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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I could throw soup on a painting,

    Yes, evidently they managed to do it

    or I could spray paint a billionaire’s mansion.

    You’d get arrested before ever reaching the wall.

    I could paint Stonehenge,

    Yes, evidently

    or I could sue the polluters.

    In the court the polluters have stacked themselves? Let me know how that goes. The polluters have more money and lawyers than you.

    The people deciding the laws are bought.

    I could deface historical artifacts,

    Yes

    or I could lobby a politician.

    What with all the millions you just have laying around? Lol get real.

    I suggest you introspect as to why the potential (or even actual) damage of artifacts makes you so angry. Why don’t all the artifacts that were lost to time make you angry as well? I understand feeling disappointed if one ever gets destroyed, but you seem much more agitated than that. That anger can be easily manipulated by your environment to make you do things against your self interest.











  • It’s not incredible. The crew 2 is overall a very okay game that didn’t need to exist, they could have easily remastered the crew 1 and make a better game. The coop is basically you get to play through any race including most story related ones with members of your party and if someone from your party wins you all get the progression. This means nothing as progressing is generally quite easy since the bots usually have way worse cars than you because getting parts upgrades is easy. Also the story isn’t anything to write home about, it’s the now classic “influencer drives car good”, unlike the crew 1 which at least tried.


  • I’ve finished all missions.

    Honestly? It’s fine. The game is worse than the crew 1 (the map is considerably smaller despite both depicting the US, and the upgrade system feels worthless), but I’ve never felt the need to pay to get anything, and beyond 1 pop up on login, I’ve never even looked or been made to look at the store. If you’re after top performance in online races then probably most people in the top of the rankings paid to be there, but imo the crew 2 is simply not a good multiplayer competition game. For solo or coop, you’ll outclass the bots most of the time, the challenge is against yourself.




  • I’m not fully familiar with the overheads associated with all things going on on a chipset, but it’s not unreasonable to think that this workload, plus whatever the chipset has to do (hardware management tasks mostly), as well as the CPU’s other tasks on similar interfaces that might saturate the IO die/controller, would influence this.

    B350 isn’t a very fast chipset to begin with, and I’m willing to bet the CPU in such a motherboard isn’t exactly current-gen either. Are you sure you’re even running at PCIe 3.0 speeds too? There are 2.0 only CPUs available for AM4.




  • My hot take was that once it stopped being online-only, SimCity 2012 was actually quite an ok game. It got abandoned and has a bit of a balance problem (you can never ever ever build enough housing), and I’m not saying the game is perfect but it’s quite serviceable and it looks very good, especially with the DLC. Personally I enjoyed it a lot, despite it’s issues.