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That one is a lot better, but still looks off enough that I didn't even approach the uncanny valley. It looks great but it doesn't look real.
In the other video the foliage looks horrible. Come to think of it, I doubt I've ever seen good 3D foliage, let alone examples that come close to real.
the pebbles on the ground looks quite real. But the larger boulders in the background is too textured and not enough bumpiness and also too uniformly flat. That's what seems to make it fake. also the water looks great, but too uniform and perfect. Real water has lots of little flaws and it's usually not as clear too (things like muddy water is hard to render i guess).
This was the video I meant. I agree it looks good but not real. Kind of strange that something can be both when I was expecting it to look real, if that made sense.
What immediately stood out to me was the lack of waves. It's clearly supposed to be an ocean or large sea, but there are only small ripples in the water.
It appears they are killing of the person to person payments much like PayPal.
It is good for Amazon because Amazon Payments was not the best service from Amazon, probably had the most non Amazon like experiences within it mainly bad customer service and worse than Paypal fraud false positives. For doing such a good job in all other areas they enter usually, here they made a worse PayPal, exactly the thing they were trying to better.
Stripe is such a better alternative to Amazon (and paypal which Amazon payments was supposed to rival). Amazon payments is now more business to business or person to business and no more person to person payments.
I'm not sure if it's related, but a lot of people used to use Amazon's person to person payments to churn credit card offers. If that was as prevalent as it seemed, then they may have been losing a tidy bundle to it.
"Late last year Amazon decided to discontinue the payments product that we have used."
I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong, I'm just not sure what else that could mean. When I see a button to pay with Amazon, the button says "Amazon Payments" on it, which I, as a layman, would call the Amazon Payments product if I had to call it anything.
Of course, Kickstarter may have just misspoke. Or, like you said, it's a specific product that only applied to Kickstarter. Either way, it's quite confusing from where I'm sitting.
I think the specific "product" they are referring to is Amazon's willingness to accept the authorization at a certain point and then only actually charge the card later when Kickstarter signaled that the project was funded.
I remember hearing a long time ago that Amazon wasn't particularly happy with this arrangement, and had specifically declined to offer it to Kickstarter competitors.
Isn't a monopoly in seeds also quite dangerous, as the whole population might be eradicated by one single disease?
Edit: Also the fact that you cannot actually fight the system without participating in said system is totally perverse. So in order to open source a seed you have to first patent it and then waive the patent you just created? Sounds like a huge overhead just to justify the legal system.
>>Eine schwarze Liste für ehemalige Kundinnen und Kunden, gegen die keine Verdachtsmomente bestehen, ist rechtswidrig.
translated with deepl: >>A blacklist for former customers against whom there is no suspicion is unlawful.