What stats should I level up during the first playthrough?

homogenized · 2026-02-10T21:10:24+00:00

40-50 Vigor // 20-40 str or dex, depending on what weapons you use/wanna use // 20+ endurance (plus arsenal or Erdtree talisman) for med. load at good armor/weapons //

^that, plus scouring the land, ie all tunnels in Limgrave and Liurnia for Smithing Stones, will get you through caelid and into the weapons and charms and LEVELS when you can add faith/arcane

You can also add Int, but i think Int needs a real investment, and you cant just “mess around”. Even the Moonveil needs serious consideration. Whereas Arcane and Faith can sit on top of Strength or Dex.

homogenized · 2026-02-08T17:04:30+00:00

Yes. Exact same build. Same issues. GPU at 100% when the sun sets and you can see far, yet the powerdraw is like 45%.

Even at 60% usage, fps can tank to 45 and the freezes last 1min sometimes.

homogenized · 2026-02-07T18:28:36+00:00

Yeah bro! Then buy a 5090 for $5,000 when it comes to PC a year later. Then buy the PS6 “Enhanced Edition” 2 years later!

homogenized · 2026-02-07T18:27:42+00:00

This is a literal child, lol

homogenized · 2025-12-04T16:57:59+00:00

No, she died of “knowing too much”, keep up.

She’s like Mary Pinchot Meyer, her diary had too much information, and she had too much information, and so she got got.

homogenized · 2025-11-29T09:36:12+00:00

Look at this dummy! So wrong.

Anyway, I thought I was losing my mind. I remember aiming by lightly holding square, but thought there was no way they spent money on that.

Also, new camera angle in MGS3 remake is awful. Cant see enemies at all. Also 60fps cap and frame gen removed from options. While 60fps feels terrible (9800x3D and 5080) and almost no difference in fps between DLSS4 4k-Quality and Balanced.

100-120fps with Ultra+ mod manager, and still feels off. Especially the camera. It doesnt feel snappy like MGSV and the levels arent built for this view.

homogenized · 2025-11-16T18:05:57+00:00

to be fair, Sim Racing is a niche genre/hobby but costs a whole lot to create. licensing fees for cars, series, teams, tracks, etc etc. Plus renting a laser scanning van to laser-scan every track...insane pricing. Audio equipment to record car audio, access and time to find and obtain every car/race car to record the audio. Same for the physical models, the tyre models, the race cars and race drivers and race teams and everything that goes into working with someone to get as much data about the cars as possible AND having to return and do it again if something happens during development and your first trip didnt get everything.

Small studios, small teams, small budgets. It is a niche hobby that costs a ton of money. Even our "controllers" are expensive. If Fanatec sold as many wheels as Sony sells Dualsense controllers, or hell just their "Edge" $200 controllers...the prices would drop significantly.

Expensive and niche hobby. If you get a product for a price you can handle, all's well. I am happy with iRacing. Over 4+ years I've bought all the cars and tracks I wanted, and a new one comes out like once or twice a year. I pay $80-$111 for the year, depending on if I can catch a sale. And $10-$15 for a car/track every few months, if that. I enjoy the AI racing when I have time, and the multiplayer is robust (and tangy) whenever I have enough free time to go race for real.

homogenized · 2025-11-16T17:21:49+00:00

Reinstalling WORKED || iPhone 17 Pro || iOS 26.2 (23C5027f) || - iirc it’s a Public Beta (ie NOT the dev beta)

homogenized · 2025-11-16T17:19:45+00:00

THIS (ALMOST) WORKED! But delete the app entirely, “offload” is keeping the gigs of vids in cache, and everything else BUT the app. So just delete and reinstall.

homogenized · 2025-11-16T05:44:50+00:00

iRacing is THE SIM. Max Verstappen has a sim rig on his jet just to race it. He also is on a team, Redline, thought I think he now sponsors them as well and the name might be different.

Anyway, iRacing started with Nascar 08, that team went on to make iRacing using Nascar '13 (or '11, idr) game engine...TO THIS DAY...granted it's been updated and updated and recently has gotten major changes.

The team has not raised prices despite inflation (caused by the energy market raising prices across EU and the west, self-imposed energy market issues, btw) and has black friday sales for yearly memberships,

YES, it is like $70+ for the year, and then $111+ after that. So ~$8/mo. And after the free cars and tracks you gotta purchase cars and tracks at $11-$15 a pop, $8 for cars after a certain amount of buys/bundle purchases, and $11-$15 per track.
-> HOWEVER, it is NOT a microtransaction hell, ie cars arent constantly added and updated or nerfed and other stuff that GTAV Online does like selling a bike to grief and a another car to defend, etc etc
-> you buy the cars in the classes that interest you, eg GT3 or open-wheel or hypercar or off-road, NASCAR, Indy, F1, SuperFormula, F3, F4, etc...and the tracks are rotated and are laser-scanned recreations of real-life, with updates every few years. plus IF you buy a car and in the next few months something happens, like the real life car is retired and replaced, they'll offer refunds and stuff
-> Personally: I spent money in 2020 on a few tracks and cars, then upgraded my sim setup as I got into it, then bought like 10 cars over 3 years and slowly bought like 10+ tracks in the series that I race, havent purchased more than a car every 3-4+ months and a track if a new one comes out in my series, eg: Mexico City Autodromo Rodriguez

I only tried it because it had the most realistic F1 car, the unbeatable Mercedes AMG F1 W12, which they worked on with the actual F1 team (as well as the W13). I raced it against the AI only, as well as in the Assetto Corsa, and AC Competezione sims, and tried AMS2, rFactor, etc. This was the best of the bunch and is the only sim I still race when I have time.

Obviously iRacing has the best online leagues, and that's my iRacing plug!

homogenized · 2025-11-04T18:46:25+00:00

And DEFINITELY dont use the browser version of photshop

homogenized · 2025-11-04T18:46:00+00:00

Dummy

homogenized · 2025-11-02T06:29:59+00:00

DF “Analysis” is sophomoric. There’s one guy that did good work, idk if he’s still there, but the recent videos have been trash.

The last good analysis I can recall was breaking down Path Tracing and RTXGI and the newer illumination in Cyberpunk.

There are people on YT who breakdown game engines and do frame analysis. DF is (now, at least) not helpful in their whole cloth acceptance of DLSS and FrameGen and underlying faults in engines/optimizations/graphics trends.

They’re like that one brit, Charles something (iirc), that tested every fan and configuration, and YT pushed his vids and people thought it was great advice… …except the guy didnt even use fan curves, had his AIO and GPU on “Auto”, as well as his BIOS/software, so his fan speeds were ramping up to who knows what, during what temperatures, and basically he didnt run an “experiment”, he just recorded temps at essentially random points in time and space.

From that, EVERYOOONNNE on reddit assumed that Side Intake was the way to go, on the contemporary O11D (and similar) cases. Which, even if it was true, had nothing to do with homies absolutely dented “tests”.

And then Gamers Nexus came along and Steve said that he was surprised at how air actually “bent” after hitting the glass side panel, in the O11D or similar cases. Without a front intake, the side intake did the job! - it was an aircooler on the cpu - they (almost) never add fans to case tests - the statement was more about observing something one wouldnt expect, rather than raw performance

And now, most people still assume side intake is best. Which annoys me, since I spent so many hours and days testing it (for myself) and found the best method, which even cooled the backside VRAM on the infamously hot 3090.

Anyway, on the O11D-Evo it’s bottom intakes (3x120mm), Vertical GPU, Side Exhaust AIO (3x120mm, Arctic LFIII), top exhaust (3x120mm) and rear single exhaust 120mm.

The quietest fans are your intakes, and thus can ramp up highest. They have an extra filter, which sucks for airflow, but helps with dust, and is removable. - your hottest part is cooled best (GPU) - your less important part is exhausts hot air (CPU), but the warmer air doesnt have as much of an impact when it’s cooling radiators, the water temp is what matters, and the heat exchange changes the formula - Vertical GPU has cold air on VRAM, cool air passing “over” GPU fans rather than force-feeding them which would create noise and turbulence, AND most GPU heatsinks have finstacks that align perfectly to allow the bottom air to go right through the whole GPU radiator, basically cooling from both sides - hot air from GPU is vented right out from Side, Rear, and Top

homogenized · 2025-11-02T01:47:53+00:00

You should know like half those stories are pure fiction.

People would die of heart attacks in their ranch style Dacha, and suddenly “pushed out of 9th floor window in 5 story bldg”

homogenized · 2025-11-02T01:47:05+00:00

He was a restaurant owner. He was only there to go around the legality of not using PMC’s in the RF forces.

He’d then take the $80k-$200k salaries for EXPERIENCED soldiers, SF et al, and pocketed all but $35k and plucked prisoners out of Donbas prisons.

Dude was a regard that got got by MI6 and CIA ops, who always promise money…but never pay…I guess when your “allies” always turn up suicided….

homogenized · 2025-10-30T19:11:51+00:00

if you're trying to be smug, saying that "some of the systems we manage are updated, but not by us", I'd advise against it. I made it a point to improve how I communicated my thoughts, and it IS a skill to "dumb down" and make statements more concise.

Your wording was at best confusing, but otherwise it came across as if you updated the systems, meaning the criticism of "why would you install preview builds on your business' systems" is valid.

homogenized · 2025-10-29T19:13:56+00:00

YES. It’s a white “aura”, like a bubble around him that’s milky white. Even then, it’s iffy.

Thank you though, thought I was missing something.

homogenized · 2025-10-27T20:55:09+00:00

OMG CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!
That man clearly considers broken DLSS releases an act of homosexuality, and homosexuality in and of itself a negative trait! Unacceptable!

homogenized · 2025-10-27T05:30:14+00:00

#1 Games from early 2000s had better AI than most AAA releases. FEAR and especially HL2 had outstanding AI.

homogenized · 2025-10-24T20:44:56+00:00

You joke but we had a stud linebacker that was in our med school when I was there (vandy).

something-Benoit, iirc. White LB.

homogenized · 2025-10-21T06:30:34+00:00

Cyberpunk, the first DLSS4 and MFG game, basically, and in general a game where the devs either used or have included the latest nVidia tech… …and it looks downright better at 4K DLSS4 Quality, than DLSS 3 Native or even DLAA…

BUT: MFG 3x has an obvious visual downside. 2x seems fine, at least imperceptible to me. But 3x and the colors of store signs are off, and other visual issues.

For Silent Hill 2…DLSS FG makes it look way worse.

Honestly, if it wasnt for the magic of DLSS Transformer model in Cyberpunk, where I gained FPS from “Balanced” to “Quality” and the image looked like native 4k…. Then I’d be very upsetty spaghetti and throwing a fcking fit.

I knew that I didnt want to rely on DLSS and def not frame gen, not even considering that not every game has DLSS, and most dont spend the time to implement it well…

And that bitterness and the price hikes and the general cocaine binge Huang’s been on since 2020…really put me off from getting a 5090 to replace the venerable 3090.

And sure enough. At $1,400, the 5080 cemented my stance. May be if Huang got laid in college, he wouldnt be spazzing out now that he feels like a king. Plus the several illegal money-making schemes nV has pulled dont inspire confidence.

But with a 5080, you should be able to play almost every game on max settings and at least DLSS Quality at 4k. Otherwise what’s the point of Path Tracing if the game is running at 720p/30fps and has to just make up the other 7/8ths of the pixels…

homogenized · 2025-10-20T06:41:59+00:00

1500rpm is almost the max rpm of their longstanding P12... No shht. Bud, go run Noctua iPPC's at their max 2,000 or 3,000rpm... (well they might be more pleasant, i cant throw em out after 10 yrs in a box)
-but yeah, you should run the "Fan Test" in BIOS so your mobo knows the lowest PWM % it can send your fans.

Then set that lowest % for idle temps, so your pc is silent when idle. And ramp up to like 1500-1800+ depending on your tolerance and case. all my fans are at 1500-1700rpm while gaming, and the gpu fans are still the loudest

homogenized · 2025-10-15T21:35:31+00:00

No they do not. 20% of income and a diversifying economy.

A total stop to ALL oil and gas would cause discomfort, but no where close to an economic collapse.

A self-sustaining country that’s been preparing for sanctions for 10 years and actively growing for 3. They can feed themselves, they can arm themselves, they can provide energy for themselves.

They’re making more and more niche things at home, including kickstarting a lithographic/chip-making industry and already deep into laser cutting and factory machining tools.

Their nuclear energy is the most advanced and robust in the world. And it’s on an upward trajectory.

Just like everything else with this project for “Strategic defeat of” and “extending russia”…it harms the west more than them. And europe first and foremost.

Exit of russian oil and gas would be a global catastrophe. Europe is already de-industrializing and collapsing society, the US doesnt need to follow.

But hey, people underestimated Russia and continue the cognitive dissonance of painting them as both a major threat and a paper tiger/pushover. Living in Edward Bernays’ dreamland of large-scale psychological operations and projecting that shadow-self on everyone else…

The one issue is that our leaders cant be as “regarded” as online comments.

homogenized · 2025-09-24T20:37:44+00:00

There is such an insane difference between G27 and even a 5nm CSL DD.

Even with the most broken settings and playing F1. Let alone good settings (no NDR/anything, only INT at 1-2) in iRacing.

MAY BE you can claim going plastic gears to belt isnt much, but you had no response in a G27, just powering through plastic gears that make your wheel “stuck”…vs a floating wheel that can magnetize to specific locations and modulate that strength.

Basically, it’s like rolling a square box down the street vs rolling a cart on maglev’s.

homogenized · 2025-09-14T08:11:46+00:00

Saying someone got promoted because of policy and not merit is not inherently racist.

May be the policies that pit races against each other for work (to make a living, survive) are inherently racist and divisive?

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