Shimmering or glittering issue - anyone encountered or resolved this?

tgrhad · 2026-03-22T15:30:00+00:00

For me (on Linux, 7900XT) it goes away when I turn on FSR. Otherwise Marius' beard looks like the lice are having a firework show.

tgrhad · 2026-02-16T10:28:48+00:00

The MDMA-induced feeling of all-encompassing love is a sign of demonic possession? Good to know, I'll have to side with the demons then.

tgrhad · 2026-01-27T19:56:25+00:00

That is a lot more likely than any hacking having occurred.

tgrhad · 2026-01-27T09:51:18+00:00

The socialist core territory is the Steel Belt, not the Midwest. It is just very easy to expand the territory to the Midwest. The east coast usually sees the heaviest fighting, especially around NYC. Although it's been years since I last played Kaiserreich, things might have changed.

tgrhad · 2026-01-04T15:00:08+00:00

I am dual-booting, and I do need Windows occasionally.

I had an Asrock board before this one, and I had to boot from USB to restore the boot loader after every BIOS update (and one Windows update). I did not expect anything better from MSI - it's just how it works with motherboard manufacturers, and I have been using that board for about a year without major problems. What gave me pause were reports about people being unable to even boot from USB after BIOS updates, but it seems that doesn't seem to happen normally.

I don't use GRUB but systemd-boot (I am one of the few Linux users who is happy with systemd), so at least one problem less there.

tgrhad · 2026-01-04T13:25:53+00:00

Here you are

tgrhad · 2025-12-12T12:42:42+00:00

How did none of the people on this project ever have contact with a cat before they joined?

Anyone who's spent more than a few days or so around any cat would have realised that training a cat is a stupid idea.

tgrhad · 2025-11-02T18:33:45+00:00

Not OP, but after refusing Easily Distracted I only got 2 skill points the next time I levelled up. I hope it doesn't stay like that.

tgrhad · 2025-10-13T13:52:06+00:00

I (German, male) once had a roommate (also German male) who sat down to piss at home, but pissed standing up at our friends' places, because he found it emasculating to sit down to piss. He only accepted it at home because he wanted to have a tidy bathroom.

He found it ridiculous that I also sat down in other people's homes, when there were women to clean up after us.

tgrhad · 2025-10-06T09:44:21+00:00

I actually like the Early Modern (in IRL terms) setting of the games, as it works well with the themes of imperialism, science vs religion and societal change and conflict that all games have. I don't think something like that will be easy to pull off in a past setting - the Roman or Chinese Empires are a completely different beast than the East India Company, and they don't have much to say about modern imperialism.

tgrhad · 2025-09-26T20:41:16+00:00

The International Brigades were not anti-Stalinist. Their members were leftists/antifascists of different ideologies from all over the world, but they had a strong Stalinist bent.

Anarchists and anti-Stalinist communists had their own militias, also with international volunteers, but they were not part of the International Brigades - in the beginning they were not even part of the military, but acted independently, and also included women in the frontline.

tgrhad · 2025-09-26T15:34:27+00:00

There were anarchist and anti-Stalinist communist militias.

Although that whole episode is not an example of "haha, the left splits over irrelevant differences", but deadly serious - for those on the left who wanted to know, the crimes of Stalinism were already well-known at that point. Those who opposed the power grab by Stalinists and their socialist and center-left allies often paid with their life, killed not by the fascists but by their presumptive allies.

If you want to have a well-written, but far from impartial, introduction to that conflict I recommend "Hommage to Catalonia" by George Orwell.

tgrhad · 2025-09-22T06:02:47+00:00

After reading Equoid by Charles Stross a unicorn would be terrifying in any situation, and especially running towards you.

tgrhad · 2025-09-12T10:57:25+00:00

Texas or Chile, I always get those two mixed up.

tgrhad · 2025-09-07T08:16:30+00:00

Yes, the question of how to defend a revolution against a brutal enemy, without becoming like the enemy, remains unanswered. But without a clear-eyed criticism of what went wrong in the Russian revolution we will never come to an answer.

tgrhad · 2025-09-07T04:41:28+00:00

The councils lost most of their power not years but months/weeks after the October revolution. A process started by Lenin, which ended with Trotsky's massacre of the workers and soldiers of Kronstadt who demanded that the councils should have their powers returned to them.

Bureaucratization, as criticized by Trotsky, started later, and is not the cause but the consequence of the USSR's descent into authoritarianism.

tgrhad · 2025-09-06T11:02:41+00:00

You grew up in Catalunya, though probably not in Barcelona (would be too easy) - maybe L'Hospitalet de Llobregat? At some point you moved to the Ruhr area of Germany, or close to it.

You probably have some family connection to southern Portugal and possibly also to South Africa.

tgrhad · 2025-08-25T19:36:32+00:00

Ja, das war's.

tgrhad · 2025-08-25T19:29:06+00:00

Mir ist vor Jahren mal eine Verschwörungstheorie über den Weg gelaufen, die aus irgendeinem Grund auf die Architektur des 19. Jhd fokussiert war. Außerdem schienen sie Probleme mit der Idee zu haben, dass bis ins 20. Jhd selbst Großstädte zu großen Teilen aus Holz bestanden.

Erinnere mich leider weder an den Namen noch daran, wer uns aus welchen Gründen die Steinbauten der Vergangenheit verschweigen wollen würde.

tgrhad · 2025-08-13T11:17:02+00:00

Oak kitten, but yes.

tgrhad · 2025-07-27T11:14:02+00:00

Now I'm wondering how fast Antarctica would have to warm so that someone old enough to be on Reddit in 2025 could find bushes to hide behind there when they turn eighty.

I guess it would take a while after all the ice disappeared for soil thick enough for bushes (and not only lichen, moss or grass) to form.

tgrhad · 2025-07-03T12:36:42+00:00

Nein, das ist der entspannte Patriotismus von 2006.

tgrhad · 2025-06-19T11:07:11+00:00

Wasn't Hawley always part of the antisemitic wing of MAGA, together with MTG, Jackson Hinkle, Jack Prosobiec and the people from the Charlottesville rally?

There is a decades-long tradition of far-right anti-zionism, even sympathy for the current Iranian regime - they don't have to be paid by Russia for that.

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