Naz

Hello -- living incarnation of the Internet here.

I've played pretty much every shooter and most multiplayer ones since 1994.

The main issue with extraction shooters is that they are hardcore PvP-focused with resources lost and resources gained on every match.

Given that players lose actual lifetime from dying to another player in an extraction shooter, this creates an impetus for many players to cheat, given the asymmetrical distribution of skill in online shooters (it is statistically supposed be a perfect bell curve with everyone being average).

Without robust anti-cheat (e.g: Invasive kernel-level AC like Valorant/FaceIT and borderline malware) every and any extraction shooter becomes a cheater-ridden hellhole, where all of the resources of every match or map are funneled into the hands of a few players.

Players burned on prior titles know this ahead of time and throw their hands up in the air and say: "Great, another shitty extraction shooter".

See: Tarkov et al.

I was here when it happened Lemmy

Oh holy shit.

I think you're actually right, it's probably Denuvo tanking performance

You have to enable HDR in the Windows 10 settings, do Win+I, type "HD Color", and then set your AMD display drivers to "Color Correction" in Display to adjust for the bad Win10 HDR implementation.

My recommendation is:

Temperature: 10000

Brightness: -10

Hue: 0 (default)

Contrast: 120

Saturation: 165

Then enable HDR in Dark Ages, followed by FSR and Frame Gen, if you want.

HDR is the key.

I have FSR working (Win10+ AMD 7900XTX), but it's obvious that they have screwed the pooch in optimization.

I just finished Doom: Eternal yesterday before the Dark Ages came out and it ran fully maxed out at 1440p @ 240 FPS without upscaling and was gorgeous.

Dark Ages looks pretty much the same as Eternal, but runs at 120-144 FPS.

That's still absolutely playable but how did it lose 50% performance in an IDTech game?

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I have friends from elementary school who I routinely will try to find and ask them about stuff from third grade.

The vast majority of them have no idea who I am -- I ran this experiment a few more times with people from middle school and high school, and then college.

I have determined that the average long-term memory for human being is 7 years.

After 7 years you basically get deleted from their memory and while you can prompt their long-term memory it's a bit almost like memory implantation you're giving them information about something which may or may not be true.

E.g: "Remember that hot air balloon ride we went on when we were six?"

"Haha, yeah I remember."

"Really? Because that's some bullshit I just made up there's no hot air balloons in the city."

That's incredible, and a great way to do it!

Yeah; I've run similar tests and my working memory is exactly average, which is where my belief that the ability to store long term memories permanently is available to everyone.

For extra long memory validations, I've got photographs, and I also leave "memory checkpoints" in the real world, like landmarks in the slipstream of time, or physical objects in vaults that I can reference.

They're important for the continuity of self, but also to have empirical anchors of "real" objects:

Yeah; it depends on the day. I'd say the recall is limited to my 140° of forward field of view, and really minor details get deleted, blurred or smeared.

I live in a major city, and pass literally, not figuratively thousands of people every day, so my memory is crammed full of ostensibly millions of people at this point. I don't remember all of their outfits, but I can visualize a memory of say, riding on the subway, and remember almost every person and where they were sitting, and a rough approximation of what they were wearing.

A more unusual outfit would be more memorable, for instance, I had a friend who got a well-paying job, we met up at a convention, and he wore a purple shirt with a mosaic pattern on it. That was in 2015, but I can remember his exact appearance, haircut, the day of, and the shirt because of how unusual and uncommon purple Oxford/business shirts are.

I want to say my memory accuracy is around 88% on aggregate, with the highest quality memories being 96% accurate. Every time I touch a memory, I risk modifying it, so I whiteglove everything, and make sure to not overwrite any information. This is especially hard when reading childhood data because it was literally encoded by a consciousness that was still learning the English language, for ex.

In other words, what I'm trying to say is, my memory is reliable up until there is a lot of crowding. Extremely rich scenes or thousands of people together simultaneously makes it a lot harder, and while the recall is there, up to 10% of the data might be lost.

So it's a cult.

If you're giving more than you're receiving and not even breaking even, and everything is "the church first", it's a cult.

The brain flushes cerebrospinal fluid through itself during sleep, cleaning out spent fuel (beta, tau, amyloids and such). Buildup of amyloids in the brain is linked with Alzheimer's disease. Anything the fluid touches activates neurons so the body has to be immobilized for the process otherwise you'll flail around during the sleep process (See: Sleepwalking and night terrors). Memory consolidation and repair also occur in this stage. The optical clusters are so important for survival in evolution, they are never turned off, so dreams occur as the fluid hits neurons causing rapid eye movements (REM).

There was a BBC article/paper I read like a decade ago talking about the role/function of sleep in animals/organisms.

That first long morning piss? That's all spent brain fuel.

If I got something wrong feel free to correct me, I'm going off years old information from the Interwebs__