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  • I think DLSS (and FSR and so on) are great value propositions but they become a problem when developers use them as a crutch. At the very least your game should not need them at all to run on high end hardware on max settings. With them then being options for people on lower end hardware to either lower settings or combine higher settings with upscaling. When they become mandatory they stop being a value proposition since the benefit stops being a benefit and starts just being neccesary for baseline performance.


  • Setting up gates needs exceedingy comlex calibration to account for all the intervening gravitational anonomlies, you could still do it for crew rotation with a lot of effort though the power requirements for actually running a gate, let alone all the test fire to get it calibrated in the first place just for this one crew rotation would put that firmly in ‘not in the budget’ territory. The normal procedure is more like a colony mission with the crew at the end having to spend several years to set up infastructure at the other end to make the gate opperational. On the bright side one trip pretty much sets you up for life in terms of payment.




  • So this is more SciFi but the fundementals work for fantasy.

    Gates, and gates only so the first time someone has to slowboat it which is either an epic lifetime journey or a sacrifice of your place in time to relativistic travel depending on the genre in order to set up a gate at the destination. The gates then function as a classic folding of space between them, not to zero but such that a multi-lightyear trip is reduced down to an internal length of just a few miles.

    This is all fine when everything works, though if the gate shuts off mid transit you can end up with a whole fleet trapped in the intervening void until its turned back on, or worse a nefarious actor who gains control of a pair of gates may even expand the intervening space rather than shrinking it, trapping their victims not just in deep space, but in an ever expanding volume that can’t be escaped even with near light-speed travel.









  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldtoAI@lemmy.ml@grok is this true
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    18 days ago

    Me: Wow this is terrible, I should download a local copy of wikipedia, its only like 30gig right?

    Wikipedia: Heres a nepenthies like trap of pages that don’t actually have a download link and all just link back to eachother, also the actual archive is in a format no ones ever heard of and needs a dedicated reader AND a dedicated very suspicious looking torrenting software to download in the first place.

    I still haven’t figured that shit out, Every now and then theres this push to get people to back it up locally but then it seems like they deliberately make it as hard as they possibly can to do so.