LadyCrimson

Oh, yeah, I know there are non-gaming upsides/needs. And in the past nvidia's "top" was meant for professional use vs. consumer, (Titan, whatever other names) with them seeming to want to return to that mindset/pricing, perhaps - it's just become out of whack in that regard in gamer's minds - and I am, of course, looking at all of it from the gaming perspective. 😛 The main irritation for many lately mostly seems to be about the vram issue tho. I would be fine with much less "powerful" performance in other areas of 5080, but AA/AAA dev's seem to have decided doing graphics that want huge vram #'s at least available, for gaming, should be a thing. And it's probably only going to get worse (even discounting full RT) So mid to highish end, gamers want/think they should get more vram at minimum, even if it isn't the uber fastest vram or highest bandwidth or whatever other tech specifics. Is it dev's fault, or the gpu makers fault, chicken, egg. There will always be gamers who buy every gpu generation because they have nothing better to do, just like some people buy/lease constant new cars, but most of us - even most of us with plenty of cash to fling around on an optional hobby - want a bit more justification. If they just stuck 20gb vram on the 5080 I probably wouldn't complain. Just me tho.

@Bartimaeus I would guess the main reason for that (gaming news channels) is a "gaming news" channel can't really survive on a few videos made a month, waiting for actual news. Daily or every other day videos "required". Hence having to find a reason, any reason, to blabber about something in constant new uploads. Algorithm - all those hidden factors that are seemingly much more important than simply channel sub numbers now - and all that. Thus they have all become TMZ or whatever, styled reporting. imo they should stop pleading for viewers to subscribe. I don't think that really does jack anymore - at least not without high numbers in all the other algorithm factors. YT "knows" most people sub and then never return to view the channel again.

(comedy, not news) dunkey has all the random game news for 2025, confirmed. ..."game news" channel "news" is pretty much like this, now, tho. ...oh, and swords are in. Haha.

Juror #2 is on HBO/MAX now, so we watched that. I was a little disappointed. It's like if you mashed a much lesser 12 Angry Men (but they go outside!) and some John Grissom jury novel together in a modern cinematic and edited way. Felt a bit perfunctory in pacing and script. The moral dilemma is fine, although I ended up not really liking the protagonist - eg, didn't feel much sympathy, probably because he came off as being stupid. >.> Still, watchable, didn't dislike it. Made me hope Eastwood has one more movie in him tho, and a better one, to perhaps end his career on.

I can already see all the YouTube meme videos about this. ...I remember as a kid, watching The Jetsons after school, wishing for all that cool make believe tech. And now here we are. ...I would still prefer a robot maid/housekeeper, however. And a Roomba is not it.

The current "leaks and rumors" have the 5090 being over 2k and the 5080 being not quite half that. So, say, $2200 and $1300. With the theory on such rumors being they learned their "lesson" and want the price difference to = more people buying 5080 vs. "it's only $300 more for the xx90/all that vram, so why not." And the 5080Super/ti/whatever maybe would later have 24 for $400 more than 5080 and be the "true" 5080 etc. Edit: ofc it's all speculation/leaks. Nvidia could change their minds at last minute etc. I am not convinced yet twice the VRAM would be worth almost twice the price (if that is indeed what happens). I mean in my case a jump from 2080ti to 5080 would still, I assume, be quite a leap, but man - does nvidia think vram is made of gold? Could game dev's just stop racing ahead in the direction of requiring so much vram just to run a game, even without full PT? Thanks.

And what = faster? lower CL number? Higher? I see mostly CL18 and CL16 listed on the ddr4 Corsair Vengeance line (my original/previous ram is supposedly CL 16)? Edit: that's what I ordered. I could still cancel it tho. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZPLM1R1 EditEdit: I need/want no-RGB and low profile Edit: google one chart saying 3200/16 and 3600/18 is the same. Gazzilionth edit: meh, canceled and got the 3600/CL16 for $10 more. 😛 Whatever.

^ Did you finish Indy, then?

If one of those ring things gets to the point where it could give me an idea of blood glucose levels - for me, it doesn't have to be uber accurate, but also couldn't be super inaccurate, ofc - I might consider one. But the notion of needing a "phone app" to make it work/see data (or a sub. to see certain data) always makes me go "meh." Better home medical monitoring is always welcome for certain cases tho. But I'd also be worried re: data gathered/unscrupulous natures of companies etc, as/if it became more prevalent vs. more of a novelty. But then I'm a suspicious get off my lawn old bird so. @Bartimaeus We did the windows mem test thingie at base ram speed (no XMP) that the bios wanted to use (2133), we also tried lowering it. We did one stick at a time, we did both, switched slots etc. One stick gave "there's an error" in the first few seconds, the other would wait for a couple minutes, didn't matter what slot you put them in, each stick's behavior remained the same in that way, so whatever is wrong with them is at different points/stress. DDR4 3200 or 3600 ram isn't expensive at all right now so eh, cheap enough to try it. EDIT: reboot is still very intermittent and only occurs while gaming (for the moment). And varies per game. Like Indiana didn't bother it at all but that zombie game really hates it. Heh.

Ok, hubby was able to remove/move around ram sticks without removing cpu cooler. Easier. Well, can't do/reach the farthest 2 slots (so if I wanted 4 sticks/remove cooler), but eh. Now I'm annoyed tho, because all the ram stuff always lists the max "speed" as the "speed" of the ram. I want to know the base speed of the ram (y'know, without the oc XMP or whatever). Edit: does it even matter? I think the CPU is rated for the 2133 tho. EDIT: never mind, hubby's wrong. I think it's 2666 for cpu. Looking again...

ran windows memory diagnostic. All it says is theres a problem, zero other info. How useful. Guess I shall buy new ram tho. Which means repasting cpu since that giant noctua cooler basically blocks ram removal access. hahaha I think I can still buy the exact same ram for 100 bucks. Maybe Id get 4-5 years out of it again. pffft what a pita

Guess I have a sort-of Millennium Falcon now. (No Man's Sky)

Squid Game, season 2, 1st episode Gong Yoo is the best. would probably watch him play a man whose job is to dress up as a carrot in front of a grocery and that's all he does for most of the show. He made the 1st episode of SG2 great. I probably don't have to watch any more. 😛 ...although I might, eventually.

Manor Lords - they put out a new beta/experimental branch that added a mt. map, river map, other stuff, so I finally updated/looked at it. Didn't really play much, just looking at stuff. ---First, the food spoilage mechanic now has options. Off, 50%, Normal, Double rate. So, that takes care of that annoyance for me. Don't know when it was added. ---The river (one, snaking through whole map) - well it looks nice. They can split a region into pieces, making it more difficult re: layout plans. There are some default already-existing bridges for workers to use, and can build your own. Not sure it adds much. ---The "mountain" map is more of a "mountain valley" map. You have 4 regions in a narrow strip, one after another so you have to conquer them in a line order. Build areas have steeper hills/edges to annoy you, but you do not get to build/use major mountain terrain in any way, seems like, just used as a visual border. If you are "casual city builder" focused, this feels much more limited since less total regions and you always have to start from the same spot and can only move in one direction vs. more radially placed/multi-border touching regions. It is probably more of a combat/conquering challenge. If you look on YT, no one seems to be playing this map. River pretty beats all? 😛

@Gorth I have this suspicion that BL4 may reduce the otp humor/jokes a bit. The trailer has me thinking they want to be taken a teensy (teensy) bit more seriously in that regard. Not sure why I feel that way but trailer gives me that vibe. I think at this point I wouldn't even mind if they did tone that down, it was getting a little out of hand. And yeah - BL3's plot and npc writing was terrible. Even for "what it is."

Ok fine, it was on moderate sale. Certainly cute graphics. Controller feels clunky/awkward tho, especially within the menus. But ... very cute art style.

Netflix - Carry On After watching it, I saw someone describe it as a lower rent Die Hard2+Phone Booth. I'd say that's kind of apt. As a maybe late 80's/90's feeling suspend-disbelief action thriller, I'd say ... "it's fine." Won't blow your socks off, but there are worse ways to kill a little time. Some decent action/set pieces, decent actor choices. It does give the sensation that if it had been just a little better, scripting, pacing etc, it could have been something more than "fine", but it is what it is.

Rented Deadpool and Wolverine. I thought I knew what I was getting/expecting, but apparently I was a little bit wrong. The action sequences were decent if a little over-edited, Hugh was great as Wolverine, some of the jokes and Wolverine/Deadpool sniping were funny. Two nigh invulnerable dudes duking it out etc. But the first hour of setup went on too long imo, and the general flow of the film felt unfocused/pointless. One scene of silly or chr. cameo after another. So, it was ok/average for throw away Marvel hijinks, but not focused enough for any attachment. The main thing about Deadpool (the 1st film was only ok imo, never saw the 2nd) is that the joke of breaking the wall and all the self-awareness *is* funny - but it's so constant and in your face it stops being funny after about 20 minutes, for me. Grinds the joke into flat dust before long. Ah well. At least I got to see Hugh as Wolverine one more time.

Monitor/screen type and settings does tend to affect how much of a difference is noticeable. eg, it's a fair bit more noticeable on the 4k OLED, vs older 1440 LED. Outside of "sunray shadow filter" and any fancy reflections, it's mostly about contrast and brightness and very subtle angling, re: light filtering, seems to me. I can imagine. And then if one has to add DLSS on top of it just to get the fps. Still cracks me up when people say how their 40xx runs it great at native supreme/fullPT at 1440/4k/100fps .... and then they finally mention using "DLSS at Performance + Frame Gen." The definition/knowledge of "native" seems to be slipping away.

There are zero eggs in the local grocery. There is a sign of "eggs limited to 1 package per customer" or something, but all gone. California has now declared a state of emergency for finding it in cattle/milk or something. Ok. As long as I can still buy my yogurt. Don't care about/hardly use eggs/milk much myself, but I must have my Fage yogurt! I've heard Barnes and Nobles (and other bookstores) are doing well lately - eg, books are doing well, despite all the tech. I find this refreshing. Going to go to one and buy up a bunch of books I ignored from the past decade or two. Maybe I'll find I can enjoy reading novels constantly, again, vs my boredom with most media.

^ re: mobo etc. Hm, interesting. re: 2080ti in "new" build - I wouldn't do that thinking I'd get any gains. It's just that it would still "work" while I'm waiting for another generation of gpu's, so whenever I feel like finally buying a ridiculously over-priced gpu, I already have something to just throw it into. Since I like 4k, even if I don't care about Supreme/Ultra/RT/frame-gen/120+ fps etc, I still don't feel like gpu's are seriously "4k worthy" yet. Oh sure they're better than my current overall and ofc re: RT, but with the way dev's are going, it's going to be another 2-4 years before we know what a "good 4k" gpu may be. It's just so I have the chassy ready. Granted, doing things that way (rig, upgrade gpu later) isn't my typical thing, I like building wholesale and then largely never changing/upgrading/touching a rig for 5-8 years, but eh. Was just considering it.

I'm not familiar with that reference, but my original thought seeing this Kent was awkward-Peter-Parker. Not in looks so much as body/expression carrying. And yes, that hair style is blargh, lol. I didn't realize the guy with the terrible blond bowl haircut was 1-Nathan Fillion and 2-Guy Gardner. I mean his face/hair made me think of younger Joe Pesci for some reason and ofc I knew it couldn't be him so I looked it up. That made my interest go up maybe 8%. Guy Gardner can be an interesting chr. Not sure the size of his role in this film tho. It does look like this movie is going to not spend as much time with the "origin" of Supes, which is good, but I wonder if that means it'll simply fall into the "too many chrs/arcs" trap earlier.

^ Seems a little pricey. Supposedly there is another version coming out lower price with similar performance, so maybe one should wait and see what happens there (if it's not just rumor) but I know zip about amd. Which is ofc the problem with all tech and time. It's just in the past I felt more "sure" of what paths to take for my needs/preferences at the time I wanted to build if I wasn't going to endlessly "wait for next thing", regardless of what popular reviewers were saying was "the uber bestest". EDIT: btw, is AMD better re: mobo longevity re: switching out cpu's later? Obviously I don't mean 10 yrs or something, but even a year or two later?

I've been contemplating building a new (basic parts/lots of storage and giant case) rig but not getting a gpu yet - just tossing the 2080ti into the 'new pc' - but the CPU market seems so up in the air itself this moment that I fear the "I made a mistake" regret a year or two later. >.> I have funds, I just have zero idea what I'm going to do this time. Except ignore/delay thinking about it, some more.

Scratch that. Unlike a few other earlier RT games, even DLSS-balanced used with 720p/everything low (haha), full PT tanks the fps, even if it's not taking up all 11 vram (about 10). And I mean tanks. I'd guess more vram and faster CPU would help with that ofc, but yeah, that's still nuts. Other settings really don't matter much.