IIRC Asus had some issues with literally frying CPUs (scorch marks in the actual socket) with early AM5

Isnt it like, over a decade too late for mojang to complain about a gun mod in minecraft? That ship has long since sailed

Didnt even know a 4th one was in development.

Grain of salt, as i havent played the mystery dungeon games or Colosseum, but Platinum had a great amount of story, and a decent amount of post-game content that wasn’t just min-maxing to win.

Everything post-B2/W2 is just too hand-holdy to me.

Don’t knock the Ranger games either, they were fun adventures.

They also didnt tone it down at all for the 3ds re-master(?) of it.

Frankly ive seen worse in nintendo games, namely the fairy fountains in ocarina of time.

Fair enough, ill still leave it solely for the “definition of insanity” meme origin

Far Cry 2 and far cry 3.

3 for a legendary compelling villain (Vaas)

2 for genuinely immersive in-game UI design and challenging enemy AI.

Something something “sense of pride and accomplishment”

Same. Hoping to not want or need a new gpu for at least 5 years, only reason i bought is because my 2080 TI was starting to go and i was not paying tariffs on top of already inflated GPU prices

Literally never heard of it before today.

Because RGB ecosystem lock-in makes money by making matching peripherals easier.

Origins > Odyssey IMO. Better story, better pacing.

I played odyssey first too.

I havent even had one with grapheneos for a year yet, what the fuck google…

Id like more missions involving going inside ships, below the deck

IO shields are more or less built into the board these days

Now, case fans on the other hand, are surprisingly sharp

All enemies are now composed entirely of a proprietary material, Ubi-sponge. Absorb three times as many hits as the next best brand!

I had to look it up too.

X & Y, Kalos region

Yeah, post gen-6 is where i stopped. It felt like the games were really dumbed down, and they leaned way too hard into 3d graphics.

I got mine on a Thursday FWIW. The employees didn’t even know they had them in stock, they had to pull it out of a case in the back; had to have been an afternoon truck delivery

Also it is goddamned wonderful as a GPU 😍 ive been replaying Far Cry 6 with maxed out… everything. At 4k, and I’ve got roughly 100 FPS stable. Its absolutely gorgeous

I had luck with Microcenter last week (if you have one near you); checked their website at my preferred location and they had 9070 XTs in stock, went after work and I got one.

Tbh chromebooks are amazing as a concept for people like this. Barring proprietary junk like adobe, if they need more than that, they should be able to develop the skills to do basic things in linux without too much difficulty. Likely wont even need to touch any command line stuff.

I remember Apex Legends being pretty fun when it came out; did something happen or was it just EA being EA?

Nitronic Rush? I remember reading Distance was a spiritual successor to it, and wikipedia backs up that thougbt

GrapheneOS allows it to not be used as the device unlock, but still use it for other apps once unlocked (such as banking apps).

Device unlock should never be biometric.

I also have data over the usb port disabled unless the device is actively unlocked.

That comic is still alive!?

Not to mention the PC won’t be a brick when they inevitably shut down servers someday

I think the more important thing its missing is EA.

I really didn’t like how railroad-y 5 was. Mechanics and gameplay wise its great, but the forced kidnapping story formula was so bad.

I felt Jacob Seed was more compelling as a villain than Joseph. Survival of the fittest extremism in the wilderness.

People who still need to receive or respond to SMS or MMS, for work or for stupid companies that still use it for 2fa.

(Its him. The ladies like his skills with his hands.)

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2570148

I dont think i even finished the tutorial for Syndicate, it was so bad. No human being is that fucking spongy and taking 20 something punches to the face, and like you said, why is an assassin punching people!?

The pokemon games aren’t the draw they once were. They’re kinda shit these days; graphics, mechanics, storytelling, etc.

That really big bill when they run out of rubber to patch on your car

Definitely my favorite design of the Cheshire Cat.

Thats how i got my 2080 TI back in 2020. Good deal.

Same here, sitting on my 2080 TI. Just got Avowed and its struggling, cant get above 55 FPS at 4K…

Bruh… just checked and AMD 7900 XTX cards got their prices jacked up by almost $500. A Sapphire Nitro+ was like $900 less than 30 days ago

Only reason my new rig has windows is for some specific peripherals that just dont seem to have good solutions for linux (logitech g600 MMO mouse, and an NZXT kraken cpu cooler display). The mouse gets completely jacked up and has all the side buttons rebound to numpad by just using it in my experience. Had to reload the mouse firmware on windows to restore basic functionality.

The user experience was honestly vastly superior on Fedora KDE, and my next GPU will be AMD so i can give it another shot on linux