My commentary on things like video games, anime, manga, and other media.
4 Oct 2021 2 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty
Co-published on Read.cash. Back in July when Linux hit the 1% milestone, I hypothesized that there was genuine momentum due to the lukewarm reception towards Windows 11 and Linux's greater versatility with FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR). A month l...
1 Oct 2021 4 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty
Introduction As Yoh and his friends all have advanced to the second round, the stakes of the Shaman tournament are even higher. While Yoh managed to quite literally one shot Team Icemen, as the previous episode showed near the end, it would take more...
25 Sep 2021 5 minute read 1 comment LateToTheParty
Co-published on Read.cash. Introduction: Anti-Cheat Support Finally Arrives to Linux Over the last 3 years, Linux gaming has made a lot of progress thanks to Valve's Proton compatibility layer and the translation layers of DXVK and VKD3D. If you look...
23 Sep 2021 3 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty
Introduction Previously, Yoh, Ryu, and Faust just began their match against Team Icemen. Before the fight, Team Icemen (really the leader, Pino) got pissed at Yoh for nonchalantly proclaiming that he could end the match in one strike. Team Icemen wer...
15 Sep 2021 4 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty
Introduction In the previous episode, Shaman King dramatically raised the stakes of the tournament with the merciless brutality of the X-Laws, particularly its leader Jeanne. To recap, Jeanne, Marco, and Lyserg went up against Team Niles. Lyserg almo...
5 Sep 2021 4 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty
Introduction Previously, Shaman King concluded the very first fight of the shaman tournament. Overall, I felt that the execution of the fight and storytelling of Chocolove's past was done very well. There were a few issues I had, like the plot hole r...
3 Sep 2021 3 minute read 3 comments LateToTheParty
When Linux officially hit 1% marketshare on Steam's July 2021 hardware survey, I was pretty ecstatic. For three years since Valve dropped a bombshell that was Steam Proton, the marketshare would show an upward trend, but not quite get there. I had th...
29 Aug 2021 4 minute read 1 comment LateToTheParty
Introduction Last week, Shaman King began the tournament arc. Ren, Horohoro, and Chocolove had the honor of fighting the first match against one of Hao's henchmen teams. The rock monk duo, BoZ, were their opponents plus a mysterious third teammate na...
22 Aug 2021 4 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty
Introduction Previously, all of the main characters reached Patch Village. While Yoh and his friends finally passed their first challenge after weeks of travel, they soon ran into a roadblock. The newly introduced character, Chocolove, revealed that...
21 Aug 2021 3 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty
On August 19, Intel showcased its Architecture Day 2021 presentation. The approximately 2-hour long event featured the Alder Lake architecture on the CPU side and the newly named Arc architecture on the GPU side. Overall, the presentation was very so...
