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CallateCoyote, do games w Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2?
@CallateCoyote@lemmy.world avatar

There’s some overlap in customers, sure but the vast majority of people who buy a Switch 2 aren’t the types who would buy a Deck. Switch 2 will sell tens of millions more units to a mainstream consumer. And that’s fine. Deck can still be a successful product in its own right as long as Valve is making a profit off of it through Steam software sales.

mesamunefire,

Yep they can both be in the same space.

x00z, do games w Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2?
@x00z@lemmy.world avatar

After playing tens of games on the Switch people might want to play the tens of thousands of games on Steam.

warm, do games w Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2?

No, they are successors.

bjoern_tantau, do games w Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2?
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

Betteridge wins again.

Handhelds are a niche in PC gaming. Especially in the whole gaming market.

ekZepp, do games w The Palworld dating sim was supposed to be a joke, but now it’s not
@ekZepp@lemmy.world avatar

Please, tell me it’s a late April’s fools.

Alabaster_Mango,
@Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca avatar

Eh, I say let the furries have their fun. Like, they’re going to do stuff like this anyway. Might as well sell it to them.

KoboldCoterie,
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social avatar

I think the trailer and Steam page makes it pretty clear that this isn’t just aimed at furries. Not that furries won’t jump on it - we will, but it’s not just for furries.

Alabaster_Mango,
@Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca avatar

Yeah, 100%. It’s just that usually when something like this gets a large-ish negative reaction it’s because people associate it with furries or some other “taboo” fetish/lifestyle.

I also find that furry stuff gets way more hate than it deserves (which is none hate). I say boo to that! So long as stuff is consensual and nobody gets hurt (who doesn’t want to, lookin’ at you BDSM), then let people enjoy things.

Side note: It’s hilarious how for years people were cheering on Captain Kirk for banging green alien chicks, but cat ears and a tail is a no-go. Cross-species stuff is cool so long as they’re from another planet? What if it was planet Yiff? On the topic of aliens, do we even know if Superman has a human-like penis? Maybe Kryptonians bust onto egg clutches, who’s to say?

Anywho, people are silly and really like policing other people’s likes.

tonytins,
@tonytins@pawb.social avatar

As the article points out, this was last year’s gag.

Coelacanth, do games w Magic: The Gathering devs unban cards as ‘an experiment’
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

I’ve almost completely stopped keeping up with M:TG these days. I used to be into it but it just feels like it’s completely jumped the shark these days.

dota__2,

so i sold out of mtg around covid and they started committing to “universe beyond”. but all signs point to their stupid shit being profitable for the time being. and the new UB stuff will now be going through standard will help their new player onboarding a bit.

Ashtear,

Lord of the Rings was massively successful, and I’ve been seeing even more buzz for Final Fantasy than there was LotR. Universes Beyond is certainly here to stay.

dota__2,

exactly. but you can’t just keep farming UB forever. you need to onboard them into the ecosystem and keep them hooked in. time will tell if these people only cared about their specific media or if enough latch on to mtg the game.

Coelacanth,
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

I enjoyed the early mythos of M:tG, but I already started losing interest when they went all Marvel with their whole Gatewatch thing.

Even though individual sets (like LOTR) have been well made and successful, the whole Universes Beyond thing just further dilutes the identity of Magic too much for me. I’m sick of endless exploitation of existing IPs from all over the entertainment business. I understand why they do it from a financial perspective, but it doesn’t appeal to me at all.

Add to that the endless garbage of Secret Lair drops like goddamn Spider-Man and SpongeBob and I think MTG just isn’t for me anymore.

rickyrigatoni, do games w Magic: The Gathering devs unban cards as ‘an experiment’

They should unban pot of greed.

lorty,
@lorty@lemmy.ml avatar

I genuinely think pot of greed wouldn’t even be that great

twilightwolf90, do games w Magic: The Gathering devs unban cards as ‘an experiment’

Honestly, as someone close to the game, it’s more of “we can’t make the casuals and competitive players happy while catering to collectors all at the same time” and Gavin is using Pauper to test something that has ramifications for the rest of the game.

But here’s the catch, Pauper has been incredible this whole time! These bans/unbans are dope! I think this will work and it does set the precedent for the idiot business people that you can manage a format independent of design teams and stockholders.

dota__2,

“close to the game” doesn’t know that this is definitely not the first time they’ve done this.

modern mind sculptor unbanned years ago and saw little play. SFM. more recently mox opal and splinter twin.

unbannings are just admitting that power creep has surpassed the level those cards were at previously.

twilightwolf90,

First time for a “trial unban” where they go back to the ban list if they don’t positively impact the format? Yes, this is the first time an official “trial” has occurred in the competitive history of the game. The only time they have come close to this was the original ban of High Tide when paper and online ban lists merged.

I’m not talking about unbans in general and neither is the article.

I concur that unbans are usually a reaction to power creep. However, Modern has always been a mismanaged format since it’s inception. The premise of banning the top decks so that Modern was different from “Old Extended” (because Extended at the time became a “Double long Standard” instead of a rotating Type 2 Format) damaged the genesis of the format, which inevitably led to Grixis Twin’s dominance. I do think the format back then could’ve benefitted from Fae/Sculpter/Thopter-Sword/Affinity being legal and providing variance.

dota__2,
Rhynoplaz, do games w Magic: The Gathering devs unban cards as ‘an experiment’

I have that card.

Are people still playing with Fallen Empires? That was almost 3 decades ago!

Also, what are the odds this is an April Fools joke?

tonytins,
@tonytins@pawb.social avatar

Nope. Was posted yesterday.

dota__2,

they’ve unbanned cards in the past. most recently(not in this ban/unbanning) mox opal and splinter twin in modern. SFM and mind sculptor were also unbanned years ago. unbanning cards is not unheard of.

kipo, do games w Magic: The Gathering devs unban cards as ‘an experiment’

I can’t tell if this is just Wizards of the Coast panicking and flailing because they are out of good ideas, or if they are actually carefully analyzing and re-evaluating older cards because the balance and synergy of the current cards allow for the use of these older cards without being game breaking.

killeronthecorner,
@killeronthecorner@lemmy.world avatar

They’ve been out of good ideas for years, not sure why they’d start panicking this far into the mediocrity

Yokozuna,
@Yokozuna@lemmy.world avatar

Hearthstone was doing this about a year ago when I quit. It was actually great for the game and really shook things up in the Wild format where you could play any set of cards. But Blizzard shit the bed on that one like usual, oh well.

atrielienz, (edited ) do games w Date Everything!’s latest datable object is a 20-sided die voiced by Matt Mercer

Not what I thought of when I read the words “date everything”.

jordanlund, do games w Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

“Even playing in HDR…”

Maybe that’s part of the problem? HDR implementation on my Samsung sets is garbage, I have to disable it to watch anything. Too bad too, because the picture is gorgeous without it.

HDR On:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/821b1f07-97e8-40e1-b359-8e399808f84b.jpeg

HDR Off:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f58e03df-143d-4374-9441-dd2bb607533f.jpeg

ka1ikasan,

Wow, the whole room becomes brighter with HDR off /s

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve been told HDR is not for bright rooms, you have to make everything dark…

Yeah…

CosmoNova,

Smart TV having absolutely horrible default settings and filters that ruin any viewing experience has little to do with HDR because the TV isn‘t even processing HDR images most of the time. That stuff is already mixed and there‘s not much any device can do to give you details in the darks and brights back. It‘s a much different story when you‘re actually processing real color information like in a video game. HDR should absolutely help you see in the dark here.

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

I WISH it was the default settings. I went through every calibration and firmware update I could find. Even the model specific calibrations on rtings.com. Nothing made a difference.

It appears to just be a flaw in Samsung’s implementation. After going through all the Samsung forum information, the only suggestion that’s guaranteed to work is “turn it off”.

Set #1:

www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/ks8000

Calibration:

www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/…/settings

Set #2:

www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/q800t-8k-qled

www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/…/settings

Lojcs, (edited )

I got a samsung monitor last year too (it was the cheapest hdr option and I keep seeing reddit praise them) and it has such a terrible hdr experience. When hdr is on either dark colors are light grayish, brights are too dark, darks are crushed, everything’s too bright or colors are over saturated. I’ve tried every combination of adjusting brightness / gamma from the screen and/or from kde but couldn’t figure out a simple way to easily turn down the brightness at night without some sort of image issue popping up. So recently I gave up and turned hdr off. Still can’t use the kde brightness slider without fucking up the image but at least the monitor’s brightness slider works now.

Also if there are very few bright areas on the screen it further decreases its overall screen brightness, which also affects color saturation bcz of course.

Also also just discovered freesync and vrr are two different toggles in two different menus for some fucking reason and if you only enable freesync like I did you get a flickering screen

I really wish there was a ‘no smart image fuckery’ toggle in the settings.

WolfLink, (edited )

I didn’t really understand the benefit of HDR until I got a monitor that actually supports it.

And I don’t mean simply can process the 10-bit color values, I mean has a peak brightness of at least 1000 nits.

That’s how they trick you. They make cheap monitors that can process the HDR signal and so have an “HDR” mode, and your computer will output an HDR signal, but at best it’s not really different from the non-HDR mode because the monitor can’t physically produce a high dynamic range image.

If you actually want to see an HDR difference, you need to get something like a 1000-nit OLED monitor (note that “LED” often just refers to an LCD monitor with an LED backlight). Something like one of these: www.displayninja.com/best-oled-monitor/

These aren’t cheap. I don’t think I’ve seen one for less than maybe $700. That’s how much it costs unfortunately. I wouldn’t trust a monitor that claims to be HDR for $300.

When you display an HDR signal on a non-HDR display, there are basically two ways to go about it: either you scale the peak brightness to fit within the display’s capabilities (resulting in a dark image like in OP’s example), or you let the peak brightness max out at the screen’s maximum (kinda “more correct” but may result in parts of the image looking “washed out”).

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

See my “set 2” links above. (at the time) $3,200 8K television, “If you want the brightest image possible, use the default Dynamic Mode settings with Local Dimming set to ‘High’, as we were able to get 1666 nits in the 10% peak window test.”

HDR still trash.

SkunkWorkz,

8K TVs are all LCD and $3200 is on the low end of 8K TVs. So yeah of course you’d get a trash image.

Lojcs, (edited )

Nope, it does have wide color gamut and high-ish brightness, wouldn’t buy unless reviews said it was ok. But it does some fuckery to the image I can only imagine could be to make non-hdr content pop on windows but ends up messing up the image coming from kde. I can set it up to look alright in either in a light or dark environment but the problem is I can’t quickly switch between them without fiddling with all the settings again.

Compared to my cooler master a grayscale gradient on it has a much sharper transition from crushed bright to gray but then gets darker much slower as well, to a point where unless a color is black it appears darker on the cm despite it having an ips screen. Said gray also shows up as huge and very noticable red green and blue bands on it, again unlike the cm which also has banding but at least the tones of gray are similiar.

Also unrelated but just noticed while testing the monitors, max sdr brightness slider of kde seems to have changed again. Hdr content gets darker on the last 200 nits while sdr gets brighter. Does anyone know anything about that? I don’t think that’s how it’s supposed to work

3 months edit: I might’ve been wrong about this. At the time I had both monitors connected to the motherboard (amd igpu) since the nvidia driver had washed out colors. Since the cooler master worked I assumed the amd drivers were fine. But a while back I ended up plugging both into the nvidia gpu and discovered that not only were the nvidia drivers fixed, but with it the Samsung didn’t have the weird brightness issue neither.

Edit edit: Even though the brightness is more manageable it’s still fucked. I’ve calibrated it with kde’s new screen calibration tool and according to it the brightness tops out at 250 nits. However it is advertised and benchmarked to go up to 600 and I’ve measured 800 ish using my phone sensor, and it looks much brighter than an sdr 200 nit monitor. Which makes me think even though it is receiving hdr signal, it doesn’t trust the signal to be actually hdr and maps sdr range to its full range instead; causing all kinds of image issues when the signal is actually hdr.

And just to make sure it’s not a linux issue I’ve tried it with windows 10 too. With amd gpu hdr immediately disables itself if you enable it and with nvidia gpu if you enable hdr all screens including ones not connected to it turn off and don’t work until you unplug the monitor and reboot. Cooler master just works

WolfLink,

Yeesh sounds like your monitors color output is badly calibrated :/. Fixing that requires an OS level calibration tool. I’ve only ever done this on macOS so I’m not sure where it is on Windows or Linux.

Also in general I wouldn’t use the non-hdr to hdr conversion features. Most of them aren’t very good. Also a lot of Linux distros don’t have HDR support (at least the one I’m using doesn’t).

False,

I turn off HDR whenever I can. I think it looks bad

EncryptKeeper,

It’s one of those things where it looks good where in like the case of a video game, the GAME’s implementation of it is good AND your Console/PCs implementation is good AND your TV/Monitor’s implementation is good. But like unless you’ve got semi-deep pockets, at least one of those probably isn’t good, and so the whole thing is a wash.

False,

Yeah, it’s very believable that the tech is finicky and it’s very easy for it to look bad.

phoenixz,

That’s so weird, HDR is supposed to do the exact opposite of this.

The again, Samsung… Don’t buy Samsung anymore, it’s been a trash brand for a long time now

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Yup, yup. Highly rated when I bought them, but in actual usage? Not so much.

Rob200, do games w Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode

You’l want to adjust, brightness, contrast and gamma of your screen.

sp3tr4l, do games w Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode

My guess (and this is a complete guess) is that they (Ubisoft) just assumed everyone has OLED TVs/Monitors.

Also, you’d want to re adjust the white balance level, or gamma levels/curve, probably not just the brightness.

BombOmOm, do games w Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows takes place in Japan circa 1579…300 years before the advent of the incandescent light bulb

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