ganoo_slash_linux

You can tell by the direction it's written, like つ=ツ because the strokes go horizontally left to right like the hiragana, while し=シ because the strokes go down vertically first. If that makes sense

I mean... it doesn't have to be, though my experience is only from fflogs and not like a speedrun leaderboard or anything professional.

Getting rank1 means that you were the best in the world, by some metric, for some amount of time, under certain conditions and support factors. You can feel proud of it in a normal way without making it your entire identity.

Also i'm good friends with pretty much everyone who could conceivably compete for the top placements and none of us would be heartbroken to see that a new record had been achieved. I think this is a pretty common dynamic, at least in competitive fields where there is an objective measure of success (rather than something adversarial).

1 billion means you only earned the first score extend right? I'm very impressed you survived to stage 5 yet didn't score even close to the 2nd score extend. I think if you figure out how to do a little scoring in the first 2 stages the game will really come alive and you might also pocket the extend at 10billion sometime in stage 4 or so. You clearly have the skills to dodge/bomb/hyper when necessary.

I only played black label (steam version and also an arcade near me has a DFKBL pcb) but the second score extend is basically mandatory for me to get to the end of stage 4 or have a chance of going to stage 5. And before that, getting the first score extend would get me to the hidden extra life in stage 3 etc. Scoring is good for survival and I think it's fun to play for score even at the level where we can't currently 1cc. Gives a goal/benchmark for how I'm playing

(cont.) Guild wars 2 is another mmo that is worth trying to see if you like the feel of the action combat. You can again play a whole lot free, but you do have to pay if you want the expansion content (which i feel is kind of diabolical to lock mounts behind max level expansion content). I also do not like that you can buy in game currency with real money, and then buy legendary (best in slot) weapons off the trading post with in game currency.

Theres maplestory which is mainly singleplayer, just make sure you make your char on the reboot (non-p2w) servers. Scratches the itch.

Honorable mention to private/classic servers like tera classic which i've been meaning to try out. The population being tiny is the most obvious factor but it is nice that the game has been preserved at all for people to play.

Ffxiv has a lot of content available in the free trial but it is not really a "free mmorpg" since if you want to do content that released less than 6 years ago, or join/use FC guilds or linkshell chats, or trade, have any significant quantity of gil, get housing, or use player markets, then you have to buy the game and pay a subscription. Mahjong is free though and it's quite a good mahjong client.

That said, it is a good way to figure out if you like the basic gameplay systems: the UI and menus which are very customizable, controls (switch to legacy if using M&KB), tab target combat and global cooldown, main scenario questing, instanced dungeons and normal mode bosses, unlocking multiple jobs to try out.

All this with the caveat that basically all jobs at level 70 feel like an empty shell of the combat rotation of level 100, and high end content is only available and populated for the most recent patches + the 6 ultimate raids.

I did not need to see that deer picture. Lmao

There was a really great and pretty detailed article on the possibility of a cascadia subduction zone earthquake by the New Yorker back in 2015. Archive link to the 2015 article if you havent read that

Author of this article had a lot of fun with all the egg puns

I feel like this is a big miss by framework. Maybe I just don't understand because I already own a Velka 3 that i used happily for years and building small form factor with standard parts seems better than what this is offering. Better as in better performance, aesthetics, space optimization, upgradeability - SFF is not a cheap or easy way to build a computer.

The biggest constraint building in the sub-5 liter format is GPU compatibility because not many manufacturers even make boards in the <180mm length category. Also can't go much higher than 150-200 watts because cooling is so difficult. There are still options though, i rocked a PNY 1660 super for a long time, and the current most powerful option is a 4060ti. Although upgrades are limited to what manufacturers occasionally produce, it is upgradeable, and it is truly desktop performance.

On the CPU side, you can physically put in whatever CPU you want. The only limitation is that the cooler, alpenfohn black ridge or noctua l9a/l9i, probably won't have a good time cooling 100+ watts without aggressive undervolting and power limits. 65 watts TDP still gives you a ryzen 7 9700x.

Motherboards have the SFF tax but are high quality in general. Flex ATX PSUs were a bit harder to find 5 or 6 years ago but now the black 600W enhance ENP is readily available from Velkase's website. Drives and memory are completely standard. m.2 fits with the motherboard, 2.5in SATA also fits in one of the corners. Normal low profile DDR5 is replaceable / upgradeable.

What framework is releasing is more like a laptop board in a ~4 liter case and I really don't like that in order to upgrade any part of CPU, GPU or memory you have to replace the entire board because it's soldered on APU and not socketed or discrete components. Framework's enclosure hasn't been designed to hold a motherboard+discrete GPU and the board doesn't have a PCIe slot if you wanted to attach a card via riser in another case. It could be worse but I don't see this as a good use of development resources.

Any time they give a reason that there's some technical thing they can't accomplish, just remember mahjong. The devs programmed a fucking mahjong client into FFXIV (and it's quite a good one too, on top of being free trial accessible, apparently some people get the free trial primarily for mahjong). If they have the technology and budget to do something as irrelevant and orthogonal as that, they can put in anything (as long as the devs are interested in making it). So basically it's all bs, plus there are mods and plugins that do every QoL and visual upgrade imaginable already implemented as a third party tool.

Based on entries to his personal blog and social media posts, Mullenweg has been on safari in Africa this week. Mullenweg did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Cherry on top, lmao. Of course he's off doing rich white CEO things.