Don’t worry, they just need another 3-4 spinoffs and tie-in mobile games and the story will make perfect sense!

I wasn’t commenting on the DLSS 5 slop filter here, only on the general question “do ‘great’ graphics matter in a game”. I agree that slopifying a game takes you further away from the intended art direction, which I’m not a fan of.

And whatever the mechanical premise of the actual gameplay of Bodycam, the impact of it would be much less with stylized Fortnite cartoon graphics as opposed to the current photorealistic presentation. That’s all.

Are games bad or limited because of poor graphics? No. Are games better if they have great graphics? Not really.

Depends on how you define “great”. I’ve definitely played games before where the art direction and general visual artistry was a huge part of the selling point. But that doesn’t have to be photorealistic - “great graphics” can be something like pixel art majesty (CF: REPLACED).

That being said, some games are certainly elevated by incredible photorealistic visuals. Bodycam has basically built a whole premise on it, and it would certainly be a lesser game without its graphics.

I was going for “humorously exaggerating for effect”. What I meant was: I find him funny for some reason despite the deep-fried nature of the memery.

There are ways to get around the auto update, but those are also futzy. I agree that this is one of the few complaints about Steam that I have.

I used Steam Depot to rollback RDR2 in order to make a mod work about 2 years ago. If nothing has changed it should still work, although it is admittedly more fussy than version rollback on GOG.

Can’t you use Steam Depot to download older versions? It’s been a minute since I futzed with it.

I’m pretty sure you can rollback game versions on Steam too.

Am I brainrotted or is Alphamaxnova1 a comedic genius? A conundrum of our time.

I hope he lives to make it to the even 700.

I landed on Summit after getting fed up with Sync being abandoned and broken. For me it’s the best app by far.

If you check out the community here it’s actually surprisingly active. Besides getting spoiled if you can’t watch live, it’s a nice community - way more active than !football@sopuli.xyz surprisingly. Even !formuladank@lemmy.world has some activity.

People have been using Threadiverse to refer to the link-aggregating community based Fediverse platforms with threaded discussion topics for way longer than Threads has existed as a website.

If you can come up with a catchier alternative then go for it. Link-aggregator-verse doesn’t really roll off the tongue.

I too was fooled but, in fairness around the time of the engine upgrade last race Honda were talking about Next Year^TM, and it seems maybe there was a reason for it. This should be Aston’s worst track of the year (although I can’t imagine Baku being happy fun times for them either), but I would not expect miracles this season. Maybe another points finish, if we’re lucky.

DLSS 5 (slop filter) you mean? Because the regular old upscaling DLSS doesn’t really produce uncanny valley stuff. Only artifacts, and mostly on presets like Performance or Ultra Performance.

And I do also agree about RT. Cyberpunk and Alan Wake 2 both had great visually impactful ray tracing and GTA 6 (as much as it pains me to say it) looks like a fantastic showcase of real-time lighting.

They’re doing the double whammy. Mandatory sign-in (even on old.reddit) and any account they can’t estimate as belonging to an adult through their use of invasive spy metrics and AI will be forced to do age verification.

And the Aston Martin magic they had at Zandvoort seems to have already faded out, back to your regular backmarker racing.

Zandvoort is a downforce track where the chassis is the most important, almost a Monaco light. It seems their chassis is alright after the post-summer break upgrades. Monza meanwhile is a power track. Around 80% full throttle and testing mostly the engine. Unsurprisingly Aston suffers here as the Honda PU is still a train wreck. In fact, I saw some measurements that the Aston was embarrassingly close to F3 top speeds here at Monza this year, let alone F2.

This subject comes up a few times a year and always leads to a big unnecessary fight in the community. We’ve had multiple votes on it already. It’s close, but last time a majority of the community voted in favour of having spoiler posts. It is what it is. It sucks having to employ a total media blackout on days you can’t watch a race live, but it’s just one of those things.

You better not!

I was about to instantly wishlist this until I heard Capcom went and added Enigma DRM to it eight years after the release.