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The new police system is actually quite fun. Managed to bait larger group of Tyger Claws into a shootout with NCPD. Managed to kill one of the MaxTac squads, but a new arrived and I left, they're pretty hit point spongey and my ammo was running low. Does anyone know if there's a limited amount of MaxTac spawns, or are they going at you until you get bored and run away?

Our joke of a chancellor had a "hilarious" let them eat cake moment in the form of saying that he does not understand how a family cannot give their children a hot meal when a burger at McDonald's is only 1.4€. The difference being, of course, that he actually said that and there's proof in form of a video. Well, I guess he's also unlikely to be beheaded, but one can always dream, right?

It's not just Team Red. I also never miss an opportunity to kill @Hurlshot's buzz, for instance. Speaking of which, Starfield would have been a decent launch title for FSR 3, that game really could do with some better upscaling and plenty of older builds out there that would really benefit from frame generation fluid motion frames. On the other hand, well, I can't fault AMD for not trusting Bethesda with some new tech that needs a good launch. In Radeon related news, Scott Herkelman quit.

AMD's marketing is genius. FSR3 finally launches with massive delays, and the launch titles are... *drumroll* Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum.

Look on the bright side, if a freak accident during installation happens with AMD's drivers, it's completely bricking Windows, not just messing up the display output. Like I said, time to get an Intel GPU. Edit: Needless to say, if that issue keeps happening on several computers someone in your immediate family decided you're responsible for, then be my guest and swear off nVidia for the rest of your life.

I guess at this point it is clear that CDPR will never fix the graphics settings bug that keeps randomly applying different settings for no reason. Launched the game today and DLSS with Frame Generation was turned on, although the really interesting takeway from this experience is that I only noticed because there's noticable ghosting on airtraffic warning lights. Not playing with Pathtracing (or, as the game calls it, RT Overdrive), so it's not necessary.

Poor Fingers, always getting so much hate for providing affordable services to the working girls and boys of Night City.

Started a new Corpo V with Tech/Cool and later some Int (or maybe earlier if I feel like it) for the addon. Playing on hard, which so far is... not, although all I've done so far are NPCD scanner hustles and the gig where you steal back someone's eye, but even the larger organized crime hustles are not too difficult. The new grenade system is super powerful. Just as long as you stay mobile and don't run into an exposed area without the extra mitigation from sprinting perk it's fine.

Fair enough, not like I built my computer myself, but that was mostly laziness.

No, and no. You can always add RAM later, that is fairly easy to do, and there probably won't be a 4090 Ti anyway as AMD is giving nVidia no reason to release one. DIY might save you a pretty penny though.

Follow up to the French iRabbit episode.

The day that Star Wars died...

Time to fire one back after that... <redacted>.

It happens every now and then that posts repeat on the forum after a while, but it seldom does within the same thread. Although, well, this particular thread is a little long in the tooth, so that explains it, I guess.

This thread is decidedly more fun when nobody is on topic. Best thing to come out of Portugal: https://nuriartisanalsardine.com/produtos/?lang=en Feel free to disagree, but know that you're wrong. Tuna pizza is probably a staple everywhere, I think. Nothing wrong with that, although I prefer pasta with tuna, which is fantastic and easy to do. That doesn't count, mackerel in (tomato) sauce is great. Next to several cans of Nuri we always have some canned mackerel too. Generally don't put them on a sandwich though, usually just straight from the can with a kaiser roll or rye bread. Mackerels also make great Steckerlfische, don't let the silly purists tell you otherwise if you're ever in a place where you can get them.

I meant I got approval from Shadowheart, not that she said something about the doodling, sorry for being unclear.

I have done weirder things than to watch 172 episodes of a Star Trek show just for a guest star that shows up in three of them, and that relatively early on.

I regularily get enraged whenever I have to change something on my parent's Android phones. My father's phone in particular is always in danger of being smashed in a fit of rage because its pull down menu for some reason has a second pull down menu that contains settings not found in the regular settings menu of the phone. Because reasons. My mother's phone on the other hand hides settings menus behind on/off toggles. They're not just toggles, they're literally buttons you press to access the settings, say, you just turned on wifi, now there's no wifi settings menu to be found. Why? Because you have to press the freaking toggle to reveal the settings. It is a toggle. It should NOT also be a button to find a settings menu once toggled on. Never mind how difficult it is for my mother to access that menu, what with her Parkinson's disease, she's more likely to toggle something off than actually get into the menu she needs. Whoever came up with the user experiences on those phones should be retired, in the intelligence agency meaning of the word. You really can't do anything techincal on an iPhone, not even copy the pictures you take to your computer without using Apple's software for it. It is highly restricted and not all that customizable, which is fine for me because I treat my mobile phone as an oversized brick hat can also send text messages and can be used to sign documents and bank transactions online. Well, I also have Microsoft's authenticator app because I need that for work and pay parking fees with it. Every now and then I play Angry Birds.

Fixed that for you.

I recently migrated some low grade trash Android phone to a newer Samsung for a friend and the experience was not nearly as smooth as it was with the iPhone (turn on new phone, it automatically couples with the old one, you press one button, enter your password, set a pin code, done - zero configuration work on the new phone, except for telling them that they can stuff their touch ID some place where the sun don't shine ). Makes sense, given the wide range of Android devices available. Much easier to get easy migration paths done when you only support a limited amount of devices with a tightly controlled operating system. Not a dig at Android. I mean, the migration. I hate everything else about Android though, the system is a mess, especially on Samsung phones. Apple might be a creepy sect, but their phones have a settings menu that contains, well, all the settings you need. Android looks like the Windows 11 control panel in comparison, just without the search function that makes it easier to find the setting that you're looking for.

I did, recently. Well, almost. Began a rewatch of Star Trek: Voyager, and I found myself not minding that Janeway's got bipolar disorder and should be in a loony bin instead of the bridge of a starship. I also no longer mind that the writers had no idea what to do with Chakotay outside of focus episodes that smack of stereotypes. Heck, I even enjoyed the discount Klingon episodes, and what is the most damning, I sat through all of Threshold and thought to myself: "Yeah, that's stupid, but you know what, it is not as bad as I remember." I can already see myself liking Enterprise sometime soon. Maybe I won't even hate Wil Wheaton's guts in the near future. Nu-Trek is insidious. Like mirror universe root beer. I know. It's so dark, edgy...and unhappy. And you know what's really frightening? If you watch enough of it, you begin to like it. You know, I probably spent as much time making fun of the show here on the forum as I spent time watching it, and I had to look up the names of these characters to find an image. All they really are, in essence, from left to right: gayer, gay, and non-binary. That is the in-universe equivalent of Anthony Rapp only being known as the guy who was fondled by Kevin Spacey. They're making Chakotay look good. Help. Well, enough of being off-topic.

Waiting for @Azdeus to show up and tell us how is a national dish in Sweden.

Got myself a new phone after 7 years, was a good run for it, but the battery kept giving out, and even when fully charged only lasted a handful of hours in standby, without doing much. The "get a new phone" experience sure has improved in that time, at least there's something to be said about being stuck in Apple's sect-ish ecosystem. A quick bluetooth coupling, some minutes of copying the setup and files and you're done. Moved my netbanking access and my digital signature app for all bureaucracy related shenanigans to the new phone. Which is an iPhone SE 2022, by the way. I may have yuuuuge hands, but I prefer my devices small. It is a real pity that Apple's going to discontinue the SE line. The next one will probably have to be one of those bricks. Yuck.

I envy people who still have access to a good butcher in their vicinity. We used to have an award winning butcher close by, but he closed up shop a while ago. As did our small bakery, which survived by offering excellent products and great service. They had a breakfast subscription service, delivering your choice of freshly baked products (and milk, if you so chose) to your doorstep, somewhere between 4 and 5am. Sure, it was more expensive than going to the supermarket, but it was also much better and much more convenient. Led to much less wasted food too, as you could select the products you wanted for your daily delivery in just the quantities you'd usually need. The folks who ran the bakery retired, none of their children wanted to pick up the trade - no surprise there, not much material gain for very hard work - and they found no one else as successor either.