silly games

 This is mostly about Baldur's Gate 3, and how you're supposed to know stuff you could not possibly know ever without a lot of googling.

But I've written this before several times, and I doubt I'll keep it long; all the other versions are gone.

There's a guy ("Art Cullagh") laying on a bed in a crowded inn that you've just avoided killing all the tenants, and avoided the really bad guy, and the girl he's supposed to kidnap, And you've avoided talking to the nosy old crone accusing you of being a communist sympathizer (You resisted the choice to knock her head off)

How did you know the guy was lying there, and didn't your mother tell you to leave sleeping people alone?
IF you had done three or four different quests beforehand, 

and gone a way-different route (and googled it, and his name) you'd know the answer.
But skipping to subchapter 12 (googling it), you know why the guy is laying there, and you *also* know to backtrack into hell to retrieve a busted musical instrument, and playing that instrument 

(You learned how to play in chapter 6, or "It's magic," IDK.)

Find the guy that the sleeper wants (You DID remember to rescue the guy, and invite the whole town to your camp, right?) 

Anyway do ALL the stuff, and a tree will grow, and Player seems happier, the end.

(geez)

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PBO Scalar:

10X! ("Fire!")

Another rant I'll never rant,

is how most CPU's are built with overhead so reviewers won't cuss them to hell and they lay on store shelves gathering dust.

4GHz? We can do 5!!
Kinda thing, 

such that, if they RELEASED the 5GHZ CPU with NO overhead 

(Because it's built-in), Fat buttmunches would cuss it out and say their sample broke trying to torture it to 6Ghz.

So, some ad for a new CPU featuring Lisa Su (the AMD head honcho-ess)

is meaningless to me, wait till the torturers get it.

Increasingly arcane tweaks, ever more expensive cpu coolers, it's all marketing "smoke" (lol) and mirrors. But that's a different rant for somebody else.

AMD Adrenalin:

Confirmed that 24.9.1 is slower than 24.8.1, for no particular reason I can find, except that I was concentrating on the "CPU" which the GPU-driver should not care about (but it does). Using up precious CPU-Cycles to call home? IDK.

*And* (while I was there) I ran some inscrutable dx12-ultimate tests: a shader and a "VRS" test. Useless because I can't find any results page. 

(they're prolly at hwbot.org, somewhere)
I run the teeny-version of "Timespy" because I don't need any results page.