Oh I’m sure it’ll require a patch to do so. It’s coded to run at 30 FPS because of the first Switch’s limitations.
While I could legally get the ROM itself since I own the game, I can’t legally use the ROM since I don’t own a Switch. But once I have a Switch 2 hopefully that won’t be an issue. Worst case scenario, I’m still stuck at 30 FPS, but at least I can play it legitimately. And hopefully Nintendo uses hall effect sticks on the Switch 2’s joycons, otherwise they’re just opening themselves up for another lawsuit and/or replacement hassle.
Methinks you left it to chill just a weeeeee bit too long. Thems is some evil shards there.
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/tidies up the lounge, adds fresh logs for the fire, and places a wide range of beverages from coffee to hot chocolate. Also places some snacks for the lounge.
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Sounds like the Lounge needs to be super warm and cozy today, and maybe this week!
/*Builds up the fire, brings in more wood, cleans and fluffs all the pillows, adds two extra baskets of blankets for people to use. Hauls in fresh piping hot coffee in insulated vats, a hot water station, assorted teas, cocoa, toppings, and creamers. Sets out fruit and muffins for quick snacks, as well as eggs, bacon, sausage, cheese, bagels, and English muffins. You can assemble a sandwich. There is a small plate labeled pocket bacon.
In game I am working on my next level 80. Hit 77 last night on my little Warlock. IRL, it is COLD. Working on some antique furniture refinishing today. Need to put a coat of Tung Oil on an early 1900’s buffet that was handed down to my Great Grandparents and eventually to me. It was a cast off from an estate where my great grandfather was a servant so he fixed things up and used them. My dad had to kind of rebuild it again but it now lives in my dining room! Time + the sun has made it so that it could use some more protective topping. This is it 10 years ago with Willow and Holly as Kittens.
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I’m just slowly levelling a Warrior. It is level 52 I think…
I’ll get to level 53 at some point.
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People have hacked Switch to run at higher resolutions at good frame rates. Nintendo just didn’t spend the time optimizing it.
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I see Orlyia has come to a bit of a messy forums…
/offers the panda some coffee.
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It is not all that bad. The threads that were related to both the CS and GD forum died really fast once people realized what/who was going on and that it was all AI generated bait.
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They basically hacked the switch to run at the CPU’s full boost clock. Normally the CPU runs just above half of its full clock speed, switching to the boost clock speed during loading (obviously to speed up loading/decompressing textures), returning to normal clock speeds afterward. Had Nintendo chosen a slightly thicker chassis it could have let the CPU run in boost mode by default. The hacked switches eventually suffer from heat related issues, so it’s a double edged sword. I’d have splurged for a “Switch” that was purely a TV based console and thus had no screen, just joycons. That would have allowed for far superior heat dissipation and better overall performance compared to even docked mode with the current Switches.
It’s less about not being optimized on the software/firmware front as it is the dual nature of the console (docked/handheld) requiring compromises that in the end most definitely affected performance. Being Maxwell based didn’t help either. Had Nintendo waited for a Pascal based Tegra, the performance would have been far superior. Still not 4k capable, but easily 1080p60 capable.
I honestly wish AI would implode and die off. The problem with the path we’re going down is that technology is evolving while we are not. The fact we’re so easily duped by AI and AI is capable of creating some realistic looking/sounding material speaks volumes about how badly we need to hold off on that tech, lest we find ourselves in a Skynet-esque scenario. I mean, Google had to shut down one of its AI bots because it had created its own language we couldn’t decipher. That alone should have raised a big gigantic red flag that we’re treading too far, too fast without any safety net to fall on.
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Wow, you guys weren’t kidding about the price of eggs. They’ve more than doubled in price, in one week. 
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I just saw some stuff from the Spring Trading Post! I must have the garden gnome set for my dwarf. 
The monarch butterfly stuff is pretty neat too.
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Yeah. I sense price gouging 
Thankfully I don’t use a lot of eggs unless I am baking but what if I want muffins or coffee cake?! Grar
At least my butter was $3.99/lb
It is so cute!!! We have mushroom hats too in game and the twiggy stuff as well. I feel like a lot of fun can be had.
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Woke up today to a thermometer that read -8°F. As of noon, it has ‘warmed’ up to -1° with a feels like of -15°F (-26°C). I guess I’m wearing the thermal socks today.
Six degrees to go before we hit the forecasted high temp of 5°.
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Ate a mini-resse’s pb cup today. I peeled off the paper liner cup and popped it in my mouth only to discover that there was a second paper liner cup. That was unpleasant.
#dfmb
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Years ago, I wanted to make a peach pie. I called grandma 1 to ask her how to make a pie crust. “Oh, I just buy 'em.” Great. Thanks, grandma. We chat a bit, then I call grandma 2. “Oh, I just buy 'em.” So that’s what I ended up doing. I mean, it is convenient. Pie crust in a foil pie pan (I still buy my pie crust, for the record). Make the pie, put the filling in, put crust #2 on top of everything, bake, take it to work as part of our team’s Thanksgiving dinner.
What I neglected to do, though, was take the translucent paper that was separating the two panned crusts. 
The pie was delicious, but you had to deal with paper in every bite.
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My Grandmama had a sideboard that looked almost just like this. When she passed, no one in my dad’s family really wanted it, but my mom (divorced, but still friends with family) had always loved it. Which means, I get it some day. I didn’t appreciate it, at the time, but now I’m very pleased because it’s a beautiful, well put together piece of furniture.
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How lovely! I an so glad to hear it has a place to go where it will be loved.
This one used to have a mirror or something on the back of it but that was gone or broken before my great grandparents got it - hand me downs and all. There was a gap in the back of it that was the perfect thickness for a backsplash board…so I had one covered with copper and placed there! Not perfect, but it is perfect for me! Also holds a lot of useful things.
I have the table that goes with it too. I need to see if I have a picture that shows the whole thing.
EDIT Found things.
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In a similar vein, it’s odd to me that so many handheld PCs are going the x86 route instead of arm for CPU.
IPC. ARM64 has scalability, but very, very few apps scale with the cores in an ARM CPU and even fewer scale with both the cores and the RISC architecture. Even WoW fails to scale with those cores. It will utilize every last GPU core on one of Apple’s M-series Macs for instance, but can’t leverage the CPU cores any more than it can on an Intel/AMD CPU, and that’s where things get rather dicey on that platform as x64 has more IPC and WoW loves IPC, especially when you throw in compute effects, which are entirely CPU bound. It’s why that feature is the number one to turn down or even off if you’re having CPU related bottlenecks.
If you want pure battery life and efficiency, ARM is the way to go. If you need power, x64 is currently, and AMD is eating Intel for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in gaming even though Intel’s flagship CPUs have higher IPC - AMD makes up for a lot of that with their X3D lineup, especially the 9800X3D and above now that the 9xxx series has the 3D cache on both CCDs. Incidentally that also means that the 9xxx X3D series is the first of the X3D line that doesn’t require you to install Windows from scratch since having the 3D cache on both CCDs means it doesn’t matter which CCD the OS sees when first installed like it does with the older X3D CPUs.
D4 Season of Witchcraft preview is out and its looking real good!
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I have an old wooden rocking chair that was made by my husband’s great grandfather. He was a farmer in Finland and during WWI they were taken by the Soviets to work farms in Russia. After it was over, they moved here.
I always loved that chair. I sat in it all the time when I visited. When his parents moved to Florida, they didn’t want to take the chair. When my husband said I loved it and would take it, they wanted a real family member who wanted it to have it. (I bet if my hubby said he wanted it, they would have given it to him)
A few years later they came to visit and had the chair in their trunk. The cousin they gave it to didn’t care for it much. It was a wreck. They asked if I still wanted it. YES!
We had it refinished and reupholstered. They always commented after that how nice it looked. Better than when they had it. It is in my living room to this day. 
sorry for the long story.
It even has a name. Pa’s chair.
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