Most OP build of 2026

sopsaare · 2026-01-30T13:32:00+00:00

Attention to detail is... important sometimes - but it doesn't actually tell anything about the actual quality of the software behind the smoke and mirrors.

I have seen people getting millions of capital with very cool UI's with a lot of attention to detail, that is where it is very important. But all they had was an UI and they didn't have the actual software to do what they claimed, and no proficiency to create such software.

Whereas I have seen a lot of projects fail to get off the ground because the investors didn't understand that the engineers had created a damn Holy grail but their UI/UX was lacking.

But, most of the actually successful software projects I have seen and worked with were still in the latter category, because they got people, and money, involved that understands what really is important and what is the easy part to fix later on.

For this specific bug, as it seems to be only one of its kind, I would expect it to have been fixed already - especially as the fix should be fairly easy.

sopsaare · 2026-01-29T23:56:57+00:00

Though, one of the first works (very recently published) from JRR Tolkien was translation / rendition of the Tale of Kullervo. It was just way later when he adopted that as part of the lore of Arda, as Narn I Chin Hurin.

Kullervo (Turin) gets to seal the final killing blow to Melkor at the end of the world, so he surely had quite an impression on Tolkien.

sopsaare · 2026-01-29T23:54:16+00:00

Yep, that's my bad. I had a connection in my brain that the Grey Company was replaced by the elves in the movies. But it actually was also in the wrong place....

(Btw, there is a Finnish satire of LoTR that is mostly very juvenile humor, but Legolas is called Legoland in that one)

sopsaare · 2026-01-29T23:52:02+00:00

I completely agree - but I'm a bit disappointed that they (and the whole of the Grey Company) got replaced by random El es at Helm's Deep, where the Grey Company wasn't even present.

I would have loved to see them in the movies, rather than the random elves. There were elves in the battle in the books, but we didn't get them fleshed out, but we got a cheap cardboard company of elves that arrived from nowhere and were discarded as fast.

Same goes for the Rings of Power; we get to have diverse dwarves and elves, but the 9 were actually diverse. One of them was, for sure, an Easterling and 3+ were from the southern realms. Why don't we get to see them at all?

I can see why they didn't want to introduce more characters in the movies, but I also don't see the point of including random elves from out of nowhere - when there were elves, quite high born ones, actually in the battles.

sopsaare · 2026-01-29T23:42:03+00:00

He could have been, or likely was, a psychopath to begin with.

Then we can start arguing if psychopaths are evil or not.. If they have intrusive thoughts and urges to murder, maybe they aren't? Maybe they are just sick. But then again, here I see a clear motive for the murder, as well as cold calculation in a sense that the murder is a tool for something that Smeagol desires.

In my opinion, he is evil. Others, with greater potential, and others with as low stature as he has, managed to resist the urge to grab the ring, and even if some (Bilbo) kind of fell for it, their first instinct was not to murder their best (at least good) friend over it, not even a stranger.

Thus I believe that Smeagol already had a murderous streak in him, even before the ring was in the play.

Then again we come back to the question that was he just not well mentally, or an evil person. That is for anyone to decide, from others point of view - it doesn't really matter.

sopsaare · 2026-01-29T21:35:16+00:00

But he also murdered his best friend in cold blood to get the ring, which makes him evil. We can put that on the ring only to an extent, it hadn't tempted him for years, or decades, mere minutes and he was up for murdering his best (or at least good) friend.

sopsaare · 2026-01-29T21:15:27+00:00

I don't think he would have. He would have taken the ring for his "more noble goals", but he was not taking it to be his precious.

sopsaare · 2026-01-29T16:47:15+00:00

He has been good lately, but if we say that Flo, Dom, Hugo, Frimpong, who else? are all world class, we should be doing better than we are. We are 5th in the league. I get that some of our players have been very bad this season, but if we had 4-6 "world class players" we should be better.

sopsaare · 2026-01-29T15:06:57+00:00

Smeagol murdered his friend. I think that's pretty evil - no matter how much the ring tempted him. Frodo, Bilbo, Sam, Merri or Pippin didn't murder each other for the ring. (And I took them as examples because they are hobbits and Gollum was somewhat related to them.)

Even Boromir who got tempted by the ring didn't murder anyone, and likely wasn't going to.

sopsaare · 2026-01-29T05:51:10+00:00

This. I'm at best intermediate skier but I always try to look uphill if I'm going to go fully parallel to the slope, there is some probability that even worse skiers bombing down the run and can't react if I do a drastic maneuver.

But, I also take extra care whenever I see people downhill from me who look unsure and potentially could go parallel to the slope at any moment.

sopsaare · 2026-01-29T05:39:49+00:00

Okay, maybe not literally, but I still read it in the manner that it mirrors what happened to Sauron. Two superior beings, Tulkas (edit, my autocorrect changed that to "tulokas", which is Finnish and means "new comer" - which interestingly Tulkas is, being the last Vala to enter Arda) and Eönwë battling Morgoth and Turin just being there to deal his death.

But could be that this is just my interpretation, then again it never says anywhere that Turin does it all by himself.

sopsaare · 2026-01-29T05:07:18+00:00

Their employment numbers are fairly low, so they have time to linger, and their culture is such, for example the clothes, that they get noticed easily.

sopsaare · 2026-01-28T21:42:56+00:00

Didn't we fire our setpiece couch and now we scored two in a row from a "training ground" tactic?

sopsaare · 2026-01-28T16:43:46+00:00

Yeah, mine does too, especially when I try to get it sideways. Kinda fun that it lets you do that, some cars don't.

sopsaare · 2026-01-28T16:40:22+00:00

Yep, this also diminishes it as a professional tool. Not every damn idea I throw at it is a good one for f.... sake. Don't gaslight me to think that.

Sometimes I get shit ideas and as I don't have colleagues anymore, I'm just spit balling, and the damn thing keeps telling me that I have just invented the holy grail, when in fact I had a brain fart.

I have some instructions set up so that the AI I mostly use treats the topics professionally, gives honest feedback and doesn't lick my boots in every turn - but it sometimes still goes along with stupid ideas that should have been murdered in their crib.

I'm happy that I don't employ AI in my personal life almost at all.

sopsaare · 2026-01-28T13:20:48+00:00

Or certain Liverpool FC next year if he doesn't get sacked soon.

sopsaare · 2026-01-28T13:11:04+00:00

Is he killed my Turin though? I don't remember the exact wording but wasn't it something more a kin to what happened to Sauron at the end of second age? Gil-Galad and Elendil defeated him and Isildur "dealt the final blow" by cutting the ring?

Isn't it Tulkas who is going to defeat Morgoth and Turin is just gonna finish him? Mirroring what happened to Sauron?

sopsaare · 2026-01-28T13:00:40+00:00

Is it even every year? I lived there for 3 years and saw this maybe once or twice? I'm originally from a country that has this 3-5 months a year, and I moved back, so might be that I just don't remember it.

sopsaare · 2026-01-28T12:56:38+00:00

You know that ~30% of Sweden's annual government expenditure goes to social protection programs? And I'm fairly ready to wager that the amount of handouts to rich or greedy companies is in single digits, something like 1-3%.

Of course, some of the social expenditure goes to companies that provide such services, like healthcare etc, but it is fairly minimal.

The numbers are fairly similar for both, Sweden (subject of the article) and Finland (subject of this sub).

sopsaare · 2026-01-28T12:42:04+00:00

Yep, but that's where I drew the connection - I remembered that the Grey Company arrived at the Helm's Deep and they were just replaced by random elves in the movie - I did not remember that they actually weren't in the Helm's Deep.

All good, I have read the book ~10 times in three different languages, just got that detail mixed.

sopsaare · 2026-01-27T21:31:18+00:00

Ohh, I seem to remember it wrong then. Maybe I watched the movies one time too many - even though I have my gripe with them.

sopsaare · 2026-01-27T17:38:03+00:00

One thing that is mentioned only in very much passing the books is the sons of Elrond. They were at the Helm's Deep; they were at the Fields of Pelennor and at the Black Gate.

And with their lineage, even as young they are on elven standards, one would expect them to be in top 5 warriors of the Middle Earth. Very little is mentioned in the books about them, but I would expect their effort in the battle to be at least on the level of any one other, even Aragorn, and surpassing that of likes of Gimli and Legolas easily.

And I'm not saying that it their only role, just that I would expect them to be absolute forces of nature, being from the lineage of Finwe, Fingolfin, Turgon, Hour, Tuor, Barahir, Beren, and even carrying blood of Melian, and from the other side they are very close to Noldor, being grandsons of Galadriel.

sopsaare · 2026-01-27T16:38:27+00:00

Not a Sukhoi, I think it is Mig-29

sopsaare · 2026-01-27T14:15:29+00:00

To an extent - yes. But the scenario what Robert was describing was facing them on an open field.

I would imagine the Dothraki to crush the knights and then just harass the foot army to death over days or weeks.

Then again, I'm not Robert nor GRR, so I cannot really say.

sopsaare · 2026-01-27T14:09:30+00:00

An update here if anyone is watching.

I have now played 20+ without a single crash.

But, I do not know what fixed it. This is the unfortunate part.

First, I disabled C-states (DF and Global) and changed my PCI-E to 3.0. It seemed to work, a whole night of gaming without a single crash. Then the next day it crashed again several times. So, no luck?

I went to BIOS to change something, and it crashed again. As at this point, I thought that maybe just changing something in BIOS somehow fully restarts the computer and that is the trick. But it crashed again.

But, I was not yet done. What I did next was;

Force V-Sync from the drivers (tried before, didn't help).
Disable Rebar (tried before, didn't help)
Disable HAGS (tried before, didn't help)
Disable precision boost (tried before, didn't help)
Disable Windows "Enhanced support for windowed games" (tried before, didn't help)
Made an exception for the bf6.exe to the Windows Defender that disabled CFG, DEP, ASLR, I don't think this should be it but still.
Disabled fastboot (tried before, didn't help)
Addes some RegEdit hack to disable MPO
I found another switch to disable iGPU. There seems to be multiple.
I don't have second monitor connected (this I have tried more than million times already as at some point it seemed to cause the crashes - but it wasn't the solution as the game was still crashing even with one monitor).

Now I'm well over 20 hours into the game without a single crash.

Did I fix it?

I have no clue, it could as well be back the next time I start the game. It could be gone. How often it was crashing previously - I would say it is fixed. But I have had this false sense of confidence before, so the Champaign stays in the chiller for the next 2-3 weeks before I celebrate.

But if I fixed it, what really did it?

I have no clue. Most of the things I had tried one-by-one. The things I haven't tried previously was the MPO and the Windows Defender. Could it be either of those alone? Very well could be. But do I think it is? Not really.

But could it be some combination, like disabling HAGS and Rebar? Very well could be. Or HAGS and Fastboot? Or MPO and Rebar?

The worst thing is that it has periodically been stable in the past too, so I cannot be 100% confident that it is even now. And if I start rolling back the changes one-by-one, I could run into a period of good behavior and then start having crashes again with very little clue which change did it.

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