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  1. Wombat

    2022-23 NFL Season : Herbert's march to Glendale

    After tomorrow, we'll add one of Eagles / Vikings, and very likely Bills, but as of now, the only 2-0 teams are the Bucs (sure), Chiefs (not a surprise), Dolphins (little surprising), and... the Giants? What in the fiddly fuck?
  2. Wombat

    2022-23 NFL Season : Herbert's march to Glendale

    Are we still repeating that we can't believe the 49ers would keep a competent QB as a backup and stunt Lance's growth? Oh, we're forgetting we ever said that now? Cool. That said, we've seen what look like gnarly injuries that are merely ankle sprains where they come back in-season, so we'll...
  3. Wombat

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    We also have no idea what sort of legal agreements are in place. EVGA could easily have a contract with NVIDIA stating that EVGA will only sell NVIDIA-based video cards through 202X, and/or Nvidia's 4000 sales mandate 3rd parties have to purchase chips in a, say, 20% 4090, 30% 80, 50% 70 split...
  4. Wombat

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Would NVIDIA really be playing that level of hardball if _their_ profit margins were great? Honestly, I question how successful anyone can be that doesn't own their own fabs, AMD included, in a world where cell phone vendors take all the capacity they can get.
  5. Wombat

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Yeah, my last three cards were EVGAs, but if profit margins are that thin, I can hardly blame them for dropping out. I do have to wonder if their PSU, etc. products are really going to keep them afloat - how many people decide between EVGA and, say, Seasonic because of past video card purchases?
  6. Wombat

    2022-23 NFL Season : Herbert's march to Glendale

    No one should be doubting that the Chargers are a legitimate threat... assuming they're healthy enough.
  7. Wombat

    2022-23 NFL Season : Herbert's march to Glendale

    Cripes, pull him out of the game.
  8. Wombat

    2022-23 NFL Season : Herbert's march to Glendale

    If you're on PC, hit the gear on the top right of the overlay - the bandwidth difference Good and Best is substantial.
  9. Wombat

    2022-23 NFL Season : Herbert's march to Glendale

    Who's running this production now, NFL or Amazon? This sound mix is terrible, the announcers should be louder than the background music.
  10. Wombat

    2022-23 NFL Season : Herbert's march to Glendale

    The Packers lost 38-3 in last year's opener, but I am not nearly as optimistic they can turn things around this season.
  11. Wombat

    2022 NFL Offseason Thread: Looking forward Tua better future!

    To be clear, I look at SI like twice a year nowadays, but did anyone see 2022 NFL season predictions: Super Bowl, playoffs, MVP and more - Sports Illustrated ? GB as the NFC SB contestant for 6/7 reporters? I acknowledge I am a slight anti-homer, but getting knocked out at home in the wildcard...
  12. Wombat

    Cyberpunk 2077

    JP is the storyline continuation I would most want to see, and could easily tie into that title. (LW was intriguing too - was this the same sort of scenario, or incipient cyberpsychosis? The writing was vague - or maybe that's just Grimes' voice acting.) Despite the main storyline having you...
  13. Wombat

    Playstation 5

    That's not entirely true, one of the claimed root causes of the 2600 crash was developers dumping shovelware out into the market. One of Nintendo's US-branch rules were that each third party could only release five games per year, with the hope being that only the five best games per publisher...
  14. Wombat

    Marvel Universe stuff

    I dropped out of comics twenty-some years ago, but Cavill would be a pretty good match for the super-mensch that it seems like Doom has been turned into. Furthermore, being a villain isn't as fulltime a job.
  15. Wombat

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    My $1k 12GB 3080 I bought in April doesn't feel great either. Ah well.
  16. Wombat

    2022 NFL Offseason Thread: Looking forward Tua better future!

    1) Backup QBs can be pretty expensive, and that contract basically pays him backup money until he's not the backup anymore. 2) As others mentioned, Jimmy and the team can agree to trade him to whatever team loses their qb in-season, vs getting nothing for releasing him now.
  17. Wombat

    Samaritan (2022)

    Even duller than Rambo: Last Blood. The twist is mildly interesting, but it is also the only possible twist from the narration given in the first two minutes. Not a terrible second screen option, but probably not worth your attention otherwise.
  18. Wombat

    Confess, Fletch (2022)

    It's been like 30 years since I've seen either Fletch, but Fletch was not stupid himself, right? The personas he used were frequently morons, but he never was. Did the people involved confuse Fletch with Clark Griswold? And why the hell would you cast Slattery! Let's have the audience cringe...
  19. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's a really reductive summary of the last decade and a half. It was blah blah blah Garrosh, _then_ blah blah blah Sylvanas.
  20. Wombat

    Destiny 2 - Clan Link 1st Post

    Yeah, I hadn't purchased any expansions since Forsaken, so I: Booted into the 'Hive Queen now has ghosts!'... but exited out to fiddle with drivers, and came back to forcibly be in a different mission where Apparently Ikora is dead and I am following her ghost or regrets or something around on...
  21. Wombat

    The Boys

    I don't even think Jeffrey Dean Morgan thinks of himself as 'lead actor from The Losers', or 'One of the many Thomas Waynes killed off in movies over the years' - something like 99.9% of the populace knows him from The Walking Dead.
  22. Wombat

    Saints Row 5

    I think I would probably play Mass Effect: Andromeda before this, but can't we just call it a prequel? This being crappier than even Saints Row 1 sounds extremely onbrand.
  23. Wombat

    Destiny 2 - Clan Link 1st Post

    I really haven't played Destiny in years, and figured I would knock out some campaigns 'for free', but why did I get a set of 1540 Dreaming City-themed armor / assorted weapons? Do they have return boosts depending on what expansions you've bought in the past (if any?)
  24. Wombat

    2022 NFL Offseason Thread: Looking forward Tua better future!

    AFC Ravens Bills Chiefs Titans Patriots Chargers Bengals NFC Packers Eagles Rams Bucs Cowboys Cardinals 49ers Obviously I am least confident about the Packers. I don't see two teams getting slots in the NFC North regardless.
  25. Wombat

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    The completion REDCATED video is like 1/6th the space in the install. (The menu 'video' and TV clips are actually the majority of the install.) I've long lost the free time to go down itch.io rabbit holes, but it is amusing to see how much artwork and storyline flow are the only things you...
  26. Wombat

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Far from home was _good_, but how much was nostalgia for the old movies? Structurally, its kind of a mess, relying on Ned being a better wizard as a noob (at least at sling rings) than the goddamn Sorceror Supreme, weird inclusion on villains (Electro knew Spiderman was Peter Parker, but didnt...
  27. Wombat

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    Almost always violence with their videos, I don't recall if they sufficiently blurred out some of the predator's dismemberments.
  28. Wombat

    2022 NFL Offseason Thread: Looking forward Tua better future!

    6 games against the rest of the AFC West and 4 against the NFC West? That aint the easiest material. Those AFC South games are another story. Actually, with the AFC South and an iffy NFC North for the NFC East, could we be looking at playoff spots for the Eagles and Cowboys? Ew.
  29. Wombat

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Do we know if we will have to have an ATX 3.0 supply for these (or at least a PSU with a 12+4)? I bought a 3080 earlier this year so I personally am cool letting that shake out before I move to the 4000s.
  30. Wombat

    Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

    Uhh, neither Patty Jenkins nor Taika Waititi's movies have casting, scripts, or are really in production, right? No movies until 2025 isn't necessarily a policy change, that sounds more like simple math on how far along they are now. (I guess 2024 is still vaguely plausible, depending on how far...
  31. Wombat

    Cyberpunk 2077

    All the combat forms get pretty ridiculous until the end game (on low difficulties, an int build can contagion entire buildings to death without seeing a second enemy, and crippling + circle strafing to insta takedown cyberpsychos is preposterous), but at the end of the day, you pretty much have...
  32. Wombat

    2022 NFL Offseason Thread: Looking forward Tua better future!

    Do we know the specifics of Watson's accusations? Is it just propositioning for handjobs full body massages with no forced contact?
  33. Wombat

    Cyberpunk 2077

    I believe you also have to have chosen certain dialogue options during one specific quest (when you find where Johnny's body was buried). There's no real advantage from picking the other options, you just knock yourself out of seeing a set of endings yourself (not on Youtube) unless you replay...
  34. Wombat

    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

    Even worse, that invalidates the whole threat of the FBI in this movie! He wants to stay out of jail so he can see his kid grow up, then _immediately_ loses five years out of her life!
  35. Wombat

    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

    Ant-Man & The Wasp is definitely not the worst Marvel film, but its definitely the most forgettable. (It's also the most outright comedic MCU film, which may be related.) Part of it is the villains: Ghost has clearly gone past 'the line' mentally, but doesn't actually do anything to make her...
  36. Wombat

    Marvel Universe stuff

    While Deadpool is the only unscheduled production that is far enough along that 18 months from now for February 2024 seems reasonable, with the movies on that slate, how would mutants get introduced prior to Deadpool? (Unless that is all The Marvels is really about?!) Personally, I would think...
  37. Wombat

    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

    Just think all this has to cover: Immediate post-snap (Bassett's 'everyone in my family is dead!' speech is probably here): who becomes king, probably invasions by pesky white people, maybe some snarky commentary on how many Wakandans died in Infinity War because Wanda wouldn't just kill...
  38. Wombat

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Oh yeah, this entire Phase 4 / Phase 5 division just sounds like marketing nonsense. "We know you've been disappointed in Battle for Azeroth Phase 4, and yeah, we still have some of that material coming out, but ignore that, we've got Shadowlands Phase 5 coming out soon! We know people really...
  39. Wombat

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Secret Wars was before my time, but that has to be a continuation of Kang Dynasty, right? I suppose the Avengers (whoever the hell is in the Avengers, that is) could fuck up the timeline enough that the Beyonder portals them in, but that doesn't seem like enough setup.
  40. Wombat

    Cyberpunk 2077

    Obviously I just played through it for the first time, and assuming you are playing it on modern hardware, its fine. (It's certainly more of a full product than The Outer Worlds was.) Yeah, its an 'Open World' where the main quest will tourist you through the city in specific order, and any...