That’s total, since birth, right?
stusser
8007
No, you silly goose, simultaneously. My baby shoes don’t fit any more.
Baby shoes? Where I come from, you go barefoot until they make you wear shoes in high school. Or prison, whichever comes first.
High School Prison sounds like a CW series waiting to happen. If the execs are hesitant, toss in teenage vampires.
stusser
8010
I know, right? Babies aren’t walking too far, they don’t need shoes!
Enidigm
8011
This puts the shortest story in the world in a whole new light.
stusser
8012
Yeah, I always read it as “Why did Sharon gift these in the first place? Kimmy won’t walk for another two years. Someone buy them so I can spend the proceeds on crack.”
Tim_N
8013
But it is true that the most effective method to clean up afterwards is to freeze the poo with ice cold water and then hit your asshole with a hammer.
morlac
8014
Same method for gum in your hair. Go figure!
Very nice! I love the lighting and reflections. Definitely a big step up in the look of the game.
Of course, the frame rate suffered at points even with a 3090 in that video.
KevinC
8017
Not surprising, running as an emulator and then hacking in ray tracing on top of it… I can only imagine how horrifically inefficient that is. :)
Yeah, I’m guessing that if we’re not at perfect 1:1 emulation for the SNES yet, the 64 is hella far.
Not sure that’s how it’s being run. There was a multi-year effort to decompile the mario 64 ROM (https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64). This has produced a legitimate port that runs natively on PC. So they probably just changed the renderer to use Vulkan with RTX.
This version is ported to DirectX 12: https://github.com/CODYQX4/mario64pc
Quaro
8020
Minecraft RTX + Super Mario 64 RTX is almost worth $1500 for me. Though in practice a 3080 is 90% as good. Raytracing is better with these old games. Sometime because you can just use it for everything like in Minecraft, and where changing the world is gameplay, but also the lovely contract between old graphics and state of the art lighting is delicious.
DeepT
8021
Speaking of Minecraft RTX, any word on the merging of Majong accounts to the MS store for minecraft?
I bought my current rig in 2012 so it’s closing in on 9 years old now. I had planned to get a new PC this past summer but decided to wait for the new Nvidia GPUs and AMD CPUs to drop. Big mistake. Now it looks like I’m screwed. Every time I go to NZXT, there aren’t really any choices I want and only a single GPU is offered. Guess my rig will need to (hopefully) last a while longer.
Same boat, here. At this point, my optimism is focused on maybe getting super lucky to snag one of the new models when they release, because realistically I won’t be able to get one of the cards I want at a decent price at least until then (and probably not for months after).
I figure if we can last longer, it’s better anyway. What I really want is a mid-level card around the $350-$400 price point that does ray tracing well and will be great card for the next 3-4 years. And I don’t think that exists yet. Maybe next year, that card will actually exist, and a $1000 - $1200 PC bought next year in 2022 can last until 2032 given a couple of video card changes.
Ray tracing just changed the normal cycles where cards that were excellent didn’t look too much better to me than cards that were good enough. But now, the cards that are excellent look way, way better, because we’re at the start of the ray tracing cards still, relatively speaking. Hopefully AMD will have a good answer for ray tracing next year and be more competitive.
My local Microcenter now has an open box RTX 2070 (non-super) for $383; a price these days which makes me wonder if something is actually wrong with it. I’d normally never consider a used GPU, but that itch is real…
