We agree there’d be some graphical compromise, maybe we’re just disagreeing over details of the scale of that compromise and the hardware that would be ‘permittable’ by this scenario.

I was imagining something that looks and plays almost exactly like Witcher 3 except at lower resolution, which doesn’t seem possible to me. I’d say if you simplify the graphics (replace dynamic lighting with pre-baked lightmaps, do gouraud shading instead of PBR, remove most post-processing effects etc etc) and make all models look like half-life assets, you could definitely render something at an acceptable frame rate. However asset streaming would still be a huge issue for a large and detailed open world like Witcher 3, considering memory limits and slow disk reads

In my experience writing straightforward C code is gonna give you basically the same thing as well-written asm would. I’m not saying modern compilers are perfect but they generally do the right thing (or it’s very easy to coax then into doing the right thing). They usually vectorize properly, they know how to avoid obvious pipeline stalls etc. These days order of magnitude performance improvements generally don’t come from hand-written assembly but from using better algorithms and data structures

Also you could look at what games of that era actually looked like. Something like Quake 2 already pushed contemporary hardware to it’s limits and I wouldn’t argue it’s a poorly optimized game

I’d say two things:

1. Modern compilers are way better at generating code than they were in the 90s so hand-rolled assembly is not that useful anymore

2. Vast majority of frame time in a game like Witcher 3 comes from rendering, not gameplay code and you can’t really write rendering code in asm since GPU vendors don’t allow you to program their hardware directly. Also running it on a 25 year old GPU would require way more compromises than just lower resolution because 98 era GPUs don’t even have basic things like vertex buffers or programmable shaders

I think you could make Witcher 3 run on a computer from 2008 if you optimize it properly but that’s about it

still a very prevalent myth for some reason. Most US military recruits actually come from the middle class: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/demographics-us-military

DeepSeek situation just got worse

DeepSeek situation is insane

did you fuck a computer?

the only real difference is that she didn’t do a sieg heil after saying all this

That’s how much coke I drink in a year

Stander-in-chief o7

I wonder what that could look like? I’m imagining some king of collectathon but I doubt a big company would want to make something like that these days (and you need a big company on board to get amphibia licence)

Would be nice to see another good Total War game again even though I’ve almost completely lost hope for the series. It’s been 13 years since fall of the samurai and it’s all been downhill from there

Also another command and conquer game please

A web browser

because I disabled the bots for non-local users

the citations needed host?

I’ve heard some neo-nazi apologists calling it the “roman salute”

I would say it is as bad as ChatGPT. I tried it (asked it some questions on physics, computer science and software development) and it’s only capable of providing either wrong or very surface-level explanations on everything. Still haven’t been able to find a valid use-case for LLMs

you guys compared him to adolf hitler

also

middle class

I don’t want to see a peaceful transfer of power ever again

It can’t be more joever than this, can it?