LadyCrimson

@Gorth I have this suspicion that BL4 may reduce the otp humor/jokes a bit. The trailer has me thinking they want to be taken a teensy (teensy) bit more seriously in that regard. Not sure why I feel that way but trailer gives me that vibe. I think at this point I wouldn't even mind if they did tone that down, it was getting a little out of hand. And yeah - BL3's plot and npc writing was terrible. Even for "what it is."

Ok fine, it was on moderate sale. Certainly cute graphics. Controller feels clunky/awkward tho, especially within the menus. But ... very cute art style.

Netflix - Carry On After watching it, I saw someone describe it as a lower rent Die Hard2+Phone Booth. I'd say that's kind of apt. As a maybe late 80's/90's feeling suspend-disbelief action thriller, I'd say ... "it's fine." Won't blow your socks off, but there are worse ways to kill a little time. Some decent action/set pieces, decent actor choices. It does give the sensation that if it had been just a little better, scripting, pacing etc, it could have been something more than "fine", but it is what it is.

Rented Deadpool and Wolverine. I thought I knew what I was getting/expecting, but apparently I was a little bit wrong. The action sequences were decent if a little over-edited, Hugh was great as Wolverine, some of the jokes and Wolverine/Deadpool sniping were funny. Two nigh invulnerable dudes duking it out etc. But the first hour of setup went on too long imo, and the general flow of the film felt unfocused/pointless. One scene of silly or chr. cameo after another. So, it was ok/average for throw away Marvel hijinks, but not focused enough for any attachment. The main thing about Deadpool (the 1st film was only ok imo, never saw the 2nd) is that the joke of breaking the wall and all the self-awareness *is* funny - but it's so constant and in your face it stops being funny after about 20 minutes, for me. Grinds the joke into flat dust before long. Ah well. At least I got to see Hugh as Wolverine one more time.

Monitor/screen type and settings does tend to affect how much of a difference is noticeable. eg, it's a fair bit more noticeable on the 4k OLED, vs older 1440 LED. Outside of "sunray shadow filter" and any fancy reflections, it's mostly about contrast and brightness and very subtle angling, re: light filtering, seems to me. I can imagine. And then if one has to add DLSS on top of it just to get the fps. Still cracks me up when people say how their 40xx runs it great at native supreme/fullPT at 1440/4k/100fps .... and then they finally mention using "DLSS at Performance + Frame Gen." The definition/knowledge of "native" seems to be slipping away.

There are zero eggs in the local grocery. There is a sign of "eggs limited to 1 package per customer" or something, but all gone. California has now declared a state of emergency for finding it in cattle/milk or something. Ok. As long as I can still buy my yogurt. Don't care about/hardly use eggs/milk much myself, but I must have my Fage yogurt! I've heard Barnes and Nobles (and other bookstores) are doing well lately - eg, books are doing well, despite all the tech. I find this refreshing. Going to go to one and buy up a bunch of books I ignored from the past decade or two. Maybe I'll find I can enjoy reading novels constantly, again, vs my boredom with most media.

^ re: mobo etc. Hm, interesting. re: 2080ti in "new" build - I wouldn't do that thinking I'd get any gains. It's just that it would still "work" while I'm waiting for another generation of gpu's, so whenever I feel like finally buying a ridiculously over-priced gpu, I already have something to just throw it into. Since I like 4k, even if I don't care about Supreme/Ultra/RT/frame-gen/120+ fps etc, I still don't feel like gpu's are seriously "4k worthy" yet. Oh sure they're better than my current overall and ofc re: RT, but with the way dev's are going, it's going to be another 2-4 years before we know what a "good 4k" gpu may be. It's just so I have the chassy ready. Granted, doing things that way (rig, upgrade gpu later) isn't my typical thing, I like building wholesale and then largely never changing/upgrading/touching a rig for 5-8 years, but eh. Was just considering it.

I'm not familiar with that reference, but my original thought seeing this Kent was awkward-Peter-Parker. Not in looks so much as body/expression carrying. And yes, that hair style is blargh, lol. I didn't realize the guy with the terrible blond bowl haircut was 1-Nathan Fillion and 2-Guy Gardner. I mean his face/hair made me think of younger Joe Pesci for some reason and ofc I knew it couldn't be him so I looked it up. That made my interest go up maybe 8%. Guy Gardner can be an interesting chr. Not sure the size of his role in this film tho. It does look like this movie is going to not spend as much time with the "origin" of Supes, which is good, but I wonder if that means it'll simply fall into the "too many chrs/arcs" trap earlier.

^ Seems a little pricey. Supposedly there is another version coming out lower price with similar performance, so maybe one should wait and see what happens there (if it's not just rumor) but I know zip about amd. Which is ofc the problem with all tech and time. It's just in the past I felt more "sure" of what paths to take for my needs/preferences at the time I wanted to build if I wasn't going to endlessly "wait for next thing", regardless of what popular reviewers were saying was "the uber bestest". EDIT: btw, is AMD better re: mobo longevity re: switching out cpu's later? Obviously I don't mean 10 yrs or something, but even a year or two later?

I've been contemplating building a new (basic parts/lots of storage and giant case) rig but not getting a gpu yet - just tossing the 2080ti into the 'new pc' - but the CPU market seems so up in the air itself this moment that I fear the "I made a mistake" regret a year or two later. >.> I have funds, I just have zero idea what I'm going to do this time. Except ignore/delay thinking about it, some more.

Scratch that. Unlike a few other earlier RT games, even DLSS-balanced used with 720p/everything low (haha), full PT tanks the fps, even if it's not taking up all 11 vram (about 10). And I mean tanks. I'd guess more vram and faster CPU would help with that ofc, but yeah, that's still nuts. Other settings really don't matter much.

If I buy a 50xx gpu it'll be the 5090, because with all the vram, even if a couple generations later it won't be able to utilize "frame generation limitlessv99" and "UberHot-DLSS v3659", only on 70xx" or something, it would at least run the darn game because of vram and general power. If it doesn't blow a house circuit, or catch on fire, anyway. I currently have this weird desire to see how far I could get the Indy game to run with middle path tracing at 1080p. The thing about PT (for me) is not simply that fps drops to 30-35 - it's that the fps is not stable/smooth, like 30fps in old games. It's an utter stutter/lag fest. Since I like the first half of the game best, I could start a new save...AAA games these days are mostly good for benchmarking/testing your rig. Heheh

I'm not sure I'm seeing a Superman in that trailer. But there is a SuperCuteDog, so I guess that's something. Nicholas Hoult as Lex - that could be interesting. Or not. He's an actor that I've liked in a few films/roles (one was About a Boy, as a kid, The Menu, Warm Bodies, I guess Xmen) but he's not typically a "huge charismatic presence/larger than life", either as good or evil. Still, could be interesting. I don't know - Superman could still be fun, but they keep turning him into some super mentally tortured, "my life is so harrrrrd" character, and I find that almost as dull by now as the "I'm too cartoonishly invulnerable for my own good". I think I prefer a confident but rationally cautious and aware of his weaknesses, Superman.

Ordered a small box of toffee/chocolate chip cookies. Not low carb. Ordered a couple packages of landjaeger styled meat sticks (not the most expensive ones but still pretty tasty). Zero carb. And since it's all being delivered today, this early this afternoon I should be in snack coma heaven. The internet means you're not safe from snack-shopping even at 4am.

Why 99.5% of players still don't care about full ray tracing. At least not for the 30-50fps cost. The RT-global illumination alone is decent and even that is a performance hit, but I could see it being a standard eventually. Can't compare with non-RT GI since there is none. Shadows/reflections etc aren't maxed and I'm sure it would all look "crisper" or something on a new $7k PC w/"supreme" settings, but you get the point. Pathtracing Off: Full pathtracing on: a little change in colortone of those wall plates and the pedestal is better backlit? No pathtracing: Full pathtracing: whiter/brighter building/foliage lighting, water is a tad less brown, the bamboo railing is more top-lit/whiter? Does it make a difference you can see? Yes. Is it worth the performance cost (and hardware cost/upkeep) or make some giant immersion difference? Me: Heck no.