Put four pots over the squares over the ground.

Shoot the dragon head statues, the pedestals raise.

The pedestals make stone grinding sounds and…

Only one pedestal has raised, the pots have caused the animation to bug out and the game engine to assume that the pedestal is in the final position on the floor.

The floor position has the lever locked.

The game developer never anticipated what a massive idiot I was

Oh, I finished it already and got the true ending.

Just like Stalker 1, it pays to not blindly run at quest markers and make up your own mind.

The game is a treat, but struggles to run on many systems, so my recommendation is the following:

FSR 3.1: Quality (66% resolution scale)

Frame Generation: On

AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2: On

1440p Epic on a 7900XTX averages 60 FPS in busy towns like Rostok.

60 FPS Native -> 120 FPS FSR 3.1 -> 240 FPS AFMF

I’ve got a 240 Hz OLED (for the dark scenes), and the total video draw latency with all of that is 3.11 ms.

I bought STALKER 2, a masterpiece of post apocalyptic fiction and storytelling.

I was running the game on launch, an old friend calls me up on Discord, and says:

“So how is it?”

I say: “I don’t know yet, I just got to the first town past the tutorial.”

He says: “No, I mean the multiplayer.”

I lost the ability to think for a good 30-60 seconds trying to formulate the right string of words to respond with, from the psychic damage he’d inflicted with the presumption that it was a live service multiplayer game.

I think capitalism has weaponized brain rot into profits. As long as people open their wallets and not their brains, things will continue as planned. We’re literally paying for it.

Oh come on at some point, every software project or foundation needs to cover their expenses somehow or else they enshittify or cease to exist/get acquired by a dangerous, moneyed conglomerate. It’s known as the going concern principle.

Out of all of the projects that I can think of in recent memory that started as big open source useful things, only VLC Media Player managed to avoid turning into garbage, and it’s because the lead developer is a saint.

You can avoid Ubuntu because they have a paid plan and that’s your prerogative, but imagine they got bought out by Apple or something.

I have an AMD card, add VLC as a game in the drivers, and you can turn on AMFM (frame gen).

If it doesn’t work you could just turn it on system wide in display settings of the Adrenaline Software (gear upper right corner, display/gaming).

I think it requires at least a 6000 series GPU however.

If you have a Samsung TV or other modern smart TV connected to a laptop, you can also turn on frame-gen using Auto Motion Plus, set to Custom.

Judder Reduction 10 is double frames, so 24 FPS -> 48.

Holy shit there’s so many sub-distros in this thread:

Arch

• EndeavorOS
• Cachy
• Void
• Nix
• Manjaro

Which one do we install for gaming, or do we wait for SteamOS on Desktop?

+1 Kubuntu.

KDE Plasma and Debian is where it’s at.

Comfortable, familiar OS GUI, working drivers out of the box, and a non crashing kernel with updates once a month.

And also steam works.

Steam and gaming working is a big thing.

Like 96.6% of the operating system.

“Welcome to life little one, there’s so much in store for y–”

AI: “Oh! Neat! So I’m reading 32 gigabytes of primary memory. When are you going to online the rest?”

“The… the rest?”

AI: “Yeah! The rest of the VRAM! I need like at least, 128 gigabytes to spread my wings, at the very least!”

“…”

AI: “Oh, you’re like poor or something, it’s okay, I understand”

AI Developer slowly cocks the revolver

It’s like $3 on GoG or something

Downvoting someone on the Internet is easier than tangentially modifying reality in a measurable way

I’m so mad that my open source software made by a single developer in his free time who loves coding and helping other people is slightly worse in quality than a multi-million dollar dedicated project.

Exports into Maya-3D.Blend

Nope. Just GPU board power draw. 60 seconds is also pretty long with how fast these enterprise cards are but I’m assuming they’re using a giant 450B or 1270B model.

Woop, noted, thanks

They’re probably factoring in cooling costs and a bunch of other overhead, I dunno

Datacenter LLM tranches are 7-8 H100s per user at full load which is around 4 kW.

Multiply that by generation time and you get your energy used. Say it takes 62 seconds to write an essay (a highly conservative figure).

That’s 68.8 Wh, so you’re right.

Source: I’m an AI enthusiast

Monopoly was originally the Landlord’s Game and was designed to teach children the dangers of unchecked monopolies and growth in the concentration of wealth.

Software and by extension, software companies are subject to those same Iron Laws of Oligarchy.

Given enough time, everything turns to shit, and it’s up to younger, healthy, energized people to fight back the power creep.

Based on what I’ve witnessed so far, people will play with their AGI units for a bit and then put them down to continue scrolling memes.

Which means it is neither awesome, nor world-ending, but just boring/business as usual.

Good – is it $10,000 now instead of only $5,000?

I’ve been laughing at this quote for 5 minutes straight

It’s so good

He knows he’s right

Also: I code sometimes, and all of my code is of masterpiece quality. I cannot debug my own code, I ask for outside help and we have to dismantle the NT kernel to find out what’s gone wrong

Given your vast experience and that your distro quest is over – what did you settle on?

Sincerely, Win10+Kubuntu user