There used to be punishments for bakers adulterating flour to make profits; medieval communities were so reliant on the bread that the Lords went out of their way to regulate bakeries and ensure high wages for bakers to prevent that from happening (i.e: Adding chalk).

Oh, I finished it already and got the true ending.

Just like Stalker 1, it pays to not blindly run at quest markers and make up your own mind.

The game is a treat, but struggles to run on many systems, so my recommendation is the following:

FSR 3.1: Quality (66% resolution scale)

Frame Generation: On

AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2: On

1440p Epic on a 7900XTX averages 60 FPS in busy towns like Rostok.

60 FPS Native -> 120 FPS FSR 3.1 -> 240 FPS AFMF

I’ve got a 240 Hz OLED (for the dark scenes), and the total video draw latency with all of that is 3.11 ms.

I bought STALKER 2, a masterpiece of post apocalyptic fiction and storytelling.

I was running the game on launch, an old friend calls me up on Discord, and says:

“So how is it?”

I say: “I don’t know yet, I just got to the first town past the tutorial.”

He says: “No, I mean the multiplayer.”

I lost the ability to think for a good 30-60 seconds trying to formulate the right string of words to respond with, from the psychic damage he’d inflicted with the presumption that it was a live service multiplayer game.

I think capitalism has weaponized brain rot into profits. As long as people open their wallets and not their brains, things will continue as planned. We’re literally paying for it.

Oh come on at some point, every software project or foundation needs to cover their expenses somehow or else they enshittify or cease to exist/get acquired by a dangerous, moneyed conglomerate. It’s known as the going concern principle.

Out of all of the projects that I can think of in recent memory that started as big open source useful things, only VLC Media Player managed to avoid turning into garbage, and it’s because the lead developer is a saint.

You can avoid Ubuntu because they have a paid plan and that’s your prerogative, but imagine they got bought out by Apple or something.

I have an AMD card, add VLC as a game in the drivers, and you can turn on AMFM (frame gen).

If it doesn’t work you could just turn it on system wide in display settings of the Adrenaline Software (gear upper right corner, display/gaming).

I think it requires at least a 6000 series GPU however.

If you have a Samsung TV or other modern smart TV connected to a laptop, you can also turn on frame-gen using Auto Motion Plus, set to Custom.

Judder Reduction 10 is double frames, so 24 FPS -> 48.

I’ve read that that the 7 deadly sins are just “reverse extrapolates” of the ten commandments, e.g: “Do not commit adultery” -> Lust.

Even the “original sin” (disobedience) is extrapolated.

Which means they’re not legally binding as a result.

Thanks for this PSA, it’s stunning how we used to have encyclopedias in our studies but now no one collects the physical offline copies (which includes an archive of Wikipedia)

TIL, I’m a minority of a minority.

Overclocked a $800 AMD 7900XTX to 3.4 GHz core with +15% overvolt (1.35V), total power draw of 470W @86°C hotspot temp under 100% fan duty cycle.

Matches the 3DMark score in Time Spy for an RTX 4090D almost to the number.

63 FPS @ 1440p Ray Tracing: Ultra (Path Tracing On) in CP2077

Pestilence, Famine, War, and Death.

Choose your next card mortal.

Employment Contract, Pay Grade: $134,700.

“I can conjure objects out of thin air”

Materializes a stack of gold bullion bars

“We offer a signing bonus of 20% for extraordinary talent such as yourself”

Holy shit there’s so many sub-distros in this thread:

Arch

• EndeavorOS
• Cachy
• Void
• Nix
• Manjaro

Which one do we install for gaming, or do we wait for SteamOS on Desktop?

+1 Kubuntu.

KDE Plasma and Debian is where it’s at.

Comfortable, familiar OS GUI, working drivers out of the box, and a non crashing kernel with updates once a month.

And also steam works.

Steam and gaming working is a big thing.

Like 96.6% of the operating system.

Wake me up inside

Cant wake up

I need a supercritical temperature of 80°C

Bring meee tooo half precissssion…

I’ve been living a lie! I’m only 36°C inside!

Bring me toooooo ----

Downvoting someone on the Internet is easier than tangentially modifying reality in a measurable way

OP casually walks by pelicans and hears the Mortal Kombat music begin playing

I’m a big believer in the Pareto Principle where 20% of the users are responsible for 80% of the content.

Lemmy is Reddit’s Top 20%.

I’m so mad that my open source software made by a single developer in his free time who loves coding and helping other people is slightly worse in quality than a multi-million dollar dedicated project.

Exports into Maya-3D.Blend

Yep. I do this all the time on highways. I’ve seen dark red traffic lines on Google Maps as I’ve driven over them turn green.

Patience and the efforts of a single person in a wavefront can make an enormous difference, like a rock sticking up from a pond.

I like how no one on Lemmy has to be explained how that would crash the U.S economy. They just know. The average intelligence of this place surpasses Reddit at its inception.

Contrast that with my idiot Trump-voter “friends” who insist: “He’s just bluffing”

I don’t think their world view extends past the two meters in front of their nose, frankly. If they’re not in pain on some isolated root base-ganglia, tooth-infection level, it just doesn’t exist for them. A beastly existence.

Sorry: Just venting. Lost a lot of “friends” due to the last election. :/