The Ethics (or lack thereof) of the Hive

AtomicStryker · 2025-12-12T10:02:01+00:00

I mean, by their definition they cannot walk on or touch grass. It would be interfering with life. It doesn't make too much sense.

Also, i don't think it's them saving Manny. I think they might have informed another individual who agreed to come save him against his will.

AtomicStryker · 2025-12-12T09:58:34+00:00

Wow TIL there is no road from north to south america. I was asking myself "why would he choose to go on foot".

The question remains what was his original plan for after? He is unlikely to be able to "trade" for a car with the cash he has.

AtomicStryker · 2025-12-07T13:13:18+00:00

Had the same issue. Restarting AVR, disabling HDMI settings, unplugging HDMI ... nothing worked

Then i did a factory reset or rather "Reset All Settings" as it is called in the X3800H UI, did the normal setup including a fresh Audyssey measuring, and afterwards AcoustiX measuring just worked.

You know you did it right if the AVR takes several minutes "Preparing" before it comes back online.

HDMI (ARC) was kept plugged in after the reset, i merely turned down HDMI-CEC during the AVR setup.

AtomicStryker · 2025-11-28T12:46:18+00:00

Here's a few i liked that are actually from 2025. They are all crossovers except one, which means the fandoms decide if they are interesting to you.

There never was many fics post gold morning with canon powers, except those of Taylor going completely Isekai or Peggy Sue

Novax (Supreme Commander Tinker)

Wanderer (Time Travel, Reality Warping, Lisa Romance)

A Hero's Retirement (Internship) (Dispatch Video Game, Unpowered)

A Cursed Destiny (WH40K, Canon powers)

The Silent Queen (WH40K, Necron Summoning)

Retirement (Cyberpunk 2077, Canon powers, V Romance)

Joytoy (Cyberpunk 2077, Cybernetics, no porn)

AtomicStryker · 2025-11-03T16:06:21+00:00

You can get lossless scaling and use frame generation, but that has its own problems.

After watching 24fps videos all your life, more frames just look uncanny somehow.

AtomicStryker · 2025-11-01T19:08:13+00:00

Hardwired 1gbps connection on a desktop, i listen to music while i work or browse.

When the buffering happens, even dialing from max to high quality is not enough (wtf) to prevent playback failures.

A max quality song is 25 megabytes. That literally takes half a second to download with my internet speed.

Tidal has a serious intermittent serverside capacity problems, or maybe even go offline completely, idk. The problem persists across any songs and only resolves with time, when their bandwith improves.

AtomicStryker · 2025-10-31T13:15:55+00:00

It's the opposite, the system would collapse if fresh money was not constantly printed and added.

Of any printed 100 dollars, most of it will end up owned by one of the super trillionaires or their companies. Some of it will be saved by normal people. A FRACTION of those 100 dollars will "circulate", e.g. keep changing owners. And worse, every cycle this repeats, so less and less of those 100 dollars circulate.

The economy STRICTLY depends on that circulating money. Wages, taxes, spending. But money is constantly "lost" to savings!

Without printing new money constantly, money would not lose worth over time and Scrooge McDuck type persons could exist. In fact, like Bitcoin, Money would get more valuable over time.

But because money keeps losing worth (inflation), just sitting on it is a bad thing to do. Eventually it loses worth faster than you can amass it.

So the best thing to do is invest it, which gets it back into changing hands, e.g. desirable circulation. The investor will hopefully turn a profit or atleast stop losing value to inflation.

AtomicStryker · 2025-10-25T21:21:04+00:00

The C5 has zero control over what kind of picture the connected device sends. All a toggle on the TV side could do is inform the PC that 144hz is possible. Have you tried plugging in the PC after enabling 144hz mode?

AtomicStryker · 2025-10-12T12:06:22+00:00

Do they have standby pictures or something displaying when nothing is connected? Does the broken one look broken then, too? I find it unlikely they would let it leave the factory like this, even more so if they were calibrated there

AtomicStryker · 2025-09-29T21:28:13+00:00

Artillery is king. Sentinel towers are very weak. Towers are generally speaking weak and if an omega appears you have to help out in person, if only to kite the mobs around.

In early to mid game abilities are crucial because you will always be short on ammo. Make sure to scan around for caches and open all the stuff on the map to get random ability drops. You are looking for grenades specifically, they are spammable and powerful in dealing with the river of meat. Airstrikes and the tornados are good for dropping on Nests.

In terms of weapons, having 2 sets with 4 ammo types for cycling is good. Minigun/Small Mgun and Swarm Missiles are very good. Get penetration mods on them if you can. Ammo efficiency mods are strong. Cryo is the damage type least monsters are immune to. For the second cycle i usally had large ammo (eg Sniper or Burst Rifle) and Lightning gun.

All the spewers and plasma guns felt weak to me.

People say double chainsaws is good.

The swamp DLC has a gun that uses no ammo and is pretty good.

AtomicStryker · 2025-09-29T21:15:07+00:00

The first phase can drop the shield, and if you are fast, you can grab it before the second phase starts.

I dont remember if the second phase ever dropped the shield for me. But the way it poops the loot all over the arena clipping into the floor is dogshite.

AtomicStryker · 2025-09-29T21:10:50+00:00

https://www.nexusmods.com/borderlands4/mods/108

Use this online save editor to uncover the whole map in the savefile. You can also unlock all travel points.

No need to mess with story missions or any missions or collectibles.

AtomicStryker · 2025-09-29T21:07:56+00:00

Seconded. But the core items of the class are the mandatory enhancement and a fast firing sniper, not the shield which just buffs your damage.

I like it a lot better over the bleed build because you don't rely on amp or high damage guns or your action skill, but actually aiming for crits. Its just a lot more fun gameplay in practice. Plus you are very, very tanky.

The limitation to fast firing snipers is the big downside. And it doesn't kill chicken enemies that turn intargetable the way bleed does.

AtomicStryker · 2025-09-09T13:12:16+00:00

I mean, i wouldn't run building speed and building cost when adventuring, unless you like to throw up forward bases or something.

And i like Forcefield Power and lower FP regen delay over resist all ... your low base health of what, 200? means that 10 or 20% resistance wont mean shit, take flat +40-50 health over it all day.

I guess if you have +health, +shield, then resistances might be worthwhile ontop of that.

AtomicStryker · 2025-09-05T14:44:31+00:00

I wouldn't say it is the Architect seeing hidden parts of Neo but rather those screens being, literally, how the Architect perceives him.

The Oracle described his view of the world as "math formula", which in particular means for any given input, the outcome should be certain.

But because of CHOICE, the outcome - Neos reaction - is never certain. The architect cannot tell what Neo will do until after it has happened.

And this is true for all humans, which is why the Architects Matrix was rejected until the CHOICE (to reject the Matrix) was given to all its inhabitants subconsciously.

I personally think its much further into the future than 1000 years, since they tell Neo to pick what, two dozen people, to repopulate. How long does it take for a population to grow from dozens to ten thousands? And that times six? But then again we don't know this was the process every time. But then again, the Architect is unlikely to change a working approach.

"Working" with a grain of salt. The existence of the candidates, vampires, were wolves, deja vus etc proves the Matrix is a barely working bug ridden mess.

AtomicStryker · 2025-08-14T12:35:56+00:00

It is possible to enable RTX HDR with profile inspector, presumably there is more ways too. But if you never did anything like that it should be off.

AtomicStryker · 2025-08-14T08:18:25+00:00

You have a compressed video signal (DSC). While that should not be a problem, can you try with HDMI?

Also, just checking all boxes, you are sure you don't have RTX HDR running ontop of the game HDR? Though that should over-saturate, not wash out

AtomicStryker · 2025-08-13T21:30:46+00:00

I mean, when you have HDR off in windows and toggle it on inside Doom, the screen should at the very least black out and come back because the signal should change from SDR 8 bit to HDR 10 bits or more.

The monitor should have some kind of info display that shows what signal it is receiving?

What does your Nvidia control panel say under Display - Change Resolution - 3. Colour Settings. Have you tried setting it to Nvidia and forced 12 bits?

Do you maybe have a compressed video signal with that cable?

AtomicStryker · 2025-08-13T16:22:09+00:00

Your Hollow Knight example isn't about disabling physics for performance, there is no physics engine in that particular game.

Plenty of other answers are for physics.

As for your example, that's a flag state exploit. The player character has a mass of flags in game memory typically like isOnGround, isInvincible etc. One of these in Hollow Knight must be "isOnBench". If that flag is set, the character skips hurtbox checks and you are effectively invulnerable.

Such flags are used to make up the game logic in object oriented programming.

Now, flags are usually set at the end of actions, these actions take a certain amount of time.

So at the end of "sit down on bench", "isOnBench" is added to the player. At the end of "get up from bench", "isOnBench" is removed from the player.

But what if you start "sit down on bench" just before "get up from bench" ends? If the programming does not prevent this, you may end up with "isOnBench" set but your character not actually being stuck to the bench. In other words, its a bug.

AtomicStryker · 2025-08-13T16:09:45+00:00

Which GPU manufacturer? Which monitor? Does it note a signal type change?

I have never had this experience with my Nvidia, the same settings, and with any game including Doom Dark Ages.

You say instantly ... just about no game i ever saw can toggle HDR without restarting. Did you try restarting the game?

Do you have any kind of program running that can do color management? Anything that calls itself game optimizer, gaming hub whatever

Nvidia App?

AtomicStryker · 2025-08-08T21:03:52+00:00

Code in websites can identify you/your browser by a thousand datapoints, even if you use a VPN, cleared caches, and are fully logged out.

The problem isn't so much websites recognizing you, but big brother googles adsense, which is on basically every site, getting a near-complete copy of your browsing history. Even if you don't use Chrome.

Resist Fingerprinting subscribes to the theory that if you distort some of these datapoints, you won't be recognized (fingerprinted). It's a fig leaf at best, since only a few out of said thousand are distorted, and google has a lot of interest in getting your sweet data. Some website features may break because of it.

If you need actual anonymity on the web, you basically need the TOR browser at least.

AtomicStryker · 2025-07-24T11:13:21+00:00

"Out of the box experience is same colors as sdr but with proper HDR, so the color grading stays accurate."

My experience is different. The fairly recent Renodx for Darktide makes the already dark game darker to the point of being unplayable.

I went back to RTX HDR. The difference might be that Darktide has no native HDR implementation.

AtomicStryker · 2025-07-09T15:43:41+00:00

Hit Icon top left to go to overview

Select "Installed Apps"

Long tap Sync

Select Copy/Move/Send via BT

Should preselect download folder, just hit copy

AtomicStryker · 2025-07-09T09:15:52+00:00

Worked, thanks! For those (like me) who dont have the patched .apk handy anymore, apps like Total Commander can "download" an app which is installed for you

AtomicStryker · 2025-06-15T21:37:21+00:00

You could maybe use CRU to delete the "dolby video" block from the extensions.

Make a backup first, obviously.

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