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  1. Grabbit Allworth

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    Assuming that's a fact - why buy a 3080ti when a 7900 XT is the same price and much better performance? I'm genuinely curious why'd you'd make that suggestion.
  2. Grabbit Allworth

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    This. The 4090 is one of the first cards that is almost too much performance. The overwhelming majority of people don't need anywhere close to what it does. Hell, for most people, a 7900 XTX will be more than enough for years to come. Unless Nvidia has some amazing shit waiting in the wings...
  3. Grabbit Allworth

    Marvel Snap

    I started screwing around with this yesterday after reading about it here. I ended up playing matches for almost 10 hours straight. I can't remember the last time I played a game that long, but the time flew by. I checked the time expecting it to be midnight'ish, but it was fucking 4:30 in the...
  4. Grabbit Allworth

    MTG thread

    I'm considering dumping a playset (4 of each) of Revised dual lands if anyone knows anyone with real interest. It's an extremely nice set of cards with a large number of them being NM, and all but maybe 2 of the remainder being SP. I think I have one Bayou that could be considered MP. I'm not...
  5. Grabbit Allworth

    Chess

    I know only the absolute basics about Chess and I've probably played 2 or 3 complete games in my entire life. That said, I have a question. At this point, isn't Chess a 'solved' game where there is always a 'correct' move/counter-move?
  6. Grabbit Allworth

    The D&D thread

    Offer withdrawn - I found one for $95.
  7. Grabbit Allworth

    The D&D thread

    If anyone has a copy of this book (in decent condition) I'll buy it for $125.
  8. Grabbit Allworth

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    I don't have much interest in gaming at 4k, but even my 3080 isn't enough to keep a lot of games from regularly dipping below 150 fps with max settings at 1440p. And though it's probably petty, that's why I want a 4090; so that I'm always getting the most from my monitor. 140-150 consistent fps...
  9. Grabbit Allworth

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    I've never purchased the top-tier card from any generation. Having almost always gone with whatever the '80 (980,1080, 3080, etc), but I'm 95% sure I'm going to buy a 4090.
  10. Grabbit Allworth

    General tabletop RPG discussion

    How do you like OoTA? I've been running a campaign that is almost exclusively in the Underdark for the past 11 months and I read that campaign to mine it for potential ideas, but I found it almost entirely useless.
  11. Grabbit Allworth

    The D&D thread

    These. Skinny Minis: A new type of miniature for tabletop RPGs The website really doesn't do the minis justice and obviously some are better than others given the fact that not all the art is created by one person. I personally despise the Dwarves, but maybe that's just me. I wasn't aware of...
  12. Grabbit Allworth

    The D&D thread

    Fortunately, for me, I've never caught the LEGO bug. I've also managed to avoid the mini's fever, too. However, I have spent several thousand dollars on Skinny Minis, but the value for those is insane.
  13. Grabbit Allworth

    The D&D thread

    I became aware of this via the Clownfish YouTube channel, this morning. It doesn't surprise me...at all. It's all so tiresome and pathetic.
  14. Grabbit Allworth

    The D&D thread

    Exactly. p.s. As a self-professed spelling-Nazi, it burns when my typos (women*) get snagged in quotes.
  15. Grabbit Allworth

    The D&D thread

    Bob does a pretty good job of explaining the changes so far.
  16. Grabbit Allworth

    The D&D thread

    It's probably not as big a 'nerf' as you think. The number of spells with to-hit rolls is a fairly small number. I think Cleric's have less than 10 in their entire spell list. Regardless, I don't plan on making changes to the way Nat 20s work in my game. I like Nat 20s being auto hit/crit for...
  17. Grabbit Allworth

    The D&D thread

    I have no doubt that's happened, but his comment is coming from an entirely different place. For the 'jock,' the skepticism stems from the suspicion that he's not sure he'd fit in with 'nerd' culture. For the Asian woman, it's clearly about being oppressed as a "PoC whaman." The White Manz was...
  18. Grabbit Allworth

    The D&D thread

    They literally cannot make content without some woke nonsense. Less than 30 seconds into the fucking video there's an Asian woman claiming that "she never felt that someone that looked like her could be the hero in D&D." Jesus, fuck...shut up.
  19. Grabbit Allworth

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    I played whatever the Heavy was called and the move where you'd drop out of the sky and crash into a group of stuff sending them flying and/or dead was awesome. The gameplay was excellent and I remember thinking during the beta that if what we were seeing in it was a good indication of what the...
  20. Grabbit Allworth

    How much real money have MMOs made you?

    I'm not sure, but my guess is 8-10k I used to solo farm Fungi Tunics (which wasn't particularly easy as a Rogue) and sell all of them to one particular buyer. He was probably a re-seller, but I was happy with the $400 I got for each one.
  21. Grabbit Allworth

    MTG thread

    A couple of them are 'due' to flavor text, but the vast majority are from the same artist - Harold Mcneill. He's the guy who painted Invoke Prejudice and he's supposedly a self-described White Supremacist. That's the closest they get to a legitimate reason, but it's still absolutely ridiculous...
  22. Grabbit Allworth

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    I think it will, but don't sleep on DoS II; it's easily one of the best RPGs ever made.
  23. Grabbit Allworth

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    I purchased BG III the day early access was released and I spent ~60 hours playing it. I finished everything that was available then, but didn't log in again until yesterday. The game has come a LONG way and it has me incredibly excited for the final product. The initial iteration was good, but...
  24. Grabbit Allworth

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    I'm extremely skeptical of the performance projections this guy believes the 40xx series will produce. It'd be fantastic, but I just don't see an ~80% performance increase happening in a single generation.
  25. Grabbit Allworth

    Outriders (Squeenix looter shooter)

    I didn't play Outriders until a year+ after it launched, but by the time I decided to give it a chance it had evolved into a truly good game. I haven't played the expansion yet, but I absolutely plan to once it goes on sale for ~15$. I'm not in any hurry as I literally have an inventory of at...
  26. Grabbit Allworth

    The D&D thread

    I have to preface by saying that I hate 4e because it felt too much like a videogame. That said, without you being more specific, it's hard to understand what you're really taking issue with, but Counterspell is definitely one of the spells that can create some fuckery. However, Legendary...
  27. Grabbit Allworth

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    That cunt is a British SJW that has a YouTube channel called Come Curious.
  28. Grabbit Allworth

    The D&D thread

    Admittedly, I have very little experience with TTRPGs outside of D&D. I've played a bit of Heroes, GURPS, Shadowrun, and some Vampire: the Masquerade, but the totality of it all comprises less than 1% of my experience. However, I do remember the sea of softbacks at local gaming shops, as you...
  29. Grabbit Allworth

    Kickstarters

    Absolutely nauseating. Unfortunately, given the fact that I've played D&D for 33 years, I've personally come across (and occasionally played with) the limp-wristed, women-worshiping, beta faggots that would support a product like that. They all fit one of two stereotypes: The morbidly obese...
  30. Grabbit Allworth

    The D&D thread

    Not sure if serious.... Well, 4e is the reason that Pathfinder was created because D&D 3/3.5 are considered by many to be the golden era of D&D and the players didn't want a new edition so Pathfinder effectively became D&D 3.75. That's not to say 3/3.5 didn't have issues because it absolutely...
  31. Grabbit Allworth

    The D&D thread

    You can find a few 3rd party products published in the 4e era, but aside from that I'm not aware of any fitting your description. 4e nearly killed D&D so there weren't a lot of developers looking to reproduce that system.
  32. Grabbit Allworth

    Dragon Age: Why We Can't Have Nice Things

    RIP Dragon Age. I took a minute to poke around that degenerate's Twitter feed and it reminded me why I don't use social media. The amount of anger and disgust I felt from just two minutes of scrolling was dangerously unhealthy.
  33. Grabbit Allworth

    The D&D thread

    I made custom tokens for my party (and their pets) and wanted to share them because I need some place to nerd out about them. I had to spend some time learning to use GIMP, but it was definitely worth it.
  34. Grabbit Allworth

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    I don't want to sound snarky, because I'm not intending to be. I don't hand-wave important purchases and, in this case, I'm 99% sure I got what intended to buy. I just wasn't sure what argument Mist was making.
  35. Grabbit Allworth

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    This is what I bought. You tell me because I don't pay incredibly close attention to the naming conventions of monitors.
  36. Grabbit Allworth

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    I bought in Feb of last year and, in my opinion, there's very little difference between that model and this one. If you're not working with a budget, go with that one, but the 83A-B offers almost exactly the same performance.
  37. Grabbit Allworth

    Miniature Painting

    I avoid this thread like the plague because there's too much cool shit in it and with my personality, I'd have a man-cave filled with $10,000 in minis (probably unpainted) in 6 months. I only poked in to say that I got extraordinarily close to going to the Dark Side with the Tanares...
  38. Grabbit Allworth

    Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game

    I haven't played a Comic book-based TTRPG since Champions 30 years ago. I think it could be a lot of fun, assuming the system doesn't suck.
  39. Grabbit Allworth

    MTG thread

    Magic is insidious in that once it gets in your blood, it stays there like genital warts and occasionally resurfaces. Sometimes years later. As I've stated in this thread before, I haven't played magic, at all, since 2016, but the reintroduction of the Pro Tour got my attention because I only...