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I don't see the point of a mid-cycle refresh any time soon. Both the PS5 and xXxBOxXx can already do 4K, and that's before FSR 2.0 enters the equation. A Zen 4/RDNA 3 APU won't be able to handle 8K and 8K doesn't make any sense right now, or any time soon, anyway. I suppose they could run with the high refresh rate angle for the people with TVs that have HDMI 2.1 and VRR, but how many people have that? I mean, I do, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say I'm very much in the minority. A mid-cycle refresh made sense last time around since 4K televisions reached a price point affordable enough for the common rabble. Never mind the fact that neither the PS4 Pro nor the X1X could handle 4K without SIGNIFICANT compromises. MSony could market the 4K angle, even if it was rather sad 4K, because 4K televisions were affordable enough.

This lunch contains no alligator nor any crocodile:

Polish lager, very malty and super delicious.

I'm not so much interested in the discrete RDNA 3 cards, nor the initial Zen 4 desktop CPUs, for that matter, but I am interested in the eventual Zen 4/RDNA 3 APUs coming, presumably, sometime in 2023. If Valve were to release a Steam Deck 2 in a few years, some derivative of the Zen 4/RDNA 3 APUs seems as good a candidate as any. To that end, I'll be interested in how the big boy GPUs and CPUs from Team Red perform since that will be a decent indicator of how the eventual APUs will perform. There will, of course, still be the issue of DDR not being nearly as suited for GPU work as GDDR, an issue not as prominent with the higher bandwith of DDR5 as it was with DDR4, but nevertheless still present.

I'm very curious.

Ate you sure? It's the same guy that made all those exceedingly stupid, albeit fun, Resident Evil movies starring his wife Milla. He also directed the first Mortal Kombat movie with Christopher Lambert chewing the scenery and the best theme song ever: You know what, I just talked myself into it, I'm on board. Obviously, Milla will be the lead, by virtue of marriage. I suppose she can play an Inquisitor.

It's sort of like the static and pops of vinyl records, I kind of miss it in this age of digital everything. Film grain is sort of similar to that. In both cases, it's not one size fits all, both vinyl noise and film grain aren't appropriate in all cases IMHO. For certain types of movies, though, some film grain adds to the feel, especially properly grimy film like 16mm (8mm is probably TOO grimy).

That looks obviously photoshopped.

Still no gameplay

I remember loving this movie, though, as a big Sam Neill fan, I cannot be trusted to fairly judge any movie he is in.

New best 10 yard grouping: 1 nasty outlier, but in a 15 shot grouping that's not too bad; better than 3, anyway. I'm still getting used to the trigger pull. I don't want to pull the trigger too hard since that's a recipe to jerk the gun back and fire high, but pulling the trigger too lightly means holding the gun outstretched for an extended period of time and the Glock 40 has quite a bit of weight to it (one of the down sides of a hand cannon). It will come with practice.

I haven't played Inscryption yet, but I did play both previous Daniel Mullins games and in those 2 games the main draw wasn't the surface-level gameplay, but rather the beneath the surface mysterious meta narrative.

Don't worry, I'm confident that Jensen's leather jacket fund is safe.

They flunked out of Predator Hunting Academy but they had rich patents so the Predator Hunting Commission sent them to Earth to get them as far away from the important hunting grounds as possible and get the rich folks off their case.

I'm back from the range. I'm pleasantly surprised at how much accuracy I've retained given that I haven't fired a gun in close to a decade and never this exact gun before. The first target is me dialing in the red dot. I would fire off a grouping of 3, bring the target in, adjust the sight, lather, rinse, repeat: You can see how far the sights were off to start in the lower left corner. I was aiming at the center at about 10 yards. By the end of the 15 round mag I had her dialed in pretty well. Next grouping at 10 yards: 3 nasty outliers, otherwise a pretty solid grouping. I shot my 3rd mag (Glock is nice enough to give you 3 with the gun) at roughly 17 ot 18 yards: Getting used to the trigger pull is the biggest thing right now. The immediate goal is to eventually get groupings like my 10 yard grouping (minus the 3 nasty outliers) at 20 yards. Side note: The Glock 40 kicks like a mule and sounds like a bomb going off, just how I like it. A gentleman 2 lanes over was teaching his lady friend (wife?) to shoot a .22 (a sensible choice to start). It sounded like a BB gun compared to my Glock monstrosity. Not throwing shade, to be clear, the first gun I ever shot was a .22.

Yesterday afternoon I got asked to work today; so much for my 3 day weekend. This also means no trip to the shooting range today. Oh well, I'll go tomorrow morning. In the meantime, I field stripped my Glock (super easy) and lubricated the end of the trigger bar, the slide, and of course the barrel with Hoppe's 9 Lubricating Oil. I'm out of the loop on gun lubricants so I just went with the classic. It's entirely possible that more advanced oil exists, but Hoppe's 9 has worked great for decades, no reason it would suddenly not work great now.

Speaking of clogging arteries, big greasy breakfast: Cholesterol level rising, rising...

Can we get some gameplay, Atlus? Pretty please with a cherry on top.

Never mind, wrong thread.

Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, commonly known as 999. I played this game roughly a dozen years ago on 3DS, it was the first DS game I bought for the 3DS and it was the game that introduced me to Spike Chunsoft and begun my love affair with the company. This is the first game in the Zero Escape trilogy. The game is part visual novel choose your own adventure and part escape room puzzle game. A benefit of not having played the game in so long is not remembering the puzzle solutions, and this game has some really great puzzles. The story I mostly remembered from my first playthrough, not all the details, but the main thread. It's a Spike Chunsoft game, so it's a twisted and demented tale that gets really dark. Anyway, it was as great as I remembered. I played Zero Time Dilemma relatively recently, now I just need to do a replay of Virtue's Last Reward so that I can fairly judge which game in the trilogy is the best. I hope they make a 4th game some day.

I should add a laser sight (never mind that it makes the red dot redundant), a flashlight, and a suppressor. Would that be enough?

That's the magazine release under my thumb.

You're not joking. It's cheaper to buy in bulk, so I invested in 1000 rounds of 180 grain FMJ: It set me back a buttload of pretty pennies, but at least I'm set for a while.

My order arrived today, earlier than expected: Look at the size of that beast! It obviously didn't come with the reflex sight, I added the Vortex Venom Red Dot myself. I have Friday off, so I'll spending some time at the range.

Ryzen 7000 set to launch this quarter. It should be noted that this quarter ends September 30th.