render distance very low today

who used all the compute?

can’t even load the got dang new jersey
@futurebird In fairness, there's some buggy code in that module.
@futurebird and you never know what’s lurking in the mist on our side of the Hudson.
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Elevator pitch: Silent Hill, but it’s Staten Island

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Has AI sucked all the compute and most of the power from the grid today?

@futurebird did you cache the old jersey?

Herobrine! (the musical)

Herobrine takes Manhattan.

new saas idea : pay to see the horizon in the current simulation of reality !

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@rick sounds like yet another dystopia made into a startup (I'm thinking of the Jubilee trilogy, where everyone wears AR glasses and you have to pay a lot to do anything, including be allowed to see "unaugmented" reality)
https://elikpwilliam.com/cash-crash-jubilee/
Cash Crash Jubilee (book one of the Jubilee Cycle trilogy)

Book one of the Jubilee Cycle, a cyberpunk trilogy by Eli K.P William. Set in a dystopian future Tokyo where actions are owned by corporations who charge fees.

Eli K.P. William

@futurebird Heh, I think MiSide covered this. It means the server is a bit overloaded at the moment.

Just be glad it adds the fog effect so you can't see the building pop-in as you walk.

@futurebird AI. it now looks better than reality and we get this.
@futurebird actually i like it, it is liminal so thanks for the shot.
@futurebird sorry, compute cores were too busy filtering cat images into the pipelines 👩🏽‍🔧🐈🐈‍⬛
@futurebird you just need to unlock more missions to go further!
@futurebird what you doing in silent hill?
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I think this is on purpose, because you didn't do the required age verification. 🤔

@futurebird

Was teaching the kiddos about Mario Party 64 last night, explaining that, back then, we were afforded way fewer polygons at once.

@futurebird Lovely photos! I mean, renderings! 😅
@futurebird
Someone's using the quantum wavefunctions for compute, and doesn't want them to collapse prematurely due to spurious observation.
@futurebird Are you in Silent Hill?
@futurebird sorry, we needed the gpu for new jersAI
@futurebird this AI bubble is getting worse and worse!
@futurebird Trump's regime is using it all to decide what girl's school to bomb next.

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I told you not to buy Nvidia!

Now you gotta install their drivers, pray and reboot!! 😄

@rl_dane @futurebird

too bad swaywm changed the flag from --my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia to --unsupported-gpu.

@[email protected] the silent hill graphics are getting better and better.
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*nervously pushes his his complex machine I to the closet, whistling*
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I can't tell you. If it's my fault, I apologize in advance...
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I don't know the answer, someone used all the Intelligence today.
@futurebird Loading a multistage ambush for sure, that fog is a dead giveaway. You don't even need to hear the boss music.
@futurebird San Francisco was pretty clear and sunny this weekend. Must be using a bigger share of the compute budget than usual.
@futurebird We live someplace where we get bright blue sky during downpours. Kids blame glitchy sky rendering.
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I sold some of the RAM to pay for fuel and rent. Sorry.
@futurebird darn AI companies using all of the simulation resources, it's lagging the server!
@futurebird At least the programmers made it look nice. Didn't just clip it off at a kilometre. That was nice.
@futurebird This is the price for HDR. Oh sorry: due to high-resolution textures.
@futurebird RAMAGEDDEON hits again
@futurebird tryna play minecraft on an old laptop in 2010 be like:
@futurebird you need to disable the volumetric fog mod
@futurebird This is what happens when the computing cloud goes down (and reaches ground level).