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kano

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  1. And boy is it great. My only question, especially for Thief, is whether there is a way to hide the HUD so that I don't burn the screen. It would be cool if there was a key to press that would show the light gem, where most of the time it is hidden. The OLED I am using, is this one. https://www.amazon.com/INNOCN-Portable-Monitor-DCI-P3-100000/dp/B09L12DGW5/ref=sr_1_4?crid=25OE5W8BWGEF2&keywords=oled+monitor&qid=1646784514&sprefix=oled+monit%2Caps%2C222&sr=8-4 Finally an affordable panel! PS, to the manufacturer of this thing, if you could make a version that is 27 inch for $600-$650, I would absolutely love you! I don't even care about 4K, that's just an excuse to sell people the same content all over again. All I want is the same (or better) monitor black-levels that I had in 1999.
  2. This song would have been just as welcome/at home in Quake 1...
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    2016+ CPU/GPU News

    At least the CPU market is relatively healthy. I just wish they had invested more effort in speeding up the Blender Cycles X Rewrite for the CPU instead of focusing on GPUs. As a hobbyist, right now it makes more sense to get something like a 3950x/5950x and 64 or 128 GB memory instead of paying as much for a graphics card that has a literal fraction of the memory. In the CPU market AMD and Intel have to keep moving, because Apple is coming after them with their custom M1/M2 architecture.
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    2016+ CPU/GPU News

    $200 for a 4GB graphics card in 2022, and it doesn't even support CUDA or Optix, lol... This makes it mostly a non-starter for anything that isn't playing video games, and even there, the textures will be ultra-smeared because of the need to reduce resolution. https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-radeon-rx-6500-xt-review-benchmarks/ In the immortal words of the Angry Video Game Nerd, "I've had more fun playing with dog turds". If society hadn't allowed competition in the graphics card market like 3DLabs to fail twenty years ago. Maybe then AMD wouldn't be trolling graphics card enthusiasts so hard now with this garbage, while capable products from NVIDIA which feature reasonable amounts of memory for the year 2022 and support established industry standards like CUDA/Optix with a mature driver stack wouldn't be as untouchable as Al Capone. On the bright side, I guess my ancient 4GB graphics card won't become literally unusable in games for quite some time to come, because the bar has been lowered.
  5. https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/18/windows_11_insider_msa/ They're prepping customers for the ultimate ransomware caper, where there will be no using your own PC, and no getting to your own files residing therein unless the Internet connection is working and the subscription fees have been paid in full.
  6. Crazy that it was all just because of a safety test...
  7. Some parts of this WAD are artistically an A++ in terms of music and level design. Others suffer from too much copy/paste architecture. The volcano level is especially a treat. BTW I break the rules of most of the musicians and (instead of using the Roland GS soundfont that they would expect/tell you to, use the following one). Because in most cases, it sounds a hundred times better. Basically, instead of midi files sounding like they are being played on a cheap little keyboard, it sounds like a huge, expensive organ. Of course you pay for it in terms of memory use. 240MB vs 6MB for the standard soundfont that everybody uses, but on a modern computer, who cares? There are much bigger soundfonts than this one floating around, but I personally would not use them, because in my testing they didn't sound any better, actually worse, than this one. All of the instrument sounds have been perfectly balanced with each other in terms of volume and quality in this soundfont, it was obviously put together by a professional.
  8. Yiesh, I had forgotten how much some of those old hard drives "scream". Yes, that high-pitch whining noise is the hard drive. Modern hard drives are so much quieter and way less offensive to the ears...
  9. https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/18/foxstuck_firefox_browser_bug_boots/ lol The more complicated you make a program, the more points of failure you introduce. Any engineer will tell you that. And in this instance it appears that the obsession with collecting every interaction a user has with the program, has backfired.
  10. Somehow I missed this mod. Hilarious and creative. The plot is as follows. The main villain of the original Shadow Warrior game, Zilla, has caused so much trouble that MI6 (James Bond) is after him now. But the Protagonist of the original Shadow Warrior game (Lo Wang) doesn't take kindly to this, because after all, taking Zilla down is his thing. So, Lo Wang captures and imprisons Bond, and takes his place.
  11. Still can't comprehend how they managed to get this game onto the N64 when it occupied two disks on the Playstation, cut-scenes and all. Nothing short of a marvel. I think it is the only N64 game to actually have FMV...
  12. So... Why DID this thing fail? It looks like they got everything right while designing it. The only thing they left out, was batteries, which was probably not very practical while driving a CRT. And if you think 23 pounds was heavy, imagine what it would be if there were batteries inside. lol
  13. Nobody but me ever played this game but it had really good atmosphere. Stuff like the sound of rain on the windows when you go inside (break the windows and the rain comes in), the sound of water in the pipes, etc.
  14. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/30/biden-vaccine-mandate-judge-block/ The disease that is the human race is going to prolong this shit for as long as possible. Some of us want to go outside and live our normal lives with our friends while there is still time left.
  15. This player winds up rage-quitting one of my favorite wads! The visuals are simple and strictly 1990s (because that's when it was made), but the gameplay is varied, fun with the occasional nasty surprise thrown in (like teleporting you right into the middle of a room full of monsters), and it has a kick-ass soundtrack. That part with the Cyberdemon at the end of the video is especially tough. You have two choices, fight him down below, suicide because there's no cover (never succeeded at that one myself, or weave in and out in front of the window up top and take pot-shots at him whilst trying not to get pasted by his rockets. This is Doom, after all, so move, move, move! Running away is not an option, because he blocks the teleporter to exit the level, and even if his rockets don't get you while you're navigating the glorified tightrope that leads to the teleporter, he's not likely to let you in.
  16. https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/329011-rockstar-pulls-gta-remastered-trilogy-from-pc-due-to-authentication-outage So, so satisfying. Also cracks me up. Not only do I explicitly NOT want to be forced to go online and made into someone's bitch just to use my own stuff, but I've also lost all desire to pay for products that are deliberately designed to stop working because of circumstances that are outside of my control. For me, this is like the digital equivalent of a guy going to punch me, but instead, he misses by a significant margin, loses his balance and falls flat on his face, all on his own accord. Satisfying and hilarious at the same time.
  17. I think the absolute greatest success story for FOSS, is Blender. The project has exploded over the past 12 years in terms of functionality, funding, and popularity, and it shows no sign of slowing down. In fact it only seems to be picking up more momentum, with nearly all of the big companies funding it now, and the Blender foundation still has not compromised their principles or their product. It seems like when they ditched the very limited and obsolete internal renderrer, that was the spark that really got things moving.
  18. Putting myself in the perspective of an entity who wants to needlessly integrate the cloud and surveillance into everything for a moment, the trouble with applying this strategy to free and open source software, is that anyone can fork the project and continue development without it. So although there are sometimes pushes to implement telemetry into FOSS, it usually crashes and burns in the market. E.g. people were going to fork Audacity until they backed down from their push. However, yes, Firefox is filled with telemetry and other undesirable features, because developing a web browser that is compatible with the whole web is extremely tough and expensive, because web standards are an insanely over-complicated mess.
  19. https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/4/22763641/microsoft-windows-11-expired-certificate-snipping-tool-emoji-picker-issues You can't stop the trend of corporate software being rigged to depend more and more on the Internet in order to facilitate rent-seeking and user tracking, but you *can* point, laugh and say I told you so. Remember when all of the programs installed on your computer just worked no matter what? Boy was that an inconvenience!
  20. Corporations are people, except when they get caught doing stuff like this. https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/03/amazon_drivers_tips/
  21. This looks quite nice. And thanks for just showing gameplay, instead of a fancy, doctored up trailer.
  22. For the people who believe the earth is flat, I wonder why they don't just pay someone to take them up in a plane with plenty of fuel, fly in one single direction and see where they end up.
  23. https://old.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/q7c8k9/gamers_nexus_insultingly_bad_value_amd_rx_6600/ Smell that? It's what I call "Plandemic pricing". An entry level graphics card now costs $330, and that is before all of the inventory is automatically bought by bots to be sold for twice as much on Ebay, thereby allowing GPU manufacturers to raise the MSRP even more.
  24. https://www.pcmag.com/news/windows-11-home-edition-requires-a-microsoft-account-to-complete-setup Society is going to sleepwalk into a world where consumers get locked out of their personal computer and all information contained therein if their Microsoft, Google, or Facebook account is ever suspended or closed for any reason. And I am going to die with laughter and say "I told you so" when that day comes.
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