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Damn good skit!

Reminds me of...

https://thenamelessmod.fandom.com/wiki/Foon

Old mod for Deus Ex... you can use 'foons' (sporks) as... basically the shittiest throwing knives imaginable.

Do you know if there are significant differences between the Korean language of North Korea, and the Korean language of South Korea?

Or are they still very similar?

I only really know one word in Korean... I would sound it out as ' gam zeh hah mee da '.

I asked some local, older aged, shop owners of South Korean descent how to say 'thank you' in Korean so I could thank them with more respect when I shop at their stores... I may be pronouncing or spelling my pronunciation wrong.

Apoarently it is 감사합니다 in Korean... but that is likely South Korean, and it seems that South Korean and North Korean use different words, or pronounciations, for at least some terms...

It would be interesting to learn if there are more differences between the two forms of Korean. :D

American here:

About 20% of Americans are functionally illiterate, 2nd grade or worse reading and writing skills.

The average literacy level of Americans is between 5th and 6th grade... meaning the next 30% have the reading/writing skills of someone who basically only conpleted elementary school.

These are numbers for adults 18 and up, by the way, not kids.

Almost every single person I've met who learned English as a second language... can speak it more fluently than most native English speakers I've known who grew up in America. More extensive vocabularies, better grammar, better spelling.

And this will get worse.

Covid resulted in a year to two years of remote or missed classes for Gen Alpha, and the Repulicans look poised to finally kill off the public education system in all but the wealthier, solid blue states. Department of Education will be disbanded by the end of the year or earlier if nobody stops it.

Limbo is more desirable when your mortal realm strongly resembles Hell.

Not an unreasonable assumption.

That or he's a die hard fan, really into that subculture.

I'd never even heard of this guy before and am... basically just ranting... grrr lol

... Delete... all... IP law?

So... just literally make all piracy legal, switch all gaming and tv show and movie production/consumption... to an optional donation model?

Fuck it, why not.

I am both an avid pirate and have a degree in econ, wrote papers as an undergrad on how to potentially reform the DMCA... and uh yeah, at this point yeah no one has any fucking idea how any thing works, everyone is an idiot, sure fuck it, blow it all up, why not.

Don't forget they also spun up their own 'production studio', and... it mostly produced basically the anime equivalent of lolcows in terms of their general reception and percieved quality, always overbudget and/or massively missing deadlines, never renewed for another season.

And then that was shut down within 3 years.

Oh right, and the union busting, also very cool.

... I recently randomed across 'Spawn Wave' on youtube.

... This guy has absolutely no idea what he is talking about, and I am angry I fell for his clickbait.

'The Switch 2 is more powerful than we thought' is the name of his video.

Foolish, stupid, gullible me... assumed he had some kind of... actually new, concrete information.

Fucking, nope. He manages to spend about 5 minutes reading a spec sheet that's been all over the internet for over 48 hrs now, and he... he opens with 'how can the Switch 2 even run these games?'

... then proceeds to vaguely talk about how chips have gotten more powerful.

... The Switch 2 uses the T239 Nvidia APU. This has been... fairly widely reported on and speculated on for almost 2 years now.

This guy just reads off of these old articles and the official, more vague spec sheet... spending 30 seconds saying each feature is super cool and awesome, somehow without actually explaining... what that feature is, how it works, how its different than some other older tech, what kind of performance would be reasonable to expect...

Nope, new thing is new and cool and neat and better than old thing, technobabble buzzword salad of terms and figures he barely understands.

He describes real time ray tracing as hitting your framerate hard, but we don't know what game is going to use it on the Switch 2.

He then jumps to next next bullet point, DLSS... totally neglects to mention that DLSS is the frame upscaling solution that counteracts the frame rate loss from real time ray tracing... and then says 'people have been questioning if hands on events with the Switch 2 actually show games with DLSS.'

Ok, 5 minutes into this 15 minute vid, he has said... nothing.

'Here's the CPU and GPU frequencies, whatever'

facepalm

'Whoah hey look, GSYNC, that means developers will be able to use VRR and thats good because devs will just know that and be able to design with that feature in mind'

gsync has existed for over a decade and basically every pc monitor has supported gsync, or fsync, or both, for almost that long... and console game devs knowing the features of the consoles they are developing for / porting to has... been the case since consoles existed

'Maybe it'll be 40 frame per second!'

completely baseless speculation

'This one website has been tracking the T239 that had updates and linux distros and stuff'

step aside hannah montana linux and redstar, im switching over to the Nvidia T239 distro

'these frequency specs are just estimates, and even if its off by a single megahertz, its wrong'

facepalm, again

... ok now we are 9 minutes in...

'Is the Switch 2 more powerful than the PS4? Yes, its pretty straightforward I think.'

he says, after giving the most vague and useless breakdown of tech specs i have ever heard

... ok, now its time to spend the rest of the video showing trailer footage for Cyberpunk 2077 and talk about how it will be on the Switch 2.

...

This... fucking guy... spent the early half of his video... having no clue whether or not any games on the Switch 2 would make use of Real Time Raytracing... and DLSS.

... CP77 was basically the most prominent flagship debut of these Nvidia capabilities.

He compares the PS5 handling of cp77 to... his random guess of the Switch 2's handling of cp77... and says maybe it'll be cut down from 60fps to 30 or 40, but it'll make use of variable refresh rate.

... what? the... the ps5... renders ... on your... your tv... the switch 2 vrr ... refers only to the Switch 2's built in display... ???????

I guess I hope you already have a tv you bought in the last 2 or 3 years in your living room, otherwise you're looking at upwards of $1500 for a new living room sized TV, Switch 2 fans!

But hey its fine, its not like anyone is fretting over the Switch 2's price point or anything.

... Oh also basically no TVs that support VRR ... go below 48 or 40 hz. So... uh... that's gonna be quite a lot of upscaling and lowered graphics settings to run at a minimum of 40 or 48 hz/fps ... at 4k.

... Anyway, I just tuned my graphics settings for CP77, after installing decky frame gen and cryoutils, and I'm getting an average of 60 fps on my Deck in the benchmark, settings mosty high and medium, a few on ultra, a few low or off, quality mode for FSR 3.1 and it's framgen, at the Deck's 1280 x 800.

Ah but shucks, no ray tracing =(

I wonder if Switch 2 CP77... will even have a settings menu rofl.

I agree with all of that.

Maybe ... 5 to 10% of Dems, like Federal Congresspeople, State governors... are willing to meaningfully go against pro corporate policies... at least more than half of the time.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was some kind of psyop used to induce or intensify infighting among younger leftists, but I also wouldn't be surprised if ... there really wasn't something specifically aimed at doing exactly that.

I know Russia has been very successfully employing the uh, hyperreality tactic, just fund or assist or influence enough people who are bombastic enough in any political persuasion, publish and spread baseless nonsense all across the spectrum to just sow general chaos...

But I do also think a lot of it really is people just adopting a vocabulary generally shared by leftists and then using it to their own, individual ends.

The thing with the CIA's Simple Sabotage model is that it describes basically every social circle or work environment I've ever been in, or hear about from a friend.

General incompetence and ... wasting time over petty stupid bullshit ... just sounds like the norm in America generally, for pretty much my whole life... but maybe I have just had particularly bad luck with that.

Fellow autist here,, here's my funniest Elon moment:

The cybertruck reveal, softball pitch into the window.

Musk audibly gasps and says 'O-oh myfuckinggod.'

Comedy gold.

That moment, right there, that was the high water mark.

Then, the window cracks, and shortly afterward, his entire general public facade and reputation begin to crack and shattet as well.

I do appreciate a visual metaphor.

Misleading and overly jocular.