Lots of smack talk in here from the other side of the screen. Best malicious compliance is probably just call and report them for parking improperly. Or just walk across their car.

Yeah that’s my approach too. If I want to be available then I will be, but if I’m off, I’m off, the pto is my right to turn off work and do “me” for the day.

I mean look it might become a useful tool in the future, not denying that. But what we are seeing is DLSS5 being shoved into a lot of mainstream games as a replacement for polish. We can let the big studios drive themselves into the ground chasing profits and slapping on whatever new tech they think will give them a sales boost, no complaints here.

But as it stands it’s a capability that’s over hyped for what it is, like you said yourself, art teams aren’t using it as part of their art direction so it’s clashing with the designs, and the hardware level barrier for entry isn’t worth the money it costs to get there.

That’s all subject to change, it could become a staple of the industry, it could become the linchpin that lets smaller games perform while still letting the game have great design. But right now there’s too much opposition for too little benefit. It could be great, sure, but people playing games now don’t care what it “could” be. They care what it “is”, and right now for the most part what it “is” is an over hyped buzzword feature that jacks up the “cost” of a game for no real benefit to the player.

And to give a counter example, the same thing was said about Ray tracing when it initially came out. It was cool but it would practically set your PC on fire at the time, but even then, people liked it. It was overpriced and not really that different, but some people thought it was cool. DLSS5 doesn’t even have that.

This is just pure stupid. You go to someone’s farm, unannounced, I assume enter their pasture, and then get surprised when one of the animals comes up to you and start making noise? He’s lucky he didn’t catch a bullet for wandering into someone’s property unannounced.

How about this, take his gun away, and I know a field that has a bull in rut that might have the “missing person” he was looking for, he can go right out in the middle and look around all he likes.

Remember Molly Ringwald’s stalker? Well in this case this person had an AI using this person’s faked voice pretend they were in a relationship. He wanted to tell her to break up with her partner and delete photos of herself so he could be the only one to see her. The AI told him to tell her this directly, and he did. Dude needs help.

Taking this bait, I think the problem is that these features are doing multiple things, and almost all of them are bad in the name of “better” graphics (which is subjective)

• characters look worse, like AI slop filters were added over their faces and bodies
• creative vision of the people making the game is bastardized behind these “enhancements” altering the look and feel of the game.
• higher bar for entry for performance requirements and still getting poor performance if you do bite the bullet for a more expensive setup
• a lot of these games aren’t that good, don’t get me wrong a few are, but having to buy extra equipment and push your PC to get marginally better graphics to play an “okay” game isn’t gonna make people jump for joy.

You used half life 2 as an example, that was arguably one of the greater games out there at the time, tech and story wise, when it released. People bought better equipment because they wanted to, and even then, the game was still really good. Not so much with these new releases.

You can blame the complaints on people hating AI, they do. But it’s not like everyone who doesn’t like these games and their requirements is hating it just because of DLSS. The problem is people are complaining about performance along side other issues and DLSS is being presented as “the solution to performance issues” when it’s not even close.

No the games have to look like real life don’t you get it? Nevermind that fortnite and Minecraft, the two biggest games out there have cartoonish graphics and literal pixelated cubes no! We need to be able to see the reflection in a drop of sweat! And more AI!

Games should have “style” and “performance”? Bah. What poppycock I say, another billion to the AAAA games! For the investors! /s

Think of how dumb the average person is, half of them are dumber than that. And they voted this rotten mango into office. We are sick of him and watching our country crumble around him.

Sleep debt is real. Take notes about how you feel. Get a good nights sleep for a week, and take notes again. You’ll see a difference. Self care isn’t like filling a gas tank or taking out the trash, you have to maintain consistency to see the benefits, and once you do, you will.

I know people hate his followers and him, but there is a piece to this people forget.

These people are real, and they are out there. He curates his audience to be echo chambers for these mindsets. We need to speak to our friends, family, and neighbors, about this stuff so that they can’t just fester in these toxic environments. It’s an uphill battle, but writing the people on the fringes of these groups off just causes them to spiral into their own circles and get more intense.

We don’t want people following him because he isn’t worth following. Care for people and show others that your community is welcoming to all and they’ll lose their power. There are bigger problems we can unite against that we all want.

She can be pretty on camera.

(making a joke, idk anything really about her acting career)

I know you’re being sarcastic, but to be fair there is a difference between “I shouldn’t drive” and “vomit comet” levels of drunk. As a taxi service it’s part of the work that you get people like that, but they wanted to take over the industry, so they have to deal with the ups and downs of it.

So “I was stable enough to buy a whole cake and get my friends together, now I’m going to make sure everyone can have a slice” is anti-american or something now according to this idiot?

The “fuck you I got mine” crowd is really trying to convince struggling people to enjoy the suffering huh.

Usually the stuff that is in “announcements” or has an @everyone on it gets a vomit of reactions because general users can’t actually send messages in those channels. Plus it’s fun. You don’t see it in normal chat messages though, just announcements and stuff like this.

There is a very real aspect to the thought of “Kill myself??? Do you know how much of a pain in the ass that would be?? Nah, I’ll just wait it out”

“So you’re not suicidal?” Oh, no, if it was just me maybe, but there are friends and family that would be really upset and I don’t want to make someone clean up that mess, they don’t deserve that.

My guess (I don’t know if this is actually right) is that the battery is showing a lower charge while under load. So when it wakes up to do it’s little periodic checks/activity (could be trying to fetch updates, could be scans, could be cleanup, idk) it draws additional power and the old battery can only support that load for so long.

Explanation based on theory as I understand it: Using an analogy, batteries aren’t a cup full of electricity that just gets sipped or dumped, they’re closer to a water balloon with a little valve. The system may only use a little water at a time, but the “battery full” percent is the measure of how much pressure is in the balloon to push the water out. So when the valve is mostly closed (phone is idling) the pressure is pretty normal, slowly dropping. But as batteries age when you open the valve further you start to realize the battery can’t actually push out the pressure you need (the balloon has stretched out). The pressure drops, to the levels it would be at if the balloon was brand new, but almost drained. The valve closes more as the device demands less power, and it seems like the expected pressure returns to normal, because the balloon can handle that lower pressure demand.

In short “New battery almost dead under load = old battery mostly charged but under load” but “new battery charged with no load = old battery charged with no load” which is why you see the slingshotting on the battery graph.

It’s a symptom of someone obsessed with wealth but with no actual taste. That’s always been trumps thing. Money or the illusion of money. He has more money than you, just look everything is gold, you don’t have gold stuff unless you have money, right? It definitely is the “style” of someone who never left the 80’s.

Reminds me of those I’ve seen who are dead broke but they still try to make themselves look rich by wearing a pound of gold jewelry that came from their relatives.

See some of these (like the chip bag) are so harebrained that you’re just like “surely that doesn’t work right” but it just makes you wonder how many times something like that does work, happens often, and we just didn’t hear about it.

One person doesn’t just randomly decide to take thousands or more of cash and give it to someone because “maybe it’ll work or maybe my life will be ruined”, it’s a risk, but significantly less of one if you know it’s been done before. They’re not robbing convenience stores for rent money out of desperation, they’re bribing people to change public policy that overrides the public because of their own beliefs or agenda because they think they can get away with it. And who knows how often they do.

No idea what you mean lol enlighten me

Well hang on, let’s send the elites into space first. Then nuke their ships. Then give earth a second chance. If we don’t get it in 20 years, then we can call it a wash and wipe the planet clean.