I can’t wait to possibly buy a card a decade from now with AV2 hardware decoding. Ain’t happening until after 2035 that’s for sure.
If we’re lucky some firmware upgrade or driver can make AV1 hardware decoding capable cards able to do AV2 as well, but I seriously doubt it - GPU manufacturers want to sell new cards all the time after all.

Or a 110° angled stick. Pinecones for grenades.

at least half of it doesn’t involve cops.

I like how safe you’re playing that estimate 😂

That’s one (of many) reason I’m glad I switched to linux, Back in windows xp days Microsoft tried limiting the amount of “half-open connections” for its users “security”. But even today, some routers just aren’t powerful enough to handle too many connections, and often times the cheap routers that ISP’s provide are limited on purpose either by custom firmware or just by hardware limitations.

Yeah, they are messy. I tried BiglyBT a few years back, and while I love a lot of features, I think that was overkill for sure. qBittorrent is the golden standard at the moment for sure.

Yeah, I’m aware of that. And if I liked copoganda I’d be swimming in shows. That’s just getting older I guess.

Back when I had VDSL and even ADSL, I’d try to hit 1.1 ratio because if everyone did that the risk of information being lost would be close to 0%. Nowadays with gigabit internet, all that prevents me from seeding is hard drive space, and 8 TB doesn’t fill up quickly with how few good movies and series there are these days. I guess that’s one way to stop piracy, just make fewer and worse series/movies.

Oh no, it’s a new Steve Wilhite situation.

I mean really, what more can you ask for than clearly giving credit?

I guess I could be a writer for PC Gamer since I already watch Dave’s youtube videos.

PSA: Space Cadet Pinball has been reverse engineered and you can now run it on most popular platforms and even consoles. (flatpak version)

Now how do you get the pizza delivery man to pay for the food?

After playing SOMA, that singularity scenario in 2051 might not be too unrealistic. And there is something to be said about the KISS principle.

I did see this pop up in my FYP the other day. I guess I’m riding the right wavelength.

You’re right that it does lack the luxuries that makes discord better, especially video clip and picture sharing in channels.
There were ways to set up something called an IRC bouncer, which acted like a middle layer or puppet between you and IRC network allowing that to receive messages and the like while you were physically offline.
And for everything else you’d just send the files directly to whoever you wanted to share it with. Cumbersome, not to mention the pain port forwarding used to be.
Regarding screen sharing, back when IRC was king, the bandwidth wasn’t even really there for that. I guess one would use a VNC server/client or some other remote desktop application if that was needed.

It was a default user command in the IRC client mIRC, that’s why it’s such an iconic phrase. Old school coders, including the ones that became game developers back in the GTA San Andreas days likely came up through the demo scene or similar, because there weren’t really “game dev” educations, so they all sat on IRC at one point.

I mean, other ways of transferring are faster, but I do like it still existing, even though it’s not secure at all.

Aye, in the early days you could connect straight to twitch chat with any old IRC client. It’s probably still possible, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it has deviated too much to be a pleasurable experience. There are still dedicated chat clients. I used to use a Java based one called Chatty back in the day.

Something like Movim.eu?

I accept that some view the nu-metal and nu-metal adjacent bands like Evanescence from that time period as cringy, but it’s hard imo to deny what a great singer Amy Lee is, and how great she did on this song, which I think she carried.
I personally like quite a few spiritbox songs, but then again, I don’t dip my toes too deep in the harder (metal) genres, harder than metalcore anyway. Every now and then I’ll hear of a band, like Afsky or Knocked Loose that I really like and go all in on.
But I am curious why, for example, a song like Cellar Door isn’t considered metal by you.

I guess you lean more pop then? I really like Poppy’s turn to metal “They’re all around us” is one of my favorite tracks she’s made.
Courtney LaPlante from Spiritbox is amazing as well, and Amy Lee from Evanescence has been an icon for decades already.
I do suspect this will be an all cleans song though, besides their harsh vocals both Poppy and Courtney has amazing clean singing voices as well.