A RX 6800? Yes, in fact I was playing CP2077 with FSR and ray tracing on at 4K on a 6800. It was the first real card AMD had that could. Though it did struggle at times.

Sadly replaced after 4 years with a RX9060 of similar capability but better Ray tracing.

AMD cards are only about 2-3 years behind NVIDIA in a lot of specialised tasks, but trying to pace the behemoth that is NVIDIA’s RnD with a much smaller budget. ROCm works but is held up by compatibility issues with the newer CUDA features.

Who needs augmentation? Let’s just get the organ printer out and update to Mk2 Eyeball.

Or that it got stuck in the figurative basement organ where a silly amount of bio-chemistry is stuck because evolution kinda shrugged a few million years ago.

Elden Ring has a lot of focus on bouncing around the map and sort of finding stuff.

There’s hints if you’re looking for a specific challenge, but overall you just sort of wander until you say “ooh cool” followed by “ow that was really tough” and eventually getting through it laughing and saying “you all said a tarnished couldn’t possibly do this, now who’s laughing!”.

But hey, if you’re not feeling it, don’t feel bad about it. You kinda need to be in the right mood for it, and I’ve not been able to find the energy for a replay because the ‘oooh shiny’ from exploration is gone.

Dark Souls has a similar exploration piece, but much more defined pathways, and I find it more replayable. ER is just so much.

I think this one wins the serious answer contest. Nice find, TriflingToad.

Adding to this, we only have so much time and brainpower in a day. Distant concerns are not a clear and present threat: monitor? yes, grumble? yes, keep constant anxious watch? no.

Better to use your abilities and time nearby where they’re most effective.

First thing I tell my interns: “The guys that made that database are smarter than you, they got PhD’s for the algorithms the database uses. You are going to use SQL properly, and query properly, because the database will always do it better than your python code.”

The “excuse” is more or less the 20 or so replacements that have been made and died. I think Microsoft alone is responsible for 5 over the life of Windows.

We’ve more or less kinda settled on HTML only because it’s already wide spread. But it’s not perfect so more standards for the standards pile. Don’t worry, react will end up buried by the next thing on the pile eventually.

As you say, as everything is in the eye of the beholder. Some of the most successful artists are those who understand what their target audience want, and know where it overlaps with what they want to create, maximising passion and enjoyment on both sides.

As for AI art, you’re absolutely right, and it’s acceptance is also wholly to the observer. Cheap low effort stuff is going to be called slop, but where it’s part of a broader process that enhances the prompter’s work it will be considered successful.

Of course if something is culturally taboo (and AI art is risking this) art on the topic will be buried under down votes.