King of kings: the early years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Kings:_The_Early_Years

A mediocre set of platformers interspersed with bible trivia. I played the crap out of them because it was the only thing other that super Mario we had.

Later we got Joshua and the battle of Jericho. A bomberman clone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_&_the_Battle_of_Jericho

Yep, time to rebadge.

Like a litany of vehicles before it.

Kids are dumb. “Moolania” was right there!

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker

Google will ignore this if you use their built in search, but it works everywhere else.

Evo VI TME needs a word.

Source: I am old.

Available as of 13/Trixie last year (gnome 48/kde 6)!

https://itsfoss.com/news/debian-13-release/

Should be available OOTB as of 26.04 … At least with kde!

If you’re not playing the fancy games with all the ray tracing, and you aren’t playing at 4k, the 2070 is still just fine in terms of power. I definitely didn’t need the 9070 XT. I would have been just fine with a 9060xt, 9070gre or 9070. I did want to bump to 12 or 16gb of memory. And I scored a good enough deal combined with credit card points to jump all the way to the 9070xt. This one will follow me for another 6 years at least unless some paradigm shift happens.

I will say that you’ll enjoy more frames at a lower power draw if you don’t crank up your settings on the new cards.

But it was really all of the polish that finally wore me down. Spent a year playing with the outermost 10% of the screen flickering sometimes in some games. I never could figure it out. Got tired seeing the HDR box in games knowing I had monitors that supported it but a card that broke font rendering with it enabled. Tired of some games randomly crashing because suddenly the drivers broke again. And the 20xx series is the next one to lose support entirely.

Truly happy for you!

I was originally multi booting LTS Ubuntu to meet reqs for work with Arch for gaming and everything except sleep worked pretty well. The Wayland cutover sucked for years as they fixed one thing and broke another. HDR never worked correctly.

Yes and no. Objectively $650 plus tax is a lot of money. I intended to go with the non XT for $80 less. And I probably would have been pleased with a 9060 or 9070 GRE.

But I paid $540 plus tax for the 2700 super just before the pandemic. So with inflation, this felt like the same kind of hit. And I wasn’t planning to replace the rest of the underpinnings either. 3900x, 64gb ddr4 3600, x570 motherboard).

I really just wanted shit to work (again). The frame rates are a bonus. It feels like coming home. And this coming from someone who remembers gaming on Linux before proton.

For sure. Reversing the percentages here makes this far more difficult. I just felt we needed to shittify this post a little.

Great for calculating tips!

Let’s see: the bill was $138.72, so I just need 138.72% of 20. And we can subtract 100% and just add the 20 back at the end, then convert the percentage to a decimal so (.3872 * 20) + 20 = 7.744 + 20 or $27.74.

Easy!

The antidote seemed pretty harsh

My insurance actually went down when I replaced my VW golf with an F150 lightning.

Conversely, my tabs cost 7x more.

But in CA, the value of the vehicle is very impactful and there’s an additional $118 EV tax considered in registration fee calculation.

It has been a minute since I’ve seen Southland Tales. What a trip! Time for another rewatch.

Stellar list overall too!

With you. Love beer, cocktails, whisk(e)y, amaro, etc. And I really don’t like getting drunk (I do sometimes, but always regret it).

2-3/night is my usual. Usually a beer after work then another 1 or two throughout the evening. Add an afternoon beer or cocktail on the weekends. Well-spaced. Almost never more than 5 drinks in an entire day.

Not if you’re lactose intolerant! But then it’s also a shit post. A violent and painful one.