Quoting: Brisse

Quoting: jens

Quoting: BrisseFacing Pontiff Sulyvahn at level 1 as we speak :)
Pretty insane when even the common mobs in Irithyll kills me in one hit :D

At lvl 1? Did you start with a new character and went till this guy without leveling up?!?

Yup :)
Died to him four times now so I'm gonna take a break and give it another shot tomorrow.
And by level 1 I actually mean level 8 because that's the starting level so you can't actually be level 1 in this game.
No co-op partners around to rely on either because matchmaking won't allow to call in sunbros that are at a significantly higher level. I guess there aren't many level 1 sunbros around :)

Quoting: BrisseFacing Pontiff Sulyvahn at level 1 as we speak :)
Pretty insane when even the common mobs in Irithyll kills me in one hit :D

Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: axredneck

Quoting: x_wing... native ports ... Feral ...

Are Feral ports really much more native than playing using Proton?

Of course they are, you won't find any windows dll or PEM executable on a Feral port AFAIK.

Don't know why people puts a library wrapper at the same level as a OS wrapper (or middleware). In the former you can work on micro-optimizations and even refactor a full part of the code if you fell it's necessary, while in the latter you just can hope to get "the best" perform implementation of your API for your current platform.

Also, if you'll keep getting so "technical" in what is and what is not, you can get into the conclusion that even a game that works on a multiplatform engine is not a native.

Quoting: mrdeathjrIn this proton version

Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing

....

^_^

Quoting: XpanderThere are actually more platinum ones as some people report issues with really outdated drivers or have distros that doesn't have file description limits increased to use esync.

Quoting: BrisseGot 165 hours according to Steam. Completed the game three times (NG+3) with my main character and did quite a lot of multiplayer as well. Levelled up my character a bit too much (lv181) which I regret because it affects multiplayer matchmaking. People who make pvp characters and such tend to aim for lv120.

Quoting: BrisseIf it gets too frustrating, make sure your weapon is upgraded as much as possible as it makes a huge difference. Maybe pop an ember and summon some sunbros to help out, although be aware that bosses are buffed when you call in phantoms. Manage the stamina bar and don't get greedy. Maybe try and change up your strategy, like rolling instead of blocking. Blocking costs a lot of stamina and rolling gives you a few invincibility frames so if it's timed right you don't take any damage even if it looks like you are getting hit.

Quoting: BrisseFor you Proton warriors out there I can recommend Dark Souls II: SotFS and Dark Souls III at 75% off.

Edit: Praise the sale!

Quoting: GuestEon is slightly worse than that, but it's still miles ahead of wine/proton, since it is at least standalone. As the Proton database grows, the costs of proper support will grow - as each wine version can break previously working games. It is why tools like Playonlinux existed for far longer than proton.

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: jens

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI've never talked to Mussolini, and yet I feel fairly confident in calling him a jerk and reject the idea that it is cheap to do so.

If people's actions and statements are on the public record one can often be quite justified in forming judgements about their character without actually meeting them. I don't personally know whether the information about NVidia management is such as to justify such a judgement, but it certainly could be; insisting personal contact is needed is just mistaken.
And actually contrariwise, it's also possible to have met and talked to someone and not have the information you would need to determine whether they're a jerk. So personal contact is neither necessary nor sufficient for knowledge of jerk-hood.

Well, yes and no ;)
Your statement is technically completely correct and you have effectively proven that my statement is wrong. :)

That said, my opinion is still that I grant people the advantage if I don't know them. Lets say "innocent until proven guilty". Furthermore I draw quite a clear distinction between judging actions of someone "his actions are jerky" versus judging the person itself "he is a jerk". Actually I'm quite sensible on this, may be that's why my reactions here were quite strong. I do agree that there are actual jerks out there that deserve to be called jerks. Though I'm pretty convinced that the typical manager of a company is doing the best in his capabilities to help his company and his team to prosper. There are most likely jerks among them, but as stated, I prefer to grant advantage and prefer not to judge the person based on actions that seem jerky to me or anybody else. I'm fine with calling some action jerky, but I prefer to keep the respect of the actual person until there is really no way to misjudge like with your example.

Related to that a question, how offending is the word "jerk"? I, non native English speaker, would give it lets say a 6 on a scale from 1 (like you would talk with kids when they behave somewhat clumsy) to 10 (very offending). Is this correct?

On a side note: I understand that your example was to effectively highlight your point and not to compare a random NVidia manager with Mussolini. With the last US election I decided for myself to skip pseudo comparisons with actual criminals of mankind. During that time you could read quite some columns of people that compared the new US administration with the German Nazi regime. As a response to that I read in another column that no matter how "evil" one thinks of the new Potus, he is not and will most likely never be a mass murderer of millions of people. That is a completely different magnitude. Any comparison like this will not paint a better picture of what to expect in the future but will only soften/weaken the crimes of the Nazi regime and hurt the victims of that time.
I decided for myself to keep that in mind. As stated, I did not read that comparison in your statement, but I thought I would share this.

Fair enough.
Jerk is fairly mild . . . I suppose it depends who you're talking to, but I might rate it a 5, or even a 4. It's not a cussword, for one thing. And I'd probably consider it milder than "creep", and certainly milder than "scum". It suggests an unpleasant, deliberately inconsiderate person, but not deep immorality or massive inferiority. Someone who would inconvenience other people in traffic so they can move two car-lengths ahead is a jerk.

As to the political thing . . . (spoilering because it's OT and will probably bore most)

Spoiler, click me

it has certainly become all too common for people, apparently seriously, to make that comparison, which does devalue it. Saddam was Hitler, Ahmadinejad was Hitler, Assad was Hitler, Gaddhafi was Hitler, Putin is Hitler, now Trump is Hitler. And I'd have to agree that Trump is . . . no more likely than any other president of the United States to become responsible for the deaths of millions of people. Which is to say, only moderately likely. I believe George W. Bush's total in Iraq if you count all excess deaths from the Iraq invasion is around a million, while Clinton's sanctions on Iraq killed around half a million children (which was not disputed by his secretary of state, but deemed "worth it"). It's unclear just how many Obama did in in Libya, Afghanistan etc. but not a huge total by US presidential standards. The Vietnam war killed a couple million Vietnamese (and Laotians and Cambodians), but that was spread over multiple presidents. So I'm not aware of any individual president that could singlehandedly have millions, plural, ascribed to their account. Trump, for all his failings, seems no more aggressive, and sometimes less so, than the general US foreign policy consensus, so unless he actually goes for an invasion of Iran I'd say millions are pretty unlikely.