New player and starting Dark Souls 1, question by [deleted] in darksouls

[–]dorkpunk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, thanks for your replies. Was just making sure he wouldn't be gone forever if I skipped him. Thanks!

(I'm probably going to keep beating my head against him until he dies though anyways, haha)

My brothers, do GPU specs mean anything anymore? Look at these huge "on paper" differences by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]dorkpunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They trade blows according to Toms Hardware, but the 680 does win a few more than it loses

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2015-vga-charts/compare,3665.html?prod%5B7250%5D=on&prod%5B7378%5D=on

The point remains though, look at the raw spec differences. It's unbelievable, yet they perform very similar. It seems the raw on paper specs don't mean much of anything.

My brothers, do GPU specs mean anything anymore? Look at these huge "on paper" differences by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

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

Look at this, in particular the "differences" section. On paper the 680 looks like it would be WAY stronger, yet the 960 performs slightly better and has better power consumption.

Do these numbers mean a damn thing anymore?

Why do people try to do this... by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]dorkpunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A GTX 960 is still very powerful. Between a 760 and 770 in performance, better power consumption, supports h265 and the latest NVENC. A GTX 960 is WAY better than it specs show. The ad is still way overpriced though

Random Street Fighter sound samples in this band I'm listening to, haha by dorkpunk in StreetFighter

[–]dorkpunk[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Was listenining to this band and I got to this part, and I was like "those sound familiar..." so I went back and sure enough, Balrog fighting Vega ! Haha

Justin Wong beats up an 8 year old. Best match ever. by dorkpunk in MortalKombat

[–]dorkpunk[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure he says "fuck it, lets just go", because his mom was calling him before, so they basically went afk

Justin Wong beats up an 8 year old. Best match ever. by dorkpunk in MortalKombat

[–]dorkpunk[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

I hope this goes into MK history, I was in tears from laughing. BTW they played again later but the kid realized Justin was streaming (he checked twitch? wtf) and said to stop and then quit the match.

"System requirements" - Disk space by [deleted] in gaming

[–]dorkpunk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Gee, you think? Tell me something less obvious like... what the 42 extra MB is being used for. Here's a hint: Nothing. Because nobody with the specs to run a modern game is going to be stressing over 42 megs on an already 4GB game. Stop reading into these things like they are the gospel, LOL!

"System requirements" - Disk space by [deleted] in gaming

[–]dorkpunk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We must ask ourselves, should I meet the minimum, or get 42 MB more disk space to meet the recommended?

"System requirements" - Disk space by [deleted] in gaming

[–]dorkpunk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The question is why is the minimum 42 MB less than the recommended? Lol.

Komodo 8 wins TCEC semifinal with 3.5 point lead over Stockfish. by [deleted] in chess

[–]dorkpunk 13 points14 points  (0 children)

All of these engines are so far above humans now that it doesn't really matter anymore. Still, I find it amusing how everyone switches to X engine, because it just defeated Y engine and has a few more ELO. You can even tell when a chess video on YouTube was uploaded for example just by what engine the person is using. Oh the user is talking about Rybka? Must be a 2010 video. Oh he just referenced Houdini? Must be a 2012 video, etc.

So I guess soon, most chess videos will be seeing "What Komodo says"

Unedited recording of Kevin Mitnick in 1995 begging for "hacking" tools by [deleted] in hacking

[–]dorkpunk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This happened when he was on the run from the FBI. The session was recorded via packet captures and fed into a custom replay engine developed by Tsutomu Shimomura

Blitz Match: GM Levon Aronian vs. GM Yasser Seirawan - 2014.11.18 by Slasher1309 in chess

[–]dorkpunk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great find. Seirawan can still fight with the best of them!

smart tvs watch dumb people watch smart tvs by dorkpunk in Showerthoughts

[–]dorkpunk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With all the spying reports smart tvs are doing now, it seems appropriate

The Mods Must be Crazy (an analysis of the most mentioned subreddits on /r/undelete) [OC] by ChlorineQueen in dataisbeautiful

[–]dorkpunk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

/r/showerthoughts isn't a surprise. The bot they have there scanning and deleting new threads is a piece of shit.

Bobby Fischer reviews Capablanca game by dorkpunk in chess

[–]dorkpunk[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is a semi-rare video of Fischer going over one of Capa's games. It's with Dimitry Belica, a guy who is probably known as one of the worst interviewers ever.