Pepe wrote on Jan 7, 2019, 10:38:

Burrito of Peace wrote on Jan 7, 2019, 10:02:
I think Nvidia is shooting themselves in the foot this generation with their pricing schemes. I get that they need to recoup the cost of R&D on ray-tracing but with how little it is used now and how little it will probably be used this generation, it seems like price gouging for the sake of price gouging.

While I'm sure Nvidia has some room in their margins memory prices are also up, also adds to the total cost of the cards think I read somewhere GDDR6 is 22$ more expensive then GGDR5.

Irrc I paid 50€ more for my RTX2080 then I did for my GTX1080 but that would have been 200€ if I went with an Asus strix, some manufacturers are doind some serious overpricinf if you ask me.

Prez wrote on Jan 7, 2019, 10:02:
My first add-in gfx card was a 3DFX Voodoo but I can't remember what it cost, only that for the time it wasn't at all cheap. Maybe it's because I'm older now but I don't view any gfx card under $450-$500 to be high end these days.

Timmeh wrote on Dec 12, 2018, 10:31:

Beamer wrote on Dec 11, 2018, 23:34:

LibertyOrDeath wrote on Dec 11, 2018, 23:18:
Let me educate...Politicians will name their bills, "Fluffy Bunny People WIN" but realize that the fluffy bunnies people might get maimed within the bill. In other words, read the fine print.

No offense, dude, but a guy who gets his information primarily from Alex Jones, QAnon, and /r/conspiracy isn't really in position to educate anyone on anything.

Do you ever see a group of silver cars and believe they're following you?

You take that back Beamer Alex the Jones is THE MAN!!!

seriously though.... Where can anyone get actual factual non politically propaganda spun information any more? I dont think it exists.


Does anyone really understand and have weighed the actual real pros and cons of Net Neutrality as its called? Or are we all just playing the drum beat of the political teams info we are being fed.

Beamer wrote on Dec 11, 2018, 23:34:

LibertyOrDeath wrote on Dec 11, 2018, 23:18:
Let me educate...Politicians will name their bills, "Fluffy Bunny People WIN" but realize that the fluffy bunnies people might get maimed within the bill. In other words, read the fine print.

No offense, dude, but a guy who gets his information primarily from Alex Jones, QAnon, and /r/conspiracy isn't really in position to educate anyone on anything.

Do you ever see a group of silver cars and believe they're following you?

Wowbagger_TIP wrote on Nov 21, 2018, 22:19:
Jesus Christ, I wish we would just fucking legalize weed federally and be done with it. It's insane that this is still any kind of issue at all.

Agent.X7 wrote on Nov 19, 2018, 20:53:

NKD wrote on Nov 19, 2018, 20:44:
Fallout 76 is hot garbage so I understand people wanting a refund, but jeez.

How so? I am loving it so far. It's cool to bash it right now, but give reasons instead of jumping on the buzz train.

Flatline wrote on Nov 14, 2018, 17:02:

Prez wrote on Nov 14, 2018, 09:30:
I fall into the weird dichotomy of simultaneously being one of the "Fuck Bethesda" crowd and a Bethesda fanboy. I love how they make games like Skyrim and Fallout 4. But fuck them for not fixing ANY of the long-running, extremely well-known bugs (many game-breaking) for years but having no problem re-releasing the game multiple times for extra profit. But then again, hardly anyone is making games like that anymore so I still love them.

That's changing with Fallout 76. A series of terrible design decisions with very few upsides - I only feel disappointment. Damn Bethesda - sometimes I hate myself for loving you.

Funny, I found Fallout 4 to be the game that killed Fallout for me. I have zero interest in the series at this point, and until they do something impressive with 5 I suspect I'm done with it.

WitcherOntheProwl wrote on Nov 7, 2018, 20:35:
I really like the Mass Effect series. Now Andromeda had it's problems, though I did like the story. I did not like that EA dropped support for the game, because of harsh complaints that were over a known racist working on the game. Other than that the game was fun. Looking forward to another game in the series. This time I hope support isn't dropped because of complaints. The reason EA really dropped support for Andromeda was as a warning. Complain and we won't support the game anymore. Or so that's my take on it. Like a parent to a child that cries at the mall. Stop crying or we go home right now.

Kxmode wrote on Nov 2, 2018, 16:48:
While watching the Diablo panel about their announced product Diablo Immortal, an audience member asked if the game would release on PC. The audience response to "This is only available on IOS and Android" was audible boos. Next question from another audience member was if the game's higher difficulty tiers will be available. The devs replies "This will be a true Diablo experience." That's where he's wrong. A Diablo experience released for mobile devices only isn't a true Diablo experience. The vast majority of Blizzard's customers are PC. Whoever decided to put their next flagship Diablo product on mobile devices is an idiot. I'm repeating the question of who is this game for in my mind. Mobile gamers are general casual. They don't sit down and play serious mobile games for hours (maybe they do I don't know). They play Candy Crush and similar titles in-between destinations. If Blizzard hopes to attract their PC customers, apparently they have not heard the motto "PC Master Race." At the very least, some of us are willing to play games on a PS4 or an Xbox One (have a PS4 PRO and highly recommend it if you have a 4K display). A mobile game? NOPE!

Anyhow, burning time waiting for the Classic WOW demo to arrive!

Slick wrote on Nov 2, 2018, 09:55:
Wake me when they re-release the real Warcraft classic, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans.

Avus wrote on Oct 30, 2018, 19:06:

eRe4s3r wrote on Oct 30, 2018, 09:57:
And this is why you don't buy gen1 cards

I thought this is only apply to cars... Even cars made by Toyota/Honda...

Wowbagger_TIP wrote on Oct 28, 2018, 01:23:

Scheherazade wrote on Oct 27, 2018, 19:15:

Cutter wrote on Oct 27, 2018, 14:30:
Yeah, I'm sure your investors see it exactly the same way. They so need to get rid of Musk.

Seems weird, with the 1st amendment and all, that it can be a crime to tell people your [perfectly legal] plans.

-scheherazade

Lots of speech can be illegal under certain circumstances. When you commit fraud, it's often done via speech. Same with incitement. Same with forms of assault. Same with perjury. The 1st amendment has never been an absolute right to say whatever you want regardless of the circumstances.

Cutter wrote on Oct 27, 2018, 14:30:
Yeah, I'm sure your investors see it exactly the same way. They so need to get rid of Musk.

Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 26, 2018, 12:48:
This 5G stuff is going to really blow up at some point. The infrastructure required to make it work is going to annoy more and more municipalities as they run up against barriers to having any control over their installation.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Oct 25, 2018, 13:13:

Scheherazade wrote on Oct 25, 2018, 10:30:
Trump never called nazis fine people.

His quote was : "You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides"


Which is an accurate statement.

Incorrect. If you're standing on the side of neo-Nazis, Nazis, racists, and other fuckwits, you are not "fine". You are not even fucking close to "fine". You* are an irredeemable shithead who should die in a fucking fire for the betterment of humanity.

There is no middle ground here. There is no nuanced position. The minute you do not vociferously denounce a group of people so repugnant that they acutely work to undermine the civil, legal, and inalienable rights of all people, you become just as much a raging cunt as they are.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Oct 25, 2018, 13:13:

Scheherazade wrote on Oct 25, 2018, 10:30:
Myself, for example, I disagree with sanitizing history.

So do I. I vehemently disagree with sanitizing history. However, not celebrating actually terrible people is not the same thing as sanitizing them out of history. Do not conflate the two. Was Robert E. Lee a pretty good general who did his best with the meager forces the Confederacy had at their disposal? Yes. However, that does not eliminate his morally repugnant support of the Confederacy. My family fought on both sides of the most morally divisive wars in modern history: the American Civil War and World War II. Those who fought for the Confederacy and the Nazis were not lauded, are not lauded, and will never be lauded. They were inherently wrong. End of fucking story. They haven't been been removed from family history nor will they ever be but there is not a single living member of either side of my family that finds them to be people to hoist up on a metaphorical column as being paragons of the family's values.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Oct 25, 2018, 13:13:

Scheherazade wrote on Oct 25, 2018, 10:30:
Same thing with the 'grab em by the pussy' quote.

The recorded conversation was :

Trump : "I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything."
Bush : "Whatever you want."
Trump : "Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything."

I bolded the relevant portion of that quote. That is sexual assault, period. There is zero fucking ambiguity there. Being mealy mouthed and whining about "he wasn't fairly quoted" is fucking horseshit. The motherfucker openly and freely admitted he commits sexual assault whenever he fucking feels like it.

It's sexual assault, dude. How the fuck can you be any less clear on what that maggot said?!

Burrito of Peace wrote on Oct 25, 2018, 13:13:

As for the rest of your opinions, I simply don't care. You're on the wrong side of history and by failing to take a clear and unambiguous stance on one of the worst presidents this country has ever had (Cause, you know, Cleveland), you're also on the wrong side of morality.

Edit note: *"You" is a general "you" and not a specifically addressed "you".

Beamer wrote on Oct 23, 2018, 18:33:

RedEye9 wrote on Oct 23, 2018, 16:58:

deqer wrote on Oct 23, 2018, 10:33:
Well duh, He's 16. His mechanical skill is better.

You know that, I know that, everyone knows that.
But there are some 50yo's here that think they could compete at this level if they only practiced because they won a round of counter strike last weekend playing against some randos on the intarweb. smh

And that's Eli Manning's issue - he just isn't practicing enough to compete. It's not that he's older and slower and less willing to take a hit, age has nothing to do with it, he's just not practicing enough!

Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 23, 2018, 12:09:

RedEye9 wrote on Oct 23, 2018, 12:02:
Nor will we ever.

Ever? Don't know about that. We really aren't too far from being able to send people there. Yes, there are problems to solve, but none of them are thought to have solutions which are centuries away. But then again, I'll concede our chances of self destruction might get in the way...

Creston wrote on Oct 22, 2018, 15:00:

Prez wrote on Oct 22, 2018, 13:01:
As an aside to the nuclear test story, I remember as a kid hearing how much shit Reagan took for his 'Star Wars' missile defense program. Years later I came to learn that this test proved it was not only possible, but very doable. By then the political climate had shifted too much to make it a politically viable venture. Who knows, completing it may have actually heightened cold war tensions, so maybe it was for the best that it wasn't ever completed.

Star Wars would have been substantially more scary if it had been super viable. MAD only works when it is ASSURED. If the US had a missile shield that could shoot down enough of the USSR missiles that the destruction was no longer mutually assured, then what was there to stop the US from wiping the Soviet Union off the face of the map?

For that matter, if it had been that much of a certainty, the USSR would have most likely launched a strike before it ever went online.

It always makes me wonder, when they announce that there was another anti-missile test and it went wrong or it only worked "to an extent" whether that's the actual real result, or whether they're just sandbagging and giving the rest of the world misinformation, and in reality the system works great?

They keep saying it's like trying to hit a bullet with another bullet—as long as the intercepting bullet has guidance, why would a computer not be able to hit it?