I still find it hard to believe, he was on several national news spots. Every gaming site in the mid 2000s had something up about him. Heck, Ack even got to interview him.Luke wrote:Honestly.fastbilly1 wrote: Have you honestly not heard of the escapades of Jack Thompson?
Love the fact I've dodged this bullet for decades. I try to avoid stupidity...I'm down to eighteen fb friends for a reason.
There is alot of complex science that can answer this question, but I can best sum it up this way. There is a formula for how much information your eye can read called resolve. Everyones resolve is different, if you have trained your eyes, say you work in video/film/animation, your resolve will be greater than someone who has not.Snatch1414 wrote:I know many here don't play newer games but for those that do:
Am I the only one that can't be bothered to give a shit about frame rate and 720p vs 1080p? Like I'm legitimately interested in my games running as best they can, but I honestly don't care. I have an Xbone, which people love to point out is underpowered supposedly. I dunno it seems fine to me. Am I missing out on some glorious new frontier and I just don't realize it? I'm watching framerate comparisons on YouTube and screen shot comparisons and I honestly can't see a difference. If I do it's so minor my eyes can't even process it.
To explain resolve, lets use a hypothetical situation. So lets say you have four 50 inch TVs that are the same size and aspect ration but different resolutions - 480p, 720p, 1080p, and 4k. If you are setting 8-10ft away (aka how most tv rooms are setup), you will not be able to tell the difference between 720, 1080, and 4k. If you are 6-8ft away, you will not be able to tell the difference between 1080 and 4k. If you are 6ft or less away, 4k is the best. Now if we moved up to an 80 inch tv, everything changes, same with moving down to say a 28 inch tv. But people want something to brag about, and something to deride those who do not think there way about. So resolution becomes a much greater thing than it really is for most people.
Framerate is a different set of issues. But most people cannot tell the difference over 30fps in games. Heck movies are still shot at 24fps because that was the slowest they could be shot and the sound would sync (if you see a setting on a camera that says 24p, that is what it means).
At the end of the day, all that matters is does it look good enough for you? If so, great, piss on what others think. I still game on my pc in 720p, because I sit six feet away from it and it still looks awesome (though now it is getting strained). But 4k will be the new standard, since it will sell tvs, and people will still sit 10ft away from it while using a 50inch tv, and feeding it vhs tapes. It is the way of the world.
