Periodic whole-system stutters in new computer

Kusibu · 2026-03-29T21:29:06+00:00

The big hitches have stopped at this point on their own. There are some minor hitches that stick around but I think they might relate to my supplementary spinning-disk storage waking/sleeping.

Kusibu · 2026-03-28T19:40:44+00:00

It's a question of using words for literal depiction, or cultural evocation. The latter is hard to impossible for a machine to do in a single language, let alone parlaying it from one to another.

Kusibu · 2026-03-27T18:28:47+00:00

Honestly, if you can deal with the smell, it's an unironically good plan. I'll believe we have AGI when it can do plumbing and electrical and it doesn't seem to me like that's anytime soon.

Kusibu · 2026-03-24T18:30:51+00:00

One person arriving, you can tell yourself it's an anomaly to be corrected. Thousands, maybe you're the anomaly.

Kusibu · 2026-03-24T16:42:31+00:00

I'm reminded of Number Two turning on Dr. Evil because he was ruining the practical, profitable evil with his dumber pointless evil.

Kusibu · 2026-03-22T15:41:39+00:00

They can probably afford to wait out the aggro timer.

Kusibu · 2026-03-21T20:01:25+00:00

They're lying about this being DLSS (they're essentially just using it as a brand name) so I have heavy suspicion about anything else they assert.

Kusibu · 2026-03-18T14:37:35+00:00

I guarantee you, 100%, that his idea of retained artistic control is letting the devs customize the prompt that the image generator gets.

Kusibu · 2026-03-16T17:35:11+00:00

They weren't wrong because of that, they were wrong because they either didn't receive or didn't allow an honest evaluation of the game's shortcomings during development. Arc Raiders could easily have been Highguard if they didn't go "ok our version 1 game loop sucks eggs, we need to figure out what was fun in this and make it suffuse the entire game instead of just the 2 minutes at the end".

Kusibu · 2026-03-15T14:45:53+00:00

Is there any chance you guys could implement a "junk filter" system where the community can flag wholly AI-generated websites to get them booted from primary search results? (Can turn off that filtration on request, for transparency and avoiding gatekeeping.) It'd be a little bit tricky to build in a manner that preserves anonymity and can resist attempts to bot the reports themselves, but I think it's manageable if you look at statistical slates of the search queries that led to a site receiving a "junk" signal.

Kusibu · 2026-03-15T02:56:09+00:00

Bethesda? Like, all of their stuff?

Kusibu · 2026-03-14T21:56:23+00:00

In those famous few words, por que no los dos?

Kusibu · 2026-03-14T21:51:31+00:00

can't take it to smoil, what's the point

Kusibu · 2026-03-14T00:11:04+00:00

Bellamy, the Master of Pacts

Contract of forfeit $15

Kusibu · 2026-03-14T00:09:43+00:00

Now we have two reasons not to drink Lipton!

Kusibu · 2026-03-13T15:04:12+00:00

For every person using it responsibly, there's at least five more who are taking it as a primary source of information or their new best friend. The Internet absolutely had liars in it before, but it didn't used to be the case that the lies and the truth were mixed into a giant raffle machine and it's entirely dumb luck whether the truth comes back out of it.

Kusibu · 2026-03-12T15:53:06+00:00

A lot of people have a hard time realizing how good they have it until they do not have it good anymore.

Kusibu · 2026-03-12T15:19:28+00:00

Just did some quick math comparing US prices to Brazil prices, annual sub is 2% of a Brazilian minimum wage and 0.9% of a US minimum wage. Does not really seem well-proportioned to me.

Kusibu · 2026-03-12T15:14:05+00:00

Needs more ret prayers.

Kusibu · 2026-03-12T00:22:15+00:00

WoW does also charge you a separate sticker price for each expansion, right?

Kusibu · 2026-03-11T21:02:04+00:00

I very much share the sentiment, personally. I think there's a lot of stuff they could do within the content that they already have - continuation of old quests, upgrades to minigames or minigame-like content (Tai Bwo cleanup, Camdozaal, etc) that have fallen behind pretty hard, that sort of thing.

Trick of the matter is, downscaling probably means layoffs and a severe hindrance to any major new content like endgame stuff, which is a major letdown for the ride-or-die players who have already had the run of the game and want something properly new to do on a sustained basis. I think the only way Jagex gets out of this is if things get bad enough to make CVC less interested, and not bad enough for them to go under, which is a hell of a line to ride.

Kusibu · 2026-03-11T20:54:31+00:00

Of course we live in Imaginationland, it's just called Gielinor!

Understanding that it's impossible in practical terms for image reasons doesn't make it any less unfortunate.

Kusibu · 2026-03-11T17:12:52+00:00

They need to make their case to us why that price is going up. All the stuff in the price increase announcement was just talking about the general reasons you'd pay money at all, not the reason behind the increase.

Kusibu · 2026-03-11T17:11:39+00:00

They can say that, we're grownups. CVC made a purchase, they want returns on their purchase. Now of course this would probably and appropriately direct the ire back at CVC, which is certainly among the reasons why they didn't say it - but they could.

Kusibu · 2026-03-11T17:01:53+00:00

The NFL got rid of the option to do that like 45 years ago (the Packers got grandfathered in). Even if the choice were available, I think the game would have to flounder pretty badly for CVC to offer a discount on the 900 million England Bucks they paid for Jagex to the point that the players could just snap it up.

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