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  2. Big s
    Can the odd radar thingy fold up out of the way for it? sorry for the questions, it’s just odd that this one is definitely cooler in flight than on ground and odd that they left out pilots
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  4. sh9000
    Number One.
  5. davidwhangchoi
  6. rsvictor1976
    Yes, not by much though.
  7. Seto Kaiba
    All right, episode 3 is out... Not an inspiring start. This is one of the more erect dick moves on the writer's part. Once again, the actual action is all offscreen... and not in the horror movie gory discretion shot kind of way. As in, "there was a fight, but it's happening offscreen so we don't have to choreograph or shoot it". Little bit of meta commentary there... underground truly is a dumbass place to put a spaceship. Well, I think we now know for sure how this incident stays contained. "Welcome, to Jurassic Holocene Park" Well, this definitely doesn't seem like a bright idea. In the final analysis, "Metamorphosis" is a pretty weak episode with some serious writing problems. Its main flaw is that it clearly wants to commit to the horror bit but doesn't seem to know how. They try to build some tension by keeping the Xenomorph offscreen for a while and show some evidence that It Can Think, but they can't bring themselves to stick to it so it has to poke its head into the frame and ask the cameraman to get its good side before it'll do anything. It wants to go the route of the scientists experimenting getting in over their heads, except that it's already shot itself in the foot by revealing the scientists know what they're getting into from the start and are just too dumb to live. They're trying to build anticipation for a human villain, but the delivery is so ham-handed that feels like accidental self-parody. Every twist and plot point is telegraphed so aggressively that there's no potential to build suspense. A lesser problem is that it also wants to do action, but it seems to be afraid to actually show action. I wonder if it's because the Xenomorph is a purely CG construct. They cheat and have the climax of the confrontation happen offscreen and only let us see the aftermath.
  8. claude grant
    thanks for correcting me. my apologies Froy.
  9. ImChris5115
  10. RavenHawk started following Bandai Gobots/Machine Robo Series Toy Thread
  11. Dynaman
    My kids played it over and over again. My PC was on the other side of the basement and I remember hearing some old western tunes OVER and OVER again. Also something about a creature on the bunny slope...
  12. Papa Rat
    It does.
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  14. Seto Kaiba
    Another random question for anyone who might have flirted with this tech... Has anyone out there tried, or had any success with, using a wireless HDMI adapter to plumb a TV into your PC for conference room-type stuff, streaming, or gaming?
  15. Seto Kaiba
    To be fair, the distinction between a PC and a game console has been shrinking for a long long time now. I remember when the PS3 dropped and half my friends were excited not for the games but because they heard you could load Linux on it and use it as an ad hoc PC. 😆 (We're engineers, it's just how we're wired.) Proprietary dev kits and licensing hassles aside, developing for a console at least offers some stability in terms of the limitations of hardware and hardware variations so I can definitely see the appeal. Especially after years of working with embedded control systems that wish they had even a fraction of a current gen console's oomph. From what I've heard, it sounds like there's a shakeup in the games industry itself that's driven some developers into corners. Mainly the AAA envelope-pushing and live service model isn't paying off like it used to, though since I haven't had a ton of time for gaming I've mainly heard it secondhand in the form of grousing games journalists. Maybe a bit... it really depends on your needs. As I understand it, a lot of the FPS "esports" types favor 240Hz monitors in the 24-27" size range because it's easier to see the whole screen without needing to turn your head. I know a lot of folks who still run monitors in that size, though either because of space constraints on the desk or because they're running a multi-monitor setup. (I'm running three 27" 1440p ROG Swifts in my home setup, for instance, with the outer two on gas shocks so I can spin 'em around as needed.)
  16. Big s
    Careful, you’ll shoot your eye out
  17. Big s
    Early Christmas present, Yay!!!
  18. Big s
    Weird that it doesn’t have pilot figures. Does it even have a landing gear down set of parts?
  19. TangledThorns
    Oh then you should be fine for most if not all mATX cases then. If you like adding more capacity there is mATX mobos like my MSI MAG Mortar Wifi 850M mobo that has three NVME m.2 slots.
  20. TangledThorns
    Walter Goggins is my new favorite actor.
  21. Hikaru Ichijo SL
    just 1 8tb.
  22. TangledThorns
    A single or multiple HDDs? mATX cases can hold one or more HDDs
  23. azrael
    At relative distances. The average viewing distance of desk workers is ~2 feet from the screen.
  24. isamu started following Macross 7 Discussion
  25. isamu
    I came here to post this news, but I see you guys are already aware. R. I. P Ms. Sakurai. She was amazing as Mylene Genius. I can't believe it. Does anyone know what she died from? 53 is still very young. The article from ANN doesn't mention cause of death. Edit: disregard my question I just read the Wikipedia. frakk cancer.
  26. Test_Pilot_2
    I'm at 150" 1440p from 12-13 feet away. Looks spectacular. My desktop is a 34" ultra wide @ 1440p, also looks spectacular. Maybe that's a little subjective though, but 24-27" just seems small anymore. x3D processors are fantastic.
  27. azrael
    Arguing about fictional stats from a work of fiction....Only in sci-fi does this happen. 🙃
  28. Test_Pilot_2
    I think the days of PC master race power are gone. Aside from some limited developers going full Crysis now and then just about everything is tuned to where the consoles thrive.... It is a sad, sad state of affairs anymore. It may only get worse going forward. Anything tuned at or a little above the current consoles should thrive for a while... go 1.25 times performance over that and you're good for a long while. When does the PS6 release? It may still lack the performance of today's peak pc hardware...
  29. azrael
    If AMD is in play, maybe look at the non-X3D CPUs. Because this scenario is a 50/50 work/play, I'd probably lean Intel for the core-count since you mention LLMs. I'd mentioned Threadripper but that's probably outside of anyone's budget. Starting with the Ryzen 7000-series, AMD change their CPU usage so that it jumps to 95C as the CPU comes under load. Go and watch reviews when the 7000-series came out. It came up as a talking point because the CPUs would immediately spike to 95C and stay there before dialing up or down. We're use to the traditional ramping up as load increases not the immediate spike then hold. If you are planning on doing 32", I'd do 4k. 32" 1440p might feel like you are looking at you 24" 1200p but oversize. The PPI of a 32" 1440p is 94ppi. That's about the same as that 24" 1200p screen you have. The idea sizes are with 100% display scaling are 24" @ 1080p 27" @ 1440p 32" @ 4k When you go outside these ranges, things look... weird. I use 24" @ 1440p and 27" @ 4K resolutions for work and while text is absolutely clear, it's also looks eye-straining small (like, I should not be looking at these screens with this high of pixel density for as long as I do if I want to preserve my eyesight), especially 27" 4K.
  30. Seto Kaiba
    Yeah, my primary concern was whether the 285K was going to be another RMA queen... and my secondary being whether it'd be inferior to the 13th gen chip it's replacing. Nothing on the bleeding edge has really grabbed me, but in the event something does I'm hoping the 285K will at least not be horrendously underpowered.
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