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Godnorgosh posted...

You can't make a gaming laptop look like this

https://imgur.com/dI5YCl9

Just look at this thing

That's like 80% the performance of a maxed out gaming desktop... In that laptop

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KamenRiderBlade posted...

Honestly, I think it's more your age, you're not a teenager anymore where your eyes observational capability are at their peek.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX31kZbAXsA

There are benefits, but it depends on your hand eye coordination and your age to some degree.

Teenagers are idiots though, so it evens out

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MarvAlbert posted...

It's not the party I recognize anymore. There is no room for the bigotry and racism that seem to get pinned on us, and it makes me ashamed.

Plus this new anti-science, Antivax thing is just unacceptable.

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KamenRiderBlade posted...

Give it a decade or two.

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/304215-nvidia-and-asus-unveil-first-360hz-g-sync-gaming-monitor

360 Hz is the highest VRR capable monitor so far.

We'll get to 1,000 Hz or 1 kHz VRR panels eventually.

I'll be honest, I literally cannot see a difference between 144 Hertz and 240 hertz. There's no reason to have higher than that, other than to say you can.


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MarvAlbert posted...

Man, it feels good to know there are other "Republicans" out there like me.

I just don't know how anyone can support that party anymore. after doing a lot of research, the best I can figure is that apparently I'm a neoliberal. That would make certain parts of the Democrat party my closest political affiliation.


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Honestly, I have one goal in life. To run Half-Life 2 at 999 frames per second.

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KamenRiderBlade posted...

It's a safe bet if all you care about 1080p

Considering a comes with a 240 hz screen, I would wager it's better to use the laptop screen than a TV, unless you want a higher resolution

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I'm going to assume that the 2080 Max Q is probably going to be more than enough to Max everything out at least at 1080p for several years

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I dunno why, but MGS3 was the only one that I really liked, and I played all of them

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DarthAragorn posted...

yes and no

I feel like once you start charging money for something it ceases to be a fan project, and they did that years ago

I don't know, at $15 it's hard to argue that it's not a really good deal

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Hexenherz posted...

I can't believe they stuck with it to actually put the game out. Also can't believe it took so long. Now if only someone would make a They Hunger 2.

It kind of reminds me of No Man's Sky in that everyone had long since given up on it, but somehow the developer just kept going and going and going and eventually made a good game

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I've been following it since the mid 2000s and I expected it to be a train wreck, but it's actually really good

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People often forget that ALL PS3 models are PSOne backwards compatible, not just the near-launch PS2-compatible ones.

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It really is. A GPU that can quite literally max out every game available at 1080p above 60fps (hell, Gears 5 averages 80fps with Ultra textures and every setting on Ultra), and a lot of games right up to 4K in a 4lb aluminum unibody laptop.

It's legitimately crazy compared to how gaming laptops used to be.

That said, "Max Q" is more misleading than even other Mobile GPU configurations. Max-Q is a downclocked mobile GPU, which means theoretically it could be two steps below the desktop equivalent. But Razer supposedly clocks their Max-Q GPUs near the standard mobile variants, so that's nice.


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RTX 2080 Max-Q is apparently somewhere between a desktop 2060 and 2070, which is disappointing and misleading from a naming standpoint. That said, it's legitimately amazing considering it fits in laptops that would've been considered nearly Ultrabooks a decade ago.

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a-c-a-b posted...

Wicked game. Probably my favourite of 2019. I did my first play though doing what I felt was the morally right decisions.

Next time I play it I'm gonna be an evil bastard.

The thing is, I'm not so sure the morally right choices are necessarily that much more "right"

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hockeybub89 posted...

It's not the best choice, it's Spacer's Choice.

Really describes the game

Weird but true

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KamenRiderBlade posted...

The problem with Razer Hardware is that they have a tendency to last just long enough to crap out right after the warranty expires.

I'm sure you've seen the stories about Razer ___ dying literally a month after the warranty goes away.

It's up to you if you want to deal with that when you're willing to spend so much money on a Gaming Thin & Light.

If you wait a few months, a lot of the AMD Thin & Lights got announced at CES.

There should be new Thin & Light gaming laptops using AMD's latest mobile parts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5-k5l8aaKY

Watch a Real Taiwanese Woman lead AMD, who now holds the CPU Halo Performance Crown now, introduce brand new mobile parts that are ready to kick Intel in the Crotch repeatedly that there will be only a mud hole left.

e.g. ASUS Zephyrus G14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCbLS4677D8

I used to be big on ATI but let's be honest, they're really behind lately

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Seriously, I haven't played a game that nailed this sort of "no clear good or evil choices" since Fallout II.

The Spacer's Choice thing, and now the Diet Toothpaste thing.

I normally play ostensibly as an all-good Paladin, but I'm surprised how often I've gone with the pragmatic "maintain the shitty status quo for the greater good" option.

As an example, Cassandra in the Diet Toothpaste quest. I killed her instead of letting her go. She clearly showed zero remorse for the people she killed. This is something I never do in other morality-based RPGs




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Johnny_Nutcase posted...

I agree with this except for the life of a laptop. Unless you're just talking about gaming laptops then I dunno because I have a gaming desktop.

From what I understand, technology specific to gaming laptops has come a long way in the past couple of years. GPUs generate less heat relative to performance, and the laptops themselves while not price-competitive to gaming desktops, are actually relatively competitive with non-gaming laptops with similar computing specs.


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Bloodmoon77 posted...

This topic got derailed fast.
But seriously if you want a gaming laptop dont shell out 2500 for it, that's just dumb. Build a beast desktop with that and get like a 600 dollar laptop instead. You'll see no differences. Laptops die within 5 years anyway

We're almost never home. That's the rub with medicine. She's a PA and has a really crazy schedule and a lot of times she stays in an on call room.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Clinton (both of them), Obama, Biden, etc is the right wing party of the rest of the Democratic world.

AOC is basically spot on with her "America doesn't have a left wing party"

The Democrats are like a clusterfuck of 4 different parties United only in their goal that the GOP needs to be stopped and argue about everything else otherwise.

GOP being so clearly anti science and pro-supremacist is just too much

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There's just too much misinformation and indoctrination among right-wing media (particularly talk radio and Fox News). It's disgusting. I only wish I had accepted this reality sooner.

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Also, after dealing with too much bigotry and all the utter BS Trump and the GOP have been up to, I de-registered Republican and registered independent. I almost registered Democrat, and might still do it, even though it'll be a while before my qualms with them are overcome.

But I cannot in good conscience support a homophobic party that is so inundated with disdain for minorities, and especially now that they're getting friendly with the anti-vaxxer crowd. They're wrong on almost every issue I care about except a handful of economic issues, and that's just not enough.

I didn't leave the party - they left me. Honestly, as much as it pains me to say it, I've probably been a Clinton Democrat all along, even though I disdain Hillary.


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In any case, back on topic

240 Hz sure seems like overkill, but it's actually the same price for the 9th Gen i7 and 2080 Max-Q w/ 240 Hz that the 8th Gen i7, 2070 Max-Q and 144 Hz currently goes for.


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We got married in December. A very small wedding because lesbian weddings in Oklahoma are still a bit taboo.

I still legitimately cannot believe that I went from closet bisexual to married to another girl in just a few years. I never even had a serious relationship with another girl until her.

Although her being from Ethiopia turned out to be the more interesting thing, because their customs regarding weddings and whatnot are so different from Europeans. It was a lot of fun, we had Ethiopian clothing and whatnot.

We're going to have a European-style wedding in a few months, again on the cheap. Being that I literally never wear dresses and am a tomboy, getting a wedding dress has been super awkward.

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I know Razers are overpriced, but she's very much into style and substance and she's into thin and lights.

In any case...

Razer Blade 15
Core i7 9th Gen w/ 240 Hz 1080p display
RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB
16 GB RAM
512 GB SSD

Normally it's $2,999 but it's $500 off for $2,499
I would've paid the extra $200 for the OLED model ($3,299) but it never seems to go on sale, so the same computer for either $2,499 or $3,299... it's hard to justify the OLED one.


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vigorm0rtis posted...

Makes a great first impression. Doesn't hold up.

That's a shame :(

At least it's free on Game Pass

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I loved Link's Awakening as a kid, but there is just not enough game to justify $60

Also, in retrospect, a lot of the design choices only exist because the game was released on GameBoy, making it one of the weaker 2D Zelda games when extracted from that limiting platform.

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As someone who enjoys gray morality in games like Kotor 2, this game does it better than any I've ever played.


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And yet Xbox One X upscaled OG Xbox games and 360 games in 4k because of work Microsoft did.

Only for select games. Ones with specific 4K patches. It's not like you can stick any Xbox or Xbox 360 game in the X1X and play it in upscaled 4K.

If you actually think they're going to release 4K patches for every game from this generation, you're in for disappointment.

At very best, you SHOULD be able to count on the vast majority of X1 and PS4 games working natively on the next systems. But actually improving underlying visual fidelity will have a dramatic variability in terms of performance hit.

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HerpToTheDerp posted...

thats all you can hope for. as the generations advance they shall stagnate since most laptops arent built to cater towards customization/upgrading in the same sense that a desktop is

That was true in the past, but the reality is that we've reached an era of diminishing returns in visual fidelity.
GPU performance has quadrupled since the PS4 and Xbox One have come out, and the best we have to show for it is half-assed attempts at raytracing.

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Darmik posted...

So what you're saying is that Sony should exceed or match it for PS5?

Because I've never seen any other console company bump up older games resolutions and image quality for free.

Sony already said the PS5 will be compatible with PS4.

And the PS3 and PS2 both up-scaled PSOne games. The PS2 actually had some extra texture filtering options as well.

If the Xbox One X and PS4 Pro have shown us anything, it's that games that are not explicitly optimized for them generally benefit more on the side of frame rates and load times. I suspect you'd have to release individual patches for XO and PS4 games to run at 4K on the next systems, much like how it currently works with X and Pro.


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It's really crazy to me how advanced mobile GPUs have gotten.

At this point, high-end laptop GPUs can play basically anything at max settings well above 60fps at 1080p, and most games relatively well at 4K.

It really makes me wonder if Nintendo may be onto something with this hybrid gaming platform idea. There will eventually come a point where the diminishing returns of dedicated console/PC hardware no longer translate into a tangible advantage over the convenience of portability.

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Darmik posted...

Yes because they included that hardware.

Microsoft invest money into making old games work and also has enhanced many games to modern resolutions quality for free if you own the games. An initiative that will carry over to their future hardware.

No, Microsoft took advantage of the fact that the Xbox 360 (aside from the PowerPC CPU architecture) was vastly more similar to modern PC hardware than the PS3 was.

The PS3's Cell architecture was designed by absolute morons, and emulating it is completely bonkers. The Cell CPU was absolutely awful at some things and mind-numbingly advanced at other things.

Xbox One and PS4 games are going to be easily compatible with the next Xbox and PS5, because both systems used pretty much off-the-shelf PC CPUs and GPUs.

It's nothing to boast about. It's not revolutionary. It's the natural evolution of the shift away from proprietary console architectures.

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Bio1590 posted...

And then...

Microsoft sold an HDMI-less, 20 GB proprietary HDD, no-WiFi, DVD-instead-of-BLU-RAY Xbox 360 that broke in 1-2 years and was declared "consumer friendly" because it was $200 cheaper.

Meanwhile the PS3 you bought at launch still remains one of the best BD players on the market, uses non-proprietary HDDs that can be upgraded easily... and has wifi.


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Darmik posted...

Their backwards compatibility initiative for Xbox One is probably the most pro-consumer a console company has ever been.

The PS3 was literally 100% BC with PS2 and PSOne games at launch

Also, PSP and PS3 digital purchases (PSOne games, primarily) were almost always cross-buy, which was super handy

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Tired-Insomniac posted...

Nope.

Unless you wanna take advantage of Game Pass - the selection on Xbox is much better than PC at the moment.

The selection on PC has been getting better. I got that "Ultimate Upgrade for $1" thing when they first announced it, and upgraded my normal Xbox GP to Ultimate.


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Superlinkbro posted...

Yeah pretty much. What Microsoft is doing is going to be very pro consumer, and they have a shit load of money anyways. I'm pretty sure what they're trying to go for is brand recognition. I'm all for it.

At no point has Microsoft EVER been pro-consumer.
Literally everything they make is proprietary, overpriced, etc.

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I've been with my 2014 MacBook while my wife borrowed my Razer Blade to game on while she's at school. Now that she's back home, I've noticed that somehow in the past year Windows 10 became a LOT more streamlined and less BS-ish. Not really sure how to describe other than to say that they seem to have removed a lot of the BS intrusiveness.

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My laptop has a 2080 Max-Q, which is probably not far off from whatever the next Xbox will have.

The thing is, all MS's titles are multiplatform now, making me wonder why I would even need the next Xbox.


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MarvAlbert posted...

4 was a baller pirate simulator.

It sure was

And weirdly enough the never-quite-right combat and parkour actually fit the pirate setting better than the "Assassin" setting.

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And yet, somewhat ironically, ACIV was my favorite

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