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I could legit see a future where once we figure out scalable lab grown meat, we unlock access to all the endangered and exotic meats as well. Guilt-free giraffe meat might be delicious!

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    The remastered trilogy is true to form if you haven’t played it. Visuals are truly “as you remember it in your head”. Also fully remixed soundtrack you can choose to turn on or off. I loved the original and still prefer the new soundtrack.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    I was actually going to mention this. I think Spyro 2 really perfected this because I can 100% that one in about 1-2 weeks of casual play. The first one always looked and felt a bit unrefined and had a few too many rough edges compared to the second imho.

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    Hard disagree. There’s a reason pro equipment still exists. Digital noise suppression is still noticeable in comparison to analog. It’s always better to start with a higher quality analog source and do the least amount of digital processing after.

    Now, this is with the caveat that someone in an already isolated room with good acoustics can get away with a much cheaper microphone sounding comparable, but give some reflective surfaces in a room and make it non-symmetrical and now the advantage starts to amplify for good source audio.

    Source: I’ve done audio production for a few stage plays and produced an album.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    I’ve been frustrated with Lemmy’s trend of downvoting people when they struggle to tell if something is slop. Usually it’s from some genuinely trying to learn how to spot the giveaways. What does downvoting someone trying to learn accomplish?

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    It’s not much, but it’s mine!

    I managed to get it clean, restrung and learned how to tune it. I’ve spent the last couple weeks just practicing the chromatic scale and just started learning some basic chords yesterday.

    I started with the trumpet in high school and then went on to do digital music production as a hobby for ten years and even managed to produce my own album.

    I realized a lot of the tracks on my album had guitar elements and it dawned on me that I could eventually work to make those my own actual recordings rather than synthesized.

    So I’m already familiar with the slow burn process of learning a new instrument and I’m already seeing massive progress from the first time I picked it up. Here’s to the next decade of learning a new instrument!

     

    I’m looking for a community to share game worlds. Currently working on a Planet Coaster 2 park, but would also like to share things from my factory games and other creative game spaces like Minecraft. Any communities specifically for things like this? I was thinking c/artshare, but haven’t seen anything similar there, so thought I’d check here.

     

    I've clocked over 750 hours and have been an on-and-off player since 2015. I spent the last month powering through exobiology to be able to pick up my very first Drake-Class Fleet Carrier. Absolutely blown away by the amount of complexity to this mechanic and looking forward to kitting it out for its maiden voyage to Colonia.

     

    I have been experiencing a horrible laggy stutter at all times during gameplay in several of my games. I mostly focused on a game that I know should run incredibly well, Elite:Dangerous. Elite is also by far the worst offender on my list. Most other games that stutter are minor, but Elite is completely unplayable in any area remotely populated. See this video to demonstrate: (link) This test in this video was done without any Proton flags and was using the default compatibility option, but all of the changes below either completely prevented the game from launching or made it run exactly the same.

    It's also worth mentioning that this is the best it gets. In actual missions, it will drop to below 10 FPS average sometimes with half a second between frames. Oddly enough, when increasing the resolution and graphics settings, the performance is almost identical.

    My computer was able to run this game at a buttery-smooth ~100+ FPS at 4K Ultra under Windows most of the time and handled VR like a champ. The issue under Proton affects several games. Here are just a few examples of games that should be more than fine on my system and worked well under Windows. I also made sure to let shaders compile both at game launch and in-game if applicable for each of these. The amount of stutter varies wildly from game to game, but these all share similar symptoms:

    • Elite:Dangerous
    • Spider-Man (Original, MM and 2)
    • Forza Horizon 4
    • BeamNG.Drive (DirectX and Vulcan)
    • Uncharted 4
    • GTA V Enhanced
    • Planet Coaster 2

    I also have several games that run completely fine on Ultra settings or have nearly imperceptible stutter (albeit with some DLSS in places):

    • Just Cause 3
    • Cyberpunk 2077
    • God of War: Ragnarock
    • Crysis 2 Remastered
    • Teardown
    • DiRT 4
    • Just about any indie game
    otacon@bazzite:~$ fastfetch
                                                otacon@bazzite
         %%%%%%====%%%%%%%%%%            
       %%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%             󱋩  bazzite-deck-nvidia:stable 
      %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%           󰣛  Bazzite
      %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%###           Linux 6.17.7-ba20.fc43.x86_64
      %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%######        󰅐  20 hours, 38 mins
      ==                  =======######  
      ==                  =========#####      󰾰  B760I AORUS PRO (-CF)
      %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%####======#####     󰻠  12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12600K (16) @ 4.90 GHz
      %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%#######=====#####     󰍛  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 [Discrete]
      %%%%%%%%%    %%%#########=====#####       7.09 GiB / 31.09 GiB (23%)
      %%%%%%%%%    %%##########=====#####       1.63 TiB / 1.82 TiB (89%) - btrfs
      %%%%%%%%%====###########=====######     󰍹  3840x2160 @ 60 Hz in 72" [External]
       %%%%%%%%====#########======######      󰖺  Microsoft X-Box 360 pad 0
        %%%%%%%=====#####========######       󰖺  Sony Interactive Entertainment Wireless Controller (100%)
         %%%%###===============#######        󰖺  Sony Interactive Entertainment Wireless Controller Motion Sensor)
          %#######==========#########    
            #######################           󰕮  KDE Plasma 6.5.3
              ###################               KWin (Wayland)
                  ###########                   bash 5.3.0
                                                Ptyxis 49.2
                                              󰏖  2741 (rpm), 56 (flatpak), 25 (brew)
                                              
    otacon@bazzite:~$ MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT=list vulkaninfo
    WARNING: [Loader Message] Code 0 : terminator_CreateInstance: Received return code -3 from call to vkCreateInstance in ICD /usr/lib64/libvulkan_dzn.so. Skipping this driver.
    selectable devices:
      GPU 0: 10de:2786 "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070" discrete GPU 0000:01:00.0
      GPU 1: 10005:0 "llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.6, 256 bits)" CPU 0000:00:00.0
    
    
    

    I'm running Bazzite in desktop mode. I have tried all of the following steps (in Elite) that I came across while trying to solve this on my own to no avail:

    • Full system update
    • Proton settings:
      • GE Proton 10-17
      • Proton 9 Stable
      • Proton 10 Stable
      • Proton Experimental
      • Tested Flags:
        • PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60
        • DRI_PRIME=1
        • DXVK_CONFIG="dxgi.maxDeviceMemory=11000” (I have a 12GB card)
        • mangohud (does not launch)
        • gamemoderun
        • gamescope (does not launch)
    • Disabled iGPU
    • V-Sync/Frame Limiter On/Off
    • Lowered graphics to minimum, set resolution to 1080p
    • Fullscreen and Borderless

    I have done hours of searching both DDG and Google and have run out of relevant things to search. I've been at this for about a month now with no progress whatsoever. Any help on this would be massively appreciated.

    If it wasn't already apparent, I am long-past the point of shotgun troubleshooting and am willing to try just about anything to resolve this.

    Edit 1: I just did the UFO Test, and realized that it occasionally has a minor hiccup, but nothing major in windowed mode, but going into fullscreen and moving my mouse around replicates this same stutter that my games experience.

    Edit 2: Selaco of all things is experiencing this, a game running in GZDoom. Both OpenGL and Vulcan produce the same result.

     

    An absolute trip of an album as the name would imply. I have a good story to go with this, too. My friend was a promoter and happened to be working one of these shows of theirs. He gifted me the album along with one of their t-shirts.

    Since I had their collection digitally, I never got the urge to open this copy. I was curious one day and looked it up. Turns out it’s quite the rare bird and I’m not the only one who enjoys their rare flavor of sound.

    I’ve been a fan of their sound from the first time a friend recommended I listen to “Deeply Disturbed”, specifically the Infect Remix 15 years ago. I don’t know if there’s some dimensional rift going on, but I’ve met very few people who know their music. And yet, the few people that I’ve met that do know them have been listening for as long as I have.

    It’s strange. They’ve been making music for longer than Deadmau5 or Daft Punk, consistently doing new and interesting stuff, and they’ve barely made a dent on the map. They’ve even done several big collabs, but they just don’t seem to catch the fame. Their concert tickets are usually really affordable, too as a result, which is always nice.

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