Good game. Weak in the item and gameplay, strong in the story and character choice impact. Fun environments too. Not too long, not much exploration.

ARM offers, in the best case and ideal situation, a vastly more power efficient package that offers pretty good and modern performance. Peak performance with x86 is much higher, but at a very disproportionate cost in power. Something like 2x performance for 20x the power. (Measurements are not exact, direct comparison is impossible and there are many chips of each architecture)

So for any device with a battery, ARM is generally superior. That’s why basically all mobile phones are ARM and have been for 10+ years.

The move for windows for arm is largely about the future of laptops and not so much desktop, however, as performance increases for ARM chips and complexity In design improves, there is a good argument for ARM becoming a rough standard even for desktop, over the next 10 years.

There are similar architectures to ARM that are even more efficient, and open source (cheaper for manufacturers) such as RISC-V, that offer even more promise in the very long term, but they are much much much earlier in development. The first RISC-V chips that are actually for users are just now hitting the market.

Similar to mine!

-Fuckface

-Facejam

-Serious Trouble

-MBMBAM

-ANMA

Watchman is a franchise with an intense blessing when so many seem cursed. The movie was made by someone who didn’t understand the comic at all and it turned out fantastically, despite that. Easily the best Snyder product, and I do generally like his goofy ass.

Then, over a decade later, it has a weird HBO TV show, made by the creator/writer of Lost, someone who did at least understand very well the comics. But someone with a controversial track record, and making a show entirely out of original material. And it SLAPS. I tend to market it as “what if lost was rated R, 1 season long, and perfect”. Still got my fingers crossed for another season, but it doesn’t need it at all.

An alternative universe where the Economist turned out to actually practice introspection

I’m going to be honest, this is a huge nothingburger. How often do you pause and look at a crowd that’s shown for a few seconds at most? Does this actually affect your viewing experience?

Asinine to present things like this, pretending all black tea is the same or all green tea. I have green tea around 10mg and I have green tea around 130mg

Apple. Not the most evil, for certain, but they have the highest percentage of high level business choices that piss me off. Just so antithetical to my philosophy and consumer preferences. All closed, all hyper controlled, low customization, anti-repairable.

Do it their way or go fuck yourself. Something break? Fuck you, it’s your fault, buy another one. Want to play games on their very capable hardware? Grow up, no compatibility. Want to make their OS work on other machines? How dare you. Thief.

The only thing happening in the industry is the same thing happening in every industry and most of the first world:

The wealthy owners and executive leader roles have learned that COVID, COVID supply lines, interest rates, ‘consumer sentiment’, and inflation, are all very easy scapegoats that both the public and investors will easily buy as reasons for lowering product quality and availability, while also firing employees, squeezing the non-fired ones to death, and raising prices. This has lead to almost 2 straight years of corporations showing record profits (even adjusting for the inflation that they are largely responsible for in the first place).

This downward spiral will continue until some force with nearly as much power pushes back.

This is typically and ideally a representative government in the form of regulation or taxation. But the US government has suffered decades of regulatory capture and congressional gridlock.

So the only other potential option is a large amount of highly populated unions. Which have to fight against nearly 100 years of media and political demonization and nearly 150 years of ‘american independent attitude’.

The perfect modern system has all 3 parties; unions, government, and corporations, equally strong and antagonistic. Just as the perfect modern government would have the executive, legislative, and judicial branches equally strong and antagonistic. Neither could be much farther from the case here.

Stronger bigger unions. Weaker smaller corporations. And a government that actually functions. All are necessary to fix our current shit show.

Luckily mods have already addressed the menu problems for PC. StarUI and Undelayed Menus.

Shouldn’t even remotely be necessary for a studio this size. But whatever.

The only other actual negative I feel for the game at this point (20ish hours) is the skill points/system feeling like 5% good choices and 95% pointless garbage.

The fact that it’s Chinese really isn’t even a blip on the radar imo. The censorship sucks and a lot of US platforms do it too ( I mean shit look at YouTubes content rules).

Their content algorithm being really good at showing you what your brain craves in an endless stream is the real big problem. It’s creating such strange micro cultures. Live streams of people slowly filling balloons with food coloring and water, on a bunch of white printer paper. Teasing the water. Like an hour before it pops. 1,200,000 views. It feels insidious in such a weird way.

Brb, putting “suckfull software developer - 12 years” on my resume.

The country people of the 1890s are not the country people of today. Big city folk were a significantly smaller part of the population then, and the college educated population was miniscule. The ability to become educated is the largest relevant metric here. Now you can hit up khan academy and stanfords YouTube channel and get a world class education for free. Back then you had to be straight white wealthy connected. The excuses for ignorance are gone, for current country people.

But yes, these problems can and should be reversed, and done best communicating outside of the specific “lie-beral pedo demonrat vs racist Jesus warrior firearm creep” paradigm; placing things in terms of labor vs ownership class.

Extreme gridlock and, sadly, bigger fish to fry with a complete Inability to pass core-function bills like budgets due to that gridlock. Why gridlock? Ask McConnell and McCarthy

Fucking roosterteeth all over again. 12 years there as a follower, 9 here. Dropped both forever, now. Never getting my view or my money again.

These tech/YouTube companies need to be fucking stacked union or employee owned businesses for me to give them money at this point. There’s no other way I can trust them.

My only remaining sliver of hope is that Luke is not involved, and if he isn’t, that floatplane can break off and go their own way.

Have fun! it really does fix such a ridiculous amount of annoyances. I agree that making private co-op and running the server itself on another computer are the two things i want most from it, both of those may be possible with little work but AKI has to be very careful to avoid any ire from BSG

“Massachusetts one of very few states to acknowledge that first amendment exists” fixed. Forcing a paywall for the ability to speak with the outside world as an incarcerated person is unconstitutional no matter how many conservative judicial mental-gymnists want to pretend it isnt.

Outer Wilds would 100% be on my list but i played it close to release, so more than 365 days lol

Its actually really easy to set up.

-install the bsg launcher, update, install the base game

use this, following its instructions >

https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/672-spt-aki-installer/

IF there is a version mismatch with live, which happens, this is a really easy patcher that downgrades https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/204-aki-patcher/

thats it, really easy. As for the mods and changes ive listed, here

KMC server value tool. read instructions, you have to run it first to make it work right. This is the main tool for tweaking the games settings, and there are a lot of options. Be sure to make your own profile and save and load it, its a bit of a weird set up. Here are my current settings.

https://pixelfed.social/p/BDBoris/593146651199822769

If a tab isnt shown then i probably havent changed anything in it.

https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/379-kmc-server-value-modifier-svm/

Amands graphics, unfucks the game visually. defog, makes it less grey. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/813-amands-s-graphics/

More checkmarks. gives you way more on the fly info about what items you need, what they barter for, etc. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1159-morecheckmarks/

SAIN, AI rework. Has two dependencies, be sure to get them. This is my prefered AI option, there are others but this one makes the most sense with the least problems imo. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1062-sain-2-0-solarint-s-ai-modifications-full-ai-combat-system-replacement/

Amands hitmarkers. nice to have, not necessary at all, but i like it for the immediate feedback. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/798-amands-s-hitmarker/

Visceral dismemberment. Really over the top and gross but fun. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1092-visceral-dismemberment/

ammo stats in description. shows you what the actual fuck ammo is without sitting on eft monster or wiki. color coded too. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/284-ammo-stats-in-description/

gunsmith, not technically up to date with SPT but it works anyway. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1022-gunsmith/?highlight=gunsmith

This entire topic, and the scientific data surrounding it, is truly pretty complex and nuanced.

https://youtu.be/K4Ze-Sp6aUE?t=7914

This links to a 10 minute or so section of the (very long in total) Huberman Labs podcast with Layne Norton going over processed food, sugar, and the obesity epidemic, and how we haven’t really done a good job educating people on the way sugar is interacting with CICO and the epidemic.

I think a lot of people curious about the subject can learn a lot from just that segment.