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The reason why you can't get any 9800X3Ds is because Der8auer is hogging them for resale.

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AMD already said in their own marketing materials that it's just going to compete with the RTX 4070 TI (Super), so that's a bust right out of the gate, unless it also has 4070 TI Super levels of RT performance. Which seems rather unlikely.

To be fair to poster guy, the movies all look the same as well, and from what I've gathered, they're also all a bit samey. Like I mentioned before I watched Weathering With You a while back, and it left me not wanting to watch a whole lot more of his films.

TL;DW: RTX 5000 cards will randomly be missing rendering pipelines. Kills ~5% performance (or maybe more), so if you happen to get an affected 5070 TI, it's basically a 4070 TI Super in terms of performance. Good job nVidia. Ey, Intel, where's the B770/780? Hurry up.

We have 25 more years of experience with this situation. You can bet your ass powerful lobby groups will push the conservatives towards working with the AfD, and eventually, the conservatives are going to give in. It happened back in 1933, it happend in 2000, 2017 and almost in 2025 here in Austria and it will happen in Germany, because at the end of the day, Merz can yell "it is time to go back to politics that benefit the majority of Germans again!" as much as he wants, but both the CDU/CSU and Merz in particular are not up to the task. You can't be bought and paid for by the new monyed nobility and make politics for the majority. There's a reason large and powerful corporations support the CDU as much as they do, and a reason why they're heaping money onto the AfD. A CDU-lead government isn't going to help the situation in Germany at all, because - as you already noted - it is by far and large their fault that you're in this situation in the first place. When I look at the more prominent figures of the CDU and CSU, I feel like throwing up. Merz is a multi-millionaire raking in more and more millions every year and considers himself to be a part of the middle class, Philipp Amthor is dangerous and has highly unsavory connections to shady foreign companies and Jens Spahn is as incompetent as he is corrupt. Eh, and I really don't want to talk about Söder, or any of the talking heads out of Bavaria. Where have the times gone when the weirdest thing coming out of Bavaria was a quaint little fellow talking about how much time you are going to save when you board the railway station in Munich. In a way you're lucky that your social democrats stopped being social democrats with Gerhard Schröder and simply became a vehicle to carry on the CDU agenda even without the CDU, which means as long as the SPD has enough votes to form a government with the CDU that will be a more acceptable version - mark my words, once that is no longer possible, or there's a move back to more traditional social democratic values in the SPD, that'll change. In a way, it is not. Having the FDP drop out of the Bundestag while BSW gets in would have put Merz in a fantastically problematic situation insofar as that he would have had to include the CSU's go-to punching back, the Grüne, in his coalition (Hell would freeze over before they'd work with Sarah Wagenknecht or Die Linke), or look directly towards working with the AfD. It would have unmasked him a lot sooner, because it would have been really easy to claim that they tried to make it work with the SPD and the Greens, but just couldn't. At least Christian Lindner got what he deserved, that underachieving little weasle. Bye bye, and hopefully you Germans aren't going to elect the FDP back in like it happend in 2017. The sooner this party of CDU pilot fishes burns in hell the better for everyone.

It Takes Two, with my nephew. Game's kinda fun, the story is... uh... yeah, somehow I doubt having to coop through a magical episode of a weird book with a Spanish accent is going to save any marriages, but I guess stranger things have happened. Co-oping isn't so bad because it's been pretty easy so far. Some sections drag on a bit too long, and some puzzles are more fun than others, I guess, but overall, it's a co-op game I play with a 12-year-old and it is not making me want to pull my hair out, which is quite an achievement.

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What in the what now?

You silly leftists and your Trump derangement syndrome. /thread

Like it happened with Iron Sky. Sure, no Moon Nazis (yet), but everything else did come true, just much worse than in the satire was.

I once made fun of George W. Bush saying: "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." I once made fun of George Lucas making the prequel trilogies. I was once a fool...

QED

This is going to be hilariously useless, but I just cannot stop myself. Please name the element(s) in Veilguard that make it exclude straight males. Provide specific examples and give a proper contextual reading for those. Bonus points if you can make it about excluding straight white males. Posting a video from a self-proclaimed Russian sounding melodramatic c*nt (his own words, not mine) like Gorth gorthed into the discussion a while back does not count, so don't even try to post something with an Info Wars level of objectivity and integrity as proof, we've had enough of that nonsense back when a not very sharp one skarped in the politics thread. Is that a rhetorical question? Dragon Age: Veilguard is basically a medieval high magic fantasy version of Star Wars: Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor. Both of which were commercial successes for Electronic Arts.

She at least doesn't give you a five minute verbal lashing about how much of a failure you are if you are light side. 's a pretty cool moment though. "You have failed me. Completely and utterly.", "To have the Jedi Masters brought low by such a failure, there is no victory in that. You have not heard a thing I have taught, and for all I have said, you have never learned to listen." and "Stay here and die, apprentice, among the wreckage of all that remains of the Jedi. It is a fitting grave until the Sith come to end you. To end everything."

Surpsingly enough, yes. With some exceptions like the tempering system (tempering is great, the RNG of it that can destroy equipment worth a lot, well, not so much), the core gameplay and "endgame" of Diablo 4 are pretty solid, the best the game series and ARPGs are outside of Diablo 2 (and possibly Grim Dawn), but the seasonal mechanics are lacking, more often than not. I just recently learned that there's an odd and an even team at Blizzard working on seaons in parallel, which explains a lot. The odd team is clearly worse at creating fun seasons than the even one, as all the really good seasons were even numbered. The current one is season seven. That I can't stop myself from grinding out the seasonal objectives because they used to have a hidden achievement, well, that's hardly the fault of the game.

That would be true, but computers cannot really generate truly random numbers, as such there's always a mathematical function involved - and there are better or worse ones at generating numbers. If whatever Owlcat used is pretty bad - and it would seem to be, going by my experience as well - it is neither weird nor improbable. You'd need specialized hardware for truly random numbers.

So, like, I just finished grinding out the last season journey objective, which for me was raising 10 Witchraft powers to level 20 (any given build in the game uses five, so that was a waste of time), only to find out that there no longer is an achievement (well, Feat of Strength, that is) for fully completing the season. The one that there is I got yesterday already, because it is only tied to fully finishing the last tier of the season journey. So anyone playing Diablo 4 like @MrBrown and @Malcador - you don't need to bother with anything but fully finishing the Destroyer objectives if you want the Feat of Strength. The bitter irony of it is that I already had those finished before I passed Slayer - because those silly heads and altars were so hard to get prior to the recent larger patch. Googled a bit to see if I missed something, but nope, the change was apparently not communicated. Good job. Good to know for future seasons though. Unless they reintroduce a second Feat of Strength without telling anyone. Le sigh.

Done with the season journey, but not (yet?) with all the season journey elements. Blizzard patched something recently that increased the chances to find secret altars and fugitive heads. I found as much of that stuff in the past two days of playing than I did in the entire time from January 21st to February 6th. Not complaining though, I'll take it.

It is perfectly legitimate to not want to spend a couple of hours trying to overcome a combat system for the sake of a game perhaps becoming fun later, I was making a joke on the FromSoftware fandumb... although the opposite is of course also correct: it is just as legitimate to want these sort of challenges in games. It is a matter of preference.

Git gud. /thread

You should read Red Harvest, that'll turn you off of Star Wars books for a while. I mean, unless you like bad zombie apocalypse novels.

Eh, actually, most groups are just dead silent. I even pugged the "raid" on Torment IV last season to get the feats of strength and it was fine. Mostly. The first attempt was a disaster as I did not have enough defense to avoid death during unavoidable damage moments.

The season specific journey elements are pretty rough though, or perhaps I'm the unluckiest guy playing D4. Opened 20 silent chests, got one (1) roothold key. Spent hours grinding the headhunts, at 15 of 20 reputation levels, and I got a total of four fugitive heads. Still missing the last witch power too. And yeah, I am using the season elixir. Sigh. Yeah, no. When the game freezes for 20 seconds after using leap and then picks up exactly where it left off instead of having my character either dying or passively killed the mobs on the screen I'm fairly positive that it's server side lags.