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@onf Th̪̣̞͕̜ͥan̴̓͒̌͊ͬk̨͔̿̿͆͠ yo͖ͩ͆̑̆͟u̖͚̔ͩͭ̓,̢̂̓̄̕͞ ̶͇̋͐́͛that̘̋͊̉̚͡ ̴̖̖ͬ̃͛s̴̩̣̳̙̑e̶̲͉̊̋͛ę̯͖̼̅̊ms to̡͎ͫ͛͋̑ ̺̺͓͂ͥ͡ḥ͎̙ͣ̋̅ä̛̩̮̃͠v̫̲́̐̄̚ȩ̗̒͆͋͢ s͙͕̽̓͒̓o̻̹̻͎͜͠ḻ̜̦̀̊̽v̢̼ͫ̽́͘e̶͕̓̏̓͢d̜̪͕ͪ̆̀ ̟̄ ҉̷͋ͥmy̤̖ͦ͗͐̎ p̲͖̾ͬ̋͝robl̦̭͇̿͊͜ȇ̞̮̣̮̎m.̼̗͇ͥ̏͠

AMD R9s are already a really interesting study in interposers and dye-stacking. Over at AMD, what seems to have motivated this is an oncoming crunch getting enough data into their shader cores. Moving the data closer is a good start.

What I envision eventually is moving the data into rasterizer tile work-clusters, and allocating them each frame based on heat in a TRIM-like way. But we need a *lot* more cores before that's necessary.

One way we can keep up with Moore's Law is better interconnects; We can't just increase the die size because that reduces the probability it assembled correctly.

BUT, if we add more dies, and figure out how to stitch them together without interposers / package-on-package, we could get the advantage of all that surface area for heat dissipation, and still keep pushing the transistor counts up in useful ways.

@onf HELP I ACCIDENTALLY HIT THE TURBO BUTTON AND MY COMPUTER IS NOW 66MHz. COMMANDER KEEN RUNS TOO FAST TO PLAY PLEASE ADVISE - ALSO WHAT KEY DO I PRESS TO GET SMALL LETTERS AGAIN

"But there's this new diamond substrate" I hate to break it to you, but that's just more graphene.

One does not simply cool their way into mordor

Incidentally, drastically reducing the complexity of your task, and therefore the number of transistors you're using? *that* will get you your 200GHz chip. But then it won't run Crysis.

Something I feel like I have to explain a lot is that graphene will not get you that 200GHz chip you want. 3D / holographic logic will not get you that 200GHz chip you want. Surface plasmons will come close, but they will not get you that 200GHz chip you want. Thermodynamics says no, and you do *not* fuck with thermodynamics.

Emoji proposal: https://witches.town/media/wirHwXrVZk96baLr-xg

@unascribed https://witches.town/media/aPeLHeMUubUOL4H4XiM

Same thing with Rift, some expansions like Storm Legion having different continents that feel like they came from different expansions, versus something like Nightmare Tide which has a strong unified vision. The world design in Nightmare Tide in particular was excellent, but the constant beauty there will never match up to the first time you set foot in brevane or dusken after being on the other isle. That can be really hard, as a designer. We're making moments, individual player experiences, and something continuous can often get lost.

It's interesting hearing takes on level design on games *as a whole*, especially the balance between all the levels looking same-y versus the levels being discontinuous.

I've always looked at, say, Burning Crusade versus Warlords of Draenor - same places, envisioned and reconciled differently - and I always, *always* wind up on the BC end of things - enjoying the discontinuous individual character of a place more than a stable design vision. I've been places in the real world that *do not feel like the same world as each other*. And I treasure that.

We've finally found the cure for especially viral memes. First, you put the memes through a kind of human it's not well-adapted to, like Ajit Pai. You let the memes adapt to the new host, and then you introduce the "stunned" memes into uninfected normal humans. The humans, seeing these memes as dangerously bad, develop a natural immunity to those memes forever.

You can tell by the goatee and its network usage

Windows 10 is its own evil twin. You see, it killed Windows 9 and quietly took its place.

Also 2-player mode is Very Good