LouNeko

joined 2 years ago
[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 59 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, worst family trip ever.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

But the low-cut dress evens it out.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure the 2 gallons of botox in her face have already taken care of that.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

How grandma sees you when you drive her.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

The furnace of feelings that is depression demands fuel - if it's anxiety I'm running on, then so it be.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I recommend playing them in order, you can Import your save file from 1 to 2 and from 2 to 3, carrying over narrative choices you've made. Also you get really good (and well earned) starting gear if you import the save.

The first one, while being ultra mega jank has some of the best writing out of any game I evet played. Choices really matter in this game and the game really respects your time for doing your homework whether it be monster hunting or investigations. It has more than the usually bad side, good side choice, characters can die because of your decisions (or even lack of). If you can see past babies first attempt of a combat system, the first Witcher game is amazing.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

>be me
>walk into grocery store
>left-handed layout
>why even bother
>crying_pepe.jpg

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Generative AI is the equivalent of 2 stoners asking themselves "OK, what now?" a million times a second.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

If this ever happens to me, just fucking kill me.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

I'm going to play little off topic devils advocate here.

I've recently had to choose between a 5070 TI and a 9070 XT for my new setup.

If I were to listen to any reviews - the general consensus would be that Nvdias 50XX Series is a steaming pile of dogshit that will burn your house down and kill you dog.

Every single of those reviews boils down to: AMD slightly faster but actually worse at everything. But because price lower number, AMD better. PS: Nvidia bad.

The RTX series is primarily a gaming card and gaming performance is all that matters, not all that additional fluff that reviewers dish out to make a 7 min video into a 20 min video.

Nvidia has the clear R&D advantage for new technologies, older titles barely matter in this discussion because everything pre DLSS era is going to run at 200+ FPS at 4K anyway (with the exception of 32bit PhysX titles, dick move Nvidia).
Newer titles on the other hand, are an absolute wildcard of performance because nobody cares about optimization anymore. I've used a 1080 Ti for 8 years and even some of the newest titles still ran at around 60 FPS maxed out. But here's the catch, the discrepancy between highest and lowest setting has gotten miniscule, to the point where you'd get 60 FPS on lowest and 50 FPS on max settings with a 1080 TI. My personal reason for an upgrade tho, was Raytracing and Generative AI Performance, both at wich AMD sucks.

"Don't blame the Card, blame the Game."

Nowadays performance is more about the rendering technique rather than the visual settings. And when it comes to technique Nvidia is clearly the winner. Now that I have a reference between DLSS and FSR, I can confidently say that AMD will be in 2 years where Nvidia is now.

Let's talk about price. People are still living in the fantasy that GPUs are going to cost 400€ again like it's 2014 (which they didn't even do back then). 800€ is the new baseline for a midrange GPU - that's just how it is now. I've paid around 900€ for a 1080 8 years ago, now I paid around 900€ for a 5070 TI and get about triple the performance. So what's the problem?
I think there's a small but obnoxiously loud minority of "must have the newest thing" babies that didn't get the memo when we reached the technical limitation of the Moore's Law about 10 years ago. You won't get double the performance in 2 years for the same price. No reason to whine about it. Want to get your moneys worth, keep you old GPU for another 2 years, there problem solved.

Also, what not a single reviewer ever has mentioned is the significant increase in power draw that AMD has over Nvidia.

Let's do a simple calculation:

Price for a 9070 XT: ~800€
Price for a 5070 Ti: ~900€
Difference in favor of AMD: 100€

Power draw 9070 XT: 300W
Power draw 5070 TI: 250W
Difference in favor of Nvidia: 50W
(Based on tests of the same games with equal settings)

My regional price per 1kWh is ~0,40€
100€ / 0.40€ per kWh = 250 kWh
250 kWh / 50 W = 5000 hours

My average game time per day is maybe 2-3 hours, make it 2.5 h.

5000 h / 2.5 h per day = 2000 days ≈ 5.5 years

Since electricity prices are constantly on the rise, and I intend to keep my current setup for maybe another 8 years, the price difference between Nvidia and AMD doesn't really matter in the long run.

The funny thing is I paid about 2200€ in 2017 for a high-end build that could play everything I throw at it, and now I paid 2000€ for another high end build that can play everything I throw at it. People forget to mention that while GPU prices have gone up. Everything else has gone down. RAM and HDD/SSDs, are dirty cheap nowadays.

While yes, Nvidia is a greedy and shitty company, let's not pretend like their product doesn't do what's advertised - that is playing games really well. And AMD is not a saint either, their GPUs aren't exactly cheap either.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Natalie Dormer. No explanation needed.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'd rather have the butcher ask "breast" or "thighs" than "tits" or "ass".

 

Imagine The Walking Dead started in 50 years from now. The way things are going now, picture this scenario:

>A survivor is walking down a lonesome road.
>They arive at a small resort and there's a car covered in dust and dirt in the parking lot.
>They approach the car and check whether it still has some bio fuel left in the tank.
>Still plenty.
>They look around spotting a decayed body close by.
>They search the body and are lucky to find a 'keyless' key belonging to the car.
>There are no door handles and the battery inside the key corroded away.
>They break the glass and open the door from the inside.
>Finally inside, there's still no way to start the engine without the key.
>They have an idea.
>The digital wrist watch on the body should have the same battery as the key.
>After a bit of tinkering with some tools they get the key working again.
>They press the ignition button.
>The displays light up but the engine remains quiet.
>The displays show error messages:

ERROR CODE: ND47089
Tire pressure sensor subscription expired
Please schuedule service or enter payment information
Engine start failed

>MFW

 

Sometimes you hang out in a bar and you see a group of people (usually a pair) and you maybe want to ask only one of them for their number.

How do you go on about this?

I always feel kind of weird, because if I were to hang out with a friend and somebody were to randomly ask them out specifically, surely I'll be happy for them, but especially if this were a regular reoccurrence my own self esteem would probably take a hit from that. I don't want to put somebody else through that.

Nowadays nobody ever goes out alone, especially not in bars. And if they do, they're usually not in an approachable state. In general there seem to be less and less appropriate places or moments to approach people. Isolating somebody or waiting for them to be alone also feels borderline predatory. I know that it became nigh-impossible for relationships to naturally form out of nowhere, but I really don't want to resort to dating apps or something of that matter.

Also, what if you're maybe interested in both people. You can't just ask "And what about you, are you interested too?" That'd just be awfull for everyone. But maybe you would've had a better response if you would'be asked the other person first and now you'll never find out.

I really hate to be somebody who excludes people especially in a conversation but this seems to be the only area were this is actualy unavoidable.

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So I finally had my first case of sleep paralysis and it was freaking awesome. Sure... horrifying... but awesome.

I've only ever heard people talk about it and always thought that it was just a meme but no, the way people describe it is pretty much spot on. Demon crawling up to you, not being able to move, yadaya, all the good stuff.

I always thought I couldn't experience sleep paralysis because I'm a side sleeper and this makes it even less likely.

To say "I don't scare easily." would be an understatement. Sure I get startled sometimes, but that's just instict taking over. I don't think I have experienced true irrational horror since I was a child. I'd say horror in general is just not part of our daily lives anymore. As someone who is into movie making, even horror movies don't really cut it for me, because I'm always thinking about the behind the scenes of each shot instead of actually being scared.

That's why I am so appreciative of a good nightmare. Its horror from the deepest darkest places of your mind, specifically tailored to you. It's the best private horror show you'll ever going to get. And for someone who's never really scared, that is worth a lot.

I'm only kinda disapointed of how my paralysis demon looks. I was hoping it would be some cute ghost lady, but it's more like a shadowy humanoid tentacle alien. Kinda like the mindflayer from Stranger Things but without any discernable features, just a shadow silouette.

Its kinda like finding out your Patronus is a crosseyed possum, I mean it gets the job done sure... but it's kinda not what I was hoping for.

Also it made a weird tribal "galagalagala" sound while approaching, which gotta say, not exactly the spookiest thing.

All in all 7/10 experience. Wouldn't recommend it every day, but every once in a while it shirley is fun.

 

Everybody else will act normal and all prior evidence of their existence will also persist like normal.

Edit: For clarification, the people are actually missing but everybody is essentially hypnotized to not notice. Even if specifically asked about the missing people they will pretend like everything is fine. So everybody goes on about their day normaly.

I guess for most people it would be pretty much immediately if their significant other isn't there in the morning and for some fringe isolated cases it might take forever.

I guess best case for me would be around 4 hours on a work day during lunch break seeing a big crowd of people when it would finally click.

Worst case would be probably 5 days when I'm mostly working from home office.

 

We have people that jumped on grenades, bombed, shot at, cut to pieces and survived but how dare we stumble funny on a curb.

 

RIP Travis.

He came and he went.

 

Maybe that's all she needed all along.

 

For me, a few come to mind:

  • "You're imagining everybody in this story way more attractive than they actually were."

It was posted somewhere on one of those spicy subreddits under some affair threesome story. And it sort if clicked with me. Like look around, normal people on the street don't all look like supermodels. And supermodels don't lurk around in reddit comment sections. It really put things into perspective for me.

  • "Life isn't short, it's the longest thing you'll ever do."

It is a bit uplifting to realize that no matter if you have bad or good period in your life, it is only a short chapter contained in the longest time period possible for you to experience.

There were a few others that I probably can't remember of the top of my head right now.

 
 

For years I've been looking for a mod that does a simple thing - showing the resources needed for all placed construction blueprints, ideally in parenthesis on the vanilla resource list next to the corresponding resource.

I'm tired of selecting all the placed floor tiles and then multiplying it by the number of resources per tile by hand. Especially because you can only select a limited number of entities at once. You have to fiddle around with the camera to section of portions of your blueprints if they exceed this limitation. It would save a lot of hassle for larger builds if the number of resources in construction or production queue would be visible at a glance.

Additionally the aproximate amount of days your food will last should also visible on the resource list.

 

I can't help it.

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