Finally getting around to Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. I have such great love for this game. I hope you enjoy it. It does start out kind of slow, but once you unlock all the free-roaming on the high seas, it's a ton of fun. Weirdly, I don't play AC for the whole Assassins vs Templars. I just li...
Obligatory rant that if "audiophiles" stopped for a second and went to Youtube to find videos about recording and studio engineering, they'd probably have a heart attack. The notion that nobody in even the highest-end recording studios gives a flying f*** about cabling other than "ma...
A few things that I have a personal interest in, for your consideration. Not all are in your price range, though at least in the case of the joystick I could probably be convinced to buy one for myself and send it your way for a few weeks... Steelseries Sensei 310: The low profile ambidextrous count...
What you want to be looking at are 12.5 inch enterprise grade subnotebooks like the Latitude 5290 and Thiknkpad X280 , or their predecessors if you want to take a chance with an off-lease refurb for a big discount (which is usually safe, since these models are almost exclusively bought by big compan...
We were talking about that at work the other day. Chromium and its forks rule the browser world, but what happens if/when Google decides to take its ball and go home? Since our team consists of a bunch of diehard Linux enthusiasts and a former Silverlight developer, Microsoft's recent involvement le...
The relative failure of the XBone has been really great for me. I was able to pick one up for $200 during the great crypto-induced PC hardware pricing fiasco. Additionally, Microsoft has provided more value with them allowing EA Access on their platform unlike Sony. Since I joined the hardware gene...
Oh, deary me. And here I was dreaming about upgrading to Epyc rather than dual-channel fake Xeons for my future workstation. Though in that case the memory budget is substantially smaller, so maybe it's not an issue.
I mined some BTC back in the day, and used it to buy stuff from Newegg. It was straightforward enough. Also done a few wallet-to-wallet transactions related to the mining and keeping it in cold storage. I wouldn't call myself any kind of expert though.
She's a Pinball Wizard there has to be a twist. She had always thought it was a "neat" idea, but she went to the Texas Pinball Festival with me and definitely had fun! --SS If you ever visit Las Vegas, be sure to check out the pinball museum. It's off strip and not corporate, run by some ...
Why doesn't California accept that they did something really stupid and are now are blaming everyone else for mismanaging their own water that California seems to think it has some unique right to use? Because blaming everyone else for their own bad behavior is the California way. If the state's po...
I like the suggestion of keeping two of my Dell 2410s. They've served me well so far. I'm a bit worried they are getting old and the new monitor might reveal that! :) They are heavy and power-hungry. Personally, I'd stick with the U2410s unless you're willing to spend a *lot* of money on a 30"...
OVERVIEW The 1990s were the golden age of joystick-enabled video games. Falcon 4.0 was the new hotness, the EA-Jane's partnership yielded several incredibly good titles, and Microsoft was pushing the envelope on graphics and features with its own well regarded MS Flight Simulator series. The mainst...
No complaints here with our $40 Eureka. Then again, Pixel (our pet Roomba) does 95% of the vacuuming and we have no carpet and no pets (except the aforementioned robot and the fish who don’t shed). On a more serious note, I have a fairly standard bagless Bissell upright that cost about a hundred bu...
But it's not peasant-tier desktop Windows, it's a heavily modified derivative like what you'd get out of Windows Embedded. Totally different animal, like comparing a Yocto Linux image to Debian/CentOS/whatever.
Yup, it's all about the hardware optimization. Also, console OSes don't have nearly as much of the cruft and crap as desktop OSes, and Windows in particular.
Maybe we need an Internet Fight Club thread or subforum for resolving that sort of thing. I've avoided R&P because y'all can't handle my truth but I'd be down for some maximum trolling.
I wonder if this means they're getting close to a successor to the Skylake based workstation Xeons. Those don't look so good next to Threadripper and the younger, core-boosted iterations of consumer silicon.
Negative 1 claims that they built their own 4K scan rig with a DSLR. It has been done a lot at the hobby level, and so very plausible that someone with video production experience could make a pro grade version. The more interesting question to me is where the 35mm came from. Last I checked those ar...
Most customers simply won't care; it's just another digital store account along with Steam, GOG, Origin, Uplay, etc. And then there's the whole thing about no such thing as bad publicity. Gamers like to complain about stuff like exclusivity and lack of privacy/portability/etc. but very few of them a...
Very interesting information...I'd heard of the Harmy cut but not 4K77 or Negative 1. A proper frame-by-frame restoration of a 35mm reel is a truly fascinating concept. The dark irony of all of this is that Lucas himself went before Congress in the late 80s to protest the colorization of old B&W...
Interesting, but it probably won't take off. Hardware usually takes more than two iterations to get it right, which is a big problem problem for Valve.
I'd pay good money for even a regular 720p/1080p version of the theatrical cuts. Unfortunately, Disney purportedly promised Lucas they wouldn't ever sell a "Han shot first" version. I don't even care about that particular scene very much, it's all the disjointed CGI and airbrushing that br...
Yeah...I'd love to pitch in with more than just a sub but I'm about 35 years away from retirement and don't have time for more than the occasional long-ish informational forum post.
Don't worry y'all, now that Obsidian is owned by Microsoft they'll make sure that franchise gets taken off EGS as soon as the contract expires...and straight into the hands of the Windows Store!
