honestly i'd probably play Tifa, I'm totally ok with her being in Street Fighter but.. this game has been on what feels like life support for 3 years now, nothing substantial has changed despite MASSIVE majority feedback.
You can argue "casuals aren't complaining", but that is a failing for professional game studios to fall for, casuals don't generally complain because they're not invested enough in the game to give substantial or meaningful feedback - this isn't always true, and often they have some good insight for the teams to carefully pick up on, but they're not focused or targeted in it. I get it, they want to capture a large casual audience and they have done that with accessibility features like modern and game balance/design choices.. but for me the game just kind of sucks, it feels stale, it bothers me that major pain points haven't been addressed in 3 years.
Kind of has me hoping Harada's new game makes serious waves.
honestly i'd probably play Tifa, I'm totally ok with her being in Street Fighter but.. this game has been on what feels like life support for 3 years now, nothing substantial has changed despite MASSIVE majority feedback.
You can argue "casuals are complaining" but that is a failing for professional game studios to fall for, casuals don't generally complain. I get it, they want to capture a large casual audience and they have done that with accessibility features like modern and game balance/design choices.. but for me the game just kind of sucks, it feels stale, it bothers me that major pain points haven't been addressed in 3 years.
Kind of has me hoping Harada's new game makes serious waves.
Life Update;
I am being sued! I got served this morning, absolutely no idea what any of this means and Ive been on the phone for almost 3 hours. Im trying to decide what the best course of action is for me so.. if I don’t answer right away today thats why.
"At least you can eat almonds, you can't eat a data center." I was genuinely not prepared for how stupid the people on the other side of this argument would be.
This entire story has been debunked from every angle since the original article was published over a week ago, so of course People magazine is like “let’s just re-publish all the false stuff!”
follow-up on my local agent stack (RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B)
found the hidden VRAM killer: context checkpoints.
llama.cpp creates a checkpoint every 8192 tokens during prefill (~63 MiB each). at 26K context that's 5 checkpoints = 315 MiB silently eating GPU memory. on 8 GB VRAM this pushes past the 7 GB cliff.
>with default checkpoints, 26K context → 14.6 tok/s
>with --checkpoint-every-n-tokens -1 → 30.3 tok/s
full sweep without checkpoints:
- 3.5K → 34.2 tok/s
- 20K → 31.5 tok/s
- 26K → 30.3 tok/s
- 35K → 29.6 tok/s
- 50K → 27.7 tok/s
smooth degradation, no cliff anywhere. the ~2 tok/s drop per 10K tokens is from attention scaling on Qwen3.6's 10/40 attention layers.
I also switched from Hermes to Pi as the agent harness. ~1.9K token system prompt vs Hermes's ~13.5K. in thiscase, Pi is more suitable here. Hermes is still my main agent on my mac mini tho.
final config:
```
turboquant fork, -ncmoe 30 -c 65536 -np 1
--cache-type-k q8_0 --cache-type-v turbo3
--no-cache-prompt --checkpoint-every-n-tokens -1
```
I mean I despise DI, and maybe the community has overcompensated and stigmatized DI as a scrub trap to cope with how volatile the mechanic actually is, but it is extremely uncommon at pro tournament level because those players are usually very risk averse. Funny enough it makes me wonder why daigo didn't just throw it out more considering how often he used reversals
"You need a 24 GB GPU for serious local LLMs in 2026."
Everyone repeats this. It's not true anymore.
Just ran a 35B-parameter model on an RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB: • 41 tok/s at 16k context • 24 tok/s at 200k context
Recipe + benchmarks below 🧵
@thefleecer@emezie I promise you nobody at the pro level is pressing random drive impacts to catch pokes, it is extremely high risk and the reason it's annoying as a mechanic is that high risk medium reward mechanics are a ranked ape's favorite meal
@JWonggg Mena is the best but level 2 is busted, both can be true. Blanka mental stack is notoriously difficult for even the best players to deal with hence why everyone complains about him.
Daigo winning the majority of the first rounds says a lot about how powerful level 2 is.
I know the American education system will never have an internet literacy class bc it’s not in the state’s interest but this would be the kind of stuff people should learn before they’re allowed to vote