Valve has wrapped the banhammer in tinsel, adding a lovely Christmassy flavour to their anti-smurfing actions. Players who have been banned for smurfing are finding a Highly Toxic Lump of Coal in their accounts, a ‘Seasonal Reward’.
“I’m only asking because, you know, my wife is crazy about this stuff, history i mean. I don’t really give a damn being a white man. You know how it is, she can go on and on about human rights and … what’s that? Oh yes I’m sure a person of your stature would not be involved in something as slimy as genocide. 🛎️ Oh just one more thing, i noticed you have this bow and arrow in your log cabin, fine piece of craftsmanship if i may say so myself, where did you get it again?”
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Maybe tag GianniMatragrano nicely enough and he’ll make a short clip about it :)
I think the issue started with gpu-architecture tailored technologies like physx or gameworks but im probably wrong. For example I have nothing against physx but it only runs on nvidia cores natively (fast), i have an issue when there’s a monetary incentive or exclusive partnering of nvidia and game studios - so if you want to play the game with all the features, bells and whistles, it was designed with you would need to also buy their overpriced (and current gen: underperforming) gpus just because you’d be missing out on features or performance on any other gpu architecture.
If this trend continues everybody will need a €1k+ gpu from nvidia and a €1k+ gpu from AMD and hot-swap between them depending on what game you wish to play.
The more people use Arc the quicker it becomes mainstream and optimised for but arc is still considered “beta” and slow in peoples minds even though there were huge improvements and the old benchmarks don’t hold any value anymore. chicken and Egg problem. :/
Disclaimer: i have an arc 770 16GB because every other sensible upgrade path would have cost 3x-4x more for the same performance uplift (and I’m not buying an 8GB card in 2023+) but now I’m starting to get really angry at people blaming Intel for “not supporting this new game” - all that gpus should support is the graphics API to the letter of the specification, all this day-1 patching and driver hotfixes to make games run decent is bs. Games need to feed the API and GPUs need to process what the API tells it to, nothing more nothing less. It’s a complex issue and i think Nvidia held the monopoly for too long, everything is optimised for Nvidia at the cost of making it worse for everyone else.
Ich bin in dem Thema nur 50% eingelesen und es mag vielleicht eine unpopuläre Meinung sein aber der Regulierungswahn erscheint mir ein wenig übertrieben. Warum macht man Cannabis Erwerb/Besitz nicht einfach 18+ oder sogar 21+ und häufigere Kontrollen um dann solche unter dem legalen Alter zu bestrafen? Anstelle der vielen Auflagen zum Anbau und Vertrieb, die bisher nach viel “denkt doch mal an die Kinder” Schall und Rauch ausschauen, könnte man Cannabis ähnlich zugänglich machen wie zb Alkohol oder Energy Drinks, mit Alterskontrolle über Ausweis. Zu dem Gedanken sei gesagt, dass ich ein persönliches selbst-medikamentöses Interesse an Cannabis habe und es nicht noch weiter unnötig schwer gemacht werden sollte, für diejenigen die “alt genug” und sich den Risiken bewusst sind. Macht das so Sinn oder ist mein übermüdetes Hirn auf dem Holzweg?
In all seriousness it’s a great shot, look at that little fur(?) around the torso, looks like a fluffy jacket. Almost cute, I’m not an insect person but this is interesting