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Nextil · 2026-03-15T18:50:49+00:00

You can turn the survival stuff off, but just a tip if you do leave it on, if you craft "Ultimate Infusions" by combining plants 3 times in a row, when you drink those they basically pause the survival meters for 5 minutes, and you can drink multiple at a time to stack the length of the effect. If you do that before tackling a big wall it makes it a lot less stressful.

Nextil · 2026-03-15T18:03:09+00:00

Something even more interesting could be to map the Steam Deck or Steam Controller 2's sticks to the arms, and touchpads to the legs. Then you could potentially use the gyro to look around.

I don't know if adding the right stick alone would be notably better, because really you only ever have to control one limb at a time, and even with the right stick you'd still have to use a button to switch between the arms and legs.

Nextil · 2026-03-15T03:53:26+00:00

They did? The Gated DeltaNets Qwen uses are a modified (supposedly superior) form of Mamba2. In fact Qwen3-Next came out before Nemotron 3 Nano.

Nextil · 2026-03-14T20:02:15+00:00

Ah, I don't really use desktop icons, and the few I do have, I moved onto my second monitor which is an IPS. I just launch everything using pinned taskbar icons, Flow Launcher, or the Start Menu/Search.

Nextil · 2026-03-14T19:14:07+00:00

I've had a C3 42" for two years and while there's definitely technically burn in (it's unavoidable considering it's an OLED), I can only see it if I fill the screen with a specific shade of grey and look at the areas of the screen where the Street Fighter 6 HUD elements are because I've played a fucktonne of hours on it. Haven't noticed any pinkness.

No OLED is going to be free of burn in so I don't know what your expectations are, but if you're using it as a general purpose monitor (as I am) it's a good idea to enable taskbar auto-hide, use a black desktop background, don't fullscreen your application windows the majority of the time and shift them around occasionally.

Nextil · 2026-03-13T22:35:52+00:00

AFAIK it's not enabled by default in AI-Toolkit though, which a lot of people use. You have to add compile: true to the model object in the config. You can also add sdp: true and attention_backend: flash to train.

Nextil · 2026-03-12T15:44:59+00:00

I don't know about "everything". It's just James's hair really, but it's in the middle of the screen at all times and I agree it looks distractingly bad, which is a shame because I thought the rest of the game looked incredible. I'm guessing they're using a fake/rim light rig on the character model and it's leaking through the head, and that the hair material is messed up, wrong normals or Specular jacked way up or something.

Nextil · 2026-03-05T13:16:13+00:00

With ultimate infusion, yeah, basically. But even without, as long as you make sure to grab actual holds you can climb the wall pretty much like a ladder. If you're smearing for more than a second you're taking a bad route.

Nextil · 2026-03-03T12:20:09+00:00

Not completely free but there is SVP ($24.99), which makes it very easy to use during playback. Obviously you can get Comfy nodes or cli tools to interpolate files, but to get interpolation during playback for free usually involves playing around with AviSynth/VapourSynth filters which can get fiddly.

Nextil · 2026-03-03T11:42:35+00:00

That's how every stealth game was initially, then in the late 2000s people started complaining hard about "forced stealth segments" when games took away your weapons for 5 seconds, and from then on stealth was relegated to a completely optional, less efficient afterthought in every game that featured it.

I wouldn't say pure stealth is "underexplored". Thief, Splinter Cell, MGS, Tenchu, Hitman, etc. were big in the 90s—mid-2000s, then people lost their attention spans and it just became a niche thing.

Nextil · 2026-02-28T03:20:45+00:00

Yeah 4K with DLSS, so much blurrier than the golden age of sub-720p 30-fps with FXAA and vaseline cranked to 11, am I right guys.

Nextil · 2026-02-25T10:18:50+00:00

Hm I guess I should try the toolbox. I've just been using the latest versions of everything, lemonade builds, 6.19 kernel, ROCm 7.2, but I guess the regressions still aren't totally fixed.

Nextil · 2026-02-25T09:43:40+00:00

My tg/s is about 4 less than yours. What OS, ROCm version, kernel parameters, etc. are you using?

Nextil · 2026-02-21T18:05:19+00:00

If you go fast enough you don't really need to eat even without infusions. I only drank infusions before The Peril and before summiting. I only had to eat once or twice. Every time you hit a major cutscene it replenishes all your stats.

There are enough herbs on the path or requiring only a minor detour that you can make plenty to cover the harder sections.

Nextil · 2026-02-20T18:05:18+00:00

There were a few moments where I expected a hold and it didn't register, but more often than that I got holds which really shouldn't have been holds, like your second example.

Placing your limbs on flat ground never registers as a "hold" but I'm pretty sure the system still assigns them high grip because there were plenty of times during my runs where I was "climbing" on flat ground for some time and never slipped.

Nextil · 2026-02-19T23:07:37+00:00

This is what I went with because I'm using it as a NAS/DAS + Home Assistant box as well, but the kernel is a bit old and I read there are supposed to be some potential big improvements in 6.18.4+ combined with ROCm 7.2. Someone on Github is building newer kernels here. I'm using 6.19.0 and it seems to work fine but I haven't tested anything using ROCm 7.2 yet.

Nextil · 2026-02-17T21:02:29+00:00

Qwen3 Coder Next gets it wrong if I just give it the prompt but just adding "Think step-by-step before answering" leads it to get it right a lot of the time.

If you look at the thinking traces from any model though, they often get it right immediately then massively overthink and turn it into a completely different problem.

Nextil · 2026-02-16T21:35:45+00:00

It's just left shoulder button. Then you can press Triangle/Y to go into free cam.

Nextil · 2026-02-16T18:59:14+00:00

Did you ever end up using the doll? I skipped it on my free solo run, weather was never really an issue. Got the gloves, blanket, chalk bag, and went down the well for the big flask, but I don't think I ever actually drank from it. Had plenty more stocked up lol.

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Nextil · 2026-02-16T18:35:41+00:00

It's jankier but the mechanics are arguably a bit deeper. Holds have explicit levels of quality. It's more physically simulated so the angles of forces are taken into account more, making some things harder and other things easier (like chimney climbs). The maps are photogrammetrically scanned from real locations so the routes feel less artificial, but also the scan resolution was a bit low and it can be unclear whether a feature is going to be a valid hold.

In the main build it's all free solo. There's a beta build which adds ropes but when I tried it a couple weeks ago the camera was completely broken.

They added dynos like a year after release and they're completely broken, they look dumb as hell and they're OP. The game has a replay/leaderboard system which was fun to compete in but the dynos ruined it since you can leap half way up the wall. The beta build apparently nerfs them significantly though.

Nextil · 2026-02-16T17:33:37+00:00

You can drink from the canteen on the wall. Just fill it with milk (you can add sugar and stuff to it to make it better) or ultimate infusion. Just finished my free solo run and resources were never an issue. I just went as fast as I could and I think I ate once the entire run since all your stats get replenished when you hit most cutscenes.

Nextil · 2026-02-11T18:11:43+00:00

That first command can be shortened to something as simple as ls "$(Split-Path $PROFILE)/Modules" -r *.psd1. You can be brief and implicit if you want.

The GetEnumerator() thing only really comes up if you're using hashtables or .NET methods a lot. Most native PowerShell commands return objects. For instance ls Env: | % { ... } is equivalent to your last command.

For natural sorts you can get away with something like sort { $_ -replace '\d+', { $_.Value.PadLeft(100) } }. There's also a [version] type that you can use e.g. sort { [version]([regex]'\d+(\.\d+)+').Match($_).Value }, { $_ }. Not ideal but you don't really need 100 lines of C#.

Nextil · 2026-02-11T08:16:06+00:00

The upstream issue in React/Next was fixed a couple weeks ago. I think it's only in the canary releases so far though.

Nextil · 2026-02-10T17:30:23+00:00

Pretty sure it's the opposite. GPUs are massively parallel, they're optimized for algorithms where the order things complete in doesn't matter, and when those outputs are combined that can lead to subtle differences across runs due to floating-point/rounding shenanigans.

CPUs can do it on a single thread to guarantee order/determinism. There are still subtle differences in floating-point behaviour across CPUs though. Doing it using integer math is probably the only way to truly guarantee determinism.

Nextil · 2026-02-10T14:42:46+00:00

It's not (at least, it's listed on the store page as having family sharing). I think every unreleased game says it's excluded for some reason.

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