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Nah, wait for the 14600K review, that one will show zero difference from the prior generation. Originally thought I'd be upgrading to a better mainboard with this release, but that is going to be a , the 14700K isn't worth spending any money on, and that goes doubly so for the others. I'll just wait for Arrow Lake and see how that will turn out. There's a marginal chance that the lower tier CPUs will be interesting. Leaked benchmarks show more of an improvement between the 13400 and 14400. I don't know if the 14100 is going to be just another Alder Lake with slightly higher clocks (IIRC, the 13100F just had four Alder Lake cores, making it wholly uninteresting for budget use compared to the 12100F), or if it will have actual Raptor Lake cores, which would come with a decent boost in cache size. Still don't quite get what Intel is doing there. Granted, for 13th gen, it was about catching up to Zen 4 and surpassing the 5800X3D in gaming, which made some sense at the time, and an all core workload on a 13900K does not draw that much more power than that of a 7950X (30 watts, according to Steve's charts - which is 10%, yes, but it's nowhere near the ludicrous difference between the gaming power draw of a 7800X3D and a 13900K). Dropping 100mV makes all core workloads on a 13900K cap out at roughly 250w. Still nuts, but on par with the 7950X. Should have just collected the parts that undervolt the best, slap an E at the end of the CPU, undervolt them by default and call it the Raptor Lake Efficiency refresh. Jayz2Cents recently showed off an undervolted 13900KS that reached 42k points on Cinebench R23 without ever surpassing 80° core temperatures (hat was his Thermal Grizzly KryoSheet test). 'Course, that would have made the more expensive mainboards fairly pointless. Which... oh, right, which answers that. Well, let it never be said that Intel's marketing is any better than AMD's.

Yeah, for most of them not just for any intents and purposes, but like, well, literally. They're basically 13th gen CPUs that won the silicon lottery and can reliably be boosted a little higher than before. On the bright side, that might make them interesting for overclocking competitions. For everyone else, that's a hard pass, especially since the 13th gen CPUs are cheaper. Pretty sad showing. Steve had it right, this really looks like an investor/shareholder appeasement release. "New" gen resets MSRPs too, making the suits happy, at least until they see that sales figures for this "generation" are in the dumps. By then Arrow Lake is hopefully out.

An hour ago I turned on D4's patching to get into the new season, as Blizzard made many quality of life changes and I wanted to check it out. However, well, it seems that Blizzard transported me back in time almost thirty years. Good grief.

The tagline reads The Shining of a New Generation. The comparison made in this way is meant to imply a work of equal significance or craftsmanship within a simlar genre or setting. Whoever wrote that seems to have been impressed enough with the film to assume it will reach a similar significance. That does seem to be exaggerated, although I must admit to not having seen the film (yet). Presumably it comes from a review or critique, but I cannot seem to find it. Googling the phrase just turns up links to the DVD version (the BR version has a different tagline). If you want to further explore films, Veronika Franz and Ulrich Seidl have collaborated before, but - and that is a major caveat - many of Ulrich Seidls films are highly disturbing at the best of times. They sometimes include unsimulated intercourse and scenes of violence. Hundstage ("Dog Days") is a good example. If you ever want to watch a film that finally convinces you that humanity has no right to exist on this beautiful planet, then go right ahead. The film follows a couple of people living on the outskirts of a large city, going about their daily lives.

Less Alien: Isolation and more SOMA, what with everything going on. But yeah, a tad too long for its own good. Still, pretty enjoyable quest, all in all.

Doubt anyone here plays Counter Strike 2 (I certainly don't), but if you do, do not turn on Anti-Lag+, it will be detected as cheating attempt by Valve and you will potentially be banned from the game. Actually, migth do well to not turn it on in any competitive online title until the issue is resolved.

Want me to post the picture I posted the last time the topic came up? Anyway, at least the repeat was not within the same iteration of this thread, it was the last one. You know, unlike that Stephen King discussion between Hurlshot and Xzar_Monty which repeated almost verbatim only like four pages apart. Well, we don't make gołąbki, but sarma, which differs insfoar it is made with sauerkraut leaves. Obviously we use our grandmother's recipe with mixed minced meat (beef and pork, as inaccurate as that is, the regional, organic mixed in our local market works really well), and she never braised them in the oven, just in a regular pot, and no shenanigans with smoked meat. Pretty sure @Sarex's family has some variation too. Well, like you said, most people in Eastern Europe do, although nowadays that's more called Central and South Eastern Europe. Silly former Warsaw Pact nations thinking they're not part of Eastern Europe. They're lucky we don't still just call them the Russians.

That's not really a problem, I even make sure to execute peeps that accidentially survived after I massacre my way through any given location. No loose ends. The few instances where you need people alive, like the Buddhist side job or the cyberpsychos, well, that's what overheat or incendiary grenades are made for - or non-lethal takedowns.

The skills all increase with abilities and weapons of their associated stats, the perks are pretty good at telling you what you need to use to gain experience. Shinobi you get for using assault rifles, SMGs and blades, Solo for blunt weapons, LMGs and shotguns, Engineer for doing things with technical ability and grenades, Netrunner for hacking and the access point minigame and Headhunter for killing with sniper rifles, pistols, revolvers and throwing knives. Then there's some overlap. Tech weapons give you experience for their respective skill as well as Engineer, while smart weapons give experience for their associated stat as well as Netrunner. No need to worry about skills too much, they come while playing the game anyway. Getting them all to the extra perk point threshold is fairly pointless in my experience. Plenty of perk points and no real synergy between the trees outside of picking supporting perks. Trick out Technical Ability and your weapon category of choice and you're good. That all said, throwing knives are ridiculously powerful, and they're really fun. Just use them.

Just pretend I killed your buzz with a real post, it's quicker that way.

A scene from Vivid Strike!, a genre fusion between martial arts tournament and magical girl anime. It was a little less offensive than its predecessor series, but... that would also have been kinda hard to pull off. It is not very interesting and the premise is highly silly. Oh, wait, you meant the other video, right?

Well, would rate 5/10. Vivid Strike! clearly still has the best bullying revenge scene. Crunch.

There was one thing in Reloaded that made watching Revolutions wholly unnecessary. The architect dropped a big ass spoiler. Only logical conclusion of Smith being the Matrix trying to correct an error by introducing balance to an equation. One cannot defeat the other, therefore, if Neo dies, so does Smith. Walked out of the theater talking to my friends how the next film is going to end with Neo's death. The two and a half hours before that, yeah, nothing of interest happened. Almost fell asleep when Morpheus fell off the van while backflipping for the fourth time, and it is really hard for me to fall alseep in bright light while hearing loud noise. To make matters worse whenever the two films are not having ludicrously drawn out action sequences, they're dipping their toes way too deep into pseudo-philosophical musings. Hey Neo, you're in Limbo. *wink* *wink* Get it? Limbo. Spelled out on the station name. Not sure what the bigger disappointment turned out to be, Matrix Reloaded or The Phantom Menace. Leaning towards the former, but that might be hindsight (not to mention viewing the prequels in an entirely different light after the sequel travesty, err, trilogy).

Yeah, certainly was better than any of the sequels...

Yeah, got one where I had to drive from Pacifica to the ass-end of Watson in under three minutes, in a pickup truck. That would have been close as the bird flies, never mind driving through the city. Anyway, I started Escape from New York Night City. So far so good.

You could prepare for The End of the World by watching Utena. Before we crack the world's shell.

That is a pretty good example of what happens when you enjoy a film vs. when you do not. The mess - if there is any - does not matter as much. The opposite, for me, can be seen in the Half in the Bag about Skyfall, I film I had such a bad time watching that I decided to not bother with going to the cinema for Bond movies until there is a different Bond than Craig, although in hindsight I should probably have done that after Quantum of Solace. Mike and Jay, on the other hand, like it. Jay even says that the problems of the film can be ignored because it is overall pretty good. Needles to say, it is one of those instances where I disagree with them. @PK htiw klaw eriF and @InsaneCommander, would you care to seal the deal?

Hasn't electing him as Speaker of the House been a clown show already? I seem to dimly recall it taking a while. Yep, this is only getting worse.

Either my game is bugged or I just answered that question myself. Police is ignoring me ever since I killed a bunch of MaxTac guys. Kinda fun just firing the hand cannon into a group of civilians without repercussions.

The new police system is actually quite fun. Managed to bait larger group of Tyger Claws into a shootout with NCPD. Managed to kill one of the MaxTac squads, but a new arrived and I left, they're pretty hit point spongey and my ammo was running low. Does anyone know if there's a limited amount of MaxTac spawns, or are they going at you until you get bored and run away?

Our joke of a chancellor had a "hilarious" let them eat cake moment in the form of saying that he does not understand how a family cannot give their children a hot meal when a burger at McDonald's is only 1.4€. The difference being, of course, that he actually said that and there's proof in form of a video. Well, I guess he's also unlikely to be beheaded, but one can always dream, right?

It's not just Team Red. I also never miss an opportunity to kill @Hurlshot's buzz, for instance. Speaking of which, Starfield would have been a decent launch title for FSR 3, that game really could do with some better upscaling and plenty of older builds out there that would really benefit from frame generation fluid motion frames. On the other hand, well, I can't fault AMD for not trusting Bethesda with some new tech that needs a good launch. In Radeon related news, Scott Herkelman quit.

AMD's marketing is genius. FSR3 finally launches with massive delays, and the launch titles are... *drumroll* Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum.

Look on the bright side, if a freak accident during installation happens with AMD's drivers, it's completely bricking Windows, not just messing up the display output. Like I said, time to get an Intel GPU. Edit: Needless to say, if that issue keeps happening on several computers someone in your immediate family decided you're responsible for, then be my guest and swear off nVidia for the rest of your life.

I guess at this point it is clear that CDPR will never fix the graphics settings bug that keeps randomly applying different settings for no reason. Launched the game today and DLSS with Frame Generation was turned on, although the really interesting takeway from this experience is that I only noticed because there's noticable ghosting on airtraffic warning lights. Not playing with Pathtracing (or, as the game calls it, RT Overdrive), so it's not necessary.