isn't it weird how newer games manage to look more realistic than older ones? - GST Channel [5:32] (www.youtube.com)
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Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca on 03 Nov 2023 15:14 +0000 next

No?

Isn’t it weird that newer cars are more efficient then older ones?

Isn’t it weird that newer houses have better insulation/R value then older ones?

echo64@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 15:31 +0000

I know you are just responding to this as a comment, but really the entire video is about this. It’s not a question you are supposed to answer, it’s just a title to play with ideas.

it’s a short video, and I enjoyed it, it’s worth watching.

Number1SummerJam@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 17:02 +0000 next

Isn’t it weird how water is wet?

vale@sh.itjust.works on 03 Nov 2023 20:18 +0000

water isn’t wet though

Tattorack@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 22:09 +0000

Yes, water is wet.

vale@sh.itjust.works on 06 Nov 2023 00:04 +0000

How so? the definition of wet is “being covered or saturated with water or another liquid.”

If you pour water on the floor means the floor is now wet, but removing the water will make the floor dry. Putting water on water doesn’t make it wet, it’s just more water. Likewise, removing water from water doesn’t make the water drier.

Water is wet.

ha, next you’re gonna tell me that birds are real too

Tattorack@lemmy.world on 06 Nov 2023 00:30 +0000

Water is covering and saturating itself. Therefor water is wet.

NabeGewell@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 17:13 +0000 next

I don’t believe you.

just_another_person@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 19:40 +0000 next

Wot

Harvey656@lemmy.world on 03 Nov 2023 21:21 +0000 next

Solid video, think the title will confuse commenter here tho.

xyzzy@lemm.ee on 04 Nov 2023 00:17 +0000 next

It’s an interesting video, I suppose more so if you didn’t experience game history in real time like those of us who did. No one ever thought Half-Life looked real. But wow, if you experienced games starting with text only and colored squares like I did, each new capability was incredible.

In Zork, you were wondering around an entire dungeon, simulated in text. Anything was possible!

Then a game like Ultima VII came around. The world was so huge, and it felt like a whole world where I could do anything. It was to me how Skyrim was in its time.

Ultima Underworld (or Wolfenstein 3-D or Doom for most people) felt incredible because it was movement in a 3D space, but without step transitions like the earlier dungeon games. When I walk, I actually see my movement in real time!

Each step was bringing us closer and closer to reality, and when you get to a game like Half-Life, where it feels like a small section of a world was being faithfully simulated, it was incredible.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world on 04 Nov 2023 02:02 +0000

It’s an interesting video, I suppose more so if you didn’t experience game history in real time like those of us who did. No one ever thought Half-Life looked real. But wow, if you experienced games starting with text only and colored squares like I did, each new capability was incredible.

Nobody thought that it looked real, but people were impressed that it could represent reality. Five years before Half Life the most cutting-edge FPS couldn’t do slanted floors or have one room on top of another, and every enemy was a 2D sprite shown from eight different angles. Two years before Half Life the cutting edge was the muddy brown abstract fantasy environments of Quake. There’d been attempts to represent realistic environments in Build-engine games, but they had their own sets of limitations. Half Life was one of the first times that we had a 3D game where things just looked like the things they looked like. You’d never mistake them for the real thing, but you could easily tell at a glance what they were supposed to be, which wasn’t the case only a short time before.

xyzzy@lemm.ee on 04 Nov 2023 02:34 +0000

Exactly, every couple of years there was another big leap in verisimilitude.

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