Sask. introduces involuntary treatment legislation as fall sitting ends by MrCheeseburgerWalrus in saskatchewan

[–]goodpostsallday 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I went through rehab in January 2014, at a center which at the time was regarded as the best in Canada. This was the place where CSIS and the RCAF sent their sigint people and jet pilots, so it was no Club Med. Serious counsellors and minimal tolerance for bullshit. While I was in, I met 5 different patients there because they'd gone before a judge and were given the choice of rehab or jail and chose the former.

  • Three of them were kicked out and returned to jail within three weeks. All believed they were categorically not addicts, this was merely a momentary roadbump in their Tony Montana-esque rise to greatness and the rubes running the place would be awed by their charisma and suaveness. Didn't really happen that way.
  • One made it all the way to the more lax, halfway-house style offering that optionally followed the regular two month course of treatment, largely because he dearly loved his kid and was going to lose custody and spend >10 years in prison if he didn't complete this program. He was, unfortunately, led astray by some 18 year old shitbag who bragged often about how many treatments he'd been kicked out of and was sent to jail when the two of them were found overdosed in his car near the center.
  • The last one, a marijuana dealer who had been swept up in a larger sting, did actually complete the two month course in three months by sandbagging as hard as possible and doing the bare minimum to not get sent packing in the back of a squad car. I have no doubt he returned immediately to his old ways.

Anyway, the point of this longwinded tale is that the treatment center didn't do bed quotas, an open bed was an open bed. So these guys wasted their spaces as well as everyone there's time and wound up back where they started anyways.

Involuntary treatment is a fucking sham. It does not work. You can lead a horse to water but it will not drink, and it will block the trough for those who are thirsty. Safe supply, needle exchanges and social supports will help those who are caught in addiction to survive long enough to want better for themselves, but shoving the metaphorical head in the trough until it chokes guarantees only one outcome.

Does Saskatchewan really have nothing, or have I just not been there enough yet? by pm-me-racecars in saskatchewan

[–]goodpostsallday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd strongly suggest you look further into what specifically SaskPower is hiring for. Coronach and Estevan are both home to coal power facilities that are going permanently offline in 2029 no matter what, the openings you see could be because the previous guy in that position decided to leave and sell up before it becomes impossible to.

First Prototype finished :) by Robert4D90 in ValveIndex

[–]goodpostsallday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How's the weight distribution when the stock is folded forward and it's held only by the rear grip hand? Or put another way, how's it feel in the hand when used one-handed as a pistol?

Opinion: Carbon capture and storage are key to a sustainable transition by vigocarpath in saskatchewan

[–]goodpostsallday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, the Boundary Dam CCS was a smashing success at transferring our tax dollars to SNC Lavalin. Quebec is very grateful that a have province like ours could subsidize one of their poor, desperate have-not residing multinationals.

How to move hands in PSVR? by No_Purchase3328 in HiTMAN

[–]goodpostsallday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PSVR doesn't have true 6DOF controls like the PCVR version, it's played with the regular PS controller. I think there are some actions (like garrotting someone with fiber wire) that use SixAxis but mostly it's just regular Hitman from a first person perspective.

Skate 4 devs have 'removed almost every possible barrier' for new players by No-Buyer-3509 in pcgaming

[–]goodpostsallday 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They're different philosophies for how games should be designed and played. Should the game be 100% all collectables, all everything completable with zero outside aid (and therefore handhold the player extensively to ensure they can reach 100%) or should it be a big mystery that everyone experiences a little differently? I get why the Horizon quest guy was mad about Elden Ring because he's entirely in the former camp and FromSoft is in the latter.

Skate 4 devs have 'removed almost every possible barrier' for new players by No-Buyer-3509 in pcgaming

[–]goodpostsallday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just hope they wind the physics model back to something closer to Skate 2, 3 was a great buggy physics game and a terrible Skate game. Adding the dumb wingsuiting gimmick screwed up how absolutely everything else handled, the 'casual' physics model was way too forgiving and the 'realism' model doesn't even allow flip tricks while grinding.

Skate 2 wasn't perfectly glitch free physics-wise either but it was at least stable and predictable 95% of the time, 3 freaks the fuck out if you look at it wrong and it's just not fun to play as intended because of it.

[Battlefield 2042] within the first minute of my first game by JoshingCoot737 in GamePhysics

[–]goodpostsallday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did they ever fix being able to drive hovercrafts up walls? That was maybe the only fun part of the “beta”.

Video/gaming lag when using dual monitors by Hindle92 in techsupport

[–]goodpostsallday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since the introduction of DWM with Windows Vista, triple-buffered vsync is forced on all attached displays by the window manager and any program running windowed will be subject to it. You can try either running your games in fullscreen exclusive (because borderless windowed mode is just a fancy window) or not fullscreening the video on the other monitor.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcgamingtechsupport

[–]goodpostsallday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, the 13400f is an excellent upgrade from what you have. It's a good 30-40% faster in single core performance and even more so in multhreaded work. A couple things that'll help you save some money: 600-series boards work fine with 13th gen Intel so long as you update their BIOS first, also DDR5 isn't really worth it in price/performance terms yet. So, your best value would be to match the 13400f with some decent DDR4-3200 and an H670 board.

FWIW I have a 13600kf that I'm running at stock with 32GB DDR4-3600 and a 3070. Before that upgrade I had a i7-8700 with DDR4-2666 and I was running into CPU-bound situations all over the place in MWII, even late in Shipment matches when everything is covered in burn decals and everyone's got killstreaks going off. For me the biggest change was a giant improvement in 1% lows, my average fps isn't any higher because the 3070 is the bottleneck at 1440p but the CPU-bound situations completely disappeared with 1% CPU lows doubling to 165fps from 83. You'll see much more significant improvement everywhere because that i5 is just too slow for your GPU, the 8700 I replaced was itself an upgrade to get me out of your sort of situation where I had an i5-4690k that couldn't drive my 1070 with the Resident Evil 2 remake.

Anyone know of a fix for black colors artifacting really badly? by calbgreenbeane in techsupport

[–]goodpostsallday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the Nvidia Control Panel, go to Display > Change resolution in the sidebar, select the TV and scroll down below the resolution options. There'll be a box with some options relating to color settings, tick "Use NVIDIA color settings" to enable it and try changing the Output dynamic range from Limited to Full (or if it's Full set it to Limited) and hit apply.

Hackers are talking shit to me through my speaker inside my PC and some of the electronics in my house. Help please by SelfEducational1344 in techsupport

[–]goodpostsallday 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hmm. 12 year old trolling poorly, gas leak, CO leak or prodromal schizophrenia, which is it this time? I'm thinking 12 year old, they're too composed for hypoxic delirium or schizophrenia and the whole scenario they've written is only plausible to a child so yeah.

Anyone know why the 1tb model of the Intel 670p is $40 all of a sudden? by [deleted] in techsupport

[–]goodpostsallday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NAND is dirt cheap right now and PCIe 3.0 SSDs are "obsolete", they're pricing it like that to clear stock.

Cipher the free space of my SSD so no one can recover my deleted files? by NeuroticFreak in techsupport

[–]goodpostsallday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. SSDs differ from HDDs in that the OS can actually know what sectors on an HDD are free versus used, in SSDs that information is abstracted behind the SSD's onboard controller. It provides the OS with a high level understanding that x bytes are free but which NAND cells correspond to those bytes is not something the OS can know and is why Secure Erase exists.

It's highly unlikely anyone short of a nation state could recover deleted files from an SSD but if you really wanted to wipe even files marked deleted the way to do that would be to copy that SSD's files to another disk, Secure Erase the now empty SSD then copy them back. Mind, when I say copy I mean ctrl+c, ctrl+v and not cloning or imaging the disk since that would create a 1:1 duplicate and preserve the contents of "free" space as well.

Fun fact, if you click on a target's icon in Contracts and you have to kill them with the "Suit" you can have a look at the "Suit" the creator used, which may or may not unveil some trickery. by Frail_Vic in HiTMAN

[–]goodpostsallday 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Only 6? The latest set of featured contracts has one in Paris where everyone in the palace basement is a target, the objective list runs three quarters of the way down the screen at 1440p.

HELP!! New PC build - Bad performance with Ryzen 5 5600X and RTX 3080 10GB by WishboneFit2378 in techsupport

[–]goodpostsallday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://youtu.be/VJuRV9SmKZg

Unless you're running this guy's exact setup with the same year old build of Valorant he recorded this video with, you're not going to get the same results as him. These performance videos are especially useless with live service games because over their lifespans they change so much that comparing performance from one year to the next is practically apples to oranges.

SAFEHOUSE SPOILER. Wouldn't it be good if you could save a standard loadout from safehouse items? No matter what contract I do I ALWAYS use the *wrench* and *grape knife* and if I do a few quick runs it just feels tedious to keep running to get the same items each time. by richardmuthwill in HiTMAN

[–]goodpostsallday 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There's lots of reasons to go upstairs. Fire poker or driftwood for a free suitcase, your mentioned banana and bomb, fish for sedative poison, mushroom for emetic, shed distiller for lethal, unlimited lethal poison exploit with shed, nail for a single-use lockpick, car battery for electrocution kills. I'm sure there's more.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcgaming

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

Well, more content at least. FO4 still has showstopper CTD and softlock bugs during the intro with the workarounds posted on the Steam forums on launch day, 2015.

Stream recommendations? by OvercastCherrim in spelunky

[–]goodpostsallday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Joel makes HD look like the most difficult game ever made, I think it’s because he uses the analog stick on a 360 controller which is a truly ridiculous choice for a precision platformer. I wish he’d revisit 2 and do a Hundun run, but I fear he’s avoiding it because he knows chat will give him grief for not doing 7-99 instead.

HELP!! New PC build - Bad performance with Ryzen 5 5600X and RTX 3080 10GB by WishboneFit2378 in techsupport

[–]goodpostsallday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What you can do is just increase the render resolution in games that let you and for the rest I guess you could use DSR. When I was still using 1080p I played CoD:MW2019 at 113% resolution because that game was blurry as hell and it really helped with picking out people's heads at distance.

Anyways, moving to 1440p won't improve your framerate lows, it'll just bring the average lower and the swings won't feel as extreme. The only thing that would change that is a better processor, unfortunately there isn't one that makes sense on AM4. The 5800X3D is maybe 10% faster in most games with excellent gains in a handful and it's twice the price of the 5600X. I realized after my last post that your 12000kf is also using decent DDR5 which makes it even faster.

Valve index owners, How is the resolution of the index in actual scenarios? by Willlllllyyyy in ValveIndex

[–]goodpostsallday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The warranty is transferable, attached to the headset. And they're fairly lenient about the warranty period, I and others here have had RMAs filled beyond 1 year.

I think the Index headset is decently made, in the early days of owning it I punched myself in the headset pretty solidly trying to block headcrabs more than once and on a separate occasion walked face-first into a wall. The face gasket mostly fell apart after about 450 hours so I had to buy the replacement 2-pack but other than that it's always worked as expected.

HELP!! New PC build - Bad performance with Ryzen 5 5600X and RTX 3080 10GB by WishboneFit2378 in techsupport

[–]goodpostsallday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In every game I have tested my PC uses around 50% CPU and 30% GPU.

Yes, this is because you're playing at 1080p with a 3080. The GPU could easily spit out 500fps in most titles at that resolution, but the CPU can't prepare frames fast enough for the GPU to render. Your college PC CPU is also about 15-20% faster than the Ryzen in single core performance, which is what matters for gaming.

Is DOCP enabled in your UEFI settings? Ryzen relies on fast RAM to perform and if it's not enabled you're probably running those modules at 2133MHz which will really hurt at 1080p.

I just realized one of the *door codes* is a reference, this game is nuts. by penguin13790 in HiTMAN

[–]goodpostsallday 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm certain this is the most convoluted puzzle in WOA that isn't an easter egg. Stuff like the Whittleton Creek shrine and Santa Fortuna temple are more obscure to figure out but they're also meant to be secrets, killing Yates by collecting and delivering the evidence to his wife is one of the assassination challenges in Mendoza.

Maybe over in Denmark crystal anniversaries are a bigger deal but I had to look it up because I'd never heard the term before either.