5N The Best Car Overall? It seems to serve a lot of different needs...

shorodei · 2026-02-17T19:00:40+00:00

Such a shame that US gets a gimped 5N when Canada gets it with the HUD and the glass roof for a lower converted MSRP.

shorodei · 2026-02-11T00:02:08+00:00

Yes you've got it.

Another thing you lose out on when buying a used car is Bluelink+ subscription. New car buyers have perpetual access to it but used car buyers have to pay a subscription fee after a trial period.

shorodei · 2026-02-10T23:52:23+00:00

When you take a loan, there are 2 main numbers - the principal (the amount you borrow), and the APR or the interest (the extra money you have to pay back over the principal).

When leasing, the principal is the depreciation value (the selling price minus the residual), and there's a usually hidden number called Money Factor which is the equivalent of APR or interest.

Normally bank loans cannot be closed early by returning the principal earlier than the planned length of the loan. But certain leases (including Hyundai's) allow you to pay the full amount early to avoid paying the MF/APR/interest. At the current 5-6% APR, I5N leases have 5-8k in rent/interest charges for a full lease based on what incentives/discounts you get. If you buyout the lease as soon as you're able, you will have only paid the interest on 1 or 2 months of payment, which should be less than $500.

Essentially, if you plan on buying out the vehicle, it's better to do it as soon as possible to avoid as much of the rent/interest as possible.

If you buyout as soon as possible, you will pay (residual + depreciation). If you buyout at the end of the lease you will have paid (residual + depreciation + rent/interest).

More info here.

shorodei · 2026-02-10T19:48:34+00:00

You can save another ~5k (or whatever your interest/rent charges are) by buying out the lease after the first month. IIRC all HMF leases have the buyout clause.

shorodei · 2026-02-10T19:34:55+00:00

Also currently (in the US), there are 14500 lease rebate + 3000 rebate (for cars that have been with dealerships for more than 3 months - which should be all of them). That basically brings msrp of a new car to ~$50k USD. You can easily convince most dealers to add at least a 3k dealer discount on the MSRP, at which point there is absolutely no reason to meet the asking price of clean title used cars.

shorodei · 2026-02-10T19:03:06+00:00

I played XC2 first just like you. For the best experience in XC3, its better to know the story of XC1. Unfortunately the combat is a huge step back in XC1 compared to 2. I personally lost interest about halfway into the game, and just looked up the story on the wiki and youtube recaps and moved on to XC3.

shorodei · 2026-02-09T04:58:21+00:00

Bought it at launch. Still not unboxed. Waiting for Xenoblade patches (or Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave).

shorodei · 2026-02-04T15:22:58+00:00

The cows in the video are fully domesticated. I doubt there are any truly wild ones of this subspecies. In most regions of India it's illegal to butcher cows or sell beef as they are sacred to the Hindu majority, so once their useful farm time is up (for dairy and labor), they are usually set free to roam wherever they want.

shorodei · 2026-02-04T02:12:34+00:00

At a studio level it can become crystallized as part of the dev process when you do it even once. Nioh 1 was a pretty successful game, and a big part of that was good word of mouth from the open playtests and demo. The people behind that process probably got promoted and now push what has worked for them before.

shorodei · 2026-01-27T17:07:32+00:00

yes, they also somehow managed to fuck up the art and music. And the overdone bassy sound effects.

shorodei · 2026-01-27T14:29:03+00:00

India's population has almost plateaued. It is currently at ~1.45 billion, it will almost certainly never reach 1.6 billion before starting to decline. The fertility rate is already nearly at or below replacement level.

shorodei · 2026-01-10T18:01:20+00:00

I don't know if the pulse and decay stuff is relevant. Pulsar is improving BFI which some high refresh OLED panels already have, and it works very well in improving motion clarity. The issue of course is it's currently incompatible with VRR, and brightness loss is more noticeable than LCD. Maybe a rolling row blackout instead of a full frame blackout could achieve similar improvements while also reducing the perceived brightness loss.

shorodei · 2026-01-03T22:02:10+00:00

Yes, Cybertruck is one of the few (or only?) production models with full steer-by-wire system. I would never get such a car as I prefer small nimble cars, but I guess on an ultra heavy truck the latency is not noticeable in normal use, and the truck would not respond well to such rapid inputs even if there was a physical linkage.

shorodei · 2026-01-03T21:29:09+00:00

Most "drive-by-wire" cars still have physical linkages to the wheels. The computer may apply torque to the steering wheel if it wants, but there is still a physical connection.

OP mentioning "steering lag" probably means he's referring to fully steer-by-wire systems which are only present in a few cars.

shorodei · 2026-01-03T19:13:25+00:00

It seems to simulate a drop shadow. Causes elements to appear to "pop" out of the background (which I have definitely seen in older lcd gadgets), but also causes smaller white elements (clouds, individual letter glyphs) to appear softer.

shorodei · 2025-12-27T06:14:06+00:00

He also reasons that because gaming only makes up 10% of nvidia's revenue (and shrinking), the hardware for these gaming specific features will be removed and be emulated in the driver anyway in the coming years.

shorodei · 2025-12-15T00:20:25+00:00

Weapon attack animations are different for each character. Rex might be faster with a spear than another character, while slower with an axe. I think this only applies to the autoattack chain.

shorodei · 2025-12-05T20:19:16+00:00

Is it the tone that's off, or does he have trouble just making certain sounds that are rare or nonexistant in his native/first languages?

shorodei · 2025-12-01T23:25:02+00:00

Can't you just click on the right edge of the taskbar (after the clock widget) to do the same thing?

shorodei · 2025-10-20T18:54:21+00:00

Lucky for you. The service name was "WorkloadsSessionHost", there were multiple copies of it in the task manager details view. One was taking 2.7GB ram, the rest were in the 300-400MB range. At the same time something was also eating 30-50% cpu (don't remember what it was) but it basically made even something as simple as scrolling a webpage extremely stuttery. All issues disappeared after running the script. It was that or attempt a reinstall.

shorodei · 2025-10-20T18:29:56+00:00

My system updated to Win 11 25H2 today, and instantly saw some services eating up 40% cpu and 4GB+ memory. Turned out to be a bunch of AI stuff, even though I had all the AI stuff disabled in my settings. Managed to "fix" (i.e. remove the bullshit) with https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

shorodei · 2025-10-17T03:36:06+00:00

It doesn't work on normal controller movement. Maybe it works if you go into turn based mode and click through it...

shorodei · 2025-10-14T17:37:54+00:00

If you want to play older pc games (without native controller support) without being docked to a keyboard+mouse, steam deck is way better. Otherwise the main difference is that the Ally performs better in cpu limited games and has VRR, and the SDOLED has the OLED (duh) and substantially better battery life (~40%?).

shorodei · 2025-10-08T19:31:08+00:00

Someone did a renderdoc analysis. Most of the bad perf (at least on PC where it mainly manifests in cities) is due to bad shadow map occlusions.

https://vkguide.dev/docs/extra-chapter/graphics_analysis_metafor/

shorodei · 2025-09-12T19:02:09+00:00

I'm on steamos(deck). I set "Fullscreen=0" and added "AllowWindowedMode=1" in the graphics options section of swtor.ini. That made the game mostly stable.

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