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    nfl 2023-2024

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    Kind of an ***hole move by the NFL to put the Fins vs Chiefs game only on The Peaschlong. If only there was some other way to watch the game, one that could easily be found with a simple web search, possibly even the top result, if the right very obvious search phrase were to be used. If only such a thing were possible. But alas...:shifty:

     

    Ukraine Conflict - Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war

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    I just realized RSA = South Africa, not Russia. :blush:

    Yes, South Africa is nearly 3 times the size of Sweden by land area. Still, my point is that Sweden is far from small and defenseless, not to mention that Russia would either have to go by air, sea, or through Finland or Norway to get there. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that both Finland and Norway would object to a bunch of foreign tanks and troops rolling through their land.

    AMD Ryzen

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    tl;dw: AI, AI, AI, and also AI. Wait, did I mention AI?

    They announced the very soon arriving 8040 APUs, these are functionally identical to the current 7040 APUs that are powering many handhelds sans the Steam Deck, except they also have more AI cores. I don't expect these AI cores to have any impact on gaming, not right now, anyway. I guess, in theory, they could make FSR3 frame generation or fluid frames or whatever the **** they call it better? Then we got the 8000G desktop APUs which don't interest me, but they might be of interest to somebody. I was hoping to get some news on Strix Point APUs, which is what I'm really waiting for as I suspect they will be the chips that finally deliver on my dream of a true 1080p handheld, but they were only mentioned in passing.I suppose it makes sense, given they are currently launching the Hawk Point 8040 APUs and giving details on Strix Point would be stepping on their own launch. Oh well, I'll have to wait for the next big conference.

    Side-note: My definition of "true 1080p" is that I can throw pretty much any game at it and get acceptable framerates at 1080p at medium or higher settings.

    What are you Playing Now? - Back to the Grind

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    19 hours ago, Wormerine said:

    Uncharted4.

    Reallly enjoyed the story and characters. Game looks mostly great. But god, what an awful video game. Shooting is really clumsy and basic, and I feel bad for criticising Jusant for it's straightforward climbing - compared to U4 it was boundary pushing simulator. Worste of all - I really felt like game part didn't belong to the story part of the game. The set up is so slow, and characters so human, that when Nate starts gunning down auction house security in cold blood, it feels very off. In general, the unending army of Shoreline, white grab ledges, and conveniently marked grapple points feel like an artificial addition to what is a pretty good animated action adventure flick.

    Oh, and I am still not sure if melee system actually exists or if it's a QTA mascareding as a melee system. But dang, I would watch an Uncharted movie. Well, not THAT movie.

    Uncharted was obviously inspired by OG Tomb Raider but streamlined a lot of stuff. Then, NuLara Tomb Raider wound up aping Uncharted and ultimately doing it better in Rise and Shadow. Now Uncharted feels so dated because SotTR did it so much better. The circle is now complete.

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    Food Thread - Those that eat

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    1 hour ago, PK htiw klaw eriF said:

    but sometimes a pan sauce can be pretty dope.

    I'll pan fry my steak in butter garlic and thyme then spoon a bunch of the sauce from the pan on top of the steak sometimes (typically when I'm too lazy to make a chimichurri). That kind of feels like cheating, though; you drown something in butter of course it's going to be delicious.

    Food Thread - Those that eat

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    46 minutes ago, PK htiw klaw eriF said:

    I can not think of anyone who puts ketchup on a steak. Who the hell actually does that?

    Inhuman monsters. Anyone that does that is almost certainly on a list, there's a high probability that there are bodies under the floorboards and/or someone chained up in the basement.

    Food Thread - Those that eat

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    8 minutes ago, ShadySands said:

    Not on steaks or we wouldn't be together but still.

    If we're talking steak it's chimichurri or GTFO. If you so much as put a ketchup bottle on the table while steaks are getting eaten we're getting into a fist fight.

    Food Thread - Those that eat

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    Posted · Edited by Keyrock

    Ketchup only belongs on meatloaf, it's disgusting on anything else, fries included... Well, it's okay on hot dogs, but there's a handful of better options.

    In an unrelated story, I should learn how to make pemmican. Not the tasty pemmican, mind you, but the you can leave it out on the counter for 5 years and it's still perfectly edible (albeit not particularly appetizing) pemmican. I already know how to make hardtack, it would be a good idea to learn one of the other ultimate survival foods.

    Food Thread - Those that eat

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    2 hours ago, Sarex said:

    Most Tartar sauce is just mayonnaise. It's so rare I find the genuine stuff.

    Yeah it's really disappointing when you get "tartar sauce" that's 98% mayo. The good news is that it's laughably easy to make, so I make my own and I go hard on the pickles.

    Food Thread - Those that eat

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    I vaguely remember doing the gold coin baked into bread thing when I was a wee lad in Poland. It's not a tradition in Poland so we must have been with someone who was Serbian; this was many decades ago, I have no recollection of who. I didn't get the coin, I remember that much.

    Intel Thread

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    1 hour ago, majestic said:

    The regular Intel Core Ultra 7 155H would be enough for 1080p with Medium settings, or at least it was on pre-production sample notebooks from Acer, which makes sense as the Meteor Lake CPUs have (up to) 128 Execution Units, i.e. as much as an ARC A380.

    But that's in a laptop, typically laptop chips are roughly 65 W, you ain't running the chip at 65 W in a handheld... Well, not unless you want to play games with welding gloves on. For a handheld you're looking at around 15 or 20 W, which will obviously hamper performance as compared to 65 W. Who knows, though, maybe they've managed to squeeze out some extra efficiency since the engineering samples? 

    This is where the Switch has an advantage running on an ARM chip. x86 chips have gotten more power efficient... Well, some of them, but they still can't compete with ARM in that department. One type of chip that can is RISC-V, but we're probably a ways off from the glorious RISC-V future for anything other than embedded systems.

    Intel Thread

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    Rumor is that MSI is preparing a handheld powered by meteor lake, supposedly called The Claw (lol). Well, MSI preparing a handheld is confirmed AFAIK, the rumor is that it's powered by meteor lake. If true, this is exciting news. I'm always pro competition and AMD has thus far been pretty much unchallenged in the APU space. I'm very curious to see how it will perform.

    Food Thread - Those that eat

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    I got a pasta maker for Xmas and I put it to use for the first time yesterday. You can, of course, make fresh pasta without a machine, but it's quite tedious. The machine makes it significantly less tedious, which means I'll actually do it. Anyway, I just made spaghetti, nothing special. Still, fresh pasta tastes so much better than dried, it's a night and day difference.

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