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It is hard to do it proper justice in words, and it is only a short scene (also, the linked video is time coded to the relevant part): A perfect showcase for why it is generally accepted to not weaponize faster than light travel, or at least come up with some countermeasures, in soft science fiction. It renders everything meaningless, and you can tell from the look on Leia's face as it dawns on her just how many lives the Rebellion wasted in attacking two Death Stars conventionally. Or, to follow the train of thought, one has to wonder why the Empire built the Death Star in the first place, if all you need is to strap a hyperdrive to an asteroid to destroy planets. Rise of Skywalker features a scene where Merriadoc Brandybuck (okay, it just is a cameo by Dominic Monaghan, but it could be Merriadoc, and it would not be the silliest thing to happen in Rise of Skywalker) shows up to ask why they are even bothering to prepare an attack if they just could execute another Holdo maneuver (Holdo is Laura Dern's character in The Last Jedi). It is glossed over by stating that it was a one in a million chance to land the hit. It was worth a laugh at least. Disney's Star Wars is very big on breaking established rules in order to have "cool" scenes in their movies and series. This one is just the most egregious one, followed right up by making Vader's change of heart at the end of Return of the Jedi meaningless because Palpatine is still alive and well, but it does not stop there - there is a scene in Rogue One, for instance, where a hyperspace jump is done directly through an oncoming blast wave, while still in the atmosphere of the planet. Made me immediately think back to our heroes' escape from Tatooine in the first Star Wars film, and what a loser Han Solo must be for first clearing the planet, and talking about how hyperspace jumps need to be precisely calculated lest something bad happens. The most damning thing about these? Basic writing 101 that should set professional writers apart from creators of fan fiction, and as far as these films go, we are not even talking about the terrible acting and the flat, boring characters yet, the cringeworthy dialogue or the lack of any proper setup and pay off in the trilogy, except for one scene at the end of The Rise of Skywalker where Rey and Kylo Ren teleport a lightsaber between them.

The Last Jedi, the middle part of the new trilogy, is an interesting comparison to The Empire Strikes back. They are on the opposite ends of the spectrum, one is easily the best Star Wars movie made to date, and a really good film too, while The Last Jedi makes a good case for being the worst Star Wars movie, and it is a terrible film: it has a collection of writing gaffes so jarring that they are breaking suspension of disbelief even in sci-fi as soft as Star Wars, and one scene in particular that was such a bad idea that it retroactively all but ruins the preceeding movies.

4) Like many a true genius artist he simply is not recognized in his own ignorant age. It is for future generations to truly appreciate Neil Breen's works.

People who use 😛 instead of the far superior fall on the very far end of the unstable part of the spectrum.

For the names and the likes I might even agree, but considering that the guy keeps saying nucular like he's Homer Simpson or George W. Bush I have to disagree. I take my prior statement back, an AI text to speech engine would have been better.

He's pronouncing every single name wrong, so... Well, at least compared to the Japanese original. I do not know either of the English dubs. I listened to part of the video and began to wonder if someone just had a speech generating AI say a script over the video at times. Droning on is quite an apt description.

I no longer hate The Phantom Menace, probably because it stopped being the second worst Star Wars movie in 2015, and it climbed down the ranks even more with subsequent releases. If this gets a world wide release I just might play the sucker and pay for it just to compare the experiences.

Ho Chi Minh really looks like a weird Chinese martial arts master in a cheap 80ies movie.

And with today, so do I. Played last holdout at Interplay for three days. My condolences. A while back my father asked if I could help him type a bunch of pages he only has as scans. Even though there are rougly two hundred of them, he said, they are written with large letters and he already typed up fifty of them. It would be much faster if I would help him out, as he is a very slow typer (which still is an understatement). He said he would dictate the contents and we would be done really quickly. Admiral Ackbar looked at me and said: However, I wilfully chose to ingore him and agreed. I can type quite fast, not at a world record pace, but well above average, so I figured I will waste a weekend and a half at best. Alas, the devil, as the proverb goes, is in the details. What are the details? Well, am I glad you asked, lest I would write this complaint without an audience. He got his hands on minutes of meetings of the local municipality dated over a hundred years back, from directly after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and before the rise of Austro-Fascism (and the Third Reich later). Needless to say that minutes of that age were handwritten. That would still be not so bad, however, they were handwritten, under severe time constraints, by people with a decidedly poor grasp of grammar and syntax, in the parlance of their time, and most damning of all, in German cursive. Well, how bad can that be? Have a look: It is not his slow typing that is an issue. Deciphering the texts on the other hand? Very much so. In case you are interested in comparing German cursive to modern scripts, the first couple of lines read: "[...] eine Subvention von 2000 Kr. zu bewilligen. Dieser Antrag wird einstimmig angenommen. Anschließend darauf verliest G. Ruckteschel einen Brief des Schriftführers der Lokalorganisation um Anschaffung eines Kastens zur Aufbewahrung der schriftlichen Agenden. Diesem Wunsche wird einstimmig Rechnung getragen." The second to last word of the seventh line illustrates one of the issues rather well. The word is schriftlichen, and as you can see, the letters used for s, f and h are dreadfully similar to each other when written hastily, and there is very little difference between the t and the l. Good thing these letters are not so commonly used in Germanic languages. Dodged a bullet, huh? Minor historical fact, it was Hitler who did away with both German cursive and Fraktur, the blackletter typeface used to print German books, with the Normalschrifterlass in 1941, saying they were Jewish letters and calling them German is wrong.

An OC model RX 6900 XT is certainly capable of overwhelming an 850W power supply with transient power spikes, depending on the quality, age of the power supply and remaining system power draw. No, it will not. All modern cards have a voltage/frequency curve anyway and reduce voltage automatically while idle or under light loads. It can lead to crashing if you undervolt too much, but I would suppose that an automated undervolt function guesses safe limits based on metrics from the card, but it is best to make sure the card is stable by running something like 3DMark's Port Royale test for a while. Especially if you want to manually fine tune at some later date. Obligatory shade-throwing:

There is a long history of medical doctors more readily dismissing symptoms reported by women. Goes, at the very least, all the way back to ancient Egypt and Greece. Hysteria - also known as female madness - was linked to having a sad uterus. It is also quite literally in the name, hystéra, meaning uterus.

I was thinking about suggesting that you check yourself into the nearest mental institution after reading up until this point, but it seems that you already did. Take care man, and all the best, hope the treatment will work out.

Chinese New Year event in D4 is a joke. You click on shrines for a Feat of Strength and kill enemies for an hour. Such awesome.

Barbarian in season three is great. As long as I hit at least three enemies, my charge has a cooldown of 1.5 seconds. Feels like plowing through enemy groups with a freight train. Ran into The Butcher in one of the Nightmare Vaults. I heard his signature "Ah, fresh meat!" and then he was dead. Instantly. Yeah. Guess they really made charge a bit OP.

Hey @Azdeus look, you're no longer the worst food heathen on the forum.

I think it is going to be a movie and can't wait to not see it!

Local pricing being strange is one of the reasons why I have an RTX 4070 TI. While it is a Zotac MSRP model, it cost me 850€, which is 40€ less than nVidia's offical MSRP for Europe, and at the time vendors wanted 1300€ for a 7900 XT (non-second X!), with the RTX 4080 being cheaper. I mean, yeah, not that I would have gotten the 7900 XT either way, but I probably would not have bought a 4070 Ti if it wasn't severly below MSRP like that. Edit: The 4070 Ti was also cheaper than all the 30 generation cards above a 3070 Ti to boot. I had to laugh quite a bit when it was - rightfully, I guess, if you live in the US - critized for being bad value, when it was pretty good value for a couple of months in Central Europe. Well, compared to other equally fast or even slower options. The price is still way out there, but the prices are probably here to stay.

Wrath of the Righteous sets the gold standard for terrible puzzles, even for Owlcat.

The recent patches killed a good bunch of builds that were easily powerful enough to clear full Unfair as Azata. Favorable Magic and Zippy Magic were great if you stacked some dice on a caster Oracle, but with the nerfs - well, rather, bugfixes - to Expanded Arsenal and Second Bloodlines, uh... yeah. Could probably still work if you just stacked all the enchantments bonuses in the world, but not sure.

I suppose no one talking about the Super launch is really symptomatic of it being not very exciting. Granted, the 4080 Super was never going to be that interesting outside of the price drop, but the 4070 Ti Super was a little disappointing. Looks like the card's additional memory and cores don't gel too much with the power limit of the original 4070 Ti. It would probably do a bit better if you can get one that undervolts well. Power limits in nVidia cards are a bit different as far as I know, as the cards don't necessarily clock lower when power limited, but can also turn off cores. Quite possible that the additional cores of the 4070 Ti Super can't be used fully under heavy loads. Seems a tad strange that 10% more cores only yield a 5% improvement, considering how close the cut down AD103 die is to the original 4080... huh.

Nah, the RX 6500 XT is really just trash - when every tech youtube channel under the sun (even the most biased ones) agree that it is bad, it is really bad. Even the AMD fanboy brigade has a hard time defending the GPU, outside of saying "at least it was available during the mining craze" - forgetting that it initially cost 300$, a price point everyone would agree is too much for an infinitely more powerful RTX 4060, after two years of crazy inflation. Indeed. You can build a really small form factor PC for some light gaming with it, but as @Humanoid said, even his older build was just more for the novelty of it and because he had a pair of RAM sticks left over. It is probably overkill for HTPC unless you need hardware AV1 support - and for that the lower tier APUs will do just as well, and if you don't, any i5 T-model from the past decade is going to be enough for less power draw than the 8700G consumes while idle. There's also a hit in available PCIE lanes in exchange for the better iGPU, making it less attractive for cases where you need the IO, so for actual work cases you're probably still better off with a 7700(X) while just using the regular iGPU. Kinda struggling to see the use case here. I mean, outside of gaming handhelds. Well, perhaps its NPUs are really good for AI workloads. Oh, also, classic AMD:

TL;DR: Well, no surprise there. The iGPU is a significant gaming boost over existing ones, but still beaten by something as trashy as the RX 6500, and completely outclassed by an RX 6600 when combined with a cheap four core i3-12100F, a combination that costs about the same.

I followed @Bartimaeus glowing recommendation after @Sarex mentioned Delicious in Dungeon and watched the first two episodes. What a fantastic experience, my sides still hurt from all the laughing.