The OS takes its chunk of RAM. And I’d imagine most people don’t close all unnecessary background processes when launching a game. So they’ll have Steam and Epic and Discord and the management software for their RGB (multiple, if the individual components are mismatched) and their browser with like 30 tabs open in the background. Under these circumstances, it’s not outside the realm of possibility that 8GB of RAM is gone even before the game is launched.
Let people enjoy things and set your games difficulty setting to where you have the most fun, now sit down.
So install the mod and set your difficulty where you like it, while the rest of us don’t need to deal with any of that git gud shit.
I have nothing against mods like that existing. I’m very much against having an official DLC that enforces it as the new default, which was the implication of your first post.
Not everything needs to be a soulslike.
No. Just pointing out that a collision in LEO physically cannot create a situation where we’re locked in on Earth for more than a decade or two. The orbits will still have a perigee in LEO. They will still decay. The debris will still burn up eventually. Kessler syndrome is impossible in LEO. And in higher, larger volume orbits, it’s overblown, because we don’t even have enough mass there to create a notable debris field to lock ourselves in with.
A Kessler cascade is one of those things that people read about and it sounds really scary and plausible and happening, like, in a week cause Starlink exists. And that’s where the thought process stops and the Chicken Little everyone has in their brain takes over.
But it won’t be a uniformly higher orbit, because there’s only one event where energy was added to the fragments. The perigee will still be in LEO and anything that’d raise the apogee to a point where the new orbit would be stable for a decade would require so much energy that it’d vaporize the satellite on impact.
What about the Covid period? Kinda hard to have a school shooting when kids aren’t going to school, I’d imagine.
My local PC hardware store offers assembly and setup services for ~20€. Includes installing and updating the OS and drivers, as well as stress testing to verify that the components perform as expected. More places should offer that option, really. Especially if they also sell pre-built PCs that are assembled in-house.
What power do you have when there’s no one to subject to it?
ISS’s radiators. It’s processing data on the station that would otherwise be transmitted groundside and processed here.
As opposed to Blue Origin’s solution, which was to be assembled from three different spacecraft in orbit? Or the Dynetics solution, which was over its own mass budget?
Or that everyone else is just as horrible as they are, so they’d feel justified in being a sloppy fart of a person.
Most of us lose the playfulness as the responsibilities of adult life pile up. Between work, family and everything else, there’s just no time. But that playfulness, doing something just for the fun of it, is armor. It helps ward off depression, relieves stress, it keeps our mental health up. We need hobbies, we need things in our life that are just fun and enjoyable, and we don’t need to feel guilty about taking some time to relax and unwind.
I live out in the countryside. The nearest store is about 2.8km away. Put on some good music, get an ice cream for the second half of the trip, it’s a lovely walk. I could catch a bus back, there’s a stop right by the shop, but my timing is generally shite. If I’d be halfway home by the time the bus comes, I’d rather just walk.
Hats off to my man MrEdders. Yes, I’ll absolutely watch your three hour video on some obscure 90’s FMV noir game!
Since you were so insistent that it’s simple, I told you to go and implement non-rigid capes to two old games that never had more than a rudimentary physics engine, and report back just how easy it was. And seeing how your reply, three minutes later, started with the words “Already done,” I can only assume that you did it. So do tell, how easy was it?
Cause that was the task. Add soft body physics to Jedi Outcast, which is running on a modified Quake 3 Arena engine. Or create a new animation rig and redo all of the character animations. And you did it in three minutes. So show your work.
Took you three minutes to implement soft body physics in the Quake 3 engine, huh? Show your work.
Right. Go add capes that aren’t just rigged to the existing skeleton to Jedi Outcast or Morrowind, then come back and tell me how easy it was.
Fidelity creep is also a thing. Unless you’re going for a deliberately retro or stylized look, you need high detail assets and lots of them on screen at once. Otherwise you’ll never hear the end of “gaem bad cuz PS2 grafix lol.”
Environment textures are huge. Main character textures are huge. And you’re not loading just one file, you’re loading multiple files per model. The diffuse map, the specular map, the reflection map, the normal map, the subsurface scattering map for any organic models. And gods help you if your character model has interchangeable parts, because you’ll be loading the whole set of textures for every element of those as well. These things add up very quickly.
And you still need space in the RAM for your code and physics and worldsim calculations, animations, everything going on under the hood. So I dunno, 16 doesn’t sound outlandish these days.