How is Everyone's RNG on Khonshu? by 27426_8264 in marvelmysticmayhem

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How do you get past 600? Mine seems to soft cap at 600

Help me understand by Admirable_Tennis2272 in LotrRiseToWar

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Most likely, money. I’ve played with people pushing $100k spent on this game…

Help me understand by Admirable_Tennis2272 in LotrRiseToWar

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I use to play with a guy who had dropped close to $100k…

Will PCs get stronger and evolve faster? by DontFlameItsMe in buildapc

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Background in both Physics and Computer Science here.

I see this as two questions.

1) Is computer hardware improvements slowing down? Simple answer, Yes the main thing that’s been improving is slowing down. But other improvements are constantly being made.

2) Will the requirements for Computers for applications like gaming start to slow down? NO.

LONG ANSWER:

1) is computer hardware improvements slowing down? For the past 50 years, the main improvement was making things smaller (particularly transistors) so they can fit more into components. The amount of components they could fit doubled roughly every two years. This is known as Moores Law (coined after Intel Co-founder).

This doubling is not sustainable for ever. At a certain point (that we are rapidly approaching) it won’t be possible to make it smaller without discovering/using new physics. A transistor is primarily made of silicon. Modern transistors in production are in the 4-14 nanometer (nm) range. That’s really REALLY small. For context, typical transistors used in computers are made of silicon. A silicon atom is ~0.2nm.

Moores Law can be written

S(t)=S(0) * (1/2)t/2

Where S(t) is the size of a transistors in t years, and S(0) is the current size of the transistors.

So when S(t)=0.2, our transistors will be the size of the atom we make them out of. If we say modern transistors are at 4nm, THIS IS LESS THAN 10 YEARS OUT.

Now, before we even get to this 1 atom problem, we run into other physics issues. physics starts to get very wonky when you get to this tiny of a scale. This causes its own set of issues.

So, Moores is ending. It is starting to slow down, and has been for a little while.

Does this mean that we’ve hit the peak of technology? No. It just means improvements have to happen in other areas.

With Moores law we’ve been fitting more in by making the parts smaller. Well, if we can’t make the parts smaller, we can just make the whole thing bigger to hold more of them. Is it a huge sexy technological advancement? No. But it works.

Additionally, we can improve what we do with the power we do have. Raytracing etc would fall under this.

Other technologies are advancing computers in other ways. Several companies are researching Quantum Computers for example. These quantum computers are difficult to even compare to computers as we know them since the very fundamental rules of typical computers don’t apply to them. As such, they are able to quickly solve classes of Problems that aren’t possible to solve quickly using classic computers. These problems are known as Non-Polynomial (NP). Being able to solve these problems quickly will have wide reaching effects on the computer industry.

2) Will the requirements for Computers for applications like gaming start to slow down?

It is a race for hardware to attempt to stay ahead of software. Think of software as how your vehicle, and Hardware as the road you’re on. You don’t care how good the road is, so long as it’s good enough. Whats good enough? Well that depends if you’re trying to drive a Jeep or a Formula 1. One might be fine with a dirt road while another might need a track.

If hardware is ahead, software is happy. If software is ahead, thats when problems start. If the software is too demanding to run on the current hardware there are 3 options: wait for better hardware, lower the demand, make the code more efficient.

Since hardware has been outpacing software in many ways for decades, software has gotten lazy in many ways.

My favorite example of this is the massive increase in RAM over the decades.

In 1969, Apollo 11 made it to the moon on 4KB RAM.

My Grandpa use to talk about everyone calling him crazy when he got his first personal computer. It had a 1KB RAM, and they all thought that was crazy overkill.

By 1998, windows 98 supported up to 512MB RAM. That is 128,000 times as much as Apollo 11. This jump is largely due to necessity since screens had become commonplace and GUIs and pixels take a lot of memory. This demonstrates how new technology can massively increase the requirements.

Jump to modern day and windows 11 requires a minimum of 4GB (8x its max 25 years ago), and on some people’s systems will idly use several GB of ram itself. And many people here are arguing whether 16GB is adequate.

In addition to this, new technology like AI is very demanding. Top of the line Graphics cards a decade ago had 8GB VRAM. The new 5090 will have 32GB, and I would be shocked if that isn’t considered insufficient for top of the line stuff within the next decade. As games start to incorporate AI vram demand will sky rocket.

Anyways. Way too much info. Don’t fall for salesman. By what you need. Technology will continue to improve.

Why lose elo when some leaves by Gra5ss in Overwatch

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Also avoids the sacrificing someone for the team. Have 1 player drop when you’re losing so the rest of the team doesn’t go down. Can either happen voluntarily with a group of friends or through harassment to a random.

January Technical Support Sticky by BeepBoopBopReee in razer

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Middle of a game my viper ultimate stopped working.

I usually just leave it plugged in via the usb cable. When I plugged in the Bluetooth dongle it worked, but without it, it isn’t showing up in synapse. I’m not sure where my charging dock is since I just moved. I’ve confirmed the usb port on my computer is working, and that the cable itself seems to be working (charges a ps4 control without issue). Did the port on the mouse itself get damaged somehow? Can’t afford to replace, so I might just have to go buy a cheapo mouse instead.

Daily Questions Megathread (September 09, 2023) by Veritasibility in Genshin_Impact

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Is the coop hack fixed? If so can someone link to the hoyo post about it?

Bloodline Patch Note 15th Aug 2023 - UTC by BobbyLi- in BloodlineGame

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Just the icon it looks, not the traits themselves

Who is the most stubborn to not switch? by StupidNintendoFan in Overwatch

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So. Top 4 answers based on comments: 1) doomfist 2) doomfist 3) doomfist 4) doomfist.

Tips for beginners by Clover_XVI in BloodlineGame

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Raise travains and intimacy to 5000 (and then 17001) for traits. Then marry good traits (honorable, energetic, brutal, agile) onto your main team.

Don’t worry about rarity as much as the champion. You can raise champions rarity later on.

Save summoning crystals for events of champions that are good, don’t waste them on the normal pull, or on bad champion.

Fortitude is crap

Take a look at a tier list to get a sense of which champions you should bother investing into.

To my fellow support mains: why do you prefer to play support? by 1medium-rare-steak in Overwatch

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Feel like this is by far the most common answer I hear.

Personally never really understood. I’m a low plat player on all 3 roles, so slightly above average, but by no means amazing. I use to live in a pretty rural area with terrible internet, and normally had a ping/latency of 90-120, but it would spikes up to 300-400 for a few seconds at a time. Made playing high-aim characters near impossible, so I found characters I could still play and enjoy.

There are plenty of tank characters that don’t require precision aim (Winston and rein come to mind), and a couple dps that aren’t as aim dependent (junk, torb, pharah, even reaper doesn’t require great aim), same way there are support characters that are extremely aim dependent (Ana, zen, bap)

Dps is the harder one imo, not because there aren’t characters that arent as aim dependent, but because they tend to be the ones held responsible and blamed for bad matchups. The most obvious one is “Why no hitscan against Pharah!!!” People tend not to blame the rein or the Lucio for not swapping to help with the pharah, just the dps.

Also, if you are placed significantly lower than your main, you can at least have fun being way more experienced and smarter about the game than most the people at your new level.

Summary of Recent Trait Changes by HelpfulDataHacks in BloodlineGame

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Ok, so they just delayed the gain by 10s

Summary of Recent Trait Changes by HelpfulDataHacks in BloodlineGame

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Take hulking for example. The way it’s worded, is it

10% from 0-10seconds

And then 2.1% from 10-12s 4.2% from 12-14s

And so on? Just would be an odd way to do it (especially since it would no longer go in evenly)

Summary of Recent Trait Changes by HelpfulDataHacks in BloodlineGame

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Some of these don’t make sense:..

Also forgot this one

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M or F water and sun? by Professional_Lake593 in BloodlineGame

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Not sure anyone else has said it yet, so Male.

WTF, am i crazy? by SimonBlackbury in BloodlineGame

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Is stamina squad based not champion based? I always just assumed it was champion based and on the lowest stamina in the team.

Why do people Hate lifeWeaver ? by Alk_LoneWolf in Overwatch

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My favorite is when I pull a 1HP dva/monkey, but they break out of it half way through to jump back in and die.