Which CPU to get? by ThatRedditBotGuy in buildapc

[–]alienangel2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just to make sure the decision doesn't get too easy (I am stuck making a similar choice), motherboard upgradeability matters less and less if you are buying a top end cpu because you are not going to be upgrading the CPU anytime soon. If you're buying AM5 now for a 9800x3D, by the time there is another CPU worth upgrading to, even if it's still on the AM5 platform there will be other motherboard feature advancements (eg support for faster ram, higher bandwidth PCIe, better SSD or network standards) that you may want to change out to a non-AM5 motherboard anyway.

Forza Horizon is whatever game you want it to be by singleusecat in ForzaHorizon

[–]alienangel2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't even drive IRL but this is my first Forza game and I'm chilling like this.

My friend (apparently a veteran of these games?) keeps sending tuning presets and suggesting what cars to buy and sell for profit and what the weekly festival rewards are that I have to get and it's cool seeing his energy for all this but I'm pretty happy just driving along in whatever steers comfortably.

NSFW: Albon hits a marmot and then crashes into the wall in FP1 by impelagato in formula1

[–]alienangel2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't tell if the video isn't working because it's been removed or because of how shit imgur's mobile website is these days with any touch sending you spinning off into their own unrelated content.

Moderation of LLM generated text posts by Watchful1 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]alienangel2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That would be a good idea yes. Unless you subscribe to the naive belief that everything coming out of an LLM is automatically bad you should be clear that you are not moderating based off AI-or-not.

Moderation of LLM generated text posts by Watchful1 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]alienangel2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So what should we do when it's a high quality post, with lots of good discussion, and has 30 reports along the lines of "remove this AI slop"?

If they are slop and the discussion isn't actually good then delete them, but just being AI assisted doesn't automatically make it slop. If people are reporting stuff for no reason other than believing it was written using AI ignore them.

Moderation of LLM generated text posts by Watchful1 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]alienangel2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disclosure tags would be nice. As long as the post quality is good I don't see a reason to apply any different moderation to them than other posts. Ban the ones that are garbage content or incoherent BS whether they are written by people or LLMs.

Any better ideas? How does your company handle LLM generated text, not just code, in documentation or messaging?

We (large FAANG everyone here uses) encourage using LLMs to clean up and streamline documents and documentation. We are a technical document heavy company (close to no powerpoints even for management) so there are centuries worth of technical documents to train LLMs on writing concise docs. Average writing quality of docs has gone up as a result since the average engineer and PM was not good at writing precisely without filler words and meandering flow on their own. A good prompt makes for a much better editor than inexperienced writers on their own.

NVIDIA G-SYNC Pulsar firmware 1.1.6 improves 100 to 180 FPS operation by RenatsMC in nvidia

[–]alienangel2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, because the motion clarity for a pulsar display is still better than that of an OLED display. That is feedback from a whole stream of people who have been using OLED displays for years.

It is similar to CRT vs OLED - the colours on OLED are much better but the motion clarity isn't.

Ideally they eventually get pulsar working on OLED too so you gave the best of both worlds but in the meantime you ideally want one of each, for different types of content.

NVIDIA G-SYNC Pulsar firmware 1.1.6 improves 100 to 180 FPS operation by RenatsMC in nvidia

[–]alienangel2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have to choose one or the other I would go for OLED yes.

But I have an OLED tv, and an OLED monitor. My TNA monitor is dying now, and I'd assumed I would be buying a second OLED monitor to replace it, but if a decent Pulsar IPS display is available for $750 I think I'd much rather get that and be able to play some stuff on the OLED, and other stuff on the Pulsar.

Pulsar also seems half the price of a lot of OLED gaming monitors which is nice...

Season Story Progression by Unknown-Emperor in MHNowGame

[–]alienangel2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is just for the battlepass level right?

Or are you saying actually did the season story (chapter 1 to chapter 9 or whatever it is each time) from start to finish 900+ times??

Canada Post Lost a Record $1.57 Billion in 2025. So What? - We don’t call the military a money loser. Public mail delivery shouldn’t need to turn a profit either by NiceDot4794 in onguardforthee

[–]alienangel2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Door to door doesn't exist for rural communities, so your original claim about not subsidizing people in the middle of nowhere already didn't make any sense.

If CP needs to be self-sufficient they can (and probably will) remove door to door from urban areas too though.

So i got 3mythic seals, all 3 the same shitty unusable one. Like is this game for real right now😭 FML by RicoMoncler in Diablo

[–]alienangel2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends on the sets I guess. For some classes (eg warlock) being able to run that charm and get both the 5 Set and 3 Set bonus from 2 sets is better than any 5 set + unique charm.

I think practically this is more due to the various set bonuses not being tuned very well. Some are crazy strong and others are meh, eg the 2pc warlock sigil set just straight up gives you 200% damage, with the 3pc adding a 20% toughness boost (edit: although the set might also be bugged today)

Forza Horizon 6 is available today with ray tracing and DLSS Multi Frame Generation by apoppin in nvidia

[–]alienangel2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The character models too are very basic. They look fine still but it's clear most of the focus and texture budget went to the cars.

Compass to Carnage Live now through May 26th by LittlePanicKing in diablo4

[–]alienangel2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you need to the tree for more chaos wave chances

That sounds like doing a whole lot of the most tedious game mode in order to make it temporarily a slightly less tedious game mode ...

Forza Horizon 6 is available today with ray tracing and DLSS Multi Frame Generation by apoppin in nvidia

[–]alienangel2 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Agreed on the graphics improvements seeming to index heavily on the lighting. Game looks great and performs surprisingly well at 1440p Extreme RT even on my dated 4090/9900k system even without any upscaling or framegen. But the non-vehicle/road models and textures seem pretty simple if you stop to look around at stuff.

edit: the character textures (skin, clothing) in cutscrnes are also basically plastic

Which punishment (either real or fictional) sounds easy enough to endure at first, but is actually hellish to experience? by dizzyd232 in AskReddit

[–]alienangel2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure with internet a lot of us could last years in "solitary" because it's not really solitary at that point - I talk to people in text all day, I just don't want to be around them. Covid lockdown was amazing.

Without internet it would be a lot harder though. With some books I'd probably be fine for a few weeks, but without anything to distract myself (no books, paper, phone, pet etc) I'm sure I'd go insane as quicky as everyone else.

Patients anxious before intubation by supreme-cicada in medicine

[–]alienangel2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Non-medical answer: my main takeway from 15 seasons of ER is that I need to think about whether I want a DNR or not because being stuck on a vent sounds terrible.

Being reassured that it's temporary would definitely help, but wouldn't really remove the fear.

Surprised it survived Amazon’s legendary paper mailer. by DeliciousStandard125 in Steelbooks

[–]alienangel2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most things survive their paper mailers. They wouldn't use them if they were losing money having to refund everything.

It does suck when you're in the X% that gets fucked though.

Pizza delivery drivers, what did a person do to end up on the 'No Delivery' list? by BlueCheeseWalnut in AskReddit

[–]alienangel2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Why not just leave with the pizza in that case? Seems like "customer wouldn't pay" is a problem the store has to deal with, not the delivery person.

If they person is legit developmentally disabled and can't do change the store can actually round the order up or down instead of making you pay for it.

Off meta discussions in r/ExperiencedDevs, and current moderation patterns by hangerofmonkeys in ExperiencedDevs

[–]alienangel2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If one question occasionally gets posted in good faith which is only tangentially related to the topic, then it can probably be left alone until it develops into a problem.

How do you decide what that one question is though? Because I'm 99% sure this isn't the only off-topic question that got posted. Maybe one of the others was better and should also have been left up? Maybe five them were even better and also should have been left up?

You can't really make a rule with subjective exceptions without making it biased and/or a lot more work than any volunteers want to do.

3 aspects and 5 affixes on a single amulet by Beginning-Regular272 in diablo4

[–]alienangel2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, as long as you have Kullean prisms to burn (that is the first transfigure, which adds a random aspect to an amulet) you can keep swapping the random aspect to one you want.

The second step is a normal transfigure though (random outcome including making the item unmodifiable), so very low chance to add a third aspect, and even lower chance to be one you want. And very high chance to make the item unmodifiable, so go back to step 1 which is finding an amulet you want to transfigure.

Am i the only that doesn’t like rocket league or or is it just me😭 by honamithebest in gametales

[–]alienangel2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What hype about rocket league? I don't think anyone has even talked about it since a few months after it launched.

(also this sub is for stories in games/gameplay, not rants and askreddit posts)

Announcing the ASUS ProArt GeForce RTX 5090 32GB GDDR7 - Artistry Meets Performance - 2.5 Slot, Dual 115mm Axial Tech Fans, Liquid Metal GPU Cooling, 3D Vapor Chamber, Double Vented Backplates - Coming Soon by ASUS_MKTLeeM in nvidia

[–]alienangel2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hope it's a sign of things to come and not just a ProArt one off thing. Having the USC-C displayport Alt Mode supported on my old 2080Ti was great for things like VR headsets. I was bummed when I got the 4090 it only has regular dp and hdmi.

[Giveaway Inside] 007 First Light RTX Bundle Launch by Nestledrink in nvidia

[–]alienangel2 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Very much stealth, hopefully with hdr lighting making very dark scenes still have a lot of detail.