PC Optimized

We test PC games: Including every graphics setting and quality level, with performance and visual comparisons.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Publishers in UK can opt out of Google AI search results https://t.co/GMZFrqyjL9

[Thomas Dekeyser @ThomasDekeyser]

As the academic whose book is cited multiple times in this article, I want to make it clear: the data center revolt is great and we need more of it. (Getting a little sick of journalists purposefully misreading my arguments)

[microplastics rectifier @facetedcarapace]

The incredibly wealthy love to do this weird "I don't actually have any liquid cash" thing as if that's how wealth works. Money is a thing normal people like you and me and worry about. Rich people have *assets* and debt. They live off loans leveraged against what they own.

[Fred Lambert @FredLambert]

These guys are working very hard to justify being complete assholes.

[PC Optimized @areejs12]

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[PC Optimized @areejs12]

007 First Light Optimization Guide:
0:00 Intro
0:36 Global Illumination
4:25 Artificial Lights
8:15 Reflections
11:04 Shadows
15:09 Volumetric Fog
17:10 Terrain 18:15 LOD

[Librarianshipwreck @libshipwreck]

Neat fact: the historic Luddites were not defeated because they lacked popular support or because of the “inevitable” march of technological progress. Rather they were violently put down by state force (military).

Just a neat fact! Meanwhile, on a totally unrelated note…

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

A few months ago I was sitting on a bench in Tel Aviv with a colleague, and an older Israeli man came up to us and asked if he can sit with us. We said yes, so he asked what we were working on. We said we're making a film about the West Bank.

"What do you think about the Arabs?", he asked. Instead of answering, I asked what he thought.

"A good Arab is a dead Arab", he answered.

This was said 5 minutes into the conversation, to a complete stranger. This is a normal thing to say in Israeli society, even in the hyper-liberal Tel Aviv.

[PC Optimized @areejs12]

007 First Light: Lumen-Like Software Ray Tracing at Launch; Path Tracing Later
https://t.co/BHJ2v7pNR4

[PC Optimized @areejs12]

@007GameIOI @007 First Light: Software Ray Tracing Tech Dive | Better than UE5 Lumen? RTX without RT Cores
https://t.co/kLCgdqhLBY

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly.

https://t.co/xUhZvtpwah

[CommonSenseSkeptic @C_S_Skeptic]

Honest question - how do people become this fucking stupid? Because this should be avoided at all costs.

[Lynn Boylan 🍷📖🐾 @LNBDublin]

One day, everyone will always have been against this.

[Parmita Mishra @parmita]

This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen in my life

[delaniac 🌹🌱 @ChadNotChud]

“It’s immoral to be privileged in ways that others aren’t” is a deeply funny statement from the richest man on earth personally responsible for the deaths of millions of children

[GamersNexus @GamersNexus]

"We are not a car. We are not a car."
- Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO, Engineer, genius, thespian, poet

[Ioan Grillo @ioangrillo]

So Google was allowed to have a monopoly on search because… and now it is trashing its search to millions of websites and just scraping their stuff. We need to find a way to stand up to what Big Tech is doing. There is a better world with more decentralized power and capital.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Psychologist Erich Fromm who defined the term malignant narcissist called people like Andreessen necrophiles—not as a sexual fetish but the obsessive desire to turn the world into a lifeless machine that’s easier for them to understand.

[PC Optimized @areejs12]

Written:
https://t.co/Lexz1U0QiY
VGuide: https://t.co/UEEwtvifrV

[PC Optimized @areejs12]

Forza Horizon 6 PC Optimization + Best Settings Guide:

-> 8 GB GPUs should reduce the environmental textures to "High."
-> Car Reflections are best left at the highest quality. If you're on a lower-end PC, drop down to "Low."
-> Screen Space Reflections should be enabled over ray-traced (unless you've got the extra headroom).
-> Screen Space GI is recommended for most midrange PCs. "High" is the sweet spot.
-> Ray-traced GI medium is ideal for high-end PCs, preferably with quality upscaling.
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