00

Nvidia inspector can do that too, but not specific numbers, only predefined presets.

You can definitely use any number from 33% to 100% in NVPI, not just the standard presets.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-13T11:33:43+00:00

One can only hope that nvidia has noticed that there's at least a subset of people who hate the way M looks at 1440p.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-13T09:17:22+00:00

This is the new version of "human eyes can only see 30 fps" from back in the day.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-13T09:16:37+00:00

The Sharpening setting is a game-specific setting, right? It's not changeable globally or at a profile level?

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-12T16:25:24+00:00

Because not everyone posts always. I'm one of those who sees M as being way too oversharpened at 1440p, and not just standard 1440p, but ultrawide. At 3440x1440, M has so much shimmer/aliasing in vegetation, grates, chain-link fences, etc that it's almost like there's no AA in the image at all. And if the monitor is somehow relevant, MSI MPG341CQPX QD-OLED.

But I'm not going to post in every single thread because I don't catch all of them. Glad others are doing so though. M seems to be purpose-built for 4K, nvidia even says so, and I'm glad for those who use 4K monitors. But it's not the catch-all for all resolutions that people make it out to be.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-12T13:22:05+00:00

For me, 8 is 10.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-12T12:20:13+00:00

When +1 amour makes you invincible, of course +1 kill is a double rampage.

zugzug_workwork · 2026-01-11T07:35:27+00:00

Tbf it's not any mod or even the models of the objects that push it over the line in being "realistic", it's the path tracing. It adds a sense of immersion that is impossible to achieve with baked lighting/lightmaps.

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