vikingtons
@vikingtons@lemmy.world
grow a plant, hug your dog, lift heavy, eat healthy, be a nerd, play a game and help each other out
- Comment on Day 120 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 days ago:
You’re in for a great time. enjoy 😊
- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favorite OSTs? 1 week ago:
Halo Reach was such an excellent send off. What a powerful soundtrack.
- Comment on Nvidia to ship a billion of RISC-V cores in 2024 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely. They’ve been getting really popular in wearables (particularly from Chinese brands).
Several SBC vendors are including rv clusters in ARM based SoCs (which I believe is partially related to what you mentioned) for development purposes.
I even have a little rv powered ssoldering iron 😊
- Comment on Nvidia to ship a billion of RISC-V cores in 2024 3 weeks ago:
same for and graphics since 2019. I wouldn’t be surprised if Intel were doing the same with Arc too, though I haven’t looked into that yet.
- Comment on Youtube - Bryan Lunduke - Sanctions Hit Linux Kernel, Russian Programmers Banned 3 weeks ago:
can we not link to this prolific dickhead
- Comment on Trying to avoid US elections content as a non-US citizen. Is this possible on the default Lemmy-UI? I prefer it over Tesseract, Photon, Alexandrite and Voyager (which have built-in keyword filters) 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t realise there were keyword filters. Thanks!
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 1 month ago:
waiting for the name shame. what an absolute tosser
- Comment on 2024 is about 75% done. Let's recommend the best games of 2024, but with a twist: only the ones with no paid DLC! 1 month ago:
Echopoint Nova (Steam)
A short and sweet, low-fi yet beautiful co-op (and optionally PVP) movement shooter with extremely satisfying projectile mechanics, destructible environments and a gorgeous soundtrack by Floating Door. This is made by the same people behind Severed Steel.
Definitely not for everybody but there’s a demo (which can also be played in co-op) available on the store page.
- Comment on Snapchat Reserves the Right to Use AI-Generated Images of Your Face in Ads 1 month ago:
Ah yeah, I’m not getting any response from archive.ph right now :/
- Comment on Snapchat Reserves the Right to Use AI-Generated Images of Your Face in Ads 1 month ago:
Archive link
- Comment on Why Do People Still Play Destiny 2? 2 months ago:
It’s funny is how gorgeous the endgame content looks. Sure it plays out very much in the same way, but it’s kinda crazy how hard they go in visuals on parts of the game that very few players can reach. I’m not opposed to this in principle, mind you.
But yeah the raids and dungeons didn’t really grip me in the end. Pretty as they are, there’s a lot of arbitrary systems at play which kill my engagement.
- Comment on Why Do People Still Play Destiny 2? 2 months ago:
Yup. The gaming industry got lucrative enough for the bean counters to swoop in and bastardise.
- Comment on Why Do People Still Play Destiny 2? 2 months ago:
And they didn’t retroactively unlock impacked gear. I had a couple god rolled blast furnaces relgated to casual PvP despite the absurd amount of time I had to put into that bullshit forge activity.
Anyone else notice the extent of bungies creativity as far as destiny is concerned:
- Stand on plates
- Shoot targets
- 3 damage phases
- Juggle balls
- Comment on Why Do People Still Play Destiny 2? 2 months ago:
Something along the lines of hiring an expert on gambling. There’s a lot of game mechanics in games like Destiny 2 which lock you in through little feedback loops.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIuAeFu84kY
It’s a good looking game with decent movement and gunplay, but it fully disrespects your time. RIP if you ended up buying the game in 2017 with the first few expansions because that shit gone now.
- Comment on Ryzen CPU owners can now download better gaming performance thanks to a Windows 11 update 2 months ago:
What I was alluding to with regards to idle mclk behaviour is that there are two factors at play: vertical balanking interval and combined display bandwidth.
Your mclk will idle high with ‘incompatible’ VBIs, and it’ll also idle high to sustain a lot of display throughput.
This can be observed regardless of GFX vendor, though symptoms may vary somewhat between them. I suppose it could be considered a limitation of GDDR (the same behaviour was never really observed on HBM GPUs like the Vega 64 or Radeon VII)
That said, friends of mine have fixed various multi-display specific issues using nvidia profile inspector
- Comment on Ryzen CPU owners can now download better gaming performance thanks to a Windows 11 update 2 months ago:
I don’t know if it was a bug so much as a deficiency. OS Improvements to branch prediction will most likely not be backported to Win10
- Comment on Ryzen CPU owners can now download better gaming performance thanks to a Windows 11 update 2 months ago:
I don’t think this is related to the OS. What displays do you have connected?
- Comment on Now you'll be able to purchase sunlight at night! 2 months ago:
It’s like that episode of futurama - the mirror wernstrom put in space to reflect sunlight, which gets tapped by a little space rock, and tilts into a solar powered death beam
- Comment on Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 2 months ago:
I gather that the nt kernel isn’t inherently bad, rather that the aging win32 subsystem is the problem.
- Comment on Samsung Galaxy Ring is non-repairable - GSMArena.com news 2 months ago:
who asked for this?
- Comment on New Starfield free update added a ground vehicle 2 months ago:
I found some of the side stories to be a bit more compelling than the main one. the movement and action felt a little bit better than fo4.
The settlements thing is wild. How could they have you sink any time into that when the game ultimately pushes you repeatedly towards NG+?!
And I love how the highest difficulty just makes everything into a bullet sponge. Nothing besides that feels more difficult; enemies aren’t more cunning, aggressive or accurate. Stealth and speech checks felt pretty much unchanged.
I think the ship combat and boarding could be spun off into a standalone mini-game. NMS is a clunky, goofy time but it’s funny how it managed to get interplanetary travel down on day one.
- Comment on New Starfield free update added a ground vehicle 2 months ago:
I’m inclined to disagree but perhaps I’m just jaded by prior entries built against that engine. With that said, it’s pretty unique to starfield that curiosity is never rewarded in this supposedly vast universe.
- Comment on Nvidia is ditching dedicated G-Sync modules to push back against FreeSync’s ubiquity 2 months ago:
Higher end phones have the capability to gear down to 1hz to save power on static representation. Would be nice to see that on notebook eDP and hell, even with dekstop monitors too.
- Comment on Launch dates for upcoming Xbox games 2 months ago:
Starfield isn’t a game regardless of the dlc
- Comment on New Starfield free update added a ground vehicle 2 months ago:
You know I’m kind if amazed that Starfield has a 10k (24hr peak) playerbase according to SteamDB. Comparatively speaking, it’s doing better than other dumpster fires like halo infinite
- Comment on Nvidia is ditching dedicated G-Sync modules to push back against FreeSync’s ubiquity 2 months ago:
I think below that range they can frame double (low framerate compensation LFC) to go as low as 24 FPS
- Comment on Nvidia is ditching dedicated G-Sync modules to push back against FreeSync’s ubiquity 2 months ago:
Good for them if it help eliminate the mark up of displays advertising gsync ultimate. I have my doubts but it’d make sense if they’re no longer using dedicated boards with FPGAs and RAM.
One has to wonder if VESA will further their VRR standard to support refresh rates as low as 1Hz
- Comment on Doom Eternal's new official mod support includes 'the very same tools' used to create the game 3 months ago:
Fast forward to today, it’s kind of terrifying that the proprietors of DirectX effectively own the poster-child Vulkan game engine for both performance & visual fidelity.
- Comment on ‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections 3 months ago:
You’ll want to upgrade your system BIOS when your board vendor makes this fix available.
- Comment on ‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections 3 months ago:
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