El Pit wrote on Mar 22, 2025, 12:11:
The last of the Legendary 3 has joined his competitors from the 70s (Ali and Frazier) in the beyond. He was a living sledgehammer inside the ring and a gentle giant outside of it. Unlike many commentator who never actually fought themselves, his comments about fighters that lost showed not only a great insight but also compassion instead of mockery. And his grill was also really good. Rest in peace, champion.

Well said! I became a hardcore fan of the sport after watching the 76 Olympics as a child. Waiting for Ray Leonard fight to start or maybe after, my Grand Father started talking about Foreman. In French he called him "l'usine à K.O" the KO Factory. Watched most if not all of his fights, rooted for him when he came back. Sad, time flies.. Another legend/reference gone, he will never be forgotten.

Lol and I just read a study on scented candles, diffusers etc with interesting findings that compared the air quality to running a small diesel engine in your home or something to that effect.

** Someone somewhere got paid for this which makes things sad and hilarious..

Prez wrote on Feb 14, 2025, 16:14:
Darth Vader remains my single favorite antagonist/villain of all time, but if we're talking videogames, it's SHODAN. Handsome Jack from BL2 had me going back and forth between them for a while, but ultimately you gotta go with the hateful, condescending, murderous AI. Unless you're an insect anyway.

Yup, Vader is hard to beat. I still remember Halloween grade 1 and how many kids where wearing the battery operated Vader mask. Even 8 wanted one despite the fact that I preferred Solo, Chewy and R2. Late 70s early 80s, most kids desperately wanted to be Vader on Halloween lol.

Shodan for video games, nothing compares to date. (Yes, nostalgia and my brain filled the blanks but, wow..simply a masterpiece to this day.

Full path ray tracing vs hybrid # explains why it's so hard to find a 4080.

This is a red flag to me, but I need to do some reading.. The numbers seem to support all the pre-release negative comments about the 5080.

Anyways, some interesting options regarding offloading lossless scaling frame gen to a secondary GPU or an integrated GPU gives me something to play with while planning on my next upgrades. Not going back to sli, just tinkering..

The Watcher wrote on Dec 12, 2024, 10:20:

Zerg wrote on Dec 12, 2024, 09:15:

BobDenvers69 wrote on Dec 12, 2024, 08:47:

Kxmode wrote on Dec 12, 2024, 06:22:
It’s been the ultimate platform for PC gamers since day one

You have absolutely no fucking clue at all of what you are talking about. Steam fucking sucked the first few years.

Absolutely true. People HATED the idea of having to install Steam in order to play Valve's games.

My first time I had to install steam was when I purchased a hard copy of Left 4 Dead. Despite having the ENTIRE game content on the DVD, I had to download everything through Steam after activating the CD key. With a crappy and capped internet bandwidth.

20 year Steam vet here...people have serious rose colored glasses in regards to Steam. People hated it when it was released.

Yes, steam was like the AOL and was ignored until brick and mortar stores stopped selling PC games. I avoided it like plague for as long as I could l, but here I am today.

Despite considering myself a gaming vet that started on a Vic 20, I still only use steam to buy and launch games plus look at the fps (not using fraps like before). I just enjoy the title the way I want without getting guided by achievements or daily whatever used in modern games. Not using gear I hate to get an achievement, but that's just me. I don't see those like high scores on arcade machines, not even close.

jdreyer wrote on Nov 14, 2024, 15:53:

4D-Boxing wrote on Nov 14, 2024, 13:29:
Good memories! I would still play an hour of Deck 16 and Tempest DM after work daily had it been a viable option.

The mini background story used to remind me of the Last Star Fighter movie with a Running Man twist.

Facing Worlds CTF.

Once I became average (and thought I was good), I played facing worlds and was reminded to stay in my lane lol. I ended up just protecting our end to avoid decapitation. Awesome map and mode, but my quick reflexes were no match for skill.

Good memories! I would still play an hour of Deck 16 and Tempest DM after work daily had it been a viable option.

The mini background story used to remind me of the Last Star Fighter movie with a Running Man twist.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Nov 12, 2024, 20:39:
Those are still pretty reasonable specs. Though I wonder where my system slots in with a 3700x, 6900XT, and 64GB on one of the fastest Gen4 NVMEs.

Looking at the Epic specs, I should be able to squeeze/average 45fps with my 9900k (5Ghz boost all cores) and a slightly OCd rtx3080. You'll do better with 6900xt.

P.S. New CPUs are out, waiting to see the new video cards before splurging once again.

Very well said and completely valid point. I'm just being selfish and crotchety. Once I hit 50 I told myself there is no tomorrow, no more compromises if possible. Used to tell myself latter, in a few years etc.. no more even if I plan to live to 150 cyborg style lol.

In case I misunderstood and you're asking about the entire post..

Alien Romulus would've been more enjoyable for me if it wasn't kids in space. Nothing wrong with that, but as a kid I loved Alien and we didn't need to see other kids on screen to enjoy to the max. They seem to be trying to cater to multiple audiences instead of focusing on their art/vision.

Overon wrote on Oct 18, 2024, 00:28:

4D-Boxing wrote on Oct 17, 2024, 22:06:
Reviews and comments seem to line up. Disappointing game. There's more than one demographic of gamers, why not try selling to the rest of us like is done with movies or shows. Yes we'll have mods, but some will break as soon as a dlc is installed etc.

That said, it will probably hold me off until November 20th. That one will not disappoint me.

What are you referring to?

Stalker 2, I hope the release date has not changed. I finally allowed myself to look forward to the release. Not everyone's cup of tea, but I will savor this one for as long as I can.

Reviews and comments seem to line up. Disappointing game. There's more than one demographic of gamers, why not try selling to the rest of us like is done with movies or shows. Yes we'll have mods, but some will break as soon as a dlc is installed etc.

That said, it will probably hold me off until November 20th. That one will not disappoint me.

It would be interesting to see this broken down by platform and using a larger sample size.

As a PC gamer I mostly play multiplayer. I'm always surprised at how many of us are 50 or older. All my friends are on consoles and even those with kids tend to favor multiplayer. They can squeeze a few games between stuff or after the kids go to bed.

Multiplayer can require communication, that could also be a factor. Good thing that you can turn off or block voice. I would be creeped out hearing a kid. (A good argument to bring back the old dedicated server clients..yes I'm old and biased). Give me well moderated ruthless clan servers to sharpen my skills lol

40th anniversary..ouch! That makes me vintage. Remake Zaxxon, we have some unfinished business.. taking the gloves off and finish you!

Just my opinion, but I think it helped with recruiting and training 15 years ago and now it's the norm. I had a similar reaction to that private sub disaster and the wireless controller..

Disclaimer: Any grade school kid beats me gaming with controllers. Except for the old MS Duel Strike..I owned the world in Unreal tournament with those lol. I'll take an old Atari 1 button stick over a gamepad.

Like you said, things will not improve. I read the name Guillemot and immediately had a bad feeling and now I remember why..

Rant/ The ThrustMaster purchase. Things got bad so fast that my racing sim days came to an end. I gave away my wheel, but gave them another try after a few years and that one just went in the garbage.

Did it twice. Slow and methodical the Fist time (181) and quickly with almost zero hesitation the second time (174 their neutral).

To many parameters ignored IMHO, but it leads to interesting questions on physiology, perception etc.

Fun, old school test.. got to give them that.

Well played Mr. Blue!

RogueSix wrote on Sep 3, 2024, 19:08:

Eldaron Imotholin wrote on Sep 3, 2024, 12:41:
Chornobyl! You goddamn barbarians!

^ this ... and you are being too kind by calling anyone still using the Russian spelling merely a "barbarian". I could think of quite a few other choice words for such complete ASS CLOWNS (par for the course for an uneducated PC Gamer idiot "journalist" tho).

That said, I'm glad that the S.T.A.L.K.E.R devs made it but, man, those drab and depressing Eastern Bloc games just aren't my cup of tea. I could never get into the various S.T.A.L.K.E.Rs and only barely into Metro.

I blame it on my 1980s socialization in West Germany with a strong US bias and my aversion to visiting relatives in the GDR (German Democratic Republic a.k.a Soviet-run East Germany for the non-boomers here). Those trips to GDR also had drab and depressing written all over them and the border guards were complete fucksticks if I've ever seen a fuckstick in my life. What a bunch of completely humorless assholes.

Those fuckers even STOLE totally harmless 'The Three Investigators' cassette tapes and Mickey Mouse mags from me and my brother when they searched my dad's Mercedes Benz (in reality those border guard shitcocks were just jelly of the car!).

I dunno... the whole setting just is not for me. I wish them the best of luck and I'm sure the game will do well because there is a demographic that actually loves the Eastern Bloc setting for some mysterious reason but it's a hard pass for me, no matter how "downright gorgeous" it is supposed to look according to PC "Bullshit" Gamer.

I hear ya! That said, I love the stalker series. Been gaming for like 40 years maybe longer and the stalker games are the only titles that I've replayed and some more than twice using mods. (Not counting Vic 20 or Apple 2 days.)

Metro and other titles gave me the vibe you're talking about, but I powered through thinking of stalker. Bought Chornobilite waiting with this one and nope, I just can't.

The Stalker series has that special something. Walking around was never pointless or tedious, you needed everything you found (sooner or later). The world reminded you of the importance of exploration and made sure you where rewarded. (No far cry / borderland moments even though loot is key to survival)

Playing was like reliving the tension from the first alien, predator or die hard movies as a kid, but I'm in control.

The new tech may make the outdoors more enticing, but the indoor areas will have that feeling.. (I have had days where I avoided certain areas just to have a different feel/mood)

Not trying to sell you on the game, it's just a rare gem that I've encountered over the years.

Last thing. I'm the same with The Witcher series. Tried and tried, but hard pass. C'est la vie as we say here.

Not surprised. This is a tricky one to adapt for the big screen or TV. I think they would have to town down the cartoony side and insert it and the humour Deadpool style. Just my take.

As for fallout..yes they did a good job. I got a bad vibe first half. Same happened when I played it, just like when I started BioShock. It went away of course. Then I had to resign cause I abused the fast forward and missed close to half. (Played the game back in the days so it was easy to fill the blanks).