I tried Mint and Ubuntu but Linux dies a horrific death trying to run newly released hardware so I ended up on ghost spectre.
(I also assume your being sarcastic but I’m still salty about wasting a week trying various pieces of advice to make linux goddamn work)

1000W PSU for theoretical maximum draw of all components at once with a good safety margin. But even when running a render I’ve never seen it break 500W.

Saved up for a couple of years and built the best (consumer grade) non nvidia PC I could, 9070XT, 9950X3D, 64gig of RAM. Pretty much top end everything that isn’t Nvidia or just spamming redundant RAM for no reason. The whole thing still costs less than a single RTX 5090 and on average draws less power too.

Aren’t like half of those bullet points positives? Also in addition to what you said once you got a tree you got a tree, those tanks need constant maintenence and cycling which I doubt anyone is going to bother with for more than a year after installing them.

The new chainsaw tonfa is fantastic, throw on focus energy and heavy attack every time you reach 12x combo for a heat spreading melee influence monster.

Shattering Impact caa strip his armor, Doing it in public is also helpful.

Conversley Ivara has always been my favourite stealth frame, just very stress free with her augment, no worrying about an ability running out infront of some enemies and alerting the whole tile set. I don’t play her much in normal missions but I use her to farm simaris standing on steel path Kuva spy as well as for all my fishing and conservatio needs alongside an Oxylus. Wrathful Advance and Motus Signal between them pretty much cover all her mobility needs.

Hirudo is such a fantastic weapon I’m pumped to get an upgraded version.

Honestly I find the fight more tedious than hard, though it kinda sucks that a weakpoint boss is best beaten by slamming melee weapons and arca plasmor style AOEs. At least if you don’t want to settle in for an hour which is what it took me to shoot it to death with laetumn that one time.

Thanks for the reminder!

As someone in the industry (asset side) I feel there are some legitimate uses for Gen AI but they’re the kind of uses where if done properly you wouldn’t notice:

• UV seams and unwrapping, its a skill but it adds nothing to to the creative process in many cases. That said there are some caveats though to pull them off you wouldn’t want to use AI anyway.
  • Using tiny UVs and the way game engines interperate them to create gradients and colour mixes on tiny textures (Current AI can’t do this)
  • Texture Atlases, especially non-uniform ones; this is a 50/50 case, you can get super creative with them (Again its too specific for AI) but there are many more cases where it would also be super convenient if I could apply a bunch of seperate materials to faces and then have the AI unwrap and overlap the UVs which us the same materials to create the most efficient Atlas possible, this one kind of already exists as a non AI tool and results in no machine input on the end product, it just saves some texture space and thus potential performance.
• A basic AI texture generator is generally welcome for minor/throwaway assets, A lot of us are already using node based procedural texturing which is both a skill and an art form or texture libraries (or node libraries). Its not something I’d want to use on a main character or even large props but it would be super handy for small or out of the way details that just don’t merit the production time to give more than a glance.

On that note PLA is food safe anyway, the reason you don’t drink out if it is the layer lines create an environment for bacteria so with finishing and cleaning you wouldn’t even need the insert, in theory anyway though I’d still use one.

I really want to see a Valkyr protoframe but considering how DE seem to be actively ignoring how bad/buggy a state she’s in I don’t think its realistic.

Most benchmarks I’ve seen put them around 5070ti for RT performance and 5080 for raster performance. They’re about where AMD thought the 5070 was going to be before NVidia surprised us all with such a dissapointing launch.

Get 500 dollars then use AI to generate the other 3/4 of the money and buy a 5090.

Wait are we getting arcanes on all exalted weapons or just the pseudo exalts!?

Trinity always feels like a frame that despite the recent re-work is just too much from a different era of the game. On paper bless is an incredible support ability compared to something like wisps motes as it not only provides faster healing but also a full shield gate. And yet wisp is more popular because her motes provide in the moment healing which is far more relevant in the modern game where you’re either immortal or at risk of being one or two shot. It’s also far less reliant on the supporting player to monitor everyones health and hit the button at the right time.

Any specifics on that gaze build?

Valkitty time!
First of all yeh she needs a rework badly, her 1 is pre-parkour update, her 2 has been power creeped by so many other frames and her 3 doesn’t even do anything without an augment, Hysteria’s pretty great but the stance is horrid. All in all a frame that could use one of those patented Pablo lite reworks.

That said she’s still awesome, I’ve been kind of working on a bit of a ‘rework’ lately seeing how modern I can make her kit feel with just in-game mechanics. So far I have.

• Nightmare Paralysis: Prolonged Paraylsis augment + arcane trickery + arcane crepuscular + ground finishers. Now paralysis does the small grouping/stun thing but ground finishering a group of enemies grants you invisibility and a crit damage buff for 30 seconds, useful both on hysteria and non-hysteria builds.
• Better Hysteria: Tennokai, + 1 nira mod (I like the exilus one) + seismic wave on her talons. Hysteria heavy attacks are now better used as heavy slams and when you do they’ll nuke a room of level 200 steel path manic bombards without issue, gives her claws a bit more oomph without having to resort to slide attack spam.

Its… a bit of a work in progress but I still love her as a frame, ████ (too many) hours of in-mission gameplay on just Valkyr prime are proof enough of that. There’s nothing more relaxed than tooling around an exterminate or survival in perfect safety ripping grineer heads off.

Wait for DLSS4, the mfgen is series 5 exclusive but the transformer model with the improved performance is being ported all the way back to the 2000 series. Might get the performance uplift you need without buying anything if you already have an RTX card.