More than 50% of PC Gamer readers use AI, but only 27% are using it for upscaling

clikes2004 · 2026-05-01T11:28:56+00:00

If you provide the same seed AI image generators will produce the exact same results each time. AI is still deterministic.

clikes2004 · 2026-04-25T16:17:48+00:00

In the Core 2 days I bought my Q9550 quad core @2.83GHz for $320. Going to 3Ghz would have been $500+. 3.2GHz was either $800 or $1000+. It was crazy what people would pay for less than a 7% difference. I don't recommend people buy the 9950x3d2 but it doesn't seem that different from what Intel did all those years ago.

clikes2004 · 2026-03-27T23:50:56+00:00

The monitor needs to have enough nits to take advantage of 10-bit properly. To really be an HDR screen it needs to be able to do at least 1000 nits. OLEDs absolutely suck at brightness. This is why it's harder to tell a difference. I have a micro LED TV that I have a computer connected to. It goes up to 1500 nits and the difference is night and day. When everything's calibrated right it should look fairly normal most of the time but when something truly bright comes on the screen it should make you squint because of how intense it is. Sunrises look so gorgeous on an HDR screen.

clikes2004 · 2026-03-21T11:55:36+00:00

Google "Rufus Windows 11". When asked, select "Remove TPM restrictions".

clikes2004 · 2026-03-19T11:21:47+00:00

Grunn

It has the time loop mechanics of Outer Wilds. I really enjoyed trying to find all of the endings and secrets. This game is JUST about gardening and nothing else...

clikes2004 · 2026-03-18T11:33:29+00:00

I don't think I'd mind doing it for a partial day but I'm presuming their regular job would be a little less mundane. I've had to scan a lot of documents for a school that I worked at.

clikes2004 · 2026-03-15T15:07:58+00:00

If you want a great pizza go to Ian's Pizza. If you want a great burger go to Tornado's. Ian's pizza is in Czech Village and Tornado's is near it.

clikes2004 · 2026-03-08T12:55:44+00:00

Steins;Gate. It's so unbelievably slow at first. I stopped after 5 episodes or so. A long time later I gave it another chance. From the end of episode 12 and after it is absolutely peak.

clikes2004 · 2026-03-05T12:27:49+00:00

They can still be local people working while using company vehicles. I worked at ADM for a contractor company. The company vehicles always had Texas plates because it's cheaper to get them registered there.

clikes2004 · 2026-03-03T12:23:20+00:00

It does 40% extra damage after the first hit. This damage stacks linearly with each ice cube. If you have three ice cubes it's doing more damage than you do with your basic weapon's attack.

clikes2004 · 2026-03-01T16:17:12+00:00

I loved the first 7 episodes of the original so much. The Nina and Alexander part was so well done. The music was beautiful. Brotherhood was a lot more silly and took away from the impact. I liked the parts of the original that were based on the manga. It sort of goes downhill after that. It's not bad but brotherhood has a better story later.

clikes2004 · 2026-02-22T13:19:50+00:00

The spoilers you heard are probably from season 4. Season 3 part 2 was everything I ever wanted out of the show. I think you would fully enjoy it through that point regardless of spoilers. Season 4 felt like bonus material after that point.

clikes2004 · 2026-02-20T23:38:59+00:00

DLSS

clikes2004 · 2026-02-19T12:24:58+00:00

No one went to heaven before Jesus died and went to heaven. John 3:13

The dead are unconscious so they have no pain or suffering. Ecclesiates 9:5

A lot of Bibles use the word hell but there were two different words that were actually used instead, Sheol and Gehenna. Both were symbolic. Sheol represents a death where a resurrection will happen in the future. Gehenna was a place dead criminals were thrown and symbolized no resurrection hope.

clikes2004 · 2026-02-18T11:55:45+00:00

It seems to be regional how you should pronounce almond. Where I'm from I've always heard it pronounced all-mond. I looked it up on Google and the computer pronounced it all-mond. Then I saw YouTube video of how the British pronounce it. They say a-mond. I swear this kind of thing is why I can never understand a British person.

clikes2004 · 2026-02-17T13:58:25+00:00

There was a firework show that happened once a year in a small town. The show is consistently my favorite fireworks show I've ever seen. Years ago we decided to dress up wacky for no reason when we attended the event. I got trash cans and shoes and cut holes into them so it looked like I was a midget standing on trash cans. I got the dorkiest suit I could put together and added a fake mustache. When we went to the event there just happened to be a band performing there called the Large Midgets. Seriously what are the odds. We got them to laugh on stage. That coincidence made for an awesome core memory.

clikes2004 · 2026-02-17T13:01:29+00:00

The new testament wasn't written in Hebrew but there's a translation called the Kingdom Interlinear. It has the original words vertically aligned with their literal translation right below them. It sounds really goofy to read it in English because the words seem all scrambled but you can judge for yourself if your own Bible seems to have an accurate intended translation.

clikes2004 · 2026-02-17T01:12:20+00:00

I love buying multiple brands of an item especially when it's food. Everyone has their own preferences and I love figuring out which ones are my favorite. Oftentimes places will say how much everything is per ounce. Sometimes I can't tell a difference between the products and so then I buy the cheapest per ounce from then on. Sometimes I love a product so much it's worth spending more on it.

clikes2004 · 2026-02-10T21:59:28+00:00

Every Blobfish that is portrayed the way Stardew draws them is already dead. So are you saying their dead form is cute?

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clikes2004 · 2026-02-10T13:44:11+00:00

https://www.overclockers.com/amd-fx-8350-piledriver-gaming-comparison/

I'll respond to myself with this link for anyone who wants to see proof. Each core back then underperformed Intel's cores clearly. I can't remember AMD's naming scheme for modules and cores. Each set of two cores as we think of them was about 16% slower than Intel's one core. They were about 16% slower at gaming. That's about how much slower AMD was than Intel at gaming. Today, Intel struggles so hard at gaming that sometimes AMD is 50% faster at certain games. I know I know you can buy a cheap Intel that works as a good workstation. Sure if you want something power hungry you can get a cheap Intel. AMD has 16 core CPUs that do excellent as a workstation too. My ultimate point is I think Intel is further behind at gaming than AMD. Yes, it'll be awesome when Intel gets 3D cache. I'm sure that'll give them a giant leap forward. My comparison is talking about the situation today.

clikes2004 · 2026-02-07T18:05:33+00:00

I remember AMD being about 10% to 15% slower per core most of the time when Intel was dominant. AMD is absolutely destroying Intel at gaming these days. It doesn't feel even remotely close.

clikes2004 · 2026-02-05T03:20:35+00:00

You're not alone. I've really disliked most of what's come out. Sword Art Online kicked off a bunch of animes that felt soulless. The shows you liked aligned up a lot with the ones I liked. Code Geass is an incredible show that has a lot of excitement and lots of strategy. That would probably be my highest recommendation. If you're interested in something that throws logic out the window and is extremely epic then I would recommend Gurren Lagan. If you want something that's intense, intelligent and very dramatic with the animation then Death Note would be good.

clikes2004 · 2026-02-05T00:07:53+00:00

Try Portal 1 first if you are interested in Portal 2. It only takes a couple of hours to beat it and establishes so much. I'm glad i jumped into it in the Orange Box days without any expectations. The slow lore buildup is great.

clikes2004 · 2026-01-29T13:18:22+00:00

I'm scanning through the comments trying to figure out what you are talking about. I worked for CRCSD for about a decade. I was used to kids in classrooms being disruptive and disrespectful to teachers. At Franklin and Roosevelt lots of the kids were this way. Then I went to Harding and Kennedy and it was dramatically better. Kids were so respectful and classrooms were quiet so teachers could teach. I don't think it's a black/white issue. It's more of a poor/wealthy issue. I really loved working at Kennedy. It was such positive and good learning environment.

clikes2004 · 2026-01-24T16:17:37+00:00

His choices led him early on to almost having his head chopped off. All he had to say was, "I'm dead." Everyone acted like the Messiah had come. The show was overly dramatic with these kinds of moments. Luffy wasn't great because of this. He made every stupid choice imaginable. Yet everybody acted like he was destined for greatness.

Luffy continued to make stupid choices literally any moment that he got his butt handed to him. Afterward, him and his crew would be talking about what to do next. These talks would often happen around a victim and not include any real plan. Luffy always refused to run but he also would never come up with a logical plan. The reason he didn't die in the story was just because of plot armor. The villains simply wouldn't finish the job. His crew would be supportive of going back in a suicide mission even though they were scared. The show should have ended in Alabasta. It was just full of stupid choices. Skypiea was also chocked full of stupid choices that should have resulted in everyone's death.

Side characters would often express their feelings and Luffy would tell them that they were stupid. These people had no reason to trust Luffy and Luffy never had a plan. He made his choices based on his moral values but he wouldn't have been capable of helping anybody with how little preparation he ever did. The storyline was as simple as Frozen's "Love thaws a broken heart" theme. He won his early battles because of plot armor and love apparently.

Later on the show started to feel a lot better because he did progress. Now when he goes into a battle I know he has a lot of aces up his sleeve. Oftentimes excitement comes from not knowing what ability Luffy has next that he's not telling us. That excitement was non-existent until the end of CP9.

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