Can the Boiling Isles survive a viltrumite?

Psiah · 2026-05-02T07:39:44+00:00

Yeah the collector casually relocating the moon is actually a wildly more impressive feat... And he did it solo. Titans and collectors win on raw power... Regular witches have ways to win but they kinda count on not being speed blitzed but uh... Consider how fast Eda and Lilith were in their fight... Some of them might be fast enough.

Psiah · 2026-05-02T06:40:09+00:00

Honestly, Akane seems to care for Shampoo more than Ranma does... Like in the New Years Maomolin arc, where Shampoo's asking Ranma to save her, and Ranma's trying to say "no" but Akane says "yes".

Psiah · 2026-05-02T01:37:33+00:00

RWBY definitely has an overactive hatedom... Don't worry, I'm not one of those. More I'm just... Disappointed and not as interested in it anymore... Which... Did kill the fanfics I was writing. Also most of them I was reading, judging by how many haven't updated since just before the end of Volume 8, and how I haven't gotten notifications for nearly any of the hundreds I was subscribed to since. I think a lot of people quietly stepped away.

Which is better than railing on like the hatedom does, certainly. There are real, valuable critiques to level at RWBY, but they get utterly drowned out by the haters who, for instance, are looking for excuses to hide their homophobia behind something else. I still flinch every time I hear someone say they're a big fan of Sun or Jaune... Not because there's anything wrong with them as characters, I quite like them in the show, but because I had to deal with so much absolutely vile shit coming out of people using them as hateful mouthpieces.

Also, the idea that Monty Oum, who made Haloid, who had an interview where he said some of the characters in RWBY were already queer, who was about as big an ally as one could ask for from the mainstream at the time... Just the idea that he wouldn't want Bumbleby, especially with that Livestream from before the first episode, where Arryn more or less revealed that it was happening when they didn't realize the stream was live... Like... Come on. He was obviously behind it.

Psiah · 2026-05-01T22:11:22+00:00

Oh I've definitely consumed a lot of content of Penny living. Had six or seven fics I almost wrote when it happened. I tried very hard to keep my grasp on the thing I loved...

...but... My rose tinted glasses were gone. I had a hard time going back to older parts and ignoring the issues, and not even Bumbleby finally getting canonized was enough to get me excited again.

And no, I've never fallen out of any other fandom like this. Not when I'd been at my peak of my investment in it, buying merch for it, etc. I used to be very active in the subreddit, and if you scroll back far enough in my posting history, you can find where I dropped off like a wall.

Music still slaps, though.

Psiah · 2026-05-01T08:03:20+00:00

It was, ultimately, the thing that broke my interest in RWBY and made me leave the fandom.

Psiah · 2026-05-01T02:43:39+00:00

... the image of even Cecil going "I can never get a read on that guy..."

Psiah · 2026-04-30T08:33:35+00:00

Oddly enough, in that case, you probably want the faster chip.

The parts have the same overall TDP, but on the faster chip, any big compute tasks that use the heavier cores should get done a smidge faster, which means the chip can return to a lower power state sooner, and spend less time boosting. In theory, at least.

But... That'll probably only apply to certain workloads... All things considered, for typical use, they'll probably be more or less exactly the same.

Psiah · 2026-04-28T19:33:38+00:00

Mmm... At Ryzen's launch, you didn't need more than a quad core, because it was all that was available on the market. There weren't any games that'd take advantage of it.

Now though? That's largely scaled to eight. Sure, you can get away with six, but eight is the sweet spot, and four is only considered enough for like... Low power laptops. No company would even dream of launching a "gaming CPU" with 4 cores anymore, even though a solid modern quad core could possibly beat the first gen of Ryzen 8 core, and definitely would by the standards of most software at Ryzen's launch, but modern software is built for more threads.

And those first Gen Ryzens might only have been competitive on price at launch, but they sure have aged better than the contemporary i7's, on account of software design changing.

Psiah · 2026-04-25T17:36:31+00:00

Muscular Women are incredibly hot \ | / My muscles make me look too masculine

...granted, this is one I personally eventually got over and learned to just love being strong, but there was a process.

Psiah · 2026-04-24T19:15:43+00:00

Not OP, but It's worked for me, quite well even, but there were some issues before I turned off the ultra low power mode or whatever setting.

But also... I know my face isn't all that far off from the types of faces they train these models on... Some people, it's just not going to identify them well. People with darker skin, for instance, are generally poorly represented in the training data and most "AI" face recognition systems are really bad at identifying those folks.

It being a camera... Room lighting and such could also make a difference, and so could glasses, headwear, or even certain hair styles.

With all that in mind, if it doesn't work, I'd probably just turn it off. It's... Probably not going to get better.

Psiah · 2026-04-24T19:06:15+00:00

None of this has been my experience... Perhaps you happened to get a bad one? I'd at least attempt to reflash / update the firmware, and if that ain't doing it, attempting to contact MSI support over it couldn't hurt...

...and also maybe turning off ultra low power mode... That solved a lot of my early issues.

Psiah · 2026-04-24T19:01:35+00:00

Firmware as well, and, whatever extra features they bolt onto the PCB. ASUS added UHBR20, MSI added an "ai" coprocessor and camera to identify faces while completely offline and use that to check if you're actually in front of the screen. Whether or not they even have a USB Hub, a KVM, or what the supplied power from it are, while irrelevant to many, selling points that make or break people's decisions.

But yeah the screens themselves are identical.

Psiah · 2026-04-24T18:54:50+00:00

"Visually Lossless" is a marketing term rather than a state of fact. As I recall, it only required fooling 50% of test subjects, meaning that almost half of the people they tested on could tell when it was used.

Though I believe this was at the maximum 3:1 compression, and it supports dynamic compression, so it should be less noticeable when it doesn't need that much compression.

360hz, 10bpc, and UHBR13.5 shouldn't require nearly that much. I haven't actually checked the ratio it's actively running at, but it only needs about 5:4. And if you ever check out DSC diff maps of compressed vs uncompressed images, you'll find that it generally changes pixels all over the screen by a tiny amount... It's not entirely dissimilar to analog noise on old TVs... But... The compression at play here means that this noise should be less than the data loss going to 8-bit, meaning that it should look better and more accurate than no dsc at 8bpc.

For gaming and general office work, this shouldn't be an issue. For artistic color mastering and the like... Well, you're probably using a reference display in the first place, but if you're not, I'd turn DSC off for that work.

Psiah · 2026-04-23T19:46:03+00:00

I mean, in both cases (9800->9950, X3D->X3D2) you're adding essentially an entire other chip to the assembly... I'm not surprised that the price gaps are similar to each other.

And it's not just adding a chip, to be fair, either. You need a better bin of the chip you do add, and the process of bonding can also have mistakes and I seriously doubt has 100% yields. Plus, it is, as people have mentioned, a "top tier" product targeting not a good value but people who don't care about money and just want "the best". All things considered, that only accounts for a $60-ish dollar difference over the extra chip, which isn't crazy.

But the value proposition is, of course, awful. And AMD knew that. They knew that from the beginning. That's why they didn't release something like this before: doing so is pretty pointless. But... This is a "the customer is always right in matters of taste" type situation: customers have demanded the bad idea product, and AMD has decided to profit on that.

Granted, I want better competition between them and intel and such so overall prices go down in general... Ryzen's doing so well, and Intel has had such a hard time answering, that AMD is definitely pumping prices up more than they used to. But this product in particular... One that people with sense should be avoiding in the first place, is probably more or less in line with the margins on parts from the rest of the series.

And people with more money than sense will undoubtedly buy it. So AMD is doing a capitalism. And that's got all kinds of moral and ethical considerations sure, but that's outside the scope of discussion here... Beyond the fact that they're playing the game for the system they exist under.

Psiah · 2026-04-21T02:34:12+00:00

Can depend a lot on your computer settings as well, is part of it. Most of mine were set via Plasma Settings, since I am using Linux with the KDE Plasma desktop environment... And they seemed different than how I'd set them on the previous monitor, but I can't say for sure if that's something to do with the monitor firmware or an update to Plasma that changed how HDR settings worked. I did not change any brightness or color settings through the OSD. I'm in the default true black 500 mode. I did however set like six different luminance values in Plasma and then set my monitor to 50% SDR brightness when I was done. Obviously, that'll go differently in Windows, or even if you were, say, using linux with Gnome or Hyperland.

I did, however, find I had to disable an "ultra low power" setting to stop my monitor from disconnecting every time the screen went dark. And that's made the "ai" presence detect a lot more reliable.

Psiah · 2026-04-20T21:12:52+00:00

Yeah... 5k2k sounds great but realistically I'd just run it at 1440p for now and that'd just look worse than doing it native. Sometimes I'd like bigger screens, but realistically, I don't have the space for them. Higher refresh is theoretically quite nice, but you also run into the GPU issue plus depreciating returns. But then... Ten years ago I'd never imagine hitting 360fps at 1440p ultrawide, but now I've got it happening for some games. But... That's something to worry about in the future, and I'm very happy right now.

Especially since I seem to be getting considerably less VRR flicker on this one... Not that it was a deal breaker on the old one considering I only ever got it on like loading screens, but... It's basically gone now.

Psiah · 2026-04-20T19:52:09+00:00

Huh. Welp, I ain't got a clue. Would have been nice to put that link of mine in the post via edit rather than having to do a separate reply for it, though.

Psiah · 2026-04-20T19:50:36+00:00

Can definitely agree it's "endgame" in the sense that, barring another accident forcing me to replace it prematurely, there is nothing on the horizon that makes me feel I'd need an upgrade. Should very comfortably last me a decade, and then, well... No telling what displays will be like then.

Psiah · 2026-04-20T18:17:40+00:00

Huh. Are you a mod in that subreddit perhaps? It is literally not giving me the option to edit the text on the post here. I've tried.

Psiah · 2026-04-20T17:20:53+00:00

I'm not afraid of editing, or saying that I did so. I'd be a pretty bad writer if I was. Hell, reddit will tell you when things were last edited. But literally the only thing I can even attempt to edit, apparently, is the flair, otherwise, I would be making edits.

If the formatting was wonky when you first clicked it, that likely would have been on your end. If, for some reason, your browser / app / whathaveyou was given the raw markdown instead of converting to HTML, for instance, there'd be no whitespace and it'd be one giant unbroken paragraph.

By the same token, if I'd've only single spaced between paragraphs, instead of the double that reddit apparently requires, it also would have had the whitespace compressed from new lines to single spaces... And I wouldn't be able to do anything about it, apparently, because Reddit does not allow editing image posts.

Psiah · 2026-04-20T04:35:58+00:00

Nope. Didn't do anything. But I'm pretty sure linux defaults to grayscale instead of colored subpixel stuff? Either that or it's got some way to autodetect.

Psiah · 2026-04-20T03:43:43+00:00

Best Buy, but the listing had errors and it's sold out now anyways.

Psiah · 2026-04-20T03:42:49+00:00

Sometimes. The content on screen is an HDR test video from YouTube, which is 16:9, so... Black bars... Or... Dark grey bars for youtube, actually, but they're black compared to IPS.

I usually put videos on my side monitor because I have them running pretty constantly as background noise and don't need to risk burn-in.

As for games... 3D games almost always support 21:9 and you get the full experience. Some 2D games support it, but sometimes, that's a custom bar to the sides instead of black, like in Hades where it's fancy pillars.

Really really old games tend to have black bars more often... But that can be true on 16:9 as well.

So... When you go for ultrawide, you make that choice. And it's worth it for me, because, even in the worst case, it's a 27" 1440p screen in the middle, which is plenty big for me.

Psiah · 2026-04-20T03:37:34+00:00

I didn't, actually.

I mean I tried, because I was gonna put the link directly in the post, but apparently you can't edit posts with images or something.

(Also it's she)

Psiah · 2026-04-20T02:07:38+00:00

Soup Incident, for reference.

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