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Asus rampage iv extreme, with a core i7 3930K and 32 gig kingston black edition ddr3 ram, crucial MX500 SSD and several mechanical seagate HDD (storage space in excess of 8 TB). The board and CPU are pretty old but still able to handle anything i can throw at it, sadly 3 fan headers have become broken over time but else everything works 100%. GFX card is an sapphire R9 390 with 8 gb ram, while not able to handle 4k with any reasonable fps i normally game at 1080 resolutions and at that resolution this old geezer still eats any game i can throw at it. I havent upgraded anything for several years now, but im pondering going for the 6800 XT when it comes out.

When i become the illusive man cerberus has your number , and no you are not crazy for having those thoughts, i think many of us do. Only thing i can propose for 3'rd worlders are ("do better") atleast they have some glaring examples of what not to do ("looking back at us"). Technology like anything can be used for good or like it turned out for many things worse, its not the fault of the level of development we can only give ourselves the blame for how it is used (unfortunatly).

Second wave hit a bit harder here as well (denmark), case in fact as seen by other examples here we also made the error by not taking it seriously enough, as seen when we discovered a variant of covid had mutated in local mink farming industries, leading to this enterprises demise as they now have to kill there entire mink population. Atleast our government stepped in early and took most of the problem areas of the grid again, though some stupid assholes still refuse to protect them self and others.

It uses ASTC which is aproximatly the same as RTCG. The downside is that ASTC is an opengl ES feature so might be a bit lobotomized.

compressonator was opensourced and now seems to support it https://github.com/GPUOpen-Tools/Compressonator

Also rage mode though im a bit ambivalent on that one since normally the cpu does not handle gfx calls to well. Originally i would have gone with the RX 5700 xt to replace my aging R9 390 but if the prices on the 6800 hold i would probably go with one of those. My screen cant do 4K anyway xD so its no big loss.

Heh turns out the RX6800 is actually faster than nvidias rtx 3800 in 4k and beyond unless DLSS is enabled, AMD uses dx12's native support for raytracing which is not as fast as nvidias but still thats quite impressive Imagine the RX6800 with DLSS support... ouch.

Np m8 a few of the tools actually needed updating of the source code but luckily the changes needed where in some of the other tools. HPL2 has recently been opensourced as well, might want a look at that one as well.

Aye python2 was deprecated some time ago, also had a slew of problems with that on msys2 because some packages relied on python2.

Wouldnt count it out but it might take a while, it only recently got released

dead space also had one novel, which happens several hundred years before the ishimura and depicts the unitology story and how altman came to be the symbol of it (spoiler he did not do it villingly). And several short stories in comic format which depicts the stories of some of the people isaac meets in the game like ellie langford and john carver.

If you like halo read ringworld it was pretty much based on that larry niven also made a whole ballpark of novels and quite a few (bricks or big books) in the same universe, they are all quite good and some of them are even excellent. His ringworld was massive though compared to the halo rings it would make the halo builders look like children as it had the same size as earth travelled around the sun which is freaking huge. Also the aliens where quite different like two headed centaur style with one hindleg and heads that resembled sock puppets which also gained them there name "puppeters". Besides great man eating kats with batwing ears "kzin" and blind nightmarish looking but else quite nice people called the ktadlyno, we also get some ancient race (older than the universe) living directly in space with a body temperature that is close to that of frozen helium who buy and sell technology and knowledge, and many others. The protagonist is not a cyborg but the son of one of earths most intelligents men and quite old himself (not that it matters since at the time this happens we are more or less immortal anyway), who gets wrapped up in some scheme by the puppeters and has quite the adventure.

Indeed, i grew up during the cold war. It was not fun times but back then you barely ever heard of any of those two because there was a much bigger threat from two super powers who together had enough firepower to blow up planet earth several times over, then suddenly as the cold war slowly came to a halt these two contries had managed to aquire technologi that ultimately allowed them to keep there status as dictatorships with the threat of massive retaliation in case any one got any funny ideas about removing them from power internally or externally. And i agree we cant take democracy for granted even if someone managed to remove those people. War is indeed hell.

Well they didnt have A bombs in the past... A problem which also continues to hunt any talk of north korea Id imagine if it were not so that they would have been in a lot more trouble.

It will come but how do we make sure the same a..beep dont fuck up things again ?, that is the problem they will face (im probably to old to see that day). Atleast there is a growing concensus amongst the avarage man that we cant keep just using the ressources of the world faster than they can grow back, as for the policy its the same bullshit just covered in promises they will newer keep (to scared to loose voters) and they probably will, but it has to stop or things will end very badly. It will get expensive as hell to put the genie back in the bottle and science is not going to rescue us, we have to do that ourself. As for the victims of said governments i can only say what if anything do they get out of treating people that way ?, we are all different but we all share the same dna, mixed heritages nailed that in iron so long ago it should'nt be any surprise. Is it religion or politics ? who the F... cares, if i believe in anything it shouldnt matter to my neighbour as long as i dont try to convert him / her, and i seen nothing of the sort from either of those groups. So my guess is its because they can and these groups have something the others want. Im from denmark, and the avarage dane does have quite some misgivings about our own politicians supporting governments like that and then trying to cover it up as was shown the last time china visited and several protesters where illegally arrested. The shitshow resulting from that move is still running here and blame gets thrown around like last years rotten fruit.

The problem with communism is not that it is evil but that it is far to easy for some ruthless people to exploit (see above examples). Democrazy (not a typo :P) also has its flaws and while i myself a subscribe to it i cant overlook its shortcommings which have been made all the more visible in the later years. Liberalism well the idea sounds sympatic but has the same flaw as communism it is to easy for people with no consience to turn it into a stinking pile of crap where liberty is only for the wealthy. We need an upgrade PRONTO!. In all honesty it is time for some change, the world as it is is fragile and we stomp about on it as giants on an anthill. Warning number one has allready landed way before corona, but we dont seem to get the message.

I can dream sadly i sometimes wish i had any skill in mapping (usualy end up breaking both pen and paper when drawing something). But maybe someone with the same wish comes around and decides to take alook at it.

Knew i hated it but yeah the boat has sailed and thats a damn shame.

Might not be the most known game but call of cthulhu dcote could be a good candidate for some TLC with this engine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Cthulhu:_Dark_Corners_of_the_Earth The story in the original was really good and closely followed hp lovecrafts though it used elements from a few different novels (shadow over insmouth / dagon etc.), unfortunatly the engine sufferred some serious bugs due to the studio going bankrupt and the lead dev being the only one left to finish it before the lights went out. Though not as sneaky as amnesia it does pay off to stay away from plain sight. If you go insane in the game because of the things you encounter you would most likely blow of your own head with a gun (game over man) Also there is no healthbar and if you get injured you will need splints for broken bones medkits and time which made it insanely hard at times if you were hunted. Using morphine to dull the pain also has serious drawbacks as even though you might get away this time it will deteriorate your sanity so you have to be really carefull using it. The sanity system also plays in here as if you start to go crazy it will blur your view and make you walk like your drunk which makes it even harder.

Cool allready done some work on HPL1. As far as i can glean you are free to do whatever with the code but the game assets are proprietary so much the same as with idtech. Code could be used for a game but we would need to create new assets for it. The HPL engine itself is just a framework much like irrlicht engine so custom game code is doable.

Ah you ment after idtech 4, well theres some parts of idtech 5 in bFG but that one was the last indeed.

Well the upcomming horizon zero dawn forbidden west sequel might spur some interrest with ps3. I doubt ps3 is going away any time soon, to much invested in that platform to scrap it and they just released a new console. Still since horizon recently came out for pc as well i kinda hope the ps3 sequell will also have a pc sequell.

Huh something else i did not know, human head studios was aquired by bethesda last year after the release of rune 2.

Sin 2 or Sin reborn as it would have been named is at the end of the video. Looked kinda crap considering it was running on the idtech4 engine but early alpha footage was nice to see idtech 4 running somethings else than a corridor shooter though.

Ah hard to find but here https://www.game-debate.com/news/28578/3d-realms-releases-video-of-their-cancelled-prototypes-including-sin-2-and-bombshell-fps