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Afterburner, followed by Superposition (8K benchmark) to check for artifacts / crashes.

I finally put together a new PC after 8+ years with my prior setup and jumped from a 27" 1080p monitor to a 42" LG C3 OLED. I started off with a 4080, and while it was extremely impressive, it struggled a bit with maintaining high FPS in certain games at max settings. If I'm spending 4 figures...

I got tired of waiting for a decent glossy-screen 4K monitor somewhere around 32" to hit the market, so fuck you...I'll just YOLO all the things. I built a new PC for the first time in 8+ years and dropped a 42" LG C3 on my desk a couple weeks ago. I was worried that it would be comically large...

I haven't watched the cartoons, I'm mainly in this for Thrawn. If they're just going to continue to tease out the big reveal (which they started way back in Mando s2) until the end of the season, I'll just wait until I can burn through them all over a couple evenings. PLMK if he shows up sooner.

Chris Christy is debate ready.

Like many pioneering works, it's become tarnished by its own advancement of the medium. Watching it for the first time now is sort of like being introduced to The Matrix after practically everyfuckingbody borrowed from/stole from/parodied/satirized it. Despite that, it's worth hanging in there...

Yeah, this is the first Street Fighter game I've bought in decades. I succumbed to all of the "PERFECT GAME!" hype and was looking forward to it. The actual fighting mechanics / matches are definitely fun and satisfying. The world tour mode was weird at first but I'm enjoying it now. However, I...

I finally got caught up and for the first time in decades I actually can't wait for the next episode of a Star Trek show to release. In addition to what has already been said by others, a lot of the smaller details are also really well done. The sound design is fantastic. The dialogue and...

I spent the better part of a year slogging my way through season 2. I finally made it to the end of that mess a few days ago and as soon as the finale ended I went right into season 3 as a hopeful palette cleanser. I ended up binging most of it over the weekend. Sure, it's not perfect, but holy...

That looks pretty good but trailers gonna trailer. I haven't watched any of the cartoons. I've tried over the years but I just can't sit through them. Is cartoon Thrawn significantly different from the character in the old Zahn books that Disney set fire to or did they basically copy / paste...

Strange New Worlds is actually quite decent and probably the best ST show since DS9 (I haven't watched a minute of Discovery). I've been attempting to get through Picard S2 for like 3 months...it's brutal. Patrick Stewart doesn't even seem to know what the fuck he's doing in it. He deserves a...

Well that could be the point. If I'm two decades into the apocalypse and bump into some lardass, either they have exceptional survival skills so I'm going to try to make friends with them or they're a cannibal so I'm going to try to make friends with them.

Related to that, I wonder if resuming the game soon would be more of a mindfuck for the Bengals than the Bills...taking to the field again to battle the same guys whose teammate one of your bros just sent into possibly a vegetative state or worse, which has the attention and focus of virtually...

Yeah, that's what his uncle mentioned. If that's the case and he pulls through, a big concern is going to be around potential brain damage. A lot of that tends to depend on how much time passed between the cardiac event and when they hit him with the AED. Hopefully it was a short window.

I don't think anything new has come out beyond what the uncle claimed. They'll likely keep him sedated and on a vent until his circulation has sufficiently improved. That could still take some time.

It's a sorry testimony to the state of modern discourse that it's not abundantly clear who you're talking about.

You'll have a solid 2-3 minute window to get this done when the EMTs discover "white shit" and immediately engage vax-injury coverup protocol 2.47b.

When I was in elementary school, a couple of teachers would occasionally tell a story of a former student who got into an argument with another kid, which devolved into bare-handed boxing. At one point, the student allegedly took a healthy jab square in the chest, immediately collapsed, and was...

It's very much in the vein of Blade Runner / Vangelis. I love it, and it fits perfectly with the tone. It may seem rather pointless, but despite the fact that this is a slower-paced show with little in the way of big action set-pieces, watching it on a big screen with the surround-sound turned...

Wow, that was fantastic. This legitimately enhances and layers more emotional heft into the original movies, instead of cheapening their legacy by way of lazy writing buried beneath CGI and shoddy nostalgia. How are prequels supposed to work? Why have them at all? This is the answer.

The words aggressive and indifference don't really make sense together, but I can't think of a better way to describe my reaction to this than aggressive indifference. I liked the first one well enough but I have no need to see any more of these people.

Then they did a terrible job of translating it to the final cut. I can market a car that I'm building as the best red car ever made, but if I buy the wrong paint and it turns out blue, I guess my marketing was full of shit. The likely reality is they did all that to rile up the vocal culture...

Yeah, sorry, Galadriel in this is not a Mary Sue at all by any definition I've ever encountered, unless you accept edgelord idiocy like "every powerful female character is a Mary Sue by default" as valid. She's badly written and directed in this, but she's not a Mary Sue. The show really isn't...

If this show had actually been well-written the time compression could almost be forgiven. Tolkien himself was a bit silly with how glacially he had certain things move. Sauron as Annatar spends something like 300 years in Eregion working to forge the initial batch of rings with the...

Ironically, the most lore-accurate part of the entire thing is the narrated few minutes of the First Age that's shown in the prologue, which they have no rights to beyond the brief references made to it in the LoTR appendices. They actually did a reasonably good job with bringing that to life...

The episode segmentation is the show's biggest sin. A good slow-burn can be absolutely great, but there also needs to be at least some hint of a hook, a twist, a story / action beat that hits hard...something beyond ONLY leisurely character development or heist planning or whatever within the...

They don't hold the rights to the name Melkor, the same with Annatar.

That could partially go back to rights issues, as Finrod is mentioned in LoTR, but I'm not sure if the other brothers are. Also, Aegnor and Angrod are killed while battling Morgoth's forces. Morgoth is gone by the Second Age so there's no longer need nor means to take vengeance for them. Finrod...

I think he's referring to the scene where she's mourning over Finrod's corpse, in which case that was part of the First Age prologue, which is set long before the timeframe of the main narrative.

This is a solid observation. The show is essentially high quality Middle Earth elevator music. It’s pleasant to have on in the background.The scenery, Middle Earth imagery, and score are all nice as a backdrop to working, doing chores around the house, building Lego sets with the kids, etc. But...

This show only holds the rights to the LoTR appendices, which covers the Second Age in a scant 10 or so pages. The fullest account of the Second Age (which is still fairly short) is in The Silmarillion. Some things are fleshed out in more detail in Unfinished Tales. The show can't really touch...

Both are essentially happening at the same time. Tar-Palantir just died in the finale and Pharazon is (apparently) prepping to wrest the lordship of Numenor from Miriel. Sauron is now on his happy way to Mordor to build Barad Dur and forge his ring. The timeline compression is massive.

If viewed in a vacuum as a standalone series and not as a Tolkien adaptation, the finale was surprisingly...not terrible. It was easily the best episode not containing Dwarves. As a Tolkien adaptation...lol. The writing all season was insanely uneven. There were certainly nuggets of goodness...

Excellent episode. The show does a great job of character building and generating tension, so when the TIEs finally show up it's actually compelling and engaging and not simply space_chase_pew_pew_CGI_34. I also thought Skeen was rolling out a final loyalty test for Andor at the end, and...

Only $250M for ~10 pages of text. What a bargain!

I was in no way on board with Halbrand as Sauron, as there are multiple reasons why it wouldn't make sense and they've been going so heavy handed with the hints it seems like it couldn't possibly be anything but misdirection, but since they decided to go with that Southlands Mordor shot last...

That was great, but sadly it's clips stitched together from other shows / movies.

RoP has more (and deeper) problems than this does. I'm sure Andor will be fantastic once the entire season's uploaded and it can be binged straight through, at which time this complaint will be irrelevant, but for now the rollercoaster feels like it's going to keep breaking down mid-ride.

No, it ended at a jarring point. Where a typical show would have established the dangerous objective of the week, taken a few minutes to plan it, rallied the troops, and then taken a commercial break, this show did that and then...stopped. I like a good, savory slow burn as much as anyone, but...