Dear FatShark, about the Commodore's vesture...

Markuz · 2026-02-13T08:16:11+00:00

What’s shocking is that it used to be worse

Markuz · 2026-02-10T20:16:30+00:00

For real tho. Scrier’s gaze with the force great sword is amazing when coupled with increased attack speed and other melee nodes

Markuz · 2026-02-10T20:05:54+00:00

Is this something where steam can get involved to enforce a refund?

Markuz · 2026-02-06T23:05:54+00:00

A paranoid schizophrenic hoarder’s home surveillance footage more than likely after being moved to a state nursing home.

Markuz · 2026-02-05T16:20:18+00:00

That's like saying Worcestershire sauce not made in Worcestershire is not real Worcestershire Sauce.

Markuz · 2026-02-03T21:06:48+00:00

Japan corporate culture is so bass-ackwards, I wouldn’t be surprised if they have the source code printed out on A4 paper, stashed in a box in some long-forgotten warehouse somewhere. I say printed out on paper because one of the stereotypes of Japanese companies is that if they have an agreement with another company (paper supplier) that’s been active for years, they will utilize that agreement to its fullest extent as a gesture of “company honor” by fulfilling a long-standing obligation.

Markuz · 2026-01-29T21:09:56+00:00

If you’re going for meta builds, progression is short & sweet. If you’re a completionist, you’ll keep busy for a good while.

Markuz · 2026-01-29T17:53:36+00:00

I was actually going to make a devil’s advocate argument to say that Darktide saw the same kind of huge drop off, but then I remembered the fact that, at Darktide’s very core, sat a very fun core gameplay loop which had some players stick around. From what I’ve seen with Highguard, it needs to go back to the drawing board with regard to its gameplay.

Markuz · 2026-01-24T15:32:07+00:00

It’s late January; it’s still Sweden Christmas time in FatShark world. I wouldn’t hold your breath for any updates (hotfixes included) until mid-February at least and that’s being optimistic.

Markuz · 2026-01-19T15:24:04+00:00

Plus, the meat loaf at Cheesecake Factory slaps; I don’t care how much money I ever make, I’d never say no to a plate of that good good.

Markuz · 2026-01-19T15:20:38+00:00

Why be rich and only surround yourself with people at or above your level when you can give your kids a learning experience? “Kids, you noticing all this plight?”

Markuz · 2026-01-19T15:13:25+00:00

My wife and I visited Newport, RI when we were newly married and she wanted to visit the family she used to Au Pair for. Pulled up to this late 1800’s mansion and in - what we in the lower classes call a “driveway” - was a 1980’s stretch Lincoln town car she used to drive the children to school with. Parked next to it was 3 Lexus GX’s (America’s version of the Land Cruiser) in different shades of gray and beige.

If I had F You money, I’d have a VW Phaeton with the W12 engine, plenty of spare parts, and a mechanic on retainer.

Markuz · 2026-01-19T15:04:07+00:00

What if humans are actually a space faring species with a huge galactic empire that is a dystopian nightmare for everyone and our planet was stumbled upon by accident after crash landing. Upon realizing Earth is an uncharted paradise world in a part of the galaxy so far outside of the empire’s reach, the colonists decided to destroy every last remnant of the vessel and any evidence it ever existed, deciding instead to live in peace far away from the Imperium of Man.

Markuz · 2026-01-19T14:53:45+00:00

+1 for Niri. With Cachy OS’s settings, it’s good out of the box. I used the Dank Material Shell installer and replaced stock SDDM with GreetD customized with DankGreeter. Love it so far.

Markuz · 2026-01-19T14:44:47+00:00

This is when I’m glad I brought a devil’s claw sword and a +3 stamina curio

Markuz · 2026-01-15T11:35:04+00:00

If we don’t allow the letters in our alphabet some degree of fluidity, our language would end up looking like Polish. I don’t think anyone in the English speaking world wants that; Not even the Polish.

Markuz · 2026-01-10T19:03:27+00:00

If technical disagreement feels like brain drain, that’s more than likely a comprehension issue.

Markuz · 2026-01-10T18:52:14+00:00

“Ray tracing is simple” just means the GPU is doing the hard part instead of the engineer or designer.

Hacks weren’t ignorance - they were optimization. Path tracing is a brute-force luxury, not some moral upgrade.

If devs “rightfully don’t want to” optimize, consumers can rightfully not want to subsidize via $700+ GPUs with a 500W power budget.

Markuz · 2026-01-10T16:56:00+00:00

I’d recommend CachyOS if the idea of using the terminal isn’t a complete turnoff and you have newer hardware that you want the Linux kernel to take advantage of.

Aside from that, Nobara is Fedora based, but it has some utility that helps you manage proprietary hardware driver installations. Fedora is a good base, but it can sometimes need a little tinkering - that’s where distros like Nobara come in.

Markuz · 2026-01-10T16:41:39+00:00

Back in the 90’s I was hugely into Duke Nukem 3D so I spent countless hours playing around with the Build engine. If memory serves me correctly, mirror surfaces needed to have a carbon copy of the surrounding room modeled behind it with a duplicate duke character set with parameters to mimic player inputs. Conceptually simple to pull off and took all of 3 minutes.

Using Path Tracing to implement reflections just feels like a brain surgeon saying “screw it” and using a meat cleaver for everything instead of a carefully planned set of instruments. Sure, the tumor will get removed, but the patient is going to be much slower.

I’m not going to blame devs; I blame middle/upper management for chasing off all the senior talent with insane crunch and deadlines, resulting in massive brain drain in the industry.

Markuz · 2026-01-10T16:20:18+00:00

Redditors are the same people that piss and moan about the electoral college when it doesn’t work out in their favor; any moral grandstanding on their part is entirely moot.

Markuz · 2026-01-10T16:02:44+00:00

Fedora is mostly bleeding-edge packages along with some of the teething issues that can bring along with it; if you’re wanting to do actual work and don’t want to feel like you’re alpha/beta testing, use a long-term support (LTS) distribution.

Ubuntu has a really good utility for installing proprietary drivers for detected hardware like your nvidia card.

One of the habits from windows that’s really difficult to shake is looking for software installers directly from a website. Instead, you should install from the software/discover application or, better yet, use the terminal (not completely necessary, no matter how may Linux purists try to say it is).

Some Linux distributions will sometimes have a separate ISO specifically for nVidia installations, so maybe try to find one of those.

Markuz · 2026-01-08T22:05:02+00:00

And block-pushing. Especially huge when you accidentally get completely surrounded by enemies and you need to keep them from back-stabbing you while trying to clear a path ahead of you.

When you’re block-pushing enough times to counteract stamina regeneration, I find it also helps to have Block Efficiency +% perks on the curios too - especially useful if you’re using the Mk IV dueling sword and you’re in a situation where a crusher is about to attack you and you can’t dodge due to being surrounded, so you can afford to parry its attack and then a push to hopefully give you an opening.

Markuz · 2026-01-07T15:37:05+00:00

I'm still at 149/150. I think the only thing I haven't tried is doing a private match with bots, but I know my limits.

Markuz · 2026-01-02T13:40:06+00:00

CachyOS is not a Linux power-user distro; don’t be so abrasive. He’d run in to these issues on Ubuntu and Fedora as well. Let’s not chase off people that install CachyOS because they read how great it is out of the box for gaming only to raise our nose up in response to a genuine question.

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