What is up fellow human people of the world? It's the weekend and I'm not exceptionally busy... yet. But that'll change I'm sure. You guys watching the Olympics? I know there's a lot of controversy over the games in general and for a lot of real reasons, but I'm an Olympics stan. I don't care too much about sports overall but when the Olympic games roll up I'm glued to everything I can take in. Anyway, we're not here for that, but I do hope you're all enjoying the games. Sorry for everyone in Paris who can't travel anywhere they normally would because every popular route is blocked by stadiums and lines and venues.
No Man's Sky has recently had a huge overhaul to its entire system. Inventory changes, rendering changes, new lighting and much much more. I reinstalled the game and first off noticed that all but two of my star ships are destroyed just sitting in the hangar on my freighter. I think that's a persistent bug from way back, but whatever it's been like five years since I last played so I don't care. I also noticed that I have no idea how to play this game any longer. But I am feeling the magic of it again and I think I may get into it again for a bit. Check it out yourself if you're interested in a boat load of micromanagement. My goodness I had forgotten how literally every step requires a previous step. I had also forgotten how awful the star ship controls feel. I suppose I'll get used to it again. Anyway, the update is Worlds Part 1 this is the version 5.0 update and that link above tells you what's up. We'll see how long it keeps my attention. I'm not a huge survival game fan, and I say that with ~160 hours in NMS.
Are you a power gamer that requires as little input lag as possible while pwning n00bs in Counter Strike 2 on your 500 hertz monitor? Well, AMD has a free tool for you that doesn't require a specialized camera and hundreds of test frames. Frame Latency Meter is a free tool from AMD that measures... well, it measures frame latency. Specifically, it'll measure the time it takes to translate the movement of your mouse to a new frame. This is a tool from AMD but it's open source and works with AMD and Nvidia. No word about Intel GPU's but it's open source even if it doesn't work yet, it probably won't be long. Here's more from Digital Trends
Game Informer Magazine is shutting down. Gamestop has seen its fair share of issues over the past few years and unfortunately that's the only place you can get your Game Informer issues. Whether it's buying a single issue at a time or having a pro subscription through Gamestop. This past Friday the announcement was given that the entire Game Informer staff will be laid off. The Verge has quotes for you here
You guys remember that time the US Air Force connected almost two thousand PS3's together to make a supercomputer? Yeah me either, but it happened in 2010. PS3's had a feature that allowed users to install different operating systems on the machine. This was later removed by Sony (of course), but before that happened the USAF pilled 1760 of these consoles together to process satellite images and the resulting "cluster" was capable of 500 trillion Tflops. This made the composed system the 33rd most power supercomputer in the world and it cost a fraction of what a true super computer would and it took fraction of the power to run. Pretty smart idea if you ask me. More details from XDA developers
Game time?
Greywolfe: finished up the pokemon trading card game. it was mostly pretty easy-going. in the end, i found a happy groove with a no-fun-allowed deck. [it burnt the energy off of every pokemon it faced] and that's how i facerolled the game. i'm going to /try/ no man's sky again. but i still have misgivings about that game after the terrible tutorial that didn't work for me last time. so, we'll see. if that doesn't pan out, then i have a hankering for some sort of big rpg again, so i'll have to look at the games i own and choose something from that pile. also, more balatro. i've got the "starter" decks unlocked, now and am trying to get the next few, but they demand you play on a higher difficulty and i dunno so much about that.
Scrooloose: I've been playing Phoenix Point and just getting my ass kicked at every level. I also recently reinstalled No Man's Sky to see how the big update feels.