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crimsonheadGCN

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ooooh, I did not know there was a re-release of Avatar. I love this movie, I watched it for like 4th time last year and it beautifully stands the test of time. Did they change anything in this release? Because I can't find any info on google.
The film has been remastered in high frame rate, HDR, and 4k resolution. It also includes 1 out of 3 random scenes from the next Avatar after the credits played.
 
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Sad to see increased power draw becoming the norm instead of decreased power draw. What hellscape are we in where node advancements are more harm than good? 😭

GPU draws need to be halved at least. And CPU's should go back to 70-90w ceilings. Is that too much to ask?

I'd be totally down for a gen of CPU/GPU that doesn't push the computing power much but instead refocuses on trying to obtain current best at half the power draw. Seems like lately the manufactures have lost the word "Efficiency."
I know I get called Apple fanboy haha, but the new M series of chips do both! Both power and less power drain. So it is possible. I think a problem with the GPU makers is that they don't have to care about a system in a holistic sense and only do what's easiest and benefits them.
 

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I know I get called Apple fanboy haha, but the new M series of chips do both! Both power and less power drain. So it is possible. I think a problem with the GPU makers is that they don't have to care about a system in a holistic sense and only do what's easiest and benefits them.
I can say a lot of bad things about apple, but the transition to ARM was a bold move and ultimately I'm glad they did it. I don't know what needs to happen for the rest of the industry to switch, but I'm looking forward to that day.
 

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Dusk finished.

Observations
  • There is a person on the dev team named Ro Kohli. The youth they must have gone through !
  • After Control and Dusk, I think I discovered a new illness, where you design a boss fight so that you must always look up and at the same time throws a bunch of holes on the ground for the lulz. I think I will call that designer brain rot.
  • Not a fan of the story, globally speaking. Not a fan of not having to reload (my muscle memory... Pretty cool with no recoil.

Now for the take.
I didn't feel any desire to experience the game world, hence those years of lateness on this playthrough. And while the game has its share of flaws, like pretty much every bosses, it was a superb experience. A good old shoot people in the face, time.

Conclusion
I suppose I need to play Amid Evil now.

Please, sweet baby santa, can someone do the same for the kind of fps Raven made ? :blobclosecry:
 
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I stop playing Tales of Arise because it got bit tiring, i finally decided to go back to Tales and i was doing great, enjoying it again aaaaand game slaps me again with high level area, like enemies 10 levels above me. Come on developers stop doing this. And i actually finished most of the side quests i got in the game. Now i am again thinking about putting game on ice for a bit, and it is sad because i am basically at the end.
I did warn you :relieved-face:
 
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yeah he's a big fan, keeps mentioning it on his twitter

Funnily he seems to have discovered it when searching for the movie licorice pizza
Is it a good show ? Wasn't it the recent one that was on shaky ground because girls are hitwomen and it began to air just before the assassination of Abe ?
 
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Is it a good show ? Wasn't it the recent one that was on shaky ground because girls are hitwomen and it began to air just before the assassination of Abe ?
It's a fun show. The leads have great character dynamics, but if you're looking for a true yuri show, this isn't it.

Also, the show wasn't on shaky grounds of any kind, since it's super popular in Japan.
 

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Is it a good show ? Wasn't it the recent one that was on shaky ground because girls are hitwomen and it began to air just before the assassination of Abe ?
I'm not done with it yet, so I dunno if it sticks the landing but based on the 9 episodes I've seen so far I would very much recommend it. It's very good.
 
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It's a fun show. The leads have great character dynamics, but if you're looking for a true yuri show, this isn't it.

Also, the show wasn't on shaky grounds of any kind, since it's super popular in Japan.
Yeah I oversimplified. What I meant is simply that when the assassination happened some posters were not certain the show would continue, not suffer some setback, etc. It was just internet conjecture and not official troubles. I, yeah, OVERsimplified a bit too far :poutblob:
 
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Checking ComputerBase, they did a few tests with power consumption limits (cooler Noctua NH-D15S):

7950X Default - 95.3ºC / 100% performance
142W limit - 73.9ºC / 95% performance
88W limit - 65.2ºC / 82% performance
65W limit - 60.1ºC / 69% performance
45W limit - 53.5ºC / 45% performance

If the power consumption limit can be set manually, if I were to get this CPU I probably would go for something between the 88 and 142W limits.
(Not that I'm getting this one, if the 12 core cpu, the 7900X gets a version with more cache in the future, a 7900X3D version, I'm thinking on getting that if its power consumption can be limited like as well).
One more thing about the Ryzen 7000 series power consumption when compared to 5000 series, basically the 5950X used the 142W limit by default (PPT, Package Power Tracking, though it didn't need that much and would usually stop at around 120~130-ish at most?), while for the 7950X AMD opted to choose a much higher 230W as the default limit instead.

Lowering that 7950X limit to the same as the 5950X results in much lower power consumption, more normal temperatures, and just a minor loss in performance.
 
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Is it a good show ? Wasn't it the recent one that was on shaky ground because girls are hitwomen and it began to air just before the assassination of Abe ?
I’m not aware of any controversy regards Abe etc for it

it is pretty enjoyable, the two leads are great and the action is great but I’ve found the plot rather weak
All that being said it’s I believe the highest scoring original anime of the season on MAL so it’s definitely getting praised
 
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Something's been nagging at me and sometimes it even breaks my motivation to play anything.

My birthday was on the 17th. There's this couple who are my best friends, they literally mean the world to me. A few days before my birthday I called them (the husband to be more precise) and asked if they were free on Saturday night. He said that they were trying to get tickets to a festival so they probably wouldn't be.
I explained that I wasn't going to throw a party on my birthday because my son's birthday is on the 28th and I can't afford doing both, so I wanted to invite just the 2 of them for dinner.
He said that he'd get back to me.
A couple of days later, at 10:30pm the day before my birthday he replied saying that they couldn't make it. I was already expecting it so I thought whatever.
So the day of my birthday goes by and not a peep from them. On the night of the following day they call saying that they forgot. Obviously I wasn't happy.
On that same night we met up at the festival and when I arrived I didn't mention it but wasn't looking too happy.
This was just on arrival though, the rest of the night went by normally.
The next day they said to my wife that my attitude was childish and that I never mentioned it was my birthday when I called, which imo is quite something.
On her last birthday me and my wife gave her the most expensive present we ever gave to anyone even though we were struggling financially, because they were divorcing at the time and we wanted to cheer her up.
So yeah, sorry for the rant. I'm sitting her waiting for my son's training to be over and this is weighing on my mind.
 

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Something's been nagging at me and sometimes it even breaks my motivation to play anything.

My birthday was on the 17th. There's this couple who are my best friends, they literally mean the world to me. A few days before my birthday I called them (the husband to be more precise) and asked if they were free on Saturday night. He said that they were trying to get tickets to a festival so they probably wouldn't be.
I explained that I wasn't going to throw a party on my birthday because my son's birthday is on the 28th and I can't afford doing both, so I wanted to invite just the 2 of them for dinner.
He said that he'd get back to me.
A couple of days later, at 10:30pm the day before my birthday he replied saying that they couldn't make it. I was already expecting it so I thought whatever.
So the day of my birthday goes by and not a peep from them. On the night of the following day they call saying that they forgot. Obviously I wasn't happy.
On that same night we met up at the festival and when I arrived I didn't mention it but wasn't looking too happy.
This was just on arrival though, the rest of the night went by normally.
The next day they said to my wife that my attitude was childish and that I never mentioned it was my birthday when I called, which imo is quite something.
On her last birthday me and my wife gave her the most expensive present we ever gave to anyone even though we were struggling financially, because they were divorcing at the time and we wanted to cheer her up.
So yeah, sorry for the rant. I'm sitting her waiting for my son's training to be over and this is weighing on my mind.
Happy belated birthday, and also happy birthday to your son for the 28th.

Screw those two for not valuing you!
 

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It's looking pretty good but there's too little to see, it's all up to level/objective/encounter design, AI, gunplay, stealth skills and opportunities, as well as a decent enough cinematic presentation I guess, though I could skip it or be content with little in the way of a story beyond mission briefings and what not.

It could be the FPSplinter Cell we need (with a dose of GoldenEye for those less stealth inclined). Edit: sequel to these if some of you don't know, oldie PC FPS.

The original's demo is what most people know this by probably. It wasn't the highest budget most polished game but back then it seemed like some MGSV: Ground Zeroes shit. Or I guess GoldenEye 007 style in much larger scale and open maps, what with all the objectives, cameras and what not in the levels.
 
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Unexplored 2 already in a 5 dollar bundle: Killer Bundle 24 | Steam Game Bundle | Fanatical
Absolutely insane.

Hard to believe the original Unexplored was my GOTY '17 and then the dev went EGGsclusive with the sequel and it completely fell off my radar.


Guess I'll check it out for $5.

I guess.
 

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Lol Even AA games get ignored sometimes by the press or just whatever.

I mean take a look at this thread there's like 20+ games in the past 2 pages? of games and that is just steam so there's tons of other places where stuff is getting churned out everywhere, like mobile and other stuff.
We've got some great people on top of releases and even then Im like "what the fuck how is there so much shit coming out"

I just throw it on my wishlist and forget about it until it either A- Comes out or B- Goes on Sale or C- LOOKS AMAZING, so I look into it further


Also people seemed excited about Gloomwood doing the whole "LOL THIEF WITRH GUNS"

I loved the original thief series and this snuck i n under the radar:


It's a pretty cool mod thing standalone "Sequel" for thief!
 

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Lol Even AA games get ignored sometimes by the press or just whatever.

I mean take a look at this thread there's like 20+ games in the past 2 pages? of games and that is just steam so there's tons of other places where stuff is getting churned out everywhere, like mobile and other stuff.
We've got some great people on top of releases and even then Im like "what the fuck how is there so much shit coming out"
and then you listen to them gamesjournalist podcasts and them collectively whining about poor E3 with little games and being super sad about the precious AAAs being constantly delayed ever since covid
 
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Oh wait, Prodeus 1.0 is on gamepass ? More choices.
I played it on XGP, then immediately turned around and bought it on Steam.

That game is fire, its exactly what I wanted Doom Eternal to be - a run and gun sequel to Doom 2016. They made smart choices with their visual presentation, like how you would imagine OG pixel Doom would look like if it was enhanced.
I hope the Steam Deck (and Steam) continue to find success in JP. Given SIE deprioritizing Japan as of late + their stock issues, the market is wide open for somebody else to take over the "high definition" games segment, and Steam has a portable offering to use as bait.
 
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Does any one know where I can "get" Photoshop from? Things have changed since CC from what I recall.
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Gaming press 3+ years ago: "Valve is destroying indies with 30% cut!!!"

Gaming press forever:

I saw a thing from Kotaku.



And even then isn't that a "best case scenario"?


Isn't it in an indie best interest to look at who your game will appeal to?

The gaming press works similar to regular press. They will just share the same news store that everyone else is sharing without doing work themselves.


The main articles that are interested tend to either be interviews or just reviews of games. How ever most of the time the games that get reviewed are more well known titles.


You are not going to have Kotaku review your indie game



Funny enough I did this one thing a few years back with Touhou Luna Nights. I looked up all the major news sites to see if they were covering and stuff like that and I think only Gematsu covered it.


I can't remember all the details since it's been a while. Anyway that game went on to sell over 100k on Steam during early access without the need of western gaming press.

The game was mentioned on a number of Japanese gaming sites even though it was only announced for PC at the time.


It's a whole thing. But yeah that 30% sure does come in handy.


I like games and stuff and I don't know all the marketing stuff of games (I could release a game tomorrow and it would fail) but I do wonder if some of these indie devs are just not really use to the idea of PC gaming.


If you are an indie dev and grew up on PlayStation and would love to get a physical copy of your game released, then I have bad news for you. I can happen but it likely won't be your first game that gets that treatment.


Remember the press is not your friend, platform holders are not your friend, Valve/Steam are not your friend either, but at least they provide you with tools so that you have a better fighting chance. So you might as well try to learn and get the best out of those tools.
 
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It's looking pretty good but there's too little to see, it's all up to level/objective/encounter design, AI, gunplay, stealth skills and opportunities, as well as a decent enough cinematic presentation I guess, though I could skip it or be content with little in the way of a story beyond mission briefings and what not.
So you're saying it needs to be a good, well rounded game then?
Since the first two weren't, it's an even bigger task.
 
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