who doesnt understand what that entails

lessee, there was a time before I existed, so that was non-existence, yeah? Seems pretty straightforward. In a universe where everything dies, even the stars, it’s pretty… something… to have the level of certitude you do.

holy crap without the range extender, that’s incredible

I remember waiting like 10 minutes with a loading window for Monster Hunter Rise to compile shaders at one point a while back and I had no idea what that meant then… (but yeah obviously most games do it more elegantly)

I only know this because I recently started doing some game development (as opposed to just being a gamer for 30 years); Shaders are little programs that run directly on your graphics card. They’re all over the place in games, doing stuff like making objects glow, morphing/transforming objects, and in 3D games, they’re also doing a lot of the work of lighting effects and details that you would want to see in order to actually see the game’s final product. When you start a game it will (either in the foreground or background) compile (build for your computer) all of the shaders designed in the game, but I guess this needs to happen on each computer. If they re-coded some of the shaders in the game to be more efficient/use fewer resources and ultimately make the game run faster, the ones in the previous release would need to be completely recompiled.

(I’m sure someone will be along to correct any inaccuracies in that.)

What I think is odd though is that game companies are throwing that around like anyone has any idea what they’re talking about though.

What am I gonna do with all this gate oil without a gate to keep?

all hail saint charleton of kirk

yup, don’t need to be banned by reddit (although I’m sure I would have been by now), just have to have some goddamned principles.

Yeah the worst bosses I ever had were when I worked in food service, because they were the only person making a decent living (maybe $80k at the time) while holding complete power over an army of minimum wage employees who didn’t really have choices.

I seem to recall him meeting with convoy leaders during that whole shitstorm. Way to “de-escalate”.

They said “hey hey, ho ho” right before “Donald Trump has got to go” so I don’t know how you can say that didn’t do anything…

Jesus fucking christ we have the stupidest leadership possible. At least 20 years ago they weren’t inviting the Nigerian prince scammers to state dinners.

You guys, the man just died… don’t we have a version of this where he has that stupid JD Vance head?

Makes sense. You quoted earlier:

We’ve finally reached a point where buying Zen 5 makes sense financially, but it’s still far from an exciting upgrade.

And this advice makes sense in its context but also is very much like “An iphone 17 isn’t a meaningful enough upgrade over an iphone 16” and not really like “an iphone 16 probably isn’t worth buying anymore if you want something with long term support, but if you have a 16, the 17 isn’t really worth it for you; if you are upgrading from a 12, you might as well go 17 for <benefits>.”

I came by these processors while fleeing intel earlier this year. Maybe my use cases are different than other gamers. Based on where I wanted to deploy the computer, trying to pull 800+W (including the GPU) was going to not work with my wiring. I also like to air cool if I can since I don’t want to have to maintain a cooling solution if it works.

So when I looked at these processors earlier this year, the 9600x (which was also on crazy sale) was a huge coup, because it runs 40W cooler than the 7600x, while slightly beating it in performance and offering access to Zen5 architecture and faster RAM. I didnt get the hate.

I’m sort of understanding that the mainline hate people have for these processors is that the 9600x isn’t a big improvement over the 7600x, but if you were coming over from outside the architecture, the 9600x seems like a no brainer if you’re buying into zen 5

Yeah I’ve had my mom several times go “nope that’s not dark enough”. There’s a wide line between having the right darkness and not burning it

Sure it has every color but does it have our specific color?

I’ve got my changes saved in an offline version; I’ll merge my changes in if you give me permission.

My point is they don’t know what to do or how to make “art” with AI any more than anyone does, sky-falling nonsense aside.

steal our work for profit

Meanwhile let me list all the profitable ai generated products the large companies have made in this 3 years of hysteria:

Sigh. There are just too many things to play, do, worry or think about to fuck around with people who have already shown you who they are. I liked the original game, like 20 years ago, and I’ve liked hundreds or thousands of other things in between. What I’m trying to say is these people can go fuck themselves. I don’t care if it’s the publisher, it’s the whole crew they came in here with. Fuck off.