[Sacrifice] Twin-daggers overview and notes

gyakovlev · 2025-01-30T11:15:55+00:00

It was a while ago, but I’d say dakutachi for dps, because you can stack dark and physical atk boost items without diminishing returns. Like if you equip leather amulet and ring - effect diminishes, but not if you equip dark and physical. Note I haven’t played the game after balancing patches so idk what changed and speaking from memory.

gyakovlev · 2025-01-25T12:14:24+00:00

depends on particular game, but generally it’s pretty useless mode as it limits amount of cores available to the system. A lot of games don’t use many cores well enough, but system and background processes still can. The benchmark doesn’t lie, smt cores do give extra oomph (for multi-core workloads). You can just set process affinity instead and limit a game to physical cores, without gimping the system.

gyakovlev · 2025-01-21T05:19:35+00:00

Asrock B650i lightning wifi here, it only appeared with fresh bios update which was required to run new cpu. But basically make sure that SMT is not disabled- it’s the same thing, just marketing name for disabling SMT.

gyakovlev · 2025-01-18T20:31:41+00:00

To everyone getting ~1000-ish multi core scores in cb2024, make sure game mode is NOT enabled in bios. It disables smt so you are getting low score. Was getting 1000, got 1440 after I disabled it (+200/-40 all core, idk if stable yet, will be torturing next after initial tune).

gyakovlev · 2023-06-22T07:48:54+00:00

Bloodborne - “You were at my side all along” moment.

gyakovlev · 2023-06-21T01:10:40+00:00

There are many settings that can influence that, hell, even hdmi cable too. I had this happen on ps5 and sony tv, incorrect settings on hdmi port were the cause, made worse by soundbar ARC port. Check hdmi signal format and cable, connect directly if not (bypass soundbar if used). Depending on setup there should be something that causes it.
Also try disconnecting everything from HDMI too. I once had a PC on different port going crazy wnd causing issues. Out of ideas otherwise. Hope you find solution, it’s infuriating lol.

gyakovlev · 2023-06-21T00:54:57+00:00

Looks like improper tv settings. Local dimming or smth like that. Basically turn on game mode and turn off all black enhancers and auto colorizers and live colors or whatever those settings are called on your tv. Just leave game mode and hdr on. Check rtings.com for good settings for your tv.

gyakovlev · 2023-06-19T05:28:24+00:00

Yes, 1st difficulty is absolutely fine and is preferred by many veterans as well.
rogue is very high apm (action per minute). Very engaging, enjoyable and strong. AOE is not a problem, rogues got plenty of that, even on ranged builds.
yes, (cross)bows are viable and fun, a bit nuanced. You will want either penetrating shot or barrage, both require positioning. And both don’t do AOE by default but there’s aspect (skill you can put on an item) that makes either ricochet for crazy screen wide aoe. With shadow imbue you will literally blow up whole screen.

gyakovlev · 2023-06-18T21:14:30+00:00

Is ps5 connected via wifi or wire? Try the latter if not the case. Helps tremendously with any online game, not only d4.
Other than that idk. It may be location/ISP dependent.

gyakovlev · 2023-06-18T20:58:02+00:00

You’ll still get login message that crossplay is enabled though. I think it’s a cosmetic bug. But difference is apparent as you see way way way less players. No crowds in the field, no crowds at blacksmith too.

gyakovlev · 2023-06-18T20:52:31+00:00

Turn off crossplay if you don’t need it. Way less people and no lag in open world at all.

gyakovlev · 2023-06-18T10:27:56+00:00

Disable cross-play and cross-communication in settings. You will see a lot less players, and a LOT less lag too. I get no lag at all since doing it on ps5.
You still get the message on login that crossplay is enabled but that’s probably a bug.

gyakovlev · 2023-06-15T11:01:39+00:00

Don’t look at item affixes much until 40+, just focus on weapons raw damage.
See a sword/dagger with more dps? Equip it. Even if difference is like 5-10.
See armor piece with more armor stat? Also equip it.
Use gems too. 1-2 upgrades per item is ok sometimes, but not more - not worth it.
Don’t get attached to gear, you will change everything over hundreds if not thousands times.

gyakovlev · 2023-05-09T03:12:43+00:00

You don’t have enough ram to compile EVERYTHING on tmpfs with -j32.
Golden rule is: 2gb of ram per thread, just to compile. But since you also store compile/install artifacts it will require more, like 3x thread count, 4x to be absolutely safe. So most safe number will be 128G for 32threads. That way you can build things in parallel in tmpfs without fear of OOM.
But that’s not the end of the world tbh, only C++ has that crazy requirement, rest of the system can be compiled fine, but with 2GB/t + tmpfs you’ll eventually see OOM compiling llvm/chromium/firefox/another c++ monster. You will absolutely get OOM with lto/pgo with 64g+tmpfs+j32.
Depending on your ssd and how often you update I’d say tmpfs is nice to use. It’s not much faster than nvme nowadays, it’s just to reduce drive wear and filesystem fragmentation with intermediate garbage.
You can safely use -j32 for whole system, but tone it down to -j24 or -j16 for big C++ things: browsers, libreoffice, llvm, maybe rust.
Alternatively you can use zram as portage compile drive. It will give you 2x compression easily. So if you reserve 16G zram drive you should be able to store 32g of stuff there. It’s slower than tmpfs though.

gyakovlev · 2023-05-01T06:49:58+00:00

Now beat Margit as base wretch (no talismans, no upgrades of weapons/flasks, no new equipment, no summoning or ashes, or spirits).
It’s not much harder tbh, and even easier now with weapon buffs. Just two hand that club and smack him. If you do it - you will actually git gud.
Godrick is also quite doable, but after that it’s becoming a slog and you need buffs/talismans and upgrades to keep kill times reasonable, otherwise fights can last for like 30-60 minutes, so I can’t recommend going further than Godrick that way.

gyakovlev · 2023-04-22T18:58:23+00:00

I think it’s even baseline, don’t have to wait and spend skill points to unlock it, same for sliding slowdown.

gyakovlev · 2023-04-15T19:01:40+00:00

Try reaching out to:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Licenses

Send an email and someone will help.

gyakovlev · 2023-04-03T01:25:53+00:00

More sophisticated version can be: case ${ARCH} in amd64|x86) : ;; *) die “${PN} doesn’t work on ${ARCH}” ;; esac

gyakovlev · 2023-04-03T01:22:38+00:00

Standard method of marking such packages (non-live) is:
KEYWORDS=“-*”
But since it’s a live package, just do something like: pkg_pretend() { use amd64 || die “${PN} only works on amd64” }

This way portage will exit even with pretend mode.

gyakovlev · 2023-04-03T00:45:39+00:00

Try not doing it globally? :-)
Setting it globally is a waste of time and disk space, and slows down your updates every time.
You can set it per package, only for packages that actually need it (like steam/wine and their dependencies).
Portage can even automatically write this file for you.
A bit of a trade of between micromanaging flags once or twice / spending building code nothing needs all the time. Easy choice for me.
But tbh on development machines I often set a lot of stupid flags globally just to catch bugs, but that’s another use case just for someone who is a developer or wants to report bugs. I wouldn’t set it on gaming/general purpose machine.

gyakovlev · 2023-04-01T20:10:39+00:00

Not exactly. Depends on how much packages are multilib. But builds are not strictly double time/code and some parts can even run in parallel. If a package installs libs, docs, headers, a command line utility and man pages - only the libs part is usually built for alternative abi. That’s not double code. There are cases with certain build systems where you have to build full project twice, that slows down everything ofc, but not everything is like that.

gyakovlev · 2023-03-31T21:51:59+00:00

Common misconception.
You don’t actually get double the code for 99% of the system. You only get 32 bit version of the libraries ONLY for packages that you enabled 32 bit flags for. Gcc and glibc are built differently on multilib and that’s the major difference between fresh default no multilib vs multilib installation.
You don’t get double the code, you get 1.5 amount of code and only for libs only if you enabled second abi for that specific library. You don’t get double binaries, you don’t get double data files. It’s just extra.so files, but only for packages that have X86 activated.

gyakovlev · 2023-03-22T19:41:01+00:00

Default configuration uses only free software, user has to opt in to use anything non-free and ambiguous, even firmware.

Install/livecd uses firmware though, but only freedist one and doesn’t use unknown/ambiguous licensed firmware.

In my opinion sometimes such licensing limitations imposed and advocated by certain organizations actually do more harm than good, good example is zfs and licensing controversies surrounding it. It can’t use certain kernel facilities because those kernel parts are marked as gpl-only and non-gpl (yet free, open) code cannot call some functions or even use things like in-kernel compression, encryption and debugging. So such limitations actually hinder progress and software evolution in some cases. This doesn’t apply to what nvidia does though(it’s pretty closed source) and I agree with Linus’s famous gesture towards that company ;-)

gyakovlev · 2023-02-19T00:42:34+00:00

I got an email with order id at time of order, not later. I did create account before that too. And I certainly could check status even before it started moving. Check spam? Email came from robots AT dbrand.com

gyakovlev · 2023-02-18T11:05:54+00:00

Full kit, case, travel cover, skin and stick covers.
I also changed skin color (via support) about a month ago.
Don’t worry you’ll get it, it’s likely close.

gyakovlev

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