u/WindowsInAWindow

No one has ever enjoyed playing against you. Even if you've played thousands of matches, 0 of them have been fun for your opponent.

Just so you know.

I'm a Mario purist. I've played him for so many hours I'm afraid to look, and yes, I fair too much. I'm currently hovering around 16.3M GSP for context to those who know the level of play up there right now.

Lots of people think Mario is a goo goo ga ga easy combo machine, and at certain percents against a small handful of characters it's true. There are maybe five matchups where basically all of your moves combo into each other. But against fast fallers and floaties, things change.

People say, "all of his moves combo." Rarely true; depends a lot on the matchup. What is true is that all of his moves can be followed up with something specific. For example, at 0% on a fox, up throw into dair into fair is true. At 5%, switch the fair to an up B. From ~5-20%, all you can do on grab (yes, Mario grabs a lot) is raw dtilt into air dodge read. Or bair into bair off stage into dunk when the knockback stars align. Only from ~20-25% is dthrow into up air true. Fox is an extreme example of weird air movement, maybe the most difficult character to combo with Mario, but he's a great example to describe how Mario's combos work. Throws at low% (Mario's infamous bread and butter) really arent that great against a vast majority of the cast unless you really know the matchup and thus know which parts of his kit to emphasize.

Now when fox or any other character with weird air movement get into mid%, good luck consistently comboing (key word: "consistently") without a ridiculous amount of experience and ability to make up combos on the fly. When ANY character, including combo-food matchups get to high%, Mario is boned without a hard read smash attack.

On heavies, don't get hit, then hit buttons when you get in. But seriously, don't get hit. Mario touches DK at any percent and more often than not you'll have a dead DK. This is true, and this is the kind of thing that makes people hate Mario. But what people ignore is that same goes for DK touching Mario at any percent. DK can push Mario off stage, and more often than not that's gonna be a dead Mario.

Point is, MARIO IS NOT EASY. IMO, is you want to push to high GSP, Mario should be among your last choices. So many other top tiers are WAY easier to play at a high level. Go ahead and use him at Low GSP, but good luck staying in elite smash unless you main him or else you're just really fucking good at the game.

No idea how to find the answer to this question. I figure someone here knows and might be willing to explain.

To preface, this controller is no better or worse than others in this regard. Shower heads are designed for people a little shorter than me and controllers are made for average hands.

Never been too much of a problem nor is it now, but this is immediately my "forever controller" so might as well get into modding now. I don't have access to a 3d printer tho

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I'm passing an RTX 3080 through to a windows VM. At host boot, I'm isolating 6 of my 8 physical cores for the VM using isolcpus and nohn_full, as well as 24 of my 32 GB RAM for hugepages. Then in my xml, I've pinned one of the two remaining host cores (both threads) for the emulator and the other for an iothread. I've been using this config for a long time with satisfactory VM performance, but I have no idea what i'm doing, why it works, or whether I could change up the formula to get better gaming performance in my VM.

If a kind individual and/or or someone who likes these puzzles would like to help, I've tried to come up with a few specific questions with my limited knowledge that I hope will make things easier:

1. Do I even need to pin cores for the emulator and/or iothread? Idek what these two cores have been doing.

2. Regardless of the answer to (1), would I want to isolate either of these cores at boot somehow?

3. My host is running KDE plasma at all times, but it's completely idle while my VM is running with basically zero tasks running. Regardless of the answers to (1) and (2), should I consider isolating one fewer core at boot to do nothing but perform ancillary host functions? I know that multithreaded gaming performance wasn't great for the longest time, so maybe it wouldn't affect VM gaming performance too much by isolating 5 cores instead of 6?

4. How's my RAM allocation all things considered?

5. Most importantly, are there any better questions I'm not asking? Hoping for this to be a learning experience.

Added context:
I never solved the puzzle of dynamically isolating CPU cores, because there's no point since I only ever use my VM for gaming. When I'm done playing games, I just edit grub and reboot to return all resources to my host. I've dual booted before and I know that's the simple solution, but I think my username should explain why I don't do that anymore. I virtualize for the sake of virtualizing, basically. Also I'm spiteful toward Microsoft.

I didn't buy this to play games, cause it's just always gonna be mouse and keyboard 'till I die. I bought my Steam controller with one vision in mind; I wanted to use my regular desktop UI as a primary TV source. This is something I've wanted for a long time because I just know my PC front to back and can make it do whatever I want it to do. I don't want to deal with the clunky and tightly-controlled UI of a console, Apple TV, Roku, Firestick, etc.. My desktop does everything they can do just as well and it's also universal in every possible way.

This has been a dream of mine for a while, but there's never been a solution to the very simple problem of lugging around a keyboard and dealing with a mouse on random surfaces. Mouse/keyboard input for my TV has always been just enough of an inconvenience that I've been willing to cave in to the corpos and use their devices for streaming.

Along comes the Steam controller with Dual Trackpads. Finally... FINALLY a simple solution to virtual keyboards. It's not perfect, but is it the best solution I've ever come across for controlling your PC from the couch? Absolutely, and by a lot. There's definitely a learning curve to the virtual keyboard, but I can see myself eventually typing on it nearly as fast as I type on my phone. It's actually viable, and it's a single, remote sized device, making it very aesthetic for a living room.

Oh yeah, and it's also a great controller for games if I don't care about input precision. Best I've ever used.

Just want to add to the data points.

And yes, it is sick as fuck. Plugged in and just worked right away on my linux desktop (rare for any hardware) and it functions great as a mouse and keyboard replacement for when you want to use your desktop while lounging on the couch. The dual trackpads make your virtual keyboard very usable once you start getting the hang of it. That's the main function I bought mine for, and it lives up to my expectations and then some.

All hail Lord Gaben.

Edit: Region US

Idk how y'all feel about Dasani in general, but my guess is that many here think it's the worst of the worst. I was one of you in times past, but I've now seen the light. During my chemical engineering undergrad studies, I explored and rated an industrial reverse osmosis rig and learned just how incredibly well they work. Those systems really do filter out just about everything your taste buds might pick up.

If you're like me and feel a little dirty drinking mountain spring water, knowing the humanitarian cost of the business, you really should just pick from one of the handful of brands that use RO and call it a day. Ever since I studied an industrial-grade rig, Dasani stopped tasting like every bottle had a nickel in it. Now it's my go-to because it's also usually one of the cheaper options.

It was placebo all along. All hail Dasani.

An 18 minute video titled "everything about life sucks and is horrible" popped into my recommended, where the thumbnail shows a guy in his messy car just ranting into the camera. Not interested for so many reasons. So I use youtube's built-in feature for this exact scenario.

Of all the 100 reasons I'd never watch this crap, the only two options I'm given after, "tell us why" are "I've already watched the video" or "I don't like the video"... HOW CAN I SAY I DIDN'T LIKE THE VIDEO IF I HAVEN'T SEEN THE VIDEO??? Where is the "I WOULDN'T like this video" option or something like it? Where is the, I don't know... THIRD option?

Like damn, youtube. Help me help you. Google doesn't have enough money to come up with more than two useless options?

Part of me wants to just go simple and play the series sequentially, but then again there are plenty of game franchises where I'd recommend someone starts with the second or third iteration.

I'm a big fan of Hollow Knight and Silksong, and while I do see Silksong as an improvement in most ways, I'd still recommend people play Hollow Knight first since it's just a fantastic game on it's own. Hollow Knight is close enough to Silksong in terms of the overall experience that it doesn't make much sense to jump to the second game just for the improved combat loop and mechanics.

On the other hand, I always recommend Eternal first with the modern DOOM trilogy because it's objectively so much better than the first in just about every single way. DOOM 2016 was great, but Eternal might be the best game I've ever played.

What about Ori? Is it similar to Hollow Knight v Silksong? Or is the second iteration a massive enough improvement in gameplay that I should just start there?