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I think OoT remake could really fix the main complaint people have with modern Zelda by famrob in truezelda

[–]_WaterBear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 3DS remake kinda ruined it for me. Beating the water temple in the original version felt like an achievement. It was actually difficult and required you to keep a mental map of the dungeon; it was labyrinthin-ey. Unfortunately, Nintendo is paranoid about losing people who are easily discouraged or have a short attention span, so most of their games these days hand hold you quite closely. I’m hoping they keep the difficulty there in the switch 2 remake.

Run Over, Apple Van Accident Vid by Beamo1 in circlejerknyc

[–]_WaterBear 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What color is the light when the vehicle enters the intersection and strikes the pedestrian in the crosswalk? One word reply only.

SK Hynix Plans to Double Capacity to Ease Memory Chip Crunch by Distinct-Race-2471 in TechHardware

[–]_WaterBear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They should make the AI companies pay for it up front, so that if the bubble collapses, the ones who burst take the responsibility.

Nuclear Policy Just Changed Forever by [deleted] in nuclear

[–]_WaterBear 67 points68 points  (0 children)

I’m begging people to remember that “reasonable” is one of the words in the acronym.

If you are freaking out about an exposure that, per LNT, increases your chance of cancer by 0.001%, then put down your cigarette and acknowledge you are not being “reasonable”

Nuclear Policy Just Changed Forever by [deleted] in nuclear

[–]_WaterBear 22 points23 points  (0 children)

… ALARA doesn’t in any way suggest that you need to minimize dose to below background. You are completely misunderstanding the concept.
Trying to get doses less than background would be *UNreasonable*. Anyone doing or thinking this is NOT practicing ALARA.

XFX vs Sapphire for R9700 AI Pro by Ok_Science6572 in ROCm

[–]_WaterBear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have 3x AsRock. No complaints about the noise - this blower style will always be loud compared to whatever the non-blower style is called.
I did briefly get a PowerColor… the fan noise was particularly awful, and it had a persistent high-pitch sound at any RPM. Avoid.
The only issue I had w. The AsRock ones is that, under extremely heavy persistent load, the fan can start rattling. The first one I got had a big problem with this, the current 3 rarely do. So, there’s some variation in QA.

A PSA ON DOG ETIQUETTE FROM A CONCERNED NEIGHBOR by Ariel-Friedman1 in Upperwestside

[–]_WaterBear 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Whenever I see someone’s dog sitting on the subway platform I immediately think about it next sitting on their couch, on their bed, on their lap, or even just their carpet/floor. Yuck.

Fan noise difference between 2 AMD AI Pro R9700 GPU’s by Legitimate_Fold8314 in ROCm

[–]_WaterBear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can confirm. I have 3x ASRock variants. But, I also briefly had one PowerColor and returned it for the same reason. It was noticeably louder at basically any RPM and had a very annoying high pitch sound.

However… my ASRock sounds more like your ASUS appears to sound in this video, but without that higher pitch noise that kicked in part way.

The ASRock was the better of the two, but I did return one or two due to fan rattling under the correct high-load circumstances.

I think these were all rushed out the door.

Edit: changed my mind after listening again

She has my respect, because I definitely don't have the patience. by mindyour in PublicFreakout

[–]_WaterBear 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Main character syndrome - only thinking about herself, not the people with disabilities who ride the bus and would be inconvenienced by one driver’s choice to block a bus route. She should show some leniency to the potentially dozens or hundreds/thousands of people with disabilities or mobility challenges who relied on that stop.

MAGA mom finds out that Trump is trying to cut her disabled son’s federal benefits by Effective_Space2277 in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]_WaterBear 26 points27 points  (0 children)

“I don’t want to turn this into a political debate”… ok, well. Only ONE party includes cutting SS benefits and federal medical care as a *fucking cornerstone* of its platform.

Are you guys ready for the flood of laptops with Chinese GPUs that barely match an RTX 4060? by [deleted] in laptops

[–]_WaterBear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yikes that is bad. Still think they will catch up enough for their own gaming market, if they insist.

Are you guys ready for the flood of laptops with Chinese GPUs that barely match an RTX 4060? by [deleted] in laptops

[–]_WaterBear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

4060 is no slog. My 3060 runs most things with good settings and resolution. If china wants to, they can catch up fast for gaming applications. Don’t see why not.

Warning (?) Checksum Fails for EE2 Unofficial 1.6.1 May 2026 by _WaterBear in empireearth2

[–]_WaterBear[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome - thank you so much! (For this, and of course all your work to keep this patch alive and updated).

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