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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield - Free Lanes Update⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I got it at launch, spent 80 hours in it, and had my fun. With that being said, Bethesda games have hooked me my entire life, starting with Morrowond at age 9.

  I keep meaning to go back and finish the main storyline for Starfield. It’s not as engrossing of a world as Fallout or Skyrim, but it’s fun enough for what it is - it’s just not “great” the way Bethesda’s other games are.

  Might be worth waiting for a sale price though, there’s always one around the corner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I do with a (jailbroken) iPad 1?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can find the old .ipa app packages, you could use it as an offline devices for old apps and games that no longer run on newer iOS versions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Phone do you guys use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  iPhone 16 Pro Max

  GrapheneOS is a “someday” that will rely on degoogling ither aspects of my digital life and setting up self hosted solutions for others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I see - I don’t do well with the video format, I only read their article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to wonder if they, like me, were considering the potential rather than what was immediately in front of them.

  DLSS5 is, after all, an in-development project that currently runs on a second dedicated graphics card. Showing this off the way they did might have been a huge mistake, or maybe this reaction will course-correct what might have actually become a slop filter.

  Lighting and shadow some are the most computationally intensive aspects of a game, they’re usually the first settings I dial back when I need to improve performance.

  The possibility of running lower settings and having their visual fidelity improved as part of the upscaling pipeline is an appealing one for me. The key would be tuning it so that it can be an enhancement to what’s already there, not something that totally overrides it or makes it look like Gen-AI output.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Context is important. The following sentence is:

  The use of two GPUs is required right now as DLSS 5 still has a long way to go in terms of optimisation - both in terms of performance and its VRAM footprint. However, DLSS 5 is designed for use on a single GPU and that’s how it will ship later this year. Quite how scalable it is also remains to be seen, but in common with other DLSS technologies, Nvidia tells us that the computational cost scales with resolution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your graphics card is weaker than the minimum spec (GTX 1060 6GB)

  You might consider buying it anyways and refunding within 2 hours if you’re not happy with performance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fully Modded Skyrim VR in Samsung Galaxy XR is Something Else⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been meaning to go back into this, played at launch and spent most of my time in the modding metagame that I don’t have time for anymore.

  Did you mod this yourself, use a Wabbajack list, or do a combination thereof? If you’re mostly using Wabbjack, how was the learning curve for the various VR systems? Fairly intuitive, or necessary to spend time reading outside of VR?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do Computer power supply issues look like?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  👋 Repair shop owner / operator here

  The two most common symptom manifestations of a defective power supply are abrupt shutdowns while in use or inability to power on whatsoever.

  We’ve had some edge case scenarios with weirder behaviors. In one case, power delivery to the GPU would randomly drop out which manifested as an abrupt cut to a blank screen, almost as though the GPU has been abruptly removed. In another case, a system would occasionally suffer an abrupt reboot when waking from sleep.

  Cases of BSODs, stuttering, or other instability diagnosed as the power supply have been few and far between, but they do exist.

  Fortunately, that hypothesis is pretty easy to test for. Power supplies aren’t terribly expensive, you can sit one next to an open chassis and satisfy its connections without completely installing it so it’s not a huge ordeal / time sink to isolate for a problem with that part.

  For the most part, stutters like you describe are often the result of corruption in the software environment, largely as a result of a defect in storage and memory (though, importantly, not always)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New packaging can warn you when meat has spoiled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Meat spoilage is not always obvious. A piece of meat can look fresh and firm inside a sealed package, yet still harbor microorganisms that make it unsafe to eat.

  Literally the first line of the article

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  this shuts down rumors that bethesda will move to unreal engine for ES6

  It shuts down rumors that Bethesda will move to pure Unreal Engine for ES6, though I never believed that to be the case.

  I see the Oblivion remaster as a bit of a proof of concept of sorts - the potential to have the world, scripts, logic, and physics running on the Creation Engine that devs (and modders!) are intimately familiar with while running the visuals on a separate Unreal Engine layer.

  Shedding the need to do extra work on fancy lighting and graphical effects so they can focus on optimizing the bones / structure seems logical to me, but then again this is the diluted Microsoft-era Bethesda we’re talking about so who knows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your thoughts on Reanimal?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  LN1 and LN2 were made by ThQNordic

  Both were made by Tarsier Studios, as is Reanimal. THQ Nordic is the parent company / publisher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DEAD OR ALIVE New Project - Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  DOA had a high - mid - low attack/defend/counter/hold system.

  A player who understands the core mechanics will have an easy time wrecking a button masher

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's flashing lights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finds a cool rock⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why can’t I go back Anons?

  🍄‍🟫

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horizon Hunters Gathering reportedly delays Horizon 3, as Sony prioritizes multiplayer PS5 game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in the day, I bought some Fortnite VBucks to get a couple skins and emotes. It wasn’t really to “show off to others”, I was just tired of looking st the same starter character and all of the gameplay based aspects of the game are free so I figured “Why not”. I did the same in some F2P MMOs like Vindictus and Black Desert.

  In shooters, I usually don’t engage with skin mechanics because they are, in most cases, immersion breaking. I like my firearms black or maybe with some FDE furniture, I might do some cosmetic customization as long as it’s believable enough for the setting. Definitely not spending real money on any of that stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with "Plex Servers"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do have Infuse and the pro subscription!

  It’s not really a “first party” (for lack of a better term) solution so the UI is not consistent with the other apps.

  Personally, I don’t really like Infuse’s UI arrangement and use it exclusively for content that has Dolby Atmos.

  Many of my friends / family aren’t all that techy, usability is key and having access to that content through a single app / single name is pretty important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with "Plex Servers"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  friends dont let friends use plex

  Emby and Jellyfin still don’t have Apple TV Apps. Many of us bought a Lifetime Plex Pass ages ago and it still does what it’s supposed to. Migrating / starting over with something else is quite an undertaking when what you already have is working fine.

  storage is very cheap now

  In what universe? I bought two refurbished 12TB enterprise HDDs for $80 USD each back in 2024. The same type of disks are now $250+ each.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  John Woo’s Max Payne

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Using MMOD doesn’t track playtime for the man game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  $20 was the cost of a whole CD Album, I don’t remember singles selling for that much. Or maybe you’re referring to the phenomenon of having to buy a full Album just for the one song you like?

  I prefer to buy Albums, and these days new Vinyl usually comes with a lossless digital download redemption code.

  At the same time, I still subscribe to music streaming services. I’ve got some ambient / background music playlists that are days and even weeks long - I’m not going to allocate make local storage space to them, let alone pay $9,000

  These services are amazing for music discovery. I live having an album or playlist finish and then getting “radio” of similar music to hear and discover.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What the hell? Premise they’re going with just makes it any other gameshow. Missed opportunity to have each “Vault” have some kind of unique experiment or twist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Micron used to be our default go-to for SSDs and memory (independent repair shop)

  They are now blacklisted for purchase, even their SSDs, even if the competitor’s price is substantially higher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just want to play a game...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s plenty of media with the same level of restrictions. The difference is that Steam is putting those restrictions in a convenient bulleted list right at the point of purchase - everywhere else, you’re expected to play ball and find out as you go along.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses a GOTY award over use of gen AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, without giving away too much, you have a world where, every year, everybody of a certain age is erased. Every year, those with one year left to live set out to try and stop that from happening - and for ~77 years, none of them have returned.

  This sets the stage for exploration of grief, loss, and associated trauma. In most games, there’s death everywhere but the emotional side is relegated to a 3 minute scene with sad piano music before the characters get back to the action. In this game, they drill a lot deeper and it really makes the characters come alive.

  They’ve nailed the blend of sadness, joy, and even comedy.

  This is all then set in a backdrop of some of the most visually interesting environments ever presented in a videogame with a completely insane musical score that brings all of those moments to life, the game is effectively a frisson machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battle Bun⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lugaru

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just what community do you think this is?! I don’t come here for interesting, quality content and the wikipedia article doesn’t even mention anything about him shitting on a post!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  disingenuous for the developer to pretend this was a surprise

  Given that the game is going to release on Epic Games Store, GOG, and Humble Store, I actually do find it surprising.

  Steam / Valve seems to be the outlier here.

  The description of the scene that got the game banned is not even remotely sexual, just a bit weird / uncomfortable which is the entire point they’re trying to make. And that scene is not even in the game anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it possible that their review form functions on some kind of script language that is commonly filtered by ad blockers?

  Browsing the site on mobile / without an Ad Blocker, I’m not seeing any ads. Might just need to reduce the filtering level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  👋 Repair shop owner

  Between the three issues you mentioned, charge port are the most common I see with Acer whereas hinge issues are actually on the rarer side compared to other manufacturers.

  With Acer, charge ports are pretty memorable since they’re soldered to the mainboard rather than being on an easy to replace daughterboard or cable.

  Ultimately, charge ports issues are usually a user problem rather than a quality issue. There should always be extra slack on the cable when charging, the systems should be on a flat level surface, and the device should never be transported with the charger connected to the port.

  Someone who has had repeat problems related to their laptop’s charge port is going to have a real bad time if they switch to a system that uses Type C ports.