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    AI Creates a Deep Fake of Steve Buscemi's Face on Jennifer Lawrence's Body

    Scary for so many reasons. Compression can be used so easily to make it difficult to tell where the fake begins and the real ends. Oh man think of the potential. But yes please, more of this.
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    Microsoft to Release a Disc-Less Xbox One in 2019 for $199 [RUMOR]

    This is the kind of thing Sony should've done with the PSvita and PSP. A way to redeem your physical games into digital copies to play on the Vita. Certainly kept me from being an early adopter of the machine with how the system is compatible with basically the entire library of PSP games. Only...
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    Real-Time Ray Tracing Is Enabled in Battlefield V

    At this point with how costly this is on performance for reflections. Why not just render reflections the old fashion way (render geometry twice,mirror it or whatever)? Surely it couldn't cost more than a ray traced version and it avoids having to clean it up with temporal filtering and won't...
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    Samsung Announces QLED 8K TV for Consumers

    What a joke. No upscaling will ever be good enough to replace native content. I'll be riding my 1080p TV into the ground as far as it can go. It really was a shame OLED never got to take off and develop more at 1080p.
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    NVIDIA RTX: Cinematic Real-Time Ray Tracing

    Looks decent until you notice the temporal filtering falling apart when the robot arms start moving rapidly and occluding other objects in screen space. (And this is with a static heavily scripted camera. With user control of the camera it will look so much worse) Amazes me they can't come up...
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    IBM Fired Me Because I’m Not a Millennial, Says Axed Cloud Sales Star

    Why keep the old experienced when you can hire the starry eyed naive young person at a fraction of the cost?
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    ArenaNet Fires Two Guild Wars 2 Writers over Twitter Exchange with YouTuber

    What's awful is the typical jump to the rescure sites like The Verge and Kotaku trying to spin the story in her favor. Blatantly leaving certain things out as they please. A good person would've realized after the guy apologized that it didn't have anything to do with gender and say something...
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    Three YouTube Stars Fall to Their Deaths at Waterfall in Canada

    I've slipped and fallen down a multi level waterfall/pooling system like this before. It's scary as all hell. I was lucky to survive that as a kid. Slipped on the rock climbing part of the way and I kept going all the way to the bottom.
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    Your 1440p Monitor Could Be Using a 4K Panel

    What 4k displays actually offer a real 4:1 point filtering upscale of 1080p to 4k? I don't know of any. Otherwise, despite the marketing speak it doesn't matter if it's an even number of pixels in vs out. The interpolation is still going to look bad no matter what. Unless you integer scale it...
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    HDR10+ Certification Begins This Month

    We don't need more HDR standards. We need better display technology. Real, true HDR displays. LCD technology is still stuck in the past and built off of the poor foundation they exist upon.
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    GameStop In Talks with Buyout Firms

    The quicker Gamestop dies, the better off we all are. Let the mom and pop shops rule the 2nd hand market. :p
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    Noctua Was the Only Hardware Company at Computex Totally Ignoring RGB

    Maybe this is why I want to keep buying their stuff! Why does everything have to have ugly neon random assortments of light colors?
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    Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy Rumored to Step Down This Fall

    Every new SW movie "ruined my childhood". There have been complaints of some kind since SW existed. The OT didnt' exist in a vacuum of perfection and all 100% positive reviews. People like to gloss over things depending on their memory of their childhood. You can't please everyone. Everyone...
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    Star Citizen’s $27,000 Bundle Raises Eyebrows

    Hardly a scam when it's actually finished. Sorry they are building something ambitious at their own pace rather than at the demands of others. That's what crowdfunding is supposed to be about. The freedom to build on their time and creative schedule without the demands of a corporate overlord...
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    PUBG Sues Fortnite

    Metal gear online 2 also had a neat game mode where the map constantly shrunk to force played closer together until it was tiny. All while stealthed too. Fun times
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    FCC Looks to Amazon and Ebay for Help

    Yes because eBay and Amazon are so good at curating their stores for illegal bootleg merch.
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    CliffyB's Fall

    You can't possibly make every game a hit. You take a risk and sometimes you fail. (Trying to make a competitive arena shooter that still has to compete with the likes of OW,CS,and other stuff. A tough market to crack. ) So what. Leave the guy be, he should just stop posting. Take time off,decide...
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    NVIDIA’s First 4K G-Sync HDR Monitor Is Available to Preorder for $2,000

    2000$ Phhhh sorry I laughed too hard at that. You can get an OLED for that much money. HDR display technology without per pixel control of lighting is a joke. Enjoy the artifacts. At 144hz I doubt it will be a fancy new panel either and will still only have a native contrast of maybe 1-2000:1
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    Walmart Selling Lots of Counterfeit Products

    Ironic considering the cries and litigation of ip infringement from Amazon on their self produced series for prime video. Then considering the products they sell that do the same thing or apps on their walled garden. It's only ok if they are the ones benefitting
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    Obsidian: RPG Genre Can’t Evolve Because Players Are “Resistant to Change”

    Bethesda is an example how not to do an rpg. Not a model for emulating. *shudder*
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    Universal Is Getting Set to Film New “Doom” Movie

    You won't be able to pull off Doom as a movie that pleases all the fans. I mean, aside from Doom 3, none of them really have terribly much plot. And Doom 3 is stretching it. Either way, I am a big fan of the first Doom movie, lot of Doom 3 vibes and enough doing it's own thing for me to really...
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    May Xbox Update Adds 120Hz Display Support

    Full advantage? Dafuq is the point when most games can barely hit 30FPS with stable performance? Few games target 60 and fewer hit it without issues. The X probably could hit 60FPS in a ton more games but developers won't for pedantic reasons like Desinty or simply to keep pursuing the status...
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    Scott Herkelman Confirms NVIDIA GPP Tactics

    Nvidia lies? Who's to say AMD isn't lying in that post just to make Nvidia look more guilty for good PR? Not saying it doesn't exist. But AMD could just as easily be lying about vendors coming to them telling them their biggest competitor is saying these things. (Because it's not like they have...
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    Playstation 5 Detail Rumor

    Maybe this will be the console that will finally get 16xAF in every game! (Because not even the XboneX doesn't even though it has a super fast GPU.). My expectations are low. VRR seems like a no brainer, because who doesn't like uneven image persistence. It fits right in line with developers...
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    Intel Finishes Spectre Patching, Some Older CPUs Not Included

    Still kicking x58 here, AND running windows 7 (for various reasons). Guess i'm doing a big no no.
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    CNET Tells Us High End VR is Dead

    My issue with VR mainly is with resolution and quality of the lenses being able to not show visible chromatic aberration. (Price doesn't matter to me. Here's a thing people, high quality = high cost. And rendering stuff that quickly, with that many pixels is not cheap.) Well that and the fact...
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    Tomb Raider Remasters Have Been Cancelled

    Lolwat "ensuring high quality" Have they seen the state of the existing TR releases? Wasn't this going to just be mods, not sold? If so then SE can fuck off. Who is going to be hurt by them releasing this? Literally no one. No one is going to confuse it in their right mind for an official...
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    Epic Games Demonstrates Real-Time Ray Tracing

    It would look good if the required temporal filtering and temporal AA didn't make it all look so splotchy. Look at her armor as high contrast reflections move across it, the filtering can't quite keep up and this is in a fixed controlled camera scenario. Also look at areas of the corridor as...
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    Steven Spielberg’s Halo TV Series May Begin Filming In Fall 2018

    Well they couldn't properly adapt The Fall of Reach book into a motion comic so I have little faith a TV series will be able to accomplish anything decent. Though I wish they would adapt that story again ,as the basis for a TV show or movie. Because it's perfectly ripe for one when done well.
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    Battlefield V Follows Call of Duty Back to World War II This Year

    Now we've hit full circle on they are out of ideas to recycle into yearly iterative junk. Because they can't stray too far from the proven money making gameplay formula.
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    PlayStation 5 Forecasted for 2020 Launch

    I have the lowest of low expectations. Especially after PS4Pathetic.
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    Samsung Will Not Revive OLED TVs

    If they have the near infinite contrast of an OLED and the viewing angles and fixes the issues of OLED . I'm game.
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    Nearly 6 Million 8K TVs to Ship in 2022

    Fucking pointless with a fixed resolution display. They are betting on gimmicks at this point instead of actually fixing display technology problems. And you can never upscale anything on par with displaying the content on a native res display as the content. There will never be enough true...
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    Best Buy to Pull CDs

    I still listen to CDs exclusively in my car along with my own digital collection. But I don't really listen to modern popular music either. Mostly soundtracks. To much homogeny in the toxic hits driven music industry where if you don't have hit singles then you aren't successful. Where musicians...
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    Steven Soderbergh Says He Only Wants to Use iPhones to Shoot Movies

    Don't forget the massive noise reduction and sharpening the processing does to make it all smudgy as f***. Unless he is shooting in raw(not possible with mobile video afik) or in prores.
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    8K TVs in 2018 but No Content till 2025

    Pretty fucking pointless. Let's improve display tech rather than resolution which isn't the issue right now. The vast majority of content is hyper compressed 2k (even be shows issues that 10bit 2k bds would benefit from)or less and will always be. Upscaling can never match native resolution...
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    Pop Music Now Sucks According to Science

    This doesn't really mean anything, because collaboration between writers and composers doesn't mean something is going to be designed by committee. Just another example of "In my time music was better because of [insert random reason here]".
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    Pop Music Now Sucks According to Science

    As is old pop music wasn't homogenous and repetitive. The entire music industry, with it's "Only hits are good music" nonsense it drives is the entire reason this happens. They go forward find the new trend, that becomes the target, next one. So on. It's been that way since there has been a...
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    New VESA Fully Open DisplayHDR Standards

    More accurate colors when no her tv hits anywhere near the 2020 targets? You know what would improve contrast? Better display technology. Current hdr sets still have the same basic problems as sdr displays. Nothing but Band-Aids to bigger problems. An sdr display with perfect contrast would...
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    Okami HD Will Be Locked at 30fps

    Sounds like they didn't want to spend the actual time it needed to get it right. It already ran at high res on PS3, so if they couldn't do it with minimal effort. Why bother. Their re-releases this gen have been exceptionally lazy and underwhelming. It's nice to get it at all (Much like DMC 1-3...
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