u/Alone_End5987

I'm strictly a hobbyist, I just want to do my own projects on the side. Like making a PS1 emulator, a chess engine, and a physics engine from scratch.

I'm wondering which of these two is more fun. I don't mean faster or easier, I mean fun. Writing the syntax out, thinking the approach to the problems through, the whole experience of writing the project.

I just want to have fun I don't care about doing it optimally.

So Suyu apparently just dropped some revolutionary static compilation code that makes it run on x86 architecture like it's native.

Does this make it a better emulator than Eden now? My cpu isn't too strong, it's a Ryzen 5 3600. I'm looking for a default emulator.

So I'm wondering about the inversion of the usual "How can something come from nothing?" If you ever get a something, could you then get a true nothing after it?

Could there be a last particle or something that would just take its last breath, cease to exist and bring about true nothingness?

And when I say "bring about true nothingess" I'm obviously using a figure of speech. Nothingness is a very hard thing to talk about linguistically.

My intuition finds it kinda weird for there to be a last particle because all these physical entities are interdependent with ratios and laws and forces and properties and whatnot, so I can't imagine a final thing. Every substrate disappearing, how would the last thing do that? It couldn't explode or expell its energy since that's something, it would have to be literally completely erased somehow.....right?

Silent Hill 2 (original) and Shadow of the Colossus gave me this impression.

Something that's hazy, almost bleeding at the edges like a fading memory, solemn, dignified, sublime, ethereal, serious... I can't quite put it into words. Transcendent?

It's just this beautiful quality that feels almost like a dream, or a glimpse of heaven. I can't get enough of it. I've replayed Silent Hill 2, and I'm wondering if there are more games with this tone out there.

I'm completely new to mecha; I like drawing and transformers, and I started looking at some mecha art recently. It looks super cool!! I hear it's a huge thing in Japan.

So what anime are considered to be the best in the mecha genre, of all time?

I mean the actual must-watch 10/10 masterpieces. Are there any?

And also, is the genre usually just spectacle and no substance or do they have good emotional moments too?

So I'm on a 1080p monitor.

My specs are:

Ryzen 5 3600

RTX 5060 8GB Vram

32GB ddr4 ram

SSD

Will it hit stable 60 or is my CPU too big of a bottleneck?

I heard people say the PS2 version is even better than the PC port because it has better facial animations or something? Is that true?

So PCSX2 is better than the PC port and RPCS3 and Eden?

So I'm just getting into ranked (on EUW), but I see he has a 13.53% pick rate and a 16.16% ban rate. Assuming the champ select is fair, of those 13% of games, half of them you'll get the pick, and the other half will be your opponent.

Add to that the 0-2% autofill that junglers get, and 5-10% of unplayable team matchups. That means I wouldn't be able to play him in about......≈31.43% of my games.

Meaning if I play a 1000 games, I won't get to play him in 310 of them. The math can be changed around but the numers are still pretty big.

I really want a hyper-mechanical champ, but I'm worried I'd be wasting times with these statistics, and that I could improve far more, far quicker with some more often available champ.

What do you guys think?

IMPORTANT:

I'm not asking for a simple bottle movie. For example "Locke," "Buried," or "Phone Booth" aren't exactly what I want. It's something more specific and niche.

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It has to have:

• A warm, lived-in location (like a cabin, or a cottage or a mansion etc.)

• some reason they're stuck there that adds a base level of stakes (like a snowstorm or a rainstorm or an isolated place etc.)

• a group of people sharing the same space

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Optional but preferred:

• They're settling in for the night: conversation, food and drinks

• There's a threat (like a serial killer on the loose or ghosts) that gives stakes but people don't just leave easily, they have to stay in the place and contend

• Horror is fine, like The Thing and The Shining, BUT NOT absolutely obscene, grotesque, extreme gore and violence. That makes it not cozy.

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The perfect example would be an episode of the old british TV show "Only Fools and Horses" where the three main characters arrive at a cottage at night and a police officer warns them that a serial killer is on the loose so they stay, start preparing food and games, while it's raining like hell outside and it's night. It's so intimate and introverted and it has drama and stakes, and I love the 1970s aesthetic of it.

The whole thing's just SO DAMN COZY.

This whole trope is my favorite in all of storytelling and is just inherently cozy to me. Are there movies like that?

I fricking LOVE this medium, it's soo good! The music, the atmosphere, the creativity of these stories, the sound effects....god!!

The only problem that I have is JESUS CHRIST THEY'RE LONG. I don't want to spend an average of 50+ hours on these.

I just finished my first visual novel, which was Umineko: When They Cry. It was one of the best things I've ever read but I'm severely tired by the like 130 HOURS it took me to complete it. That's like Red Dead Redemption 2 length wtf. This took me 2 months to finish.

So can you please share what the absolute best vns that are under 10 hours are?

It's like every time I search up the best manga it's on hiatus.

I don't want to get so attached and waste my time on an unfinished story.

What are the absolute best manga that I can read, finish, and FINALLY be satisfied with?

I've read Dodi's one has problems, Fitgirl's ones are either HV or a non-HV that only works on a specific version of Windows 10 and not 11.

Is this game still not cracked?

I've heard about that Buridan's Ass thought experiment where a donkey is placed between two perfectly equal bales of hay, and the idea is that he cannot choose because there is no logical reason to prefer either so he'll just starve in the middle.

Could the same be applied to God? (Abhramic God I mean) Like if he was solving one of those Maze games where you drag your pen through the corridors to get from one side to the other, and there was a crossroads at one point with two perfectly equal options: equal distance to the end, equal width, equal work needed to finish both....

Would God be able to finish the maze? If God is a perfect being and all his actions are perfect, what is the "perfect choice" given two equal possibilities?

I don't know if anyone else experienced this, but AOT gives me a buzzing feeling in my body.

The sheer seriousness, dignity, philosophical, existential, poetic moments... The beautiful music that spans from poetic, tender and nostalgic to extremely violent and intense and is larger than life...

I don't think it's necesarily the size of the world or scope of the story, it's the interactions between the characters. It doesn't feel flippant, or empty or like shallow entertainment. It feels awe-worthy, sublime and significant.

I don't know if I'm making any sense? 😅😅

So I'm a beginner but I'd also like a tablet capable of making professional art. I don't want to have to buy another tablet down the line for $400 for a total of $500 to actually start drawing seriously.

So is it still a competent tablet?

So I'm a beginner but I'd also like a tablet capable of making professional art.

I don't want to have to buy another tablet down the line for $400 for a total of $500 to actually start drawing seriously.

So is it still a competent tablet?

I don't get it. Like, if you only know one champion, what if he gets banned? Or picked? Or counterpicked? Or you get auto-filled into a different role...are you not just screwed? Since you don't know anything else?

Isn't that far more inefficient to deal with than learning just one or two more champions on the side to a basic level?

Why do I keep hearing people say it's the best way to climb? Can someone please explain to me how this is supposed to work?

(I'm not new, I've been playing for 8 months, exclusively ARAM, I don't have a single Ranked game played yet, I just did the placement matches. I have a 50.2% winrate against platinum, emerald and gold players in ARAM.)

I heard somewhere Viktor teaches great fundamentals similar to Orianna and that he's relatively good for climbing, does that hold this year?