Dudewitbow

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an artist⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  at some point yes, but that rabbit hole is very deep.

  for example, hard to prove if actually true or not, but the whole theory on nikocado avocado and his channel actually being a front to advertise for a secret feeder fetish crowd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an artist⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  the more niche a fetish is, the more money there can potentially be made because there’s no creators that “Create” in it. hence theres an inverse relationship to mainstream fetish and how much a typical content creator for it makes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah this is the circle of ownership because the only way to get your account back at this point is social engineering, which is a serious topic about getting accounts hacked which different companies will handle seriously, as it requires a level of “trust me bro” on identity, If possible, id try to look for a CS that will take receipts of the game purchases to help further prove your identity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Idk if that's what's really happening in that image 🤔⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  dwarfs packing some heat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the thing video players do after lag where they speed up the footage to catch up to the current frame before playing as normal?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  i dont know if that has a specific term, but it generally revolves around the render queue. different players/renderers handle what happens when the render queue isnt ready to play.

  MadVR (a popular upscaling renderer for MPCHC) for example has an option to pause render queue till full.

  ome player may have it setup as always play each frame which causes random slowdowns/speedups, other might implement it as drop frames to always be time synced correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cum 2 mummy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ahh so genital jousting is derived from nature

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  by itself no. requires a. pc thats like entry gaming in like 2016 standards though which isn’t particularly high.

  modern (e. g past like maybe 2 years) igpus could probably run it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going back to play Mario Kart 8 on my Switch 1 when everyone else has a Switch 2, FOMO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the transitional tracks are controversial. some people like them. others hate them. i dont really care for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem that (local) ai has at the current moment is that its not just a single type of compute, and because of that, breaks usefulness in the pool of what you can do with it.

  on the Surface level, “AI” is a mixture of what is essentially FP16, FP8, and INT8 accelerators, and different implementations have been using different ones. NPUs are basically INT8 only, while GPU intensive ones are FP based, making them not inherently cross compatible.

  It forces devs to either think of the NPUs themselves with small things (e.g background blur with camera) as there isn’t any consumer level chip with a massive INT8 co processor except for the PS5 Pro (300 TOPS INT8, which compared to laptop cpus, have a 50 TOPs, so on a completely different league, PS5 Pro uses it to upscale)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, yes, it would be unrealistic to suggest AMD could rip out the NPU and easily put that space to good use in this current chip.

  a few amd chips did have the NPU removed in them, except they were mostly allocated to handheld gaming devices. the Ryzen Z1E for example.

  when redreshed, there were a handful of hawkpoint cpus that were NPU less (Ryzen 7 8745HS)

  Strix point does not have that dumped die cycle yet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southern USA core.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  reletively yes but you still shouldn’t.

  a 1st cousin has like 16% shared dna. half removed is half that. 2nd cousin is half of the half removed and it repeats.

  so 1st > 1st half removed > 2nd > 2nd half removed> … nth.

  after a few steps in your percentage is already pretty fucking low.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The PS4 version of Genshin Impact is being delisted and shut down | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  not too suprised, given the game runs fairly poorly on the base PS4, and I believe with Natlan, they made the decision to increase the quality of certain elements of the game, and its not going to get any lighter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can i casual gamer enter a game online competition?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  as an addenum, if you live by a major university, most universities have a weekly tounament for various games. if you arent up to snuff yet, there will likely also be casual setup, or better, bring your own setup to play casuals on with others. (e.g low effort one would be a pc version of a game running on a laptop for a mobile aetup)

  dont be intimidated and think you also have to register for the tournament if you arent experienced yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  you have to have a personality that people like, and thats the non negotiable part. the rest is work ethic. other than that, do not go into the field expecting to make money playing games, unless you live in a place with a low cost of living and you happen to collect bounties on difficult challenges which no one should be doing for a living.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I havent even played a ubisoft title since before 2010. I just had the advantage of not being particularly attached to any of their IP to even reconsider it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gourmet chocolate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  something something fried calamari is pig anus conspiracy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wuthering Waves now Steam Deck Playable, and works on Desktop Linux with one tweak⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  being a gacha style game doesnt inherently have to be multiplayer.

  Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is a prime example of a game that has major gacha mechanics but is strictly single player. You collect core crystals and thr crystals rng into a blade, with a percent chance of unlocking a named rare blade that has a unique model/sub quests.

  the difference in models of games like wuthering waves/genshin impact vs Xenoblade is that one is free to play, and tries to release more playable characters in order to entice players to pay (not required to, can be earned in game if you choose to) and the other is a 60$ game + DLC costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the REAL minimum power supply needed for a RTX 5060 Ti?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the mininum is dictated by the rest of the components and decision to limit future upgrades down the line.

  after you are aware of what cpu you are using

  amd and intel sub 250 cpus usually 150w or less

  amd high end and alderlake(12gen, and arrowlake), peaks at 250w

  intel raptor lake (13-14th gen) 300w

  hedt cpus like threadripper fall under a similar class.

  peak 5060ti is just under 200w alone.

  add an arbitrary 50w to cover rest of components.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  its only guaranteed because of the amount of time the surgery took in the end. if it was shorter, it would have been averted. (say if it eas hour 10 or 20, would have been still negligent but they would probably be alive. the actual time was double that)

  basically there was a chain of decisions and events that led to the deaths, but she still chose the one where the worst outcome was potentially death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  they knew she had children, but im not completely aware she asked the day of the appointment or not. its completely possible she asked when booking the appointment on a different day. its just at some point the establishment was asked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  jesus christ, the mother was fucking 20, and she was allowed to take the children into the lobby but opted out of it.

  she blatently knew and asked about her options and chose the one with the highest risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is Kingdom Hearts 3 _bad_ or just the normal cringe of Kingdom Hearts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  its a ton of nomura minigames and disney attractions in combat which draw away from kingdom hearts imo.

  i recommend disabling the disney attraction skills because they really detract from the combat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a game dev⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Kojima is an example of giving dev too much freedom that its basically further putting you into the red had he been strung along for the ride during metal gear solid 5’s development and the money spent optimizing fox engine. Theres a fine line between endless crunch time/micromanaging, and letting your devs do work.

  to put up a few examples, The upcoming Metroid prime 4 is an example when a company gives devs too much freedom. The original japanese studio didn’t know what hte fuck they were doing, so Nintendo pulled them off hte project, and gave their project to retro, who was working on the “Project harmony” game, which looked very bad, to the point that nintendo was fed up with the hands off approach and Kensuke Tanabe reinserted himself back as director to get prime’s development back into production getting Prime 4 out later this year.

  Part of the reason for the huge microsoft layoff that happened a few days ago is mainly because of microsofts more handsoff approach they gave their developers. they gave ninja theory 5 years to develop Hellblade 2 (which is a relatively long time). They gave Compulsion games 5+ years to develop South of midnight. neither game remotely probably paid of their development cost, in juxtaposition to a studio like Obsidian, who has in the same time frame, released 5 different games, some arguably more expansive than the previous 2 studios games, due to being well managed.

  and I’m not really pointing fingers here, but keep in mind, its not solely due to unsustainable growth/enshittification and treating devs like shit and endless crunch time causing this problem. It’s mainly lack of better people/resource management because there are countless numbers of studios who get significantly more time than they should on a project with not much to show for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a game dev⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, but tweaking whatever engine they have, still uses a lot of the underlying engines code, which more freemarket devs will use. There’s a huge reason why a lot of the companies who build engines in house are in japan, because labor laws in japan makes it so developer retention is usually very high.

  Kojima and fox engine is an example of a well designed and optimized engine, but konami didn’t like it because of how much millions kojima spent developing both it and MGS5 hence the bad blood between them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a game dev⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  its harder to hire new devs if engine is built in house, because no one outside the company understands how to use said engine unless its open for the public to use. thats the biggest drawback of in house engines (other than the increased develepment life cycle to develop one)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the mindset that I buy one for the lowest firmware, because nintendo always has people trying to hack it (successfully). Nintendo has very low investment in actually trying to get a proper OS engineer design their OS security. Youd basically have to go as far back as the fucking virtual boy to look for something non exploitable, and thats just because no one bothered with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Folks not buying PCs from US vendors 'tariff' stockpiles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ai pcs are actually being bought. most of the pcs being used for local AI purposes are fully rammed out mac mini/studios or strix halo desktops, which are almost solely sold by smaller oems and are backed up.

  most AI pcs arent the ones the large oems clamour about (basically unused NPUs, and to a lesser extent, nvidia based computers with high vram gpus)

  the latter doesnt offer the vram required for the people who want to do in house Ai.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why are we eatings shrimps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  sorry thats already reserved by tuna

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo hasn’t really C&D any of the previous decomps. they can for people who upload the whole precompiled executable, but none of them that requires actually ripping the original assets yourself to create the required game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  then you gain the extra potential illegal action due to forgery. so its a game of risk management for the drivers.