brucethemoose
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- Comment on [Deck] 3 days ago:
www.techpowerup.com/…/xbox-series-s-gpu.c3683
www.techpowerup.com/…/steam-deck-gpu.c3897
The Series S is a much faster machine. Larger GPU, faster memory, double the CPU cores, higher clocks it can keep at full speed more frequently; it’s really no contest.
Not to say the Deck is bad by any means.
But if you were to sell it, and you are worried about fidelity, I’d save up until you are ready to immediately trade it for a Steam Machine.
- Comment on AMD APUs, like the one that Steam Deck has, might get FSR 4 support next year thanks to the tech expanding beyond discreet top-of-the-line GPUs 5 days ago:
I don’t think it’s actually trained per game. Maybe per type of game.
I do remember Nvidia offering this as a service to game devs for a hot minute, but really, these models generalize well. A model they spent time tweaking and training on a big basket of games might work better than a finetune for one specific game, as it would just get overfit.
- Comment on AMD APUs, like the one that Steam Deck has, might get FSR 4 support next year thanks to the tech expanding beyond discreet top-of-the-line GPUs 5 days ago:
“Supporting” and “working well” are different things though.
Without the low precision/specialized instructions of newer hardware, there’s just a fundamental limit to what can be done without the overhead of FSR being too much. Though there are certainly some implementations that could work on older hardware, I’m sure.
- Comment on AMD APUs, like the one that Steam Deck has, might get FSR 4 support next year thanks to the tech expanding beyond discreet top-of-the-line GPUs 5 days ago:
I think it needs depth buffer access and a UI mask, but not necessarily deep integration beyond that? At least for the FSR3 shader code I’ve looked at personally.
This is not out of the question for generic integration.
I’m less sure if FSR4 though, as I think that was a pretty big leap over 3.
- Comment on Rockstar finally break silence on "heartbreaking" GTA 6 leak, say it's "unfortunate that the intended game experience may now be impacted by some spoilers" 1 month ago:
Precisely.
I actually forgot about this.
- Comment on Rockstar finally break silence on "heartbreaking" GTA 6 leak, say it's "unfortunate that the intended game experience may now be impacted by some spoilers" 1 month ago:
Im still convinced its marketing now, whether the leak was intentional or not.
Theres no such thing as bad attention in 2026. All that matters is that this leak is viral, and now everyone is talking about GTA.
- Comment on Startpage comes to Firefox | The Mozilla Blog 1 month ago:
Oh I see. I thought they made Startpage the default in these regions, but I misread the article.
- Comment on Startpage comes to Firefox | The Mozilla Blog 1 month ago:
That’s interesting. I thought Google paid to be the default?
- Comment on Sony are rebooting their live service Horizon game as a more traditional co-op affair, claim sources, with a proper Horizon Forbidden West sequel still years away 1 month ago:
Well, competition is stiff. I suspect there are better coop games to try, unless the Noodle household is really into Horizon lore and stuff.
- Comment on Sony are rebooting their live service Horizon game as a more traditional co-op affair, claim sources, with a proper Horizon Forbidden West sequel still years away 1 month ago:
This is a great sign.
It’s Sony rather explicitly saying “okay, we get it. Live service grind is out, comfy couch coop is in.”
- Comment on The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired 2 months ago:
So many xvid torrents… there probably still are.
- Comment on Halo 3 may be the greatest release in the history of the games industry 2 months ago:
To be fair, a new open-world engine was a tall order for a “new” studio. Most AAAAs with bespoke engines fail.
…Which is why they should have just licensed CryEngine, probably?
But yeah. Specialized “AA” development is the sweet spot of gaming now, and Microsoft could have made sacks of cash simply licensing Halo out and sitting on their hands.
- Comment on Halo 3 may be the greatest release in the history of the games industry 3 months ago:
At risk of going off-topic, Halo’s fall is really sad.
Like, I still imagine everything Infinity could have been as a franchise-reboot, high budget, open world game, and it just felt… so underwhelming?
- Comment on "The 'AI Stigma' is real and severely punishes developers": A new study shows how much using AI in games hurts sales, and the numbers are hard to believe 3 months ago:
The problem I have is “using AI” could be something as simple as coding autocomplete. Or documentation help. Or scaling sprites. Things like that.
It could be done completely locally.
Hence the term isn’t really fair. It’s not even in the same class as shipping sloppy shovelware, or encountering gross or broken stuff in game.
I think Valve should avoid the term and more clearly define it as “vibe coding, or gratuitous use of generated assets in game.”
- Comment on Disney Failed to Buy James Bond Franchise, Walked Away From Owning Twitter Hours Before the Deal Closed and Held Apple Merger Talks 3 months ago:
They didn’t want to kill Sora. They wanted to license it.
AFAIK Disney was the one with plans to use it extensively, but OpenAI is the one who decided to kill it.
- Comment on Disney Failed to Buy James Bond Franchise, Walked Away From Owning Twitter Hours Before the Deal Closed and Held Apple Merger Talks 3 months ago:
I found their full throated jump onto the OpenAI Sora boat particularly egregious.
Here’s a company that could do machine learning right.
They have:
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Cash.
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An ocean of high quality material they own; no need to steal to train.
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Animators, editors, plenty of staff to help.
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“Family safe” trust with a whole lot of people.
They could have trained their own models from scratch, on modest hardware, to do stuff that’s actually neat, like supplement production or make interactive comics or something, yet…
They used precisely none of that.
They jumped on the Tech Bro train and licensed the gross abomination that was Sora for short video prompts?
I literally do not get it.
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- Comment on "We have to have free human expression in some capacity": Patreon CEO shares frustrations about getting adult content past payment processors 3 months ago:
Are they?
They seem to accept credit cards. And: www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/…/77932811007/
I’ve heard of the payment processors trying to dictate what isn’t and isn’t allowed on OF, which is of course scummy. But I really think they’re having their cake and eating it here.
- Comment on "We have to have free human expression in some capacity": Patreon CEO shares frustrations about getting adult content past payment processors 3 months ago:
Yeah, fuck the payment processors.
They don’t bat an eye at OnlyFans but turn their nose up to smaller fish? Yeah, they have no leg to stand on.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 3 months ago:
I’m surprised people think $1,100 is high, even outside the current environment.
Same with the $500 Commodore phone.
The dollar has inflated. Technology is expensive. I think cheap junk has desensitized folks to that, but you pay an externalized cost for that.
And of course salaries haven’t gone up so anyone can actually afford it, but… that’s a distinctly separate problem. They should have, as corporate revenue and profit per worker has certainly gone up.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Yeah, agreed. eBay is notorious for being brutal on sellers, taking them down rather easily.
Scam listings are still everywhere though.
- Comment on Used EVs break records while sales of new EVs plummet 5 months ago:
I have a very well off sibling, big corporate job, SO has a big job too. They’re financially smart, thorough researchers when shopping, and have no kids.
Can they afford a new EV?
Hell no.
So they got a used one, at an amazing price.
I dunno who all these bloated, $80k+ EVs are supposed to be for. Rich old folks? I know some too, and they don’t want EVs anyway.
- Comment on DLSS Multi-Frame Generation Is Now Easier To Enable On Steam Deck, And It Makes Gameplay Worse 6 months ago:
Ah, right.
That’s sad. AFAIK Oculus developed more integrated interpolation (and, separately, warping) to help with perceived latency:
www.uploadvr.com/reprojection-explained/
But that’s like lost magic these days.
- Comment on DLSS Multi-Frame Generation Is Now Easier To Enable On Steam Deck, And It Makes Gameplay Worse 6 months ago:
If the rendered framerate is ~60fps (which I’d wager is the case for you), it probably looks great.
Interpolation isn’t psychic; of course its going to look like jello “guessing” what’s between frames at a slideshow pace, especially with the constraint of low latency, without any future frames to use.
But I do have issue with some devs (and some of Nvidia’s marketing) treating it as a crutch. It’s not a fix to 15fps, but it’s a fine way to get 60 to 135 smoothly.
- Comment on DLSS Multi-Frame Generation Is Now Easier To Enable On Steam Deck, And It Makes Gameplay Worse 6 months ago:
(NSFW warning)
When I had an RTX 2060 laptop, I had the most jank setup for Cyberpunk 2077.
I’d plug it into an older Sony OLED, which only supported low res HDMI input (can’t remember which res, I think 1080p?)
The RTX 2060 would run DLSS quality (for antialiasing) and output 2077 at low-res 60fps, and the TV would use its big ASIC to interpolate it to 120hz, and up to 4K.
And actually, it looked good! It felt smooth! Input lag wasn’t great, but absolutely playable.
I don’t have a PC that can do framegen (3090 now), but ironically, the DLSS framegen demos I’ve seen didn’t have interpolation as good as the Sony. And I believe Sony/Samsung support “no next frame” interpolation, so they don’t blow up input lag.
- Comment on A former Rockstar dev is making a Satisfactory-style survival game about doomed expeditions on a strange planet 8 months ago:
RPS’s writing is still delightful, even with the stresses they’ve been through.
- Comment on Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine 8 months ago:
Yeah.
My instant reaction was “$700? It’d be a miracle if Valve hits that. What’s Ars thinking?”
- Comment on World Socialist Web Site to launch Socialism AI 10 months ago:
That would be ideal.
The Chinese model weights aren’t “tankie” by themselves, its the frontends that do most censoring. Their devs in interviews and such are quite grounded; it feels like they ‘have their cake and eat it,’ leaving the base models relatively uncensored, complying with the CCP superficially.
…Bot honestly, is probably a ChatGPT system prompt like every other “AI” project :(
- Comment on KDE Plasma going all-in on Wayland and will drop the X11 session completely 10 months ago:
Are you on a laptop?
- Comment on KDE Plasma going all-in on Wayland and will drop the X11 session completely 10 months ago:
Is it like a browser game?
Are you using the native build or a wine version?
- Comment on Ubisoft staff up for "captivating" Beyond Good & Evil 2 but we both know they're just going to hurt us again 10 months ago:
Insider stories of what unspeakable development hell this game went though would be interesting.