Van Buren!
No, BoS Tactics!
New Vegas guy sighs, lowers his weapon
'... You're an oddball, but... probably a good kind of oddball.'
... I was gonna say DUST next, but uh... technichally thats not a "game", its a-
'It's fine dude, you're good.'
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18 F boobs would be... quite anatomically problematic.
Your... I'm guessing 28 AAs, though?
Yes, they do win =P
Oh dear god, does... is that a thing that happens with polystyrene? Fluorine gas pockets?
See, I am not a chemist, but I have enough basic chemistry knowledge to know you do not fuck around with fluorine.
Like I legitimately wasn't kidding when I said 'dont actually do this.'
Haa Sean been dying his hair this whole time, and this is his actual gray...
... Or is he dying it gray to appear older and thus less threatening?
Well then you would uh... ice ICE's ICE.
bad dum tish!
Not really though, basically, it clogs up the fuel pump/filter.
Not likely to... immediately or quickly immobilize the vehicle... but it would increase maintenance costs, and decrease fuel efficiency and reliability.
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If you wanna go for something uh... faster acting, more immediate and more serious:
A whole lot of water.
That'll make the engine choke and sputter and stall if you use enough.
So... use ice to ice ICE's ICE?
Uh... in minecraft?
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Sand will also clog up the filter, and cause more damage inside the actual engine if any gets through the filter.
... A whole bunch of polystyrene packing peanuts would ... also be 'fun', rofl.
The way they chemically interact with gasoline... basically gellifies the gasonline, turning it into shitty, syrupy napalm.
I am guessing a very gooopy gasoline is... not going to help a car run well, please actually do not test this rofl.
I am not a chemist, but uh chat gpt says polystyrene + gasoline is an exothermic reaction... so that... generates heat... and gasses... and that could be bad... in a tightly sealed container...
😅
Ave, true to Caesar.
Finding yourself in a boat with no means of propulsion, then uh...
... revving up your mouth, becoming a human motorboat engine, and then powering your way home.
A gigantic visual pun on the concept of 'motorboating' for adults, a wacky absurd nonsense scene for children.
Wish I had a gif of this lol, not sure which episode its from.
Most Call of Duty games work on linux, you're gonna have to be more specific as to which particular one of like 25 you mean by 'COD'.
The ones that don't, they don't work because the devs are too lazy or incompetent (or specifically told not to by their bosses) to make an AntiCheat that isn't a rootkit with full access to your entire PC.
I used to play GTA V Online (and RDR2, and FiveM, and RedM...) on linux all the time, literally for years... untill they just decided to ban all linux players.
IMO they owe me money for that, but oh well I guess.
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Again, there are many AntiCheats that work on linux, and have worked on linux for years and years now.
Easy Anti Cheat and Battleeye even offer linux support to game devs. There are some games with these ACs that actually do support linux.
But many game devs/studios/publishers just don't use this support... because then there wouldn't be any reason to actually use Windows, and MSFT pays these studios a lot of money... or they just literally own them (Activision/Blizzard = MSFT).
Kernel Anti Cheat that only works on Windows?
Yep, that's just a complicated way to enforce Windows exclusivity in PC games.
Go look up how many hacks and trainers you can find for one of these games you mention.
You may notice that they are all designed for, and only work on... Windows.
The idea that all linux gamers are malicious hackers is a laughable, obviously false idea... but game company execs understand the power of rabid irrational fandoms.
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You are right that you can't run games with rootkit anticheats on linux though, so if those heavily monetized and manipulative games with toxic playerbases are your addiction of choice, yep, sorry, linux ain't your hookup for those.
Again, this is another game platform freedom advocacy issue, and also a personal information security advocacy issue, not a 'something is wrong with linux' issue.
Game companies have gotten many working anticheat systems to work with linux. The most popular third party anticheat systems also support linux.
But the industry is clever at keeping people locked into their for profit, insecure OSs that spy on their entire system.
I... uh... what?
Integrated memory, on a desktop PC?
Genuinely: What are you talking about?
Typical PCs (and still many laptops)... have a CPU that uses the DDR RAM that is... plugged into the Mobo, and can be removed. Even many laptops allow the DDR RAM to be removed and replaced, though working on a laptop can often be much, much more finnicky.
GPUs have their own GDDR RAM, either built into the whole AIB in a desktop, or inside of or otherwise a part of a laptop GPU chip itself.
These are totally different kinds of RAM, they are accessed via distinct busses, they are not shared, they are not partitioned, not on desktop PCs and most laptops.
They are physically and design distinct, set aside, and specialized to perform with their respective processor.
The kind of RAM you are talking about, that is shared, partitioned, is LPDDR RAM.... and is incompatible with 99% of desktop PCs
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Also... anything, on a desktop PC, that gets loaded and processed by the GPU... does at some point, have to go through the CPU and its DDR RAM first.
The CPU governs the actual instructions to, and output from, the GPU.
A GPU on its own cannot like, ask an SSD or HDD for a texture or 3d model or shader.
Normally, compressed game assets are loaded from the SSD to RAM via the Win32 API. Once in RAM, the CPU then decompresses those assets. The decompressed game assets are then moved from RAM to the graphics card’s VRAM (ie, GDDR RAM), priming the assets for use in games proper.
(addition to the quote is mine)
Like... there is GPU Direct Storage... but basically nothing actually uses this.
Maybe it'll take off someday, maybe not.
Nobody does dual GPU SLI anymore, but I also remember back when people thought multithreading and multicore CPUs would never take off, because coding for multiple threads is too haaaaarrrrd, lol.
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Anyway, the reason that emulators have problems doing the things you describe consoles a good at... is because consoles have finetuned drivers that work with only a specific set of hardware, and emulators have to reverse engineer ways of doing the same, which will work on all possible pc hardware configurations.
People who make emulators generally do not have direct access to the actual proprietary driver code used by console hardware.
If they did, they would much, much more easily be able to... emulate... similar calls and instruction sets on other PC hardware.
But they usually just have to make this shit up on the fly, with no actual knowledge of how the actual console drivers do it.
Reverse engineering is astonishingly more difficult when you don't have the source code, the proverbial instruction manual.
Its not that desktop PC architecture ... just literally cannot do it.
If that were the case, all the same issues you bring up that are specific to emulators... would also be present with console games that have proper ports to PC.
While occasionally yes, this is sometimes the case, for some specific games with poor quality ports... generally no, not this is not true.
Try running say, an emulated Xbox version of Deus Ex: Invisible war, a game notoriously handicapped by its console centric design... try comparing the PC version of that, on a PC... to that same game, but emulating the Xbox version, on the same exact PC.
You will almost certainly, for almost every console game with a PC port... find that the proper PC version runs better, often much, much better.
The problem isn't the PC's hardware capabilities.
The problem is that emulation is inefficient guesswork.
Like, no shade at emulator developers whatsoever, its a miracle any of that shit works at all, reverse engineering is astonishingly difficult, but yeah, reverse engineering driver or lower level code, without any documentation or source code, is gonna be a bunch of bullshit hacks that happen to not make your PC instantly explode, lol.
Hrm uh... Framework laptops... seem to be configurable as having a mobile grade CPU with integrated graphics... and also an optional, additional mobile grade, dedicated GPU.
So, not really an APU... unless you really want to haggle over definitions and say 'technically, a CPU with pathetic integrated graphics still counts as a GPU and is thus an APU'.
Framework laptop boards don't have the PCI-E 16x slot for a traditional desktop GPU. As far as I am aware, Minisforum are the only people that do that, along with a high powered mobile CPU.
Note that the Minisforum Mobo model I am talking about, the AMD chip is not really an APU, its also a CPU with integrated graphics. Its a Radeon 610M, basically the bare minimum to be able to render and output very basic 2d graphics.
True APUs are ... things like what more modern consoles use, what a steam deck uses. They are still usually custom specs, proprietary to their vendor.
The Switch 2 will have a custom Nvidia APU, which is the first Nvidia APU of note to my knowledge, and it will be very interesting to learn more about it from teardowns and benchmarks.
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Currently, the most powerful, non custom, generally publically available, compatible with standard PC mobos... arguably an APU, arguably not... is the AMD 8700G.
Its about $315 bucks, is a pretty decent CPU, but as a GPU... its less powerful than a standard desktop RX 6500 from AMD... which is the absolute lowest tier AMD GPU from now two generations back from current.
You... might be able to run ... basically games older than 5ish years, at 1080p, medium graphics, at 60fps. I guess it would maybe be a decent option if you... wanted to build a console emulator machine, roughly for consoles ... N64/PS1/Dreamcast, and older, as well as being able to play older PC games, or PC games at lower settings/no more than 1080p.
I am totally just spitballing with that though, trying to figure out all that exactly would be quite complicated.
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But now, back to Framework.
Framework is soon to be releasing the Framework Desktop.
This is a small form factor PC... which uses an actual proper APU, either the AMD AI Max 385 or 395.
Its listed as MSRP of $1100, they say it can run Cyberpunk at 1440p on high settings at about 75 fps... thats with no ray tracing, no framegen... and I think also no frame upscaling being used.
So, presumably, if you turned on upscaling and framegen, you'd be able to get similar fps at ultra and psycho settings, and/or some amount of raytracing.
There are also other companies that offer this kind of true APU, MiniPC style architecture, such as EvoTek, though it seems like most of them are considerably more expensive.
... And finally, looks like Minisforum is sticking with the laptop CPU + desktop GPU design, and is soon going to be offering even more powerful CPU+Mobo models.
So yeah, this is actually quite an interesting time of diversification away from ... what have basically been standard desktop mobo architectures... for ... 2, 3? decades...
...shame it all also coincides with Trump throwing a literally historically unprecedented senilic temper tantrum, and fucking up prices and logistics for... basically the whole world, though of course much, much more seriously for the US.
Yep.
And after enough people can no longer actually critically think, well, now this shitty AI tech does actually win the Turing Test more broadly.
Why try to clear the bar when you can just lower it instead?
... Is it fair, at this point, to legitimately refer to humans that are massively dependant on AI for basic things... can we just call them NPCs?
I am still amazed that no one knows how to get anywhere around... you know, the town or city they grew up in? Nobody can navigate without some kind of map app anymore.
I mean, FO4 is great if your idea of a good RPG doesn't involve meaningful player choices...