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[Vector]

Try seasoning with lard? You can look up how to do it for a wok. You shouldn't be having problems like that with stainless steel if you are properly oiling the pan, so my best guess is that it needs the seasoning process.

(I almost exclusively cook in cast iron which is different but this does sound powerfully like a seasoning problem)

[methylatedspirit]

Apart from benchmarking and flexing on others (and I'm convinced those two are actually the same thing), who actually plays their brand-new AAA games at, like 100, 200, 300+ FPS, but not even a consistent one? Like, who plays RDR2 at 177 FPS, but not even a steady 177? Surely you'd just enable VSync, which would give you a steady 120 if you had a 120 Hz monitor.

[McTraveller]

Like, who plays RDR2 at 177 FPS

I misread this as "who plays R2D2 at 177FPS".

[hector13]

Like, who plays RDR2 at 177 FPS

I misread this as "who plays R2D2 at 177FPS".

Hey, you don’t know what those droids get up to in their private time.

[methylatedspirit]

Why was video calling considered to be "the future" back in the 90s or so? I mean, the earliest video codecs were made specifically for this purpose; H.261 (predecessor of MPEG-2 Video and H.264, among others) was made for videotelephony, not video storage. Seems a bit odd that they'd (the public, the manufacturers, MPEG...) pursue a dream that didn't exactly seem practical at the time, but that's just every successful invention in a nutshell.

[dragdeler]

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[MrRoboto75]

I'm pretty sure vidphones was the natural progression of "sci-fi", from text based mail and telegrams, to sound based telephone, to finally visual comms via live video.

[methylatedspirit]

I have a hypothetical plan to plug in a cheapo capture card into my main PC, plug in a different computer into the capture card, then use the preview in OBS as the display. How much input lag would I get that way?

[wierd]

Depends on the codecs in question, but can be over 1 second.

[methylatedspirit]

So "tolerable" for command-line (but you better be careful with dd, rm and other risky commands), beyond awful for GUI, got it.

[wierd]

You really would be better served by either setting up RDP on windows OR using VNC on linux.

Honestly.

[methylatedspirit]

Are there any pieces of software that release new versions in the same way Dwarf Fortress does, that isn't DF? DF releases in irregular bursts, with possibly months or years between each burst, yet is still in alpha.

[Frumple]

Sure? Pretty sure Aurora does something similar, and as a general thing long term passion projects by solo or small team devs have a tendency to work roughly like that. DF isn't unique in its release/development cycle, just in how it hasn't keeled over dead yet

The alpha/beta/whatever terminology isn't particularly consistent, though. I wouldn't get hung up on that, what counts as that is calvinball with the dev making up the rules.

[Rolan7]

Betas are *supposed* to be feature-complete compared to alphas, only requiring beta-testing to find bugs.  The underlying game isn't supposed to change.

But of course that doesn't work for games designed for continuous development.  I guess technically DF would have various stages of internal alpha, released beta, released bugfix - then back to work on the next stage.  Other games have DLCs and expansions (or be like Stellaris and completely rewrite the design doc every few months, hehe).

[Frumple]

Plenty of betas that don't have a continuous development thing going on change radically prior to release (if they ever release), or are missing major features. There's also alphas that are largely feature complete. So on, so forth. Practically, there's not really a "supposed to" in regards to alpha/beta/whatever features, least not that I've noticed.

Not that that's really a surprise, exactly. The person who decides something is an alpha or beta is whoever it is that's naming the versions, not some kind of central authority. Dev cycles are like gods, everyone worships their own conceptualization of them