Everything about authentication and Microsoft is nightmare fuel. I am sure that noone over there has any idea what is going on, and that is the reason why every new thing from microsoft builds their own - soon to be legacy code anyway - authentication portal and ties it to the existing kowloon walled city of authentication with chewing gum and zip ties.

If they really do this, i think Europe and Canada would have no qualms crashing the US economy by simply selling off their US bonds, destroying the ability of the US to source money. I’d love to see it.

I meant RT and the X somehow smuggled itself in lol

I love RTX in CP2077, it looks awesome. Funnily enough, i saw a video segment of DLSS5 in Cyberpunk, and i was astounded - it looked as if it were made for it. https://youtu.be/8r-wEn3CIb8?t=148

Yeah, pop-in is the worst of all experiences.

I did not pay a shitton of my meager income to play with low details lol - and i started playing pc games on 286, matching the eternal upgrade cycle until a few years ago, so i am no stranger to reducing details to achieve better frame rates. Anything below 60 fps is only acceptable in very specific circumstances, as in “i’m on the go and want to save battery on my steam deck”, although since i acquired lossless scaling (lsfg-vk) i tend to use it for framegen from 30 to 60 on the deck. Its not as high fidelity as pure 60fps, but it uses a lot less battery and the quality loss isn’t super obvious on the small display anyways… 60-90 is ok for stuff like turn based strategy on my main rig, because i don’t see any reason for raising my power bill in this case. 90+ is for anything action oriented - 90 is 1/2 Vsync on my monitor, so if i can’t reach the full 180 fps on max detail, i simply limit it there and call it a day.

Imagine being proud of skills which have become obsolete in the last century for the vast majority of uses. Reminds me of the people whining about the loss of cursive writing skills, and cursive at least makes writing long texts more hand-friendly. I can read and use maps (if i ever again wanted to) but they neither update, don’t fit neatly in my pocket, suffer from wear and tear (funnily enough they suffer from water damage a lot more than my smart phone, which i forgot i had in my swimwear - i was around 1 1/2 hours in the water, and after blowing some air in the USB-C port, everything was still working. Try that with a paper map, i dare you), don’t deliver context or images of the surroundings, do not have turn or lane info, completely miss important data like construction work or road blockages and are unable to provide you with traffic data.

Even for non-navigation stuff paper maps are wildly unpractical compared to the digital alternative. City planning, construction work and the likes all need easily updateable, versionable maps that do not distort the size of things like mercator.

I aim at a stable 60-90 Fps (which goes well with my 180Hz Monitor + Vsync) , while cranking up the visuals as far as i can, normally starting with max and then slowly inching backwards if needed. I don’t like it if my textures get muddy, or shadows look like crap - or even worse, Pop-in and LOD shenanigans.

I seem to have upset some mercator afficionados. As you say, for everyday usage any type centered on you (or a bit in front of your position) will be close enough to reality that navigating will be fine. For city planning the true size of things also matter a lot, as you mentioned. Long distance navigation doesn’t use paper maps anymore except when GPS is jammed (which is not the norm if you aren’t near Iran or Ukraine currently), and we are already on the way to make quantum navigation for ships feasable. In the case of aircraft, if GPS is down, there are more than enough alternative ways to navigate (communication with flight control, ground based beacons and so on) and long distance road travel will in 99% of cases use high tier roads which tend to have signs indicating where they go, in addition to navigation software that could adjust map projection on the fly if needed (but it isn’t really needed, what you need is accurate lane and turn information, which is independent of what you see on the display).

I really don’t understand the hive mind in this case. Anyone having some input here where the issue lies? I haven’t touched a paper map where any of this stuff had mattered at least since the turn of the century.

It might be worth it for titles that can run at 180 fps+ on your rig. Out of curiosity, i’d like to see what it does with e.g. GTA San Andreas or Witcher 2.

I postulated exactly these issues with detecting LLM code in software projects, making “no LLM code”-type policies unenforceable. It doesn’t work most of the time now, and it will only get worse in the future.

Because the moment the US adopted civil religion, the separation between church and state became meaningless and changing of the constitution akin to blasphemy.

I remember me being 14 and distributing stacks of 3,5" 1,44Mb floppies filled with copies of Doom to whoever wanted one, as long as i got the disks back later on

“Instead of focusing on genuine problems… this body is debating map projects from the 16th century and their role in promoting reparations and cognitive justice,” US representative Yaryna Ferencevych said ahead of the vote.

She hasn’t been home for a long time, hasn’t she?

I know. It doesn’t happen often that i leave the principle of rehab behind, because i believe that most people that commit crimes are just common people who had bad luck regarding where and in what community they were born, who they latched onto during the time growing up and so on. But there are some people (who we all know) who consistently keep getting away with this shit because of who they know and how much money they have - being the total opposite of the kind of people i talked above - and i just wish someone with less scruples than i have makes sure they cant hurt anyone anymore, regardless of what follows.

It sets out to be an anti-piracy measure, but it’s not actually preventing games from being cracked at all.

But it did for a long, long time. It’s only this year that Denuvo has become reliably circumvented outside of a few outliers.

Me: Plex share because i am lazy as fuck regarding video content and need my limited storage for my game trove.

I didn’t know you live so close to the arctic that you can’t identify the direction you need to go when looking at a paper map.

With navigation software that simply uses your current position for the center of the projection all corners stay so close to reality that i dare you to see the difference (we are not living on a globe the size of a tangerine). There’s also the hint you get from the small arrow pointing out the direction you are currently facing.

Do you really think that the distortion over the short distance shown while navigating matters? I don’t know many drivers that actually use their geometry kit when using a navigation app.

You still use paper maps while driving inside of your own country? Free navigation software is ubiquitous. Noone cares about the projection used there, as long as it signals turns and lanes correctly, and long distance most countries have something called “signs” which tell you where the road you are on goes.

Most navigation software doesn’t show the map from the top, but from behind looking forward, and it communicates turns and lanes to choose regardless if your angles are 90° / 95° / 85° or what map projection is used. If you are still using paper maps in your own city - welcome to the future.

Edit: And to top it off, the crossroads being 90° is a uniquely american thing - every city in europe has a naturally grown layout. Since the US doesn’t give a fuck about anyone else (as seen in the vote and their renaming stuff into <whatever> America) I also don’t give a fuck about what maps they use.

Edit 2: If you use your current position as the center of the projection, anything close enough to be relevant stays at 90° - or so close that i dare anyone to see the difference.