off-topic

[tall vapor]

nah, dark reader makes google things unusable

try using gsheets with dark reader

good luck

[dawn fossil]

Dark Reader got an update recently that lets you turn it off if the website itself already has a dark mode, which is rather nice

I dunno what heuristics they're doing for that. Probably just checking for media queries in the CSS, but it works well

[dawn fossil]

I wonder how it looks with my slides. I expect it leaves the content intact.

Oh yes

[tall vapor]

yeah, that's the thing. I would want the actual sheet to stay white, for example

[sudden adder]

disable it on Googles sites

[tall vapor]

but yeah. I use the libreoffice suite for all me stuff anyway. Google stuff is only for shared stuff

[tall vapor]

but then the UI is white too

[dawn fossil]

My school used to use Office365 and it was great, we could use real programs

We moved to Google at the start of this year and i fucking hate it

I'm not one of these people who likes living in a browser. I like living in real software

[sudden adder]

so you want dark mode, but like an iPad with a black bezel and a bright white screen in the middle?

[tall vapor]

oooohhhh chromebook avalance incoming?

[tall vapor]

the content should still be what it is, correct

[dawn fossil]

It's already started. So now I'm supposed to teach programming on devices barely capable of connecting to the Wi-Fi, let alone installing the Linux beta to download Python or VSCode

[tall vapor]

and I got that via the stylesheets

because those are contextual

dark reader isn't

[tall vapor]

oh boi

my condolences

[tall vapor]

things like dark reader are lovely for things like wikipedia, tho

or when reading articles

[marsh helm]

ugh

[tall vapor]

imma give ya that

[marsh helm]

chromebooks suck

[dawn fossil]

I'm thankful we moved most of our coding work to GitHub Codespace for this reason, so it can all be done remotely using their (basically) online version of VSCode … but even if it's done via a website, it loads enough JS to be basically a desktop app, and guess what, it makes the Chromebooks crawl

[marsh helm]

anything?

[dawn fossil]

Feels like the EeePC days but even shittier 'cos at least those ran WinXP or Linux

[marsh helm]

pretty sure chromebooks also cost more than a real pc

[tall vapor]

there are some decent chromebooks actually, hardware wise. Only really good once ya suzy calbe em to get normal coreboot on there and install normal lin, tho :p

[dawn fossil]

There are, for sure, but those aren't the things parents buy

[marsh helm]

i got a simple laptop 4 core with 6gb of ram for $150

works great

[tall vapor]

exactly

[marsh helm]

can even play games

[dawn fossil]

'cos if parents had the money for the good Chromebooks, they'd have the money for a decent mid-tier Windows laptop

[marsh helm]

no parent will spent $1200 for the good chromebooks

[tall vapor]

the ones that parents buy are the eepc (suitable name, cause ya get really eepy while waiting for them to do anything) successors

[marsh helm]

better to get a mac

[tall vapor]

I was this close to sniping one of the thinkpad chromebooks that were a thing a couple years back for 40 bucks, but nooo then the silly bidders came in and upgraded the price to 350

[dawn fossil]

Got plenty of kids who come to schools with Macs. Our school never used to support them but I do because at least they run real software

[tall vapor]

that thing, but switched over to normal lin.... would've been quite neat for on the go purposes

but oh well

[dawn fossil]

They're upgrading our Windows 10 machines to Windows 11 some time this year

I almost wish they'd give us Linux instead, but I know the IT company we use isn't set up for that

[marsh helm]

i would just give kids tablets

[dawn fossil]

Tablets would also be fine

[marsh helm]

and then when at school they plug their tablet in via usb c to a real computer

[tall vapor]

ipads were quite popular in education a while back, but then google came in with the chromebooks

lowest bidder wins

[marsh helm]

umm did you know that speakers sometimes come with stickers

on the front and back?

was wondering why his new speakers sounded muddy and found that there was a protective sticker on the back of them

[dawn fossil]

Hah

[marsh helm]

also i walked around the community

[tall vapor]

and now we got kids who don't even know what a folder be

[cunning pine]

And now we have these Chromebook kids not knowing the first thing about how to actually use a computer or do anything in Windows and being the most braindead people who are the most difficult to attempt to offer support to because you try to tell them what to do for something and they can't even figure it out because they don't understand the basics and the universal design language of things because that doesn't exist in ChromeOS.

[marsh helm]

i found a new part that had the FATEST DUCK IVER EVER SEEN

SOO FAT

SOO ROUND

the size of a turkey

ill try to take a photo of it next time i go by

im sure it wont be going anywhere

[dawn fossil]

Please take a photo of this fat duck

And ping me when you do

[marsh helm]

it was a maynard i think

[dawn fossil]

I love a round boi ducky

[tall vapor]

it's gonna be funny. We'll have two groups. Folk who don't know what a folder be, and folk who don't know how to windows because they only know how to do the linux on chromebook thing as they learned from a series of tiktoks

[amber sparrow]

Fat ducks will FUCK you up

[marsh helm]

also the ducks near me had babies

yesterday

ill look for them in the morning

also the geese had babies too

so theres baby geese walking around

somewhere

i need my actual dslr to take good pics of them

[dawn fossil]

I want to introduce a basic file management component to the technology course for all new, incoming students. Currently, it's taken as read that students know how to manage files. They don't.

People who say "students will never need that skill" don't know what the fuck they're talking about and need to sit the fuck down >_> </rant>

[marsh helm]

[marsh helm]

most kids that were applying at my moms work for the sumemr job program had no idea how to use a computer at all

never used anything that wasnt a tablet or phone

and never used word or typed

[dawn fossil]

Cripes

[marsh helm]

heck they didnt even know how to type

or save a file

[dawn fossil]

Not knowing how to type isn't so odd, plenty of adult hunt-'n-peckers

[marsh helm]

or copy paste

[tall vapor]

Well tbf I'm one of the few people in me gen that still knows how to type without looking at the keyboard, soo...

[marsh helm]

you cant get a job if you cant type nowadays

when you are hired they do typing tests

if you fail you are gone

[tall vapor]

depends

[marsh helm]

dont have to be fast

just need to know how

[tall vapor]

nah

[silver fable]

Well, you gotta know when to hold 'em...

Know when to fold 'em.

[marsh helm]

at least thats what they did for a cashier job i tried to get once

[dawn fossil]

Depends on the job. I've never heard of such a requirement for most jobs

[silver fable]

and type, I guess.

[marsh helm]

5 years ago

and a receptionist job required over 80 words per min

[tall vapor]

well yeah.

[dawn fossil]

Well sure, a receptionist is typing all day

[marsh helm]

and to pass a spelling test

[silver fable]

There was a math component to my job when I started, but that's since been removed.

[marsh helm]

too many ppl failed it

[silver fable]

Wat u tlkin abt?

[tall vapor]

I can't math, I only know how to tell me computer to do math

[marsh helm]

same

i can build a computer blindfolded but i cant fix plumbing stuff at all

makes no sense

[tall vapor]

one thing ya learned, the other ya didn't

both is fancy lego, though

[marsh helm]

yuh

one leaks more

one frys expensive stuff

[tall vapor]

never seen a big fat memory leak?

[marsh helm]

ive made some

i make mods for rimworld

it uses ancient unity

unity 2019.4

[tall vapor]

oh plumbing leakages can fry expensive stuff pretty damn well, too

[marsh helm]

[marsh helm]

not my fault they didnt have proper waterproofing

[tall vapor]

pretty damn recent, actually

[marsh helm]

unity just feels ancient to work on

its just soo

ugh

depressing

they fired soo many of their actual skilled people

now they have just 4 things they are pretty much working on

they have nothing like nanite

no RT

[tall vapor]

unity doesn't need RT, quite frankly

unity doesn't fit yer bill when yer lookin for UE5, ofc it doesn't

[marsh helm]

it does if you want pretty reflections

it cant even do the basic rt well

not the stuff that chugs

oh cookie i have a question

i heard microsoft and amd both have said they are working on cpu based RT

do you have any papers on how that works?

[sudden adder]

did someone say Ray Tracing?

[tall vapor]

wha

ms had somethin abt making rt more efficient, but nothin abt cpu

[marsh helm]

the new direct x update is one step closer

[tall vapor]

the thing that ms&amd are working on together is a common upscaling api within directx

[marsh helm]

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/new-directx-12-feature-eliminates-cpu-bottleneck-in-game-rendering

[tall vapor]

so that the game can just use fsr, xess or dlss dpending on what's available, instead of integrating it into the game

[cunning pine]

When there's something strange, in your neighborhood...

[tall vapor]

that got nothing to do with RT per se, though

[sudden adder]

Who ya gonna call?

[marsh helm]

the playstation has hints of a system in it to offload some of the RT onto the cpu

[cunning pine]

GHOSTBUSTERS!!!

[sudden adder]

no

[tall vapor]

Nothing.

nil.

[sudden adder]

SKULL VODKA!

[cunning pine]

Lol

[marsh helm]

i think its more offloading some of the RT onto the cpu while also using upscaling tech

[sudden adder]

ba-na na-na na na naaa

[tall vapor]

did you read the article you yourself linked

[marsh helm]

make better use of the cpu and gpu

[cunning pine]

Bustin' makes me feel good!

[marsh helm]

yes but what im talking about isnt this

[cunning pine]

I mean what?

[marsh helm]

this is part1

[sudden adder]

listen, you can do whatever in your free time, but no bustin over here please

[tall vapor]

well then what are you talking abt

linking x while talking abt y e.e

[marsh helm]

i guess we will just have to wait for the play station to release as i think its the only one that has it

[tall vapor]

so what has that to do with ms

[sudden adder]

dont use The Fellowship of the Ring as an example of what happens in The Two Towers 😄

[full fern]

Is this some new slang the kids are using? Gawddamit, I just learned rizz and drop

[marsh helm]

not sure yet

[tall vapor]

so why are you saying that it has

[marsh helm]

but this new work graph stuff is a big step in that

way

[sudden adder]

Derrrrrrrrrrrrrroooooooop!

[tall vapor]

"I heard that ms&amd are working on cpu based rt"

who said that

[sudden adder]

also

[marsh helm]

all amd has said about it is that they are working on a way to make the cpu do the low lvl rt work. they have said that many years ago around 3 i think

[tall vapor]

I'll be headed out for the day, then

[marsh helm]

if you havnt heard about it then im gonna assume theres nothing more to know 😦 sad

[tall vapor]

I don't even know where ya heard what ya say ya heard

you just linked something entirely different and somehow crosslinked that

so yea

no clue

[sudden adder]

im not seeing any news mentioning AMD RT and CPU

[tall vapor]

me neither, me neither

[marsh helm]

it was during an interview with a person from radeon

i think

[sudden adder]

thinking is overrated, thats why I stopped doing it

[amber sparrow]

Otter making things up... SMH my head

[marsh helm]

😢 nuh

[tall vapor]

like yeah, work graphs are a thing. Neat thing even

got nothing to do with rt tho

[marsh helm]

that was invented or pushed forward by epic

which does have a pretty solid software based RT system

[tall vapor]

with the amount of things yer saying it should be easily google-able if it actually was a thing

now epic is involved too

ok

[marsh helm]

the work graphs is epic yes

[sudden adder]

your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find this interview. If any of your Otter Force are caught or killed, the government will disavow this mission

[tall vapor]

ah, we're back to work graphs now

[marsh helm]

it was a single sentence but ill try

[tall vapor]

the only thing abt RT that AMD did recently was to finally open source hip-rt

used in blender

[amber sparrow]

And this message will self destruct in 5....4....3

A single sentence said years ago with no further mention sounds less than hopeful

[marsh helm]

yeah it was never brought up again

[tall vapor]

sounds more like a "We're looking into if that is something that could be done"

[marsh helm]

yeah

could be

rereading the work graph stuff here i do wonder if amd aim is to focus on software based RT

[tall vapor]

well if it has only been said during an interview many years back, never to be heard of again

[tall vapor]

no.

different thing

[marsh helm]

they cant beat nvidia at rt

and they have already said they are out of the top end

[tall vapor]

that work graph article never even mentioned amd

it only mentioned RT because it can be helpful there on low mem cards

potentially

eventually

maybe

mayhaps

RT was only included in the article because buzzword, quite frankly

[sudden adder]

and its sequel, Otterheimer

[tall vapor]

please ensure that your chains of thought don't intermingle, thank you

😅

[sudden adder]

but together we can break these chains

😄

[tall vapor]

LLMs already do a pretty damn good job at that, at adding random words together in order to make things up

the AI future be looking great

[sudden adder]

it almost says "Upshitter"

Upshter without a paddle

[marsh helm]

[sudden adder]

dont worry, im done. go back to making your RT nuke, Otterheimer

[marsh helm]

im reading how software based RT works atm

[tall vapor]

same way it has worked for decades, aye

[sudden adder]

i was doing ray tracing in the 90s with Strata Vision 3D

unless you are specifically talking about RT-RT (Real Time Ray Tracing), which is just RT, but really really fast

[marsh helm]

well im reading how lumen software based stuff works

vs its hardware

[sudden adder]

ah, the Unreal tech

[marsh helm]

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/lumen-technical-details-in-unreal-engine?application_version=5.3

works as you expect

just interested in what can be done with it

[sudden adder]

yee

[marsh helm]

a good enough software based RT is more interesting to me vs using a ton of die space on RT cores

[marsh helm]

i should have the money to upgrade this winter

i want to get a 4080 super lvl gpu

[open rune]

I have a 4090 coming this week :o And then I have to go out of town for a work trip like 2 days later

[amber sparrow]

You did the thing?!?

👀

[open rune]

Need more rays, and fake frames

[amber sparrow]

Driver update. Let's see how amd gonna screw me on this latest one

Stupid shaders need to compile

[tall vapor]

shaders tend to recompile with every driver update, aye

[open rune]

The Last of Us PC port was really bad about that

Takes like 10 minutes and beats the ever loving shit out of your CPU

[civic quarry]

Call of duty makes my PC scream when shaders are compiling

[silver fable]

I got a meal prep list from my dietician to try and help me on my weight loss and fitness journey. Bought all the things I'd need for around a single week.

Over 200 fucking dollars, for just my ass. Jesus Christ no wonder so many Americans are fat and in poor health. I could eat for over a month if I went for the less healthy alternatives.

[amber sparrow]

Eating "healthy" for sure ain't cheap

Now multiply that by 4 people

Welcome to my hell

I make a 6 figure salary(not a brag) and still manage to be paycheck to paycheck more often than not mostly due to grocery bill

6 figures in 2024 ain't shit

[carmine ibex]

this blackberry lime with mint drink is actually really good

[smoky rapids]

While I'm over here enjoying SINK lifestyle

And 3k CC debt that is a sinking boat I'm emptying

[low girder]

Yo

I was wonderin can someone help me with this? --> #stream-setup message

[amber sparrow]

Cross posting is rarely a good idea in any support server 😉

[amber sparrow]

Wanna swap? 😉

[smoky rapids]

[amber sparrow]

[silver fable]

Dinner time!

[dawn fossil]

Set me a place and pour me a double

[smoky rapids]

And I'm over here fixing ramen

[silver fable]

Got there later than I had hoped, and had to scarf it all down fast.

[low girder]

Talkin to me?

[frozen summit]

Oled kinda W

[livid plover]

ok now make it show black with a single white object in the middle

[carmine ibex]

I still haven't bought that hdmi cable so I can easily hook up my computer to the G2

I currently have connected to a C1 but I need a longer one...

[livid plover]

more of a displayPort kinda household you run?

ah just length

[carmine ibex]

yeah

[livid plover]

i just leave my tv plugged in so sometimes windows dissapear off to the black abyss of a turned off tv and i have to go hunt them down in the alt+tab menu

[carmine ibex]

LG G4 looks pretty cool
they fixed a lot of issues that the G3 had
more color brightness in game mode, fixed tint issues.. various other panel issues... and higher brightness in general
but apparently most of the stuff people are excited about is the non general brightness stuff

[livid plover]

real fun when you're navigating a games' setting menu to change active display in it through the tiny alt+tab window 😂

[carmine ibex]

right, it was posterization... was real bad on G3... seems to be much better on G4

[livid plover]

"such as 'AI Director Processing', which can detect a director's intended colour tone"
...what?

[carmine ibex]

meh

[livid plover]

yeah that sounds like stuff to just turn off out the box

[carmine ibex]

I mean, it can improve the image... but it can also hurt the image
gimmicky, sure... but meh

[livid plover]

yeah, as all things

amazing how much processing is in those new tv's still tbh, compared to the dumb screens which barely had the right tv decoder depending on age

[quartz pewter]

hey can you guys rate the OST's i made 1/10?

1st

2nd

[sterile flower]

Common OLED W

[sudden adder]

moving over here from #tech-talk , but with the Highlander reference i made, I remembered that Henry Cavil was rumored to be working on a new Highlander film.

Two things I want to see is a Henry Cavil lead Highlander, and whatever WarHammer 40K TV/Film project he may also be working on

[prisma dove]

two thumbs up there

[amber sparrow]

Think I could pull this off?

[prisma dove]

It's you

[livid plover]

Hell yeah

Get a pink handled toolkit too

[sudden adder]

renaming yourself FannyFresh?

[cunning pine]

could rename to Matty "Manpurse" Fresh

[amber sparrow]

Went with this one

Bringing back the 90s

[sudden adder]

you're a space man

[sterile flower]

N E E D

[sterile flower]

A L S O N E E D

[open rune]

@amber sparrow This one's for you

[amber sparrow]

Bahahahahaha

Bofa deez NUTZ

[solar quail]

idk where to pist this so correct me if im wrong.
anyone here has advice on a free editing software? i just want to put clips behind each other cause the time in between is to long or i've clipped it on multiple records.. its just to show my gaming buddys

[wise bay]

For a list of recommended post-production software, including video editors, see our list of Post Production Tools

[wary holly]

@solar quail Trimming and stitching doesn't require video editing software, you can make do with mkvtoolnix gui or losslesscut.

[solar quail]

hmm, i did it with Openshot just now but if mkvtoolnix gui is a better option then i will use that in the future xD it just need to be easy use like cut it delete the rest of the clip and paste it

[wary holly]

@solar quail Try losslesscut for that.

[full fern]

Yeah, I like lossless cut a lot. I think I started using it bc of your recommendation, so thanks!

[solar quail]

Thanks. time to make some more clips (hopefully) and give it a shot ^^

[tough elk]

Confused why my cpu isn't doing anything while my gpu is boosting up

[karmic tiger]

because what you're doing is using the GPU and not the CPU

or rather, using the GPU more than the CPU

[tough elk]

Shouldn't the cpu work together tho?

[karmic tiger]

depends for what

[sudden adder]

they each have their own jobs

[karmic tiger]

cpu and gpu are not interchangeable for every task

[tough elk]

I'm trying to figure out if it really my cpu that is bottleneck

[karmic tiger]

some very specific tasks can be done by both but that's the exception not the rule

[tough elk]

The fps in my game isn't consistent or high

[wise bay]

If you need more in-depth technical help for your computer issues outside of OBS, you can join the /r/TechSupport Discord server

[karmic tiger]

@sudden adder and as everybody knows, thicker paint means more detail

I love that analogy because it's actually good, because it makes sense on a surface level, but when you actually think about it, no it doesn't

[sudden adder]

im trying to come up with a YouTube analogy now

[karmic tiger]

youtube takes the painting you send to them and then makes photocopies of it

[sudden adder]

like, YouTube allows a TON of paint, but they dont put your painting on display, they take a photo of it. And they use better film the larger your canvas is

small canvas? EH, poloroid

medium canvas? disposable camera

HUGE canvas? Digital SLR

[karmic tiger]

lmfao

[karmic tiger]

(actually a polaroid would have better resolution since it's analog)

[sudden adder]

fixed

[karmic tiger]

lmfao

[sudden adder]

gotta use a visual aid to get the kids to understand how it works

[full fern]

LOL, perfect!

[karmic tiger]

reminds me of someone arguing that an old photo was fake "because they didn't have that good reolution back then"

[sudden adder]

HA

[karmic tiger]

like bish most modern cameras still don't have the resolution of an analog camera

[sudden adder]

they didnt know how light worked

OH, i did see news that the Disney sodium vapor cube has been recreated, and it works WAY better than green screen and blue screen ever could

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDk

Corridor Digital got to do the first real tests of it

[karmic tiger]

ooooh

[prisma dove]

Light + Film

[karmic tiger]

that's the thing they used for mary poppins, no?

[sudden adder]

yep

where it split the light in two. one was a very specific light wavelength, and the other was everything else.

the demo is beautiful

[tough elk]

So in cs2, my cpu usage and gpu usage is 43% and 38% and in apex, my cpu usage and gpu usage is 36% and 50%

[karmic tiger]

ok

[tough elk]

Can I overclock my cpu?

[jaunty fulcrum]

sounds like you don't need to

[karmic tiger]

I don't know, can you?

[tough elk]

It's either my cpu bottleneck to my gpu or it's the opposite, I can tell sometimes my cpu usage is higher then my gpu tho in some games

[karmic tiger]

because some games use the gpu more than the cpu??

[jaunty fulcrum]

that's normal, every game is different

also your in-game settings can drastically change how your cpu/gpu are used

[uneven spear]

Where you happen to be standing in a level does, too.

[sudden adder]

yep, consistent across the board performance for everything is a pipe dream, and going after it is a snipe hunt

[tough elk]

My FPS currently in apex is at around 140 fps

[sudden adder]

Advanced Mode, when used by people that dont know what the settings do, always reminds me of this scene from Portal 2

moments before every switch in the room gets flipped

[uneven spear]

Omg. I will now imagine that every user in #windows-support has Wheatley's voice.

[midnight isle]

I have a question, whenever I record a video with OBS then I check it in the file it's so, and sometimes it freezes, what can I do to fix that?

[uneven spear]

!s

[wise bay]

If you need help or have questions about OBS, check out our #support-portal first!

[uneven spear]

...Who has Glados' voice?

[sudden adder]

my job is done

[silver fable]

Now I want to play again. Cave Johnson is amazing. Only time I played it, was when it first came out.

[karmic tiger]

lmao always reminds me of the cave johnson lgbt edits

[uneven spear]

Am I Cave Joshson when I'm on about encoding? Do my codecs come from the moon?

[sudden adder]

i played it when it came out too, got it on PS3 and the free Steam copy. Got it activated on Steam moments before the PSN hack happened

i wonder how much of that soured the whole Steam/Sony thing

[uneven spear]

What thing?

[sudden adder]

if you bought Portal 2 on PS3, you got the Steam game for free, and there was going to be, from what I remember, more Steam integration with PSN overall.

but then that Dead Lizard S Club 7 hacking group stepped on PSN and it was down for a month or so

[sudden adder]

so no one during that time could redeem the Steam copy

WS makes me want to ask "do you just flip any switch you see and then wonder why the fire department has shown up and you are covered in water?"

[uneven spear]

Is this why sometimes the server icon stays rainbow, owo?

[sudden adder]

yes, because the mods dont CAVE to pressure

[uneven spear]

Some people do;this is how experimentation works, owo. The problem is that people don't know how to take notes so they don't know how to unflip switches.

[sudden adder]

yes, there is the "scientific method" and then theres the...

"whats a method, man?"

method

[silver fable]

Method Man?

[karmic tiger]

water method man?

[sudden adder]

let me correct myself

done 🙂

[carmine ibex]

sounds like cpu bottleneck, based on what you said

[proper valve]

Hi

[marsh helm]

https://fixupx.com/otteritarian/status/1776995074414465114
i hope yall sleep good

[karmic tiger]

awwwwh 💜

have a good sleep, otter

[harsh pollen]

https://insider-gaming.com/cd-projekt-aaaaa-games-development/

Forget Ubisoft’s AAAA Games, CD Projekt Is Making ‘AAAAA’ Games

[tough elk]

Here my benchmark test

[wheat karma]

I'm a large language model?

[marsh helm]

i feel called out

[wheat karma]

I'm neither large nor a model

[marsh helm]

ive modeled my own pictures

[lilac stag]

Good Morning everyone. Hope you had a good weekend and have fun this week. Be Safe if you are going to watch the Solar Eclipse later today.

[open rune]

[full fern]

I'm 100% safe from any damage. 🌧️ ☁️ 🌫️

[full fern]

[terse helm]

well yes but

why is god punishing us by putting the moon in front of our source of light and happiness

and how does this prove the earth is flat

[full fern]

The moon is big round life raft floating on the firmament waters. God is paddling it

And he's angry because you touch yourself

ROFL

[prisma dove]

nah, flat earth, on the backs of elephants, on the back of a giant turtle. The moon is just a turtle turd that got stuck in orbit.

[livid plover]

He just mad his arms are too short

[full fern]

🦖God is a T-rex confirmed

[livid plover]

Truly a creation in his own image

[full fern]

P!nk was lyin when sang God is a DJ. Arms to short to spin records

[terse helm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s3PB44paCI

[full fern]

A masterpiece. Thank you

[terse helm]

that movie is so good

also I'm like 95% sure one of the fembots is cersei from game of thrones

[vapid tinsel]

That was a freaking 🆒 eclipse! Surreal how fast and how dark it got!

[amber sparrow]

I'm only in a 55% area. Seems like a just not as bright but normal day

[civic quarry]

99% area here, 3:18 is the time but it is already getting pretty dim

[amber sparrow]

Kinda jealous. I'd like to experience that

[civic quarry]

meh

its light, then dark, then light again

if you have a light switch anywhere in your home you can simulate the experience

[livid plover]

bonus points if it's a dimmer

[marsh helm]

the idea of staring at the sun is a bad idea

[vapid tinsel]

We were in the 100% zone … took these during totality

[marsh helm]

also it will kill your camera

[vapid tinsel]

Surreal how fast and how dark it got

[vapid tinsel]

I have eclipse glasses

[vapid tinsel]

Camera wasn’t pointed at the sun. I know better.

[marsh helm]

hey tahts the person in your pfp

[marsh helm]

most places that lent you rent camera will fine you if you use a camera for this sun stuff

[vapid tinsel]

Yup, me.

[vapid tinsel]

I bet, and rightly so.

[marsh helm]

im going to get into photogrammetry

reality labs is going to be free at the end of the month

lots of thrift stores near here thaat i can find weird stuff

then place them in unreal engine

i cant really do photography anymore becaues of my health

but i want to still do the same stuff but from my pc

[uneven spear]

Screenshots in video games with Ansel can also be an option, owo.

[open rune]

Go take some 32k screenshots of grass in Witcher 3

[uneven spear]

Play Ark, take pictures!

[marsh helm]

[karmic tiger]

you might not like it but this is what peak jraphics look like

[karmic tiger]

lmfao hwich game is that

[open rune]

ARK: Survival Ascended

[civic quarry]

maybe there have been changes between now and then but i played yesterday when i realized it hit game pass and it was perfectly fine

[uneven spear]

ASA runs faster than ASE does in my experience, owo.

[open rune]

I'm sorry to inform you but the ASE abbreviation is reserved for all time by the now-defunct All-Seeing Eye game server browser

Thank you for your cooperation

[carmine ibex]

I'm not viewing that.. but in general, if GPU usage is less than about 90%, you are primarily CPU bottlenecked

[amber sparrow]

helldivers 2 makes my gpu cry

😦

[open rune]

It needs some better resolution scaling options badly

[amber sparrow]

I mean, it still feels totally smoooooth

before dialing back a couple settings I was at about 65fps. was fine. a couple tweaks and im at 90-110ish

and the game looks GREAT at 3440x1440

[open rune]

I cap at 90 and dip a little bit when things get really crazy

I'm a Helldivers hater though

[carmine ibex]

I find 3840x2160 with DLAA to generally be okay
But if I sit too close, it does become a little soft

I have a habit of sitting really close

[open rune]

DLAA on 4K native, is it really generally okay? You sure? lol

[karmic tiger]

friend of mine is livestreaming the google trend for "eyes hurt"

[amber sparrow]

Bug sympathizer?

Savage

You are an embarrassment to super earth

[open rune]

I ride for Darktide

The emperor knows what's up

[karmic tiger]

your emperor is a corpse

[carmine ibex]

I mean, it can butcher detail or sharpness... but generally, it's fine
I actually use native TAA in Guardians of the Galaxy because they use a light implementation that makes it much sharper than DLAA

[sudden adder]

i wish the game let you play as the bugs

id probably play it then

[amber sparrow]

Masochist eh? You wanna get squished?

DEATH TO BUGS

[sudden adder]

no, id rather not play as the fascists 🙂 im a simple bug

[amber sparrow]

Bro. Played against robots yesterday. Those fuckers are hard

I do not like the robots

[sudden adder]

same reason that Starship Troopers game that got released a year or so ago, i felt, missed the mark

[carmine ibex]

I also can sit as close as 32" away from the sceeen
And at that point.. yeah, it's softer
It looks.. fine but def softer

[amber sparrow]

I dont read that deep into my games

I'm there for fun

[open rune]

I just don't find it interesting and spend most of my time wishing for all of the things they didn't do with the game. I also hate the general theme and think they did a bad job with third person

[amber sparrow]

It does feel a touch repetitive but I mostly find it to be a good hour or 2 at a time distraction

Like. It's not something I feel inclined to major time sink like a lot of the die hards

[open rune]

I love me some squad coop

[sudden adder]

thats how i am with Deep Rock Galactic Survivor

[amber sparrow]

I've got about 20 hours in reg DRG. I can't stand that game

It's annoying and tedious and hard

I dont have patience for tedious

[sudden adder]

i enjoy the hell out of the regular game when I have a good group together

[amber sparrow]

That's what I've heard

With a full group it can be a riot

[sudden adder]

i need to jump back into PUGs of The Finals and see how that has changed since i played it around launch. Thats a game with enough of a "postive energy" feeling from the announcers that PUGs, win or lose, dont bother me at all

reminds me a little bit of Team Fortress 2, but with smaller teams, and an extra team to delay the other

and now im getting nostalgic for M.A.G and Dust 514

[amber sparrow]

Finals is a blast. The mechanics feel soooooo smooth

Legit one of the cleanest games I've played in the last 4-5 years

The commentary leaves a bit to be.....desired

Sometimes downright annoying when trying to hear directional audio

But not super horrible

[sudden adder]

its got the energy of Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, but without the humor.

[amber sparrow]

That's actually spot on

[open rune]

I live for party banter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBXklBsVvVE&list=PLOKyPtdTuLLainwhpek-SpQ7UWd6j6zy4&index=18

[amber sparrow]

I live to party like a rock....party like a rockstar

[open rune]

No more banter for you

[sudden adder]

im interested in seeing how the upcoming Marathon sequel* expands on the story from the previous games

[open rune]

You'll find out, after you aren't allowed to play any of the old Marathon content

[sudden adder]

ive played all three plus the fan made expansion

[amber sparrow]

Know what game I wished they'd make a modern day sequel to?

[open rune]

FEAR

[sudden adder]

Deez Nutz 2 : Nut Harder?

[amber sparrow]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_(video_game)

Black was sooo ahead of its time

[sudden adder]

oh yeah, they turned that into a driving game

Twisted Metal : Black

🙂

[amber sparrow]

That one missed. Unlike the twisted metal live action show

[sudden adder]

funny thing is that Black was made by the Burnout devs

[amber sparrow]

Burnout paradise was a blast

I haven't played a TM game in YEARS tho

[sudden adder]

i play Burnout Paradise on my steamdeck

[hearty stirrup]

Burnout Revenge is fun too

[sudden adder]

specificlly the Ultimate Box edition, because the Remaster has issues with loading up the EA store and playing back videos

[amber sparrow]

Leave it to ea

They can fuck up anything

[sudden adder]

Bad Company 3, if they make it, will be terrible. First ones story was funny, second's story was just bland (MP was great)

[amber sparrow]

BC2 multiplayer was worth cost of admission

Dropping a building on top of 3 snipers with a mortar strike was incredible

[sudden adder]

played a ton of BF:BC2 multiplayer, along with the online only 1943

[livid plover]

I wish bad company 1 got ported forward and wasn't stuck to an awful FOV

Tried to replay it but wow, disorienting

[void gorge]

I remember an article by the DICE devs stating they didn't know what made BC2 special. But the Vietnam DLC add-on for that game was amazing.

[sudden adder]

The gameplay felt good and solid. If the devs didnt know why, that seems to be shortsightedness. Luckily the vietnam dlc was great. Because BF3 was meh

[void gorge]

https://www.eurogamer.net/dice-ponders-what-did-people-really-like-about-battlefield-bad-company

I wonder that's why we got Hardline 😄

[sudden adder]

I only got into BC, BC2 and 1943. Everything else after that felt off

oh, and BF:P4F

back when EA was doing that Play4Free service

Used to play Need4Speed Play4Free on an eyefinity triple display setup. 3x32inch vizio tvs, lol.

[left heart]

I finally have a discord avatar

[full fern]

Ooh, I like it!

[left heart]

I have like 200 more shots, gonna have to wait until I get back home to edit them all together

[full fern]

It's really fantastic! Nice job

[left heart]

Tyty! Now I'm all hoarse from holding a public observing session for the partial phases at the park I went to >_<

[uneven spear]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/clevetura/clvx-1-keyboard-gives-you-more FINALLY. I can get a new keyboard! Somebody finally, FINALLY, made a laptop-style keyboard, with a trackpad, that is maybe going to have a production run! O_O!

(For those unaware: For weird accessibility reasons, I /require/ this, and have been surviving off of old-new-stock for over a decade and cannablising other boards as they fail. I'm running low on parts.)

[jaunty fulcrum]

With gestures on the keys? That's a bit.. unlikely

Probably not a nice feel either.

[little glacier]

Does anybody know anything about PostgreSQL deprecating hash indexes?

[tawdry orbit]

Not meaning to be rude, could the Magic Keyboard + trackpad possibly work?

Oh nevermind it's Apple, I don't know why I thought it would work well on windows

[tall vapor]

we had a convo abt that a long while back, back then I suggested the magic trackpad as well. Nah, ain't an option iirc

mainly because it ain't a combo unit /w the kb

[tawdry orbit]

Ah

[karmic tiger]

ooooh, hope it'll go production

[vernal current]

a program keeps opening on my second screen anytime i open it...how do i get it to open only on the other screen?

windows 11

[jaunty fulcrum]

depends on the program. I have that issue with Spotify, it always opens in the middle of my main display, rather than where I move it to.

[vernal current]

yea i keep moving it everytime

[tall vapor]

Ye, if yer second screen indeed ain't set to be primary then the window position is most def stored somewhere. No clue where that would be on windows, tho 😅

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-11-opens-apps-on-secondary-monitor-how-do/ea47fec4-f4d0-4b09-8454-a31e1c27ad43

This is what google says

[steel dune]

kick.com/johnofelijah

[wise bay]

Self-advertisement or advertisement for others is not allowed on this server unless it's directly relevant to a discussion or question. Please read the rules in the #rules channel.

[uneven spear]

Nuh; it must be combined as one single unit, not as two sseparable devices, owo.

[uneven spear]

Thank you.

[tall vapor]

😅

[full fern]

In case this is helpful to anyone else: If someone claiming to be a partnered streamer messages you on Discord out of the blue, it's a scam. The tell is when they don't have Twitch, YT accounts connected, but will put a link to "their Twitch" in the bio text. They can't connect bc they are not the real person.

And always report to Discord directly!

[marsh helm]

intereting scam

[full fern]

I can't say I know exactly what they do after they gain your trust, I have never been able to stop myself sassing and reporting them.

[marsh helm]

yeah still scary tho

[karmic tiger]

:3

[marsh helm]

oh oops

[karmic tiger]

lmao don't worry

[marsh helm]

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-board-partners-expect-geforce-rtx-5090-and-rtx-5080-to-launch-in-fourth-quarter maybe november

rumors

[karmic tiger]

it's just a dumbass out of context screenshot

[marsh helm]

i mean paying $1k for a 5070

will feel like a scam

[full fern]

Haha true

[marsh helm]

please dont forget that there was a $999 4080

sorry 899

thats pretty much a 5070

. The RTX 4080 12GB starts at $899 in the US, with a starting price of €1,099 in Europe and £949 in the UK.

i expect the 5070 to be about that much

and the 5080 to be $1200 again'

but this time it will be less vram vs a 4090 but almost as fast

nvidia is already cutting production for it

the 4090 that is

keep the price high

[carmine ibex]

uhhh.. I just measured, it's generally 36" at the closest

still, 36" with only 2160p resolution is.. a little soft

[carmine ibex]

I was recording to show difference between low transparency and high... and.. color correction filter + HDR tone mapping causes issues here as well >.>
dat black stuff

[amber sparrow]

Utilizing my fancy fanny pack

[amber sparrow]

Spotted a dinosaur today

[civic quarry]

saw one chomp a bird on the tram ride from the gates to luggage last time i was at MCO

[amber sparrow]

That's cooler than my experience 😦

[civic quarry]

yeah but you're the florida man surely you have many many more gator experiences than me

[amber sparrow]

Never seen them eating something/someone outside of a zoo

[civic quarry]

you saw them eat someone at a zoo?!?!?!

[livid plover]

average florida moment ngl

[left heart]

one of my friends works in an apparel store and told me they had a lot of sunglasses sales on monday. those people are not having a good time right now.

[prisma dove]

omg

[left heart]

big shoutout to the guy in the park I was holding observing sessions at who was handing out ritz crackers as pinhole viewers, though. they worked surprisingly well

nice edible optical instrument

[full fern]

Edible Optical Instrument is the name of my next electonica band

[left heart]

you even know what to use for the album cover too

[full fern]

Heck yes

[karmic tiger]

crotch shots on main, my oh my

[surreal owl]

Guys, does anybody know any good GUI TTS software for Linux?

To paste some text in there and export it as WAV file

[tall vapor]

gui? Hah, nah. As for the text.... that's highly language dependent

the gui stuff ya get is part of tts as to get tts as an accessibility feature, not that

but atm one of the best there be just has to be piper. Can be set up as part of the accessibility too of course, but in this case ya just wanna pipe text into it. Works perfectly fine, because that's how the backend of using it for accessibility works as well after all

It's just that piper requires hardware, all the decent TTS do

[surreal owl]

I don't need it as part of accessibility

[tall vapor]

well yeah, but that's where ya got the gui.

[surreal owl]

I just want some very simple robotic voice for escape pod AI in my little game

[tall vapor]

ah ok.

so nothing decent, gotcha 😅

Lemme think abt which be the worst tts I know of that isn't a dectalk from back in the day

[tall vapor]

altho piper runs on a surprising amount of hardware, hell even a raspi4. That's what makes it serviceable for local tts in an accessibility context, I suppose

But yeah, "I wanna find the worst TTS there be" is a completely different request

[surreal owl]

Not the worst, but the simplest

I mean, I don't want to use some crutches such as using OBS to record TTS that works thru terminal

[tall vapor]

why would ya do that. Ya can literally send it off to whatever audio format ya want

be it that ya pipe it directly to be stored as pcm, or if ya pipe it to an encoder to get an mp3 file or whatever, doesn't matter

most tts don't even need ya to pipe it into somethin as they got the option to store it to a file themselves

[surreal owl]

Well... sudo pacman -S piper?

._.

[tall vapor]

nah, that gives you the gui for a mouse configuration software (libratbag). Can be used for logitech G series mice&such, for example 😅

[surreal owl]

Ah...

[tall vapor]

https://github.com/rhasspy/piper I'm talkin bout this piper here

but nah, likely way too good for what ya want.

[surreal owl]

I don't need shitty TTS

I need simple TTS

[tall vapor]

but you want robotic

[surreal owl]

Those are different

[tall vapor]

so you want shitty tts

[surreal owl]

I can make it sound robotic with Audacity

[tall vapor]

I suppose

[surreal owl]

OKAY, THIS SOUNDS SICK

[ivory ice]

wtf, that actually sounds sick ngl

[marsh helm]

nuclear launch detected

[surreal owl]

:D

[ivory ice]

imagine that as like a count down for a intro to a stream or a video that would be pretty cool ngl xD

[surreal owl]

One of my strengths is my sound editing skills.

Mainly because I spent a good while working with shitty microphones

[surreal owl]

Y not :D

But I plan to use this one in the game

[marsh helm]

thats cool

[ivory ice]

ooooo

[surreal owl]

But don't expect me to finish it. This is how it looks like rn.

[surreal owl]

Ye, I have literally no assets

[proper valve]

I've been learning french lately

Tu es vais à angleterre à edtudie? theres a random sentence

[prisma dove]

Que dois-je étudier en angleterre?

[proper valve]

I haven't gotten that far

I can sort of translate the last half of the sentence

[prisma dove]

What should I study in england?

[proper valve]

oh

gare

[prisma dove]

lol

reminds me of my first year french in school

[proper valve]

dois-je means should I?

Que means what according to my understanding

[silver fable]

Can you draw me like you do your French girls?

[proper valve]

Oui

[prisma dove]

I could, but I don't have French girls. And my wife would be jealous.

[civic quarry]

patiently waiting for the joker 2 trailer in 50 minutes

[amber sparrow]

@civic quarry you ever watch the fargo series?

[civic quarry]

no

ive heard it was ok

[proper valve]

when would etudier be used?

[prisma dove]

to study? pretty common, I think, to use it.

I could be wrong. I learned my French in the early 80's and last practiced it in the early 90's in northern France.

[proper valve]

I thought it was edtudie

[prisma dove]

Conjugation, maybe? It's what my brain cells can conjure

[proper valve]

I have a lot more to learn

It's just expressing mood

[prisma dove]

I'm 3rd generation european/azorean portuguese and italian. I learned a little french, didn't need spanish because everyone gets it second hand in California, so what did I study in high school and college? German.

and a little Latin

[proper valve]

latin sounds cool

[open rune]

That's how they get ya

[proper valve]

that pfp is terrifying

[open rune]

[proper valve]

:/

[open rune]

I thought it was a brilliant combo. Good work, me

[civic quarry]

so good

[novel kayak]

hello guys

[tall vapor]

it be

[smoky rapids]

@jaunty fulcrum If you have another moment there's a pile of trash in #stream-setup that someone has yet to put in the trash can.

I was sad that I couldn't stream the eclipse yesterday with how overcast it was during my window but I managed to have a little bit of fun later during the night when the rain I was expecting came trhough during my stream and got to test out the NDI plugin with my phone.

Turned out not too hard to setup surprisingly.

Also helped that reading in the OBS-NDI server that the mobile app I used has a minor quirk.

[terse helm]

quirk?

[smoky rapids]

I have to use NDI bridge to capture NDI HX on android.

[terse helm]

why is that

isn't ndi bridge just to route ndi stuff between networks?

[smoky rapids]

The thing is I was on the same network technically. Only difference is that my PC has a wired connection from the WIFI point I connect to.

[amber sparrow]

Before

After

[marsh helm]

https://youtu.be/FZlCtO7qapY

okay but can you make bigger pipe?

[open rune]

[amber sparrow]

https://www.icran.org/disturbing-facts-about-otters/#:~:text=Aggression and Territorial Behavior&text=While otters appear to be,jaws to inflict serious injury.
Otters are actually kinda shit heads apparently

😦

[silver fable]

So, the old woman had to swallow a 'gator to eat the otter?

[vernal current]

just finished unicorn overlord.....what a fantastic game (and big boobas)

too bad they dont make games like this anymore 😦

it really felt like a spiritual successor to ogre battle 64

[gray moat]

anyone else have the new youtube layout

[marsh helm]

humans do a lot worse

[thick prawn]

They do indeed. Everywhere

[sleek ledge]

discord casually silently releasing a new feature

[terse helm]

oh great

though arguably built-in polls are a better idea than the reaction-based polling people do now

[dawn fossil]

Indeed

Limiting to one answer, for a start

[little glacier]

Idk, I'm not seeing anything contradicting here. 🤔

[terse helm]

huh

[jaunty fulcrum]

I expect this is why

[terse helm]

well yeah but users vs servers

wonder if they changed their mind on how to roll out the feature midway through

[tall vapor]

nah, the code for it has been in the client for a while already. They're just rolling it out now, piece by piece

[jaunty fulcrum]

or it was the former for a time and now it's got a larger rollout

[terse helm]

maybe

[tall vapor]

(on mobile it requires the v221 client. Well, we're at v226 or sth rn)

[jaunty fulcrum]

updated and mine still says "Users" not "Servers"

[tall vapor]

nah. Any user with "send messages" permissions is able to create polls /IF/ the feature has been enabled for said user already

[terse helm]

updated and mine went from servers to users

[jaunty fulcrum]

yeah that'd make sense. they likely started by testing on a limited number of servers, then once they were happy they are unlocking it per user.

[terse helm]

evidently I am enabled

[tall vapor]

ah interesting. All the servers I'm active in I can create polls

[jaunty fulcrum]

I would guess if you're an active discord user at all, you likely already have access by now

[tall vapor]

Lovely how discord hasn't provided a separate perm for that, tho

[terse helm]

yeah that kinda sucks

[jaunty fulcrum]

watch them scramble and add a permission within a week

though likely not during the weekend

[tall vapor]

I can already imagine the spambots implementing poll spam as we speak

[jaunty fulcrum]

it's one of those really obvious loopholes

likely a "yeah we can't get it out for this week's deadline, but should be out next week"

[terse helm]

meanwhile spambots: "We had this implemented yesterday."

[tall vapor]

cause why would ya spam text if ya can spam dozens of polls in a matter of seconds instead? Much more efficient&annoying!

[tall vapor]

Wouldn't surprise me either as the client side code has been there for a while already, this rollout is just setting the flag for users/servers to allow em to create polls so to speak

[jaunty fulcrum]

watch the mod bots integrate a way to block polls faster than discord themsevles

[terse helm]

for sure

[tall vapor]

Yeeeee

[tall vapor]

Wouldn't surprise me either if yer normal word blacklists&such simply don't work for polls. Wanna write somethin that would get yeeted by automod/whatever other bot? Wrap it in a poll instead!

[terse helm]

lol

[jaunty fulcrum]

yeah dyno has its own poll functionality

[terse helm]

they explicitly say that poll stuff is subject to the normal automod

[tall vapor]

ah, that's at least somethin

Wouldn't've surprised me if it wasn't, quite frankly. This feature does appear to be a tad rushed (due to the lack of a perm for it&such), after all

[terse helm]

wouldn't surprise me if it was implemented as a specially-formatted message + reactions

[tall vapor]

ye, has the vibe

def some code-reuse going on there

[copper pasture]

I hope they will eventually make it a special permission

[terse helm]

turns out there are already bots that do this

https://github.com/Codeize/PollPolice like such as

[sudden adder]

And now i have the Vegan Police scene from Scott Pilgrim in my head

[proper valve]

Hi

[sterile flower]

No fun allowed here!

[frigid ledge]

I stream AC odyssey gameplay on my channel over at Youtube and almost every time i get copyright strike for in game soundtrack music, that is so weird, and disputing those claims always rejected. Is it a known issue? Isn't it weird?

[livid plover]

yeah it's common that games use copyrighted music in-game. some games have a streamer mode that disables thse tracks

[amber sparrow]

The juice has been fully squeezed

OJ gone

[livid plover]

squisher

[prisma dove]

damn, eff cancer

[amber sparrow]

I mean, dude got away with double murder, let's be real. He got to go in a way more comfortable state than he probably deserved

[prisma dove]

yep

I'm sensitive to cancer, that's all.

[tall vapor]

Aye

[pure dock]

F Cancer,

[frigid ledge]

first game i encountered, damn ubisoft

[uneven spear]

Game design sure does the former, owo.

[civic quarry]

i'd think the former. if a user probably shouldn't use something, you would want to question if it should be there in the first place.

[uneven spear]

Sapiens can I share a meme-video-thing with you? It made me think of you.

[open rune]

[uneven spear]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT8gz3u--8A Worth it, let it happen.

[full fern]

I can't express enough how much this improved my day. Thank you, Kachin ❤️

[uneven spear]

Is welcome. XDDDDDD

[uneven spear]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P51bzBBnHU0&list=PLqWxGh_2yxf8ZEvt2YgE7LEGJY9LV9Svm&index=12 Have another.

[full fern]

I might pee myself laughing at how funny and how brilliant singing through the fan is here. ❤️ 🤣

[uneven spear]

He's so good! O.=.O!

[full fern]

Just magically talented. I love him so much! Thank you for sharing this.

[void gorge]

Anyone know how to archive discord category/channel?

[amber sparrow]

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360042842012-Archive-old-chat-channels

Basically isn't archived, just perm change it seems

[void gorge]

ah so mute the channel

[amber sparrow]

Sort of I suppose

[void gorge]

thanks will do that now. I dont need The Day Before channel anymore 😄

[terse helm]

idk that cancer is funny?

[prisma dove]

Yeah, no cancer jokes. I don't like what OJ did later in his life, but no cancer jokes. Do it on your own server/stream.

[rain valley]

Fallout 76 free if you have prime

[terse helm]

where

[prisma dove]

optimus prime?

[terse helm]

ugh, microsoft

[silver fable]

Microsoft Prime?

[livid plover]

if i drink a can of prime?

[silver fable]

Prime Zero?

[livid plover]

gesundheit

[terse helm]

amazon prime gives you a code for thge microsoft store

rather than something useful like say steam

[full fern]

I'll take it. I like free! Will just add it to the very large group of different launchershortcuts I have on my desktopLOL

[open rune]

This price is too high

[full fern]

Maybe you're right. I have to install the game bar app, sign in to MS stuff four times, get my sign in code LOL

[open rune]

Game bar/game overlay is actually fine, and I'm already signed in since I play some other games that run on MS accounts like Sea of Thieves
I won't abide using the MS Store as a gaming platform though

[full fern]

It's pretty annoying so far haha

Now it's opening my EA games app? What an adventure

I finally did it! hahahaha. Way too high a price

[tawdry orbit]

If you have played/seen anything on the game since launch, I'd highly recommend checking it out. It's really good now and the community is great

[full fern]

I heard it was a bit of a mess at first. Glad to know things are going well now. Thanks!

[carmine ibex]

dats an oof
all the OLED monitors are super aggressive with the ABL

this is silly when you compare to the G3

[cunning quarry]

How would y'all feel if I posted the link to a short film I made?

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[cunning quarry]

Ok fair enough

[copper pasture]

That's not the icon I'm seeing

this is

[dawn fossil]

Yeah, not sure what you were looking at, but the OBS logo on Mac is inside a squircle like every other Mac app icon

Prior to the squircle version, it was identical to the other versions

Here's the link to the proper one: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/UI/cmake/macos/Assets.xcassets/AppIcon.appiconset/icon_512x512%402x.png

[copper pasture]

Yep, that is on Mac, and like Feets says the rounded square/squircle is part of the macOS style recommendations

Wonder if the source file (psd? ai?) for this icon is in a repo somewhere

[wary holly]

!logo @copper pasture

[wise bay]

@copper pasture

High-quality versions of the OBS logo can be found here: https://cloud.h4ndy.eu/seafile/d/ecaab7abeee84c4aabf1/

[copper pasture]

Thank you, I would never have guessed there's actually a bot command for this lol

I thought I'd seen all bot responses by now

[smoky rapids]

!list

[wise bay]

A list of commands can be found here: https://obsbot.rodney.io/

[copper pasture]

considering OBS was originally made to stream starcraft, I think this is only fitting

[copper pasture]

yeah, you can still find the original reddit topic announcing it https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/z58e9/i_made_a_streaming_application_so_i_could_stream/

in r/starcraft

I'm sure the old versions don't look for settings in the same place as modern versions considering how long ago it was, and there was a complete rewrite from scratch in between

you could try it in a vm

Twitch was already a thing - and before that it was Justin.tv

and at the time there was also Ustream and various other services

I made my Twitch account right when it was first called that, in 2011

more like you're just a child

but nah

I'm still in my 30s...for now

whether that's old or not depends on your vantage point lol

Starcraft is strongly linked to streaming, and specifically jtv/twitch in general by the way, during the early days SC2 totally dominated the streaming scene

[marsh helm]

back in my day we had warcraft 1

i bought it in a box set

[copper pasture]

SC2 was the direct inspiration for starting Twitch https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2yxevh/i_am_justin_kan_cofounder_of_internet_startups/cpdu5i6/

[marsh helm]

with starcraft and warcraft 2

[copper pasture]

I want to replay Warcraft 2 sometime

well, not bad, it's kinda faded out of mainstream popularity by now, but it's one of those games that will forever have a strong scene

[silver fable]

Just need more pylons.

[copper pasture]

there's two games, the original starcraft aka "brood war", and starcraft 2, both of which have active pro scenes. the brood war world championship equivalent is actually going on right now

I'm not sure I can link youtube

but here's a brood war pro match that was played last week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJfoQkrGhX8

this is a whole genre of games called RTS

but again these days rts games aren't super popular anymore despite once having been one of the most popular game genres

that's not a bad description though honestly, a mix of factorio and league

it's coming full circle since league actually comes from RTS games

[open rune]

I mean, Dota was a Warcraft 3 mod

[sudden adder]

and FutureCop LAPD had one of the first MOBA-style modes in its multiplayer about 5 years before WC 3 was released

and StarCraft 1 had Aeon of Strife in 1998 as well

according to Wikipedia, Herzog Zwei on the Genesis is cited as the first game to have the MOBA style

[copper pasture]

yep exactly, full circle when someone says "this starcraft thing looks like a moba"

there's a direct line from aeon of strife to league/modern mobas, but I don't know if the same can be said for the other examples you mentioned (I'm not familiar with them myself)

[sudden adder]

loved playing FutureCop LAPD

[open rune]

It's just Helldivers!

[sudden adder]

or Helldivers is just FutureCop LAPD, lol

[cunning pine]

That mech design reminds of this one movie where they had similar looking mechs for military use..... Can't remember the name though

[uneven spear]

You have described an RTS. Factorio and LoL look like RTSes, not the other way around.

[vernal current]

anyone played pentiment? what is it like? I am thinking of getting it. Heard good things about it

[short arrow]

Any new word on Twitch and AV1 besides the announcement little while back ?

[open rune]

No

[hearty stirrup]

league of legends and its genre wouldn't exist if it weren't for RTS like starcraft

history lesson: the ideas that spawned that genre of game came from custom maps made in the original starcraft (aeon of strife) and warcraft 3 (defense of the ancients)

[left heart]

and some of the characters were stolen from the dota-allstars forums

[sudden adder]

based on the annoucement, the Enhanced Broadcasting features may be released (outside of beta) before any of the AV1/H.265 stuff

[sudden adder]

partially. Herzog Zwei predated StarCraft/Aeon of Strife by about a decade, and FutureCop's multiplayer existed before StarCraft was released about 4-5 months later

it gained its popularity from the Star Craft Aeon of Strife map for sure

[short arrow]

well, pooh...

[silver fable]

On my new eat healthy diet, I am trying out chia pudding today. I am still unsure if I like it, or not...

[open rune]

Satan's Tapioca

[silver fable]

I added honey to add some sweetness, but still, has hardly any flavor, and yeah, like slightly crunchy tapioca.

[brazen thunder]

I watched someone play this recently and it honestly looked pretty fun

[open rune]

These fools left it in the hallway and didn't even knock

[livid plover]

yoink

[uneven spear]

Plot twist: They did knock, but on someone else's door, cuz that's someone else's 4090.

[open rune]

We don't do the advertising thing here, sorry

[opaque halo]

So Twitch managed to ban Sery and Sery Bot for about an hour. It's fixed now.

[brazen thunder]

Part of me wishes these were in the power budget for my builds, the other half of me is just hoping battlemage is decent

[open rune]

My PSU is up to the task but my UPS isn't

[uneven spear]

[uneven spear]

Tell me if you find a new one that works for you. Life-po preferably.

[open rune]

I ordered https://www.amazon.com/CyberPower-CP1500PFCLCD-Sinewave-Outlets-Mini-Tower/dp/B00429N19W as a replacement, not sure what I'm going to do with the old one yet

[livid plover]

UPS your coffee maker or something

[open rune]

Probably dump it on a friend who doesn't have one for their computer

[uneven spear]

Thank, owo.

[smoky rapids]

Mistakes shall be confirmed and made tomorrow

[silver fable]

I have the standard under my bed. I wish they had one that was retroreflective, though, and not just green.

[smoky rapids]

Funny thing is it's $10 cheaper than the standard ATM.

[brazen thunder]

I'll add that to my list. Now that my server computer is an RMA away from going live I want to protect that hardware

[shut rose]

<@&715347355565817879> Mixazver_1 - account impersonation, unsolicited DM

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[shut rose]

same user?

[prisma dove]

or, turn on privacy for the server... no unsolicited DMs

[open rune]

Report them shits

[prisma dove]

yep

[open rune]

-1 star too heavy

[silver fable]

So, @open rune , now that System Shock is on sale for $18 now, is it worth a buy as an "upgrade" to the Enhanced Edition?

People are giving it "Mostly Positive" reviews, but...

[open rune]

I'm probably not the person to ask, I'm still annoyed at way too many things about the remake

Well nothing is on fire yet

[brazen thunder]

Not on fire is positive

[hearty stirrup]

that's definitely a wattage number

[marsh helm]

no cute animals stickers included 1/10

[smoky rapids]

FTFY

[marsh helm]

11/10

also those otters have a knife

they will protect you if you pay the bribe

[void gorge]

I'm going to buy an a380 just for av1 encoding and use it alongside my RTX3070.

There is only one brand called Sparkle but its USA only that doesnt need a power connector and uses PCIE power.
In UK/EU we only seem to have Asrock challenger OC that uses an 8-pin.
Are there any other cards that don't use power connectors?

[livid plover]

Asrock also makes a low profile one

[void gorge]

I think that is the a310 and is 4Gb

https://www.asrock.com/Graphics-Card/Intel/Intel Arc A310 Low Profile 4GB/

[livid plover]

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/vrYRsY/asrock-low-profile-arc-a380-6-gb-video-card-a380-lp-6g

[void gorge]

ah its sold by Amazon USA, so gotta add the TAX 😦

[livid plover]

find it at any EU retailer

or click new(2) from 150£ on amazon and pick the EU sold one

[void gorge]

would the 4Gb vs 6Gb card make any difference for encoding/editing?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sparkle-Low-Profile-Dual-Slot-DisplayPort-SA380G-6G/dp/B0CHN9R4P2/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1

[untold valley]

hi

[fresh widget]

mine is 8gb but idrk

[sudden adder]

@opaque halo

[opaque halo]

🤣 .. and I hate you

[full fern]

ROFL

[opaque halo]

Oh... now Dot wants to get in on this 😆

[prisma dove]

dude

[opaque halo]

couldn't keep going in circles - even with others trying to help it was getting nowhere. Dot came through

[full fern]

Dot, also known as "man" in "Thanks, man" LOL

[full fern]

I couldn't stand to watch you suffer any longer. hahaha

[opaque halo]

[full fern]

It's always nice to see a chilling by the pool shot. 🧡

[prisma dove]

matty "twisted" fresh

[amber sparrow]

Perfect skies for it

[sick cedar]

Oh, that's fun 😊 https://ohmygit.org/

Gamifying learning git

[livid plover]

oh nice

[sick cedar]

Coffee festival was super fun, great success. After dinner I managed to f up my foot, Soo... Will just sit at the pub until it's time to hop on the train lol

[amber sparrow]

Coffee festival you say? That sounds like a good time

[sick cedar]

Might be something for you if you're down @modern yoke learning git is inevitable, and this would probably be more fun than slamming your head against the will until you've made all of the common mistakes :p

[left heart]

wish I had this game in college

[sudden adder]

eat enough greasy food and you'll end up having a Tums Festival

[left heart]

I got thrown into the deep end working on a project that used svn when I'd never used any kind of version control before, then learned everyone else used git lmao

[sick cedar]

Totally. Barely learned git, You would not imagine the terror of submitting an obs pr, and being asked to rebase and force push in public, trying desperately not to have it get closed/embarras yourself in public in front of the devs your look up to 😂

Yeah, I wanna play it as well tbh

[left heart]

I wish I had infinite storage so I could have something like version control for complex photo editing workflows

[sick cedar]

Oh, you don't like having 6 copies of a photo in Lightroom lol

[left heart]

especially not when one stack of 9 images is a 6 GB file and I eventually want to stack 100+

[sick cedar]

Photoshop let's your store histories now, which is very cool, but not really good for quickly editing multiple photos 😦