Incredible attention to detail, as always. I didn't get into Stardew Valley, but this looks like a nice mix of the original games, but with some sweet sweet SpiritFarer vibes. Sounds like it's months away, if not years though.

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I'm getting weirded out here... cos I've played this already. Was there a pre-release demo or something? I remember seeing it on Twitch, then getting it, and playing it (only one floor was available). But there's a mad-scientist mission half-way through, and I remember getting a crazy build of high-level sword-wielding dudes backed up engineer types that fired laser bolts!? All a bit hazy, but I've definitely played it.

Anyway - great game, loads of fun and I don't see it in my library any more, so I'll definitely be picking this up again.

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Pulseaudio 15 is now weirdly "meh", now that the world has re-focused on Pipewire instead. I suppose Pipewire still leverages PA under the hood though?

And yeah, looking forward to Pop_OS 21.10 now, albeit, I take their improvements with a pinch of salt these days, given that I'm a bit of a KDE convert!

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Quoting: StenPettHopefully, this will be a GPU people can actually buy.

I just checked scan.co.uk and they're taking pre-orders at just under £530 for the 6600XT card. Which is pretty insane considering I bought my (slightly more powerful) 5700XT in February 2020 for less than that. Considering how close the 6600XT is to the 5700XT, I wonder why they're pitching it as a 1080p card, when I think the 5700XT was pitched as a 4K card two years ago. And it does do well at 4K in a lot of games, but needs FSR (or equivalent) upscaling for the big, modern 3D games, such as Cyberpunk or Horizon Zero Dawn.

But it honestly feels almost irresponsible to launch a new card in these circumstances. All it feels like is splitting an already tiny stock of silicon between an ever larger range of cards you're only to sell to scalpers. I know I'm being extremely cynical, but the last two years have been an absolute car crash for GPUs. I can't see how this is at all healthy for the PC gaming market. Looks like 4K gaming now demands at least a grand of spend on the GPU alone.

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Quoting: M@GOidThat is very nice.

And by "nice", I'm sure you mean "absolutey insane!" (in a good way).

This reminds me of... Heretic? Or was it Hexen, where one of the three characters was a fighter that just went around hitting things with spikey gloves? One of my favourite characters in fact - one of the glove upgrades in late game gave you a vampiric effect which let you tank some of the most powerful enemies in the game one on one. Happy days.

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I have to admit - creative people blow my mind. I'm happy just internalising most stuff, and my outlet is humour and the fun I have with the people around me. Then I read about projects like this and it's just on a whole different level, you know?

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Quoting: aufkrawallWould you please not try forcing your opinion onto me? I personally can live with you being able to play with more than slightly degraded IQ.

I guess you had a typo here?

I can only hope so!! :cry:

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Quoting: aufkrawallWould you please not try forcing your opinion onto me? I personally can live with you being able to play with more than slightly degraded IQ. I found FSR to look terrible in every game, unlike DLSS 2(.2). You won't be able to change what I can perceive on my display...

Forcing...? What, like you're doing to me right now by claiming FSR looks terrible? I don't know what to say. Looks terrible for you - okay. I'm not arguing. I'm saying it looks amazing to me, and I provided video proof of that. Enjoy DLSS though - it's meant to be excellent.

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Quoting: aufkrawall

Quoting: scaineEh? FSR still works serious magic at both 900p and 720p upscaled to 1920x1080. As I said earlier, I'm playing Cyberpunk at 900p upscaling to 4K. There's definite degradation, but it's still stunning AND it plays at 60fps too.

It is not possible for it to look stunning, as the game's TAA is already kind of crappy in native 1440p.

Wrong. As my video proves. Absolutely jaw dropping game.

Maybe if you do like a frame by frame analysis, with side by side comparison of FSR vs native? Sure. But realistically, you won't notice, because you'll be immersed in a stunning 60fps world.

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Quoting: Guestyou appear to suggest that essentially their product not working properly is my fault and it's up to me to change my system to suit that product. That's obviously quite silly, and yet it's how I see the conversation going.

Ah, no. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that. My point is that Valves work on this target is open. You can alter your system to make it work if you choose, but that is indeed a hassle and my point is that you don't then get to complain that it's a hassle. That's like complaining that nautilus doesn't work on KDE without the "hassle" of adding about 200 KDE libraries to your system.

I was talking about people complaining of the hassle. Not attacking your right to chose your own O/S or distro.

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