GTG3000

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[–] GTG3000 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

That's fair. Personally, I just have a grudge against math notation in general. Makes my programmer brain hurt when there's no consistency and a lot of implicit rules.

Then again, I also like Lisp so I'm not exactly without sin.

[–] GTG3000 49 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I'm with the right answer here. / and * have same precedence and if you wanted to treat 2(2+2) as a single unit, you should have written it like (2*(2+2)).

[–] GTG3000 1 points 1 year ago

You know, that's fair. Most of my experience with RTX in games so far been in first person shooters and they're kind of lacking in environments like those.

Mostly stuff like slightly better lighting in Cyberpunk or the flickery caustics in recent Robocop game. Bonus points for the games that implement RTX reflections and shadows but don't have your character reflect or cast a shadow.

[–] GTG3000 54 points 1 year ago (4 children)

And that's how you get your whole party executed.

[–] GTG3000 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, we will only start seeing games that fully rely on raytracing when low-mid tier GPUs will be able to support at least current day RTX 3070 performance. As in, you can do better but at least you can run stuff fully in raytracing.

[–] GTG3000 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)

After playing Portal RTX and Quake 2 RTX, my opinion is that what we really need are games that fully embrace RTX as their rendering. Lower poly count, use materials more, lean in onto the cool lighting.

Games like Cyberpunk 2077 use RTX, but it's just painted over so it is very expensive for what it brings to the table. Sure it's more accurate and having reflections is neat, but it costs more than some shadow maps and doesn't beat good artistic design.

[–] GTG3000 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I remember checking out scripting in Libre and when you put it next to Excel's "just press here and write code", it's kind of bizzare.

[–] GTG3000 8 points 1 year ago

The devil is usually in the details.

OSS rich text editors work, but then you send out the document to someone who has Word and they complain about the formatting since it doesn't translate some times. Messenger app experience usually goes "Native Windows > Web app > Linux", at least in the few corporate I used. Stuff like Lark not even being up to date with their web app and Telegram having strange interactions with some window managers.

It works and I gotten people to use raspberry pi instead of their windows computers, but it just feels very unpolished overall.

And then there's the whole package/flatpack/snap/cosmopolitan thing

[–] GTG3000 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, at that point just don't roll con saves for them. Special NPC magic (tm).

[–] GTG3000 4 points 1 year ago

I think some people expected their entire community to get up and move.

[–] GTG3000 1 points 1 year ago

Well, perhaps that is healthier.

But it doesn't trap eyeballs.

[–] GTG3000 3 points 1 year ago

Well for me, the real content of Reddit was finding an interesting thing and then reading a few dozen comments from people really in the know.

Here it's going to be a dozen top-level comments and maybe one of them will have a thread longer than three messages.

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