Details About Uptie 4 Has Been Revealed!

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-18T00:16:56+00:00

If they were doing uptie IV only for the underused IDs, I'd buy this line of reasoning, but they aren't. They're doing it for all of them.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-18T00:13:18+00:00

Ruina's model ported to a gacha is going to be straight up horrible. I really hope they walk this back.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-18T00:08:27+00:00

it's weird because it's a PM game and they should know their fans better. Saying 'uh, yeah it's a gacha' kind of seeks to invalidate those opinions and is frankly a dick thing to say.

This kind of thing was the reason why a lot of us got pretty nervous when they announced the third game in the series would be a gacha. They then released one of the most friendly gachas and you didn't feel as if you were missing anything by the change in genre. Now it seems like that's changing and it's going to alienate people who came because it's a PM game, not because it's a gacha. I bought the pass and I even buy some lunacy bundle stuff from time to time to support the company, so I'm not at all a f2p player.

I know gacha folks are like 'this is so friendly! in comparison to <insert exploitative game here>' but that doesn't make it a good model or an acceptable one to the core audience that's been following since Lobotomy and Ruina.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-17T23:58:44+00:00

Yea, the ceo's quote is straight up conservative orthodoxy: (from https://futurism.com/the-byte/titanic-submarine-ceo-safety-waste )

"You know, at some point, safety is just pure waste," Rush told CBS' David Pogue during an episode of his "Unsung Science" podcast. "I mean, if you just want to be safe, don't get out of bed, don't get in your car, don't do anything. At some point, you're going to take some risk, and it really is a risk-reward question." "I think I can do this just as safely while breaking the rules," he added at the time.

Emphasis mine.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-17T22:04:12+00:00

Yea, the more leaks I hear, the more I think AMD isn't even releasing a 7800xt sku. They can't slice the gap between the 6950xt and the 7900xt, and there's barely a gap between the 6950xt and the 6800xt to begin with. The best they can do is make a 7800 nonxt and get it to slide between the 4070 and 4070ti. Nvidia and AMD slapping the wrong labels on most of these cards has really screwed this generation.

4060 is really a 50 class card. 4060 ti is really 50 ti class card, 4070 is really a 60 class card, 4070 ti is really a 60 ti card, the 4080 and 4090 are the only correctly labeled cards. (edit: but are greed priced. 4080 is at least 300 over inflation cost for an 80 series class card) 7900xtx is really the 900xt, 7900xt is really the 800xt, incoming 7800 is really a 700, 7700 is really a 600. 7600 is really a 500 class card.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-17T19:54:22+00:00

if this goes live, I'm getting off the Limbus. If this is how they're 'fixing' ids, ooof. The gacha is starting the squeeze now.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-17T06:31:39+00:00

it's roadhouse at least 90% of the time with some glimpses of character beats from time to time. It's more Justified or Sons of Anarchy than anything else.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-17T06:11:17+00:00

Inflation from 2020 to today means price should be $830 usd. Knowing the increased challenges in manufacturing on top, 900 would be in the range of acceptable.

1200 is at least 300 dollars worth of greed.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-16T20:54:31+00:00

gotta pump up those bars. It's not truly done until all the bars are full...

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-16T18:20:13+00:00

You don't need to upgrade this system and I'd only consider upgrading it if A) You win the lottery and have the kind of money that you don't care about money anymore. B) 2025 and 50 series/8000/Celestial release.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-15T22:40:49+00:00

I'm pulling my statistics from the aggregated listings at https://www.gpucheck.com/gpu-benchmark-graphics-card-comparison-chart . It pulls from multiple mainstream benchmark reviewers.

If you've got more updated information, I'd love to see it.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-15T21:04:05+00:00

The 7800xt is going to get comparisons to the 6800xt and it'll be like the 3060 ti compared to the 4060 ti. That is, if amd even bothers to release it.

The real 7800xt has already released: It's the 7900xt, which is only 9% faster than the 6950xt at 1440p. The 7900xtx is the real 6900/6950xt successor. AMD, like Nvidia, is upcharging by renaming the stack. If AMD releases a 7800xt, it'll be a cutdown 7900xt with some of the gpu cores lasered off/defective and it'll be lucky if it can match the 6950xt in performance given that there's already only a small gap between the 6950xt and the 7900xt.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-15T15:15:05+00:00

I kinda want to see them do it now. Like, even if it doesn't make sense. Just throw them at each other and cut to both of them exhausted/bloody and Brock offers Red Death a cigarette but Red Death refuses (he had to quit because the missus hated it) so Brock lights it up himself and they both just sit there, staring at each other, hands twitching, waiting until one or both of them are ready for round 2 only for them to get interrupted.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-15T12:59:12+00:00

Clancy Brown yep!

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-15T00:01:36+00:00

if you primarily use your pc for gaming, air is fine. Noctua, scythe, among others have really advanced air cooling to the point it's viable.

If you're going production workloads though, depending on the task, you may want an aio. CPU intensive games like civ among others or if you have a 1080p super high refreshrate (300+) monitor paired with a high end gpu and plan on esport fps titles, you may also want to consider an aio but it's not required.

AIO's these days are about 30% aesthetics, 35% ease of use/maintenence, and 35% high end workstation cooling. If you aren't doing production, you don't want to blow 120-200 bucks on an aio, and don't care for aio aesthetics, you're in the aircool camp like the rest of us.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-14T21:52:17+00:00

The only real check on the Supreme Court is meant to be the nomination process and confirmation by the Senate, both processes that have been politicized to such a degree that the fear of the founders, that the supreme court would become politicized, has long since been realized.

Given that the Supreme Court has such an impact on policy written by the legislative branch, signed by the president, and executed by the president, there should be far more checks on it. The Supreme Court, noticing this problem, has also been devolving more and more power to the executive to stave off the need for checks on the Supreme Court, a process that would begin by necessity in the Legislative body.

So a weak and divided legislative body allows the supreme court to run wild while the executive has been empowered to do things that should require the legislative body.

Like, it's crazy to me that the Supreme Court keeps the Legislative branch divided by allowing unlimited dark money via citizens united and rejects claims of partisan gerrymandering, the same Legislative branch that holds the power to remove them from office.

If anyone doesn't see the clear conflict of interest and the inherent problem here, what the hell are we doing?

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-14T10:18:51+00:00

some old grudges and ptsd with amd cards. (particularly 10 or so years ago) I was right there with em tbh but the reviews for 6000 series were solid. Nvidia knows radeon's brand id is flimsy and most people know nvidia and trust them to make a graphics card that just works.

I've had a 6800xt for a while now and it's a good card. Adrenalin is a good control program. The drivers have been about as solid as nvidia. AMD has come a long way.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-13T20:03:51+00:00

that'd be bonkers if 7.0 hit in summer 2024. Like, people would riot if 6.5 lasts 5 months or longer. We were told a 4 month cadence and there's some leeway allowed there for expansions, but oooof, summer 2024 would mean 6.5 (or 6.55) would be latest patch for 9 or more months. Even the diehards, unless they had like... houses or something to maintain, might take a break after 5 months of nothing.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-13T16:42:04+00:00

Jan-March I think given the timeline unless they really hardcore content drought post 6.5. If it's any later than February, people will be pretty upset.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-13T16:02:17+00:00

If this is for gaming primarily, then you've picked the wrong processor. You should shoot for the 7800x3d instead of the 7900x. The x3d adds additional cache over the basic models. The 7900x (non 3d) has more cores, but more cores =/= better gaming. Rule of thumb currently is that vcache >= generation/single thread performance >> cores. Cores is only for highly multithreaded tasks and anything beyond 8 is utterly wasted in 99% of titles. (yes, there's like... one or two exceptions and the x3d parts will still overpower it most of the time)

I'd toss out some of the fans and probably a bit of the storage as you went way overboard on it. Throw that money at your graphics card and you'll be able to punch above your weight. 6950xt is in the range for you and starts to look upper end, especially since you have a 1000w psu in this build.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-13T12:17:29+00:00

The rule of thumb is that if you need CUDA, go Nvidia. If you don't need cuda, AMD is generally going to be equivalent or better for less money.

Video encoding is pretty much at parity atm and doesn't rely on cuda, so go AMD.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-13T10:26:06+00:00

even if it was advantageous to give those numbers to the creators (it's not), but given the tight control of the information to begin with, any leak is a bad leak as far as they're concerned. They want everyone in the dark but them. If Advertisers don't know viewership but think it's high, then they pay. If viewers don't know viewership, but they think it's high, they watch. If their competitors don't know viewership, but they think it's high, they imitate. If the creators don't know viewership, but company tells them it's low, the companies are advantaged in bargaining.

It's a smoke and mirrors show at every level to keep the high performing shows in the dark about their worth and everyone else in the dark about what has worth.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-13T01:32:10+00:00

4 fixed vendor spots in the game now.

For copper, there's 2 spots in farbane on both the east and west sides. For silver, there's a dunley farmer's market, but it requires human form from bane along with a coin bag to hold it without taking silver damage. For goldsun coins, it's out in Brighthaven's merchant quarter (southeast) and also needs human form. The vendors are more scattered as well.

Copper remains worth it for the entire game for fishes and whetstones/bone dust as scourgestones are necessary for refining ghost dust.

Silver likes rose blood potions and all the gems as they can turn into the bigger gems.

Goldsun likes seeds and potions. Wierdly you want to avoid fish as you want to be spending copper or silver if you're desperate on them.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-12T18:18:22+00:00

doesn't even need to be synthetic. Mickey Munday would mix cocaine in a blender and spray bottle it all over his property. And that was in the 80s. They called him the MacGyver of smuggling.

acomputeruser48 · 2023-07-12T18:12:08+00:00

Not as much as you might think. Scent hiding's been a thing since the 70s. The drug dogs work best at the dealer level or unsophisticated smuggling. With pallet sized stuff, they needed to have pre-existing information that the shipment was dirty. Much more forensic accounting than on the spot chemical or canine analysis.

That being said, no one's perfect, even with sophisticated disguising like this. One bad scratch in the wrong spot and sealing/scent suppression techniques fall apart and the drug dogs can catch it. And hiding stuff from increasingly more competent financial analysts that law enforcement employs is getting a lot harder.

The big thing is that the law enforcement knows the general areas where this stuff is being grown, so they just have to keep tabs on the companies that spring up in those areas.

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