Well there’s a focus on American events, American billionaires, and the distinctly American flavour of extreme policing

A lot of people are against it because they see it as the first step towards evil, but I still think we should have some sort of recommendation algorithm. New content discovery on Lemmy is way too manual for normies like me.

The sign-up process should be streamlined. It’s really intimidating to have to choose an instance when you don’t even understand what the heck that is. And then there’s the manual account validation. I’m not sure what the solution is but we might want to find one.

And we need to do something about the extremists. They have a right to exist, but the abnormally high prevalence of American-coded communist/anarcho-communist content that just casually talks about executing the rich and the like is weird and intimidating even to me, a decidedly left-wing person. Americans, who are famously doubtful of communism, probably run away from the platform seeing that. And as for non-Americans… Well the proportion of content that’s specifically about American politics is even higher than on Reddit, which is saying something.

Huh. Thanks for the tip. I’ll give it a try the next time I play.

There’s no option named variable refresh rate. But there is one called Adaptive sync. It’s set to Always.

If VRR can’t work in borderless windowed mode, I guess I’ll have to give up on it for this game. Because I get distracting frame drops without Frame Gen. A bit unfortunate I’d have performance compromises with my brand new graphics card, but I heard this is normal for UE5 games.

Wait, so that means FreeSync would NOT have worked, since it doesn’t now?

Good to know. Though to be honest, probably because it’s 1. a turn-based game, 2. one I’m playing on a wireless controller, I’m not noticing it.

So I guess even V-Sync is fine for this game. But it’s this were a more latency-sensitive game, it might’ve been annoying.

What should I have done then?

Would exclusive full screen have been fine?

More focus on open-world titles and games as a service? Every time I think they’ve hit the bottom, they manage to dig deeper.

I don’t know why it bothers me so much that the insides of their mouths are the same color as their skin or beard

How do you do another level?

Stabbed? Damn, I thought it was just about getting punched. It’s a lot worse than I thought.

Maybe there should be a mechanism for merging communities across instances.

If two communities set out with the same goal in a community and one of them didn’t get very popular, wouldn’t it be nice if they could come to an agreement to merge the communities and share the hosting burden?

I wish it were true, but no, not really.

Because my PC is an entertainment box. I don’t want to turn it into a problem to solve.

Also, Nvidia.

I honestly haven’t watched a lot of non-dubbed content in a while, considering my mom moved in with me and she doesn’t tolerate other languages.

But my ears aren’t very sharp, so I can’t tell what’s a good mix. I’ll be honest with you, I may own a decent pair wired earbuds, unless it’s classical music, I can’t hear much difference between music qualities.

Bad color or motion handling on a TV, though, that’s an instant cringe for me.

Tbh if you only have the budget for one mix, it should be the mainstream one for 90% of viewers. If the producers wanna be artsy, go ahead, include an artsy mix with the BluRay or something.

Imagine if they did something as extreme as they do to movies with music. You basically only hear the bass and the lyrics are incomprehensible unless you have an expensive sound system? Sheesh.

By the way, normal people like me don’t even know what a compressor is. To me, even the hassle of having a speaker outside of my TV isn’t worth it. Most people are like this.

That should be optional. I don’t wish to be “immersed”. I just wanna see the story. Sure, make the “extreme” experience a possibility for those with a taste for the subtle things in the art or whatever, but don’t push it onto all of us.

Because ANYTIME there are sounds that are way louder than dialogues, of course I’m gonna reach for the remote, because holy shit.

Plus, that idea of dynamic range is what allows ads to be so damn loud compared to everything else.

Imma be honest, I don’t see why the explosion should be louder than speech. I can see the boom; I can tell that it’s an explosion. It doesn’t need to be reinforced to be through volume.

I hate audio dynamic range. And i also hate how they don’t ensure dialogue is audible over other noises unless it’s dubbed.

This last one is so bad that I basically don’t watch any American content in the original language anymore, because the French dub has clear voices and doesn’t force me to use subtitles. So ridiculous.

On one hand, that’s handy.

On the other hand, that’s so much ewaste…

And I guess they really care about cost too, because if they wanted it as easy as possible, it would have a treadmill and a box with a 360° barcode scanner or something and the person could be spared from the whole bagging area thing.

But yeah, that simplification and accessibility ends up being what alienates me because of how significant it is. Hopefully there are enough of us that they’ll keep some cashiers around.