Hond
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- Comment on Zapp "Matthew" Brannigan, 26:41 1 week ago:
Now i want to see those other 4 sources
- Comment on woops 1 week ago:
its been 10 years
- Comment on Motorcycle parts 1 week ago:
thats a common mistake people make. its not carburetor.
its a motorcycleburetor
- Comment on Posting slop 1 week ago:
- Comment on Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic 1 week ago:
Wikipedias search kinda sucked 15 years ago. So i never bothered to try it again since then tbh
- Comment on Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic 1 week ago:
Most of the time i use search engines to get to wikipedia. Now i have to add “wiki” to most of my queries because wikipedia wont even show up on the first page.
- Comment on EXODUS Gameplay Clips Showcase Combat, Traversal, And Exploration 1 week ago:
I mean yeah. But i’ve seen enough trailers and played enough games in the last 25 years. This just doesnt look like something i like to give the benefit of doubt. I might be wrong. We will see if/when it gets released.
- Comment on EXODUS Gameplay Clips Showcase Combat, Traversal, And Exploration 1 week ago:
This trailer looked so generic that i started to compare its animations to the standard unreal lyra stuff. It feels really assetflippy. That sprinting animation of that huge robot/mech just looks so off. Also the framrate dropping below 30 fps in the trailer is not a good look. especially while the game isnt even running at native 4k. There is some not so pretty TAA/upscaling going on.
Sorry, but i dont think its going to be anything but UE5 Slop.
- Comment on I Almost Won My March Madness Pool Last Year Using ChatGPT. So I'm Running It Back 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Somebody made a Cave Story Walkthrough Concept Album and its really fucking good 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users 2 weeks ago:
I had a Samsung TV over 10 years ago. One of the early “smart” ones. It got quite a few updates where a happy little text box told “your samsung smart tv got even better” or some shit like that. Even if they actively removed features and now unsupported apps. You know after like 2 years or so.
Like fuck it. It still works as regular ass TV till this date. But the whole software and update experience was so shit that i never bought a samsung device ever again. Wait, thats a lie. I bought two of those 25 buck dumbphones from them. They were pretty good for what they were, ngl. But apart from that Samsung is a big no-no for me and i get proven right year after year.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 weeks ago:
My guy,
i said mobile compute power is insane. You had a somewhat sensible take why it may not be the case. I gave you hard facts why your concerns arent applicable. Instead of just admitting you misjudged the resolution differences you mansplain to me some irrelevant things. Yeah, the power draw is going to be different. Its a laptop, no shit. It also has tons of more space for a battery.
You are just talking out of your ass. Instead of looking up the wikipedia page for 2 minutes.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 weeks ago:
So if you’re running a larger format display with a higher resolution, cut that by quite a bit.
Funny thing is that the Macbook Neo needs to drive less pixels:
Iphone 16 Pro: 2868 x 1320
Macbook Neo: 2408 x 1506
Also only at 60hz and not 120hz. While having magnitudes more thermal mass to cool with the prolonged high performance bursts. I dont have any worries about its performance in its intented market segment. And yes, its running MacOS which still runs pretty well with a Macbook Air M1 with 8GB of RAM.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 weeks ago:
I mean modern Smartphone SOC compute power is insane. That wont be a bottleneck for a long time. If i had to make a guess they dont even have to go the hardware failure route for planned obsolescence. That measily 8GB of shared ram for both CPU and GPU will take care of that. Just add a bit more shiny UI bloat with every update and this thing will get slow af at some point in the future. Takes care of all the entry level M1 Airs too…
- Comment on Clankers 🔪🔪🔪 2 weeks ago:
Good, good, good! Film your faces while you violate those cute clankers. Gives me maybe a bit of time to react when Skynet becomes sentient and goes after them first.
- Comment on I gotcha, boss 3 weeks ago:
For anybody wondering:
Yes and Christie Mack.
Not so funfact: i believe her boyfriend was the guy who punched himself over tcp/ip. Not fun because he punched her too on a different occasion.
- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 3 weeks ago:
consilidation of information, resources and potentially “the narrative”.
oh, for the user you mean? -it can be better than the enshittified search machines unless the llm decides to lie -middle managers need to write less emails themselves -some programmers deem it enough to write some boilerplate code while deskilling themselves -scammers and slop creators love it
- Comment on American Foreign Policy 4 weeks ago:
This jiff lives rent-free in my head for 20(?) years in my head. its just perfect and got even perfecter over time.
- Comment on Is spreading. 4 weeks ago:
Sweet. Your experience is valid as mine!
- Comment on Is spreading. 4 weeks ago:
Happy to hear its working out for you without any issues. Your experience is valid as mine. But hearing that a normie distro like ubuntu has quality issues proofs my point. :D
- Comment on Is spreading. 4 weeks ago:
Nah, RDNA2.
- Comment on Is spreading. 4 weeks ago:
I dont think so. Maybe once? I dont remember all the distros i tried over the years. As i said it even happened with ubuntu on a thinkpad were i made it a point to do no funky shit at all.
Currently i’m running CachyOS and do lots of funky shit. Fair game. But only because i know i just can roll back if something breaks.
- Comment on Is spreading. 4 weeks ago:
Well, i made the final switch to linux myself last year and i’m pretty happy all things considered. But while a lot of things improved over the last 10 years some deal breakers are still around. In my case: just this week an update broke my desktop enviroment entirely for the SECOND time since august. I couldnt even log in. Yeah, i had automatic back ups and the issue was solved in 5 minutes.
But thats not my point. Every single linux install i had going since 2012 fucking died on it itself at some point because of an update. On three different thinkpads, three different tower PCs, running like 6 or 7 different distros. On some of these thinkpads i literally only used the browser to watch youtube and shitpost for months. Nothing else. Didnt touch the console once and never ran some random c&p command i didnt understand. Didnt install anything else. Also i used normie distros like ubuntu and the like. Still every single time at some point an update killed the entire GUI/OS. In the past i just switched back to Windows.
Now Windows is so bad that i learned to deal with this shit. Maybe i’m unlucky. Maybe i’m stupid. But this is just a constant for me in the linux experience. IDK how i could recommend Linux to my normie friends/family. I let massgrave run for them for LTSC or extended support stuff. Done, and i will probably never hear a thing about that OS/PC again. Linux? Nah, i’m good. I dont have the time to do first level support for them if something breaks.
- Comment on Nevermind the drink I'm holding 5 weeks ago:
trick question. thats a 8th gen pokemon. idk which one though.
- Comment on Need for speed: Porsche 2000 5 weeks ago:
The driving physics are sadly horrible on the PS1 version.
- Comment on Need for speed: Porsche 2000 5 weeks ago:
NFS4 is IMHO pretty close. The career structure is a bit different and while the tracks arent exclusevely in europe a lot of them are. Be sure to check out both the PS1 and PC version. They’re similar but also quite a bit different. Maybe you like one better than the other.
In NFS HP2 you are more like a globetrotter with only a few greece based tracks. Career structure is a lot more arcadey. Imho still hits a similar vein. Be sure to play/emulate the PS2 version which is way better.
Test Drive Unlimited 2 has the entire island of Ibiza to drive on. Its not exactly an euro trip. But its pretty good at making you feel like you are on vacation with expensive cars to chill out with.
Then there is World Racing which exclusively has Mercedes Benz cars and a few euro based maps. World Racing 2 sports mostly VW cars.
Test Drive Ferrari Racing Legends would be another car brand exclusive game. Never played it though.
Driv3r’s Nice map is pretty awesome. The game isnt so much. I still boot it up every now and then to fuck around in Nice.
Beamng.Drive has an awesome Italy based island to drive around on.
Assetto Corsa has tons of great european road courses as mods. Its still just a sandbox and setting all the mods up is a pain in the ass. But damn i lost so many hours just cruising around on eg Battenbergring with a few NPCs.
The TT: Isle of man 2 is on motorcycles but i believe all tracks are based in europe(there are others besides the isle of man).
A third of Burnout 3 is located in europe. I like those tracks a lot. But it isnt exactly a ‘chill’ game.
There are tons of eurojank games developed by Davilex where you exclusively drive around europe/germany/the uk/france/etc. They are kinda trash but also kinda cozy. With eg mobygames you should find most of their output.
But yeah, i never realized how rare it is to have euro-centric racing game like NFS Porsche Unleashed.
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 5 weeks ago:
The first Saints Row was a gritty street-level crime drama and only escalated to its signature ridiculousness after the Boss took over in 2.
Statements like this give me always a sensible chuckle. Compared to the rest of the franchise the first one is pretty grounded. Thats true. But it still is such a goofy game with over the top comedy. The very first cutscene is so stupid already. As is everything else. It still is GTA parody. ‘gritty street-level crime drama’ lmao
- Comment on Strengthening Windows trust and security through User Transparency and Consent 1 month ago:
Lmao
- Comment on Which is it?. 1 month ago:
I peel the shaft before i put it in my mouth
