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No, I mean they can give you more information. Shadows can tell you where players are before you can see them, for example. You can also get information from reflections. Players who have hardware that can’t support these features are disadvantaged. Lumen is not equivalent to, for example, texture resolution.

The developers can, or they can add a toggle. It isn’t fundamental to UE5. ARC Raiders and Squad are both on UE5 and don’t use Lumen.

The issue is supporting Lumen and another lighting solution requires them to make sure both work. For multiplayer games especially, having both isn’t an option, because then it gives an advantage to some people. Squad, for example, looked into it, but they ended up going with a different GI system that’s more performant so everyone can (and must) use it.

For single-player games, it’s possible to have Lumen and another option. It’s just extra cost to development. They’d rather go with the option that creates better trailers and not worry about people struggling to run it. They can run at an upscale 240p for all the executives care.

Yeah, that’s almost certainly not because of Unity. At most, it could be blamed on C#, if we’re blaming the technology. This is an issue with their simulation I would assume. For example, Timberborn is simulating liquids and a population of workers. The liquids are probably the biggest culprit, and there’s a reason you don’t see many games doing it.

All the games you listed are simulation games though. They are going to be the largest CPU hogs you can get, especially when you use the highest simulation speed possible. At that point, they’re usually literally maxing out your CPU and running it as fast as it can process. As another example of this, Paradox games can not reach their highest speeds on weaker systems or later into the games. They run as fast as the CPU can process, which means nearly 100% utilization. It’s not because they aren’t efficient. It’s because you’re telling it to go all out on processing.

What? Which ones? Escape from Tarkov is the most expensive Unity game to run that I know of, and it doesn’t have this issue.

The issues with UE5 aren’t the base engine. It’s Nanite and Lumen, and how easy they make them to just toggle on. Unity doesn’t have any features like this. You can get things like them on the store, but they aren’t baked in. They do have ECS, which is designed to have a ridiculous number of entities operating at once. I could see how that could cause this issue if unoptimized, but not many games are using it yet so it’s not what you’re talking about.

The engine isn’t bad itself. The problem is it has some really cool tools that are expensive to run, but developers just turn them all on instead of optimizing. See: ARC Raiders for how it should be done. It’s UE5, but they aren’t using Nanite or Lumen. UE5 can run very well. Game developers thinking the only thing that matters is having the most photorealistic games is what’s causes the issue.

Oh, wow. I hadn’t seen what she looked like in quite a while. I just looked her up, and that’s uncanny. I would bet her issue stems from the fact she became famous as a child, and feels the need to keep up that appearance. Most famous women are trying to prevent indications of aging (and failing harder than doing nothing), but that’s trying to stay looking 30s, not like a teenager.

This is pretending like it’s all women who do this, or even all the ones who care about their appreance. It’s usually only the extremely wealthy and/or famous. Most normal women don’t see the need for these procedures, but the ones trying to be famous/popular are predisposed to thinking others will look down on them for aging.

LNT does not assume that there isn’t a repair mechanism. It assumes that the repair mechanism has a constant failure rate. That’s a pretty good match for the primary biological process involved.

It really isn’t a good match. It makes no sense. It does not assume there’s a repair mechanism, as it’s cumulative over a lifetime. If you include a repair mechanism then exposure rate needs to be included, not all time total exposure. We have models that take this into account and are more accurate at pridicting cancer risk.

I don’t know if you even know what you’re talking about if you don’t know this. Even the Wikipedia page for linear no threshold tells you this in the first paragraph.

No, LNT is not accurate. It’s accurate at high levels of exposure, not not low. In fact, there is growing evidence that low levels of exposure actually have health benefits (this is not saying to go get irradiated, as we don’t have enough data).

LNT works under the assumption there is no biological repair mechanism. As you say, we are in a shooting gallery of radiation exposure. If we did have a way to handle low levels of radiation exposure then we wouldn’t be alive. LNT causes more harm than it does good, because it causes over-reactions. It’s the same reason breast cancer screening isn’t recommended below a certain age. At a certain point, prevention does more damage than it helps because what you’re preventing is so infrequent that the checks are more harmful than the chance you actually prevent something.

It’s because they’re required to have exposure as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA). This is actually going away in the US because it’s not actually based on good science. Low amounts of radiation exposure is actually not bad, and it’s not cumulative like it’s normally treated. Even safe levels of radiation exposure must be avoided if possible, even when it increases costs or other hazards.

Video on the change of regulation around ALARA and linear no-threshold (LNT) radiation measurement:

https://youtu.be/KT5hYHdelmg

(But also, they’re being exposed frequently. The patient is only once, or a few times.)

There has definitely been progress made. The majority of people believe non straight/cis people should be free to live their lives as they wish. There’s just an incredibly vocal group currently, who are so vocal because they’re losing.

What the corporations are doing doesn’t really matter. They’re just trying to make a profit, and currently that means, often, bowing down to our weird narcissistic president.

Did you accidentally use your 20 character long generated password as your username and couldn’t be bothered to create a new account?