Coelacanth
Living fossil.
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Are games bad or limited because of poor graphics? No. Are games better if they have great graphics? Not really.
Depends on how you define “great”. I’ve definitely played games before where the art direction and general visual artistry was a huge part of the selling point. But that doesn’t have to be photorealistic - “great graphics” can be something like pixel art majesty (CF: REPLACED).
That being said, some games are certainly elevated by incredible photorealistic visuals. Bodycam has basically built a whole premise on it, and it would certainly be a lesser game without its graphics.
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Gaming@lemmy.ml•Which is your favorite Sid Meier's Civilization game? (Poll)
4·2 days agoThere are ways to get around the auto update, but those are also futzy. I agree that this is one of the few complaints about Steam that I have.
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Gaming@lemmy.ml•Which is your favorite Sid Meier's Civilization game? (Poll)
4·2 days agoI used Steam Depot to rollback RDR2 in order to make a mod work about 2 years ago. If nothing has changed it should still work, although it is admittedly more fussy than version rollback on GOG.
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Gaming@lemmy.ml•Which is your favorite Sid Meier's Civilization game? (Poll)
3·2 days agoCan’t you use Steam Depot to download older versions? It’s been a minute since I futzed with it.
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Gaming@lemmy.ml•Which is your favorite Sid Meier's Civilization game? (Poll)
2·2 days agoI’m pretty sure you can rollback game versions on Steam too.
Han kanske tänker på gamla bangers som Gilbert Och Den Kemystiska Ön
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Sync for Lemmy@lemmy.world•Any Lemmy android client that handles videos/gifs like Sync for Lemmy?English
4·3 days agoI landed on Summit after getting fed up with Sync being abandoned and broken. For me it’s the best app by far.
Jag är alltid för att spela spel som utspelar sig någonstans på det “inhemska” språket och med engelska undertexter, om möjligt. Så jag spelade Blasphemous med spanskt tal och Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 med franskt, till exempel. Men tyvärr verkar jag vara i en minoritet där. Håller helt med om att Eriksholm med svenska röster hade varit en kanongrej för inlevelse, men tyvärr från vad jag har sett så hatar majoriteten av världen att läsa undertexter, så de vill alltid ha röster på ett språk de förstår. Och i brist på internationellt intresse tror jag det är allt för dyrt att bekosta inspelning av svenskt tal enbart för den pyttelilla inhemska marknaden.
Sverige är en minimal marknad, och i princip varenda svensk talar engelska flytande ändå. Om du är en spelutvecklare, varför investera enorma mängder pengar på svensk lokalisering när det i praktiken är pengar i sjön.
Och jag vet inget. Jag var väldigt besviken på att Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream inte hade svenska röster. Det vore en perfekt tillämpning för inlevelse, men jag antar att alla engelsktalande länder är så usla på att läsa undertexter att det, igen, mest vore pengar i sjön.
If you check out the community here it’s actually surprisingly active. Besides getting spoiled if you can’t watch live, it’s a nice community - way more active than [email protected] surprisingly. Even [email protected] has some activity.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Are we likely to see another large-scare exodus to the Threadiverse as reddit begins rolling out age-verification worldwide?English
12·4 days agoPeople have been using Threadiverse to refer to the link-aggregating community based Fediverse platforms with threaded discussion topics for way longer than Threads has existed as a website.
If you can come up with a catchier alternative then go for it. Link-aggregator-verse doesn’t really roll off the tongue.
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Formula 1@lemmy.world•2026 Italian Grand Prix - [POST RACE] discussion thread 🏁
2·4 days agoI too was fooled but, in fairness around the time of the engine upgrade last race Honda were talking about Next YearTM, and it seems maybe there was a reason for it. This should be Aston’s worst track of the year (although I can’t imagine Baku being happy fun times for them either), but I would not expect miracles this season. Maybe another points finish, if we’re lucky.
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PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•I've found DLSS 5 can slash frame rates by up to 73% on an RTX 5080 gaming PC in NBA 2K27, and I'm wondering what kind of mega-rig would justify the performance hitEnglish
16·4 days agoDLSS 5 (slop filter) you mean? Because the regular old upscaling DLSS doesn’t really produce uncanny valley stuff. Only artifacts, and mostly on presets like Performance or Ultra Performance.
And I do also agree about RT. Cyberpunk and Alan Wake 2 both had great visually impactful ray tracing and GTA 6 (as much as it pains me to say it) looks like a fantastic showcase of real-time lighting.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Are we likely to see another large-scare exodus to the Threadiverse as reddit begins rolling out age-verification worldwide?English
67·4 days agoThey’re doing the double whammy. Mandatory sign-in (even on old.reddit) and any account they can’t estimate as belonging to an adult through their use of invasive spy metrics and AI will be forced to do age verification.
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Formula 1@lemmy.world•2026 Italian Grand Prix - [POST RACE] discussion thread 🏁
5·4 days agoAnd the Aston Martin magic they had at Zandvoort seems to have already faded out, back to your regular backmarker racing.
Zandvoort is a downforce track where the chassis is the most important, almost a Monaco light. It seems their chassis is alright after the post-summer break upgrades. Monza meanwhile is a power track. Around 80% full throttle and testing mostly the engine. Unsurprisingly Aston suffers here as the Honda PU is still a train wreck. In fact, I saw some measurements that the Aston was embarrassingly close to F3 top speeds here at Monza this year, let alone F2.
This subject comes up a few times a year and always leads to a big unnecessary fight in the community. We’ve had multiple votes on it already. It’s close, but last time a majority of the community voted in favour of having spoiler posts. It is what it is. It sucks having to employ a total media blackout on days you can’t watch a race live, but it’s just one of those things.
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Patient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•Sell a !patientgamers reader on your favorite patient gameEnglish
3·4 days agoI was about to instantly wishlist this until I heard Capcom went and added Enigma DRM to it eight years after the release.
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Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc. @sh.itjust.works•Theophile Roederer & Co Champagne (1897)English
8·5 days agoI think Mucha started his theater posters at the end of 1894, so this is probably a sign of his influence already.
His other work beside the Art Noveau posters is brilliant too, though. Both Le Pater and The Slav Epic have some great works in them.












I wasn’t commenting on the DLSS 5 slop filter here, only on the general question “do ‘great’ graphics matter in a game”. I agree that slopifying a game takes you further away from the intended art direction, which I’m not a fan of.
And whatever the mechanical premise of the actual gameplay of Bodycam, the impact of it would be much less with stylized Fortnite cartoon graphics as opposed to the current photorealistic presentation. That’s all.