general-chat

[mortal grail]

The bus is what makes it expensive

[sage sluice]

And blow some steam out my valves

[sage sluice]

How much more expensive out of curiousity?

[mortal grail]

You need a whole new pcb, much larger data stream, new traces, likely more pcie utility

It can really drive it up quick

Not that I'm defending the practice, I would rather pay the $50 extra

[nocturne flicker]

I I I
I I I _

[mortal grail]

English's first kanji

[sage sluice]

Well im gonna sit in my room and complain over these minor inconveniences cus its my god given right 🦅 🦅 🦅 🦅 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🌭 🌭 🆓 🆓 🆓

[frigid stag]

X—————D

[nocturne flicker]

I'm going to sit in my room and complain about minor inconveniences because the major ones currently send me into a rage

[tranquil pebble]

ATI raged 128 times

[rancid juniper]

Left: RT off
Right: RT max

[lone mango]

I cant tell because there are no puddles that look like mercury

[rancid juniper]

the only difference im seeing is that the RT option shows sharper textures, ambient occlusion is lacking tho

[unreal trail]

RE Engine

[rancid juniper]

LOL

[tranquil pebble]

most of the time RT kills FPS for little gain and sometimes even looks worse

[worn wave]

the ambient occlusion actually looks a lot better in the RT off one

[tranquil pebble]

case in point ^

[trail nest]

should i buy this chat?

[worn wave]

RT is way crisper though, is the antialiasing/upscaling set to a diff setting?

[rancid juniper]

yep

[rancid juniper]

Antialiasing is set the same, no changes (its using XeSS)

[worn wave]

weird

oh, theres also chromatic abberation in the RT off one

so there's probably post processing making it blurry

[sage sluice]

No

[rancid juniper]

that was also off

[worn wave]

edge of takeout box and cardboard box, edge of chair

[sage sluice]

The pov person has weed in their system

That or theyre wearing 3d glasses

[worn wave]

RT on doesn't have the abberation

[rancid juniper]

guess its how the game works or something, though i did use XeSS 2.0 dll for this

[dusk knot]

l

thats what I would have done

[trail nest]

this thing looks so cool chat!

i think i might get it

[worn wave]

That's a laptop chip with an igpu

[sage sluice]

Why do you keep saying chat this isnt xqc's discord

Also yeah thats mid asf

If you want a minipc just grab a beelink

But youre better off grabbing something used

Chat is the first 4th person pronoun i swear

[dusk knot]

if its not PT. i sleep

[rancid juniper]

🗿

[nocturne flicker]

Man just likes to chat with chat and calls them chat while chatting with chat

You can't see it but I'm nodding

[frigid stag]

Streamer mentality

[sage sluice]

Chat is this 4060 too good

[dusk knot]

PT reminded me that all the RT we got in the past decade or so was half done

[sage sluice]

Path tracing is what i see actual raytracing as

[frigid stag]

Bros roasting him 😭

Chill

[sage sluice]

Lol im sorry, for some reason chat just brings me ptsd

[dusk knot]

yeah. its still not as accurate

to real world conditions

[sage sluice]

No but its moreso than typical raytracing

[frigid stag]

He probably just doesn’t know much about tech

[sage sluice]

Real life is the realest raytracing

[dusk knot]

we're still a few years off

[sage sluice]

Fair, i was just pokin fun for a sec, no harm meant

[nocturne flicker]

Our eyes trace the rays in real time

[rancid juniper]

and its still bad

[sage sluice]

Nvidia will buy them and limit them to 8 gigs of vram

[rancid juniper]

😏

[nocturne flicker]

Eyeram

Iram

[dusk knot]

wdym

[frigid stag]

5060 will have 16gb

[sage sluice]

And make sure to give people visual snow

[sage sluice]

5080 has 16

[rancid juniper]

all them technologies mid, revert back to picture drawings

[frigid stag]

Yes

And 3080 had 10

3060 had 12

[nocturne flicker]

Pixels gooder than RT

[dusk knot]

🤢

[nocturne flicker]

Return to 8 bit

[sage sluice]

You say that like its a counterargument to their math making sense 💀

[frigid stag]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/814963336915583036/1337770211943645254/IMG_0396.png?ex=67a8a719&is=67a75599&hm=4592dfa8963b561cbc14cdb00dfad7365fc62e6347ba0a4784ea2c0ffd87947c&

Anyway

[rancid juniper]

bruh

[frigid stag]

More than a new one lol

[nocturne flicker]

$186.45 delivery for 5 day shipping

[sage sluice]

Messed up pricing

[rancid juniper]

ye

[sage sluice]

This is why you dont buy on release when the company gets worse with each launch

Glad people finally are catching on tho

[frigid stag]

Jensen must be delivering it personally

[sage sluice]

Nah that would at LEAST cost the price of his jacket

[frigid stag]

Lel

[dusk knot]

https://youtu.be/4ZYawaoTyDg?si=uKjJgEC9yPmLzJlG oh damn

[rancid juniper]

so thats what my card costs now...

WILD

[sage sluice]

I mean it isnt bad by any means

[frigid stag]

lol

I need to upgrade my gpu while I still can

[sage sluice]

Im sitting pretty with my gre

[rancid juniper]

dont think its worth selling just to get another refresh from amd

[icy ore]

The heck

[rancid juniper]

wtf

[sage sluice]

Jesus

[frigid stag]

I might need to cop an xtx

[tranquil pebble]

my 6900 XT is doing fine

[nocturne flicker]

[frigid stag]

XD

[tranquil pebble]

scammity scam

[rancid juniper]

lmfao

[sage sluice]

My card used

[rancid juniper]

i swear i could probably sell my gpu for 600 on ebay and someone would likely cop it

its bad but possible

☠️

[sage sluice]

I shouldve predicted nvidias failure and bought some cards 😭

[tranquil pebble]

and they might turn around and sell it for $700

[rancid juniper]

U RIGHT

LOL

[dusk knot]

Only 9 in stock. Buy. Buy. Buy.

[sage sluice]

Even has free delivery

[dusk knot]

Only one left! This opportunity may never come again!

[frigid stag]

Xtx prices too close to 5080

[sage sluice]

God

Im curious how much people actually pay these prices

[dusk knot]

https://tenor.com/view/umm-no-confused-gif-10255159

[dusk knot]

301 people

😔

[tranquil pebble]

dGPU market in shambles

[sage sluice]

So much scalping everywhere

[misty sparrow]

Is the GPU market bad right now because of ai

[sage sluice]

NAH WTF

[random osprey]

everything is bad right now because of ai

[misty sparrow]

like what?

[sage sluice]

This sold out

I am terrified

What prices they paid

[mortal grail]

That top article was faked

[tranquil pebble]

Need for Greed

[sage sluice]

Not surprised

[rancid juniper]

New IP from EA

[sage sluice]

Partnering with ubisoft

[rancid juniper]

maximum game

[tranquil pebble]

Noobisoft

[rancid juniper]

prices make no sense for the speed given

[velvet summit]

Wtf so cheap for the sleeds

Like maybe 5x cheaper than my old internet

[rancid juniper]

actually cheaper than AT&T

[sweet phoenix]

It's a mix of reasons, partially AI, fal cie explained it a day or two ago

Nvidias ai gpus are much more profitable so they direct more resources there

That coupled with nvidia hating customers, both brands running out of stock of 40/7000 series gpus, and a lack of competition

I just really hope there's actual stock for the 9070/xt

[misty sparrow]

getting a GPU with more VRAM than my 3060ti for cheap (or upgrading my 3060ti) and getting a new 1440p monitor were two things on my bucket list

but i guess all of that will be harder now because of AI

i was waiting for 4070 prices to decrease

[fresh timber]

That’s my ISP

[rancid juniper]

its actually the cheapest ISP in my area

my complaints vanished

[fresh timber]

Techncily it’s the cheapest isp in my area that isn’t bad

Techncily I can get a cheaper plan that gives like 20/10 speeds

[rancid juniper]

[fresh timber]

Want my 500/20 speeds

[rancid juniper]

anemic upload speeds

[fresh timber]

Welcome to 2025

[rancid juniper]

lol

[velvet summit]

I had to pay a higher price for lower speeds

Well

My parents did

I don't pay the internet bill

[rancid juniper]

same

[velvet summit]

$60/m for 40/4

[fresh timber]

My mom spends like $100 a month

[rancid juniper]

ok i should be very grateful here

💀

[velvet summit]

I don't even know why it was so expensive

But it was like the cheapest plan for my house

Did not include landlines nor tv

[rancid juniper]

actual scam

holy crap

[velvet summit]

Real

When they finally laid fiber almost 2 years ago

Promotional price for 3000/3000 was 75/m

Regular is 120/m

[rancid juniper]

wait wait

3000 for $75???

[velvet summit]

For 2 years

Went from insane pricing (bad) to insane pricing (good)

[rancid juniper]

ehhh... i mean its pretty good

[velvet summit]

Ok maybe not insane compared to the world

But insane compared to the previous insane price

[rancid juniper]

lol

[velvet summit]

Imagine being able to get internet 75 times faster for only 15 bucks more

[rancid juniper]

😳

[velvet summit]

7500% faster

[tranquil pebble]

$175 a month for 650/25

ISP has a monopoly

[fresh timber]

God damn ur being scammed

[tranquil pebble]

nothing I can do about it though

[fresh timber]

Call and complain

[rancid juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-gif-22246136

[tranquil pebble]

on a better note, the OLED is insane, like seriously. Seeing only parts of the screen be lit at a time is something I am not used to

[gentle canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/sangrelic-femireactions-squilliam-dramatic-fainting-gif-24860045

[tranquil pebble]

and it makes the contrast crazy good

[nocturne flicker]

Wow. His voice is almost as cringe as normal Reddit comments

[rancid juniper]

more pics on the absolute lowest (except resolution: 1440p - no anti-aliasing - no FG - no upscaling)

wow...

[nocturne flicker]

Spiky playdough

[rancid juniper]

polygon approved

[fresh timber]

Mhh

[rancid juniper]

pc case pic

[nocturne flicker]

Pc pic

Actually, I should put the 970 back in that PC

I yoinked it for the butchered Inspiron

I also yoinked some of the ram

I should also probably deconstruct the Inspiron and chuck the bleh stuff tbh

Now that it is just going to sit there unused

[fresh timber]

It does nothing

Ima throw it out

[rancid juniper]

😭

[nocturne flicker]

Misi

[pliant berry]

de

[nocturne flicker]

Oh man, I just realized, if I scrap the Inspiron I can shove another SSD into my PC

Evo 850 go brrr

[mortal grail]

Is that a bird in the 4th pic

LMAO

[mortal grail]

Birb

[rancid juniper]

i think its some random ah monster

[mortal grail]

☠️

[rancid juniper]

forgot its name because i was appalled by the performance

[mortal grail]

How could you even remember the name when it looks like the letter Y instead of an animal

[rancid juniper]

ok ill call it yonster

[mortal grail]

Yonster

[rancid juniper]

running spiderman 2 with a vulkan mod legit crashed my pc

[mortal grail]

My reaction to this information:
https://youtu.be/InukoveyruI?t=16

[rancid juniper]

Dissatisfied, Gets smited

[mortal grail]

Burherherhuehueheehee

BOOM

[rancid juniper]

the fact that you can cook meat while your peers is attacking the monster is hilarious

[mortal grail]

Ikr

This game is so memeworthy

[rancid juniper]

and you can be interrupted easily

[frigid stag]

In performance too

[rancid juniper]

^^^

XD

[tranquil pebble]

AMvidia Radeon RTX 9770 HD GRE XT

[frigid stag]

60 fps medium settings with dlss performance mode and frame generation on the recommended hardware 💀

[rancid juniper]

Price - Meme
Performance - Meme
Game mechanics - Meme

[frigid stag]

In reality: lowest settings 1080p native runs like 30 fps on a 3060

[rancid juniper]

they always try to recommend FG from the start

🗿

[mortal grail]

This game did yeah

Stupid take

You like slow input lag? Sure

[frigid stag]

Why optimise it when you can just have a slide show but with dlss and injected frames 🎇

[rancid juniper]

thats when you know: its gonna be wack

[tranquil pebble]

Good, makes it easy to know the game is unoptimized mess

[rancid juniper]

absolutely

[mortal grail]

I'll be looking forward to kingdom come instead

[frigid stag]

“dragons dogma 2 is the most unoptimised game”
Monster Hunter Devs: hold my beer

[mortal grail]

It's hilarious how like

[fresh timber]

I’m bored

[mortal grail]

All it takes for a game to be ok now is just no ue5 whatsoever

Like 4 games break this rule

The rest garbage

💀

[rancid juniper]

Dragons ROGMA 2

[velvet summit]

Real

[proud jackal]

we have a new techie?

[sour falcon]

Had some old guy at the ski resort I was at compliment my Nvidia hat 😼

[sour falcon]

Who

[frigid stag]

Nah that’s just felix

[proud jackal]

oh

[velvet summit]

Not even 24 hours

[nocturne flicker]

GME bros gonna go all in again

[fresh timber]

fun fact, the physical copy uses psn to download the rest of the game

[rancid juniper]

well yea if they managed to create new dvd technologies for faster r/w

[fresh timber]

im surpised they dont make some sorta special usb stick or something thats just a nvme or something

[rancid juniper]

its more of, "bet yall want to play offline games now"

heh

[fresh timber]

a special nvme with the standard protections for consoles

the front of these consoles got 10gig usbc ports anyways

[rancid juniper]

the reason is that it may be more costly than standard discs

[fresh timber]

mhh

good thing i bought a digtial console

[proud jackal]

what will you do once all the internet runs out

[fresh timber]

not use it?

i got a pc

[mortal grail]

I will disappear

With no internet I cannot sustain my weighty formeth

[proud jackal]

[velvet summit]

For meth? Meth? Cook?
Jesse we need to cook

[tranquil pebble]

rare gamestop W?

[velvet summit]

Video killed the radio star 🗣️

[frigid stag]

Netflix killed the video star

[dusk knot]

Imagine relying on a single service to run your gaming console

[velvet summit]

Netflix killed everything

Including itself

[nocturne flicker]

Imagine owning a console in 2025

[rancid juniper]

[dusk knot]

Wouldn't be me

All hail PC

[nocturne flicker]

Stares at the PS5 in the living room

[rancid juniper]

PC changed my ways, PC FOREVER

[nocturne flicker]

It hasn't been turned on in 2 years

[dusk knot]

Same

[fresh timber]

ngl i prefer consoles on tvs

[dusk knot]

But these prices

For hardware

[nocturne flicker]

I still have my PS3 and PS2 tho

[dusk knot]

Triple traitor

[fresh timber]

if we get a controller friendly os for pc that includes the youtube app, hulu app, etc, id be so happy

[dusk knot]

Jk..do whatever you want

[unreal trail]

Ninja Gaiden 2 remake is decent tho

[tranquil pebble]

my PS3 and PS2 are the same unit

[nocturne flicker]

You got the emulation version or one of the hardware ones?

[tranquil pebble]

hw

[rancid juniper]

lol, dll modding is fun

[tranquil pebble]

I bought a refurb launch model PS3 a number of years ago knowing full well it would go up in value

[nocturne flicker]

Does it overheat? I remember hearing something about that being a common issue

[tranquil pebble]

dont plan on selling it though

[tranquil pebble]

never given me any issues

[sage sluice]

My ps3 hibernates under my bed, its the one you slide the top to the side to put the disk in not launch model

[fresh timber]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1040527606086389771/1248183967094673478/togif-5-1.gif

[sinful blade]

Do I need the panel that’s normally here

[fresh timber]

no

[sage sluice]

No

[sinful blade]

I may have taken it off and accidentally snapped it in half

[velvet summit]

How

[sage sluice]

Thats exhaust side anyway so should be no issues

[velvet summit]

But also it's not strictly required
Just helps keep a little dust, and mainly insects out

[tranquil pebble]

I/O panels are mostly cosmetic

[velvet summit]

Also prevents you from accidentally putting something in the case and shorting it

[fresh timber]

if u maange to short ur pc ur stupid

[sinful blade]

Cleaning the pc prior to my parts coming
And it fell off, and landed vertically and the empty pc fell on it when I went to catch it

[sage sluice]

All the starving spiders with no homes 😔

[velvet summit]

Or youre reaching around blind

[tranquil pebble]

I shorted my PC with a USB cable once on accident

[velvet summit]

If I can't afford housing, neither can the spiders

[tranquil pebble]

Mobo protected itself fortunately

[fresh timber]

thats why you look 😭

[sage sluice]

You could split rent

[velvet summit]

They don't have income

They don't pay income tax

[sage sluice]

Yeah they do, you just need a spider with a hat and a suitcase

[tranquil pebble]

As far as I am concerned they pay rent by keeping unwanted guests out of the home

[velvet summit]

[sage sluice]

Fr

[velvet summit]

They don't manage to get the bugs that I don't want

[sage sluice]

My stepdad always would but spiders he found in the house on the window seal in front of the kitchen sink

And make it earn its livingspace

[fresh timber]

bro im freezing

[sage sluice]

Which tbf

Spider babies

I would be mortified of

[velvet summit]

Ironically

I'm less scared of those

It's just a ball of tiny ass spiders

Seeing an earwig (harmless) randomly in the house makes me jump

[sage sluice]

I hate baby spiders because they get EVERYWHERE

[velvet summit]

Lmao

TBF I see them rarely inside

Normally only outside

[sage sluice]

Ive handled many types of spiders, wolf spiders, daddy long legs, tarantulas, their cousin the scorpion, ive even held a black widow on my hand lmao. When theres one and you know where it is its extremely easy not to get bitten

Just dont startle it

You can kinda scoop them

[velvet summit]

How do they not get startled by that

[sage sluice]

Im not sure tbh, its only if you poke them from the sides or above that they get scared

They kinda just see you as more floor

If you scoop

But yeah a fun fact that surprises people is scorpions are in the spider family

Theyre arachnids

[mortal grail]

I'm not surprised

You are

[sage sluice]

😭

When i was younger i was obsessed with learning about animals people were scared of and learning whether theyre truly worthy of fearing

Wasps are definitely still on that list

Hornets especially

[velvet summit]

Idk why that would be surprising

[sage sluice]

People think theyre just insects

Mites and ticks are in the arachnid family too

[velvet summit]

I mean

[sage sluice]

Lol im saying for most people ive talked with

Youre a special butterfly ong

[velvet summit]

You kinda learn this in the mandatory general sciences courses LMFAO

[sage sluice]

Yeah i did not learn that in my school lmao

[velvet summit]

It's part of like grade 9 general sciences, and I believe animal classifications were covered before that as well

TBF I don't think this is very important knowledge to have

[sage sluice]

You do realize learning animal classifications is different than specifically scorpions are arachnids right

You made a point

That it wouldnt be surprising, all i said is most people dont know theyre arachnids

[velvet summit]

It's kinda like
"We found that rats on cocaine prefers jazz"
What do we do with this information

[sage sluice]

At least from my experience

[sage sluice]

Did someone steal your gum packet today?

😭

I just gave a fun fact i knew

[velvet summit]

I was justifying why the American school system didn't teach about animal classifications
At least not in depth

Though they probably should teach it more
At least on regards of common house pets

People trying to "veganify" their cat

Mfw they aren't a carnivore out of choice

[sage sluice]

Blud was walkin in here like "erm acktually the typical homosapien is very well aware the genus scorpionida falls under the family of arachnids you misinformed peasant"

Just say "im surprised thats not taught more in science class, it was in my class" 😭

[misty sparrow]

American education in general is bad it isn’t just in science

[velvet summit]

That initial response you had was from Felix
Though I guess my response after that wasn't any more soft

[sage sluice]

Oh yeah no american education is horrid

[sage sluice]

His was joking i thought

[velvet summit]

You got the double whammy

[icy ore]

[velvet summit]

[sage sluice]

I dont know if im schizo or you are at this point 🥹

[velvet summit]

Maybe we're all schizo

[misty sparrow]

Whenever I think I’m not qualified enough to go to Harvard and am down on my luck about being intelligent, I look at the things people do in school and feel better

[sage sluice]

Maybe we are

[velvet summit]

Real

Always find solace that someone is dumber than you 🔥

[misty sparrow]

Harvard did send me an ad in the mail and I thought it was a joke

[sage sluice]

My school would give us breakfast muffin thingies in like these tin foil wraps and i witnessed multiple people putting them in the microwave and, shocker (pun intended), it didnt end well

[misty sparrow]

good lord

[velvet summit]

☠️

[tranquil pebble]

sparks flying moment

[sage sluice]

Its funny because thin sheets of aluminium is actually more dangerous than putting a fork or spoon in the microwave since theres much more surface area

[misty sparrow]

I keep hearing about young kids in first grade struggling to read or pay attention in class, and it sucks

[sage sluice]

God yeah its awful

My mom was a supermom and got me reading at about 3, she has little camcorder videos of it too

[velvet summit]

I hate to admit this but I forgot about foil in the microwave thing since I hadn't used a microwave in years (also I didn't realize the foil-paper wrapper was made of foil and paper, I thought it was just shiny paper or something)
I did catch it after i started the microwave and put the small flame out

In my defense I had a beer

[sage sluice]

I couldnt walk until like 2 tho 😭

[velvet summit]

Just one

[sage sluice]

Tbf that beer didnt do anything lmao, but yeah understandable mistake

But no these were straight up just alluminum foil wrappers

And MULTIPLE TIMES IN MY FIRST PERIOD CLASSES

[misty sparrow]

One time I placed a paper plate in the microwave and didn’t realize there was foil around the rim of the plate.

[sage sluice]

It happened twice last semester

[velvet summit]

To be fair, it also is kinda dumb to serve food to be microwaved in aluminum foil

[sage sluice]

It wasnt meant to be microwaved

[velvet summit]

Oh

[sage sluice]

The foil was there to keep it warm

[velvet summit]

Nvm then

[sage sluice]

The issue is it took hours to get to us

And got cold

[velvet summit]

Oh

[misty sparrow]

They could’ve placed it in a bag instead of wrapping it like with chicken sandwiches

[sage sluice]

Which is actually a food safety hazard

[velvet summit]

💀

[sage sluice]

Lmao

[velvet summit]

Give FDA a call frfr

[sage sluice]

Fr fr

Nah school lunch is already prison lunch

[velvet summit]

Food at my highschool back when I was there was student made

The culinary students would prepare stuff

It wasn't restaurant quality obv

But I think it was kinda decent at least for the price

[dusk knot]

Mexican pizza and strawberry milk...I missed those

[misty sparrow]

I’ve seen it, it’s probably worse than prison

[sage sluice]

Our food is free at least

Or mine is

Cus broke

🔥

[velvet summit]

Students didn't get paid, and the cost of the food was basically just the cost of the ingredients

Maybe a little extra to cover for the f ups that the student cooks may do

[unreal trail]

[velvet summit]

Which is probably more often than it seems

[sage sluice]

Hope they werent first year cooks

[velvet summit]

I think most would be

[sage sluice]

Thats rough

[velvet summit]

Well

They had to take one semester for like a food handling certificate

And the people cooking would be a mix of the grades

So without actually being in those classes, I can only imagine that the students that are able to cook well would be the ones doing the main cooking

Also the program coordinator would also be supervising

The cafeterias are basically fully student staffed

Well

Singular cafétéria lol

Small school

For reference, the highest amount of students my high school had in the entire history it was opened (2001 built)

Was around 1000 students

Average is like 600 ish

Which is still alot of students

[pliant berry]

dang mine had like 3200 i think

[velvet summit]

But then I hear about the high schools some of my us friends went to and there are like 4000????

Crazy difference lol

[pliant berry]

smaller school can be nice sometimes

[velvet summit]

I still got lost

2 floors

[craggy mortar]

[velvet summit]

Two hallways

Still managed to walk to the wrong side of the school

My college campus, which is like 8x larger or something

Absolutely devastating

They didn't have a map

[pliant berry]

sometimes I would forget where I am walking in school

[velvet summit]

Sometimes I walk and miss a turn or something and I end up in a wing of my college that I've never seen before

😭

[pliant berry]

not that I get lost, moreso I just don't know where and why I am walking in a certain direction

[velvet summit]

For context, this was even after 4 semesters

TBF I didn't really explore

Once I finangled the way to where my classrooms were

I eventually found the most efficient routes

Including taking shortcuts outside

So I didn't have as many chances to get into the more random out of the way wings lol

So anyways, every time I walk in the wrong wing, I'm like wtf

Since the college is old and expanded several times

So pretty much every section of the college looks different

[dusk knot]

hm

https://tenor.com/view/dog-sniff-gif-3199815179106739551

[tranquil pebble]

dungeon crawler layout campus moment

[velvet summit]

Real

Snow is very powdery and slippery

We were barely able to get up a hill

All wheel drive would have been great in a situation like this lol

Or hell

Traction control

At least it isn't rwd

[icy ore]

https://youtu.be/aF25ubjccrg?si=aI_r_ZaEV0bqnRq0

Can’t wait to play as Angelina jolie

[tranquil pebble]

Bocchi fumo

[dusk knot]

as yes. the real TR

[velvet summit]

Those damn opposing traffic getting the perfectly manicured roads while we get the snowy ass roads

[sinful blade]

Blame your local DoT officials

[velvet summit]

We don't actually have a national road maintenance system/department

The provincial government does it

E.g over here in Ontario, the Ontario Ministry of transportation (MOT) handles the road maintenance and such

[sinful blade]

F

[velvet summit]

While Alberta has Alberta Infrastructure and Transportation that does the maintenance

Well

They rely on contractors

You probably get the gist of it

[upper estuary]

https://tenor.com/view/hamster-run-wheel-cute-gif-6563316932530407873

[mortal grail]

https://youtube.com/shorts/BHTNlCX6Xzk

[nocturne flicker]

Mmmm. Spend 4 years building a small road in order to extract as much money as possible

[velvet summit]

Four? Only 4?

Took over a decade for one new length of the highway to be added

Literally started before we moved here

They're planning another one
Probably another decade till it'll be completed

[nocturne flicker]

Oh boy that is even worse than TN's DoT

[velvet summit]

TBF it's not all road projects

But that one specific instance took forever

I think it stopped midway through due to cuts in the budget

It's also like considerably useful for us because we live far enough that there are no highways till the next town over

i'm finally home now

that took a while

(2 hour drive)

(usually would have been a 40 min drive)

slippery ass snow

SAS

[nocturne flicker]

I think it took them 3 years to finish about 2 miles of highway here as the first of a 3 part expansion project. The second part of 2.4 miles took another 3 years and they are starting on the last part sometime this year

[velvet summit]

lmao

It seems like my phone battery on a single charge will last me over 12 hours of constant use with what I do on my phone without needing to be recharged

Discord used around 1/3 of my battery
YouTube music also used around 1/3 of my battery
YouTube (I was watching a stream for 2 hours) used 1/6 of my battery
Everything else used the rest

[peak heart]

4070 vs 7800xt
4070 super vs 7900xt
amd or nvidia

[mortal grail]

Both sides the amd card

[dusk knot]

9700xt where

[tranquil pebble]

Serial Attached SCSI

[storm narwhal]

Both cases amd

[lone mango]

Fr

[devout forum]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKcZcfzvpeo
This is disgusting

[mortal grail]

I had arguments with people for years about this. It really started with hogwarts legacy

[devout forum]

that was a mess too yes

[mortal grail]

Nice to see it's finally being recognised dutifully in 2025

He has good examples to compare with too

[devout forum]

also I thought 343 got yellow too lmao

you almost made a fool of me

[mortal grail]

Lol

[misty sparrow]

Definitely got yellow no lie

[icy ore]

[lone mango]

Threat interactive

[hoary zodiac]

Ngreedshill

how do people allow this

this is why we have games that runs worse than roblox

and cost $60+

that's broken on launch

[ancient swift]

Started before Hogwarts legacy lol

It's gotten worse for sure. But people have been complaining about upscalers and TAA in games for years.

[mortal grail]

It really started after hogwarts tho

We had bad release, after bad release, after bad release

Then like

Baldurs gate in the middle being ok

Then more bad

Worse

Lethal company

Year over

And since then we've just had more releases that took all that bad optimisation and ran with it further and further

The only game I can really think of before Hogwarts would've been CP2077

[velvet summit]

Apparently valve quietly added a flagging feature for games that are in early access but haven't had an update in too long

[hoary zodiac]

can someone fact check me here

can you find the gradient of a function by differentiating it

[mortal grail]

Yes

[velvet summit]

I don't know why but this reminded me of those ai deepfakes of Mr beast and Ksi and such talking about math

[hoary zodiac]

Thanks guys

[hoary zodiac]

I'm doing a uni math quiz thingy

It's been only a couple months and I realized I'm rusty as hell already

[velvet summit]

Lmao

[hoary zodiac]

Those kind of brainrot is funny

It's like reverse brainrot

[velvet summit]

I don't have math in my requisites

[hoary zodiac]

Engineering 💀💀💀💀💀

[velvet summit]

Lmao

[hoary zodiac]

Can't wait to do math without numbers

[velvet summit]

TBF I do need to do math

[hoary zodiac]

All just to computer engineering/robotics or whatever I'm going into

[velvet summit]

Buts it's mainly just using existing equations for example to calculate signal loss

Good old fspl

[mortal grail]

Fesspull

[hoary zodiac]

I'm slow as hell at math now for some reason

I was cracked like 3 months ago

[mortal grail]

It's called not practicing

[hoary zodiac]

What are the chances that I'll actually have to do math by hand

I'm usually just lazy and use the calculator

[ancient swift]

Gotham Knights, Warhammer Darktide and the GTA Trilogy.

All had performance issues on pc

New world and Diablo IV revealed issues with the manufacturing of cards.

[hoary zodiac]

I forgot how to do u-sub 😭

[ancient swift]

Windows 11, Intel's voltage issue, and AMD and Nvidia releasing poor drivers also made things worse.

Like nvidias current drivers are causing an uptick in crashes in multiple games right now specifically on windows 11 lol

[mortal grail]

I mean, again^

Really started i.e really picked up

[ancient swift]

2 of games I mentioned are 2022. So wouldn't Hogwarts legacy just be a continuation of games developed during COVID

[mortal grail]

[mortal grail]

again

[surreal comet]

Hello builders

[ancient swift]

So. Does the race start on the 3rd lap or on the first lap

[mortal grail]

Is a wave a wave at your ankles or at your shoulders

Lmfao

[surreal comet]

Assuming in New titles? I haven't had this issue

[mortal grail]

English is a dynamic language

[ancient swift]

Hogwarts legacy and a ton of other games developed during COVID have the issue. Hogwarts legacy didn't speed it up

[mortal grail]

Yes but like

[ancient swift]

It had no impact on the development of other games

[mortal grail]

You keep arguing this like I'm saying something wrong here

I'm saying the momentum picked up after hogwarts dude

[ancient swift]

Or momentum picked up after Darktide. Which was just over 2 months before Hogwarts.

[mortal grail]

Bruh

2 months and you're nitpicking

[ancient swift]

Or Gotham Knights, which was a month before darktide

Like, it's all just picking when you decide the flood started

You couldn't even remember those two games though so maybe that's why you think it started with Hogwarts legacy. Because it was a big title.

Gotham Knights and Darktide both got way more hate over the performance than Hogwarts did though soooooo

[mortal grail]

Are you gonna keep nitpicking trying to start an argument or you gonna move on here?

I'm not doing another square dance over something stupid like 2 or 3 months dude

Especially when this is all ✨subjective✨

Lmfao

[ancient swift]

I'm not the one thinking the problem started in 2023

[mortal grail]

Well you're welcome to think as you like

Not gonna change my mind

[lone mango]

Bg is unnecessary hard to run but it blew up because to those people that play those games, its good

[ancient swift]

Act 3 BG3 is so unoptimized lol

[lone mango]

Like that game should run way faster than what is in benchmarks

[ancient swift]

Being wrong is okay I guess.

[mortal grail]

And see despite that it still ran fine enough to steal half the show at the game awards

[lone mango]

I think its because the game was a hit for the people that like those games

Like they dont care its unoptimized

[mortal grail]

It also specifically didn't launch with a large scale of issues

[surreal comet]

If a game is good people will put up with minor shenanigans

[mortal grail]

No I specifically remember this

It became a whole opinion piece

[lone mango]

[mortal grail]

People were talking about it as a game that didn't run crap like the other 5 games before it in the AAA library

[ancient swift]

Bg3 didn't launch with a ton of major issues because it was in early access for 3 years

[lone mango]

Hard to run but is stable

[hoary zodiac]

Oh my god

I'm not dumb

[lone mango]

Fr

[mortal grail]

Did you pass the test finally

[ancient swift]

Would be interesting to see if any other studio could get away with early access for 3 years where people just forget that it happened. Lul

[hoary zodiac]

22.6/31

[mortal grail]

Damn almost 70%

[hoary zodiac]

Not great but not stupid either

[lone mango]

I had no clue bg existed until it blew up

[ancient swift]

All you gotta do is pass

[lone mango]

[surreal comet]

Every game nowadays is early access

[mortal grail]

Fr

[ancient swift]

A lot of people didn't.

[mortal grail]

Early access, no beta test, no qc

The players find most of the bugs

[ancient swift]

If only they had the benefits early access has.

[lone mango]

[nocturne flicker]

Surely the full release would've saved Stadia

[ancient swift]

If that was true, I wouldn't have a job.

[mortal grail]

Then tell your higher ups to give you more hours

[ancient swift]

Players will maybe find like a thousand bugs.

Most big games will have hundreds of thousands submitted and fixed before the games even out.

[nocturne flicker]

Because surely this is how employment works

[ancient swift]

Game development is not easy on these big projects.

[mortal grail]

Seems like they have a lot to work on when it comes to garbage performance woes

[ancient swift]

Performance is a difficult thing to test. Lots of variables.

[mortal grail]

You'll never convince me on that, stupid time scheduling for dev work, poor engine choice, low budget and skill sets

[nocturne flicker]

Asking for more hours is tantamount to asking for a raise, how dare you. Now we fire you and black list you from the entire industry

[mortal grail]

I know way too much to EVER defend the current industry

[surreal comet]

You will be replaced the moment it is even slightly advantageous to us

[mortal grail]

Inb4 ai playtesters

[ancient swift]

Windows versions, driver versions, GPU, CPU, background programs, ram, SSDs.

And then you can even just get unlucky with individual components like a bad die or timings.

[surreal comet]

Don't you dare complain about our practices though we can make sure you're never hired in this field again

Some companies will then cry company loyalty doesn't exist anymore

Lole

[mortal grail]

And yet many games seem to get it right

It's almost like they have good priorities

[nocturne flicker]

Why aren't you loyal to us, we pay you below current market rates

[ancient swift]

They get lucky due to scope. Most do not extensively test all the options.

[mortal grail]

No

No no no no

That's absolutely false

[ancient swift]

It's quite literally true.

[surreal comet]

What about 3 more days of unpaid vacation

Will that sway you

[mortal grail]

They don't have their budgets slashed, veterans leave due to high turnover, juniors filling the space, then couple that with poorly scrutinised design choices, bad time management

[nocturne flicker]

A pizza party surely will

[mortal grail]

It's a huge knock on effect and you're just denying it dude

Go look up the microsoft 18/6 rule if you don't believe it

You'll learn

This is a common industry practice

[surreal comet]

Everything just works guys

[nocturne flicker]

https://tenor.com/view/todd-howard-it-just-works-bethesda-this-all-just-works-gif-20598651

[ancient swift]

That only applies to contractors.

[mortal grail]

💀💀💀

[ancient swift]

Hi. Microsoft full time employee here.

[mortal grail]

Those "contractors" are your juniors becoming the team leads bruv

Hi

[ancient swift]

It literally only applies to contractors.

[mortal grail]

I know many microsoft devs too lad

Should I hook you a line to the community team of T10?

I don't talk out my ass here

[ancient swift]

Says the one who thinks the problem started in 2023

[mortal grail]

Bro is determined to put me in my place look at this

Give up

LMAO

[nocturne flicker]

I think we should talk about something different

Like how AMD > Radeon

[surreal comet]

I remember when AMD

[ancient swift]

Bro is determined to say the most incorrect stuff and whine when a dev says he's wrong. 😮

[surreal comet]

I made a PC out of some old parts I have, what's some good tips trying to sell it on Facebook

It's decent spec and decent price I think

[nocturne flicker]

Sell it for 10 grand, surely it'll work

[surreal comet]

I know what I have?

No lowballs?

[ancient swift]

Say it has a 5090 (picture) and ship the picture with it

[mortal grail]

Cos I'm not gonna hear it from one dev when I hear the opposite from 10 others

[surreal comet]

I got a 5090 with my Ryzen 3600g

It's decent midrange spec I think, just a 5800x3d and a 6700xt, yada yada

Listed it at 700 bucks but no bites

Only trade offers (no)

[mortal grail]

Once again, ✨subjective✨ yet bro is determined to turn this into an ✨objective✨ discussion

[hoary zodiac]

5090

3600g

[ancient swift]

You're literally making objective statements 🤣

[hoary zodiac]

what is this bottleneck

[surreal comet]

Simply peak performance

[nocturne flicker]

Need to pair 8350 with 5090

[hoary zodiac]

Am I missing context here

[surreal comet]

Wait why am I talking here it's 4am

[hoary zodiac]

what is going on

[mortal grail]

Says the guy saying I'm wrong for airing what month I felt a wave of problems started

Lmfaoooo

[surreal comet]

Who are you people

[nocturne flicker]

8350 is more than 7800x

[surreal comet]

[nocturne flicker]

Therefore bigger number better

[ancient swift]

Play more games 🤣 pay more attention.

[mortal grail]

Listen to your colleagues more, take their struggles in

[surreal comet]

2050 > 1080

It just works

[hoary zodiac]

AHAHAHAH

YOUR PUNY 2050 STANDS NO CHANCE AGAINST A 9800GX2

[nocturne flicker]

He is right

Bigger number better

[surreal comet]

You wouldn't understand my power

[hoary zodiac]

We should make a "serious" 2k gaming pc

[surreal comet]

The RX 6400 clears the 5090

Sorry Nvidia nerds

[surreal comet]

Ryzen 3600g with a 6500xt then spend 1.5k on storage

[ancient swift]

Intel i7 980 because it's more than the core ultra 285k.

[nocturne flicker]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/176648934839

[surreal comet]

I need more used websites to look at GPU prices and sigh at

[hoary zodiac]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Wn2bTM

Peak gaming pc

[hoary zodiac]

Peak performance for only 2.5k

[surreal comet]

[surreal comet]

You could probably save some money with a used PSU

Tbh

[hoary zodiac]

nah nah nah

[ancient swift]

100$ gift card though

[hoary zodiac]

It has to be a thermaltake smart

[nocturne flicker]

-10 out of 10 not rgb PSU

RGB makes more power

[surreal comet]

Soldering a new fan on my PSU so I can have case bleed lighting

[hoary zodiac]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/QyxbTM

Fixed

[nocturne flicker]

Now we are gamer

[surreal comet]

8 dollar savings

How are you so thrifty

[mortal grail]

I actually twitched irl

[hoary zodiac]

This is a realistic pc build

Realistic in the sense that there are people stupid enough to build this piece of crap

[mortal grail]

Needs an i3 tbh

I've seen similar with an i3 lmao

[hoary zodiac]

Is there i3 on x299?

[mortal grail]

There is on z790

[surreal comet]

Reddit first build

[ancient swift]

I've seen "trading" PCs sell for like 10x their cost. I wouldn't doubt someone would do something like that.

[hoary zodiac]

Imagine

3k gaming pc

skylake

[surreal comet]

This looks like a PC someone on Facebook would offer me in a trade

And I would ask them to never contact me again

[mortal grail]

I didn't need to imagine it was in the corsair server dude LOL

[hoary zodiac]

💀 💀

Someone spent 3k on 14nm+++++?

[mortal grail]

https://tenor.com/view/trade-offer-gif-21546586

[hoary zodiac]

It's not even the good 14nm

[surreal comet]

Do y'all game on wifi repeaters

[hoary zodiac]

It's Skylake

[nocturne flicker]

My uncle told me Pentium was good

[hoary zodiac]

Yes

Building wifi shenanigans

[nocturne flicker]

So I'll put it in PC with 5090?

[hoary zodiac]

I'm too cheap to get a 5G modem plan

[mortal grail]

12100F, z790, 360mm kraken, 4060.

The dude put a model car with a baseplate on top of the case, choking the kraken of any air whatsoever

[hoary zodiac]

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Average NZXT user

[mortal grail]

Actually I think it was even a 3050

[hoary zodiac]

Is the case NZXT too?

[surreal comet]

Wait, nzxt is a real brand?

[hoary zodiac]

NZXT makes air fryers

[surreal comet]

Thought it was a GTA parody of bad PC brands

[nocturne flicker]

Unfortunately

[surreal comet]

Wake up
Nzxt still exists
Lose all hope

[hoary zodiac]

Hyte is the new NZXT

[surreal comet]

What's hyte

[hoary zodiac]

They have one good case

[surreal comet]

I'm old and don't pay attention

[hoary zodiac]

One singular case

The rest are pretty much NZXT cases

[ancient swift]

https://tenor.com/view/it's-all-about-the-pentiums-weird-al-gif-780419747448408577

[hoary zodiac]

In the sense that they're overpriced hotboxes

[ancient swift]

I wish that gif had subtitles.

[surreal comet]

My case was a mildly priced hotbox

[hoary zodiac]

Doesn't help that Hyte's singular good case is overpriced too

[surreal comet]

Idk kinda regret this case but whatever

[hoary zodiac]

Lian Li is unironically goated these days

[nocturne flicker]

Sadly not all was meant to be

[hoary zodiac]

Q300L?

[ancient swift]

It's from weird Al's song "it's all about the pentiums"

[surreal comet]

Is it one of them cases with the fake wood grain like a 2010 Camry

[surreal comet]

It's some

Jonsobo

[hoary zodiac]

Which one?

[surreal comet]

Don't have the right PSU so it's kinda doodoo airflows

[hoary zodiac]

Jonsbo makes decent cases

[nocturne flicker]

Yes, is good

[surreal comet]

D31 mesh I think

I forget

Cooling isn't great

Luckily my card pulls like 140 watts

[hoary zodiac]

That does not look like it has airflow

💀

[surreal comet]

Only reason I'm staying on this 4070

If I had good airflow I would save for 7900xtx and swag out and go Linux full-time

🙏

[surreal comet]

Mine has no screen

[hoary zodiac]

NZXT-like case 💀💀💀💀💀

I like Jonsbo's cases as compact server chassis

[mortal grail]

@hoary zodiac I found it lmao

[hoary zodiac]

They actually make some good stuff

[hoary zodiac]

h150i

[hoary zodiac]

NZXT USER

Typical

Overspends on aesthetics

[mortal grail]

I misremembered slightly it's a h150i lcd

Sorry it's only more expensive

Mb mb

[hoary zodiac]

Never under any circumstances buy an NZXT product

[mortal grail]

His pc legit cost him like $1600 tho lmfao

[hoary zodiac]

They will troll your thermals

[mortal grail]

This was post-covid btw

[hoary zodiac]

How

[mortal grail]

He had no excuse

[mortal grail]

LOOK

[hoary zodiac]

How do you spend that much on a piece of crap

[mortal grail]

AT ALL THE CORSAIR

[surreal comet]

Id do that if I had money

[hoary zodiac]

Wait they're corsair fans?

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Bro bought the most overpriced fans

[surreal comet]

Was gonna buy an AIO but then I got a noctua air cooler for Christmas

So I don't really

Need an aio

Money saved i guess

[hoary zodiac]

gets overpriced by thermalright

Does he have vengeance too?

[mortal grail]

Ofc

[hoary zodiac]

AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

[mortal grail]

It's a total pcmr build dude

[surreal comet]

He's rocking a 1tb Nvme and that's it

[mortal grail]

If you can think it he's done it

[hoary zodiac]

Ofc he has vengeance

Ofc he does

It's overpriced, a hotbox, and it has unstable ram

[surreal comet]

Yeah but brand name good

[hoary zodiac]

His models are going to melt in that thing

[surreal comet]

👍

[mortal grail]

They can't they're too cold from his mid range pc sipping the power of the ultra low end

[hoary zodiac]

buys cable sleeves

has cable going on top of the vrm heatsink

Nice cable management

[surreal comet]

Pixel user?

[hoary zodiac]

Yes

[surreal comet]

Knew it ...

[hoary zodiac]

Pixel mentioned WTF is a bloated rom

[surreal comet]

I have the "oh I wanted to be different" android

[mortal grail]

Poco?

[hoary zodiac]

Nah he probably just has the side panel off at all times

[surreal comet]

Y'all got Asus phones

[surreal comet]

Nah a Zenfone 10

[mortal grail]

YOOOO

[hoary zodiac]

I miss my poco

[mortal grail]

Those are actually kinda great doe

[surreal comet]

(it has good battery and an aux port IDC about anything else)

[surreal comet]

Yeah I've been liking it

[mortal grail]

I should've got a zenfone 10

[hoary zodiac]

Honestly anything that's not samsung/apple is good

[mortal grail]

I'm on xperia

[surreal comet]

Slightly smaller android with good battery

Can't complain

[hoary zodiac]

Xperia is good too

[mortal grail]

I too am a fan of the aux

[surreal comet]

You can buy them new in box on eBay

[mortal grail]

[surreal comet]

That's about it

[mortal grail]

Not bothered with an xperia man

[hoary zodiac]

I'm using this pixel 6 until it dies

[mortal grail]

If I could pick again tho, I think I would

[hoary zodiac]

Aussie rom tho

[surreal comet]

I liked my pixel 7 but idk

[hoary zodiac]

Don't the telcos troll international phones

[surreal comet]

Battery wasn't as good as I wished it was

[mortal grail]

Mine's been fine

[surreal comet]

Don't have issues with the Zenfone 10 battery though

Prolly my favourite android I've owned

[mortal grail]

The zenfone looked so good in reviews

[surreal comet]

It's a good phone day to day

[hoary zodiac]

Man I hate having to look to see if my phone is supported before buying it

Thanks Optus/Telstra

[mortal grail]

So real

[surreal comet]

For someone who never uses anything that isn't texting, Twitter and YouTube

[mortal grail]

Did you ever try the flash stuff btw

[surreal comet]

[hoary zodiac]

Uhhh

Not yet

[mortal grail]

You should

I've been solid

It's a pain in the ass but I saved a fortune

[hoary zodiac]

My windows partition got nuked by nvme controller so

[surreal comet]

Rip

[mortal grail]

Sadge

[hoary zodiac]

Can't try flashing it until I get a new ssd

[mortal grail]

But still, try it lol

[surreal comet]

I remember trying to dual boot Linux and my moron self couldn't figure it out for like an hour

🙏

[hoary zodiac]

Yeah it's gonna be a while until I get a new ssd for my gaming laptop

💀

[mortal grail]

I want steam os to become mainstream so I can turn my game machine windows free

[hoary zodiac]

That is, unless I need windows for uni reasons

[surreal comet]

Oooo laptop

What model

[hoary zodiac]

Strix G15