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Finally watched it. This felt like a back-to-basics, competent action movie. The emotions and plot are simplified (probably too much), and nothing egregiously dumb/silly happens (compared to previous Transformers movies). I'd still love to see more of the 'Bots and Maximals as developed characters, and have the human storylines streamlined. They missed some opportunities to make the protagonist stick out and be memorable. He didn't utilize any of his unique skills at all - electronics wizard, whatever specialized military training - which made it hard to believe he would be part of the mission to save the world. The movie also should have cut out the number of times humans, with no weapons, manage to run away and evade the evil bots, which seriously lowered the tension and threat level the bad guys posed. I did thoroughly enjoy the Transformers' interactions, which is why I even watch these things. Overall it was enjoyable and one of the better entries in the series, mostly because it didn't do anything super dumb. And looks like we're getting the Hasbro-niverse. What should we call it? Toy... Stories?

2TB Crucial P5 Plus (the WD deal sold out) M.2 to USB enclosure Wooden kitchen utensils Silicon ice cube trays

Obviously sometime between Iron Man 1 and 2

I think the longer you can wait right now the better you can get later. Sales of new hardware aren't that good, so AMD, Intel, and Nvidia have dropped prices recently and I still believe they'll be dropping prices even more this year.

6700 is only slower in the big ray tracing games. For anything else it is as good or faster. It's probably a better fit for him since he said he plays Halo, doesn't play many AAA games, and the 6700XT will most definitely be faster when paired with his current CPU. Nvidia cards don't like low IPC CPUs. Although for his situation, whatever he can find cheaper is better. Even going as low as a 6600 XT or 3060 non TI. Cheaper, less monetary commitment if he plans to keep the current system for a while. Otherwise, spend bigger on something like a 6800 XT, and carry it over to a new system later.

6700 XT / 6750 XT ~$300 for Prime day. With your current CPU, an AMD card will provide better performance as their drivers have less overhead than Nvidia drivers for older/lower end CPUs.

212 here, southwest of Indianapolis. WTF. And my redneck neighbors like burning actual trash every other night - yes, right in the middle of a city block. They had an almost uncontrollable fire come near my garage last week.

Even rich people can get swindled when you can "give" them something they want. Somehow the CEO, Rush, basically bamboozled these billionaires. He preyed on these people and influencers with aggressive marketing (lies), hounded them if they said no, offered discounted prices, and was desperate to get attention because the company was most likely broke. The influencers even got free rides, lol. He definitely exaggerated, if not outright made up, false data points claiming how safe/thorough his design was, probably even exaggerated about safety tests. Two of the other people who died were experienced deep sea divers, who were also warned by their experienced deep sea diver friends to not go on that sub, but they did anyway. The allure of this mythological Titanic wreckage can't be that enticing on its own. The father/son duo fell for the scam, and they probably thought it was safe enough if two other experienced submariners were willing to go. Maybe the wife will shed light on why they ignored all the warnings.

Yeah, but AMD CPUs just had a price drop so the 7700X is more tempting now.

Man, they really did remix that audio.

I typically consider the X and non-X versions the same. Since AMD doesn't lockdown any overclocking or tuning you can turn overclock or use PBO to turn a 7600 into a 7600X, or you can do the reverse and turn a 7600X into a lower power consumption chip by changing the PBO target. You would just have to be really unlucky with the silicon lottery if you bought a non-X chip that couldn't come close to an X. I was scratching my head as to why the 7600 in that review was performing so much worse than the official 7600 review, and why the 7600 was having a huge drop off compared to the 7600X while the 7700 had little drop off compared to the 7700X. But I found the reason on the temperature benchmarks; He made an error while benchmarking the 7600 and probably didn't correctly mount the cooler, as you can clearly see the 7600 is hitting the 95 C temperature limit and limiting its clockspeed. The 7600 is only a 65W part like the 7700, so it should never come close to hitting the 95C limit.

The 7700X is a good option, as I have a feeling games/Windows OS are going to outgrow even fast 6 core CPUs now that we're seeing support for PS4/Xbone being dropped by developers. So, that gives 6 core CPUs another 3 years, tops, of relevance, but as little as 1 more year. It's definitely good the 7600 is pretty cheap though, so not a huge investment if that happens, and Zen 5 will probably be a banger upgrade. I'm not sure why Switch emulation would be considerably worse on the 7600. It's primarily single-thread bound and in-game performance doesn't scale much past 6 cores, although compiling shaders will be faster with more threads. I tested TOTK with 6c/6t and it performed the same as 12c/24t.

For pure gaming, an AMD 7800x3D is the best high end value you can get right now, and with the hopium that AM5 is a new socket that should be supported longer than Intel's current gen. Also avoid DDR4 for Intel 13th gen gaming. Productivity performance is fine, but gaming performance takes a huge hit compared to DDR5. This would be a 7800x3D + 4070 Ti build for you to not think about upgrading the CPU for a while. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WWfysL Or this is a 7600 + 4080 build to maximize 1440p performance right now, but the 7600 will probably only last one more GPU generation before it starts showing its age. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/wZ9c3y

You could try removing the drive, power cycling the console, then re-installing the drive. Upon bootup you should get a formatting screen and it will test the drive's speed too.

You might have to update your OS since SSD support was not available on early versions of the PS5 firmware. Which is odd for a new PS5 to not have a reasonably latest firmware.

Next should be a plugin for super reactions that activate the.... rumble... on your Xbox controller.

Did you get a PCI-E 4.0 drive? PS5 will not recognize a 3.0 drive, even though there are some 3.0 drives faster than many 4.0 drives. Also when you boot it up after installing a new drive there will be a formatting screen before it loads your home page.

I would buy an m.2 to USB adapter or external enclosure when you buy your new drive, plug that into the PS5 and copy your games to the new drive, and then swap the old drive with the new drive. Now you have upgraded internal storage on the PS5, and a spare 1TB external drive to use for whatever you want. 2TB drives are pretty cheap these days though, why didn't you just go with 2TB now?

The drums were subdued enough to hear Gwen, but overall she was still a touch quiet. I can totally see a packed room with people munching popcorn or eating candy being a problem though. After seeing it a second time I don't know if it's "technically" better than the first, but I do like it more. But I could be biased because I caught two references to the Spectacular Spider-Man series, which is one of the greatest animated shows of all time - certainly the best Spider-Man series ever. One reference I don't think they did was to the 90s animated series. Was there one? It would be sick if...(funny speculation incoming)

Hopefully there's a significant improvement to the FOV, which is the Quest 2's biggest drawback.

It's good. So fucking good. I am so glad I avoided any press and promotion for this, but there's so much going on even the trailers couldn't spoil much. I think I love this more than the first. Intensity and levity are perfectly balanced, and the Spider lore is spectacular. Yeah I had no idea.

If you find a fairy pond mark it on your map so you can come back and get more when they respawn. I also mark Ruby/Sapphire/Topaz ore locations, and any tough enemies.

A lot of the history of the Lands Between is told in the item descriptions and the design of world. The obscure sidequests tell the rest of the story, which you're probably not going to piece together on your first playthrough because of how random they are to finish. The story is actually good though, when you get the shortcut version on Youtube and you're not dying 100x between cutscenes and dialogue.

A lot of the jokes were funny; there were just too many of them that were one-offs. Nonstop gags were fun on the first viewing, but makes rewatches a bit cringe. The humor just doesn't compare to Ragnarok, where every joke was grounded in character development.

They are so different that it's hard to compare them. But if TotK had as many fighting stances\movesets and magic spells as ER it would easily be the greatest game of all time.