I use the 'In Vino Veritas' phrase to remark on instances where a bit of disinhibition allows one to come to a correct conclusion by way of letting go of a bunch of bullshit performative social norms...

... but yes, the flip side is that excess and addiction can absolutely warp a person, not 'reveal' them, and that your baseline inhibitions, to some extent, fundamentally are you, are your characteristics, your personality.

And, people often say a lot of very objectively stupid bullshit when drunk as well.

But but... a person is also to a good extent... a process, an evolving system, not a fully static thing.

As to your example... a person who only hits on someone after a drink or two likely just has less self-confidence than a person who hits on other people often.

But that does not mean that our ... liquid courage needer... that they cannot gain self-confidence by other means, by maybe going to a bit of therapy and learning how to be reasonably proud of themselves, removing toxic, negging people from their life, engaging in self-affirming activities, reframing their view of themselves and their place or part in the world.

Hey, no problem!

Just make A B S O L U T E L Y sure that you get a 16 GB version of the 9060 XT.

AMD did a shitty thing, and released two versions of the 9060XT, one with 8 GB VRAM, one with 16 GB VRAM... but they often have very similar, if not identical names on the packaging, and on online store listings.

Double, Triple, Quadruple check that your 9060 XT is the 16 GB version... don't get scammed!

But uh yeah, just generally speaking, if you're already running CachyOS, and you're fully into Linux Gaming...

AMD is the way to go, they are way way way more open with their drivers than Nvidia, and this just generally results in things working more smoothly.

Also, you could look into OptiScaler, the thing that DeckyFrameGen uses on Steam Decks... basically, there is a whole collections of mods that make it so you can run DLSS on an AMD card, or FSR on an Nvidia card, for a good deal of games... and that works through Proton.

Yeah, an AMD card is probably not gonna run DLSS as well as it runs FSR... but, if you want to try those options, you can.

Its a bit of a procedure to follow though, maybe comparable to doing ENB injection mods back in the day, its a bit more involved than a typical mod that just alters some content in the game.

A Yuri Euro, depicting a date, over shared Gyros.

... possibly with a Yugo in the background.

... I must be very old school, out of touch, or just doing my own thing...

Because I would do corduroy pants and a tweed vest with elbow patches, over a hoodie.

But then basically either totally cheap flats for shoes, or basically 1's boots, but in whatever shade of brown leather works best with the jacket.

... I also now actually have a proper tobacco pipe, haven't smoked in years, but that seems like it would work with that old kinda getup too.

... Am... I the last living hipster?

I definitely hated all the other hipsters for entirely missing the point, in one way or another, thus, arguably, I am qualified as a hipster.

In Vino, Veritas.

Yeah, not near, it just is.

Brainrot is a real thing, the studies have been done now.

Might as well have just drank for the whole pregnancy.

Thats comparable to the level of fucked up this will make your kid, just handing them a tablet to be their 'parent'.

Here's the direct comparison:

https://www.hardwaredb.net/geforce-rtx-3070-vs-radeon-rx-6800

Would it be worth it?

If you're in the US, looking at US prices (~$520), hellllllll no.

You can get a 9070 (non xt), for almost the same price (~$550), and thats a much, much better GPU, much more performance per dollar.

https://www.hardwaredb.net/radeon-rx-9070-vs-radeon-rx-6800

Or, you could get a 9060 XT (16 GB) for half about half the price (~$270), and still have a probably overall better card in most situations.

https://www.hardwaredb.net/radeon-rx-9060-xt-vs-radeon-rx-6800

And yes, a 9060 XT (16 GB) beats a 3070.

https://www.hardwaredb.net/radeon-rx-9060-xt-vs-geforce-rtx-3070

Double the VRAM, near half the cost, roughly 20% more gigapixel throughout.

Yeah, older model GPUs, the used market, at least in the US?

Pricing is delusional right now.

Apparently nobody got the memo that new, current AMD GPUs, have actually fallen in price a good deal in the last 6 months.

Yup yup, best find those bootstraps and start pullin', reaaal hard.

Oh what, you're obese and crippled and old and tired?

... did I stutter ...?

This would send me into a food coma.

Which is not to say that I do not occasionally enjoy sending myself into a food coma... but I would basically eat this, fall asleep, wake up an hour or two later, likely not need to eat much else for the rest of the day.

Which seems like a decent plan, untill your house breaks down or runs out fuel in the middle of nowhere, or your apartment gets impounded while you're at work or using the gym shower, or even just while you're sleeping in it..., and then auctioned off after the mail notice they sent to your last physical address was not responded to in time.

Its basically not legal, anywhere in the US, right now, to live in a car and park it almost anywhere.

You have to be hypervigilant, to survive this way, and ... that just is PTSD, it'll make you worse at your job, more likely to lose it.

So we're basically just making a permanent, sub-proletariat class, thats just gonna get funneled into jail or some kind of concentration camp, probably just turned into some kind of functional, if not formal slave class, whether by debt or criminal conviction or both... within, I dunno, 5 years or less?

Don't forget how hundreds to thousands of them routinely fail and/or otherwise deorbit themselves, thus necessitating constant replenishment.

Its basically the least sustainable, most insane space paradigm currently actually possible with our tech and resources.

After all, I'm sure we can just undo a Kessler Syndrome cascade effect.

Right?

Bingo.

Fast travel remains a staple mechanic because game devs:

1. Often can't figure out a way to make travel itself into a gameplay mechanic or experience that is varied and interesting.

2. Keep designing checklists of things for the player to do, with games built around them, as opposed to inverse of that... which trains players to just be checklist checker offers.

There's no point to having an open world if it is not engaging or interesting, so... when your open world lacks depth, you end up in a nonsense situation where you have a poorly designed feature, with essentially a 'skip' mechanic for said feature.

... Why bother with the feature, at that point?

Hell, even the Rockstar games would give you interesting dialogue, in transit... not really gameplay per se, but it is generally engaging, can help with action intensity pacing, and of course, give you the story.

There are so many ways you could gameify or at least make travel itself more interesting.

Do that, and fast travel becomes near totally pointless.