The difference is pretty big when there are lots of reflective surfaces, and especially when light sources move (prebaked shadows rarely do, and even when, it’s hardly realistic).

A big thing is that developers use less effort and the end result looks better. That’s progress. You could argue it’s kind of like when web developers finally were able to stop supporting IE9 - it wasn’t big for end users, but holy hell did the job get more enjoyable, faster and also cheaper.

Sorry but EU is neither a lapdog nor responsible for the disaster you voted for. We aren’t really asking for much these days, either. Business is good and new deals with China are boosting the economy.

Warnings on tobacco have done nothing, rising prices have. Noone I know pays any attention to the actual cancer lung imagea on the packs.

It’s there, but I don’t actually see it apart from maybe once a month.

In case this is not common, that’s a 18 cig Marlboro Red pack and it costs 11.50EUR

The day is the day when pigs go out to slaughter 😅

The intention all along was to destabilise and buy time. With enough time, the US military enterprise machine is able to produce and develop arms that maximise profit, and destruction, driving the US economy up.

It’s not dissimilar to what Russia is doing, except there are middlemen to ensure whitewashing is easier.

But it’s just a guess!

I’m pretty sure you don’t

I give it 3-5 years, max.

I really don’t see Russia having a chance against us (Finland), in any short term conflict. We’re currently closing in to 900 000 troops in reserve.

Other Baltic countries withdrew from the Ottawa deal too, which means mines, mines, mines.

If the Russians can’t breach Ukraine, they sure as hell won’t breach the Baltics while simultaneously fighting Ukraine.

Edit: I just realized we aren’t considered Baltic these days, even though we were referred as such historically (ww1&2 times).

Even the models that pretend to be AGI are not. It’s been proven.

It works like this: they say they will wote your choice if you vote theirs. Then both of you end up voting an orange ape.

True, but I’ve been couch-cooping them only recently.

I guess his premise, that it’s for edgy teens. Heck, half the pop references were ancient on launch.

Got to argue, I’m a 39 year old gamer, started with PCs back in 90s.

The games are casual fun, they work great as co-op shooters. Story is what it is, but the games themselves are lighthearted and just pure entertaining fun.

Not masterpieces. Just good.

Apart from the politics, the Borderlands games themselves are hardly utter shit for the most part.

I’ve yet to stream a game from a device to another without being annoyed by latency and compression artifacts.

It’s been ok enough for games like Civilization etc. but generally it’s just shit. The hardware just isn’t there yet.

“Secretly”

The fuck, man?

On the other hand I can now do things I couldn’t before, so it’s a double edged shotgun.