Still have it on android 15, Sony Xperia 1 V.

Uuh. That is exactly how games work.

And that’s completely normal. Every modern game has multiple versions of the same asset at various detail levels, all of which are used. And when you choose between “low, medium, high” that doesn’t mean there’s a giant pile of assets that go un-used. The game will use them all, rendering a different version of an asset depending on how close to something you are. The settings often just change how far away the game will render at the highest quality, before it starts to drop down to the lower LODs (level of detail).

That’s why the games aren’t much smaller on console, for exanple. They’re not including all the unnecessary assets for different graphics settings from PC. They are all part of how modern game work.

“Handling that in the code” would still involve storing it all somewhere after “generation”, same way shaders are better generated in advance, lest you get a stuttery mess.

And it isn’t how most game do things even today. Such code does not exist. Not yet at least. Human artists produce better results, and hence games ship with every version of every asset.

Finally automating this is what Unreals nanite system has only recently promised to do, but it has run into snags.

CSAM is against their terms of use. Afaik they remove it both using some automated systems, as well as manually.

Games can’t really compress their assets much.

Stuff like textures generally use a lossless bitmap format. The compression artefacts you get with lossy formats, while unnoticable to the human eye, can cause much more visible rendering artefacts once the game engine goes to calculate how light should interact with the material.

That’s not to say devs couldn’t be more efficient, but it does explain why games don’t really compress that well.

Aren’t a lot of the 2.5" ones already empty space?

How big, and how expensive, would a 3.5" SSD be, if it actually filled enough of the space with NAND chips for the form factor to be warranted?

I’m using a personal music library, built up and maintained over the years.

I host it using Jellyfin and access it using Symfonium on my phone. Performance is excellent.

That said, YT music seems to perform just as well, and is the only streaming service I’ve used on and off.

Ah. Beans.

These big companies don’t learn that fast.

The decisions to “invest” in these live service projects were made years ago, and execs are terminally allergic to pulling the plug on something once it’s a couple million deep.

They’re like cruise ships crashing into icebergs, except that once they set a course they aren’t set up to change it even if all the other ships start crashing and sinking.

Even in the most generous scenarios, cryopreservation of a person has to be done quickly, lest the brain decay.

Current methods cannot achieve it to begin with. Let alone once the person has been dead for days.

What do you mean “but”?

This doesn’t produce anything. It removes jobs instead of creating them. And by the end there is one less company in the system.

I wrote in response to you saying this is what they “should” be doing. That it would either work, or not.

But this is working sustainable businesses being butchered for their value on the meat market, rather than operated long term.

It most certainly isn’t what they “should” be doing.

If this is the best way to make money, the rich will continue to do it instead of starting new companies. That is not going to have pleasant long-term effects on the world.

Then you need to look into how private equity works.

They buy mature companies, often with borrowed capital, and then place the debt on the purchased company. They essentially make companies take on a massive loan to buy themselves from themselves, except the private equity firm ends up the owner.

The company then goes into overdrive trying to pay off the debt, while the firm makes changes intended to make the company “more efficient”. All while paying themselves “consulting fees” and “bonuses” for stepping in and “helping” the company do better.

This usually means mass layoffs, dumping assets, paycuts, restructuring…

Best case scenario, the company was already failing, and now it fails faster.

Worst case… The company was doing perfectly fine, making a sustainable living for its employees. And then it gets purchased by a private equity firm.

Suddenly everything is on fire. Not a single penny can go unpiched, workplace comfort unsacrificed, or employee unoverworked. And that that is the new norm, is the good ending.

Private equity makes money by killing the golden goose, and then finding another. And then another. And then another.

Is that the meanest “go away” you can manage?

Really?

Just block me. Or stop responding, even.

I keep replying because that’s what I do when there’s even a fraction of a chance I get through.

I will repeat the same paraphrased ideas at you over and over, so that even if you only read every other sentence, the full idea might make it into your head.

I’m asking why you can’t be nice. Or failing that why you don’t want to be.

That you aren’t, is obvious. And not an answer to anything.

You’ve now admitted to being intentionally malicious.

That’s NOT an improvement.

Why do you do that?

The only possible interpretation I can make here, is that you just put together a sentence for the sole purpose of trying to upset me.

That is not a nice thing to do. No mature adult should ever need to go there.

Yet you have.

Why can’t you just… Not?

I’m confused. What does this have to do with the fact that you’re being difficult?

You changed your position. Good. I knew that. See how that last comment of mine was in past tense? But that does not absolve you for the comments you made and continue to make.

Nothing in how you’re acting makes me think you’ll be nicer about it the next time you get your mind changed. And that’s what I’m telling you to change.

Buddy. You’re on a tantrum. You ain’t taking us anywhere except the verbal equivalent of slinging shit at each other.

But I’m not here for conversation. I’m here to show you this ain’t productive, and that you need to stop.

You’ve been set straight on an assumption about people, that might have called into question your own self worth.

If you genuinely thought everyone shit-talks, it follows that it is something you do.

If that’s the case, the fact that there are people who don’t, might have made you feel like a worse person in contrast.

That’s ok. But you need to start thinking about what you’re gonna do about it. And doubling down on the stuff that makes you difficult to like, aint it.

Then stop replying.

Or derailing your own thread by being an ass, for that matter.

This is a non-response.

Read and reply to what is said, or don’t respond at all.

Anything else is an attempt to feel like you got the last word.

Yes. And then when someone said otherwise you just doubled down with absolutely no additional logic.

And when they suggested that your personal experiences might be coloring your views, you accused them of being in denial.

All in all the “I’m an asshole” energy is coming through loud and clear… Not to mention your very premise reveals that you think it’s normal to speak ill of people.

In what way? Stop being one of the people who explains to someone why they’re being down-voted instead of piling on with insults?

Why should I engage with your chosen subject? I’m not interested. The only reason I even opened the post was because of the downvotes, not the premise or title.

And when I did, I found you, actively, either accidentally, or intentionally, pissing people off. You’re being abrasive and adversarial. You’re either trolling, or inadvertently turning everyone away from the thing you actually wanted to discuss.

I don’t care whether it’s deliberate, the explanation for why you should stop is the same.

Yet, you feel the need to continue to go “nu-uh, everyone else is the problem” even as the number of people telling you otherwise, and just the general disapproval, increases.

“Ground yourself in the observable.” How people react when you say and do things, is part of the observable, my friend.

If I succeed, I’ll have made you nicer to talk to. I’m a lot more invested in that.

Even as you probably wont be nicer for me. You likely hate my guts about now, and wont admit it to me even if I do make you rethink things.