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  1. rhinohelix

    Ashes of Creation

    Laconian reply: "If".
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    In front of Prime day, there are deals again, 4080s down to 1100 and the Gigabyte 7900 XTX down to 900 at both Newegg and Amazon.
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    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    That was a David Lynch invention for the 1984 movie because they couldn't cinematically show the Bene Gesserit fighting techniques mixed with the Fremen prowess. The Wierdling modules were what Lynch and Co. came up with to explain how the Fremen would be this super elite fighting force that...
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    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    You were saying you didn't take Chalamet seriously, and the sentence construction is such its hard to tell if you didn't mean him or Paul or both. Its easy to not take him the actor personally serious because his build is slight and not the way I thought about Paul at all; probably Sci Fi is...
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    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    Anyone who thinks that they can't take Chalamet seriously needs to watch Netflix's "The King". I didn't think much of him until I saw that and was massively impressed with his performance. It's a great movie and shows he had what it takes for this role. I don't know what the future holds for...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Thanks for pointing out your particular kink.
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    Not specifically related to 40x0 cards but there are a number of places, Amazon and Newegg in particular, that have 7900 XTX and XT cards from various mfrs with coupons, XFX, Asrock and Sapphire to name several, that are on sale with 100ish coupons, plus Affirm has a coupon for 10% off bringing...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Doesn't count because its moving, @joz123 ? Wtf. Here's one that maybe you will like:
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    The Itemization and constant shit drops are just wearing me down. I have already put a couple of hundred hours into it and despite having cool people to play with and enjoying the moment to moment gameplay of all the classes, just roaming the world and killing stuff is starting to get old...
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    Marathon - Bungie Extraction Shooter

    This sounds like what happened to Overwatch: "We had the idea for a great real game but decided to just make money with it instead". I love Bungie and their art styles and design but fuck everything Woke and their bullshit pronoun Ideologies. Save us from Cultural Marxism and just make games...
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    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    You should try Rebel Galaxy. If you want Real DogFighting™ like WC/WC2, I think the sequel Rebel Galaxy Outlaw is oriented in direction, but I was hoping for the more capital ship-level combat of the original. It's story missions and random missions and you can trade and haul stuff and outfit...
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    Marvel's Avengers

    Marvel Heroes was fucking awesome. I had so much fun playing that game. How many companies have been given a license to print money and can't get out of their own way long enough to make serious bank. Trion was destroyed by (edit)Marvel pulling the license, at lease folks can keep playing...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Youre talking about 2001 Blizzard, who went on to make WoW. Whatever happened to that game? Did it do anything? I forget.
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    "AI" is the new "Cloud" buzzword from 2008-9. The only difference is cloud wasn't going to kill us, just use all of our electricity since the Green Meanies won't let us make any more.
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    It was just my Birthday and this is one of the primary things that made me feel my age. I blew that cursor up as big as I could make it.
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    "Executive #1: Hey we got an IP worth potentially billions here that could really turn our fortunes around. "Executive #2: Let's focus on making a really reliable and stable product. "Executive #3: FUCK ALL THAT SHEEET! TAKE CHANCES! SWING FOR THE FENCES, MUTHAFUCKAAAS! MAKE IT HARD! STRIVE...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Well, its easy to say from the POV of playing it but from the POV of making it? "I think this restaurant should serve X. There is nothing new or innovative about this menu!" Given how often PC games and restaurants fail, I understand why they chose to play it safe The game is huge, a vast...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    Asus, like NZXT, certainly knows how to do that. Its amazing how far some brands have fallen.
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    Please. Google "AM5 long boot times" and you can see what is going on. The AM5 platform since it's launch has a history of doing this, the question is how does he break his machine out of the training cycle get it into a more normal time. That's not to say that there isn't something that...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    Nvidia decided at the end of the scapler profit-taking that why should middlemen make all that extra money, so they built in shortage pricing to the MSRP. Unfortunately for them, other than a few% at the top who will indeed pay anything, the market will not hold those prices. The people that...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    As I understand it, IANAE, as they reduce the process size they use to make the chips, they are able to pack more and more transistors into the same area, which is one of the ways they are able to increase performance; the electrons have shorter distances to travel across less trace and less...
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    SWTOR

    Man, I loved The Secret World so much. I forget how much I enjoyed playing that game. I'm almost done with Sentinel, when I am done I need to back and finish up a few of the other origin stories, particularly Sith Inquisitor. I now wish I hadn't gone full Dark Side Sith Warrior. Not that the...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    So it will eventually suck like all things as entropy drags it down but I haven't been this excited for a game in a long time. I can't remember anticipating a game as much as I have D4 and I haven't played D3 in a looong time. Blizzard was great, Bungie was Great, Nvidia was great, GW2 was...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    One of many threads discussing the issue here, seems to be training with the first several boots. Seems like latest BIOS along with these settings had positive effects: Fast Boot ENABLED Memory Context Restore AUTO Boot time: 12 seconds I haven't noticed my boot times being long after the...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    For better or worse, absolutely not.
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    There was something when those AM5 boards were new, let me see if I can dredge it up from the depths.
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    I prefer Arctic or DeepCool to NZXT coolers but they look so good, and I can't get over the 1200ish price of the 4080. It's so dumb on my part. If it were 1000 I would own one right now but that 200 bucks just irks me for some reason enough that I won't buy one. Otherwise if that is a 7800X3d...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    I have bought like 4? Keys from them. No issues at all so far. It looks like inflation and the weaker dollar is even affecting those prices, they are twice as much as they were last year.
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    That looks awesome but do not pay 115 dollars for a WIN10 Home OEM DVD. 15 dollar grey market Win 10 PRO key FTW. Just pick one that sponsers your favorite youtuber, There's 3 or 4 of them that are all good (https://www.cdkeyoffer.com/ is good) Get another 2TB NMVE for that money. And how long...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    I built my and others PCs for years (I hung around a PC electronics shop and built my first PC, a 486/100 in 1994) but as time has gone on, I have built less and less, and now with RA and not nearly enough time to fuck with things, I just take my parts and what I buy from MC and have them do it...
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    Destiny 2 - Clan Link 1st Post

    Holy fuck. I thought D2 was dead after that shit Xpac and with this stupid water bs season but seeing Cayde-6/7?
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    I have one already; I run it with just the frame. I always seem to want something that's a compromise that no one yet makes, both in monitors and in cases. Everything is better except CPUs and GPUs. Even power supplies have returned to normal thanks to ending of the pandemic and tariffs...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    I missed my Hackentoshes and can barely be assed these days to build my own PCs much less something without out life left in them. Apple Silicon is great but killed any chance of some of the great things you could do with MacOS. Plus I need to from a troubleshooting perspective know more *nix...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    I am seriously considering this; I just want a smaller footprint machine. My dream machine would be a 7800X3d and a 4080/7800XT/XTX in 2x NZXT H1 size case: Now I just have to find a way to make that happen and justify it to the wife after just having bought a Mac Mini.
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I really liked the game play of the three classes I spent any time with, the Sorcerer, the Necro, and the Rogue. If direct melee classes hadn't been so punishing in the first beta I guarantee I would have more time in Barb; in fact I started with Barb before I switched to Sorc because that...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Reportedly you can skip the campaign after the first run through; not the zones/leveling but the campaign missions so you don't have to do the super long delve to the Black Lake w dialogue etc w/ cut scenes missions. I really disliked my time with the Melee chars except the Rogue, which was...
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    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    Nintendo really lives in its own space without a doubt, and has its own exclusives peculiar to its ecosystem. We really live in the best world, IMO, where each of the Big Three has its own distinct approach it their space driven by their limitations that has benefits for gamers...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Not a 16 year old Virgin in the above picture, although we are not going to stop believing.
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    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    The Harkonnen are basically Dark Elves in DVs imagining, twisted and evil and pale from their complete industrialization. I agree it isn't how they are described in the books but I will go with it as everything else looked so. fucking. amazing. Tribal scream music is weird but Everything about...