Are they doing a rip-off of the styling of the newer Mad Max series? I am personally waiting for waiting for a more focused rip-off of the newer Dune movies (I know they have a fake sandworm, but I am looking for more low quality copying).

Not to mention you still have releases like Caves of Qud.

I’d say remaster to remake exists on spectrum. On one side you can have a “strict” remaster with graphical / modern compatibility updates and bugfixes, on the other side you can have what is essentially a different game, but one with common gameplay/themes/narrative. And then you have everything in-between.

Haven’t played the original, so it’s difficult for me to accurately judge, but I think this is some what universal.

There were several games like that for me when I was growing up in the 90s and early 2000s. :)

Even FB games are having a retro revival moment! 2007 was almost 20 years ago!

Who is downvoting this? It’s an excellent (and funny) long form interview/discussion.

Will try it out! Cheers!

Not at all, but I do like to improve the graphics, add minor expansions, combine New Vegas (the in-game city) into a more coherent whole, and add UI/UX improvements and a whole lot more.

Perhaps things are easier these days, but it took a lot of time to make everything work well the last time I replayed New Vegas.

This sounds awesome!

This looks cool!

The funny thing is even the pro-putin russians would be extremely suspicious of the tankie rhetoric (while appreciating the support for gencidal imperialism and rejection of self-determination for occupied nations) due to sheer level of disconnection from reality.

Now cite CIA article about how food quality in 80s USSR was better than the US.

This is typical tankie “BIA conspiracy” gibberish, albeit with a more cunning duplicitousness.

I’ve lived in 5 countries across 3 continents, so I do have some perspective on this.

The first point is finding out local immigration laws, even if you don’t need a tourist visa, you will need legal authorization to stay in a country on a more permanent basis.

Which brings me to my second point, you need local employment to get authorization for permanent stay (or proof of above average independent income).

Another option is to go study in a country. This is expensive and you will need to win scholarships if you don’t have a lot of money. Countries always try to make money on foreign students.

Another option is to teach English, but this is likely harder than it used to be (15 years ago or so). Although it is worth exploring this opportunity, unlikely to work for EU though.

Do you have any relatives in other countries? Close friends?

I will speculate it’s going to be difficult to move to Netherlands if you don’t have family or a skillset that is in high demand.

I would explore developing countries where you can likely get a good job (by local standards, so $1,000 to $2,500) if you have a degree and some solid work experience.

CIA backed coup attempt

Haha

Very cool!

I believe Cyberpunk 2077 was a success. 35 million units and $750+ M revenue.

Haha, that’s pretty shit level software. Usually it took a little bit more effort than that to just kill it in task manager.

Very 80s/90s cybperunk.

You misunderstand, I don’t have any allegiance to Intel/AMD or ARM or Apple.

I am interested in factual reality though. This is not about Qualcomm versus AMD or whatever. It’s common sense. If you have a use case (e.g. x265 encode or god forbid an AV1 encode) that takes many hours, you laptop is going to suffer due to cooling issue. This is even true for an ARM laptop versus an ARM desktop.

I think the results you mention back up what I said?

So you’re saying that throttling after 5 min is not an issue with MT (or even ST) workloads?

I would be happy to be proven wrong (I am not kidding), but I would need solid proof from a 3rd party.

No offence, but random claims online is not how it works.

Mind you, I am not saying you or your friend are lying. There are likely other factors at play.

I thought you said your friend used applications not benchmarks. You know something like x265 encoding, AI video upscaling, mining XMR (CPU based crypto) or complex single-thread dependent strategy games; I say this as someone involved in computers for hobbies and leisure, not in a professional manner.

No offence, but what you are saying does not sound convincing in the least.

A high level X Elite GB6 ST/MT score is around 2,800 ST and 14,300 MT.

A high level 5950X GB6 ST/MT score is around 2,400 ST and 14,300 MT.

And this is a short GB benchmark (i.e. not sustained for hours on end).

You’re saying if I give you a complex (lots of water, storms, seas) 2+ hour BD source to encode into x265, your friend’s X Elite laptops won’t start to throttle in ~5 min and it will complete it in the same time as your 5950X? You’ll have to provide proof.

But he’s been using it for a while now and says everything works just fine. Replacing a big box workstation with a thin and light notebook and have it perform better is pretty wild.

Some specifics would be interesting. What applications were being used on the big box workstation?

But I do have a result screenshotted of 27.9 in Speedometer 3.0

Not aware of Speedometer 3.0, this does seem like a very solid result, but what does it show? Do you have any context on it? This is the first time I’ve encountered this particular benchmarks, would be interesting to hear about what it means.