Note some recent non-developments; remind myself why I use Packman

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@@ -352,6 +352,21 @@ clang-devel python3-ply rust rust-bindgen rust-cbindgen~.
   previously fine.  There is still a visible difference between
   - OK-ish sub-areas - 55 FPS with occasional lag spike,
   - bad sub-areas with out-of-control sawtooth FPS.
+* The Warsong Update
+Whew these new Crossroads do look great, so long as I stand still.
+Artemis is paying a visit?  There's a new garden corner with a Hades
+bust and a narrator prompt?  There's animals /all over the place/, and
+*[[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1145350/view/503942841152569404][what's this?]]*
+
+#+begin_quote
+- The moon now shows different phases in the Training Grounds vista scene
+#+end_quote
+
+/Be still my heart./
+
+No changes in framerate patterns though; still getting "sawtooth 55"
+FPS near the most edges, stable "linear 60" at some corners like the
+hot springs, and "sawtooth 40±15" everywhere else.
 
 - Spotted =amdgpu: Runtime PM not available= in dmesg; found no
   actionable advice about this.
@@ -361,6 +376,33 @@ clang-devel python3-ply rust rust-bindgen rust-cbindgen~.
 
 - Driver developer Timur Kristóf offers [[https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/y7zl45/psa_for_amdgpu_users_kernel_519_and_likely_60_is/isyryb1/][some tips]] to diagnose
   issues with the graphics stack.
+
+- Caved and filed [[https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3993][drm/amd#3993]].
+  - Got a very fast shot in the dark: try =amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x610=.
+    Thanks!  No effect unfortunately.
+  - Since that was as exhaustive a report as I published this far
+    (ignoring… whatever /this/ is), figured I would also send an email
+    to Supergiant's support address.
+
+- Tired of annotating "openSUSE Tumbleweed" with "… with Packman
+  repository but it is mostly just codecs except well there is Mesa in
+  there", so for intellectual honesty, purged
+  Packman[fn:purge-packman], restarted, loaded the game.
+  - There, same symptoms; Packman exonerated[fn:unpurge-packman].
+
+[fn:purge-packman] As simple as:
+#+begin_src
+sudo zypper removerepo Packman
+sudo zypper dist-upgrade --allow-vendor-change --remove-orphaned
+#+end_src
+Then confirmed absence of strays with ~zypper packages~ (with
+~--orphaned~, then with ~| tr -s ' ' | cut -d'|' -f2 | sort | uniq
+-c | sort -hr~ to double-check repositories in-use).
+
+[fn:unpurge-packman] And mpv can no longer =initialize a decoder for
+codec 'hevc'=, so I suppose I will switch back.  Sorry [[https://old.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/1iw5smd/packman_opicodecs_current_upgrade_removing/mebfasa/][u/rbrownsuse]], I
+will indeed "stick to my old fashioned broken way of doing things"
+because I enjoy watching videos 🤷
 * This is insane
 Selected subset of moving parts; "testability" considering ease of
 clean reverts: