Dark Arc @ Dark_Arc @social.packetloss.gg

Hiker, software engineer (primarily C++, Java, and Python), Minecraft modde

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Yeah... Even as a third party, I definitely have not been enjoying the smell when I've bumped into it. I don't think it should be a criminal offense, but I hope we can move past "I need to light a thing on fire and just screw up the air for everyone in my vicinity."

That's really not even close to the optimistic scenario. It's arguably not even in the pessimistic scenario if you're not just in the "make stuff up club."

https://cdn.oceanservice.noaa.gov/oceanserviceprod/hazards/sealevelrise/2.0-Future-Mean-Sea-Level.pdf

We're talking at most half a meter of rise by 2050, at most 2 meters by 2100, at most 4 meters by 2150. The intermediate projection is a third of a meter by 2050. The optimistic projection (which we're not going to hit) is 3/20th of a meter.

Climate change is real. The risk of famine is real. The risk of global conflict is real. The risk of trying storms is real. However, "doomsday everybody dies" is not really on any serious projections. The worst case is "a lot of people in a lot of poor nations die and rich nations have more wars and more immigration."

I'm surprised they're not even using VAC? Or are they?

I've never met a single human that I know of that feels this strongly about Twitter. Most everyone I know was lukewarm on it at best.

It was best for keeping up with news on organizations more than it was keeping up with people.

Very interesting. I changed my IO scheduler to kyber for unrelated issues... Maybe between that and the processing power (7950X + 7900 XTX)... my hangs were just sub second.

Hmm, I wonder if that was it. It didn't really seem to have anything to do with menus though.

Crazy Justice.

I think I loaded it one time once it was "released into early access" and it was a completely empty game that was clearly unfinished then it never got updated. The developers disappeared entirely a while after that.

On top of that, it caused a bug in my steam inventory for years where there was this glitched tab or something like that until I finally found out I could have the game removed from my account and removed it.

While technically true, bridge is ultimately an IMAP server you run yourself ... and they do have good reasons for this design.

Agree to some extent, labeling things terrorist organizations is kind of a slippery slope in the post-911 US though.

I feel like I've seen a few of these in non-Nazi contexts ... But maybe I'm just being naive.

Yeah this is either projection because they didn't see the mainstream media doing it or an attempt to drive a wedge and create controversy where there shouldn't be any.

The latest expansion genuinely did shake up the enemies. They still need to ... change something. It seems like maybe they will with the next expansion changing how they present the story. We shall see.

Possibly keep an eye on Diabotical Rogue... Definitely not what you want right now, but it has potential.

My concern is more so if he gets elected, he might try to justify "emergency powers" citing political violence as history has shown with other authoritarians.

Yeah, I have issues with random really poor frame times. I'll be sitting at 144 FPS then get some frames that take 45ms to render each/severe stuttering.

I "fixed" it using the proton version of the game though I've heard some people say that doesn't work with match making... Haven't tried that yet.

I was thinking about trying the -vulkan launch option to see if that does anything if my proton install doesn't work.

EDIT: They were right ... VAC doesn't work via Proton. I retried playing the native version and it seemed to run fine this time with or without -vulkan ... so I'm not really sure what's going on anymore.

Maybe some things have been fixed either on the Linux/Mesa or on the Valve side.

I have 0 interest in this guy's takes.

He pushed an awful battle royale game that just took people's money (including mine) and never actually launched.

He also once got into a Twitter (edit: it was actually mastodon) argument with me when he posted about an open source developer being "selfish" or something like that for telling him "if you don't like the readme, open a pull request with the changes you want made to it." Long story short, I told him it wasn't cool to make a post bullying an open source developer to donate more of their free time to something they didn't want to do, and that they have every right to tell him "go do it yourself." He blocked me.

Yeah, he runs a Linux gaming website, yeah he talks about games that run on Linux which is cool, but ... make no mistake he doesn't have some deeper journalistic insight. If Microsoft does forbid kernel level anticheat, that will indeed be a game changer.

I was going to defend "well ray tracing is definitely a time saver for game developers because they don't have to manually fake lighting anymore." Then I remembered ray tracing really isn't AI at all... So yeah, maybe for artists that don't need to use as detailed of textures because the AI models can "figure out" what it presumably should look like with more detail.

I've been using FSR as a user on Hunt Showdown and I've been very impressed with that as a 2k -> 4k upscale... It really helps me get the most out of my monitors and it's approximately as convincing as the native 4k render (lower resolutions it's not nearly as convincing for ... but that's kind of how these things go). I see the AI upscalers as a good way to fill in "fine detail" in a convincing enough way and do a bit better than traditional anti aliasing.

I really don't see this as being a developer time saver though, unless you just permit yourself to write less performant code ... and then you're just going to get complaints in the gaming space. Writing the "electron" of gaming just doesn't fly like it does with desktop apps.

Yes? I mean... No? I mean... Help are they being sarcastic?

Someone more talented than me could probably recover the phone number via edge analysis.

There's a good chance it's more for their post to not get taken down. That said this is from Twitter, so... IDK