Started playing a game called Yomawari night with my partner.
I expected a kind of cute anime game. It's actually quite horrifying.
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I was just coming here to post this 
There's a video now :
I started watching third rock from the sun on amazon again lately. Last time I saw it was 20 years ago.
I'm finding it way more hilarious but I think that's because I'm older now and I find dad jokes way funnier. The true sign of aging....
Quote from RaVaGe1 hour ago, RaVaGe said: Well i'm all for taking precautions, but look at the statistics, 15-44 years deaths are only 1-2% from the people who died from covid.
I just don't see what's the point of blocking the people who are working while the only people who should be extremely carefull are the one retired already.
That's all the experts are really asking. Take the recommended simple precautions.
No research/advisory group in a professional qualified capacity and in a position of power has advocated a lockdown that I know of. The only case of increased sanctions I can see is for areas that flaunted the original guidance. Even in that case, the people ordering these mandates aren't WHO/CDC/Etc. It's the people originally who flaunted expert advice and suffered the subsequent outbreaks (for example, the governor of texas).
In regards to your statistics. I don't really want to get into that too much but I want to make the point the real debate is far more nuanced than a simple 1-2% death statistic for a certain age group.
It would be cool to see the sony dev tools even better integrated with Unreal (specifically their file system overlay stuff, makes development so much smoother when you don't have to redeploy the entire game to test something).
Actually it's been a couple years since I work on PS4. Maybe that feature already exists..
If anyone interested, the person behind the micro-geometry technology has been keeping a blog about rendering research for like 10 years now. Some is a little technical but overall it's quite accessible.
Dude this is gorgeous work.
EDIT : I shouldn't have shown this to my partner. Now we're having furniture/renovation conversations
Quote from RaVaGe6 hours ago, RaVaGe said: So in your logic, if elderly people can't go out -> then nobody can.
I'm all for social distancing, being pretty carefull with handwashing etc (masks aren't used properly so they're a bit useless except in some situations).
But I don't believe that you understand the economical realities behind shuting down entire countries, just look at what central banks have been puting on the table to keep the whole system afloat. It is just not sustainable over a long term period.
First I want to say that I believe you are misinterpreting the OP's comment (correct me if I'm wrong OP). Saying that you disagree with Sweden fully opening doesn't implicitly also say you believe the opposite extreme : that the solution is to fully shut down. The issue is they are acting like the virus doesn't exist and with that ignoring the medical expert community wrt to wearing masks, taking extra precautions if you run a business with a high risk such as a restaurant or amusement park etc etc. EDIT: This is what I've heard from talking to some people in Sweden in the last couple weeks, Swedes, feel free to chime in 
Second counter-argument is that not taking precautions can potentially be worse economically than taking the advice of the medical community if too many people get sick then collapse the healthcare sector or can't work. In the case of scandanavia the results so far are that Sweden has seen no economic advantage for being open over its neighbors who have taken a more stern approach.
Ultimately with to the amount of discourse and varying opinions no one knows the answer. Although it's starting to look like there's a possibility we'll be able to compare the results of ignoring the medical communities advice vs taking precautions in the near future if things keeps spreading like they are now in some of the southern states in the US.
19 hours ago, [HP] said: u even 30 yet?
This reminds me, how heavy is the Index? Is it lighter than the quest? More importantly is the weight more evenly distributed?
Google earth has some pretty cool VR specific stuff.
Besides that I like a lot of those art programs. There is one that's like a kind of stripped down ZBrush for Oculus. I can't remember the name though. It was super cool though!
Addicted to Nioh2. So far it's my game of the year.
You know how often games look worse than you remember. XIII looks BETTER than I remember.
I also think the remake is moving too far away from the originals visuals.
I may have posted this before but as someone who had to write streaming installers for open world games this harddrive tech is so amazing for me. It would have made something that took me months to do a trivial problem. If I can program a loader system for a game assuming that the PS5's harddrive is the lowest common denominator I can't tell you how much that would make my job easier.
The only other thing I would like to see in a console is having one of the processor cores clocked WAY higher than the other cores. This would probably help a lot of smaller indie teams because there's always a cost to properly parallelizing a game/game engine. It would also help AAA developers because ultimately it's a time sink properly parallelizing various subsystems.
Quote from blackdogOn 6/6/2020 at 12:50 AM, blackdog said: Very interesting @AlexM, and those numbers are impressive, I would think that without the right weight and pushback/resistance caused by real human flesh/bone, the best improvement you would have is just knowledge.
Also I imagine at some point this will be the way all operations will be conducted, I mean surgical robot arms controlled from the room next door (or maybe the other side of the continent!)
The lack of proper resistance is one of the biggest problems. There is hardware out there that helps alleviate the problem but it's far from ideal. Here's an example : https://haptx.com/
In some countries that typically cremate their dead it can be extremely difficult to procure practice bodies. So hard that sometimes a surgeon performs their first surgery on a living patient. In those cases you could say that VR training is better than no training. Of course I'm no medical professional so take my opinion as such
On 6/6/2020 at 1:15 AM, [HP] said: Dude, this is some legit badassery right here. Talk about stuff that's going to better the human race.
Do you think that VR allowing for the opportunity to explore fields like these is exactly the kind of stuff that will make it explode?
Something tells me that video games might not actually be what makes VR popular, and widely used, it'll be more utilitarian stuff like this. Like your phone, it plays games sure, some of them even really good but you don't really use it for that, mainly.
I definitely do feel VR is more suited for non-gaming stuff than gaming stuff. I often play games for more than 30 mins at a time and that's just too long to wear a headset. Also a lot of games I don't feel are necessarily better in VR. It's kind of like going to an amusement park. You love the rollercoaster but you don't want that rollercoaster in your back yard every day of your life, it loses its appeal. I think just about every experience I've enjoyed the most in VR were not games (painting, meeting, google earth, etc etc).
In the case of training or an online meeting you most likely won't be spending large amount of time with the headset mounted so it certainly feels like the better direction for VR.
One other thing to note is the current hardware also is just too bulky for the mainstream IMO. Especially for non-tethered solutions. I'm looking forward to when they can get a headset that has a comparable feel to a pair of glasses and has no cables or computer required. To get there ARM or someone else really has to push a lot harder on mobile processors, they have been stagnating the last few years. Apple seems to the only company really making moves on that front that I know of.
Oh man, I've had to watch so much surgery footage as research. At first I could barely watch and now I can eat a hamburger while watching most surgery. Unless they are pumping the patient full of saline, human water balloons still freak me out
I was lucky enough to be working on my home office for the previous year. Now I'm actually using it. I must say for my line of work WFH makes more sense. Ideally I'd go into the office once or twice a week for design meetings and my general sanity though.
Anywhoo. Epic just did a video on our company. We use the unreal engine.
Quote from WD2 hours ago, WD said: I kinda liked Witcher 3 from the very start since I knew what was coming for me from the previous games so I really can't tell where it starts getting awesome. But once after you start knotting the threads of the bigger plot line it really starts to get you more invested in it.
My friend also had the first impression of Witcher 3 of being not really his type of game but he said he really started to enjoy it after playing for a while. So I'd guess definitely once you get to the big city of Novigrad.
Thanks for the info. I had a co-worker tell me that I need to decide after novigrad. I will definitely go that far
Started the witcher3. It's cool but it's not really keeping my attention so far. Is there a point where it's supposed to hook you? I'm about 6 hours in.
Not to say it's a bad game in the slightest. If anything maybe I'm being too impatient.
My company is now working from home too.
So next week I'm going sans-public transit. Monday I will be walking about 25 km to work, school and then back home. That should be fun.
