MentalEdge

MentalEdge, 8 hours ago

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MentalEdge, 9 hours ago (edited 8 hours ago)

Shifting up a gear on the storytelling, yet again. The elves are here to deal with the dungeon. I’ve been waiting for this episode, but I could say the same for what’s coming next week, too! GOD I LOVE THIS ANIME!!

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With this party of elves, the five parties of characters that are featured in the story have all been introduced. A truly massive cast.

The gang gets whisked away by a ghost friend that’s been following them since they encountered the master of the dungeon, taken to a level so deep and vast, it’s like being on the surface.

There is an entire country buried in the dungeon.

Back during earlier episodes, I kept pointing out depictions of winged lions. They are all over the dungeon. Now, we finally learn the significance of this.

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It is a god. A real creature that exists within the dungeon, and in fact existed before it, as well. The deity of the golden kingdom, a country which the lunatic magician used powerful forbidden magic to transform into the dungeon, thousands of years ago.

Why? The paintings provided a hint. A long lived elf, he kept seeing the humans he lived with die of old age. Learning the ways of dark magic, and mad with grief, he cursed the kingdom and all of its citizens with eternal life, so he would never lose a loved one again.

Millenia later, still living deep in the dungeon, or as ghosts roaming its upper levels, the citizens are now begging for a death that refuses to come.

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The serious tone in this episode was so well done, but it’s also full of the usual hilarity.

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Tame house-cat Izu is so damn cute! She clearly likes Marcy very much.https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/c711a2d5-f3ca-49fa-9977-95f87000f424.webphttps://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/66803dd1-a073-4cba-9142-74a599a95c44.webp

Also, I'm sorry, Farsille shippers, but the Laios x Marcy fuel isn't stopping any time soon.https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/9d019ec9-c15f-48b1-9269-fd905068f972.webphttps://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/2887c3e0-d0b6-47c8-ac65-06bd580fafcc.webp

And can we appreciate how absolutely stunning Marcy is in a fancy dress?! https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/00d64f07-c9c2-4f21-bd1d-01078c103713.webp

Have some more!https://ani.social/pictrs/image/4ae1d15a-a33d-4dda-a7d1-8129ff9b772e.webp

This episode brilliantly answers a few questions, while inviting us to ask a hundred more!

MentalEdge, 8 hours ago (edited 6 hours ago)

We already do?

DXVK and VKD3D have been translating DirectX 9-12 to Vulkan for a while now, allowing DirectX games and applications to run on hardware and/or operating systems that don’t support DirectX.

Intels ARC GPUs don’t even support DirectX on a hardware level, like it’s just straight up not there. Intels drivers instead just translate it to Vulkan, and their at times insane FPS boosts from driver updates was due to them improving that translation and getting closer to 1:1 performance.

MentalEdge, 7 hours ago

Wine doesn’t do DirectX. A wine environment set up for gaming uses DXVK or VKD3D to translate everything to Vulkan.

MentalEdge, 7 hours ago

I bet you’re wishing she’d have stood two inches to the right.