Well, in concept I think it's kind of awesome, doing this kind of thing with classic theatre. In specific . . . I studied The Cherry Orchard in university, and I really didn't like it. Good writing, I guess, in the abstract . . . but it's like, I disliked every single character pretty much, and the ones that I felt vaguely sympathetic to past the dislike were so damn feckless and useless it was infuriating. There these morons are bitching and whining about how awful it is that they're going to lose their ancestral home, this cherry orchard, because they're running out of money, and talking wistfully about the old days back before their time when the cherries from the orchard got made into preserves and sold far and wide, but now the place is just useless if pretty. So, what, did people stop eating jam since the old days? Far as I could tell, the only reason they're not still using the place as a real orchard is that they're useless and decadent. None of them even once considers the possibility of getting together some cherry pickers and making them some preserves to sell--or, indeed, the possibility of doing any kind of gainful work at all. Some of the lower class people are more ambitious, in the sense that they're scheming to get rich quick, but none of them are interested in doing anything useful, they're more like wannabe scam artists.

I guess that's sort of the point, but everyone's so annoying that it's just a pain in the ass reading/watching it. The Cherry Orchard put me off Chekhov. Maybe The Seagull is better.

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Quoting: scaineI've liked your detailed responses that follow this post, because they explain how DLSS works. Thank you.

But this initial response was you dismissing other people's opinions snarkily. I've no time for that attitude. The air of superiority and mocking of other people's comments is infuriating. And you continue to do so. Language like "the other user" (they have a name), "Tried to pretend" , "gimme a break", etc. So condescending.

Don't you think it's also very condescending and sassy to dismiss innovative technology as "something over-specialized and good-as-dead"?

Do you not draw a distinction between dismissing a technology and dismissing a person? If you are the literal personification of Machine Learning, such that an attack on it is an attack on you, I'm sure we all apologize, and I for one would like to express my starstruck feelings at finally meeting an actual Platonic Ideal.

Have you read the rest of my comment? If you did, then you have my answer.

Yeah. You said "a partially emotional response was justified and expected" but you didn't give a rationale for why that should be the case. "You work in the field" is not the same as "You are individually under attack when anyone says anything about that field". I have a good friend who works for an oil company; he doesn't get defensive any time someone worries about pipeline spills--in fact, he's the first to point out that all pipelines leak.
And you said "It's not my job to educate the layman". Well, nice of you to go above and beyond, and condescend to correct the unwashed, I suppose.

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Duuuude. Cosmic!

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Quoting: scaineI've liked your detailed responses that follow this post, because they explain how DLSS works. Thank you.

But this initial response was you dismissing other people's opinions snarkily. I've no time for that attitude. The air of superiority and mocking of other people's comments is infuriating. And you continue to do so. Language like "the other user" (they have a name), "Tried to pretend" , "gimme a break", etc. So condescending.

Don't you think it's also very condescending and sassy to dismiss innovative technology as "something over-specialized and good-as-dead"?

Do you not draw a distinction between dismissing a technology and dismissing a person? If you are the literal personification of Machine Learning, such that an attack on it is an attack on you, I'm sure we all apologize, and I for one would like to express my starstruck feelings at finally meeting an actual Platonic Ideal.

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I liked Pandora about as much as Civ: Beyond Earth which, when you consider that Civ:BE surely had massively more budget is pretty impressive. Not that Pandora was a perfect game--I thought a lot of the tech was kind of boring, and I thought the unit creation/customization system was decent but a bit lacking, and while I like much of the way they set up the economy I think it's silly that it results in a single very much optimal starting approach which is utterly inobvious and quite counterintuitive, so if you don't look up the thread about the economy in the game's Steam community you will start behind the eight ball in harder settings. I also thought the different factions, particularly the science one, had absolutely crappy, cringeworthy dialogue and catchphrases--they all felt like really bad self-parodies.

And yet, the game had a lot going for it. There was some good atmosphere with the aliens, the economic management was fundamentally different from the Civ approach in interesting ways, I really liked the concept of "Operations", which were a category of thing your city could produce that were neither a building nor a unit, but stuff like orbital strikes, area scans, orbital troop insertions and such. And not all the tech was boring, and I didn't mind the way the tree semi-randomized--like, tier 2 technologies came after tier 1 technologies, but within that their order was sort of scrambled on different playthroughs--I'm not totally sold on it, but it wasn't a bad idea.
Pandora is also so violent that unless you really nerf everything in the options my typical approach of trying to skimp on the military so I can build my economy is unviable. But that works so well with the whole atmosphere of the game that I was willing to adapt.

Well. Whole big review, but my point is that while I'm not sure a new 4X game from them will be awesome, I'm certainly interested enough to want to keep an eye on it.

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Quoting: ShmerlI think for an anti-feature, it's good enough to end DLSS. Because it works everywhere and will also get better over time. The other side of it - it's general purpose. While AI/ML is more limited to specific use cases. So it is better in some cases and worse in others. Everything is a trade off.

This sounds like it was written by someone who doesn't understand either of these features. Hardware-assisted AI/ML being "limited" to specific use cases while an upscaling tech being "general purpose"? Give me a break...

Honestly, you sound like you don't know how Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence works. It's typically incredibly focused.

Personally, I think a more honest name for it would be Artificial Instinct. 'Cause like, instinct is this stuff animals do without actually being smart or thinking or figuring it out, where through evolution they became really good at some particular task they need to be good at to survive. Machine Learning AI seems to be this forced evolution thing where you let the algorithms survive that are good at some specific task, until you've evolved a black box that can do that specialized thing really well but has no general reasoning ability. So it's instinct, but for some (marketing) reason we call it "intelligence".

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Quoting: GuestI read up on this some more, and it seems there were some patents that became invalidated, but not this one. Valve (or at least the project leader) was aware of it late in the development cycle, pretty much when the controller was customer ready, and "were too invested" (didn't want refresh the design that late in the game) and basically thought they could just talk their way out of any problems.

So I'll reiterate what I said the last time: the patent is stupid in my opinion, but Valve deserve to be slapped for knowingly, willfully, ignoring it. It's not up Valve to decide the validity of the patent.

They probably would have lost a lot more than 4 mil going back to the drawing board at that point. So, well, cost of doing business I guess. I'd probably have decided the same. Unless for some bizarre reason I respected patent law enough to want to not violate it on principle . . . but that's a nope.

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Quoting: EzequielI'm a bit confused, there are tons of great games that run with Proton. Why does this windows game get an article?

I guess the guy who runs the site and gets to decide what he wants to talk about, likes Mechwarrior.

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So . . . the premise goes like "This planet had a thriving ecosystem, but there were some completely peaceful, yet incomprehensible aliens there who would literally say and do nothing if we just set down and started living alongside them. Clearly we had no choice but to blow them all away and turn half the planet into a wasteland that made survival an arduous challenge!"
Humans.

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Quoting: GuestI read that job spec out of interest, and the wording alone would make me stay far, far away from working the company even if I were in that country.

Tesla doesn't have a great rep for working conditions. Musk seems to think working for the great cool vision should be enough reward that you shouldn't worry about little things like massive overtime or being exposed to deadly diseases.
Which, to be fair, does still put him a step up from all the bastards who want you to expose yourself to deadly diseases and workplace injury in the name of great cool visions like . . . butchering meat, or moving shit in a warehouse.

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