Exactly… For Halo 2 and TF2, even if this rig were running at 50% efficiency it could do 200 fps at max settings.

That’s annoying, it totally displayed on my side. I think I fixed it now, but kinda ruined my joke…

Oh I see. So you’re telling me a military bought overpriced hardware… We should alert the media.

Hey, I have no doubt that these are overpriced poorly cooled boxes, Alienware has always been more form than function. But on the other hand, it’s a single vendor and they can just send a machine back if it acts up. I’m betting they don’t want their IT people dumping time and effort into custom builds, so having a single vendor is likely the much preferred option.

And I wasn’t wrong before, the specs are fine, they’ll play basically anything. With suboptimal cooling the fans will be loud, but there’s a good chance that won’t even matter on an aircraft carrier.

Ok Doug

I’m reading the Percy Jackson books with my kid right now and I have to say, they’re very well written. For kid/teen literature, i’d say there’s a lot to like in the series, fun dialogue, characters with a lot of personality a fascinating and magical, yet recognizable fantasy world. I’m certainly enjoying it much more than I did the Harry Potter series.

Also the percy Jackson TV series is great too. The movies are hot trash though, wouldn’t recommend them.

oof, a gut punch if I’ve ever seen one

GTX 4080 and i7s, what can you still even run in that shit, right? Oh, they’re still top tier parts and will run anything you throw at them?

Yeah, real gut punch, they must be pissed.

I did say that, because this isn’t a pie chart situation, it’s a Venn diagram situation.

For instance, AI art is 99% theft and 60% garbage. It’s both because there’s overlap.

Stolen and bad aren’t opposites, why would this be a dichotomy?

Threes

Lyne

Then bring someone tastier than you. That’s a tried and true method

Oh, I enjoy lots of great art! But do you think I watch every film? Listen to every band? There’s tons of shit out there!

Do you really believe, of all the songs that are written every day, that less than a third are crap? Even Taylor Swift doesn’t publish everything she does. Sometimes you work on something for weeks and then end up tossing it in the bin. More often, you work on something for 30 minutes before deciding “I’m gonna start over, try something different”. The majority of art is crap, but then you keep the stuff you think works.

And what’s that expression, “good artists copy, great artists steal”. I mean, that’s a bit satirical, but the fact is, everything is derivative to some degree. It’s not that there aren’t new ideas, it’s just that our new ideas are based on older ones. We stand on the shoulders of giants (or at least, on the shoulders of some people who came before us).

All I was really saying, was that the accusation “2 parts copying, 1 part crap”, well honestly that’s par for the course, that’s how humans work. (And we do some great work that way).

Bring bug spray.

AI artworks 1/3rd shite and 2/3rds theft.

To be fair, that could be said of most art.

Fair enough

So… Ted voted against his own bill?

Probably lots of people in red states. Farmers for instance, people who generally buy the Republican bullshit, but may personally rely heavily on immigrant workers. ICE puts them in a really tough position.

That’s not him. Where’s the signature paunch?

There could be money involved…

I’m really happy to see a lot of the films on that list. I’m thrilled that Her and Adaptation made the cut. Eternal sunshine is in the top 10, right where it belongs. I’m pleasantly surprised that children of men made the cut, (I liked it a lot, but I didn’t think it was groundbreaking or anything). Also great to see the dark knight made the list, it’s easy to lump all superhero films together, but it really wasn’t just another superhero film.

I’m also not at all surprised to see There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men in the top ten. But I have to be honest, I know they’re critically acclaimed and much loved, but I just didn’t like either of them. They were both grim and gritty, and that’s part of the point I guess, but it made the films so unpleasant to watch. And with no country for old men, I truly never understood what the film was trying to say.

You can’t tweet without a computer. It may be a mobile one, but even that is a computer. This is a stupid claim which could only fool an idiot.

So depending on the judge, we’ll just see what happens…

Over the next 5 years I don’t see anything positive in tech and I see myself largely disconnecting from it.

Ironically I’m optimistic about the next 50 years, just I don’t see anything good happening right now.