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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'm going to go out on a limb here, maybe the solution to many of the US's international problems is to simply stop handing out weapons.

Maybe we should just not give guns to every despot, dictator or warlord we meet.

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.