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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.
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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.
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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.
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Random stuff on the internet you find enjoyable and/or interesting...
bjornk replied to Kendo 2's topic in Off Topic Talk
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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!"? 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.
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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.
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14:32 I'm glad to see more and more people realize this fact.
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I'm not shitting on your mod or whatever that is, just talking about why I wouldn't play as an old guy in the game, i.e. my personal opinions. I'm not an NPC in the game, unlike them I have opinions on things happening in the game. Karliah may be 170 years older than Brynjolf but she clearly isn't an "old lady". As for companions, it's not just being called a whelp, which by the way, is still ridiculous cause you may have joined them as a much higher level character than any of them, after slaying Alduin, Miraak etc., but their disrespectful tone that accompanies it is what would annoy me. Why would you want to do their errands as an old guy? Take my sword to the blacksmith, take this shield to that cunt... I would want to tell them to fuck off if I was an old guy, so it wouldn't work for me. If you are okay with these kind of crap, good for you, I'm not judging or anything. I have no issues with the idea of playing as an old guy in a role-playing game in general, but for Skyrim in particular, I think that would be utterly ridiculous, if not laughable. None of the kill/fetch quests would make any sense in the game, cause what kind of a douche would send an old guy to a dangerous ruin filled with god knows what to kill/fetch some shit? The guy might even forget what he was supposed to do there on the way. Or if some 70 year old wanted to join the Imperial or Stormcloak army they'd most likely laugh their ass off at the idea. Again, my personal opinion. Edit: Not to sound like a hypocrite, I must add that I often play this game as a female Breton. Does it make sense? No, and you occasionally realize that the game expects you to be "a guy". When, for instance, some douche bag of a guy wants to prove his "strength" by beating you (a woman) in a fist fight. You can play the game as a mudcrab if you want, but the more you deviate from the character the game expects you to be (a young male Nord) the number of immersion breaking and annoying instances like this will no doubt increase. It's just a matter of how much of it you can tolerate.
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In Bethesda's idiotic mind the Dragonborn character is a young male Nord. Not old, not female, not anything else. That's the only character that fits every situation in the game and most likely the one they used to design the game around and everything else added later as basically an afterthought. Imagine joining the Companions as an "elf" to help them retrieve the "Elf Killer", or joining the Stormcloaks as a "Dark Elf" or "Argonian", or playing as a Khajiit to be made a thane of a hold, while no one else of your race is even allowed to come in, playing as a high elf to fight against them etc. etc... I usually play as a Breton and no other Breton in the game recognizes me as such, neither the ones from High Rock, nor the local Forsworn. Even the fact that the Forsworn was put in the game as an enemy faction proves that you are not meant to be a Breton. You are to play the game as a YOUNG MALE NORD, and NOTHING ELSE if you want things to make some sense. And I disagree with @Kendo 2 on playing an old guy not being immersion breaking, cause even though I'm fairly good at role-playing characters, suspending my disbelief etc. getting called as "lad", "whelp" etc. as an old guy would kill it for me, would be on the same level as playing the game as Alduin.
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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.
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After having mastered the ways of the voice Force, Tolfdir's long lost twin brother Tobi (aka. Tobi-Wan Kenobi the Jarl of Tatooine) finally returns to Skyrim as a Jedi Master... Spells and Abilities: Call Servant (to bring food), Conjure Viagra (you never know), Conjure (female) Housecarl (not available until he finds one), Conjure Ewok (for distraction) and Conjure Java (to pick up the loot) and Jedi Mind Tricks (for speech checks). Unfortunately for him, his lightsaber was confiscated by the Imperial authorities at the customs, so he will have to build a new one, to do so he'll need two flawless gems (depending on the LS color you want), two steel ingots, three blabla and something else he keeps forgetting... On a serious note, most quests and dialogues in Skyrim assume that the player is quite young, so playing as an old guy would either be quite annoying or quite immersion breaking, or both, e.g. hearing Brynjolf calling you "lad".
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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
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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.
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Random stuff on the internet you find enjoyable and/or interesting...
bjornk replied to Kendo 2's topic in Off Topic Talk
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The only future for video games is through the use of A.I.
bjornk replied to bjornk's topic in Gaming Discussions
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. -
The only future for video games is through the use of A.I.
bjornk replied to bjornk's topic in Gaming Discussions
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. -
The only future for video games is through the use of A.I.
bjornk replied to bjornk's topic in Gaming Discussions
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...? -
The only future for video games is through the use of A.I.
bjornk replied to bjornk's topic in Gaming Discussions
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. -
The only future for video games is through the use of A.I.
bjornk replied to bjornk's topic in Gaming Discussions
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. -
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.
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First Google, now Youtube, both completely broke the search functionality. Two massive corporations run by complete retards. Youtube search, which has already been shit, now completely ignores command filters like the dash (e.g. character creation -hogwarts). Why would I even use your shit if I won't be able to find what I'm looking for?