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  1. rhinohelix

    The Boys

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    Playstation 5

    My MIL is a dentist. Two of the easiest wisdom teeth pulls ever (I was only born with uppers).
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    You mean 3-4 weeks? Sure.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I have to admit when I saw this today I thought "WTF is this blue?" It does look like Sonic Blue and white. Maybe? It may be a stretch but it wouldn't be the first time something like this was planned. Generally they are announced, though.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I agree, although by many people's definition nothing MS owns will be "exclusive" because it will be on both XSX/S and PC. They don't want "exclusives" per se, though, in the same way Sony wants them: Sony wants great games to get you to buy their consoles so you chose their platform overall...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    They are holding the 20GB 3080, 3070 etc until after the release/announcement of Big Navi in late Oct. This is just early fleecing of 2020 pigeons enamored with nVidia allure; otherwise nVidia wouldn't be rushing these out the door to be sure to snatch them up before doubt sets in. I mean, it...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I got 2 Xs (Amazon and Best Buy on the 2nd go round) and an S from MS. I had an X early at MS and it bombed out and then emptied the cart; also one at Sam's that by the time I hit "complete" they were OOS. This wasnt any better than the untimed release: more hype more bots, more panic, more...
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    Mass Effect: Andromeda - Autism reaches outer space

    Getting rid of classes was a terrible mistake. I wasn't overjoyed when I played it years ago and it was bug-ridden and glitchy on release. There was no clear vision for what it was going to be. The conceit of going to a different galaxy let them tell a different galaxy-wide story but people...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I, too remember the Before Times, when things were released, and one wanted said things, and then bought them. Now, in the COVID Age, Everything is a race and no one makes enough of anything: Movies, TV shows, sodas, Grape Kool Aid, Video Cards and especially *GAME CONSOLES*. I may buy a...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I am on calls for work some days 6+ hours wearing headphones. The chances of me wearing them when not required to communicate with people? Less than zero.
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    Playstation 5

    I got the Amazon email as well but I don't have any other options. I have a daughter who is full-on fucking beaming about getting the console day one, though, so I will keep looking and buying them until we get a solid deal. I would bet Amazon comes, though, for most people. Our Prime is...
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    Hades (Supergiant Games)

    I haven't played it for a while but found I sucked at it. Maybe I suck less now? Supergiant is amazing, though. Music, art, and story for all their games are through the roof; they are one of the few developers that really make the games-as-art-not-commerce arguments come to life.
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    I've decided that unless I win one, I all going all in on AMD this time, unless they just flat out flop. Then I will buy whatever is best after Oct 28th that fits in a NZXT H1. Or whatever, I have PCs with a 2080TI and 1080TIs respectively. I will survive until Q1 when this shakes out.
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    Playstation 5

    Sincerest thanks. I don't know what to say.
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    Playstation 5

    That's what I get for fucking working another stupid 14 hour day. My boss (who is on vaca this week and is a super cool dude) texted me and said: Presale started!!! we chatted as my BB cart refused to load and I was thinking, I guess they jumped the gun. Then I flip to twitter where EVERYONE...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Look I love it when Mist isn't saying things that make say WTF or GDMT but 2 pages of this in the NEW VIDEO CARD THREAD is killing my joy over new pixel things. I am thrilled you have a 900 sq ft house you don't like on a 2 acre plot near the beach with your computer in the hottest room in...
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    Weather

    Its also slowed down to almost nothing. 7mph when I last looked. Supposedly may shift further east. NO not even in the cone any longer, taking direct aim at Mobile, though, and will be a huge rainmaker, particularly if it slows down any more. Edit: All of this is taken into account by the...
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    Playstation 5

    I have explained this a number of times but for those in my circle who are less technically proficient, who balk at spenting $500+ on video cards, who don't keep up with their drives but who still want to play games, its just so much easier to when they ask me what to buy: An Xbox. Everything...
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    Playstation 5

    25 bucks a month for 24 months for a (mostly) next gen console that includes Game Pass, EA Play, and X Cloud that lets you play all of those games on iDevices; 35 bucks a month for the top of the line 4K version of that. Sony is fighting the last war and doing a great job; all the exclusives...
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    Playstation 5

    This is why the long stare down. If they were all $499, nobody would have needed to blink. Amazing how quickly the tables have turned and the pressure is on Sony, again.
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    The Netflix Thread

    So my wife said "Are we going to do anything about this Cuties thing?" All I knew was the promotional photo kerfuffle and told her "no, Its just stills from the movie, what are you doing to do, you can't fight every battle, blah blah". Since I have introduced her to the KulturKampf she has...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    I would say on both fronts, let's wait and see. I think they might beat Intel in gaming or at least get super close. My last machine I am (re)building is a 9900KF with a 2080TI; this time I expect to build a smaller (NZXT H1 with whatever fits graphics card and Zen3). I started to disagree...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I have never adjusted to the smaller 1/4" needles. Of injectables I take 4-6 shots of Humalog and 1x shot of Lantis and its 50 bucks for each for 3 months worth. The more expensive thing is the Dexcom G6 CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitoring) sensors, those things are more like 100 bucks a month...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I mean controllers for people with meathooks and controllers for people with dainty butterfly grips?
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    Tenet (2020)

    You aren't wrong; there are a LOT of elements from his other movies, more of which I think I touched on in my initial post. This is the most Nolan of all Nolan movies for better AND worse. It's so self-referential as to almost be Tarantino-esque. I still love it, though; I mean, after the...
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    EVE Online

    I haven't played since we won Delve and moved all my stuff. it was indeed the Horn of Goondor. A full decade since I signed in; I remember almost nothing about the game, I am going to have to recompile the kernel. Game looks great, in 4k, though. I have reading to do.
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    EVE Online

    Anyone here have the inside scoop on the big war going on? I got an email asking me to rejoin for what was described as the largest war in Eve's history.
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    Tenet (2020)

    It's pretty clear to me he has this idea about objects moving backward in time that serve as the basis of a Bond film, and then from there he crafts/utilizes/bolts on (pick your verb depending on your affection for Nolan) other parts of his oeuvre (Memento-Keeping the audience in the dark...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    I have a mini-ITX to go in a NZXT H1 waiting on a Zen3 to populate it. The only thing I don't like about the Mini-ITX is the lack of options. Want more M.2/NVME drives? Nope. Want to add another card of any variety? Nope. Multi-Fan coolers/Swap power supplies, etc? I mean the list goes...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    I am hoping the X670 has more of a presence in the Micro-ATX space. There are a number of cases I wanted to build in but AMD stranglely only has B550 chipset boards or below in mATX; I am hoping X670 changes that. Also; I think that the Oct. 28th isn't a "submission to nVidia" but just a...
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    Dune (2020)

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    Tenet (2020)

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    Tenet (2020)

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    Tenet (2020)

    I also need to check the yacht dates in my answer earlier, because despite my memory of them they don't make sense in the context of the movie. Formatted for readability and I like intrinsic's use of Bold better than my highlighting inline answers.
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    Tenet (2020)

    I thought I had a line on what you were trying to say but the more I read it, the less I grasp the point you are trying to make. The movie is much more about specific entropy for an object's particles and it's position in the flow of time, "pissing in the wind" as The Protagonist" calls it, or...
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    Tenet (2020)

    From what I am reading, this mostly due to how the Dolby theaters perform. Give it a shot in a non-Dolby theater next time but I admit given how much theaters are piling on to get people out of their houses these days, you would think they would take the time to either optimize their sound...
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    Tenet (2020)

    Sadly, nowhere.
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    Tenet (2020)

    I was really thinking of physics of various sorts but I guess you could probably have PhD's in Horology? Hyperbole? Mostly likely, if not those, then this: or
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    Tenet (2020)

    I completely disagree and challenge anyone to find any paradoxes in the movie that have to be "hand-waved" away. That just isn't how Nolan does things. I guarantee there is a movie "bible" and this plot has been storyboarded and mapped out to death. There is an explanation: It may not be the...