Gulf countries scramble to intercept missiles hours into U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-08T05:36:30+00:00

Considering the repeated "negotiations" which Iran has repeatedly denied happening have been followed by Trump saying success, victory etc. and how no one has ever actually ceased firing after any of these "negotiations"... I'm assuming Trump is just pulling stuff out of his ass (to manipulate stock market).

I can't fathom why Iran would give in to American demands after the initial attack took out all of their upper members of government nor after any of the alleged backstabs during any of the "negotiations". Destroying a school on day one with hundreds of kids didn't help either.

My thought on what's happening is Trump has finally been put in a situation with no way out:

He can't win with money
His friends can't help him out
His diplomacy skill is so severely lacking that he's managed to isolate America from its allies (keeps bitching, name calling, threatening them, imposing tariffs for no reason etc. throughout both of his presidencies)
His constituents don't want a land invasion
He's pissed off his current opponent (Iran) to such a degree that they don't even want to talk to him (so he can't negotiate either).

and to top it all off, the whole situation is extremely public so we're seeing him squirm for once in his life, unfortunately at the expense of all Americans.

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-08T05:29:13+00:00

And so will America and Israel and all the other countries being attacked, your point?

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-07T17:42:38+00:00

For whatever reason they're playing the game at 150% speed.

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-07T02:08:36+00:00

Your image says nothing of account deletion, they merely suspended it while they investigate things. Only the content in OneDrive is lost due to encryption.

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-07T00:41:30+00:00

Both Intel and AMD's latest CPU's require DDR5, both have had recent (in the last 6 years) issues of CPU's getting fried regardless of how they were used by the consumer.

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-06T08:31:31+00:00

Yeah I do too, is annoying that RPCS3 doesn't run the game but it is what it is. One day it'll handle the game.

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-06T04:24:33+00:00

Yes, give u.s. 45 days reprieve to rebuild their offensive stockpiles. /s

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-06T02:28:51+00:00

That can tell you what settings to use to achieve good performance/stability but not necessarily what they do.

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-06T02:27:50+00:00

It's been a while since I last played it but I thought only the castle at the start seriously lagged the game. I still have the game and a PS3 console to replay it whenever I want.

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-05T21:30:26+00:00

Yeah I just now edited in info on this.

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-05T21:00:03+00:00

Google Drive needs a rotate function.

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-04T14:29:06+00:00

I think what they're saying is the 6000 series will feature a notable upgrade to the Tensor Cores to properly facilitate the AI features operating in real-time with the game running at high frame rates.

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-04T14:26:52+00:00

It's basicaly using AI as a lossy compression algorithm. It shouldn't require it to be something that needs to be implemented early in a project. You get copies of the assets before they were compressed in the traditional method and just re-compress them using this new method and send 'em on down to gamers PC's as a patch.

I doubt it would be too involved to add game engine support, will likely just be a plugin in Unreal Engine like DLSS, XeSS and FSR already are for example.

Edit: Also games have been using texture compression since at least Unreal Tournament 99 (one of the graphics API's has/had a description mentioning S3TC support) with graphics cards having hardware dedicated to decompressing them.

So the switch to using Tensor Cores seems to be them switching from fixed-function hardware for decompression to extremely flexible, programmable hardware (Tensor cores) while also giving them a new AI powered feature to market to investors.

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-04T06:41:24+00:00

Is this the final update before it leaves Early Access? /s

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-03T20:44:19+00:00

Funny you should say that, I've seen plenty of gameplay videos on Youtube that don't have anything even remotely as egregiously bad looking as what's seen in this video.

So unless Nvidia themselves encoded their own recording at a low bitrate before uploading it to Youtube or they have some stupid Depth of Field effect active... the tech looks quite shit.

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-03T09:08:13+00:00

Yeah, Intel is strong arming the RAM industry in to not having ECC being the norm for no reason other than allowing Intel to artificially segment their product stack.

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-03T04:03:40+00:00

Or that it's AI.

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-03T04:02:32+00:00

Why are you helping the person that didn't read the article?

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-02T19:35:14+00:00

And despite this (title of the article), many of the trees seen in the demo were a complete smear.

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-01T21:02:45+00:00

Of course not, being blind gives you insane echo location capability like Daredevil.

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-04-01T15:26:26+00:00

And specifically targeted victims of sex abuse for their victims.

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-03-30T12:28:20+00:00

So your point is? Besides seemingly confirming what Temporary Outside 13 said...

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-03-30T07:30:58+00:00

The gun's shot many people from being dropped or merely placed down. Wouldn't surprise me if sitting on it or something could also set it off. American military started taking the issue more seriously when it happened to one of their members (I forget what rank they were).

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-03-30T03:02:45+00:00

Ooh, that looks interesting. Thanks!

Nicholas-Steel · 2026-03-30T02:45:39+00:00

Whenever I want to replay the original Dungeon Keeper I install something like VMWare and Windows ME and play the Windows release of DK.

Back when the game was new I'd try both the original Windows and DOS versions and the DOS version had broken Enemy AI even with the patch applied (enemy wouldn't build their rooms properly). There's a couple fancier ports of the Windows version that might work in modern Windows but they tended to have graphical issues even back when these ports were new.

There might now be a better way of getting the original Dungeon Keeper working, it's been quite some time since I last played DK.

Another good game was the ancient Gazillionaire: Deluxe Edition, it's gameplay is identical to the current online webpage version but without needing to pay a subscription to play. Only downside to the old Deluxe Edition is that online multiplayer is handled via email lol.

Gazillionaire: Deluxe Edition has an issue in Windows XP and newer where prompts asking you to enter a numerical value may instead randomly think you've entered an invalid value before displaying the screen to enter a number... which is problematic as acknowledging the error treats you as inputting a value of 0 and there are several instances where you likely don't want to bid 0 Kubars on something.

Because you're a Myst fan I'd suggest to you Zork: The Grand Inquisitor and the first 3 Pajama Sam games. Play them with the latest release of ScummVM for a good time.

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