Nah, we got a literary dystopia, just not one where everything is destroyed like your examples. We got the gilded cyberpunk future where everyone is tracked, privacy is dead and the lower class is held down by force. The biggest difference we have these days is that we went more heavy on AI than robotics, and the skies are a bit clearer.
When it came to GTA V, I wanted it. Oh, did I want it. Didn't buy it for several years, then a friend gave me an Xbox 360 copy because he didn't like it, then another several years later, having never finished the game, I ended up getting a PC copy for less than $10.
$10 feels like too much to give to Rockstar at this point.
To be fair, I didn't notice it and start digging looking up information about it until I was working on a mod for Half-Life (usually my profile pic, but I think I don't have it here), and needed to be able to create an extremely specific alpha channel for the phong mask.
Iirc, I experimented with the color profile settings and got no difference. I will say that I can't seem to reproduce what I was saying about the banding now. For a short while after 3's release, I was getting major banding in the alpha channel, but now I'm not.
Someone posted it to their bug tracker forever ago, with images, but they changed the name to some random unrelated feature request and now I can't find it. Did find this Bluesky post about it, though:
You ain't even getting it doing that. There's been a bug since 2.10 with transparency. Export anything and you get a crushed alpha channel. Import it into anything else and the alpha looks crazy high contrast. Import it into GIMP again and the contrast is normal, but the channel is still crushed, so it's banded as fuck.
They say it's intended behavior, which would make sense if GIMP was a dedicated image corruptor.
I love that you, who previously said "Did you watch this video," have now made this response, which is absolutely, positively deserving of the question.
My favorite part about talking to the extreme left is the way they always seem so in love with the extreme right.
You know the point I lost all respect for the opinions of Lemmy leftists? It's when I got into an argument with the top mod of a major leftist community (who says she's trans in her about page), about the treatment trans people would get under a second Trump term.
Her stance in short? To paraphrase, "Democrats worse than Republicans, who cares what happens to trans people in America, I'm not American." Ffs.
Keep in mind, this is the same dumb fuck that wants the return of asbestos. He has a first-grade level of understanding. To him, dangerous just means tough and cool.
Nah, we got a literary dystopia, just not one where everything is destroyed like your examples. We got the gilded cyberpunk future where everyone is tracked, privacy is dead and the lower class is held down by force. The biggest difference we have these days is that we went more heavy on AI than robotics, and the skies are a bit clearer.