Notices by beard :meru_dab: (beardalaxy@gameliberty.club)

@icedquinn idk maybe like each tax bracket counts as how many people you are worth

a CEO's life is easily worth like 15 lives of people who live in the slums, that's why they want to give luigi the death penalty, he basically killed 15 people

@LukeAlmighty they will literally always find some reason to make themselves a victim. Always.

@LukeAlmighty i know hardcore henry wasn't shot in one take but it is downright impressive how seamless it ends up being

@LukeAlmighty they're always pulling stunts like this to try to stay relevant. like their eric andre screamer and their embedded twitch stream that pumped the number of viewers of their brand vtuber to crazy levels.

you know that if someone uses opera gx they are a special kind of normie

two years guys
will it be shit or kino?

blocking reposts on x:
https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/twitter

thank fuck, i just use x as a way to see posts from artists i follow not to see their torrential spam of reposts from 100 other people. i can't believe there isn't a way to turn that off on the site itself.

@veru yeah i know that exists but i don't want to go through and do it to everyone xD

@veru i wish a lot more artists had fedi or newgrounds accounts. i wouldn't have an x account if it weren't for artists that only really exist there.

preordered these lil fucks

@LukeAlmighty this has happened to me when watching meme/fail compilations and then one gets in the autoplay that's several hours long and i don't realize it lol

@icedquinn that was the reason behind using just a blur (fxaa) or temporal effects (taa/tsr). turning off anti-aliasing is all well and good but unless you're running at 4K (and sometimes even then) you're going to run into issues with things being way too noisy.

i would rather take a performance hit for MSAA than use any of these new ones. DLAA isn't as bad but it's also a pretty decent performance hit.

@icedquinn from what i understand, the post processing and lighting don't update at a high enough rate so when things move quickly (the camera, objects, or lights changing), they leave trails. in order to make them update faster, though, it takes significantly more horsepower. that's why all this stuff has always been done in pre-renders instead of realtime. it looks great in slow scenes and still shots, but completely falls apart in fast shots. it's why i can't use raytracing in most games, the lighting is great but don't move your camera too fast i guess.

this happens with any temporal effect like TAA too, because the applied effect doesn't apply fast enough to the updated image.

so naturally the idea would just be to turn off AA but then it turns into a pixelated mess because the level of detail is so high that you NEED anti-aliasing to smooth it out. you can use FXAA but it's not that great at doing what it needs to and you still have things like the light flickering because that's all based on weird ephemeral temporal shit too.

modern rendering engines like this just suck ass. they are aiming for something so far in the future that is currently unattainable. these games might look passable in 20 years but for now, there is just way too much distracting shit going on in the image for me to say it looks good. games from 2013 look 100% better.

@icedquinn yeah the whole game is "isn't our AI tech cool?" and then you go "yeah it's kind of cool" and then that's it.

the graphics could be nice but they have a lot of problems, like a lot of other modern games do. it is really distracting when things are leaving afterimage trails and flickering.

this is what inZOI looks like without any anti-aliasing, DLSS, or raytracing in 1080p. high settings. completely unacceptable. all of that crust rapidly flickers, too.

tl;dr inZOI is an empty prototype that focuses way more on AI technology than anything fun or meaningful, don't buy it right now. maybe when the game fully releases it'll be better but the direction seems kind of flawed from the start.

this game is extremely early access.
think of sims, except instead of a team of people very deliberately putting lots of stuff together for tons of different contexts, it's all run by a shitty AI.
the foundation is fine, and i do like some of the ideas the game is going for, but it really seems like they focused way too much on random AI features instead of making an actual game.
the graphics are also pretty on the surface, but completely fall apart in motion. no matter what settings you're playing on it's going to look bad. i really, really hate modern rendering techniques. sims 2 looks better than this shit because it's actually a stable image and it's pretty clean too.

definitely DO NOT BUY until they really get more stuff here. there's barely anything to do and there are only some extremely specific things you can interact with. going to school is a rabbithole, which is horrible when you consider that the in-game time even on the fastest setting is ridiculously slow. i've got it set to 48 minute days, the lowest one, whereas sims 4's default is 24 minutes. if it could be sped up more that would be fine, but it still goes by really slowly especially when there's like nothing to do. NPCs seemingly never talk to your character, you have to initiate every interaction and they'll often just walk away after you say one thing unless you queue things up.

it does kind of feel like this game is leaning way more into AI features than being a life sim, like why in the absolute fuck did they spend so much time developing AI that can track movements onto a character? there's no point whatsoever.

played for not even 5 hours and yeah, it just made me want to play sims instead. there's really a whole lot of nothing here and that's a pretty good way to describe it. there's a lot of shit, it's just that none of it is actually meaningful or valuable at all.

paralives can't come soon enough.

THIS IS WHAT I SEE WHEN I OPEN KIRSCHE'S STREAM

@mischievoustomato @zonk only so much you can do solo

@lina by the time this game comes out the friendslop craze will probably have died down lol
my goal is to make something familiar to the survival horror genre but still unique