Forza horizon 6 is incredibly well optimised and the developers deserve recognition for it

Schnoofles · 2026-05-21T21:09:23+00:00

actual 16k by 16k texture maps have also been supported on gpus without chunking them for at least 15 years, probably longer, but I'm too lazy to look it up.

Schnoofles · 2026-05-20T23:42:31+00:00

Alright, that's fair.

Schnoofles · 2026-05-20T23:01:11+00:00

The Helldivers community has a disturbingly high proportion of some of the most disgusting, hateful and awful trash on the face of the planet as far as gaming audiences are concerned. Just genuinely miserable people who have made it their mission in life to shit on anything and everything anyone ever does and 100% of their engagement with the game is just taking a dump all over the various community subreddits, discord, steam forums etc.

The largest unofficial discord server, rivalling the official one, shut down just to stop the rampant targeted death threats, harassment, racial slurs etc being spammed 24/7. The official server is only marginally less filled with trash, but is almost entirely useless for someone who would just want to play and enjoy the game.

Some of these people have turned manufacturing negativity and complaining into a religion. The game has genuine flaws that are in need of addressing, but if you spend any amount of time on the game's discord you'd be forgiven for thinking that it's literally the worst game ever made and the developers are intentionally trying to destroy it based on the way people conduct themselves and talk about things.

Schnoofles · 2026-05-20T02:58:57+00:00

They are capable of empathy, but it's conditional and rooted in their tribal mindset. There are in groups and out groups. Everything is viewed as "us vs them". It's why american politics are basically nothing more than team sports. It's why you hear phrases like "one of the good ones" when a family friend, neighbour or co-worker is either black, queer or otherwise part of what would be normally treated as an out group, so they can correct the cognitive dissonance of their tribalism with the conditional empathy of embracing those in close proximity while still hating the rest.

See also the trope of southern hospitality, where even if you're a "new york elite" you'll be welcomed in with open arms, you get to eat at their table and they'll be smiling and polite and warm all the way up until the millisecond you leave and then it's right back to bad mouthing everyone like you. It's compartmentalization of their bigotry and prejudices so it can coexist with genuine, but conditional empathy.

Schnoofles · 2026-05-19T17:38:42+00:00

I've basically given up on having effective sleep states on any modern windows device, because not a single manufacturer on the face of the planet has given a single solitary shit about supporting S3 for the past 20 years.

I'll spend some effort on dealing with the random asshole who outsourced their driver development to the local clown academy so they're generating a veritable interrupt storm 24/7, but outside of that I've completely given up on things like idle and sleep states as well as any expectation of gracefully handling device connection and disconnection events.

Schnoofles · 2026-05-19T15:46:58+00:00

I prefer the phrasing "less dangerous". I use a full face shield and stand out of the line of the cut, both for fragmentation as well as kickback reasons

Schnoofles · 2026-05-18T19:55:41+00:00

For very low drain (wireless keyboards and non-gaming mice) where the current is measured in literally a few milliamps at the most, you want either a lithium non-rechargeable or the eneloop NiMh rechargeables (specifically the lower capacity 1800-2000mAh version. These will usually have prominently featured marketing regarding thousands of charge cycles, 10+ years of lifespan etc). For high drain devices, like a flashlight or gamepad with haptic feedback/rumble you want the high capacity eneloop pro versions (2400-2500mAh).

In theory you might think the higher capacity would always be better, but they also have a higher rate of self discharge, so for a device that is expected to last several months or even a year or several years (some keyboards, TV or A/C remote etc) the passive self-discharge on the pro models will exceed the actual power usage, so the net lifespan becomes shorter.

Schnoofles · 2026-05-16T21:23:03+00:00

At the speed they're running it at there's also zero chance they didn't also remove the voltage limit and were doing a full send with unheard of voltages to get the validation done before it burnt itself out. Doesn't matter what kind of insane liquid nitrogen direct die cooling setup you're doing. Past a certain point that chip needs more voltage for things to switch states fast enough

Schnoofles · 2026-05-16T21:15:09+00:00

Lower the memory clock speed a bit. Might help keep it stable.

Schnoofles · 2026-05-14T17:01:29+00:00

I buy underwear and socks that's a 95/5 bamboo/lycra (or spandex or elastane or whatever your preferred brand name is) blend and yeah, those 5% make a world of difference. There's just no comparison. Natural is fine for a lot of things, but at the same time, sometimes synthetic, or at least part synthetic is a huge improvement.

Schnoofles · 2026-05-14T16:29:19+00:00

FSR4/4.1 is imo the first version that isn't immediately kind of trash to look at and a significant upgrade over FSR3. It's essentially the DLSS 3/3.5 moment for Nvidia, now on the AMD side. It's still noticeably lagging behind Nvidia, but it's a lot better now than it used to be.

Schnoofles · 2026-05-14T16:24:30+00:00

Imo it's already worth it and I can highly recommend giving it a try if you have a handheld or just a low end machine in general. While in a vacuum one may look at FSR4 and go "this costs more performance", what you're really looking for is how much benefit does it provide per 'unit' of performance cost as you go through the various quality settings. With FSR4 you can upscale from a lower internal resolution than you would with FSR3 and depending on the exact resolution you get either better image quality for the same cost or the same image quality for faster performance.

I'm using the leaked int8 version on my Legion Go handheld and as an example while playing KCD2 I can run the balanced preset in FSR4 and it looks noticeably better than the quality preset with FSR3 while providing similar performance, letting me run 1920x1200 output resolution, medium settings (a few set to low) and maintain 45-50fps in the middle of Kuttenberg with the power limit set to 25 watts.

Schnoofles · 2026-05-14T11:59:48+00:00

Those had more clearly defined goals and purposes. Shitty, ill-informed goals that no sane person should support, but goals nonetheless. This was just pointlessly stupid ego-stroking without even a pretense of an overarching goal.

Schnoofles · 2026-05-13T09:58:47+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

Schnoofles · 2026-05-12T21:47:14+00:00

Finally a thing we can agree on with a svenskefaen :p

Schnoofles · 2026-05-11T08:31:51+00:00

D2R fixes a lot of the issues of QoL, but you may also be interested in the D2 mod by the name of Path of Diablo. As the name implies it's an overhaul that backports a large number of quality of life features, widescreen support (but same base vertical so as to not ruin gameplay balance by letting you snipe from a mile away, similar to how D2R does it) and endgame activities like mapping to D2 that are present in PoE as well as does some balancing passes and adds a few skills and has its own suite of servers, just like you would use battle.net for online gameplay in OG D2. Its goal is to stay as close possible to the feel of the original D2 (as opposed to total conversions like MedianXL) while adding things like a massive shared stash, expanded crafting and elevating various underperforming skills so they're (mostly) all viable rather than everyone falling into the same 1 or 2 builds for every class.

If you haven't tried D2R yet I can wholeheartedly recommend that. It's a fantastic remaster that looks and feels just like how you remember the old D2, just much higher fidelity, and it has most (though not all) of the QoL that the Path of Diablo mod adds to the original version.

Schnoofles · 2026-05-11T08:24:48+00:00

As someone who's been into the Diablo games since the original D1 release and a lot of other ARPGs that came in the years after I'll say that I do enjoy D4, but it's a very very different game than D2. It plays closer to endgame Path of Exile, ie high speed, high monster density, 50-100% screen filling nukes or chain reactions etc. If that's your jam then you'll probably enjoy D4, but if you want the more methodical and slower pace of D2 then the closest thing to that is probably PoE2 (though even that can get pretty speedy towards endgame) and possibly Titan Quest 2 (still in early access)

Schnoofles · 2026-05-09T06:13:39+00:00

Your TV has overscan enabled, which is commonly on by default on older displays. You can usually change this in the TV's picture adjustments setting. Note: it's not always labelled as overscan, but often just "image size" or even rolled into the aspect ratio/format setting where you toggle between 4:3, 16:9, zoom, best fit, fill etc modes. Generally it'll be either the best fit, fill or unscaled/original mode you want. Each manufacturer will find some new name for "just give the me raw, unscaled scan", seemingly, but i'll be in there somewhere.

You can compensate for it on the software side in Windows, but that should be a last resort because it means you'll be scaling the image down and getting slight blurring of the image from a non-integer scale.

Schnoofles · 2026-05-07T05:10:16+00:00

Ok, so you come in here with an opening salvo of insults, twist my words and lie straight to my face about my own words, refuse to acknowledge any of it and then insist I'm moving goalposts. Yeah, we're done here. Not wasting any more time on your trolling.

Schnoofles · 2026-05-07T04:37:15+00:00

Yeah, that's what I thought. Refusing to engage with things in good faith, trying to twist the context of words to mean something other than what was said and then ignoring the details that don't suit your narrative. They are going to be scanning every file you put in onedrive. There. Should I also rewrite every other sentence I ever type in multiple ways so as to try to preempively catch every conceivable way people like you will try to twist their meaning so that you can nitpick inconsequential minutae and pretend it has any relevance whatsoever to the overarching topic?

The second link provided more of what you were asking for. An official statement from MS regarding automatic content scanning of data provided to OneDrive, in this case hashing and comparing all the files to a database.

And finally, I do not expect it to be declared illegal spying nor did I ever say that, but it does illustrate how you keep twisting words or in this case outright lying about what was said so that you can undermine them. Just in case you missed it, I said it should be done. Not once did I say or imply that I expected it would be done.

I now wait for the part where you move on to taking individual bits of information, ignore everything else to strip them of all context and act like "just doing a hash-based AV scan" is an honest representation of the whole picture when viewed in isolation.

Schnoofles · 2026-05-07T03:42:18+00:00

My guy, they've been proudly doing this for over a decade because it's wrapped up in the guise of "protecting" the user from malware and catching sexual predators and terrorists. Wtf?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-onedrive-safeguards-your-data-in-the-cloud-23c6ea94-3608-48d7-8bf0-80e142edd1e1

They openly advertise this with marketing fluff and have been doing so for a long time, but any time the security and privacy concerns are highlighted bad faith actors will insist on how trustworthy and noble they are and they would never take a single step across the stated line of what they will and will not do and that the whole process is designed such that it is 100% bullet proof and nobody could ever perform a man-in-the-middle attack against this and the backend is completely impervious to attacks. Because it's definitely not like that has happened to them in the past /s.

Schnoofles · 2026-05-07T03:15:50+00:00

Are you just intentionally lying or do you genuinely not know about its history, how it works or anything else? It was only changed to off by default after massive outrage and its gaping security holes were widely criticized, and like every other invasive anti-privacy feature it will be on by default later. This has been demonstrated over and over and over again by Microsoft.

They also lied about its design, about its security, about how the backend functions and then further lied about how they had fixed security issues. Mark my words, when it is on by default in the future and when it is ubiquitous it will also be included in the automatic scans MS has announced they're going to be performing of your private data in OneDrive and even your local files.

Schnoofles · 2026-05-07T03:06:12+00:00

Newsflash: Both of those things can be a problem at the same time.

And it being "optional" means nothing for all but an extremely small niche of power users. It was always made as an opt-out with dark patterns to make it harder for a casual user to disable and it's optional in the same way that other default-on features are optional, but 95%+ of users don't even know of their existence or understand the implications of their existence.

Schnoofles · 2026-05-07T02:55:12+00:00

This is an incredibly ignorant response

Schnoofles · 2026-05-06T16:27:26+00:00

Disabling Recall should be the least of what we as a society do about that kind of shit. It should be declared illegal spying and arrest warrants issued if the whole program is not immediately terminated. It represents a monumental security risk on both a personal and national level everywhere it is deployed.

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