HL2 RTX seems to have a terrible performance

[Ceceli Δ]

At 1440p and DLSS Performance, it's running at 55 FPS with a freaking 5090! Bruh... That's sad.

Source: https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-rtx-remix-leaves-beta-half-life-2-rtx-demo-launching-march-18?

[supergoyo77]

Originally posted by Ultrabot:

Uh ok.
I do some target shooting, for fun, but no. Took a pellet in my back once as a kid, that stung. But yeah nothing like that?

I don't know what the heck happened in this thread? Let's all cool down a bit there's no need for bullets

When I was a kid, we played mostly outside because there was more security and freedom, and less technology. We didn't invent many ways, and one of them was to play battle royale in abandoned places, making rifles out of a wooden board. You'd place a wooden board roughly the size of a human arm and hammer a nail into one end and a clothespin into the other end with a nail, a thick, elastic rubber band with the iron from another clothespin. When you let go of the first clothespin, the iron and the rubber band would fly out, leaving you covered in bruises every time you came home.
That's how I developed a good aim that lasts to this day.
Before, we had more imagination and fewer resources.

[supergoyo77]

And I forgot, the weapon cuts like a pistol or that's what we made by cutting a small plastic Coca-Cola bottle, where you drink and we put a small balloon, then you took a small stone the size of a chickpea or you stole the chickpeas from your mother and you shot it at full speed.

[Ultrabot]

Well I suppose my story failed to amuse, but appreciate you sharing. Reminds me a bit of my uncle (royal marines) and my father, they used to play with bullets and nails when they were little, and other games much like yours. I just had an air gun growing up haha. Good fun though. I think you're right a lot of kids spend way too much time indoors. I was almost always out during the day, on a bike, playing football, etc. never been overweight.

Near where I lived there was an old ww2 tunnel/bunker that supposedly led all the way to the next town over, or so we heard, we explored right up to the point it had been sealed off, didn't find much there. It's been sealed off entirely now.

[supergoyo77]

Originally posted by Ultrabot:

Well I suppose my story failed to amuse, but appreciate you sharing. Reminds me a bit of my uncle (royal marines) and my father, they used to play with bullets and nails when they were little, and other games much like yours. I just had an air gun growing up haha. Good fun though. I think you're right a lot of kids spend way too much time indoors. I was almost always out during the day, on a bike, playing football, etc. never been overweight.

Near where I lived there was an old ww2 tunnel/bunker that supposedly led all the way to the next town over, or so we heard, we explored right up to the point it had been sealed off, didn't find much there. It's been sealed off entirely now.

Even though there were still many destroyed houses from the civil war here back then, it was like a set from a movie we used to watch on TV, and it immersed you in the action, like a real battle. It was fun, although painful. Your uncle and father are my family. Give them my regards when you see them, if that's possible.

[supergoyo77]

I don't know how many bicycles I destroyed in my childhood, but there were at least three, and soccer is a national sport. I played it even in my dreams. Thank God I was able to live through a good time, and I hope there isn't a big mess like World War III so all these kids can live in peace.

[Ultrabot]

yeah man, they'd probably say the same.

I remember seeing the start of the Ukraine war, some young Russians who'd probably been playing on their x boxes not long before stuck in a elevator that had been turned off. Most of the comments were along the lines of "throw a grenade in". I know there's many on the internet who follow the war as though they are personally involved, read all the horror stories. Yet we know from history that's what war is. It's what I'd expect to read and see. So I don't follow it that closely but I am aware of it. Easy for some to say stuff behind a screen. I'm no fan of Putin, I'm no fan of western politicians either. I hope the guns stop and the talking starts.

[supergoyo77]

I'm not a follower of anyone, much less a politician, since they live disconnected from the reality of the people, the reality of the planet, even their own reality. I can't stand them, not them, nor their lies.
Are they organizing a war? Let their children go fight because mine won't, and we all know what's going on. They'll pull strings everywhere, using their stratospheric salaries, which we all pay for with our taxes, to free their children and let ours die.

[Ceceli Δ]

In my time we played with rubber band on our fingers and shot steel paper clips, but kids who got hit cried like snowflakes. Had I been born a few years earlier, perhaps it would have been much better.

[supergoyo77]

Originally posted by Ceceli Δ:

In my time we played with rubber band on our fingers and shot steel paper clips, but kids who got hit cried like snowflakes. Had I been born a few years earlier, perhaps it would have been much better.

Hahahahahahhahahhahhahhahha, Yes, apparently they're softer and more pampered, and if they break a nail, they cry, that's the way it is.
If you had been born in my era, you would surely have had a good time. We cried less, we resisted more, and when you got home, you would tell your mother any story when she saw your bruises. "I fell off my bike, Mom," it became "Playing soccer, Mom," hahahahahaha.