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  1. rhinohelix

    The Last of Us

    So while I have owned TLOU Remastered for years, I have never sat down to play through it. I should just set it on easy and take my medicine but as a game it hasn't really interested me that much, despite owning a PS3 (for which I think I owned Heavy Rain and a bunch of Blu Rays); With all of...
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    The Last of Us

    You didn't specify if you believe there can be more than two genders, bigot.
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    Playstation 5

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    Playstation 5

    Remember they have a built in VAT, so lots of things come out to be the same price in USD. If its £599, I would expect it to be $599 US plus tax. Even so, that sounds expensive. I would expect a regular system to be $499 or less, $449. They must be expecting the Xbox Series X to be $499 or...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    I really want a 43" 120Hz monitor of some sort. Or Gsync/FreeSync such that you can have something better than 60. The video smoothness of those monitors playing at 90/120Hz is just so amazing but I am not willing to play on a monitor smaller than 39" and less than 4k. Consoles at 60 look...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Well, you have to look at the chips they are built on. As I understand it presently, the 3080Ti was going to built on the GA103, is now going to built on the GA102 to better compete with the RDNA2.0 and be like the 2080Ti was for Turing. Ampere's Titan, IIRC is going to be the 3090Ti and be...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    I have been using TVs as monitors for more than a decade now, since you could get big TVs that did good(ish jobs) at massive sizes (shoutout to the Westy 38 back in the day) and then South Korean 43" perfect TVs that were amazing 4K monitors, then LGs and finally Sonys. Since Hurricane Harvey I...
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    2 years later... the almost sad state of MMOs in the new era

    I mean, What does it cost to have a game with 10,000 Players? Design a "niche" world for 10k players you can scale out horizontally and not vertically, with a sense of place, really distinct culture and... I just remade 4 games from 2001. Have live events with player involvement! 2003...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    In short, Yes. I mean, it is 2020 and there are still Murder Hornets and horrors yet unknown but this is scheduled to be Nerdvana come the fall, two incredible new consoles Zen3, and two awesome new Video cards series.
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    New Moore's Law is Dead based upon the Video Cardz leak noted above: Nvidia RTX 3090 & 3080 Leak: Impressive Cooling for Higher Clocks Edit: Here is the Notes and timestamps for the show: Something close to the final cooling solution for the RTX 3080 seems to have leaked. But that’s not all...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    You can get these Corsair SF power supplies up to 750 watts. Right now NewEgg has the 600w version for $130 that ships in a few weeks. At Best Buy you probably have someone, casting no aspersions, plugging numbers into an online calculator or looking at a chart for power draw. I mean, for a...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    I don't know what else you are running, but I just bought an NZXT H1 that comes with a SF550 PS in it. Of course it only takes single PCI-E slot Mini ITX Mobos but there are people running them with 2080Ti's and 3900Xs; just be sure the current power supply won't support whatever it is you...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Turing was an Intel-like push for Nvidia, which is one of the reasons prices went up, because they stuffed more stuff on the same chips since they stated on the same process size, IIRC. I paid $699 for my Founders edition 1080Ti at launch and $999 for my 2080Ti before and after the Bitcoin...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Well, I am not asking you to take my word for it, nor am I saying that "AMD RULEZ". Per the leaks AMD is going to be competitive for the time in a decade, and that is finally forcing NVidia to step up their game. AMD's new cards are going to smoke the last gen, means that NVidia is going to...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Follow Moore's Law Is Dead (Moore's Law is Dead YouTube Channel) . Same guy runs the Broken Silicon podcast. Dude is plugged in and does excellent analysis. Here is his Video for 3080/Ampere Nvidia 3080 Ti & Ampere FULL Leak: 7nm EUV & 18Gbps needed to Defeat AMD RDNA 2 but don't go all in...
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    2 years later... the almost sad state of MMOs in the new era

    Blizzard/WoW got so big that it snuffed out all competitors and drove everyone else into the mobile game market. What killed MMO's without a specific platform purpose like GW2, (which we were lucky to get in the West, a few years later and we wouldn't have gotten it, I don't think) was...
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    The Old World - new civ-type game

    So this game is great. Its super deep, I am finding, and way beyond the Civ-seeming surface. The intra-Civ family dynamics are important: You have to keep the number of cities each one has in balance at this point or they will start to get an Envy malus. They care about which troops get made...
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    Constantine (2005)

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    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    What? I paid like $225 in the first kickstarter in 2012. Fake edit: All of my stuff is in my hangar, I got the "Rear Admiral" package. Real edit: Whooooaaa, they have raised $285 milllllliiioon dollars for this? I may have to download and give this a try.
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    Tenet (2020)

    Just to be clear, when people talk about Jonathan Nolan's script for Interstellar and what was made into the movie for Interstellar, those are two entirely different things. Jonathan wrote the script for Steven Spielberg but it was an almost entirely different plot, with many completely...
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    Tenet (2020)

    I really liked the original script as well; it was a totally different beast but great on its own terms.
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    Tenet (2020)

    This just really gets my goat when people say "UGH love" and treat it like people writing poems to each other, as if they are SO beyond "the cheese" and then don't hear any of the arguments the movie makes about it NOT being that. Well, sophisticates, don't think about rock songs and holding...
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    Tenet (2020)

    I can't wrap my mind around all of the possibilities this opens up; some are obvious, others are not. That's it. We'll know it when it gets here. We'll see if he can pull this off. All signs point to yes, however.
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    Rick and Morty

    I watch it on Hulu but I have Live TV. You can just buy the Season on Amazon and watch them there the next day after they first air (May 18th for the Vat of Acid episode, for instance).
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    Rick and Morty

    That's the thing, I wasn't expecting this episode to be much, and then out of the blue, *BLAM*. My wife wakes up and says, "Why is this shitty music playing?" and I had to yell something at her just to not lose the moment. Home run. Now next week they can go back to Ice/Water T and "SHOW ME...
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    Do you know first hand anyone who has been proven to test positive for Covid-19?

    So like many people in Southeast Texas in Springtime, I am suffering from what I thought were allergies; woke up last Monday morning gasping for air. Gasping in the time of Corona is not thing to do, so I made my way to the local urgent care after calling first because my PCP is a...
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    2 years later... the almost sad state of MMOs in the new era

    I think that is the best statement/summation of the issue I have seen overall. That early MMOs were emulating Table top campaigns vs new MMOs were are trying to provide the framework to get to raiding in early MMOs is a keen insight. There isn't a great sense of *place* in any of these new...
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    Disney+ Streaming Service

    Remember when Hollywood made kind of middling fare? I remember in the 80's growing up there were all of these movies that weren't blockbusters or competing in the blockbuster space that were just kind of mid-budget "good" movies. National Treasure seems like it would fall into that rank for...
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    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    I made the mistake of not getting my own Switch early on and as a result the number of Nintendo games I have completed in the last few years is in the single digits; I want another now so my kids don't have to share with **each other**. I always expected them to have another "console" out by...
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    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    Sorry, one of each for my kids and one of each for me.
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    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    When are they going to be back in stock is the bigger question. I would have bought another one at the beginning of the lockdown had I known they were going to be so unavailable. For NextGen, my purchasing strategy is: Two of each. I long ago got over being choosy. MS exclusives, though...
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    Extraction (2020)

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    Waco

    Arson investigators found they started in three different places almost simultaneously. Its a far more neat narrative if the government set the fires but that's not what I believe happened in this case. I think the Davidians thought they were being overwhelmed by the APCs, which were modified...
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    Waco

    Well, of course; do we really need to talk about how horrible it is that they senselessly murdered almost a hundred people, including 25 (fake edit: Google says 26) children (IIRC? I get the number of kids between Waco and OKC mixed up, its eerie how close they were to each other, among other...
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    Waco

    The Davidians weren't a suicidal group. I don't think they didn't set the fires to burn themselves to death; I believe they set the fires defensively to keep the APCs back. There is reportedly audio snippets captured from the Davidians about "pouring the gasoline" etc. and with the holes...
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    Waco

    In that documentary, they think that there are sharpshooters behind the compound shooting down into Mount Carmel on the side from which the press was kept away. Many of those died in the fire actually died of bullet wounds rather than smoke inhalation or burns. The coroner decided in these...
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    Waco

    So I haven't watched this for a variety of reasons but I spent the middle to late 90's working as a research assistant to one of the nation's leading academic authorities about what happened at Waco, Dr. Stuart Wright. Dr. Wright's area of specialty was New Religious Movements, more...
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    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    I don't know about that. Galaxy's Edge was sucking at the parks even before COVID; the toys, which made more money than the movies (7b vs. 4b) haven't sold a damn thing, and TLJ and ROS made Far, Far away less money than they were hoping for; it hasn't lost money but it didn't make very much in...
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    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    My kids, big OT and Prequel Trilogy fans, can't be assed to put the new movies on at all. For the record, I don't hate the Force Awakens but its a "soft reboot"/shot-for shot remake with lots of poor choices and wasted opportunity, in hindsight, particular after the Last Jedi, which can DIAF...
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    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    It's almost like Nostalgia + China=Box Office. That plus one great scene with Darth Vader is the whole movie. I mean, don't get me wrong, I like that they brought back the original Rebel fleet, it's got some good scenes but it isn't a good movie at all. It's tied for 3rd best of the KK movies...