Seen it mentioned multiple times around Lemmy now, so I set up the community. Let’s hope my guess at there being enough of us around to get some races going is right.

Stick around.

I wanna try organising some online tournaments, since the multiplayer is otherwise pretty dead.

Also intermixed and partly interchangeable with play.

Yes.

But also push for policy that would enact laws to clip their wings, punish, and eventually either bankrupt or set them straight for real.

Valve didn’t do anything in particular for Elden Ring.

The way running windows games works on Linux just meant that compiled shaders got cached, so that when they were needed again, the game wouldn’t freeze for a split second while they were recompiled.

This process is necessary on the windows side as well, when using DirectX 12 or Vulkan. Most games will do this shader compiling in advance (during a loading screen), and cache them for later so that the GPU can run full tilt generating frames during gameplay, instead of pausing to compile shaders.

Elden Ring didn’t do this. It compiled shaders as they were needed mid-gameplay, then immediately discarded them instead of caching them. This meant it was constantly freezing to compile shaders as materials that used different ones appeared on screen. And it would keep happening as it didn’t keep compiled shaders around for the next time they were needed.

Only on Linux, there was an external cache in the system that was translating the games DX12 calls to Vulkan (VKD3D), which would just go “oh I already have that, here you go” essentially making the game work as if the constant compiling could be done instantly whenever needed.

Valve did provide the cached shaders as a download, compiled in advance, as otherwise you’d still get compilation stutters each time something on screen needed a particular shader for the first time. But Valve does this for all games.

Are you seriously suggesting that more advanced propulsion and suspension systems would eliminate the need for traction?

Have you ever ridden a bike on just the rims?

It sucks. And I don’t mean just in terms of comfort. There’s a reason mountain bikes with the most advanced suspension systems still need soft knobbly tires in addition to their suspension systems to do what they do.

Trains and trams are far more efficient large scale transport options, but cars and smaller personal transport options like scooters and bicycles have their place, too. Despite our current over-reliance on them, they aren’t useless. There are use-cases where they are the best option. The same goes for the tire.

The compliant tire is the best option for an off-rails vehicle. No, suspension cannot replace it, not in terms of cost (and I don’t mean money, I mean materials and energy) and especially not in terms of functionality.

That’s not how wheels work.

You can’t just ignore traction and claim you can make an effective vehicle of any kind with materials that don’t wear if only sufficiently advanced propulsion and suspension were applied.

Even on skateboards, warehouse vehicles, and similar, the wheel isn’t just a solid cylinder of metal or some other non-compliant low-wear material.

It’s a hard hub, wrapped in plastic, or rather, polyurethane. A compliant grippy material that serves a very important purpose in improving the performance of the wheel. You can’t replace a compliant wheel material with somehow better suspension. You still need it for grip, even on perfectly flat surfaces.

Trains make up for their low traction (and therefore high efficiency) with slow steady acceleration/deceleration and extreme weight. Their design principles cannot be applied to personal vehicles, which do serve their own purposes.

The adaptation is fantastic. It even elevates some parts beyond what is possible in manga, taking full advantage of the way animation, sound and music allow for more complex expression of a narrative.

The manga is also great, and worth experiencing. Having read it in no way ruined the anime for me.

The story is so insanely full of details that even if you don’t get into both manga and anime, whichever medium you prefer is worth watching/reading twice, just because you notice and put together new things on a second go.

Dungeon Meshi, or Delicious in Dungeon, is a renowned manga series by Ryoko Kui, and my personal favourite of all time.

The first half of an anime adaptation by Studio Trigger (of Kill la Kill and Cyberpunk Edgerunners fame) just wrapped.

It’s about a party of adventurers that lose one of their members deep in a dungeon, right before using a return spell to get all but that one member back to the surface to safety.

Having lost most of their gear, provisions and all of their funds, they resort to the taboo of eating the monsters they kill as they delve back into the dungeon to retrieve the remains of their lost companion, so they might revive her.

The entire story takes place within just this one dungeon, and is a masterclass in extreme-detail world building and lore. The same goes for the characters.

The series starts off at a slow burn, masquerading as a comedy with unusually intricate worldbuilding, but slowly develops into a phenomenal fantasy story that dives deep into its characters.

!dungeonmeshi@ani.social has been a huge success. And the monthly active user-count suggests there’s plenty room for subscriber growth still.

Now that the season is over, I suspect the people who don’t watch shows weekly will start joining, too. And season 2 will be even more great as then the community will already be around and have a user-base.

Can’t wait.

No it wasn’t.

Go check out the first few posts on !tenforward@lemmy.world to learn why. Essentially the startrek instance admin was power tripping, instance got abandoned by the main moderators and content contributors to get away from that.

It would be an age of anime content, because I’m going nowhere.

She’s always done VA work. Apparently starting with everquest in 02, and then Artemis in the original God of War in 05.

So that would have been during Farscapes production, and then during her time on Stargate.

You can’t go wrong with the extra-caring and friendly elf.

Thanks!

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Balatro, if anyone was wondering.

B-tree file system, actually.

I have no clue what could be causing that. I’d start looking into each link in the chain and making sure it’s working.

But any halfway reasonable config should be able to handle audio playback, no matter how lossless. Audio-only just doesn’t achieve datarates that would choke up… Anything.

Essentially, benchmark file transfers, transcoding, etc. Make sure each step of how it works is in fact working. Check drive SMART health… Whatever you can think of.

Also logs. No need to read through thousands of lines, but looking at the lines time stamped around when the issue occurs is always a good idea. FFMPEG logs, JF logs, client player logs, does SMB or whatever network drive protocol you’re using have logs? If it does, check em.

My contributing mostly happens in the anime community on Lemmy, but I’m so thankful to you guys.

Whenever I need some variety I come find a corner in tenforward to sit down and browse, and instantly my trekkie heart feels right at home.

Completely bonkers, and an absolute masterpiece?

This one will be… Interesting. Either for the right reasons, or the wrong ones. Either way… Interesting.