Quoting: ExpandingManExample: it would seem ridiculous to put the Klingon Empire in NMS. Put dragons in light no fire... oh wait, they did that lol

To be fair, dragons in fantasy stories might just slightly precede LotR and D&D. I mean Gilgamesh fought one, and that story was written something like four thousand years ago. :wink:

Your comparison is more meaningful if you can find Hobbits and Ringwraiths in the game.

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Quoting: GuestWayland will never be usable for productive software, such as DAWs, since the wayland devs refuse to support the necessary protocols to make them work.

What's DAWs and what protocols are missing?

Digital Audio Workstations. And this is pretty funny, seeing as I just read a while back that PreSonus Studio One recently added Linux support and requires Wayland.

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Quoting: deathxxxThis ray-tracing is just useless. Heavy drop performance for what?
Are someone care about ray-tracing? If you play game, do you look at ray-tracing? Or look other things, like how to keep alive?

I've always had a feeling it's really more of a developer thing. It seems like once you get it working, it would be a lot simpler to set up, with no need for tricks and workarounds--you just set up the light sources, and they shine.

To be fair, ray tracing can look a lot better and more realistic than the current smoke-and-mirrors trickery. Proper reflections and shadows etc. But in the end, this stuff doesn't make any real difference to my gaming experience, which is why I'm happy to let the tech mature.

Wouldn't mind super realistic graphics in certain genres, like driving sims though.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guyat this point the only feature I can think of in Windows that I miss when I'm not at work is the way it's really easy to change file names.

Windows makes it even easier than selecting a file and hitting F2? Or (at least in Thunar [External Link], Xfce's file manager) selecting multiple files and hitting F2 to rename them all using anything from simple replacement to regular expressions and audio tags. If it was any easier, I bet I'd be doing it accidentally all the time. :grin:

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Quoting: slaapliedjeIt's kind of amusing to me that CRTs started off as 50/60hz, then higher end monitors started getting really high refresh rates (like the one I have that'll do 1600x1200 at 85hz). Then when we started with LCDs, we were back to having crappy refresh rates, with the added disadvantage of any non-native resolution looking like trash... Many years later, they're finally getting better.

You're forgetting or ignoring the fact that we mostly wanted higher refresh rates for CRTs to reduce the eye destroying flicker, not to make games run smoother or whatever. Whereas an LCD doesn't really have a flicker problem, even with the old fluorescent backlights.

And digital LCD display was just sooo much better than anything analogue.

To be fair, back when LCD displays started to take over, they weren't that great. The colours and contrast were pretty damn awful compared to a decent CRT.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeIt's kind of amusing to me that CRTs started off as 50/60hz, then higher end monitors started getting really high refresh rates (like the one I have that'll do 1600x1200 at 85hz). Then when we started with LCDs, we were back to having crappy refresh rates, with the added disadvantage of any non-native resolution looking like trash... Many years later, they're finally getting better.

You're forgetting or ignoring the fact that we mostly wanted higher refresh rates for CRTs to reduce the eye destroying flicker, not to make games run smoother or whatever. Whereas an LCD doesn't really have a flicker problem, even with the old fluorescent backlights.

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Quoting: ArehandoroActually, I would even argue countries that still have it, that are many, should not be considered democracies.

Well that's a take I guess. I'm pretty sure I live in a democracy, even if it isn't perfect.

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Quoting: Arehandoro[...], put us in a situation that we've not seen since World War II.

Well, we've not seen this exact situation before WWII either. And none of this equals "closer than ever to world war", no matter how dire it all seems.

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Quoting: Guestcloser than ever to world war

No, I still disagree. I don't believe we're closer to a world war now than we were at several points in modern history. But I'm not going to get into a pointless argument about this as there's no way for us to objectively measure and compare.

Quoting: GuestThe Ukraine/Russia - Israel/HAMAS conflicts are the most severe conflicts since WW2

To the nations involved, certainly. I'm not sure if everyone else would agree. Some very bloody wars and other atrocities happened in the last ~80 years, and there must be at least a dozen active war zones even now around the world. (I'd find a list but I really need to get to bed. Shouldn't be hard to locate one though.)

Of course, I'm not trying to downplay any of this. Every conflict is important and every single victim is one too many. We should definitely do all we can to help, even if it's small stuff like voting for sane leaders and donating to helpful causes if possible. However, buying into the sensationalist rhetoric isn't very useful, in my opinion.

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Quoting: WMan22I've always hated the cynical "we as humans are really bad" rhetoric with a passion, it implies there's collective blame to be had for all of humanity, that we never learn anything when clearly if you have people saying "hey can we stop this war shit" that's not the case, as someone is recognizing an issue that has plagued us and wants to put an end to it, thus making it not the fault of "humans" but individuals.

That's not at all what I'm saying though. I can see how it can be read that way and I guess brevity didn't really help my message here.

I'm not blaming human nature for these wars, just opining that the current situation isn't somehow new and unprecedented. Old wars end and new wars start, and innocents die. Usually for the most banal of reasons, just like you said. Someone rich gets richer.

Quoting: GuestIndeed. The difference is that the world is being drawn into it, unlike last decade. There is far more concerning rhetoric and polarization than ever before. The situation is quite unstable, like a powder keg.

I think about 90% of that is just commercial media and a certain class of politicians milking our fears. I disagree with "ever before". Maybe you've just not been around for the previous "powder kegs", or haven't paid attention if you were.

We heard similarly dire predictions when Russia started their invasion of Ukraine recently, and when they annexed Crimea a few years earlier, and so on. Same with various conflicts in the middle east. Every couple of years there's a crisis that's definitely going to start the next world war. I suppose it might happen some day. I'm just not sure we're actually any closer now than we were 20 years ago, or 40 years ago, or 60 years ago. Granted, we're no closer to world peace either.

As a counter to the both of you, I'd say that these days far more powerful people (and multinational corporations) would suffer from a worldwide conflict than would stand to profit from it.

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