bjornk

@endgameaddiction I always use my browser in incognito/private mode and I just launched it to watch a "Kotor let's play" on Youtube and this is what YT suggests me to watch... which means they're tracking me using my IP address and because I've watched one of the videos you posted above, they recommend me to watch another. I watched your video on late Saturday or early Sunday by the way, in other words, it's been more than a day since I watched it.

23 hours ago, Kendo 2 said:

Looks promising.

Not for me. It's the same washed out textures, same flat lighting, and more importantly, no UNP. If they can pull it off, it may even be a better game than Fallout 4, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Those YT channels that summarize movies while showing related clips from them are quite useful. Make me realize that even the most hyped movies of late were actually total crap and a waste of time, and I shouldn't even waste my time watching their summary.

Feel the same about the quality of the scripts come with mods, most of which are so awful it's almost infuriating. I often find myself rewriting them completely from scratch, which I hate. It is the way it is, not much we can do about it. Modding is an amateur hobby and most people who play video games and make mods are quite young, teenagers even, and this is the way they learn the ropes. Guess we all have been there at some point.

There's no need for convoluted theories bordering conspiracies when everything can be explained with one word, greed, or in other words, global capitalism. You no longer live in a world where let's say, a network TV in the US produces a show and picks its cast purely based on the interests of the American audience. Instead, you now live in a world with global corporations that want to sell their stuff to worldwide markets. I'm sure they've done some market surveys which showed them that the audience in these new markets would be more inclined to watch a show/movie, or play a game etc. if it includes relatable characters who look like them. I'm sure people didn't mean that they wouldn't be interested in them otherwise, but why take a risk, after all, the American audience wouldn't possibly be interested in foreign movies/shows, cause, well, they're foreign, which is why Hollywood kept remaking countless European movies with American actors back in the 80's, surely that would also be true for foreign audiences. Whatever the case, this is why corporations such as Disney, Netflix, Amazon etc. now create shows/movies with a "diverse" cast. There's clearly a significant global market for these products, and these companies basically try to tailor-make their products for their target audience and try to reach as many people all around the world as possible. I'm sure you can easily realize that this new "woke" trend have been accelerating since video streaming became a thing, or if you push it, since the birth of WWW back in late 90's. There's no hidden agenda behind all this, it's just plain old greed, desire to make more money, simple as that.

As for identity politics, it's always been with us for centuries. What we know today as politics, has always been about identities or in other words artificially created labels that humans use to define themselves as a person, whether it's race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex. Wouldn't be wrong to claim that in today's world, all politics are identity politics and needless to say, nothing good for humanity has ever come out of it and never will.

In case anyone uses the UNP Vampire Armor by exeter, you might have noticed the issue where something strange poking through behind your leg whenever you walk. That is because exeter's modified Vampire Armor has some strange 'bones' in it that should not be there. If you open this armor in Outfit Studio and delete those unnecessary bones you can easily fix this problem. FYI.

Something annoying I realized today is that I can't play 1080p or higher resolution videos on Youtube with FF 110.0 on my old laptop. They either refuse to play or keep skipping dropping massive number of frames. No problems with all the other Firefox versions (v96 or older) and Opera. Apparently the idiots at Mozilla introduced some new shit with version 104 which most likely is the culprit. I fixed it by setting the following preference to FALSE which was TRUE by default. If anyone else is having the same problem, they might want to experiment with this setting or the ones below it.

media.wmf.dxva.d3d9.amd-pre-uvd4.disabled -> FALSE (Default: TRUE)

Some person on Reddit suggests the following changes as well but they didn't work for me.

media.wmf.zero-copy-nv12-texture          -> FALSE (Default: TRUE)
gfx.direct3d11.reuse-decoder-device       -> FALSE (Default: TRUE)

Note: You need to go to about:config to change these settings and then restart your browser.

Playing video games: Makes him feel like he's wasting his time cause he's now old and has responsibilities.
Scrolling social media for hours and hours: No problems there, totally not wasting his time!

I have news for you kid, everything you do in life is a waste of time, at least waste it on something you enjoy doing.

Funny thing is, cause I've already done it so many times before, anything to do with the topic of "why video games aren't fun anymore" etc. now makes me feel like I'm wasting my time. Probably due to old age.
 

Didn't think it'd be fun to watch, but it was.

Believe me, I really try not to be doom and gloom all the time, but you all should seriously consider the possibility of not being able to afford to escape into video games in the future. The real real-life will most likely slap humanity in the face soon and wake them up from their slumber once again and this time going back to it won't be that easy. I realize that it sounds really vague, but imagine you were someone in Europe during WWII, which wasn't even a century ago. What would you do? Where would you go in order to escape from the horrors that surround you? Imagine you were an Ukrainian or Russian or Turkish, who used to play video games and suddenly a war breaks out, or a massive earthquake destroys your home. What would you do when the real real-life told you "You can run, but you can't hide!"?

4 hours ago, ritualclarity said:

Calling today's gaming industry in a "dark age" means that we will be in a renaissance. A time when games will again be special. I don't think that.

The only thing I can consider as some kind of a renaissance for video games may emerge from the creative use of AI and cloud computing, if it offers a kind of experience that cannot be achieved by any other means. However, I still the think the current mentality (i.e. greed, identity politics) that surrounds the video game industry needs a hard reset, otherwise it'll continue to plague everything.

In many ways what's happening to video games is similar to what happened to radio and television. They were each very popular for a time until a new alternative came along. They still exist today, but not as what they used to be. They both thought the audience would never leave and listen or watch whatever the crap offer, and they were right, at least for a while, until a new alternative, the Internet and the online stuff came along. Things in video games industry will also go on like this for a while, until a new thing comes along to replace it. Till then the current audience won't abandon it completely and the quality of games will continue to drop, just like what happened to radio and television. Only when a new alternative shows up the industry may feel the need to reinvent itself.

7 hours ago, endgameaddiction said:

 

14:32 I'm glad to see more and more people realize this fact.

On 6/24/2022 at 3:21 AM, bjornk said:

As I have said before, you've already played the best games that these developers could ever make. *snipped*

In 21st Century, one can have a male body and a goatee and pretend he is a female, and call it as progression, cause the physical appearance of a gender totally develops independently of their gender roles... Delusional fucks.

Looks like Firefox finally has a working implementation of the ECH draft, which wasn't the case for version 96.x and older. Don't know which version received this update first, but I'm posting this using portable FF version 110.0 and SNI messages seem encrypted.

How to check:

https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni/ should report

https://crypto.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace should report

sni=encrypted

https://defo.ie/ech-check.php  should report

SSL_ECH_STATUS: success

Yet another reminder to not waste time or money on games that are not complete. You're not a developer, a designer, a tester or the funder of somebody else's game, you are not to build somebody else's dream or take part in somebody else's scamming scheme.

Imagine a character creation screen, in which, instead of fiddling with sliders to browse through the premade assets, you verbally describe what kind of a character you want, just like in the videos above, and the AI generates the character for you from scratch, once you are satisfied with how she/he looks. All the body meshes, textures and everything. Yum, so mouth-watering... Too bad I won't live that long to play with it, but we're getting there.

One of the reasons why I wanted to try Midjourney AI, was to try to create or re-imagine one of my game characters in a more photo realistic way, like a real person, using the /imagine command on Discord, as shown in the videos below. If you're okay with sharing your phone # to create a Discord account you might want to try it out too.

18 minutes ago, endgameaddiction said:

It's supposed to be Harley Quinn

Not a DC character I'm familiar with or have ever been interested in, not to mention I've never seen any shows/movies with her in it. I wouldn't be able to recognize her even if the sound recording was in perfect quality and sounded exactly like her. It's also a bit like saying someone "sounds like Batman", but which one, West, Keaton, Kilmer, Clooney, Bale...?

Guess I'm in big trouble now, cause she doesn't sound like any real person or fictional character that I know of. Who is she?

She sounds like a real person despite the poor sound quality.

Edit: Ugh, never mind, it is a voice changer and that's cheating, I thought it was a text voiced by AI.

3 hours ago, Nessa said:

Don't forget to install the latest skeleton too to avoid bone problems.

Nah, I'd rather take my two sabre cats and head to the street to wait for my good death.

Keep in mind that the free accounts that these AI companies offer are nothing but a basic demo and are pretty limited in what you can do. Despite that I wanted to try out Midjourney to create some AI art, was even willing to create a Discord account until they asked my phone number, fuck that. Anyway, let us know if you can find some interesting stuff.

On 12/6/2022 at 5:08 PM, Nessa said:

Wow. The Todd is getting old.

On 2/19/2023 at 6:47 AM, endgameaddiction said:

Todd needs to install Fair Skin Complex to reduce his age appearance.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind, as I'm the same age as Todd.

46 minutes ago, vancleef said:

Punctuation marks are confusing to many semi-literate people and it's now considered offensive to use them because it makes dumb people feel...well...dumb.

Constantly avoiding negative emotions (e.g. getting offended by minor things) is one of the things that make people dumb. It's akin to skipping school on the days emotional training takes place.