It’s really uplifting when you put it that way, yes

Here’s to hoping some of you out there can get this card into your rig at MSRP.

As someone with 5,000 hours logged into virtual reality as of 2025, your comment leaves me a little confused. 😵‍💫

You mean “VR Ready” as like, a marketing terminology, right?

Because high-quality, full-body motion tracking virtual reality is available to everyone today for around $3,000-$5,000. It used to cost $140,000 in 1996.

I wait and let everyone figure out what the least broken Linux distro is.

Debian is stable. Stable is good, for an operating system; because I actually want to use my computer.

Not play with the operating system for 4-6 hours per day.

It means your driving coworker was thinking about you the entire time while driving and wishing you went on the ride with them :)

The enormous irony here would be if the author used a generative tool to write the article criticizing them, and whoever commented that he doesn’t get the point is exactly right – it’s like 6 to 10 pages of analogies to unrelated topics.

Hello – living incarnation of the Internet here.

I’ve played pretty much every shooter and most multiplayer ones since 1994.

The main issue with extraction shooters is that they are hardcore PvP-focused with resources lost and resources gained on every match.

Given that players lose actual lifetime from dying to another player in an extraction shooter, this creates an impetus for many players to cheat, given the asymmetrical distribution of skill in online shooters (it is statistically supposed be a perfect bell curve with everyone being average).

Without robust anti-cheat (e.g: Invasive kernel-level AC like Valorant/FaceIT and borderline malware) every and any extraction shooter becomes a cheater-ridden hellhole, where all of the resources of every match or map are funneled into the hands of a few players.

Players burned on prior titles know this ahead of time and throw their hands up in the air and say: “Great, another shitty extraction shooter”.

See: Tarkov et al.

I have FSR working (Win10+ AMD 7900XTX), but it’s obvious that they have screwed the pooch in optimization.

I just finished Doom: Eternal yesterday before the Dark Ages came out and it ran fully maxed out at 1440p @ 240 FPS without upscaling and was gorgeous.

Dark Ages looks pretty much the same as Eternal, but runs at 120-144 FPS.

That’s still absolutely playable but how did it lose 50% performance in an IDTech game?

You’re absolutely correct, I had a similar experience

I played CS for roughly the same amount of time; my clan ranges from DMG to Global, but we had a rule that if you were in the clan, we’d 5-man with you regardless of your rank, so if you were Silver, you’d have a chance to rub elbows and learn strategies from the higher skilled players.

Then we got a Global, a girl named Moon.

Holy hell, it’s like people’s brains did a 180°, they were incredibly mean to her, for no reason, and eventually it came out that she was trans, and they bullied her even worse, out of the server.

I kicked everyone who bullied/demonized Moon for being trans; because at the end of the day, it was about being a honest human being, and not just a CS player/gamer.

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

Oh, I finished it already and got the true ending.

Just like Stalker 1, it pays to not blindly run at quest markers and make up your own mind.

The game is a treat, but struggles to run on many systems, so my recommendation is the following:

FSR 3.1: Quality (66% resolution scale)

Frame Generation: On

AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2: On

1440p Epic on a 7900XTX averages 60 FPS in busy towns like Rostok.

60 FPS Native -> 120 FPS FSR 3.1 -> 240 FPS AFMF

I’ve got a 240 Hz OLED (for the dark scenes), and the total video draw latency with all of that is 3.11 ms.

I bought STALKER 2, a masterpiece of post apocalyptic fiction and storytelling.

I was running the game on launch, an old friend calls me up on Discord, and says:

“So how is it?”

I say: “I don’t know yet, I just got to the first town past the tutorial.”

He says: “No, I mean the multiplayer.”

I lost the ability to think for a good 30-60 seconds trying to formulate the right string of words to respond with, from the psychic damage he’d inflicted with the presumption that it was a live service multiplayer game.

I think capitalism has weaponized brain rot into profits. As long as people open their wallets and not their brains, things will continue as planned. We’re literally paying for it.