psychoak

psychoak

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SFR for Ashes would probably not have much of a benefit, aside from being able to pool VRAM. It's extremely important in shooters and other games where microseconds in added latency are the difference between life and death.

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DX12 antiquates SLI and Crossfire. These are both essentially legacy hardware workarounds originating from a fairly hair brained idea in the 90's(3dfx had a version of this the Voodoo series used that separated the work load by alternating scan lines) because the operating system side of things hasn't been able to handle multiple GPU's. Crossfire and SLI both are very poor methods of working, in some ways they're actually worse than the original SL

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Yes, precursor worlds have bonuses that increase with technology, but even for those the primary impact on their productivity is the raw production boost, which caps out around 30 and only puts them on par with high population planets that aren't nerfed by the harsh food penalty. The research and economy worlds are both quite ineffectual in their percent bonuses, compared to the massive 30 raw production you can get.

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The problem is they're additive, which is essentially useless at 10%. A ghost world has enough of a bonus to make it a high incentive to specialize the planet since it's basically a free tile, but with the production buildings being percent modifiers themselves, the bonuses would be better if they were on the gross instead of the base. A fully ringed +1 adjacency bonus tile is already better than even that ghost world, giving 60%. If you have two +3's, or tiles y

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Better, yes, wackier, no. Shit happens. For a more informative version, it's been unusually warm for February in the US, with the jet stream further east than it typically is this time of year, allowing cold fronts to mix with the warm air closer to the east coast, forming tornadoes outside of tornado ally, but not in places that are actually abnormal, just not particularly common. Now if we start having tornadoes in Alaska, prepare to meet your maker be

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[quote]We get a shot of Han looking at the sky (at completely different star system, mind you) and say "It's the Republic!" but that's it. Then it threatens the Resistance base with little tension and gets destroyed by Poe almost off-screen.[/quote] That's completely expected though. It's a very tiny galaxy that you can travel across in a couple weeks at 1.5c. :)

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It's a common misdirection to use that line when confronted with the preponderance of evidence that shows it up as nothing more than a poorly directed money grab, is that close enough? Where I'm at, it got warmer, in the 90's. It's cooled back off a bit, which is in line with the satellite records for the Earth at large.

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It's a count, just like all the others. Counts come before lists. Such as the counts in the player files for all the objects used by the side. The ship spawn code is a list, you can increase that count and add multiple stages for higher level spawn groups with more ships. I don't believe the random event system can use multiple levels as there isn't any mechanism for them in the works, but I never checked to see if they would work anyway.

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player != NULL is your key. That assert is saying what's wrong, and it's in BuildPlanetModulesAI, which implies that it has to do with building planet modules. To place a structure into a neutral well, you need to place a unit with an ability that turns it into the structure instead.

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Wesley Clark is the guy that was forced into retirement after he tried to start WW3 by ordering NATO troops to attack Russian troops in Kosevo, fortunately, his order was refused by the Brits he gave it to. His relationship with the truth is strained, at best, I put zero stock in anything he says, particularly when at this point in time he was a disgraced general from the opposite side of the political fence, forced out of the military, and extremely unlikely to be speaking with Rumsfel

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The sheer absurdity of the revisionist history coming to this thread is mind blowing. Libya wasn't even a US concern, France and the UK spearheaded it through NATO and the UN, our wonderful president was just dumb enough to go along for the ride. The US government doesn't give two shits about Boko Haram in Africa killing other Africans because it matters not one wit to our national security. Shitty, but true, they're not bothering us if they'

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The phone isn't syncing up because the cloud side was reset, and you can't put the new password to sync the phone back up unless you can get in. Regardless, that only gets them whatever was synced, not everything on the phone. They really do need into the phone, it really is possible there is information on it they can't get elsewhere. What they don't need, is a key that can easily be used to get into any other phone. If they handed it

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This has actually stayed rather well on topic, all things considered. Gun rights directly tie into the FBI not doing what it's supposed to, are from the same family of protected rights, and are part of our protection against the government doing such things as this. Removing a unique identifier from the software to make it work on other phones is probably about as simple a change as it gets. Do you really believe the FBI is going to come back to Apple fo

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Ahh, the puppies and rainbows view, if only they just didn't exist. The Swiss also issue a semi auto 9mm, the most common handgun used in like 40% of crimes with a gun. [quote]Then, Switzerland people are one of the most rich people in the world, there is simply not much reason for a born-Switz to endulge into criminality in the first place....[/quote] Which is further down the post... A dog is goo

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Unless you're a 90 pound woman that shoots a 200 pound man, that just isn't the case. In the last few years, there have been incidents where people had the absolute crap beat out of them before they managed to shoot attackers who were known criminals with a history of violence, and were then put on trial for it anyway. The most famous being the Trayvon Martin case. A poor 17 year old kid, a kid that was ripped from playing football and had a history of violence and r

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Sorry Jafo, but 90% European is nowhere near as diverse as the US, we're down around 60%. Now 50 years from now, if your immigration continues to shift away from a European majority, you're going to look a lot more like the US. We owe our abnormally high rate almost entirely to the high rate at which minorities kill each themselves, blacks in particular. They're 13% of the population, but they commit nearly 40% of the murders. Mentioning it makes me a racis

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Starkers, Jafo will ban me long before he bans you, don't worry so much. :) It's not the difference in gun ownership that makes the murder rate in the US 4 times as high as it is in Australia. Switzerland has a massive gun ownership rate, with army service being mandatory, and every member keeping their weapons at home, yet they have an even lower murder rate than Oz does. When your gun ban was enacted in 1996, the only impact it had on the murder ra

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I'm pretty sure all the law abiding nut bars who have been imprisoned and murdered by the US government because they were paranoid and had a gun collection in the mountains, or joined a wacky cult, would disagree with your premise that the world isn't out to get them. There were kids at Waco, and they went in with armored vehicles and a gas the military had already banned for it's propensity to burn buildings down, when they could have gone in by invitation before they start

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More importantly, it's wrong information to begin with because the cards have been tested and verified to compute shaders asynchronously, which was never disputed by Oxide to begin with. What they don't do well is context switching, because there's only one compute engine I assume, but they're so much faster that it takes a lot to bog them down anyway. I don't have a bone to pick here, personally I'm a 3dfx man and loath both of the compani

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