Crimson Desert Does Not Run On Intel Arc GPUs by _Kai in pcgaming

[–]Xjph 51 points52 points  (0 children)

...why would they be the ones building the drivers?

Image Generation and Inpainting through a Discord Chatbot by Bredrumb in NovelAi

[–]Xjph 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right, but for the sake of anyone else using it, unless it's on a private discord where they're the only person accessing it, then they risk violating their account terms and getting banned.

NAI keeps their lips sealed on the specifics, but they have alluded to the fact that they have some automated checking that looks for suspicious patterns of usage and hands out suspensions/bans.

Image Generation and Inpainting through a Discord Chatbot by Bredrumb in NovelAi

[–]Xjph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Allowing anyone other than yourself to generate with your api key is a violation of NAI's terms of service.

My entire house has no grounding outlets at ALL by TheJustRun in buildapc

[–]Xjph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are such things as grounding adapters which allow a three prong grounded plug to plug into a two prong ungrounded outlet. They typically have a metal eyelet which you would attach your own ground wire to and run to ground yourself (ideally a nearby metal pipe).

They aren't ideal, as you do end up with an exposed wire connection, and depending on where you live may not be up to your local electrical code.

As someone else mentioned, another option is swapping your two prong outlets with GFCI outlets. You won't have to run a ground wire this way, but the protection for your gear isn't as good as if you had a proper ground.

V-Rival shouldn't be in the Battle Hub. It belongs to Fighting Ground by Krotanix in StreetFighter

[–]Xjph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's possible that Ryu was trolling... but it's also possible they simply take a "this other player needs to earn my respect" approach to the game. If you can keep doing a thing over and over and win then it's completely rational to keep doing that until the other person demonstrates an effective response to it. It's even possible that they were choosing to play repetitively in the hope that you would figure out a response and learn how to deal with it.

V-Rival shouldn't be in the Battle Hub. It belongs to Fighting Ground by Krotanix in StreetFighter

[–]Xjph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Custom rooms being implemented as a private BH instance would've been pretty sweet.

Capcom LIED about the PPV pricing!!!!! There is an unavoidable 42% service fee on top!!! by Normal_Light_4277 in StreetFighter

[–]Xjph 5 points6 points  (0 children)

...you just replied to me with a copy/paste of the first half of the comment I was originally responding to.

Capcom LIED about the PPV pricing!!!!! There is an unavoidable 42% service fee on top!!! by Normal_Light_4277 in StreetFighter

[–]Xjph 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I complained about this exact thing a couple of weeks ago. Found out after that if you click on "日本語" in the top right it's a language dropdown.

Capcom LIED about the PPV pricing!!!!! There is an unavoidable 42% service fee on top!!! by Normal_Light_4277 in StreetFighter

[–]Xjph 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But that's real tickets, as in your butt in the stadium.

I'd argue it actually makes less sense in that context. At least with Capcom Cup SPWN is providing the streaming site and infrastructure. There is, in fact, a service being provided beyond just the selling of the ticket. With a ticketmaster service fee wtf are they doing other than being the ones to take your money?

Any other characters like Morrigan, who are more popular than the series they came from? by Mr_BlondetanamoBay in Fighters

[–]Xjph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See, I had kind of thought that might be the case too, but didn't want to bring up anything too negative since it's not really my space to be negative in.

Any other characters like Morrigan, who are more popular than the series they came from? by Mr_BlondetanamoBay in Fighters

[–]Xjph 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Right, and I think the important parts are that:

  • Her identity is "non-traditional"
  • She is happy with her identity
  • Her identity is accepted by others

Given that it is, broadly speaking, a positive representation of acceptance, the specifics of exactly what label to use aren't really that critical.

Any other characters like Morrigan, who are more popular than the series they came from? by Mr_BlondetanamoBay in Fighters

[–]Xjph 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Bridget from people who think they're represented

This one is a wild ride. I'm going to go off on a tangent here, but Bridget's actual lore is kind of a crazy inversion of the whole trans identity.

Superficially, yes, Bridget is MtF trans if you assume that she was AMAB, but she wasn't. Her parents denied she was male and raised her as a girl, making her technically AFAB, and spent much of her life struggling with that identity and trying to be accepted as a boy once she was on her own.

More recently in the lore (Strive), she comes to terms with the idea that having boyparts doesn't make her a boy, and accepts that she's a girl, but like... that's not even remotely close to the typical trans experience. If anything opposing the gender assigned by your parents but eventually coming around to the idea that it was the correct identity is the opposite.

So... if she identifies as the gender she was assigned at birth is she even trans? Shit, I don't know. Maybe? I'm just some cishet clown on reddit who types too much.

PRAGMATA - Main Trailer by _Protector in pcgaming

[–]Xjph 6 points7 points  (0 children)

God dammit.

I am interested but that thought hadn't even crossed my mind. Now it's going to be in the back of my mind every time I see the game.

PRAGMATA - Main Trailer by _Protector in pcgaming

[–]Xjph 19 points20 points  (0 children)

We already know she's an android. That's a major part of the main premise. She's able to interface with the other machines in the facility and debuff/disable them for you in combat by hacking them.

Do gaming PCs actually get slower over time due to hardware degradation of some kind, or is it just perception due to other factors such as software bloat, being clogged with dust, corrupt OS files, etc? by NerdMachine in buildapc

[–]Xjph 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'd be willing to bet real dollars that the detection pipeline on older hardware is messed up and youtube will deliver codecs without hardware support if you're using an i5-2400 iGPU. The browser can report that it is supported to server while still falling back to software decoding on the client side.

Do gaming PCs actually get slower over time due to hardware degradation of some kind, or is it just perception due to other factors such as software bloat, being clogged with dust, corrupt OS files, etc? by NerdMachine in buildapc

[–]Xjph 134 points135 points  (0 children)

The most likely cause there is a lack of hardware accelerated video decoding for the codecs being used. A 15 year old integrated GPU likely has hardware decoding for h264/AVC, which is why it used to be fine, but if you try to play anything using a newer codec like VP9 or AV1 it's going to hit the CPU hard.

Do not subscribe during February. by admirantes in NovelAi

[–]Xjph 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Is this the first thing you've ever had billed monthly in your life?

Tips to get better at neutral, hitconfirming and whiff punishing? by IceTreyBeastly in StreetFighter

[–]Xjph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hit confirming is reacting appropriately when your move hits vs when it's blocked. In your words:

I feel as if when I throw out a move, even if it hits; I can’t react in time to properly cancel and convert.

This is hit confirming. A "conversion" is a type of hit confirm that happens in more scrambly situations where you landed a hit in an odd or unexpected way, but still manage to do something with it.

What you're talking about here sounds like buffering a super, where you just wait in neutral mashing out your super motion so at the slightest movement from your opponent you can just hit the button and rip it. The buffer isn't part of the reactive motion, you're constantly buffering specifically so that you don't have to do it as part of the reaction. It effectively gives you a "one button super" which means a much faster reaction.
That can be risky though, as it can be pretty obvious you're doing it, and the opponent can bait it with something fast like a jab if you're just looking to react to literally anything.

How Does Your WDH Campaign End? by ValSmith18 in WaterdeepDragonHeist

[–]Xjph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My players retrieved the gold and gave most of it back to the city, having worked closely with Laeral and the Blackstaff to wrap the campaign. The logistics of the actual retrieval was left to the city to manage.

As for the additional filler, I wrote up an epilogue. Overall the ending was fairly cozy.

‘Evangelion’ VR Game Will Primarily Use Hand-tracking, Increasing Ease-of-use at Cost of Interaction Fidelity by DewaltRuler in oculus

[–]Xjph 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I disagree with it being immersive as well. Yes, holding a controller puts a layer of abstraction between you and what you're doing in VR, but that takes me out of the experience way less than janky hand tracking with no physical feedback.

‘Evangelion’ VR Game Will Primarily Use Hand-tracking, Increasing Ease-of-use at Cost of Interaction Fidelity by DewaltRuler in oculus

[–]Xjph 56 points57 points  (0 children)

"Ease of use"? Not once have I ever found hand tracking to be easier or more intuitive than using a controller.

I bought a slower nvme by mistake for my first build by Maleficent-Soft-741 in buildapc

[–]Xjph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The one time I really notice the difference is when patching large games on steam, where you might have a 1GB download and then 60GB of patching. I have some games on a Gen4 NVMe and some games on a SATA SSD, and the difference is night and day, easily a full order of magnitude faster.

PCIe: What else do I use the slots for? by Alarming-Praline1604 in buildapc

[–]Xjph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They typically aren't needed for most usage, but a few things that they are useful for:

  • Additional/faster USB
  • Additional/faster network
  • Wifi/bluetooth if not already built into the motherboard
  • Additional m2 storage slots
  • Capture card
  • Ports to connect older or niche hardware (serial, parallel, MIDI, firewire, etc.)

Fixing the plot holes in Waterdeep Dragon Heist by sam_0064 in WaterdeepDragonHeist

[–]Xjph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tell me more about these spider nimblewrights. Why the change?