I’d say remaster to remake exists on spectrum. On one side you can have a “strict” remaster with graphical / modern compatibility updates and bugfixes, on the other side you can have what is essentially a different game, but one with common gameplay/themes/narrative. And then you have everything in-between.

Haven’t played the original, so it’s difficult for me to accurately judge, but I think this is some what universal.

There were several games like that for me when I was growing up in the 90s and early 2000s. :)

Even FB games are having a retro revival moment! 2007 was almost 20 years ago!

Who is downvoting this? It’s an excellent (and funny) long form interview/discussion.

Haha, mask off, eh?

The one where the USSR invaded the Baltic nations and Poland. Not mention mass killing, deportation of local population and attempts at exterminating local culture to replace it with russians.

You online commie roleplayers are so boring! You spam the same dull copytext/images.

But the cherry on top is how it so clear how you have no fucking clue what you’re talking about.

There is a high likelihood you’ve never even been to say Estonia or Poland. You’ve probably never even spoken to a Danish or Latvian person in your life (let alone being friends with them)!

You just found some regressive gibberish online and are parroting it in some fucked up online roleplay thing.

Totally! I was fascinated by their statement that no one in Hungary wanted to not be dominated by a blood-thirsty, genocidal regime that collaborated with the Nazis to split up Europe.

I mean look how well things worked out for Hungary under Soviet dominance! Excellent quality of life for the next 40 years!

The GIA even forced hundreds of thousands of Hungarians out of their homes and into Austria (and to a lesser extent Yugoslavia) to give legimacy to their “coup” that was definitely not a mass movement for self-determination!

The funny thing is even the pro-putin russians would be extremely suspicious of the tankie rhetoric (while appreciating the support for gencidal imperialism and rejection of self-determination for occupied nations) due to sheer level of disconnection from reality.

Now cite CIA article about how food quality in 80s USSR was better than the US.

This is typical tankie “BIA conspiracy” gibberish, albeit with a more cunning duplicitousness.

CIA backed coup attempt

Haha

You misunderstand, I don’t have any allegiance to Intel/AMD or ARM or Apple.

I am interested in factual reality though. This is not about Qualcomm versus AMD or whatever. It’s common sense. If you have a use case (e.g. x265 encode or god forbid an AV1 encode) that takes many hours, you laptop is going to suffer due to cooling issue. This is even true for an ARM laptop versus an ARM desktop.

I think the results you mention back up what I said?

So you’re saying that throttling after 5 min is not an issue with MT (or even ST) workloads?

I would be happy to be proven wrong (I am not kidding), but I would need solid proof from a 3rd party.

No offence, but random claims online is not how it works.

Mind you, I am not saying you or your friend are lying. There are likely other factors at play.

I thought you said your friend used applications not benchmarks. You know something like x265 encoding, AI video upscaling, mining XMR (CPU based crypto) or complex single-thread dependent strategy games; I say this as someone involved in computers for hobbies and leisure, not in a professional manner.

No offence, but what you are saying does not sound convincing in the least.

A high level X Elite GB6 ST/MT score is around 2,800 ST and 14,300 MT.

A high level 5950X GB6 ST/MT score is around 2,400 ST and 14,300 MT.

And this is a short GB benchmark (i.e. not sustained for hours on end).

You’re saying if I give you a complex (lots of water, storms, seas) 2+ hour BD source to encode into x265, your friend’s X Elite laptops won’t start to throttle in ~5 min and it will complete it in the same time as your 5950X? You’ll have to provide proof.

But he’s been using it for a while now and says everything works just fine. Replacing a big box workstation with a thin and light notebook and have it perform better is pretty wild.

Some specifics would be interesting. What applications were being used on the big box workstation?

But I do have a result screenshotted of 27.9 in Speedometer 3.0

Not aware of Speedometer 3.0, this does seem like a very solid result, but what does it show? Do you have any context on it? This is the first time I’ve encountered this particular benchmarks, would be interesting to hear about what it means.

I am not saying x86 apps don’t work (well some don’t work at all), but emulated apps usually have a bunch of strange bugs or issues like the provider refusing to honour commercial support when using the application on WoA. Here is one example:

Adobe Acrobat and Reader work on Windows on ARM (Windows 10/11) primarily via 32-bit (x86) emulation, with native ARM64 support actively in development. While usable, it may exhibit slower performance, lack PDF thumbnail previews, and have limitations with Outlook integration

I have other examples of applications that I use. For whatever reason, this piece often gets ignored when discussions about WoA come up.

And I am ignoring thing like line-of-business apps, regional commercial applications (local enterprise accounting software is not going support WoA) and consumer applications (less common than enterprise).

Not to mention issues like lower re-sale value, higher cost of repair and generally a pricier and much less developed support ecosystem. This is a big deal if you live in a developing country (or you have below median income in a place like the US).

you often see them on discount for $600 as opposed to the $1200+

The discount reflects the low level of demand.

The fact of the matter is that the current crop of X Elite devices are worse in every way relative to comparable x86 devices. This might change with Nvidia backed WoA devices, but I have a feeling they’ll be more focused on selling ML enterprise GPU than being fully committed to fighting it out in the relatively low margin consumer sector.

Valve’s compatibility layer for ARM making games work

I thought this was for Linux not WoA?

Sure, but Qualcomm is not Apple and they sell to multiple OEMs.

What’s the application and what are the benchmarks? ST? MT? What is the high level profile of the use case/application?

X Elite is generally very weak in most benchmark. The originally released Geekbench 6 results were never achieved by any devices available to consumers (because they were run on a custom cooled setup with a version of Linux optimized for running that benchmark on X Elite).

garbage marketing, overpriced laptops, and bad compatibility layer

I don’t believe any of this has been fixed, but we’ll see what happens.

I somehow doubt this will be the case.

If you don’t care about gaming (or heavy duty desktop applications), you might as well get a Chromebook or a Mac (depending on your budget).

I am not a fan of American attitudes to what is marketed as free speech, but this does seem extreme.

Although I can see the point of this outside of corporate type stuff. For an individual, one could argue it makes sense. For a corporate entity (or even a private business), no way.

John Frusciante from RHCP likes making jungle/dnb?

My mind is blown!

I actually checkout his album on Bandcamp, it’s pretty good.

Movies from that time period also had a lot of drum and bass tracks.

It was a (relatively) new genre in the late 90s and it works well for energetic scenes and gameplay.

GTA2’s Funami FM had some drum and bass influenced tracks. The GTA2 intro movie used drum and bass in a way that’s very reminiscent of the time period:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z5O29rLRnw

GTA3’s MSX FM had some top notch drum and bass tracks from the legendary (by electronic music standards) Moving Shadow record label.

TJ Rizing - Agent 007

Unreal Tournament 99 had drum and bass tracks.

Michiel van den Bos - Forgone Destruction

System Shock 2 also had great drum and bass music.

Eric Brosius - Engineering

I wish this trend of using drum and bass tracks would become popular again, it’s a such good fit for intense/energetic scenes and gameplay.

It’s also great for that cold and clinical, yet psychedelic sc-fi ambience (like the Engineering track from SS2).