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Anything non PC related that you're into, post about it here. I have had an aquarium for about 16 years. At this point, it takes care of itself. The plants keep the water clean and the fish poop makes plant food. Currently I have some Kirbensis cichlids that I am trying to breed. They are mouth broaders which means they sometimes carry their young around in their mouth. It's fun to watch when it happens. The angelfish recently died, had it for about 5 years. Pretty long life for an aquarium fish. Current:

You are trying to make this a popcorn thread I take it.

I agree that it likely did not happen. Everything I've seen about this lawsuit is pretty vague on details with the accusations. America's Army was a recruitment tool, not marketing for guns. I played it, it was very much not marketing for guns.

Definitely a good day for Nvidia.

I've got to imagine there is more at play here behind the scenes than windows simply storing a bunch of unencrypted screenshots locally that can potentially show sensitive information, because that would indeed be stupid.

That's a good point. Almost all school shooters are young men, and most young men play video games. Might as well blame school shootings on porn and McDonalds.

SponsorBlock is crucial.

There are always going to be some bad parents out there, and there will always be violence in entertainment. The Uvalde shooter's mom was a drug addict. In a world full of people, some of them are going to be bad. Instead of having an unrealistic expectation that no one will ever want to hurt other people, we just need to make it harder. Waiting periods, background checks, perhaps even a higher age requirement. These are the kind of things that could help fix the problem, and most people left or right agree on that but it always gets blocked by gun lobbying groups. It is weird that people can buy guns before they can legally smoke and drink in the country.

I wouldn't say this is controversial simply because it's so obviously a frivolous lawsuit. If COD is guilty, then so is the entire entertainment industry. Although I suppose if it's true that a gun maker actually used COD as marketing material, that does at least raise an eyebrow.

How emvarassing.

Thx. I'm not a photo guy. More an auto correct/prediction guy.

Sorry for the multiple posts. Seems to be the only way to upload a ton of high res pics. In the screens above, I have removed chromatic aberration. I could have removed the black bars, but I prefer the cinematic effect. These screenshots are all taken at 95% 4K render res (TSR at 95%) so there is very minimal upscaling. To remove chromatic aberration: Add these lines to your engine.ini file r.NT.Lens.Distortion.Intensity=0 r.NT.Lens.Distortion.Stretch=0 r.NT.Lens.ChromaticAberration.Intensity=0 r.NT.DOF.RotationalBokeh=0 r.NT.DOF.NTBokehTransform=0 Having played with different graphics settings, IMO the best way to play this game is to target 30FPS and as minimal upscaling as you can get away with. For such a cinematic game, 30 FPS is very comfortable.

https://www.techspot.com/news/103121-nvidia-reports-record-revenue-amid-global-ai-boom.html Good news for anyone with Nvidia stock.

No idea on the name change. Perhaps because the game is really more about Senua than anything else? It ran really well on my system. Max setting with FSR at quality mode. It would mostly run at 60, definitely dipped a bit in the heavier scenes but wasn't too bad. Combat always felt smooth. From what I've seen, a 4090 gets about 45 fps at max settings without upscaling so getting ~60 fps on a 7900xt from going down in res to the highest FSR setting is pretty good IMO.

A few hours in and it's abundantly clear, this game is the best cinematic experience ever made within a video game, by far. Everyone who's interested in the cinematic quality aspects of 3D rendering owes it to themselves to play this game. Can't upload the HDR versions of these screens, so these are darker than they should be: Max settings with FSR3 quality mode:

Everything Microsoft Just Announced: Copilot Plus PCs, Surface Pro and Laptop Running on Qualcomm (msn.com)

By my measure, this will be the first major release for a UE5 game that's set to make proper use of UE5's advanced features like lumen and nanite. Really looking forward to seeing how it all comes together. Xbox could definitely use a win right now. Note: There is no source for this news post because it is an original post, no source to quote. I will update this post with reviews and analysis as more info comes out. I know we don't usually have news for just one game here, but this is more about the tech and seeing is UE5 can actually deliver a good showing on current gen hardware.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/gaming/valves-next-game-rumored-to-be-a-6v6-hero-shooter-called-deadlock/ar-BB1mApqC?ocid=BingNewsSerp Just what everyone wanted from Valve, a trend chasing hero MOBA shooter. /s

What games are you good at? Where do you play for rank? Me personally, I'm not good at much, but I am stupid good at battlefield games, and OK at rocket league. In battlefield, I can drop in anytime and as long as I get on a vehicle, I'm liable to do massive damage. K/D around 5-1 is not uncommon for me in the slightest. Maybe a bit of bragging, but I don't play the game as much as I would if it were harder IMO. It's just too easy, it almost feels like a single player game for me. All that aside, I'm only a little above average on the run and gun aspects... but as soon as I get in a vehicle, I'll do a LOT of damage. Later Desert Combat There: Rocket league, I started playing in 2016 well before it was free to play. I ranked around diamond 1 back then when playing with good friends. They don't play anymore and I probably would rank around gold 3 or plat 1 now. I still play, but not for rank. It's fun to play against the newer gen because they're typically really good at the mechanics of the game, but really bad at the meta. EX, fake outs. It's really easy to play to their predictions and then undercut them, which can be a lot of fun in and of itself. Getting old, not as good as I used to be, but hanging in there. Do you guys still play anything competitive? If so, what?

Joe is good people. It took him a minute to adjust to the same level of autism that we are all on, but he's entranced now. No escape.

I definitely agree with your comments about halo infinite getting messed up by the higher ups. Counter point, I don't think that was the case with forza but the most recent forza game is still a disaster. Its definitely both. Lack of good games, and perhaps the management has contributed to that to some degree, maybe a large degree, but at the end of the day Microsoft wouldn't be in this position if they had enough good game to satisfy their customers, and there not just a little bit behind... their not even on the board right now. Trust would be irrelevant if the proof were there in the form of games. But I agree that given the lack of games currently, all there is to fall back on is trust and they are screwing that up spectacularly.

Just a quick note, arcade games released on dreamcast were not 1:1 ports. Usually lower frame rate and/or visuals. Daytona for example was 60 fps and higher res in the arcade vs 30 and lower res on dreamcast. As for Xbox mods, I believe the Sega arcade version of the original Xbox hardware not only came with double the ram, but also a had option for a faster CPU. There are also mods to replace the original 733mhz CPU with a ~1.4GHZ CPU.