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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.

Poor Fingers, always getting so much hate for providing affordable services to the working girls and boys of Night City.

Started a new Corpo V with Tech/Cool and later some Int (or maybe earlier if I feel like it) for the addon. Playing on hard, which so far is... not, although all I've done so far are NPCD scanner hustles and the gig where you steal back someone's eye, but even the larger organized crime hustles are not too difficult. The new grenade system is super powerful. Just as long as you stay mobile and don't run into an exposed area without the extra mitigation from sprinting perk it's fine.

Fair enough, not like I built my computer myself, but that was mostly laziness.

No, and no. You can always add RAM later, that is fairly easy to do, and there probably won't be a 4090 Ti anyway as AMD is giving nVidia no reason to release one. DIY might save you a pretty penny though.

Follow up to the French iRabbit episode.

The day that Star Wars died...

Time to fire one back after that... <redacted>.

It happens every now and then that posts repeat on the forum after a while, but it seldom does within the same thread. Although, well, this particular thread is a little long in the tooth, so that explains it, I guess.

This thread is decidedly more fun when nobody is on topic. Best thing to come out of Portugal: https://nuriartisanalsardine.com/produtos/?lang=en Feel free to disagree, but know that you're wrong. Tuna pizza is probably a staple everywhere, I think. Nothing wrong with that, although I prefer pasta with tuna, which is fantastic and easy to do. That doesn't count, mackerel in (tomato) sauce is great. Next to several cans of Nuri we always have some canned mackerel too. Generally don't put them on a sandwich though, usually just straight from the can with a kaiser roll or rye bread. Mackerels also make great Steckerlfische, don't let the silly purists tell you otherwise if you're ever in a place where you can get them.

I meant I got approval from Shadowheart, not that she said something about the doodling, sorry for being unclear.

I have done weirder things than to watch 172 episodes of a Star Trek show just for a guest star that shows up in three of them, and that relatively early on.