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  • Because they hired UI/UX people who aren’t very technical and they told them that red numbers and technical jargon makes people sad.

    So the product manager who’s never played the game decides to drop it along with anything else the UI/UX and Marketing people say they don’t like.

    The actual developer and artists argue otherwise, but they get told that they’re “not the target market”, because they have… opinions.

    So they release the game and nobody buys it. The product manager then shifts from talking about day 1 sales to how they’re influencing the industry and the game’s success will be felt wider than just sales figures while quietly finding another project in its infancy to attach to.

    The UX/UI people are floating in the company so they’re already on the new project saying that “umm ya’know I don’t really get… modding or servahs”

    The developers are told the failure is their fault and they need to fix it and the artists are told to come up with 6 new character designs that are contractually sourced from the latest collaboration with Peppa Pig and have strict requirements where Peppa Pig can’t be shown in the same room as Sal the big mean butcher at the same time.

    And that’s the story of Concord.

    (and why you don’t get pings anymore)

















  • Yeh A380 arc really shines here. A couple of unsolicited notes if you go that route.

    Ffmpeg > 6.0

    VAAPI api is the winner for encoder, libsvtav1 is good too. - libaom-av1 is REALLY slow.

    intel-media-sdk is needed - at least in debian, the free version in bookworm and testing repos is perfect - the non-free version mangled the files Decoder support in hardware is a thing to watch out for. (Plex+AppleTV had to have a profile set and forced on it, but that was really simple)

    At the moment, I’m running three encoding streams simultaneously and it uses around 95% of the GPU BUSY stats - I don’t strictly know if that’s the best metric to measure against, but it is good enough for my half-arsed efforts.

    Given the price I’ve seen the 750’s on sale for, it wasn’t that much of a reach to put a 750 in the server as well, but it was a physical space constraint plus once I’m finished the encoding effort, it would be way more than is ever needed for on the fly transcodes or one offs. Plus there are low profile A380 variants and it doesn’t require an extra power connector*.

    *Turns out the Asrock one I have does require an 8pin - but it looks like the low profile version doesn’t. So maybe discount that point