@why Yeah, I know; but that's what worries me about the burn-in; the MiSTer does output the menus at exactly the same place all the time, the upscalers have a static color bar pattern when nothing's on the screen and never go to sleep. I also watch sports, which has score bars at the same place all the time. I know it's unlikely to do anything noticeable before I replace it (though I'm hoping I'll keep it more than 5 years), but I'm the type to worry and it would affect my enjoyment of the TV to have to worry.
My friend who works at Rtings was telling me that the sweet spot (a couple of months ago, before the 2022 models came out, but I think it's still the case) for a high-end experience TV was the LG C1 or the Sony X90J, that they were the two their staff mostly went with when they bought TVs for themselves at that point in time, and the X90J was cheaper, so that made the choice easier.
It would have looked better had I chosen to go OLED, though; lots of bright lights on black backgrounds. Not everything will show it, but Tetris Effect: Connected makes very plain to see the local dimming zones on my TV. I was concerned about burn-in because I plug in weird homebrew stuff that I cannot guarantee is going to be well behaved when it comes to protecting from burn-in. For instance, the MiSTer doesn't go to sleep. My upscalers for old consoles either.
And, well the comparable OLED to my TV was more expensive, that certainly had an impact.
@applejack@nosleep@why In some cases it has been replaced, but most of those cases are those where the artistic merit of the painting was debatable: boring portraits with no vision and little creativity in the pose, choice of color, and where the technique aimed squarely at photorealism rather than artistic expression. Those were a great technical achievement no doubt, achieved through generations of technical refinement, but ultimately the creative equivalent of a Sears photo studio.
When painting of good artistic merit actually was replaced by photography, it was replaced by photography of good artistic merit.
@vriska@chjara@puniko@Moon Much of the reaction to it is a misunderstanding, there's nothing inherent to Web3/blockchain that would make a game more money-grabby if it's connected to a blockchain wallet than to your credit card/paypal account, there's nothing more nefarious going on if your item purchase are recorded on a blockchain or on a database run by the dev.
Of course, on the other hand I've yet to see a game that also had a good justification as to why I should care that they integrated blockchain tech/web3 wallets. I can see the theoretical benefits, but few seem interested in developping those, just in catching investors attention.
Only for those who traced over photographs and hid it. Just like a movie that claimed to use exclusively practical effects but actually used CGIs would be.
@Moon@puniko@chjara I might not be up to date on the latest Web3 games, but it seemed to me pretty much all of them were browser and/or mobile games, not action games, so I think the question as to how this is useful is valid.