Didn't we functionally ban all protests under Borris? something about them not being allowed if they inconvenience anyone in any way real or imagined so really you can only have them if you do it alone in a dark closet very quietly, or get permission in which case its not a protest.
Got my 9070XT at retail (well retail + VAT but thats retail for my country) and my entire PC costs less than a 5090.
I think DLSS (and FSR and so on) are great value propositions but they become a problem when developers use them as a crutch. At the very least your game should not need them at all to run on high end hardware on max settings. With them then being options for people on lower end hardware to either lower settings or combine higher settings with upscaling. When they become mandatory they stop being a value proposition since the benefit stops being a benefit and starts just being neccesary for baseline performance.
Setting up gates needs exceedingy comlex calibration to account for all the intervening gravitational anonomlies, you could still do it for crew rotation with a lot of effort though the power requirements for actually running a gate, let alone all the test fire to get it calibrated in the first place just for this one crew rotation would put that firmly in 'not in the budget' territory. The normal procedure is more like a colony mission with the crew at the end having to spend several years to set up infastructure at the other end to make the gate opperational. On the bright side one trip pretty much sets you up for life in terms of payment.
iirc Europe was already the majority supplier of arms at this point but the US is/was vital in a few key areas where Europe just doesn't have the manufacturing capacity yet (They're working on it but it takes time to build a whole new MIC)
It always amazes me how radical leftism keeps moving further right. Once upon a time radical leftism meant UBI and immediate radical action on climat change. Now 'radicall' leftism is anything left of squads of armed men kidnapping people off the street.
Visual proofs can be deceptive, e.g. the infinite chocolate bar.
So this is more SciFi but the fundementals work for fantasy.
Gates, and gates only so the first time someone has to slowboat it which is either an epic lifetime journey or a sacrifice of your place in time to relativistic travel depending on the genre in order to set up a gate at the destination. The gates then function as a classic folding of space between them, not to zero but such that a multi-lightyear trip is reduced down to an internal length of just a few miles.
This is all fine when everything works, though if the gate shuts off mid transit you can end up with a whole fleet trapped in the intervening void until its turned back on, or worse a nefarious actor who gains control of a pair of gates may even expand the intervening space rather than shrinking it, trapping their victims not just in deep space, but in an ever expanding volume that can't be escaped even with near light-speed travel.
Yeh but those local models are usually pretty underpowered compared to the ones that run via online services, and are still more demanding than any game.
He's gonna die, calling it now he's gonna have a tragic accident or sudden 'suicide'.
A bunch of religous people who were welcomed into multiple countries but then got mad that everyone around them didn't belive in their exact same religon they did so they found a new place and committed some genocide before building up a mythology about how they had to do it in order to flee religious persecution?
So following on from my last post I'v now tried again, this time using Rufus to make my boot USB rather than balena etcher which despite being reccomended is apparently problematic. I also downloaded and verified a fresh install of the cinnamon ISO.
Result is uh....
Failed to open \EFI\BOOT\mmx64.efi - Not Found
Failed to load image (windows symbol): Not Found
Failed to start MokManager: Not Found
Something has gone seriously wrong: import_mok_state() failed: Not Found
This happens when trying to boot from the USB so its actually worse than last time where the demo environment worked but it kept crashing on attempting a proper setup.
PC in question is a small notebook with no discreet GPU to speak of (Intel integrated graphics) that I've been hoping to use as a testbed before comiting to Linux on my main PC.___
Ok this one blew me away, its another little no parkour required area and this time with multiple fairly obvious yet inconspicuous entrances, beyond being pretty this one has some pretty strong cut-gig vibes.
One entrance hidden behind a Trauma team AV, I later found prettier entrances but I'm not booting up the game with all my mods again. Its pretty winding down there but you can find a small un-marked scav event as article of evidence #1.
Star of the show is this pit, equidistant from pretty much all entrances and with a clearly deliberate parkour path all the way down.
Its a looooong way down, there's also a dead guy with a lore shard down here and a weird red fan that I all the garbage slopes into like it was meant to be some kind of entrance.
This elevator has no useable floors but otherwise appears to be completely functional, even the doors work.
Map location of one entrance for convenience.
So I stumbled upon another cool little spot that's totally easy to overlook despite all of us having certainly passed it dozens of time. its another great example of verticality with a little village of shops and homes tucked into the shadowy spaces between buildings, it even has a little scene with a lore shard if you explore all the way to the bottom.
From above we can see just how far the rabbit hole goes, with the deepest part being accessable by ladders just under the pipes on the left.
It's dystopian as hell but damn this place has a vibe, wish V could have an apartment here.
Looking up from the lowest inhabited section the sky is barely visible under all that concrete and steel.
Just a map location:
Which is the point, the last time the UK protested in a big way people were brutally masacred by the government.