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    Sid Meier's Civilization VII

    It's a good tradition :D. I am trying to convince myself not to buy this one since I seem to have moved beyond Civ. I loved Civ 1 as a kid, played lots of 2 and 3, and I played the everloving shit out of Civ 4. I never really got in to 5. Part of it is the hex layout bothered me for some reason...
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    Alan Wake 2

    I wish Epic weren't such dicks about their distribution but I totally get why Remedy did it. Alan Wake II was kinda risky. It isn't the kind of super-mass-market game that is going to appeal just everyone and their kids. It is a more limited kind of product. But they also wanted to do it big...
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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    Stuff like this is why I love PC gaming: Because it can be different things to different people. I'm a graphics whore and I love my 4k monitor, I love RT, I want to play games cranked. Yet you can play the same games turned down on a portable and shit, we could actually play those same games...
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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    If you don't set your expectations according to what reality is capable of, then you'll just be mad/underwhelmed all the time. There's no magic to get more transistors on a chip, it is increasingly hard engineering and it has slowed down a lot. Likewise while things can be optimized, there's...
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    Radeon 9000 series on sale...in March

    Or, and I'm just spitballing here, but keep the gaming hobby you have and just use the GPU you already have. It isn't like new GPUs make your old one break or ever perform any worse. I'll never get the desperation to have to have the newest card right away. The old card doesn't stop functioning...
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    IPS monitor or OLED

    Me too. Don't get me wrong, I like OLED and I like my OLED TV. QD-OLED in particular has amazing viewing angles that are a sight to behold. However the thing that got the most wow factor from me was the HDR on MiniLED. For games with good HDR, I still prefer to play them on my PG32UQX rather...
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    PSN Network Down

    I'm on again off again with MMOs. I don't hate them, and it can be fun playing with others in a collaborative environment (I don't like competitive games, I get too worked up). However sometimes, now being one of those times, I want some good single player fun. I have a few I REALLY still need...
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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    Yep. I'm not going to shit on anyone who decides this generation is worth buying either. Depending on how old your card is, it very will might be and even if you have a 40 series, well maybe the small upgrade is worth it for you. I know someone who has a 7950X3D and is going to get a 9950X3D...
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    PSN Network Down

    I've actually been pretty satisfied with the amount and quality of single player games recently. While you are right a lot of the big-name games are multi-player, 2024 was pretty robust for good single player games too. I have a stack that I haven't gotten around to playing yet. Also just as an...
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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    Well.. I guess you have two options: 1) Skip this generation (that's what I'm doing) and maybe the next and maybe the one after that. Buy when there is a card that gives you enough of a performance increase to justify what you are spending. Same deal as you likely do with CPUs. 2) Stay mad and...
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    PSN Network Down

    Shit like this is why I preferentially purchase from GOG, and I wish more services were like them. I'm not going to be the old man shouting at a cloud saying "everything should be physical" because I know that ship has sailed, but I would like that the digital services be good. Steam isn't bad...
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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    The inflated price I listed is inflated correctly from $700. The point stands that the one that people are all doe-eyed over was near $1000 in today's money. It is a lot, but it isn't unprecedented. I mean we'll see what happens with pricing, and if it gets too expensive (or is too expensive)...
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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    I mean... The 90 series are expensive but they are ultra-high end. The 80 series are pretty in-line. The 5080 is $1000 MSRP. The much vaunted "awesome value" 1080Ti was $699 MSRP, which when adjusted for inflation is about $950 today, so around the same price for around the same class of...
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    More DLSS...

    Maybe, but probably not a ton. I think part of it is just that the new model takes more time to run, even on the 5090 and that some games just have issues with consistent frames. Jedi Survivor is always an example given where no matter what you did, there were some frame rate drops. Personally...
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    How many times have you actually dropped in a new CPU?

    Twice. Once was with my Core 2 Duo system, I got a Core 2 Quad Q6600 for it later. I can't remember what I was doing that was running that was having issues with two cores, but I did and this was a cheap(ish) option to fix it. The time before that was a Pentium Overdrive chip. The 486SX2...
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    Alan Wake 2

    Have a look at DF's video, they tested it. On the 2080 it is about a 13% uplift, enough to allow for 1080p30 play with DLSS with PT on. 3080 was 10% uplift. 4090 was minimal, like 1% uplift, 5080 was also like 1% uplift. So it seems like they are not nerfing it older GPUs, in fact in those more...
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    Who is camping out for the 5090?

    No. The reason they are excited for the 5090 is almost entirely the memory. They don't hate the performance increase either, but the memory is the big deal. Beeeg models need beeeg memory and when the GPU doesn't have it, things run a lot slower. That's why they'll pay lots for the enterprise...
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    Who is camping out for the 5090?

    The 5080 is far more likely to be around for the immediate future because: 1) It's easier to produce more of them. The die is a lot smaller, meaning more per wafer, meaning faster production. 2) It's not really that impressive vs the 4080 and 80 series buyers are less likely to be "I gotta...
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    Billy Mitchell Now Suing Karl Jobst

    Well ya, that code is called the "Konami Code" because Konami was the one who used it in their games. Street Fighter is Capcom.
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    MSI QD-OLED Monitors 2024

    I'll agree in that I would tell people not to judge HDR from the experience you get on one of those displays, if you got one and said "Man HDR doesn't impress me much," I'd say "Well try a display with better HDR and then tell me what you think." However I do think that if you get one, you'll...
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    MSI QD-OLED Monitors 2024

    To be fair, while I'm a high brightness MiniLED guy, 400 nit HDR isn't terrible. No it doesn't have the impact you really want and get with higher values, but it isn't nothing. No Mans Sky has pretty broken HDR settings necessitating using a reshade shader to put tone mapping on it. To get it...
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    Billy Mitchell Now Suing Karl Jobst

    It 100% is his entire identity, that's why he is such a bitch about things and goes so hard because it is all of who he is and all he has. An attack on his record is an attack on his ego.
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    AI Markets Were Deceived To Believe In DeepSeek’s Low Training Costs; They Are Actually 400 Times Higher Than The Reported Figure

    Gee, that's a huge surprise :P. The bigger shakeup from it wasn't actually how cheap it is, or isn't, though more that it kinda removed the mystique from the eyes of the normal person, and particularly finance bros. The AI companies had done a good job making it look like only they could do...
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    More DLSS...

    Same way it always does: By where the mouse input said it was going. The idea with Reflex 2 is you sample the mouse input at a much higher rate than you render (this is normally done anyhow) and you take where the input is as close to that moment as possible, warp the display to match, fill in...
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    More DLSS...

    The idea with reflex 2 is it would respond to where your cursor was when you triggered the shot, not what was on the generated frame, hence reducing perceived latency. Also something to remember when talking about this stuff: Not everyone plays high speed shooters, in fact I'd go as so far to...
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    Apple Kills Augmented-Reality Glasses Project

    Apple just flat refuses to do shit like that. They never like the industrial/enterprise market, despite getting use there. People usually have to hack around and get 3rd party solutions to make their shit work like it should in such environments (why they don't buy better tools in the first...
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    More DLSS...

    Well... there is one possibility that might make it happen and that is the whole reflex 2/frame warping thing. I'm not counting on it or saying it happen but if they can get the warp to happen fast for each generated frame, it could make it feel much more responsive by lowering the latency...
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    Apple Kills Augmented-Reality Glasses Project

    That was always their problem: No killer app. All Apple's marketing was "You can do what you do on your iPhone or Macbook... BUT IN AR!!!1111one" While that sounds neat, in reality people will play with something like that and then set it aside because putting on your goggles is way more work...
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    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review - The New Flagship

    Ok... but all that means is you get to wait longer anyhow. If you want nVidia to launch these cards when they have lots, that means they have to wait to build up stocks of them. So you still don't get to have one until later. It doesn't really change anything unless your objection is others...
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    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review - The New Flagship

    It is kinda no-win for the GPU companies. You can't make the cards any faster, it just takes quite a lot of time to fab these new chips and then get everything built so there's only going to be so much supply per day/week/etc. So what do you do? You can launch when the products are ready, that's...
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    No Man's Sky - a procedurally generated sand box space exploration game

    What the cinnamon toast fuck is this? The amount of shit they are putting in these latest updates is insane.
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    Hogwarts Legacy

    I always loved when you'd walk in to the clothing store and the guy would say "I suspect you have a sharp eye for fashion," when you look like you'd just grabbed random shit off the rack at a thrift store.
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    Hogwarts Legacy

    I mean... Have you seen the Resident Evil mods? If the Internet can handle that level of nude mods, it can handle this :D.
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    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review - The New Flagship

    Ya I'm not sure why this is some kind of expose form Der8auer. PCIe bandwidth generally has been growing faster than (consumer) need for it which is great. The reason the new card supports PCIe 5 is because that's the latest final spec and why shouldn't it? It doesn't need the extra bandwidth...
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    NVIDIA May Aim For Up To 16 Generated Frames With Multi-Frame Generation Tech In Future DLSS Technology

    No kidding. It's amazing the purist bitching about this, as though if they didn't do frame gen they could just magically get a higher render rate. Like, if someone else was doing it and nVidia wasn't then ok. If Intel had a card that could throw down 400+fps in Alan Wake 2 with all the details...
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    Who is camping out for the 5090?

    Nah. I'll probably get one at some point, since I have a bad tech addiction and want the shiniest toys, but I don't want one bad enough to camp out for it. I'll either wait until they are in stock, or maybe someone on the forum will help me as they did with the 3090. Realistically I shouldn't...
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    For any HDMI 2.1 cable, what brand name do you guys choose from Amazon?

    They are an established "China random name" brand on Amazon. They've been around for quite awhile, and people have tested their cables (with real signal testers) and verified performance.
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    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review - The New Flagship

    When stuff is quiet, that's when it matters most that there is minimal noise/whine/etc. That's why despite our ears rather low SNR you want a very high SNR on audio equipment. If a power amp only had 40dB of SNR and could play 100dB SPL the noise would be exceedingly loud any time you weren't...
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    NVIDIA Reveals 80% Adoption of DLSS Among GeForce RTX Gamers - So much for "fake pixels"!

    1) The frame gen thing makes sense. So long as your rendered frames are fast enough to give a good feeling, latency wise, the generated ones probably are just nice smoothness. What it won't do, which nVidia likes to imply, is make a sub-30 fps experience nice and playable. Maybe reflect 2 will...
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    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review - The New Flagship

    Also I would point out that while people are hating on a 30% more performance as "not a generational upgrade"... CPUs usually get 10% performance uplift AT BEST and often less with their generations and we don't hear screaming. I think we need to accept that GPUs are starting to plateau, just...
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