It’s been a while so I’m not sure I remember but probably balanced with dlss on. That game doesn’t expose much for dlss specific settings in the ui.

It was the circular oasis level of talos principle 2 on a WQUXGA display. I didn’t capture screenshots. https://eip.gg/guides/the-talos-principle-2-south-3-star-statue-puzzles/ If you look at images 9 and 14, the little prism that the red beam connects to was completely erased by dlss. I had to just scan around until the icon for establishing a connection popped up.

Dlss completely hid a small thing I needed to find in a puzzle game. There are game design drawbacks to having the gpu overwrite a bunch of the graphics. A spiffed up image that looks like the game you are playing isn’t necessarily preserving details you need.

Outer Wilds says “hold my beer.”

I also got white text even after turning dark mode off and refreshing the page. I had to “select all” to read it.

Dota 2. I barely enjoy it, but it’s hard to find games that a friend group will agree to consistently play.

Well my goal is more of a “get out” than “get ahead.” But maybe that attitude is why I’m not more of a winner.

Dang, guess I should have invested mine like you instead of putting it toward student loans.

The old mechanics are present, but there’s a lot of new mechanics. There’s also actual character dialog and story. If you liked the first at all, I think you’ll like the second. It adds a lot more than just pretty graphics.

Easily one of the top 5 games I’ve played in the last few years. If you like puzzle games, this is worth checking out.

He was planning to retire 6 months ago, but the market hasn’t been doing great and his brother in law had to borrow some money to deal with gambling debts.

Why not? The ps5 is good at pretending to do 4k, but is very much on the anemic side of graphics power for 4k gaming. Why wouldn’t people want a performance bump if it’s available and they can afford to upgrade?

Are you asking about the proposed merger between ARM and Nvidia? I believe that deal has been shut down by regulators.

Its amazing that Tom’s hardware manages to avoid mentioning AMD at all when talking about both discrete and integrated graphics. Intel is behind AMD in all graphics categories.

It’s like rgb all over again.

At least rgb didn’t make a giant stock market bubble…

In addition to autopilot, make frequent and habitual use of the match speed button. It makes manual maneuvers and landings so much easier.

Fine, I’ll bite.

But it’s not a console, it’s a PC.

Yes, it’s a PC with the form factor advantages of a console, making it suitable for placement in an entertainment center. So I expect people to use them similarly to a console, with wireless controllers/keyboard&mouse while displaying on their TV, rather than at a desk with a monitor. Perhaps I should have use the Home Theater PC nomenclature instead. Although, HTPC doesn’t necessarily include gaming capability.

Why not use a laptop at your desk and move your gaming PC into the living room?

Physical size is a big deal for some people. Having a tower present isn’t always agreeable with other household members.

Or use a streaming service like Steam Link?

I do. However, that requires you already having a fully built out gaming rig, not to mention it comes with severe limitations on latency and max resolution/refresh rate. If someone doesn’t already have a gaming PC, then these have all the appeal of a pre-built while being as small as a console. Plus,a lot of people don’t have ethernet run everywhere and streaming over wifi is not a good experience.

Build an ITX. That’s what I did. And I chose a really nice case from the plethora of available options that fits into my living room nicely.

An ITX case is still too big to fit in my entertainment center whereas the nuc would not have that problem. I can only assume the same is true for some other people as well. It’s a little odd that someone who went through extra trouble to go for an ITX form factor wouldn’t understand why an even more compact solution has value.

…where did you get that idea?

Because you are arguing from a foregone conclusion that someone who wants one is wrong. You aren’t trying to understand, you are trying to win the argument. Your responses read a lot like a troll. If that’s not your intention, then I suggest you look at your first response from the perspective of an outside observer and see if it comes off as hostile.

It sounds like you may have purchased one of these things and are personally offended that someone would question that decision.

I have a full tower at my desk, and use a steam link/ps5 for the TV. I don’t have to use one to appreciate why others would find the option appealing.

I did pick a NUC for an HMI once. I don’t think that made me particularly biased though.

It seems like it’s not a matter of not understanding, you just hate the concept.

The NUC form factor is not something I’ve gone for myself, but it’s not that hard to imagine how it could be appealing to some. What I don’t understand is why you would take that preference so personally.

Think of them as a PC console replacement. You can have highish end gaming on the couch and living room tv instead of at the desk you might work from home at all day. The size of a full tower can be a real sticking point for integration into living room setups.

You should try the talos principle 2. They’re not apples to apples, but I’d guess that most who loved outer wilds would like it. The first talos principle is also good, but far less refined than the second.

The outerwilds dlc does add a fair bit of content. Although, I really don’t like jump scares so the dlc was not my favorite.

Why would you make more e-waste if you were still happy with your deck yesterday? This is a relatively minor refresh.

I too remember getting chewed out for randoming in an unranked match.

Now my friends exclusively play in private lobbies with bots.

The 7 series are more efficient than the 5 series. They just are programmed to go as fast as thermals allow. So the reviewers that had really powerful coolers on the cpus saw really high power draw. If instead you set a power cap, you get higher performance per watt than the previous generations.

Having the clocks scale to a thermal limit is a nice feature to have, but I don’t think it should have been the default mode.

Isn’t rebco tape already a decent candidate for that, and much further along in development pipelines?