Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Ralizah I guess the other ten percent are the Witcher 3 evangelists.

Indeed, 4k is on the verge of human eye effective resolution. I have seen, however, some new TVs with a resolution advertised as 8k. Now, while one may argue that 4k makes sense, 8k indeed does not have any merit, other than bragging rights

@HobbitGamer Where do you keep a 65 inch TV? Mine is 50 and barely fits. 0_o

@Therad I can tell 4k is a resolution PR stunt. There IS a difference but I'm also within SNES Classic controller cord range of the thing...

I would try HDR...if my GPU had the bandwidth. Its only a little 970. Amazed it can get DOOM at max settings above 30fps. Yet it struggles with Fortnite.

I want to see how much of an impact HDR will make on my colour blindness, hence my hunt for a PS4 Pro.

@YessMasster 4K can make sense, but for the common living room, it will be impossible to see individual pixels unless you have an insane size. They are putting better panels and tech in 4Ks, so they are not worthless outside resolutions. If you want to have the full benefit you probably needs to refurnish or buy a bigger TV. I also wonder where people will find 8K material, it is still not super-easy to find good 4K material. Maybe with a PC, but you would get a better picture if you used the extra horsepower to details and framerate.

@Knuckles-Fajita well according to that Sony article, your cord should have plenty of slack.
HDR is a better use of horsepower than pixel count. You could test it with a lower resolution.

I personally feel discussions becomes disjointed if you can't see all posts. You can ignore people without using an external tool you know.

Ignoring is good to have as an option, but I've found there'll always be at least one user not ignoring and instead actively feeding the trolls, at which point the thread is dragged down anyway and I'm just getting a disjointed version. I try and purge my ignore list every few months in the hope they've cleared off or changed their habits.

@Knuckles-Fajita My house has a long rectangular living room 😂

@Octane Nah, I try to respect other peoples' religious beliefs.

@HobbitGamer Ah that's good. I got worried. My room isn't as big sadly...

@Therad My GPU is flat out incompatible with HDR sadly. Well, it's not, but it lacks something to make it work. Nvidia is weird. If it was a 10 series card I'd have no issue

@Ralizah I've actually played all 3 at one point but I've only finished 1 and that was 14 years or so ago. Zero I chipped away at a lot of it but never finished it. 4 i didn't buy yet but I have it om gc If i ever want to go back and play it. I wasn't crazy about it honestly so I didn't want to get it just yet..

@Knuckles-Fajita Strange, I am quite sure it should work on the 9xx series. Some hidden setting?

@Ralizah even pikmin zealots?

@Knuckles-Fajita I sometimes wonder if I would not have grown to hate PC gaming had I chosen Team ATI instead of Team nVidia in the early days.......

Those should be banned imo.

I can assure you that would had been worse.

@NEStalgia I'm fine on the Nvidia/Intel side of things. I favour the lower power draw for performance.

I always say, I'd take optimal over excess.

@Therad Maybe. Could also be an issue with Windows 10.

@Octane Pikmin Zealots are just slightly eccentric. They should be given their freedom of worship so long as they're kept outside the normal society. Like Amish.

The Smash Zealots however are a dangerous cult, and I feel like UN intervention may be required.

@NEStalgia Kept out of normal society, huh?

It's not uncommon in rural Tennessee to see people dressed like pilgrims ride their horse-drawn buggy to their local Walmart. Although I'm pretty sure those are Mennonites.

@Ralizah Well, Amish and Mennonites are cut from the same cloth, though the whole attire sounds much more Amish, but if Mennonites, they're certainly much more part of normal society. The Amish still run mostly off the electrical grid entirely. Though it's sad seeing even their customs eroded continuously.

@NEStalgia At least Pikmin zealots believe in something fictional, so they're not really a threat.

@NEStalgia I thought Amish at first because of the clothing. But they're buying stuff at Walmart and are participating in modern society.

There's no escape from the gravitational pull of modern corporation-driven society, I guess. And that always leads to social homogenization. We're always inching closer toward National ID cards and a makeshift social credit system that punished wrongthink. Which is OK, because you're just going to go have lunch at McDonalds before watching the next Disney blockbuster, anyway.

I'd say the opposite. Mass conflicts are almost always ostensibly on behalf of something fictional, be it a fictional conception of the State as an entity that requires protecting, or a fictional, and almost mythical, conception of race, or any of the huge numbers of religious conflicts throughout history. Even war on behalf of protecting human rights is in the service of a fiction.

I guess you could point out that most of these conflicts are ACTUALLY about consolidation of control and resource acquisition, but if people really understood this in all its nakedness, there wouldn't be a lot of soldiers willing to fight and die for these conflicts.

It could be said that, at bottom, all meaningful human lives are oriented around and driven by service to the fictional. What are we left with otherwise? Sex, reproduction, labor, consumption, distraction, and death.