the virtual texture tech is not all mighty and you can still run into situation where if the allocation is fewer than you need you run into the page swap. It act similarly to traditional cache miss if you cross certain threshold because you can’t keep enough “tiles” in memory. Texture quality popping and then stuttering is the symptom progressing from lower than needed vram allocated to severely insufficient.
It goes back to province and then where? If it benefits everyone, say upgrade the library to be more energy efficient, provide rebates if you upgrade your heat/aircon system to modern standard of your buildings, like those I’d say that’s good use of carbon tax money. But if dumped to some big oil RnD branch for green energy tech that we won’t see in another 10/20 years, cause they do not have any motivation to actually pull it. (since their balance sheet is neutral once they get the tax money back from one of their branch/subsidiary. ) I might be biased cause I lived in a old tower building, I really wish our building can start the window/etc remodeling but I only have 1 vote. (my winter base board heating is 200+ on coldest weeks, cause the entire building’s windows are over 25+ years old and already leaking and not up to par. )
I do wish there are more locally own/operated grocery stores or farmer’s markets. But they are usually located at the out skirts of the city and then you have to drive to get them. The web operated aren’t exactly benefiting those farmers nor consumers nor the carbon goals and more expensive/less choice. (because quantity and delivery vehicles etc. )
Yeah, I am talking in macro scale. The things as consumer can choose to avoid:
But as consumer I can’t avoid:
The important part is, where the carbon tax go? Do they go into hands that actually have goals and plan/milestone to meet? Or they go into some paper green RnD subsidiaries of big oil?
misinformation aside, tax the industry simply increase their cost and they can still just offset to the consumers no? since consumer don’t have others down the chain to offset that cost. I know on the sheet you can’t list tax as cost, but if the tax come when you buy the fuel, then it becomes part of the cost for say, a truck fleet company. If you tax the oil/fuel companies for how much they produced/shipped, they will have to raise the cost to account for the lost of potential tax to make the balance sheet or projection look nicer. I can’t think of a way to tax carbon and those cost won’t trickle down. But tax at the source would make overall consumption reduced since the gov artificially drive up the cost of that resource.
In short, consumer would still foot the bill, but the goal to reduce carbon based fuel stays the same.
If the smurf detection/etc is good, then that’s the first way to alleviate those toxic behavior. It’s a really bad feedback cycle when smurfs are involved. My main game is rocket league, you can have smurf that win the game single-handedly and then start to play 1v3 or 2v4 because he decides that he wants to lose these games to keep playing at lower rank, or something you did the smurf don’t like, and you might be some MMR away for your next promotion and it doesn’t matter. The MMR matchmaking this little shit to your matches because he decides to smurf instead of playing at his normal level.
I don’t know much about dota or moba games, but the idea is the same, smurf will pump more negativity into the game.
It’s because Nintendo still haven’t implement server client networking and host their own dedicated servers. It’s why people paid Nintendo Online to play multiplayer Nintendo games are getting scammed.(even Capcom or EA/Epic did batter job on switch then Nintendo.)
That’s why you get no real online plays, blame Nintendo’s internal policy, not networking complexity.
I think many parents are sort of “giving up” because even if you do the “keep you kid at home when having symptoms”, chances are when there is an outbreak of the school mixed soup of sickness, you send your now healthy kid back 3 days later they will probably catch a different one. I’ve seen student coughing at their friends face and “whoops, sorry”, while the parents pretend nothing actually happened. I understand cause not every parent have the leisure to keep their child home while they are away working for make a living.
At one point I also conceded, as long as my kid is in good enough condition then I still let him go. (so fever and wet cough/running nose stay at home, if only dry cough and/or slightly stuffy nose go to school.) My reasoning, might as well taking in as much sickness mix while his immune system is on full cylinders, compare to taken them in one by one. Overall it achieve better overall sick kid time across the year and less absent days on the report card. Yes, that means family members needs to be also in good shape or have good in house infection prevention planning. For people with vulnerable member, this approach obviously won’t work well. They probably need to isolate the vulnerable one to eliminate contacts as much as possible.
And, don’t give shit to teachers please, they are like front line health care worker BUT without protections. If the government wants to do something about these infections, they would need to also sponsor the sick day leaves to include children’s sick day, ways to lower cost of living for less fortunate people(not everyone making 100k+ or below some line to qualify full social benefit), rebates for good quality air filters(which is also good for those smoky days). I am fairly certain those cost will be lower than the hospitalization, ICUs or dead kids. But, I am just a random internet stranger.
depending on how much they rely on some of the feature that renders across frames, it might be better to stick to higher frame rate low res compare to lower frame rate but higher base res.
good thing the rendering engineers are willing to try different ways instead of stuck at this “real pixel” shit that some youtuber started. Even freaking Pixar that is grand daddy of CG tech also doing ML global illumination and temporal denoiser. some of our current gen realtime graphics literally took hours to render 10 years ago, hardware aren’t improving that fast, it’s the new algorithms and render method make it possible.
Master as in the production term like gold master. He stolen the first prints before it hits the shelf, thus a “master” thief.
Not to diss his train of thoughts because it is hard to get money to fund risky projects. What he said is entirely base on the premise that vest majority of games are funded by publisher money, kickstarter or not that’s the reality for the longest time.
BUT, the part he is missing is that pitching is very important, the so called “risky” business is a economical/statistical analysis as of late. And you CAN get funding if you propose something that are sound and reasonable. Like today I was surprised that Immortals of Aveum has no microtransactions, even though the gear/resource interface hinted that at one point that’s probably considered. So EA, new IP, new engine tech, high spec req everyone spit at, can you come up with a even better counter argument to Rami? The game launched, after checking discord and discussions, consoles seems to run fine and smooth. I meet the 1440p/60fps requirement on PC so I took the plunge bought it this morning. Guess what, it delivered, I only tweaked 2 things, changing boarderless to full screen and disable vsync. Game is running very smooth on 60fps locked even at the big open field scene a youtuber tested yesterday that dips into 40+fps I have no issue at all running at exactly same location he did. (I did change the sensitivity settings on my mouse/in game so I don’t feel too dizzy cause there is no mouse smoothing, if your dpi set too high it’s actually hard to play. )
Will they be financially successful? I don’t know, it’s a big gamble for them and EA. But as far as Rami’s argument concerned, there is no problem getting funded and stick to your guns as long as you can prove to those doing the internal tests. Believe me, EA game with Denuvo, from dev I didn’t heard of, I did my homeworks and then decided to support them and took my risk. This is where I vote with my wallet. It works right after install and I haven’t run into bug/crash yet, and I hope this game is successful.
edit: is it fun? I also can’t be quite sure yet cause I just got out of tutorial area. But the mechanic is sound, KBM might be a bit odd on how they set the default bindings but you can change those, I did plan to give controller a try later.
hmmm… I don’t play streamed games, like never, even stream from PS4 -> phone feels really odd.(but that offered a way to turn on the console in silent, that’s why I still have remote play app. Good thing you can turn off that beep in next firmware.)
I think the pricing is this way so you just subscribe to the monthly or even yearly plan anyway. They can also adjust that pricing to see how people actually use the platform and see find the sweet spot. Then they can package it and sell it to airlines as well.(with proven usage data/pricing.)
not to defend them, but I regularly play around 3~4 hours and I didn’t notice my frames dip during play. It usually dip around enter/exit conversation, or when you faster travel, frame then comes back to normal range. (about 120 fps for me, during hotter days I just manually keep it at 60 so I trade some screen tear but cooler room.) If it’s memory leak it will usually lead to crash since you have less and less ram you can allocate. So there might be something that eats your resource.
Mechanical side I just don’t like hunting and gather stuff the scatter around the world, but is kinda of important for early game economics.(especially for a hoarder like me, I want to get all the magical items from vendors, trying to do it as legit as I can, all the sell for 1 coin adds up. opening all the crates etc does took a long time in storage area. )
For the good of all of us. Except the ones who are dead.
(edit: if you play evil route replace “good” to “evil” )
I bought a big air filter around 2021( about the size of a small fridge) and it’s working quite well. Only turn it on when the air quality index hits yellow range or above.
Have you consider that possibility that I just want to spread the good will and maybe entice more people to help those in need? My fucking colleague escaped the fire before the high way shutdown, and I was doing everything I can to see if people can be helped. I am really a non-violent guy but your comment make me wanna punch you. There are people out there losing their houses and even after the fire settled it would take a long time to rebuild. And all you can do is mocking me paste a screenshot donating 200?
I love visiting Kelowna and I hope they make it through again. I picked the food bank to donate.
Thanks!
unfortunately it wouldn’t be really helpful for developers with the current stats available, and for consumer it seems that it gears more toward overclocking with the voltage/temp output?
the virtual texture tech is not all mighty and you can still run into situation where if the allocation is fewer than you need you run into the page swap. It act similarly to traditional cache miss if you cross certain threshold because you can’t keep enough “tiles” in memory. Texture quality popping and then stuttering is the symptom progressing from lower than needed vram allocated to severely insufficient.