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#1 ScrollingLayers
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Model 3 was indeed a generation beyond other high-end arcade boards in 1996. Namco's System Super 22 board was their highest-end at the time, and Model 3 smashed it. Model 3 also smashed the 3DFX based Atari Flagstaff hardware than powered San Francisco Rush.

Lets refresh our memories from 20 years ago.

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@charizard1605 said:

Gamestop stores across the country may have gotten new shipments of the Nintendo Switch in advance of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe release, but if you didn't already know that probably missed them. Nintendo's new hybrid living room/portable console started flying off of store shelves on day one, and it shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon. It's good news for Nintendo, a company that badly needed a win with its core console business after the tepid response to the Wii U and good news for the Nintendo fans that have managed to get their hands on one of the things.

"It's exceeding our expectations," he said. "We knew it would be a high demand product, but our Switch allocations are selling out not in days, but in hours...the demand is so high that consumers have to react quickly to be able to get their hands on them."

And while specific predictions about future supply or demand are tough to come by, nobody seems to be banking on supply stabilizing any time soon. At this point, demand still seems to be riding a launch window peak where machines are selling out immediately, at least for all intents and purposes.

"Right now we're not seeing sales going down at all, and I would expect that to continue for quite some time," said Bright

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidth.../#78d2ae55e525

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will be a legitimate system seller. Yes, I know it's an old game, but for most people, it won't be. Not many people bought the Wii U or were even aware it existed after all.

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PS5 isn't going to get released until November 2019 at the earliest, and November 2020 at the latest.

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A Wii Ulogy.

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INSTEAD OF FINDING COMMON GROUND TO OPPOSE BIGOTRY…SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS HAVE DIVIDED THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT MORE THAN WHITE RACISTS EVER COULD.

This is going to be a bitter pill for some to swallow. However, it needs to be said and it’s long overdue.

When civil rights first became a movement in the 1950s and the 1960s…it wasn’t a broad issue movement. This civil rights movement was initiated by African Americans to confront the many racial injustices their communities suffered. African Americans started to protest against racial segregation, societal disenfranchisement, racially motivated violence, and financial exploitation.

These issues were so severe that even non African Americans who associated with them were targeted with the same bigotry blacks faced.

While there were some notable exceptions, the majority of the protests were peaceful and non-violent. These often took the form of sit-ins, freedom rides on buses, marches, and voter registration drives to increase African American voter turnouts. Generally, the three main goals of these actions were as follows: Firstly, the ending of segregation. This didn’t just include segregation in communities generally…but segregation in all aspect of American life…from riding buses, to college campuses and everything in between. Until this time period, there were businesses that refused to serve the African American community and many even barred them from their premises. Secondly, they worked to end racially motivated violence. African Americans were violently targeted for the crime of speaking out against racism. However, it went even further than that. The racial violence was so commonplace that it seemed like any issue an African American spoke in favor of was often met with violence. Finally, they worked for equality of opportunity for African Americans when it came to employment and other financial matters…such as purchasing a home.

While some African Americans did hate white people, many civil rights leaders of the time realized that without the buy in of white America, the African American civil rights movement would fail. Like today, white America outnumbered blacks five to one. In fact, the only reason that the civil rights movement during this time succeeded is because African Americans and whites found common ground and worked together to end the bigotry that minorities in the United States were facing.

Fast forward to today.

We’re a nation just as divided today as we were in the 1950s and 1960s. Racism is just as strong today as it was over 50 years ago…and it shows no signs of going away. However, this time…it’s different.

Instead of whites being racist against minorities and people of conscience coming together to oppose it, people of conscience have been deluded to the point where now they oppose each other.

Why?

It’s because Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) have become just as bigoted as the most extreme elements of white racism. Instead of peaceful protests and keeping the moral high ground in their protest actions…SJWs are showing up to rallies with violent mobs armed with weapons and improvised bombs for the express purpose of destroying public institutions and committing unprovoked acts of violence against white people and heterosexuals who disagree with them.

Instead of finding common ground to oppose bigotry…Social Justice Warriors have divided the civil rights movement more than white racists ever could. As a result…white racists sit back and laugh as the SJW movement continues to cannibalize and destroy itself.

SJWs did this through the creation of a systemic victim olympics to divide themselves within their movement by their perceived oppression. It’s gotten so bad that white civil rights activists that oppose racism are being targeted for hatred by minority civil rights activists. Male feminists who oppose misogyny are getting targeted by female feminists. Healthy social justice warriors are being targeted by disabled social justice warriors.

Then there’s the trans movement within the SJW movement. Even though there is zero support in biology for mammals being born the wrong sex. Regardless, the Trans movement has taken hold. Biology has long told us that gender is determined by DNA. However, the trans movement thinks that gender can be changed whenever someone feels like it. It’s gotten so ridiculous that now people are thinking they are cats instead of humans. A middle aged man thinks he’s a six year old girl. Even more insane is the subgroup within this group who thinks that there are more than two genders. Perfectly healthy people are now calling themselves transabled…with some even inflicting horrific injuries on themselves because they feel they should be disabled. We now even have people who believe their transracial…like Rachel Dolezal a caucasian woman who thinks she’s African American.

While any rational person would think this insane…they’d be right. Psychologists have long known this was the mental illness of body dysmorphic disorder…a form of delusion. Yet, governments are now passing laws to enable these mental illnesses even further.

More frightening is the realization that social justice warriors support the same bigoted beliefs of white supremacists. They want segregation in the form of safe spaces in college campuses and elsewhere…just like white supremacists. They’ve targeted people outside their subset within the social justice movement…including interracial relationships…just like white supremacists. They’ve targeted whites for unprovoked violence and discrimination…just like white supremacists targeted minorities. Finally, they’ve targeted anyone who disagrees with them by attempting to censor their freedom of speech…just like white supremacists have tried in the past. Social justice warriors want equality of outcomes…not equality of opportunity. However, history demonstrated a long time ago that this is impossible. It’s been tried with communism and horribly failed.

It’s time to return to sanity and stop the Social Justice Movement from further destroying civil rights even further. Civil Rights Activists of conscience know that in order to oppose bigotry, we need to find a common ground of ethical people of all races and walks of life to stand together to oppose bigotry wherever we find it…whether it’s neo nazis, or social justice warriors.

If we don’t…our society will suffer for it.

https://raprehab.com/social-justice-warriors-dont-rep-civil-rights/

I couldn't agree more with that article. Spot on.

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Says it all.

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@ronvalencia said:
@scrollinglayers said:

OP: of course the visuals in movies are vastly superior to games, even if you see the CG in 720p vs a game at native 4K / 2160p.

I too wonder what games could look like if resolution was limited to 720p and the visual complexity (re: geometry) and lighting was pushed way, way up.

Especially on the most powerful hardware consumers can get today (a very high-end PC build).

Or at the very least, Scorpio, which will be equivalent to a mid-range gaming PC by the time it launches.

Geometry edges ultimately aligns to frame buffer's pixel grid. There's very little point for sub-pixel geometry or geometry overdraw.

To expose additional geometry details, the resolution has to be higher i.e. more pixels to show more geometry details.

1280x720p has 921600 pixels and that how much you can fill the entire screen a geometry cloud.

Movie CG's advantage comes down to ray-traced lights/reflections and very nice artwork assets.

Okay I see. In your opinion, can real-time game graphics make some decent strides toward approximating things like this in the next 3-4 years?

I mean, given the known technology roadmaps for GPU architectures from Nvidia & AMD, and also stacked DRAM like HBM3 and HMC (Hybrid Memory Cube) plus another chip manufacturing shrink to 7nm, etc.

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OP: of course the visuals in movies are vastly superior to games, even if you see the CG in 720p vs a game at native 4K / 2160p.

I too wonder what games could look like if resolution was limited to 720p and the visual complexity (re: geometry) and lighting was pushed way, way up.

Especially on the most powerful hardware consumers can get today (a very high-end PC build).

Or at the very least, Scorpio, which will be equivalent to a mid-range gaming PC by the time it launches.

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So, sold through numbers are probably PS4: ~59 million vs Xbox One ~27 million, worldwide LTD. Roughly.

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@Desmonic said:

Still slightly ahead of the PS2 (though it should fall behind soon enough I think) which is fairly impressive on it's own: