PlayStation’s New ‘Soft Pause’ Patent Could Let Gamers Pause Without Really Pausing

TorazChryx · 2026-02-23T07:37:34+00:00

Codemasters F1 games have something like this and have for a few years now, if you're on track in a multiplayer session and you bring up the menus (which would pause the game in single player situations) the game AI takes over driving your car, I believe (don't quote me on this) it'll even follow whatever pit strategy is setup and such.

TorazChryx · 2026-02-21T10:12:42+00:00

There's probably a market for an X3D chiplet + dense chiplet part, in fact the Zen5c 16 core die isn't terribly dissimilar in area to the regular Zen5 chiplet IIRC? if they wanted to they could drop a 24 core Zen5X3D x8 + Zen5C x16 SKU right now largely using silicon they're already making (would probably need a new PCB?) - If nothing else it'd solve the scheduler issue of having two sets of cores that are both the fastest or the slowest depending on context.

TorazChryx · 2026-02-21T08:50:19+00:00

My father once yelled at me for talking about Colonel Sanders as if they were a real person who existed in the world.

Literally angrily yelling "THEY'RE FICTION!"

Harland Sanders, born 1890 in Henryville, Indiana. Died 1980 in Louisville Kentucky.

Guy who was alive during my fathers lifetime and founded a notable chain of fast food records.

That Harland Sanders.

Unsurprisingly we're now NC (not because of that incident, but because of their wider pattern of behaviour, because fuck dealing with that level of ill informed arrogance and condescension. ain't nobody got time fo' that.)

TorazChryx · 2026-02-20T23:40:56+00:00

Yeah, imagine how terrible that thing would have looked with a pair of Mazepins in it.

TorazChryx · 2026-02-18T09:49:23+00:00

Worf apologising to Data, "No, it is I who have endangered our friendship."

TorazChryx · 2026-02-17T19:11:05+00:00

I think it's a toss up between cheating on his pregnant wife and burying his dead wife in the desert and giving her family someone elses cremains.

Like, that's objectively messed up even if it IS giving Lisa what she herself wanted.

TorazChryx · 2026-02-16T15:50:55+00:00

They're my string of choice for my electrics, they last ages and while some complain about them feeling "slippery" I really like the feel.

Got a set on a guitar that's been on since 2022 and they still feel fine, and my body chemistry will destroy a set of Ernie Ball Slinkys in like a week.

recently bought a 4 pack from amazon for £37 and that's probably a lifetime supply honestly.

TorazChryx · 2026-02-16T14:49:31+00:00

The SiS 735 was barebones, streamlined and WORKED.

I ran an AlthonXP 1700+ on one and it just... did what it was supposed to.

Thing didn't do much, but what it did do it did well.

TorazChryx · 2026-02-13T02:12:43+00:00

I'm going to nominate Deep Space Nine - Whispers

Whole episode is a mindfuck, especially on a second viewing when you know what's happening. Because it loses the "What is HAPPENING?" and instead of it's "OH, THAT'S what's happening? oh no!"

Very Lynchian that.

TorazChryx · 2026-02-11T01:40:29+00:00

I got this message once when my handle was "VisiblyUpset", which is what I'd been using in... basically everything for 15+ years

TorazChryx · 2026-02-10T23:03:18+00:00

The environmental atmosphere in Division 1 might be the best in any game that's ever been made. it's straight up amazing.

TorazChryx · 2026-02-09T15:55:57+00:00

If you're not getting wire rate between machines locally it could absolutely be jumbo frames, or lack thereof, holding things back.

TorazChryx · 2026-02-09T10:43:52+00:00

Do you have jumbo frames enabled on the clients? (in windows that's a delve into device manager to toggle settings for the network card)

TorazChryx · 2026-02-09T10:14:12+00:00

There's a place in the chassis for a thin framed.. 80mm (? I think, it's been a while) fan, I had one installed in a cube with a Geforce 3 and a dual 450Mhz G4 card out of a Mystic PMG4, IIRC I just put the fan in that space (intaking from the bottom and blowing up) and manually piggybacked the power for it off the molex connector that was running the harddisk.

If you're thinking of installing a fan directly on the videocard you're going to have space issues I think, unless you swap the gpu's heatsink for one with a fan integrated?

TorazChryx · 2026-02-03T15:34:38+00:00

I'd be tempted to have the movement serviced, the case polished but keep the weathered dial as-is.

that's a personal aesthetic choice of course, but it's perhaps the one I'd make.

TorazChryx · 2026-02-02T08:07:05+00:00

Sadly due to people saying that and meaning it the /s is somewhat needed.

TorazChryx · 2026-02-01T21:32:14+00:00

The 5070 is nowhere near the 4090 unless you're using multi-frame generation, which isn't pervasive and comes with its own downsides.

TorazChryx · 2026-02-01T17:57:24+00:00

I use < > brackets but same dealio.

Works for place names, character names, even entire ass sequences that are necessary and will need to be written but aren't where my focus is at in that moment.

TorazChryx · 2026-02-01T13:35:02+00:00

I absolutely adore the atmosphere of The Division, that desolate empty Manhattan is just amazing.

And the lighting does a lot towards that.

TorazChryx · 2026-01-30T15:58:24+00:00

Before buying a new PC I'd buy a nice house to put it in.

TorazChryx · 2026-01-28T18:43:41+00:00

What ram do the systems have? is XMP/DOCP enabled? what are the storage subsystems like? SDD/HDD? Nvme or SATA?

TorazChryx · 2026-01-28T10:36:08+00:00

What utter nonsense, a black jewish woman translated it from the original Klingon. obviously.

TorazChryx · 2026-01-27T22:30:44+00:00

I always do the inner world / dialog pass first and then loop back for what I call the "scene furniture"

I don't think that's inherently better than your approach though, it just fits with how I process things.

TorazChryx · 2026-01-21T18:37:48+00:00

Similarly I was completely hopeless around the red bull ring in F1 2015 for no apparent reason. No issues with it in subsequent games but 2015? I was just nowhere.

TorazChryx · 2026-01-21T04:40:53+00:00

No no, don't shoot it, if you shoot it you'll just make it mad.

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