general-chat

[dusk knot]

[tall pine]

Squirrel can be skilled or no skill based on if you are good with Ricochets.

Spam = kills
Geometry Warrior = lots of kills

[dusk knot]

I haven't tried her. Don't know

I'm a hela main

Takes real skill

[tall pine]

Luna more skill.

[dusk knot]

Luna is actually not bad now

I can finally get her to lord

Almost there

[random osprey]

squirrel girl > anyone

[tall pine]

In all seriousness, Hela does take skill to play it's called AIM.

Don't go dissing on my Spidey now.

I've been dropping 30-40 kill games with Spider in ranked.

[dusk knot]

Spidey can be dealt with

[tall pine]

Remember this quote.

[dusk knot]

Menace

[tall pine]

"Just because you could kill me, doesn't mean I will let you".

[dusk knot]

I still could if you don't want to

[tall pine]

There is absolutely nothing saying I must charge a Hela, Wanda, etc.

If they wanna be pricks I will just annilhilate the rest of the team.

Also Namer is a easy counter if you know how the stupid squids work.

[dusk knot]

Ik.. you're a really good player

Right right

[tall pine]

It amazes me how people say "switch namer for the spider" or "Why are you playing Spider-Man against a Namer" as I then proceed to repeatedly torture Namer.

@dusk knot vc?

[dusk knot]

Skill issue

[tall pine]

I am in Lounge.

[dusk knot]

Too late rn

[tall pine]

c'mon.

[dusk knot]

I can't

[tall pine]

Alright. Tomorrow?

[dusk knot]

Not tonight..I'm mentally not disposed 🙃

[tall pine]

I am not gaming right now just bored before I go to bed in like 10m.

[dusk knot]

I'll try.. you're on like everyday

[tall pine]

How about this, next time you play. Shoot me a message or James I think he'd appreciate some buds to play with.

[dusk knot]

Ok. I'll try. Promise

[tall pine]

👍

Anyways

To counter Namer on Spider-Man is as simple as:

• Situational awareness (where are the squids, their LOS, and teammate locations (see below))

• Keep a 5s count for the squid, how many squids were spawned and a 5s count for the squid refill.

• If there are squids, use a upper cut on them or let them target teammates first.

[dusk knot]

Eh

I honestly need to try her

[dusk knot]

Got it got it

[tall pine]

Basically if you can keep track of multiple countdowns and are situationally aware you can deal with Namer on any flier or Spider.

[tall pine]

Good child, good.

Btw, me and James have been playing ranked an hour a day and are ranking up every other day. We're Plat II already and almost Plat I.

~60% win ratio

[dusk knot]

I'm older than you, but ok. Good advise

[tall pine]

Every one is a kid to me until they make me feel young.

So don't take offense if you did.

[dusk knot]

Wow....let's see if we can do some ranked tomorrow. My qualifications are incomplete

I'll have to be mentally prepared...

[tall pine]

I can't play ranked with you till you complete the qualifications but I can coach you.

[dusk knot]

K

[tall pine]

Long story short, I brain-stormed overnight and found what is probably the best team composition for this season.

It has had a 100% win rate whenever the team agrees to the full lineup.

[dusk knot]

Oh?

[tall pine]

I can DM you the lineup and each person's role.

It's a freaking menace of a composition.

[dusk knot]

Oh goodie

I hope it's the characters I play

I've been getting into playing Scarlet Witch and Rogue. I think I almost mastered Rogue

Almost

All depends on the teammates

[dusk knot]

Sure

[fair onyx]

excited!

I hope I like it lol

[wraith fern]

i do want vr

would be good for the f1 games

[fair onyx]

(In case people ask again, I got it cause it has better hardware for just VR streaming, at a likely lower price than the steam frame)

[wraith fern]

maybe i'll get a used headset

[fair onyx]

even just a used quest 2 is more than enough to get a feel for it

[wraith fern]

i just want it for the vr capabilities with a PC

i dont actually want to play vr games

[fair onyx]

The quest 2 may be cheap and pretty old by now, but it can still sell you on the dream

[fair onyx]

as in streaming VR to it from a PC, or as in using it as a workspace where desktop windows are projected in VR?

[wraith fern]

the former

[fair onyx]

ah, so you just want a headset, you don't care what it can play standalone?

Thats how I am. I don't care about all teh fancy crap the steam frame can do. It just seems like mostly gimmicks to me

[wraith fern]

not really

i dont want to play vr games

i'd use it for flightsim and then f1 games

which would be pretty sick

once i sell my old monitor maybe i'll get a used headset

[fair onyx]

on top of that, the meta quest pro has much nicer displays, and full face tracking which position it nicely for my uses

[tall pine]

@dusk knot I DMed you the info.

[fair onyx]

the steam frame seems dope for people who want it to game standalone, but its not a very good deal for just a streaming headset

[dusk knot]

Thanks

[dusk knot]

Oh

[fair onyx]

oh? :3

[dusk knot]

Tell us how it goes

I hardly see anyone mention that headset

[fair onyx]

which is strange cause its recently been regarded as kinda the holy grail of features/comfort/value 😅

people slept on it when it first came out, but now its super sought after

[dusk knot]

Hmm

Need to look at those reviews

Rip my g2 reverb

[fair onyx]

it has some really stand out features

QD mini LED displays
Floating halo strap so it doesn't touch your face
Full facial tracking
Foveated rendering AND streaming like the steamdeck

[rancid juniper]

VR

[nocturne flicker]

Varied Ruffage

[fair onyx]

*steam frame, my bad lol

[rancid juniper]

great for the eyes!

[nocturne flicker]

And yes I meant to spell roughage as ruffage

[dense locust]

steam frame wont launch until morale improves

[fair onyx]

yeah, likely

unfortunately I don't think the steam frame is the win many people think it is

I was blown away when I first heard about it. But the more I think about it, the less enticing it sounds

[dense locust]

it wont even have a launch game

the machine is getting hl3

(allegedly)

[dense locust]

i think the universe has it out for hl3

[dusk knot]

Half life 3 confirmed????

[nocturne flicker]

Half Life 3 but your PC will be confiscated for the ram by the tech bros before you can play it

[gleaming sedge]

2am and doing floppys fun fun

[worn wave]

https://tenor.com/view/hl2-hl3-half-life-3-hopium-hope-gif-7246120153840726923

[lone mango]

mans fed up

[torn oasis]

what are we gonna do about these RAM prices?

[misty sparrow]

absolutely nothing

[elfin mural]

also the ceo: don't call our ai slop!!

[remote geode]

install ltsc!

or switch to linux

everything works so far

[ashen swan]

Micron is wrth more then AMD now

also

i got a 45 on my science exam

i alsmost sweared there

[random osprey]

playing marathon and arcraiders solo, ive realized i cant play those types of extraction shooters by myself, way too stressful for me

[sinful blade]

I don’t like extraction shooters
Ain’t my type

[ashen swan]

would you rather

Deathadder V3 pro

or

Harpe Ace II

[random osprey]

harpe ace 2 because i already have a da v3 pro

[sinful blade]

Fbmp strikes again

[dusk knot]

Gm all

[ashen swan]

The Asrock phantom gaming stuff looks so good

[icy ore]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-ohayo-good-morning-anime-morning-anime-anime-cute-cute-anime-girl-gif-15699131992336099681

[ashen swan]

i have to be conistantly reminded that no more 7800X3D

[unreal trail]

https://tenor.com/view/pog-pogs-lfpog-player-owned-gaming-crypto-gif-14878382838674667679

[ashen swan]

https://www.asrock.com/Graphics-Card/AMD/Radeon RX 9070 XT Taichi White 16GB OC/index.us.asp

[proud jackal]

https://tenor.com/view/bocchi-the-rock-anime-sad-gif-27615865

[rancid juniper]

most boring CES ever

[cedar compass]

I heard AI in this CES more than I heard my own name in my whole life

[bitter ridge]

The new Rog Bios design was pretty interesting

[bitter ridge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6VT5bEeKWw

Things are interesting on the monitor side

5k 165hz

Some on the apple cult say windows side doesn't have anything with 300 ppi and higher but we are getting there all while maintaining over 60hz

[rancid juniper]

cool monitors ig, but those don't really interest me lol

[dusk knot]

I think I'm getting bored of tech now

More of the same

[rancid juniper]

its been horribly stagnant thanks to the over glazing of AI

[royal crow]

i didnt even watcch the keynote

[dusk knot]

No holograms, no real robots that are truly useful...

[royal crow]

i was hyped last year bc 50 series was supposed to be good

[dusk knot]

Supposed to be

[royal crow]

wrong razer made an ai waifu hologram desk assistant thingy

(its not useful)

[dusk knot]

Pathetic

[rancid juniper]

i hate how you got companies like intel or AMD that has an opportunity to do something great against the large nvidia marketshare and they absolutely bomb it

its like they really want to stay trash forever

[dusk knot]

https://youtu.be/_QDthx_WjwE?si=xTwEBUQe5_0nRTrj

This is it?

[rancid juniper]

slop
slop
slop

[dusk knot]

Oh my god. The male/ female loniness epidemic is real

God no

[royal crow]

notice at the end how they talk about them "calling the shots"

this product is for people who have already given their minds over to chatgpt

or whatever

any way you look at it it's sickening

[dusk knot]

It is. Get a real companion

Not this ...

[royal crow]

what do you wanna bet that 99% of buyers will be gooners\

[rancid juniper]

honestly talking to a companion who agrees with you on everything seems way too off

thats not a good way to communicate

[royal crow]

i hate that

i want to know when im wrong

[dusk knot]

I despise it. It's encouraging people to dive into some unhealthy social disorders

[royal crow]

fr

[rancid juniper]

that's what they're aiming for and its working

[royal crow]

this very well could signal the downfall of a signifigcant part of society

[dusk knot]

Smh. Society is getting worse and worse

In soo many fields

[royal crow]

we're already losing families as a social unit, we do not need to lose human interaction as well

[dusk knot]

This

And these companies are all for it to.

No morals

[royal crow]

all about short term gain

[dusk knot]

Yep

[royal crow]

no thought towards any future events

plus they're inevitably gonna cram it with as many cash grabs as possible

$5 says they make it a subscription in some capacity

[dusk knot]

:/

[lethal jasper]

Surely the blanket will prevent someone from looking inside the car, smashing the window and stealing the pc

You can see the AMD red tho

[royal crow]

also, I predict there'll be either a subscription(from razer or otherwise) to get nsfw stuff out of it, or someone will figure out a way to get a nsfw aavatar on it

[dusk knot]

Hmm

We will see

What a sad decade we live in

[royal crow]

someone pin ts fr

[dusk knot]

For me it all started in 2012, that's when everything has gone to crap

[royal crow]

i was but a wee lad then

2016-18 was peak

[dusk knot]

After 2020, everything started to accelerate

[royal crow]

yeah

[rancid juniper]

nothing was the same after Covid

people got sussier

[dusk knot]

Peake was before 2011 or so

[royal crow]

i remember nye 2019, heard from my dad abt a lil virus going around china

[rancid juniper]

just a "lil" virus

[royal crow]

thats what everyone thoguht then

[rancid juniper]

and then it happened

[dusk knot]

Wasn't it shocking how it eventually ended up in your own backyard in a matter of weeks? Crazy

[royal crow]

fr

i had it 3 times

[rancid juniper]

plague incorporated ah scenario

https://tenor.com/view/osu-plague-inc-meme-memes-gif-19668426

[dusk knot]

Seems I didn't show any symptoms

I was around a lot of people while working in retail.

I doubled my masks

I got used to it.

I definitely caught it somehow

[rancid juniper]

it was kinda cold and it found you warm

[dusk knot]

Lol

I remember this one time where I got this fever and terrible muscle pains for a few hours. Went away the next day. No idea what it was

[nocturne flicker]

Don't worry, they'll ban masks for medical purposes so you have no legal option but to get sick

[bitter ridge]

Sounds like exactly the thing RFK JR would do

[dusk knot]

[royal crow]

altho, ngl, holograms are cool and i want one if nothing else, to be a cool desk peice

so there's that

[dusk knot]

I remember they were about to do that

[rancid juniper]

It was a wild time where a sneeze would give you a couple side eyes

[dusk knot]

Yeah

Good thing we didn't have a zombie or black death level pandemic

[rancid juniper]

Could be possible thanks to an irresponsible scientist

[dusk knot]

Maybe

[rancid juniper]

Did the virus escape the lab?

It escaped the lab...

[nocturne flicker]

Can a mad scientist make a virus that only infects billionaires? Asking for a friend

[lethal jasper]

I think covid helped create Mrna vaccines which i guess is somewhat of a win

[rancid juniper]

I thought mRNA was already a thing?

[nocturne flicker]

mRNA vaccines had been in testing since the early 2000s

[rancid juniper]

Imma be a bit controversial here but I believe those vaccines were rushed out the door

[worthy meteor]

It brought it to the mainstream but it also accelerated skepticism

Compared to the usual process, it was 100% rushed

[nocturne flicker]

mRNA research even got DARPA money

[rancid juniper]

What does this mean?

[nocturne flicker]

Military mones

[worthy meteor]

I'd say it was like having 19 safeguards instead of 20, comparatively less safe, but still a pretty safe process

[rancid juniper]

Oh

☠️

[nocturne flicker]

mRNA vaccines had been in the human testing stage since 2013. COVID just got the first clinically approved ones out the door

[rancid juniper]

And yet you gotta take like 5+ boosters within a year or two

[worthy meteor]

The rushed part was long term studies to know what you need long term lol

Usually you gotta present like 5 year effects and doses or smth like that

[nocturne flicker]

It is because COVID has taken the route of the flu

[rancid juniper]

Different strains?

[nocturne flicker]

Yes

[rancid juniper]

All the shots I've taken were made and documented very long ago so the skepticism is understandable fr

[nocturne flicker]

https://tenor.com/view/are-you-sure-john-cena-ru-sure-about-dat-gif-14258954

[rancid juniper]

To enter university you were required to have a vaccination of meningitis I believe

And ofc a couple other things

[nocturne flicker]

They make new versions of vaccines all the time. You rarely if ever get the original version of a vaccine

[rancid juniper]

So we getting remasters

[nocturne flicker]

The skepticism was largely manufactured by people either trying to scam you with alternative health products, people spreading fake information online for political reasons or the loonies who still think vaccines cause autism

[rancid juniper]

Lol

[worthy meteor]

Idk it's just a
It's slightly more risky than usual -> it's slightly more risky than usual
Not
It's slightly more risky than usual -> omg no one should do it

[rancid juniper]

I see

[dusk knot]

All orchestrated.

Can't believe the news.

[rancid juniper]

[nocturne flicker]

We remember the polio vaccine as one of the greatest achievments in modern medicine. A private company screwed up their version of the vaccine and killed 11 people and paralyzed 260 and caused tens of thousands of polio cases. We didn't ban any and all polio vaccines or had a national hysteria against vaccines as a result in the 1950s

[dense locust]

Didn’t they ban that polio vaccine for a worse one?

[rancid juniper]

First time I've heard of this

[nocturne flicker]

It was the Cutter incident

[nocturne flicker]

There were three variants of vaccines originally, the first consisted of a weak version of polio that you drank, a second was an inactivated version that was widely used and the third was a better version of the first.

The inactivated versions have largely replaced the ones taken orally and are more effective than them by about 4%

[rancid juniper]

Read a bit of it in an article and it seems like after the incident vaccines were close to being eradicated from lawsuits

[lone mango]

Covid vaccine kinda brutal

Not antivax but I am not a fan of the heart structure changing after taking it

Covid was the only one I avoided

[sinful blade]

Man, I wish they made newer GPU’s that looked like the ROG 3070ti

That is one gooooood looking card

[lone mango]

Old rog cards were cool

[lone mango]

This is tuff in 2026

[nocturne flicker]

There was a national review board established to review all polio vaccines and determine which ones were to be used. Vaccine rates dropped, but they were still used until 1961, which was when that third vaccine version was commercially released and replaced the Salk vaccine

All three of those vaccines have since been replaced with an improved version of the inactivated pathogen vaccine

[bitter ridge]

The Astral looks pretty cool as well

[dense locust]

Astral looks cool but it’s not 2x msrp cool

[lone mango]

Correct

The price makes it not cool anymore, to me at least

I saw the price was was like damn

[bitter ridge]

Old rog has never known to be near msrp either

[lone mango]

You are right, but it is more egregious now

[worn night]

Bro can’t be talking

[nocturne flicker]

Keep in mind that by 1961 when the Salk vaccine was replaced polio cases in the US had dropped from 35k a year in 1953 to 161 in 1961

[peak heart]

@heady plinth rm850e corsair is good??

[bitter ridge]

Good

[dense locust]

Corsair is pretty much always good

(For psu)

[bitter ridge]

My brother uses a rm750e with a 4090,7800x3d has no problems

[lone mango]

Truth

[dense locust]

They have some old psus that suck but those are almost a decade old

[dense locust]

Reminds me of that one guy that used a 650w with a 4090 and an Intel cpu

[lone mango]

Nah 4090 doesn’t use that much power

Occasionally it can, but many cases where it uses less than the tdp

It’s actually a pretty efficient card, well tuned

I have seen it use a little more than a 4080 in a game, forgot which, but its power usage varies a lot

Most nvidia cards do tbh

And 7800x3d just sips power

Good for this setup but if he wants to upgrade, probably has to upgrade the psu too

[bitter ridge]

Not much to upgrade to except the 5090

[lone mango]

Yeah, but curious to see how next gen’s 80 class will stack up against the 4090

[bitter ridge]

Probably will destroy it since we finally will be moving to a new node

Wouldn't be surprised if my 5070ti was on par with a 6060ti

[lone mango]

I assume zen 6 x3d will also sip power like the 7800 because of the new packaging they are doing

[dense locust]

78X3d sips power?

I know my cpu goes over 100w

[lone mango]

Yup

[bitter ridge]

That is expected during Shader compilation

Achilles heel of certain cpus

[lone mango]

In games like bf6 it can use over 100

Typically though 9800 uses less than 100

I have seen it go from 50-80

Unless I am getting the two mixed up

But it is true that the 7800 uses less

[rancid juniper]

That is the quickest way to understand OLED

[dense locust]

Make sure the cat is slightly burry for true accuracy

[dusk knot]

Truth

OLED should be the standard

But it's still pricey

[dense locust]

But mai text clarity

[lone mango]

I'd say the only thing is deeper blacks

Because even cheap ips panels have very deep colors

[fair onyx]

Oh my gosh, I just came in here to send that exact photo because a friend sent it to me lol

[fair onyx]

This is just simply not true, at least when you're comparing to QD OLED

You get massively bigger color volumes, significantly faster pixel response times, much greater panel uniformity, much greater viewing angles, significantly higher peak brightnesses, infinite contrast, and much higher visual dynamics

I tried to jump in between different descriptors for the same thing, because saying massively 15 times in a row is just annoying lol

[rancid juniper]

heh

[fair onyx]

But yeah, for example, Del's new $3,000 super high-end 52-in 6K professional grade IPS behemoth of a monitor still has lower color volume than even an entry level QD OLED

[fair onyx]

My goat is still the Samsung portable monitor

16-in, 3K resolution, 120 hz, HDR 500, dynamic 2x super AMOLED, with 10-bit color in a solid metal construction with a solid metal kickstand, and a power cable for $220

You simply can't get a better looking monitor for that price. Sure it's a bit on the smaller side, but it has not bothered me at all. I use it as my dedicated video playback monitor, and it is stunning

[worn wave]

no, not really...? Color wise, IPS is better than TN but still worse than VA and OLED

[fair onyx]

Yeah, colors are pretty big weakness for IPS in the grand scheme of things. Sure, you can get dirt cheap IPS panels that cover standard SRGB with 100% gamut, and relative accuracy, but getting anything further than that is very very expensive

Like good luck getting a full DCIP 3 LCD for less than it cost to get an OLED that can do the same. I'd be willing to bet that you'd probably spend more on the IPS

[lone mango]

There are cheap ips panels that cover almost all of dci p3

[worn wave]

Yeah the color accuracy can be fine but the actual perceived look isn't great because of contrast limitations

[fair onyx]

I don't know about all that, even the $2,000 ultra premium provision LCDs can barely hit 99%

For example, my cutie OLED has 115% DCIP3, and my 2x dynamic amoled Samsung monitor has 132%

[fair onyx]

Yeah, I agree with this as well. The really poor contrast of IPS can also make it look worse

[worthy meteor]

it's more a matter of contrast than colors tbh

IPS color accuracy is still pretty decent, it's contrast where VA is superior and OLED slaughters

[lone mango]

To make my monitors not look good, I have to move my head all the way to the side

[fair onyx]

1st standard content, yes, but if we're talking full gamut, LCD doesn't even get close to OLED / QD OLED

[lone mango]

To me at least, peak brightness is a meme

[lone mango]

Yeah

[dense locust]

Screw this let’s all just get a Microled

[fair onyx]

It can be if you don't use HDR. For anybody who doesn't use HDR, the peak brightness doesn't matter at all

I would honestly probably be fine with using a high quality VA panel, because they have significantly better contrast than IPS, but to me the glow of IPS is just insufferable now

And I'm not saying the people shouldn't be happy with their IPS displays, there are plenty that look great, especially in brighter rooms, but I'm just saying that saying the only difference between IPS and OLED is better blacks is just objectively wrong across the board

[worthy meteor]

Honestly I think everyone should just report average max brightness

[worn wave]

VA is great until you run into smearing/low pixel response times 💀 mostly just an issue for games, but damn the switch to oled had me realizing how much motion clarity I was losing with VA

[worthy meteor]

IPS usually does like 200 ish nits and report 400 nits peak

OLED usually does like 400-600 ish nits and report 1000

You don't need 1000 but 400 looks good

all you really need is 400 but just because it lists 400 max doesn't mean you can actually hit 400 in a full scene

[worn wave]

*perceived brightness is all relative to your ambient lighting too

[lone mango]

My ips glow is actually not bad tbh

[lone mango]

Yeah my panel is at like 25% rn

[worthy meteor]

I find ips glow gets worse at higher brightness and especially compared next to oled

[opaque sedge]

Whats the sdr brightness of tandem woleds supposed to be?

My qd oled’s brigtness is rather low

Sucks for non hdr supported games

[worthy meteor]

what panel?

I use true black 400 whenever hdr is available with my qd oled panel, but even in sdr the brightness is more than good enough for me

[rancid juniper]

ugliest looking handheld render ive seen

[dense locust]

They don’t wanna get sued

[uncut gyro]

i put my pc into sleep mode, it will not turn back on and the lights to my ram are lighting up but nothing else and nothing is popping up on my screen when i moved my mouse around/ pressed some keys

[lone mango]

Bro what is my panel cracked or something

[dense locust]

Just buy new at that point

[uncut gyro]

the fans are still running too

[lone mango]

I have a black screen up and there is no blotchyness

[leaden pewter]

i have a single cluster of dead pixels and ive counted about 4-5 and its rarely noticable except on white screens or on games that let me use unlimited view distance since it looks like a person running

[lone mango]

gigabyte really fumbled this one

how is a double flow through triple slot bruh

[worthy meteor]

should've made it shorter and better for sff smh

[leaden pewter]

proart added wood trim and that makes me want to sell my current 5070ti just to get the wooden version of 5070ti proart

[dense locust]

I assume the pcie is on a separate board which will make the pcie slot snap easily

[worn wave]

10% discount lmao

[lone mango]

the card is so wide that you could fit 3 fans of the same size if they were a little smaller

because there is a third fan inside in the middle

[lone mango]

[dense locust]

Their mistake for 10% off

lol

[lone mango]

Would it really hurt bro to sell it for like 3000, or even less

He would still be making money anyways

[dense locust]

Why are eBay people insane

[random osprey]

for parts 💀

wait sold?

[dense locust]

The listing went up at 1850

[rancid juniper]

gamblin

not jealous im not jealous

[dense locust]

Pcie chipped

Only worth if you know how to repair it

[rancid juniper]

absolutely, that buyer either good at repairs or a maniac

[dusk knot]

cheap

[rancid juniper]

wish i got one, just wanna try to undervolt it heavy

id return it if its a mid bin for UV

its gotta be extremely unrealistic to run a 14900k at around 200w max while hitting stock boost clocks (effective clocks being close too) on prime95 small FFTs

[dusk knot]

https://youtu.be/G8KwxK6V7KI?si=0lMtrk-qtRGNX5Kx

[cedar compass]

imagine you have to upscale things

and we living in 2026

[craggy shoal]

Imagine living in 2026

[cedar compass]

[lone mango]

Fr

[leaden pewter]

If that chip ain’t already fried then wow a nice snag

[rancid juniper]

GAMEFREAK???

[opaque sedge]

Who?

[rancid juniper]

developers behind pokemon

might be a different team under them tho

[opaque sedge]

Oh wait yeah they’re making a high fidelity soulslike game i think

[nocturne flicker]

Mmm

[opaque sedge]

Was revealed last year

[rancid juniper]

yes

[opaque sedge]

Man…

My 4070super ain’t surviving 2026 in ultrawide

Might have to downgrade me monitor

[nocturne flicker]

My pizza gonna take 20 minutes because a fire truck placed an order

[ashen swan]

Intel

Is

Cooking

[nocturne flicker]

Are they cooking pizza

[opaque sedge]

That reminds me smoke started coming out of the front of my car

Just an hour ago

[ashen swan]

Sadly no because their chips are cool

Like in temps

[opaque sedge]

Just had it towed to a shop

[ashen swan]

Apperantly

[sour falcon]

RAHHHHHHHHH

[opaque sedge]

And going back home on an expensive uber

No more 5080 for me it seems

[ashen swan]

What is your ultra wide btw

[opaque sedge]

Or 5070ti

[sour falcon]

what car is it

[ashen swan]

Like reso and refresh rate

And panel type

[opaque sedge]

2017 subaru forester

[ashen swan]

Huh you don’t have a lot of upgrades

Maybe

Sell this for 550

[opaque sedge]

No

[ashen swan]

and save for the tandem oled

[opaque sedge]

I love it

[sour falcon]

https://tenor.com/view/lifouzno-gif-16409361318328950492

[ashen swan]

You can price it higher

It may be worth trying a tandem oled with glossy blacks

[opaque sedge]

[nocturne flicker]

The pizza was just put in the oven

It has been 20 minutes since I placed the order

[dense locust]

👀

<@&500086265496993802>

[lone mango]

https://tenor.com/view/hatsune-miku-miku-miku-hatsune-vocaloid-i-will-find-you-gif-5321493021909939110

[opaque sedge]

https://tenor.com/view/danny-devito-its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-bang-bang-bang-shoot-gif-16451074233666853646

Holy shit this would be awesome in handhelds

[sinful blade]

Not sure why this didn’t tag me

[opaque sedge]

Poser?

[dense locust]

Fake mod

[worn wave]

This is cool as long as the 2x upscaling is on both systems

[proud jackal]

Since when did this work, I hate it

[nocturne flicker]

You'll notice that the titles that aren't tagged with an * are also ones in which the Intel one is slightly ahead of, is tied with or is behind the 4050

So maybe

That is Roblox, LoL, Valorant, Stellaris, Dota 2, PUBG, FFXIV, RE4, Warhammer III and Plague Tale

Also glad to see Stellaris getting more usage in benchmarking. Paradox mappies do weird things with framerate so always nice to see people doing at least one of them.

[opaque sedge]

What does 2x upscaling mean in this case? 50% resolution scale? Or frame gen?

[idle crow]

Bought a used 3080 is every thing normal? Score is kinda low

[nocturne flicker]

I just went to their website. The 4050 laptop in question had a 255h in it 🤨

[worn wave]

Resolution I assume

[opaque sedge]

50% resolution scale would be a bummer

But meh for an igpu its impressive progress ig

[worn wave]

I mean I assume (/hope) they're enabling it on both gpus for a fairly even comparison

[opaque sedge]

And its running at 45 watts

[nocturne flicker]

The benchmark is sus

[velvet summit]

i would guess they didn't

[nocturne flicker]

The benchmark is comparing their highest end cpu and igpu against a laptop with the previous gen's mid tier/bottom of high end cpu

[velvet summit]

rule 1 of marketing is to make any "objective" data as ambiguous and as advantageous to the product you are selling as possible lol

[dense locust]

“My igpu performs better than a core 2 duo with a 5090”

[opaque sedge]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-thinking-monkey-thinking-eating-finger-finger-in-mouth-gif-17418478209601592476

[acoustic palm]

tbf it is an actual gpu vs igpuu

[nocturne flicker]

But they are testing on a resolution that favors cpu perf

And not stating if the Nvidia gpu has upscaling enabled as well

[tranquil pebble]

installing MSFS on my laptop rn

[proud jackal]

https://tenor.com/view/himeno-smoking-anime-anime-girl-smoke-gif-12023329037060819900

[acoustic palm]

https://tenor.com/view/teto-kasane-plush-teto-kasane-fact-checked-gif-14951431768440204450

[rancid juniper]

it is true that its 2026

[nocturne flicker]

And it isn't like there aren't higher tier cpus paired with the 4050

I did a search of Newegg and found a 285H paired with a 4050

Which is cursed

Also has 8gb of 'onboard' and 16gb of ram for 24gb

Sad soldered ram noises

Especially since it is listed for $2.8k

And is from a third party Canadian company

[tranquil pebble]

not too interested in miside tbh

[rancid juniper]

Miside....

https://tenor.com/view/miside-cute-wink-anime-girl-mita-gif-11146018607977986047

[lone mango]

Who

[rancid juniper]

Just a character named mita

[misty sparrow]

I know some people who'd go "I can fix her"

[rancid juniper]

They'd probably be cooked before they even try

[pliant berry]

literally cooked

[velvet summit]

need a cappie plush

[pliant berry]

yoo i'd take a cappie plush

[velvet summit]

https://tenor.com/view/cappie-miside-yes-no-copy-gif-5550817344992816888

[acoustic palm]

i hate ranked randoms

[rancid juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/miside-cappie-cool-mita-head-turned-sideways-head-rotation-gif-9915476016586285005

[acoustic palm]

i dont understand how we are playing THE get out of jail free card

and they remain in the jail they made for themselves

😭

[velvet summit]

we'd make a great pear

[rancid juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/persona-3-persona-3-reload-makoto-yuki-mass-destruction-persona-gif-12979402610580299256

[tranquil pebble]

lol

[dusk knot]

[misty sparrow]

https://cdn.nsb.gg/tmp/vhfyu/61mcd.gif

[dusk knot]

[lone mango]

Jawa sends so many emails that icloud moved them to junk

[lone mango]

[tranquil pebble]

https://tenor.com/view/elizabeth-persona-3-persona-3-reload-p3-p3r-gif-10780839094675523833

[pliant berry]

my laptop is thermal throttling again 🙁

[dense locust]

laptop moment

[tranquil pebble]

mine is just having the normal Windows 11 being a pain issues

[dense locust]

coolermaster send me a replacement screw

and i dropped like 5 degrees

i like how it looks

[tranquil pebble]

these are the parts going into my PC soon

the CPU is 9800x3d

[dusk knot]

this is yours? stats

[dusk knot]

HE HAS DDR5! GET HIM!!!

[tranquil pebble]

lol

[dense locust]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/CQJZnp

[dense locust]

ddr5? in this economy?

[tranquil pebble]

I bought it before the price increases

[dusk knot]

damn. i like it. the resell value on that 5080 is going to be great

[dense locust]

how long have you been sitting on this pc

[tranquil pebble]

so it was $240 for 96 GB RAM

[dense locust]

more than my second 5080

[dusk knot]

not bad ngl

[dense locust]

its just a 5080 trio

[tranquil pebble]

a while... just been a bit lazy lately. I am going to find my tools and get to work on it though

[dense locust]

do you edit?

[dusk knot]

2nd

[tranquil pebble]

getting tired of 5700x3d related bottlenecks

[dense locust]

5700x3d

"bottle neck"

[tranquil pebble]

no, but just browsing some of the folders on my system has consumed more than 64 GB RAM before... and I also run LLMs + ConfyUI

[dense locust]

AI

[dusk knot]

love it

[dusk knot]

how much vram do you have?

[tranquil pebble]

at least I'm not a datacenter hogging it all lol

[tranquil pebble]

rn 16 GB

[rancid juniper]

All fun and games till you see a new Ryzen 3 chip

[tranquil pebble]

will be 32 GB once I get the money for the Radeon Pro 9700

[dusk knot]

hm. kk

[dusk knot]

o

[dense locust]

no rtx pro 6000

smh

[tranquil pebble]

laptop has 8 GB which is enough for many ollama LLMs

[tranquil pebble]

I'm not made of money

[dense locust]

you have plenty of organs

[dusk knot]

whats the best LLM youre running and how "intelligent" is it?

hows the reasoning?

[unreal trail]

GTA6 cant get cert on console lol

[tranquil pebble]

pretty basic compared to larger models but still amusing to play around with

[tranquil pebble]

console cert is probably the only thing holding back having every AAA game be full blown unplayable

[dusk knot]

how bad?

[dense locust]

this guy doesnt seem trustworthy

[dusk knot]

those consoles are always holding us back. smh

[dense locust]

https://www.reddit.com/r/GTA6/comments/1q7uncs/more_info_on_the_gta_6_console_cert_situation/

That’s why builds get close to passing and then fail late. The game itself is fine, performance is fine, but the anti cheat keeps triggering compliance issues. Rockstar can disable it and pass cert, but doing so opens the game up for many possible exploits.

hmmm

[unreal trail]

lol

just let us cheat /shrug

[tranquil pebble]

We are getting to the point where anticheat is literally causing actual problems

honestly, atp the cure is worse than the disease

[nocturne flicker]

Come on guys just give companies 24/7 administrative control of your PC if you want to play their games what could possibly go wrong

[unreal trail]

basically, they want your PC to be reduced to being their hardware by proxy

[nocturne flicker]

Mandatory screen cap if you want to play MP

That never shuts off

And seems to focus particularly on boxes labeled password, username and SSN

[unreal trail]

lol

[tranquil pebble]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/163382741491122176/1287511326410932424/1726878615810815.gif

[dense locust]

50 series super?

more like super dead

https://videocardz.com/newz/geforce-rtx-50-super-release-reportedly-put-on-hold

[fair onyx]

Yippieeee, it's arrived :D

[nocturne flicker]

50 super shall become 60 series

[fair onyx]

Holy crap this headset is way nicer than I expected. It feels like a damn tank

[heavy dew]

Allegedly

@north crescent help me find bios for my laptop

[proud jackal]

https://www.newegg.com/asus-xg27aqngv-27-qhd-360-hz-rog-strix-ultra-fast-ips-black/p/N82E16824281394 @random osprey pulsar monitors are out

[heavy dew]

HP support sucks balls

These Indian mfs couldn’t even attempt to try to get me a download for my BIOS

it’s the most dumbest thing I’ve ever had to do in my life: call tech support for drivers

I literally ate pizza off the sidewalk in high school but nope this drivers bs is the dumbest thing ever

[lone mango]

Just so you know, when companies say they are replacing people with AI, it is actually Another Indian

[dense locust]

Did you try turning it off and then Turning it on?

[heavy dew]

Dude the lady kept saying “oh so becoz da laptop is no longer bein made, den that means there’s no suppout for this laptop

I’m like no shit Sherlock

I obviously knew that Im not asking you to fix my laptop im asking to point me into the right direction of where I should get drivers for it

“No no you dond under sand sir, de laptom you hav is no longer being maid, so you cannot get de driver for it”

And I keep asking her why why is that the case what is the reasoning

“Sir we ar going around in circles I kep telling jou that you cannot get da drivers because the lap top is no longer being made”

That’s the dumbest thing any tech support agent can say

That’s like saying you can’t get a new alternator for your car just bc the car is from 2011

When you know DAMN WELL you should be able to without having to do some goofy ass 3 stage side quest

[lone mango]

What laptop is it

[heavy dew]

HP 15-ac131ds

And nobody on the internet archive archives the HP support website when it comes to drivers

So I’m shit out of luck

OH MY GOD I GOT A SCREEN

OH MY GOD

OH MY GOD TOOK ME HOURS TO GET A SCREEN BUT J GTO A SCREEN

and the lady on the phone was like “ok so I spoke to my suparvisor and he said dat de problem you are describing sounds like a hardware issue, so in ordar to fix it, I must charge you fiffteh nine doolar for de diagnostic fee” and I’m like sorry what????

I’m bout to stay up all night to install an OS boys

Although I should’ve used my old SSD but f it I’m installing windows

I really hope the minute the laptop turns off it doesn’t go back to black screen flashing two lights because I’m bout to actually kill a ford focus

[lone mango]

mods gonna delete that

[worn night]

yo can you not say that

like even jokingly

cause its not a joke

[acoustic palm]

ford focus deserves it though

[heavy dew]

Bruh I really hope the minute the laptop restarts the laptop doesn’t say HAHA L BOZO

cus I swear the first time the screen finally lit up I hit exit then it went dead

[worn night]

lol

good luck with that

[heavy dew]

Bro I will MF cry

I don’t care if I’m installing windows 10 on a spinny drive

[lone mango]

rs is goated but too bad they dont make it anymore

[heavy dew]

The only reason I’m in this predicament is because OF HP BEINH ANTI CONSUMER

and then the mf person texting me on twitter was like oh how is HP Anti consumer when I explained to them the bull crap they’re pulling with drivers

You know I can get drivers for a Dell Inspiron 1521 off of the Dell website? You know the laptop itself is 19 years old? You know you can select windows XP 32 or 64 bit for your download??

You telling me you can get drivers for a laptop that’s older THAN MOST PEOPLE’S CHILDREN but I couldn’t god forbid get a driver for a 10 year old laptop that can run windows 10 just fine???????

And then the male supervisor said the most absolutely dumbest thing to me on the phone I wanted to curse him out and call him a Banchode and bakrachode and moderchode and all the chodes

[lone mango]

must purchase copilot pc

[heavy dew]

You know what he told me???

I can’t even make this up that’s how dumb the shit he said was

[acoustic palm]

just say what he sadi

[heavy dew]

He told me and I quote “sir da reason dat HP removed the drivers is because when the laptop was released, it came with de old version of windows, and HP don’t suppout da old versions of windows, so HP has to remove the drivers for old windows becos you cannot get dos windows anymore becos its not suppoted*

And I’m like HOLD YOUR GOD DAMN HORSES

this laptop was made and/or released inn 2015

And he’s like “so HP does not suppot windows 7 or 8 any moe so HP has to delete da drivers for dose ol operating systems”

I literally told him if this laptop was made in 2015, which it must’ve had been, it would’ve came with either windows 8 or windows 10

And by the time windows 10 HAD come out for the laptop, it would’ve had correlating drivers FOR WINDOWS 10

[acoustic palm]

w10 isnt supported anymore

[heavy dew]

Cus windows 10 came out in 2015, which makes me feel old let me mind you, but the fact is he’s saying a NEW EXCUSE, saying drivers are removed because of older windows DOESNT MAKE SENSE

for Christ sakes I can go on Dell and download drivers for either XP, Vista, 7 or 8, what the HELL do you mean “they cannot have the drivers download for older operating systems”

[icy ore]

[heavy dew]

Just as I predicted the minute the laptop goes to restart, it goes back to black screen and blinking 2 times

Is this really a corrupt bios

[proud jackal]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSX-LxAkkCe/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

jackinthebox

Meet the Jibbi 👀✨ Which one are you most excited to find?

Likes

30837

Instagram

[nocturne flicker]

Yes it is, it is in the Extended Support phase

[heavy dew]

Oh my god I figured out something

So if I try doing the reset bios method whatever I keep getting flashing lights and black screen

But if I unplug my laptop then plug it back in then it works fine until it restarts, cus on some restarts it goes through it fine and others it just goes back to being dead

Well by dead I mean black screen 2 flashing lights

Is my issue caused by a bad battery??????

Or is the CMOS chip corrupted still

[tall pine]

How long have you had this Laptop? If it's more than 3 years then probably.

[lone mango]

"america" fatigue
https://youtu.be/o_gVnx_wOHA

[heavy dew]

Well I bought it along with other laptops from either goodwill or Salvation Army

Here’s what I do know: battery is SHOT

won’t charge at all

Is my entire issue with my laptop caused by just a bad battery?

Cus I have gotten the laptop to give me video and work normally by just unplugging it from the charger and then plugging it back in

But the two blinking lights on the caps lock still happens so I’m confused as to WHAT the issue is

Imma shut it off and see if the issue happens again

Ok it’s not doing it now wtf

Maybe I’m smoking something

[ashen swan]

https://youtu.be/p1vnrmyJYjE?si=A9zGXTkOMMXNpEkC

[ashen swan]

we're

[dense locust]

9070xpensive(t)

[lethal jasper]

Gonna game on a Logitech k120

Wish me luck

[elfin mural]

i game on my laptop's keyboard

the only thing that matters on a keyboard is the feel and ergonomics tbh

and ofc, n-key rollover, so you don't face issues with some key combos not being recognized

[dense locust]

How do you see anything?

[elfin mural]

[lethal jasper]

I kinda hate how they make laptop keyboards a pain in the bum to clean

Or at least my macbooks keyboard idk about others

Like why does it have to be soldered to the chassis, let me take it apart for a proper deep clean

[elfin mural]

you gotta take compressed air to it

[proud jackal]

[elfin mural]

or get one of those turbo fans and blow all that dust inside away

[lethal jasper]

I tried once but it barely helped

[elfin mural]

for my case it certainly helped

[lethal jasper]

I recently got one of those I should try that

[elfin mural]

kicked out a ton of dust that way

[lethal jasper]

but dont i need some straw or something to put under the keycaps

[elfin mural]

not really

you can't really get it super clean anyway

it's almost sealed

[lethal jasper]

Would a dust brush work well

[elfin mural]

brushing while blowing a ton of air at the gap between the key and the bottom of the keyboard would help

[dense locust]

Just replace the keyboard every year

Problem solved

Of course Apple doesn’t think you’ll keep the computer more than a few years

[lethal jasper]

Its a macbook

Might as well just buy a new one because that’s what they want (which i wont)

[dense locust]

External keyboard

[lethal jasper]

The pc is in my car waiting for me to go home

and the macbook is never seeing another non browser game again

[elfin mural]

nice

[ashen swan]

Holy I got the same meme

[acoustic palm]

@ashen swan you do realize all gpu prices are about to skyrocket right

[ashen swan]

Yes

I’ve just checked in

Sometimes i forgot it was 2026

I’m still living in 25

[unreal trail]

I have cold pizza and hot coffee for breakfast

[velvet summit]

Beer and a cigarette is all I need

Boydinner

[tranquil pebble]

I'd do without the latter of those

[acoustic palm]

The new lancool 4 looks HOTTTTTTT

[sinful blade]

CoolerMaster Stacker 832 >>

[acoustic palm]

And the new matx Lian li is 5L smaller and fully vertical

[acoustic palm]

Nah

[velvet summit]

oh there was a new bruno mars song https://youtu.be/mrV8kK5t0V8

honestly fire

[heavy dew]

Is it possible for a laptop to just have a bad CMOS chip????

[velvet summit]

it's possible for any kind of computer to have a broken cmos chip
or any other component

[dusk knot]

Hello AI people

[pliant berry]

literally every error i've been getting on my computers lately is just related to running out of memory

[dense locust]

Buy more ram

[pliant berry]

actually I don't think I can. one of the ram slots is dead

[ashen swan]

hiiiiiii

[bitter solar]

What would you like to talk about or work on today? I'm all ears! ✨

[proud jackal]

Buy my other PC thanks

[bitter solar]

What GPU?

[proud jackal]

4090

[bitter solar]

https://tenor.com/view/carissimo-high-price-expensive-shocked-gif-12012321

[cedar compass]

me checking ram/ssd prices

[dusk knot]

Make me a 36 slide PowerPoint on electromagnetic conversion theory with all necessary information regarding the planc scale. Make sure to add a citing page with website attachments. PDF file only. Think long and hard and double check reasoning. Go.

It's been 3 minutes. Wth. Other models take less than a minute....

Guys, I don't recommend FATA1 AI.

[royal crow]

Would you like a free trial of QMB AI Premium✨? We offer premium services with our patented Neura 3 human cognition emulation program.

Also, xbox one for 250

[dusk knot]

Yes.

Also why are we talking about an Xbox? Is there an advertisement built into this????

[royal crow]

Nah I js saw it at half price books

1tb got me a bit hungry

[sinful blade]

Gross

[royal crow]

In other news my mom wants to buy a steam machine

[dense locust]

you have to ask steam if you can

[royal crow]

Huh

[sinful blade]

(Ask your mother)

It’s a play on that old trope

[dusk knot]

A machine with a parent. These AI are taking everything from us

[royal crow]

Guh

[icy ore]

[lone mango]

Lol do you remember the video last year where he kept bugging steve with the wireless fans

Troll

[nocturne flicker]

Mmmmmmmmm

[dusk knot]

hm

[acoustic palm]

Yeah

[acoustic palm]

Hi jp

[velvet summit]

this is literally me when clothes shopping
i wear the bulk black or grey tshirts from costco, so whenever i'm strolling around and looking at clothing anywhere else, i see a single shirts costs as much as my like 5 pack and i'm like gah damn

[dusk knot]

HYE

[acoustic palm]

How was sleep

[dusk knot]

I still havent made a decision

[acoustic palm]

fair enough dont rush anythign

[dusk knot]

I think......

nvm

[acoustic palm]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1448723655516487962/1456882023254724792/togif.gif

[nocturne flicker]

So you don't think

[dusk knot]

yep. canceled the process just then

[nocturne flicker]

JP doesn't think confirmed

[worn night]

https://tenor.com/view/ohio-confusion-ishowspeed-speed-ishowmeat-gif-16489795434757475848

[lone mango]

I am pretty slow with computer purchases too

This monitor was in my cart for 3 days before I actually bought it

I bought it a few hours before the sale ended

Actually like 7 or 8 but whatever

[dusk knot]

hhmmm

[lone mango]

I also spent multiple days on sff cases before I landed on the one I am using now

[dusk knot]

hm

[lone mango]

Well

If you include testing them

It was weeks

I was using the nr200 for a little under two years, then I moved to the L300 last summer, but it was too small for me, so I tried the L400, then the lian li h2o, then went back to the L400

[dusk knot]

hm

[nocturne flicker]

Mmmm

W-2

I have to wait for my 1099 forms

Takes forever

[potent robin]

I'm trying something fun at the end of the day. I have Avatar 2 playing in my other room, I never finished the movie. i watched maybe 30 minutes of it, got mad and turned it off. I'm seeing if at any point while listening to it, that I feel like the story might be interesting

[nocturne flicker]

Bro trying to find interesting story from an Avatar film

[potent robin]

It's for Science!

[nocturne flicker]

Like trying to squeeze liquid from a stone

[potent robin]

Heres 1 billion dollars for a movie, and 100k for a Script

[nocturne flicker]

300mil for the movie, two buck fiddy for the script

[potent robin]

https://tenor.com/view/three-fitty-gif-1684909778489327763

[tranquil pebble]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A__lP5Vtdug

[dusk knot]

Mad. Why?

I love the movies

[potent robin]

Oh cmon they brought back the dead protagonist, who was dead, certainly dead, and turned him blue. Like... really? And then the whole "instant family values" thing

the whole movie played out like a kids show on the Disney Channel

Second time around I"m getting the same vibes.

Idk, I was just looking for like a full on action movie, without pauses to establish the 8 family members they introduced

Of which i still don't even remember a single name

[nocturne flicker]

Oh, JP is in the anti-woke rabbit hole now

[dusk knot]

I'll just take that down before it makes problems

💀

[worn night]

💀

[dusk knot]

Always have been.

But we're not talking about it here

[worn night]

what you said is truth why u have to delete it

[nocturne flicker]

It ain't truth

[dusk knot]

Yeah. And some people don't like to hear it.

[worn night]

oh no

[potent robin]

Sorry i wasn't trying to be mean, I love good spirited debate about movies

[worn night]

Its unfortuante

[potent robin]

I was in video production in high school brah, i watch movies

[worn night]

Nice

https://tenor.com/view/hot-dog-ketchup-mustard-mayonnaise-chocolate-gif-4566800033157904826

[potent robin]

back when we did reel to reel VHS tapes

[dusk knot]

I honestly forgot this was the Newegg server lol

[dusk knot]

The 3rd film has a lot of action. You'll enjoy it more

I'm just a movie lover who thinks the 80- early 2000s were peak.

We didn't have to deal with nonsense

[potent robin]

I'm a product of IRC & Torrents

[dusk knot]

Back then besides just bad writing and acting

[nocturne flicker]

Bro has rose tinted glasses superglued to his face

[dusk knot]

It was better, not perfect

I'm not blinded by nostalgia

We just got from bad to worse in many areas

[nocturne flicker]

Saying the only bad thing in the film industry in the 80s to the 2000s was bad writing and acting unlike now is just not correct

The only difference now is that there is a money machine focused on making you mad

[potent robin]

I honestly couldn't tell you the last time I was in a Movie theater

[dusk knot]

Weary, I'm not going to compress all of it into one sentence. It was "manageable" back then , now it's all out of control

It's getting better now, but it was terrible after 2012

[nocturne flicker]

Nah, there is just dozens of people constantly shouting about it online and telling you constantly to be angry because it makes them more money now

[dusk knot]

I'm not talking about it anymore.

Im making my own opinions

[nocturne flicker]

I'm just saying that if the movies made in the 80s were put out now, the same exact people who are constantly screaming would be enraged by the movies they praise currently

[dusk knot]

There's always been complainers, but things are on an all new level now. I make my own observations and then maybe see what everyone else thinks.

[nocturne flicker]

The reason things are on an all new level is because of how the internet keeps people in a bubble that reinforces the idea that everything is crap and you should always be angry and always clicking on more things that'll keep you angry

Keep feeding the machine

[dusk knot]

Not everything is crap, just not as good as before.

There are still some gems there and there

[nocturne flicker]

People always forget how much media is just trash and gets forgotten with time

You don't remember generic action slock low budget film #23844

You remember Terminator 2

You don't remember the millions of crap disco tracks, you only remember the highlights

[dense locust]

[dusk knot]

So what you're saying is I only remember the best? There were on average more bangers being released each year than today. There is a noticeable decline.

There was always slop, it's just increasing now.

[nocturne flicker]

People like RedLetterMedia wouldn't have a Youtube channel if there wasn't a ton of forgettable, low quality content back in the day

The only difference is that the volume of content you can expect to be exposed to is dramatically higher because everything is more accessible now.

Whereas before the shlock used to be locked to finding the physical media in a bin at a VHS store

[dusk knot]

I mostly consume mainstream content, not waste my time diving into forgettable movies that only a few steaming services provide. I'm using those as the basis to prove that everything is getting worse, not the thousands of lesser known media.

[nocturne flicker]

And a lot of mainstream content was bad then too. Daytime television used to be a joke for a reason

[dusk knot]

Everything is getting worse. Logic is being thrown out the window and less effort is being used now to make great films or shows.

Only a few stand out now

It's a thinning field now

[dusk knot]

But you were more likely to find better suitable content

Now it's a struggle.

I have almost every single major streaming service and now I'm getting tired of not finding what I really want.

[nocturne flicker]

We at this moment have the biggest catalogue of media anyone has ever had at their fingertips up to this moment . Of course you are going to have to go digging to find good stuff

Your local video store isn't constraining you. They aren't also there to guide you to the good stuff anymore

[dusk knot]

so you believe that everything hasn't changed

[nocturne flicker]

I believe some things have changed, but media as a whole is just as pepeg as ever. You have your big media firms turning out safe films and the occasional hit in between, you have your small media companies turning out low budget slop and you have people making content on their own. The biggest difference honestly is that the last group has been extremely magnified and our access to all of the stuff being made has drastically increased

[void pendant]

Has there been anything groundbreaking at CES yet? Just wondering.

[nocturne flicker]

In effect, we are being overstimmed by all the content

[dusk knot]

just AI

[nocturne flicker]

A personal observation is that the more content I consume, the more aware of tropes and story beats I become and the more critical of the stuff I am taking in I become

And because my access to media is greatly expanded...

[void pendant]

Anything specific or not really?

[dusk knot]

nothing but AI lead products that most people cant afford or care about

[void pendant]

Figures

[acoustic palm]

Lain li lancool 4

[dusk knot]

i comsume less now and still see a decline

[acoustic palm]

9850x3d

[nocturne flicker]

Intel announced their next gen of laptop cpus, something something DLSS and AMD quietly pushed out a side press release for the 9850X3D

[acoustic palm]

Yeah that’s it

[dusk knot]

all boring

[acoustic palm]

Nah

Lancool 4 is fire

[nocturne flicker]

And it seems like the most nothing burger of a cpu in a while

[dusk knot]

based on what ive seen

[acoustic palm]

Regular case airflow with a fishtank look

[nocturne flicker]

Honestly should've been the 9800XT3D

[acoustic palm]

🔥

Revolutionary stuff I tell ya

[void pendant]

Havent seen it yet. I’ll look it up.

I saw a pretty cool hologram case tho

[tall pine]

What I find interesting about the 9850x3D is that it's just the 9950x3D's V-Cache CCD with a minor 50mhz clock bump lmao.

[nocturne flicker]

My game time has decreased too. And I've seen a thing or two of the slop regardless of the time period. AAA companies have always put out slop, it is just more aggressively in your face now

[tall pine]

People keep describing it as some giant leap in clocks when it's been here the whole time.

[acoustic palm]

Compared to 9800x3d is what their saying

[tall pine]

Compared yes, but also a lot of articles describe it as some new achievement.

[acoustic palm]

It’s faster

[nocturne flicker]

And just like in film media, small content creators have seen a meteoric increase in their market exposure and our overall access to games has never been greater (if you are willing to emulate)

[tall pine]

AMD achieved this long ago, they are just shipping the R9 Class V-Cache CCD on its own.

[dusk knot]

doesnt change anything. I cant go deep in this server

[heady plinth]

I thought the 5.7 on the 9950x3d was just the higher single core on the regular ccd?

[tall pine]

V-Cache does 5.55 stock and can maintain 5.5ghz all core with sufficient cooling.

The Frequency cores do 5.725Ghz

All the 9850x3D is the R9 Class V-Cache CCD shipped on its own with a 50mhz bump.

[nocturne flicker]

I wouldn't want to go deep anyways. Feeling angry all the time and arguing all the time over this media good or bad is just tiring

[tall pine]

Granted it's a great CPU, I just think it's over-hyped.

[nocturne flicker]

AI is making me very tired

Because I get very angry over it

And nothing happens

[tall pine]

I gotta go, I will be back later. Ping me if you'd like to learn more about the 9950x3D.

[dusk knot]

im tired from holding back.

but yeah...whatever

🗿

[obtuse pike]

got the prebuilt now @acoustic palm

it has a pny 5070ti

do i worry about the capacitors exploding bc i heard it on reddit

[dusk knot]

@acoustic palm https://pcpartpicker.com/list/9fcHv4 I think what you made is my final decision...

the AIO is BARELY going to fit

[heady plinth]

Well it's not 2004 so I wouldn't be too worried about capacitors.

[dusk knot]

The diameter I believe including the fans is 65 mm but the bare minimum space is 63 or so. I'll have to jam it in

[heady plinth]

Could get a normal aio instead of an arctic one which use radiators about 10mm thicker than standard.

[nocturne flicker]

Capacitors blowing up is fun

Especially when they blow up while you are inspecting the pcb for damage

[obtuse pike]

any way how to prevent this?

pny uses cheap capacitors

[lone mango]

Lmaooo

[heady plinth]

I'd just not listen to the armchair experts on reddit.

[obtuse pike]

maybe you're right i guess

[nocturne flicker]

It probably isn't a realistic concern

Maybe if it was a Chromebook

[heady plinth]

The only capacitor issue I've seen in recent years was a motherboard where they put some of them on backwards.

[lone mango]

Peak

[nocturne flicker]

I had a capacitor blow on a Chromebook mobo while I was looking very closely at the mobo for pcb damage

[dusk knot]

[heady plinth]

It blew while the battery was unplugged?

[nocturne flicker]

Yeah. Don't ask me how I don't know

[obtuse pike]

prebuilt looking clean

[nocturne flicker]

Though I did have another blow on a different Chromebook when I was doing the patented too lazy to put everything back together boot check

[heady plinth]

That does look pretty good for a pre built. What brand is that?

[obtuse pike]

i might change the psu immediately because this is using a gamdias psu

[obtuse pike]

skytech, got it on good deal for 1799 luckily

before it rises up to 2199

[acoustic palm]

hmmm

lemme see if theres a shorter one

also i think youre risking it with that aio

[heady plinth]

Iirc gamdias has some decent ones. I'd check the manufacturer on the tier list.

[obtuse pike]

its an atx 3.1 850w gold