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Kolanaki, do games w Why do modern strategy games hate the grid?
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Grids aren’t needed to get the same effect in a computer game. Also, when speaking about video games specifically, “grid based” combat has a bit of technical differences that you don’t necessarily want or need in a strategy game. It affects positioning and animations. It makes diagonal movement and height changes awkward. It makes sense when playing PnP and helping to visualize and handle rules. But when a computer is doing all that in the background, having the freedom of movement and the visuals match a more realistic way of traversing terrain is better.

I don’t really like grid-based movement in video games. It always feels weirder. It always shows how absurd some rules based on positioning are. It just sucks vs the more fluid style like BG3 has. Like, I love me some XCom, but I’ve played knock-offs that don’t use grids, and they feel way better.

Fleecer74, do piracy w Has anyone tried MovieBoxPro in Chromecast?

It has a android tv app, it’s like $20 a year for vip. I have an invite code if you want it

s08nlql9,

Yes sure, is there a free trial?

Keeboy, do piracy w What's the best way to rip music off Spotify so that I can store it on my HDD?

You can try Deemix but the project Is dead but it still works it takes Spotify Playlist finds the songs on deezer and downloads it what sometimes gives you higher quality music then Spotify

truffles, do bez_miesa w Jak ułożyć dietę bezmięsną?
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Polecam kanał Healthy Omnomnom na YouTube, nie trzeba kupować jadlospisów, z samych filmików można wyciągnąć sporo wiedzy i inspiracji do gotowania.

bodhisattva,

Super, wielkie dzięki

Keeboy, do piracy w Is movie-web down for anyone else?

Try vpns or other browsers but you can always just host it your self

Anticorp,

Is there a git repo for the code?

YawningBikini, do piracy w Visions of a larger plunder
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Closed-source AI models, huh? The only thing that comes to mind is NovelAI's model leak, and the leaker allegedly burnt a 0-day exploit to do it.

db0, do piracy w Visions of a larger plunder
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aldalire,

Woah, this is awesome work. I’m amazed as usual with the open source community and with people willing to share their computation for this.

erusuoyera, do piracy w best way to watch f1 on demand

Racereplay.net

Lord_Logjam, do xbox w What have you played on Gamepass last week? Any recommendations?

Hollow Knight. I replayed it over the last couple of weeks and it is such a masterpiece.

sylverstream,

I’ve tried it a couple of times based on all the raving reviews, but couldn’t stand the lack of checkpoints. Died against a boss about 5 times and had to walk all the way back from town was just very annoying and not relaxing to me. I don’t mind dying, eg I love Ori and don’t mind dying in hard section, as long as there are checkpoints.

Lord_Logjam,

The benches are checkpoints. Some of the bosses are quite far from a bench though admittedly.

overfox, do piracy w What's the best way to rip music off Spotify so that I can store it on my HDD?

Spytify works well. It works by recording the audio output of your pc while Spotify plays. It’ll produce audio files with all the song info filled in.

Can also detect and mute ads if you don’t have Spotify premium. If you do have it, you can also record with higher bitrate/quality.

MRPP, do gaming w Fighting game stick recommendations?

I have two Hori sticks, the RAP4 (modded) and fighting edge unmodded.

Both work great on pc and playstation. Hori at least had a switch stick, but not sure if any more. It was based on the RAP, which is a fine stick, even out of the box.

If you don’t have budget constraints, ordering a custom could work too, since you could get it to work on the switch and ps. I don’t think many sticks support both out of the box.

If you can leave the switch out, Qanba is real nice. Razer sticks are pretty cool too, very heavy and boxy, but I like that. And Hori is a bit more budget friendly.

The Nacon stick with Sanwa parts seems like a good deal too.

pewgar_seemsimandroid, do piracy w Visions of a larger plunder

hmm

OfficerBribe, do piracy w Whats your preferred codec?

x264 or x265, depends on release and availability. If x265 looks better than x264 then it is x265 for me. In some instances I have caught x264 looking better, although not often.

Virual, do piracy w Whats your preferred codec?

HEVC 10 bit in order to reduce banding for animation, especially during dark scenes. I know H264 Hi10 exists, but it has poor hardware support, so using HEVC 10 bit is the best option (I don’t own a single streaming device that supports HW accelerated Hi10, besides my PC). Also, an added benefit is reduced file size. I find that doing my own encodes is very rarely worth it, but when I do, I use FFmpeg in the CLI and not tdarr.

nix,
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Banding?

Virual,

Banding is that annoying color gradient you see sometimes in dark scenes.

Example

On the left is 8 bit and on the right is 10 bit.

argv_minus_one,

Hold up. That entire image is 8-bit. It’s a JPEG image. JPEG can’t encode more than 8 bits per channel. Nor can most displays, including mine, display more than 8 bits per channel. And yet the left half of your image exhibits far worse banding than the right half.

The left half looks more like 5 bits per channel rather than 8. You’d see that kind of banding in gradients back in the days of Windows 3.1, when 16-bit color was common. (16-bit color uses 5 bits each for red and blue, and 6 bits for green.)

Virual,

It’s an exaggerated example to demonstrate the concept of banding more clearly, not a technical breakdown.

argv_minus_one,

Then it should be marked as such. It’s highly misleading to anyone who doesn’t know better. Again, you’re demonstrating the difference between 5-bit and 8-bit color, not the difference between 8-bit and 10-bit color.

Virual,

The purpose of the comment is to demonstrate banding. The only reason I marked it in bits is to show how banding can be reduced in video encodes by increasing the bit depth, not the specifics depths itself, it’s not a technical write-up.

bouh, do games w Why do modern strategy games hate the grid?

The assertion is plain wrong. Some games don’t use grid, some do. There is no trend that I can see.

Solasta released an expansion this year and aow4 dropped in April iirc. There certainly are many others.

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