I have Recyclarr setup to dynamically update and one thing it does is keep a current bad release group.

Not entirely dead yet, there’s an animated series that releases the 14th of this month.

Ooo, I’m excited! Their SH2 remake was very good minus typical UE5 problems. Their new original IP game Cronos that just came out was an outstanding survival horror, which had UE5 problems as well, but for me its overall performance was better. Here’s hoping they learn even more how to correctly use the engine.

For anyone who’s a fan of Resident Evil, Silent Hill, or Dead Space, you should definitely try out their new game Cronos: The New Dawn. The story alone absolutely hooked me, and I was fully invested to finish the game to learn wtf was happening.

Slop-Tok

I fucking LOVE my Unraid server, but I’ve had it for many years and they’ve since changed their pricing. A very, very solid WebUI.

I paid like $40 just once for it, and it looks like it’s $250 now. Honestly I’d just pay the $50/yr, it has been immensely helpful to get me started as my first homelab.

And btw I use Arch for my desktop whenever I use Linux.

I helped a friend build a server to use Unraid for his new house, and to get him started with Home Assistant and the arr stack. He’s always been fairly good with computers, but had 0 Linux experience. After about 6 months he became self efficient and no longer needed to ask for help.

Edit: my original new price was unique to me to upgrade my grandfather license.

Ooooo, that’s a nice fun fact, ty!

This got me thinking back on reading the book earlier this year. Mr. Arnold really was the super star of the entire operation. Nedry might have been mostly qualified but heavily overworked, and underpaid of his own fault, but everyone would have died and much much sooner if not for Arnold. That man knew all the ins and outs of the entire park, enough to even debug and fix Nedrys code.

But was also an alcoholic, and shows how poorly Hammond did in cheaping out and not hiring the best outside of the scientist and their facilities.

To be fair to Muldoon though, he was probably the only wild life expert with about as relevant experience as one could have, and balls big enough to take on the challenge of carnivorous dinosaurs. He did about as good as anyone could have hoped for against the raptors in the book.

To be fair, Crytek said it wasn’t unoptimized, but graphically over tuned on purpose, so that even years after release new hardware could finally play the game to its full potential and keep it a relevant graphical benchmark. That on launch only a fraction of gaming PCs would come even close to playing it on max settings with high fps was intended.

If that was a stupid idea in hind sight is another matter 👀.

I looked up some videos from YouTube sleuths on why so many UE5 games suck. For any studio previously using UE3 or 4, they had to relearn/recreate nearly their entire workflow again. 5 very much changed damn near everything. But also that 5 has all this tech that everyone assumes works in all scenarios and is a miracle, when in reality it’s still software tech and has very real limitations and best use cases that studios ignore. Larger studios “should” be able to trial and error while burning through $ to figure it out, but usually management doesn’t give them enough time. Smaller studios can’t afford to have many many months of downtime learning to re-adapt everything. It’s just so damn complex that very few have had time and $ to just trial and error figure out its limitations and to work within them.

It SHOULD get better and better as time goes on, though. The tech pieces in 5 keep getting improvements, and theoretically people should eventually start to adapt to it correctly, and the knowledge should spread as devs move to different studios for new work.

There’s already a Digital Foundry video on how it has problems compiling shaders as you play because they don’t come close to preloading all the shaders, and typical traversal stutters associated with UE5’s world partitioning.

Massgrave.dev

This is the best answer, by far. Also look to use StartAllBack on top of that. Best modern Windows experience.

Strange, doesn’t feel like a turd using it as a daily driver. Feels more like XP or 7 after a fresh install.

Denuvo :'(

Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC + StartAllBack, and having none of those problems. 🤷

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDCmlBLkm8A

Pumped Up Kicks - Foster the People.

Fuck yes, finally NTSYNC!