Ari Karate

IT infrastructure by day, and Unity dev in training by night.

I talk a lot about game modding/baseball/gamedev/tech/wrasslin often. #RepBX

[Ari Karate @firstbaseman]

For all my new followers 👋

If you've been a part of PC baseball gaming long enough you might know me as kccitystar, one of the admins of MVPMods. It was a big MVP Baseball community for over 20 yrs online that shut down this year.

You've probably run into my mods once😂

[☆ samyam ☆ @samyam_youtube]

Announcing my new cozy sorting game aboard your own fishing boat

🎣 Haul up the net at any location
📦 Sort 82 species into the right crates
🗺 Sail to 4 regions
🐱 Meet the island cats (they love fish)

Game is called Way Too Many Fish!

[Ari Karate @firstbaseman]

@Masterflip_ The Flip Invitational is about to be a movie

[Ari Karate @firstbaseman]

@Zalman888 I know when Cashman moves on, Hal will probably go with an internal pick (Kevin Reese) but if Hal decided on a new voice? Just my picks:

- James Click (Blue Jays VP Baseball Strategy)
- Carlos Rodriguez (Rays VP Baseball Ops)
- Matt Kleine (Brewers AGM)

[Ari Karate @firstbaseman]

What I'd want Hal to explain is why the roster remains in his assessment an unequivocal front-office success when its most consequential shortcomings were exposed by a divisional rival.

Tampa Bay dogwalked us by winning the division, the season series, the ALDS and the pennant

[SNY Yankees @snyyankees]

Hal Steinbrenner is asked if he's sick of answering questions about the Yankees falling short of a championship each year:

"Do I like sitting here, trying to explain why? No. But I am going to analyze, in a very objective way, what we think went wrong."

[Ari Karate @firstbaseman]

@ashenone_vi Absolutely they can, they're one of the few companies that are working with Epic directly to merge their UE5 improvements upstream to the engine itself so everyone benefits

[Ari Karate @firstbaseman]

@JusticeForTGA I know that feel

[Ari Karate @firstbaseman]

I mean Afterimage x Chorus x AVD had the arena RUMBLING

[Miles🌴🌅 @JusticeLover897]

Nothing beats this part from the live show>>>>

[Ari Karate @firstbaseman]

@DeltyThe73rd Honest answer, it's because Japan doesn't have the same norms around fair use that we do here in the US. Their copyright framework is fundamentally different, so that shapes cultural expectations around things like fan creations, ROMs, emulation, and mods

[Ari Karate @firstbaseman]

EVERYBODY STAY CALM

[Cyberpunk 2077 @CyberpunkGame]

// NEW UPDATE INCOMING…

[v.2.5][22.10.26]

[Ari Karate @firstbaseman]

Vulkan support lets fucking go

[Jack Huynh @jackhuynh]

As a lifelong gamer, I think deeply about how to make gaming better and more accessible for everyone across consoles, desktops, laptops, handhelds, and the developers who build the games.

We power over a billion gaming devices around the world. It’s a responsibility we care deeply about.

Today, five drops.

1) FSR 4.1 is coming to Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards. Tuned and optimized from the 6900 series down to the 6400 class.

For the first time, FSR 4.1 is coming to APUs.

2) All Gorgon Halo and Strix Halo for your mini desktops and mobile workstations.

3) All Gorgon and Strix Ryzen 9 for your laptops.

4) All Z2E and Z2A for your handhelds and for gamers on the go.

5) FSR 4.1 is coming to @XBOX. Optimized for @ASUS_ROG Xbox handhelds and Xbox Series X | S.

We’re still building.

FSR Redstone is now in more than 400 games on Radeon 9000 series graphics cards.

FSR Frame Generation gets more consistent frame pacing, for smoother gameplay.

Ray Regeneration is coming to more games.

And soon, FSR is coming to Vulkan. Another way for developers to bring it into their games.

And don’t worry, we are working hard to bring FSR to more APUs in the future.

Enjoy!

[Ari Karate @firstbaseman]

@TJenksTampa They just need the road hats/helmet at home and the look is perfect. If they were to drop the "Devil" for whatever reason and keep "Rays" with that exact design (stingray included), it's even better.

[Ari Karate @firstbaseman]

@PureContender YES

[Ari Karate @firstbaseman]

@ermin_h I can see that happening in the future, for sure

[Ari Karate @firstbaseman]

@rrevolution909 Justice to me was always a group that felt like "this is where Daft Punk's sound would evolve to if they doubled down on Homework" and that's perfectly okay, they are awesome

[Ari Karate @firstbaseman]

EIGHTH?

[Darrell Blond @ribbonluna91]

Coming in at 8 @MVP05Guy

[Ari Karate @firstbaseman]

perfect perfect

[MLB @MLB]

Chandler Simpson's speed is unreal 😳

[Ari Karate @firstbaseman]

@majidmanzarpour @KenneyNL "AI slop," to me, is when someone uses AI to produce something without meaningfully evaluating, refining, or taking responsibility for the result.

I don't see it as any different from the mindset behind shovelware games, carelessly executed game ports, or lazy asset flips.

[Ari Karate @firstbaseman]

@SixZzshOtRipZz Max's take was regarding Marvel Tokon on PC, but even if you can brute force performance out of your PC games, some PC ports themselves can be bad experiences regardless of the hardware you have (like specific DRM, frame pacing, traversal/shader compilation stutter, etc)

[Ari Karate @firstbaseman]

@TokuBLWhovian @BlazeBinges I think they missed a big opportunity given that the Thunderzords the team got in S2 should have justified the Dairanger suit upgrades, but I get Saban trying to protect the brand recognition it created with MMPR before figuring out upgrading the suits could be part of the appeal