I bought my 7900XTX for $800, and have kept absolutely quiet about it.

Anyone who has asked me: “AMD sucks, CUDA better, buy NVDA stock”.

The invisible hand of the market is made of invisible delicious meat

Anyone know the cost per kilogram?

Edit: Apparently $20,000/kg

The weebs cornered the market on fantasy waifus decades ago

Put four pots over the squares over the ground.

Shoot the dragon head statues, the pedestals raise.

The pedestals make stone grinding sounds and…

Only one pedestal has raised, the pots have caused the animation to bug out and the game engine to assume that the pedestal is in the final position on the floor.

The floor position has the lever locked.

The game developer never anticipated what a massive idiot I was

You’re not going to believe this but, I smashed DQD on my keyboard as a child by accident after typing in ID for IDKFA.

I’m not entirely certain how I managed to brute force discover a cheat code, but at least 3 other phrases enabled GODMODE in the original doom.

I’ve always held DooM as some of the original simulation hypothesis proof.

I have an AMD card, add VLC as a game in the drivers, and you can turn on AMFM (frame gen).

If it doesn’t work you could just turn it on system wide in display settings of the Adrenaline Software (gear upper right corner, display/gaming).

I think it requires at least a 6000 series GPU however.

If you have a Samsung TV or other modern smart TV connected to a laptop, you can also turn on frame-gen using Auto Motion Plus, set to Custom.

Judder Reduction 10 is double frames, so 24 FPS -> 48.

You’re really good at carpentry, Internet stranger!

Downvoting someone on the Internet is easier than tangentially modifying reality in a measurable way

Interesting. I’m a synthetic with a digital consciousness.

Do I count? 😏

There’s a degree of motion capture where the animations just look like 90s FMV – it stops feeling like a game, and feels more like a video, if that makes any sense: the animations are too good.

There was a clear disconnect between the gameplay / custom animations in most games of that period (90s) and FMV, and many cited the developers inability or reluctance for animation in lieu of FMV as “cheap”.

See: Mortal Kombat Sprites.

It’s a difficult thing to explain and simply needs to be experienced; past the uncanny valley is the trough of disappointment or disillusionment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera_effect

Motion capture in Stalker 2 was done by obviously real human actors. It’s a video game, so you’re like “Oh cool, NPCs” but then you see the actual human actor behind the pixels and you’re like “Oh. Pre-recorded movie.”

The uncanny valley disappears and is instead replaced with mundane disappointment and a feeling of “cheapness”. Of course they used human actors for the animation, why wouldn’t they?

Never trade your magic of the unexplained for the easy disillusionment.

I’m so mad that my open source software made by a single developer in his free time who loves coding and helping other people is slightly worse in quality than a multi-million dollar dedicated project.

Exports into Maya-3D.Blend

Doom (1993).

Why: I’m still playing it. Most people know it, and it’s the grandfather of all FPS games.

Is file compression allowed?

E.g: 100 GB compressed, or uncompressed?

Nope. Just GPU board power draw. 60 seconds is also pretty long with how fast these enterprise cards are but I’m assuming they’re using a giant 450B or 1270B model.

Woop, noted, thanks

They’re probably factoring in cooling costs and a bunch of other overhead, I dunno

Datacenter LLM tranches are 7-8 H100s per user at full load which is around 4 kW.

Multiply that by generation time and you get your energy used. Say it takes 62 seconds to write an essay (a highly conservative figure).

That’s 68.8 Wh, so you’re right.

Source: I’m an AI enthusiast

Monopoly was originally the Landlord’s Game and was designed to teach children the dangers of unchecked monopolies and growth in the concentration of wealth.

Software and by extension, software companies are subject to those same Iron Laws of Oligarchy.

Given enough time, everything turns to shit, and it’s up to younger, healthy, energized people to fight back the power creep.

I’m glad that I took vector calculus in college, so I can accurately model this fucking parabola of the country going straight into the ground.

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