LadyCrimson

Cyberpunk PC won't have AMD ray tracing on release or for quite some time. If anyone cares about that. I'd guess there will be other games with this situation as well as they all shuffle to "work with AMD." https://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpunk-2077-wont-support-raytracing-on-amd-cards-at-launch/ That's potentially interesting. Wonder what it brings to the table that's new/different, to make old farts like me want to buy it vs. just playing ... Caesar and Pharaoh. Edit: I have HD/resolution mods for the old stuff, so that's not a reason.

Having another huge lucky streak in that baseball slot. Still no "Homerun" tho. Other than that, a quiet Sunday. And our neighbors have returned! They're aliiiiivvve! They're busy cleaning up their home/yard - some of their huge tropical leaf things were getting as tall as the house, heh. I hope they didn't like where ever they were so much they're going to move/sell or anything. They're some of the better neighbors we've had.

it's all automated. People simply drive on a road the game thinks you contributed to building, you get auto-Likes. After a certain amount of those however, they stop (not sure what the limit is). People use a structure you built that appeared within their own play session, you get auto-Likes just because they used it (seemed to be a set number). No one has to manually Like anything, those are just small bonuses. This is why people place bridges in the middle of land/weird places sometimes, trying to get those auto-likes. Structures you build are stored/saved on their server and have a chance to appear in other people's games that are all designated as being on the same server as you, but there is no controlling that. If you "connect" to a player, you may see their stuff more often but still random. This is why you'll never see anyone's entire "zip line network" for example and it may seem like some things that pop-in make no sense (without the rest of what that player built to go with it). Also, if you keep deleting structures over and over, game will just replace with something else similar in that spot - but it might be something more useful to you. Random and not worth bothering to do tho. Edit: outside of the road-building help, which can be substantial, imo it's better to play the game "Offline" - especially if you want more challenge (and less clutter). Just me tho.

I watched someone play a lot of it on Twitch before I bought it, so I knew what it was about and what to expect. I would just watch some YouTube or browse forums when they were on and on replays I just skipped. Most of it is in the beginning and towards the end so I knew it was mostly "freeplay" so to speak, in the middle. I'm not against story, per se, or "ooh and ahh" cinematic here and there. I simply don't like the way a lot of games often present, frame and edit such scenes now, vs. older days/games. I feel too trapped into watching some 5-15 minute thing (vs. 30-60 seconds) every 500 steps vs being engaged as an active participant. Occasionally I'm in a patient mood, or curious, or it's eye-candy, or half-way through a game I'm invested enough into chrs. by then to care but...

I don't feel like listening/watching to tons of "hey we're cinema" cutscenes and hours of talking heads if I don't have to. When I tried the game ages ago (I do own it already, btw), so much went on and on and on, people talking for long minutes at times, that I just didn't care to listen after a while. I just wanted to explore, as usual.

Can anyone tell me how much you can "ignore" the main story in The Witcher 3? That is, how much do you have to do in order to access all the main open areas/crafting etc? That kind of thing. Example: in Morrowind I largely just ran around doing "stuff" and raising skills/exploring, fighting/collecting and building houses (mods). I never even joined a faction. :P

I'm playing baseball .... slots. Been on auto-spin while doing other things for a couple hours, 250M a spin. I've been on a (mostly) crazy unending lucky streak but ... ...I'm coming out way ahead, so why the exasperated faces? Because I'm greedy and it's not this one: I'm telling ya, the Home Run is a lie! Pffft. Happy Friday/weekend everyone, hope it's a relaxing one.

@Azdeus I honestly don't even remember why I didn't play NOLF. I remember thinking it looked cool but I was probably still obsessed with some other game or three and never got around to it. Unless it was one of those I couldn't get running. That happened a bit more often back then. I'm pretty sure I at least started the game and ran around a bit or something.

No One Lives Forever - oh, that one. I bought it but never played it beyond the intro or something. Cyberpunk dev's made TW3? I suppose that makes some sense then in terms of anticipating a similar quality of game then, seeing how popular TW3 seems to be. That's yet another game I rapidly lost interest in/didn't get far with, myself. Haha.

I told hubby what day it was. He gave a little exasperated snort and went back to staring at his monitor. Not exactly the celebratory type. Edit: I gave him an affectionate pat on the head, tho. His reaction was another grunt.

I'm not sure what a NOLF is, but Keyrock gets major points for using a Dean .gif Also, is there some place that explains why Cyberpunk is so super-hotly anticipated? I watch the released gameplay/trailers and it just looks like the typical car/rpg/action game. What's so extra-exciting about it, something about gameplay design/tech? The company making it? Big promises of some kind?

I just woke up and darnit, I shouldn't have clicked on it.

My hubby's amazing ability to reach the top of the shelves, carry large/heavy packages, electrical/mechanical skills and most vitally, his laconic tendencies meaning he doesn't mind my rambling tendencies, are very important indeed, and much appreciated every day.

I'm posting these largely to comment that: I never liked this song all that much, but after YouTubing-around, I've discovered I like it a lot better when one, it's sung by a male, and two, in any language that's not English. My fave is full Japanese tho (2nd video), I've had it on background-repeat all day - maybe I've watched too many anime.

Started watching "The Devil Punisher" via Netflix. Another Taiwanese series I think. It's a fantasy/action/low-keyromance, with a version of heavenly reapers who deal with spirits who don't want to leave earth (ghosts, basically) with, ofc, a central "big bad" overall plot as well as episodic ghost-ing. Or something. The effects look pretty nice and every time there's action and ghost/spirit stories, it's fairly entertaining, sometimes humorous. But inbetween is the usual over long and rather sedate dialogue/chat scenes that pad out time. It's just a script/filming style they have. But I like it enough to put up with FFWDing thru any boring bits. Sadly it's not finished "airing", so only 4 episodes available out of 20. Guess I'll have to save up the rest to binge a couple months from now.

My understanding, and someone can correct me if I'm wrong, is that's because of the algorithm used to fill in "gaps" created by the downscale then re-upscale, or something to that effect. So the AI tries to replace info lost from the initial downscale with what it thinks "should" be there - resulting, like I said, in un-fading some graphics, different color shading/spots maybe even lines or other such things. To many this equals more detail, or at least more visual "pop." The sharpening thing is interesting since I bought the OLED. On the LED/IPS screens, Death Stranding building text has a softer look - it's not out of focus, just soft. DLSS would sharpen that (I could see a tiny bit of "sharpness grain" tho). On the OLED, without DLSS on or any sharpening filters and exact same game settings, that text/other is crystal clear - the clarity is fantastic natively. I have no idea why, if it's just the better contrast or the TV itself is simply uber better than my pc monitors in this regard (edit: most likely, I don't have super expensive pc monitors). Or if LED/IPS etc just tends to add more softness to visuals overall because of its light tech/screen material which begs for more sharpening. Dunno. Anyway, hence my "depends on monitor/tv used" comment above.

I don't think anyone posted it? Going to put guru's review links here for anyone who prefers to read over watch extended videos. https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-radeon-rx-6800-xt-review,1.html https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-radeon-rx-6800-review,1.html ------------------ Re: that DLSS video with the airplane game: I saw that elsewhere. If you look carefully there are some differences - without DLSS, the color and contrast are darker and less yellow (in that video anyway), while DLSS has trees and ground shadows much less dark/contrast-y, which I personally disliked. The grassy road/trees, the grass and flowers has a bit more clarity all around and a better green/blue shift without DLSS (vs yellower) where they have you focusing on the tree branch. The plane looks a bit sharper with DLSS, as if it over-rides the softening effect of something like TAA (not saying that's what it's doing, just sorta what it looks like). DLSS can also change some original artistic detail because (I think) of the way it removes then re-adds information. Example: intentionally sun-faded lettering may be darkened and less washed out with DLSS. Not that that matters to most people, mind. Anyway, for the performance gain and the fact it looks really good, it's quite admirable/fantastic, but DLSS is still different than native. Better and different are not the same definition in my mind, so it depends on whether one likes the differences. I think that's going to simply depend on eyeballs as well as monitor/TV used.

Well, yes, it's a less-burn-in-for-dummies feature. It's not often an issue for TV/movie watching (I hear it can be occasionally), just an annoyance re: desktop type usage. I don't mind if it's on by default, but there should be a supported option to turn it off without having to buy a "service remote" to access a special menu to disable/enable it etc. Just have a giant agreement EULA message like "warning voids warranty are you sure" if you click to disable. There's also the pixel-shift feature, which so far hasn't been noticeable. The last desktop-use gripe is that if you have dual monitors and the TV is set as Windows "main", turning the TV off and back on makes Windows shuffle all windows on 2nd monitor back to the TV. Using stand-by mode instead of full-OFF didn't help. The LG LED 4k I had didn't do this. Ah well. Never mind. Games and TV look too beautiful on it. After only a couple days I don't know if I could go back, just like I can't go back to non-4k. I'll grit my teeth and try to ignore/put up with such niggles. Edit: basically, as visual media showcase, A+, as a "working" desktop, B+.

Death Stranding looks so good on an OLED screen. Also checked out the one new change to Borderlands 3 that is rather nice - a new Mayhem mode that is M10 difficulty but zero of the weird modifiers applied. You just lose some of the higher drop rate/xp increase percentage that normal M10 would have. Very nice not to have to deal with death spheres, ground turning to lava, lowered crits, and rerolling modifiers forever. I wish you could apply that to all the M-modes. Just not into that weird stuff, give me straight ARPG sponge increasing.

Let me be more specific: I'm lazy and especially regarding needing/using 3rd party tools that would likely have me fiddling even more. You'd have to see my type of pickiness to understand. Hubby often says he can't even tell the differences while I'm complaining about skin tones and tonal shifts from one show to another. Might work for general desktop or certain work usage but I'm dubious re: television watching and/or console behavior and HDR and company software "features" ... This reddit thread has ppl using lg's oled tv's, and overall having a lot of gripes. https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED/comments/jt0img/ive_spent_more_time_calibrating_my_lg_c9_than/ Edit: from that thread: "You can just buy a like $100 Spyder calibration unit, I've used one to calibrate my monitors for years. Only works for the CX as a computer screen though, not as a TV" I've also discovered the LG "auto dimming" feature, which you aren't allowed to turn off without buying a service remote and using it voids warranty? So on desktop use, if I leave a browser (or anything) open untouched for 60 seconds, the screen dims drastically (eg, static image protection) then rebrightens when you click again. Kind of annoying on the eyes with constant changing. It happens even if you turn off the logo dim feature.

"Out of stock" is going to be the thing forever now I bet. Or at least until covid concerns are "gone," perhaps. If you call Best Buy here right now, voice message immediately tells you that they will have no more PS5's in-store (ever?), go online/order. I'm picky, but I'm also lazy. Eventually I get the TV profiles as close as I can get it then force myself to stop thinking about it and ... Speaking of it, should I worry about light spots if they only show up with a medium-grey background? eg, they're not dead pixels, they weirdly don't show up/can't see them with a black background... just medium to light grey. It's odd. Haven't noticed if they ever move or not yet.

It's not eggplant/squash or spaghetti.

The QLED does look better than the cheapie LED 4k TV I was using, especially re: small text. Better contrast a bit but... Strangely LG's OLED, on the one hand it's the closest to my memory of old crts, or the plasma re: contrast. Fantastic for most scenes. Yet it still misses the mark a bit where some scenes can be too dark yet with eye-blasting brightness (dim room/dark faces with a bright window in background, say). And it's overall too bright if you turn things up to see in those dark bits (at least in a dark room). On the plasma things look dark but faces don't lose detail/shadowed so much and bright spots aren't like looking into the sun. It's still difficult to feel like one profile setting works overall and some shows/films you might use this altered profile, another one that profile. So annoying switching profiles all the time. It's about 88% there (vs. LCD/LED/QLED being 50% there). Then, I'm also picky... I don't want to get used to it. One problem is its speed of movement. I turned it to Low and it's still so fast I miss the mark with it most of the time. They should have an option to disable it completely. Anyway all I use tv remote for is on/off and switching color profiles.

The LG CX is a very nice TV indeed, once you have all the settings whatever way you prefer. The 90T QLED hubby is using pales in comparison (tho it is still pretty nice, and much better for his work needs, don't get me wrong). Hopefully with precautions I can keep image persistence to a minimum over 6-8+ years etc. That said, the remote control that comes with it sucks monkey spit. It has this large "pointer" arrow that moves based on remote motion, which is the most aggravating thing ever. If you press the arrow buttons it'll go away so you don't have to use it on menus, but the arrow is default and always shows up first - and can show up just picking the remote up, not just button pressing. Luckily I rarely need to use it. But if it bothers you, better find another option that would work w/the TV. I do not connect "smart" TV's to internet cables, so I cannot speak about any possible downloaded software or apps. Sony (ps4) already spies on my gaming/streaming activity, no need for LG to, also. eg, you can use/set up the TV without a net cable. It did insist on a zipcode being entered for "service" purpose, I couldn't hit "enter" without it. I put in one from a couple county's over, because I'm ornery like that. Edit: oh, the stand it comes with is completely flush with the bottom of the TV, meaning you can't pull even a wire under it. So if you want to be able to do that for some reason, you'll need to buy a different stand.