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Re: 20 years ago Far Cry was released

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Post by ametrau »

imiric wrote: post #28
neoromantique wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They unironically are, gaming is no longer a small nerd niche, but rather a mainstream activity.

Not sure if the original comment is sarcasm or not, but the current state of gaming is definitely worse than 20 years ago. Companies abuse the consumer with greedy monetization practices and intrusive DRM, hype-driven marketing tactics pushing pre-sales and then relying on years-long updates to align the product with what was advertised, online services that make games unplayable when they shut down, mobile gaming is…

It’s sarcasm.

Re: 20 years ago Far Cry was released

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Post by bravetraveler »

mattmanser wrote: post #30
bravetraveler wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC he had/has a talent for taking advantage of German media laws. He's made a lot of derivative things like this

It was a massive tax dodge. Because of German arts funding laws investors could make money even if the film flopped. https://www.cinemablend.com/features/Uwe-Boll-Money-Nothing-... They closed the loophole he was using in 2006.

Ah, thank you for the reminder!

Re: 20 years ago Far Cry was released

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Post by bionhoward »

In before, “Hey you, in the shirt!”

One thing which struck me at the time was the fierce competition between ATI and NVIDIA … Squinting at side by side aliasing comparisons in Far Cry and Doom 3. Now it doesn’t feel so competitive.

Feels bad for NVIDIA to have this same kind of ridiculous clause in the AI EULA, “ 9.12 Customer may not use the AI Products for the purpose of developing competing products or technologies or assisting a third party in such activities.” as OpenAI shamefully writes, and Anthropic. And Microsoft. And Inflection. And Google. If you can’t enforce a noncompete on your own employees, then it makes no sense to try to pull that stuff on customers. “Not for resale” is one thing, but “no competitive work based on this” is appallingly beyond. Literally only Mistral AI fixed the issue so far!

Name one great athlete who would have been equally skilled in a world with no competitors.

Re: 20 years ago Far Cry was released

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Post by kqr »

keyle wrote: post #2

I miss the days when the Internet just didn't have a long standing archive of reminders of how old I'm getting, every day. And somehow I don't feel like anything, but the absolute obvious, is any better.

I take the opposite perspective: I'm so glad I got the opportunity to see all these amazing things be conjured out of thin air in front of my eyes. I feel sorry for the younger people who missed it, and only get to view the end result we have today. (Of course, they will go on to see other fantastic things I will miss, but that's hopefully far into the future so I'm less concerned about that.)

(On the contrary, I feel sad when things I missed are brought up. There's a lot that happened technologically in the late '60s and through the '70s that I can only read about in history books.)

Re: 20 years ago Far Cry was released

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Post by kqr »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #25
keyle wrote: post #2

I miss the days when the Internet just didn't have a long standing archive of reminders of how old I'm getting, every day. And somehow I don't feel like anything, but the absolute obvious, is any better.

> And somehow I don't feel like anything, but the absolute obvious, is any better. I don't think it is either, speaking as someone who also started using the internet when hardly anyone was. I mean, if you think about it, human needs (even up to self-actualization) require just a modest amount of innovation. After that, it's just the trick that was invented at the turn of the 20th century with psychological manipulat…

On your second point, the book Camera Work contains lots of really good photography from the late 1800s and very early 1900s, before they had even really figured out what photography is.

Looking at how beautiful pictures they were able to make with potatoes helped me stop worrying so much about gear and technical perfection. (I mean, art is subjective, but this I would judge to be beautiful and yet I can almost count the pixe^wsilver grains: https://kurtgippert.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/018668_4.jp...)

(Playing really good old video games has the same effect for me except in that area.)

Re: 20 years ago Far Cry was released

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Post by rpastuszak »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #25
keyle wrote: post #2

I miss the days when the Internet just didn't have a long standing archive of reminders of how old I'm getting, every day. And somehow I don't feel like anything, but the absolute obvious, is any better.

> And somehow I don't feel like anything, but the absolute obvious, is any better. I don't think it is either, speaking as someone who also started using the internet when hardly anyone was. I mean, if you think about it, human needs (even up to self-actualization) require just a modest amount of innovation. After that, it's just the trick that was invented at the turn of the 20th century with psychological manipulat…

This reminds of of a quote by Zygmunt Bauman: https://untested.sonnet.io/Proteus+-+Uncertainty+is+the+only...

Re: 20 years ago Far Cry was released

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Post by alkonaut »

tutfbhuf wrote: post #14

I remember being a kid and wanting to play Far Cry in high quality when it came out. I did not have the money to buy the best graphics card to play it smoothly on high settings. So, I could either play it in low quality with something like 60 FPS or in high quality with something like 15 FPS. Of course, 15 FPS is not enough to play the game properly, but to capture all the beautiful details, I just went with the high…

Same. And 20 years later I'm an aging man but do the exact same thing in Cyberpunk 2077. Despite spending a small fortune on a graphics card, it's still either smooth framerate or the gorgeous path traced environments, because I haven't splurged on the 3090/4080 yet. Nothing has changed.

Re: 20 years ago Far Cry was released

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Post by mejutoco »

krylon wrote: post #8

At the time I installed Windows on a free partition on my desktop PC for the sole purpose of playing FarCry. It was great fun. The graphics blew me away. I watched the movie a few years later, it was ... not as good as the game. But movie adaptations of video games almost never are, Postal being a notable exception.

Scott Pilgrim vs the world is another good adaptation IMO.

Re: 20 years ago Far Cry was released

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Post by vouaobrasil »

rpastuszak wrote: post #37
vouaobrasil wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And somehow I don't feel like anything, but the absolute obvious, is any better. I don't think it is either, speaking as someone who also started using the internet when hardly anyone was. I mean, if you think about it, human needs (even up to self-actualization) require just a modest amount of innovation. After that, it's just the trick that was invented at the turn of the 20th century with psychological manipulat…

This reminds of of a quote by Zygmunt Bauman: https://untested.sonnet.io/Proteus+-+Uncertainty+is+the+only...

Indeed, a relevant quotation!
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