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This show should have been titled Pointless Exposition.  The only growth that happened was between Fury and Varra, and they padded that dynamic by having them repeat the same conversation five different times. Fury's personal journey was unsatisfactorily explored, particularly his "blip" PTSD, because whatever bullshit this show made Fury say goes against a decade of MCU counterpoints, and even contradicts what this series showed us (still on S.W.O.R.D., protecting Earth and helping Skrulls). Fury/Gravik, Fury/Talos, Fury/Rhodes, Talos/G'iah were superficial, wish-washy, unctuous relationships.

The entire espionage aspect was also badly (also, barely) executed. Gravik's plan made no sense. It's so hard to be invested in the central conflict (Skrulls have no home) when this series comes after GotG v3, showing us the technology exists to make and re-make an Earth-like planet, not to mention all of the other world-altering abilities shown from Eternals, Dr. Strange, Ego, Kang, etc. The intro was created with AI tools, I wonder if AI also wrote the plot. What comes next? Fury asks Dr. Strange to make everyone forget about Skrulls existing on Earth?

Samuel L. Jackson and co. deserve better, because they at least nailed the performances and the charisma was the only good thing about this show.

10 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

 

The chances of things (in my opinion, backed by science):

• single-celled life in many places all over the universe: 100%
• multi-cellular life in many places all over the universe: near-100%
• advanced life (think even insects) all over the universe: near-100%
• sapient life (similar to humans) all over the universe: >50%
• sapient life being able to defeat the inverse square law and communicate easily with other stars: <10%
• sapient life being able to defeat time and travel sub-light to other stars: <5% (maybe some near the galactic cores, where stars are easier to get to...though conditions are less hospitable for life)
• sapient life being able to defeat physics and travel fast-than-light to other stars: near-0% (I would say 0%, but I grant the incredibly infinitesimal chance that our understanding of physics is completely wrong, and FTL is possible)

So while I do believe that there are likely thousands of "advanced" civilizations (similar to us) even in our own galaxy, I think the chance of any of them ever actually even communicating are close to 0. I'm sure it's happened somewhere at some time. And I'm sure that signals are heard more often, but never again.

 

I think it's entirely possible that no life from different star systems have ever visited each other, simply due to how strong the laws of physics are in preventing it. Most people simply can't grasp how impossible it is to even approach 1% the speed of light. To move an existing space capsule to 99%+ the speed of light, you'd need to burn something like Jupiter to get the energy (and also to slow back down).

I'd lower the probability of the last 3 even more.

And then the chances these life forms meet each other (us) is even lower than that because the universe is so huge and old.

Just now, Spork3245 said:

Good build. I’d save $30 and grab this 4070 Ti vs the ASUS, unless you really like the ProArt  

https://a.co/d/b8XToP9 

 

The ProArt is one of the smaller 4070 Tis, which is why I picked it. I have that case and it's amazing, but things can get tight really quick and I currently have a much smaller GPU in it than the 4070. I actually have your old EVGA 2080 Ti in it. Also why I chose not to squeeze a 240 AIO. You could technically fit one and a big GPU, but be prepared to spend a lot of time running cables and water loops just right. Heck, might even have to order some custom cables anyway, especially for the 12VHPWR connector. 

Yes it's worth $550 more than the other version.

But none are really worth the asking price relative to everything else out there. You are definitely paying a lot for the small-ish form factor, but you could also build something yourself that's better and smaller and cheaper.

PCPartPicker Part List:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($441.00 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright AXP90-X47 42.58 CFM CPU Cooler  ($25.90 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: MSI MPG B650I EDGE WIFI Mini ITX AM5 Motherboard  ($272.92 @ Amazon) 
Memory: TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL38 Memory  ($79.98 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Western Digital Black SN850X 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($99.99 @ Adorama) 
Video Card: Asus ProArt GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12 GB Video Card  ($819.99 @ B&H) 
Case: Lian Li A4-H20 X4 Mini ITX Desktop Case  ($152.99 @ B&H) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 650 GM 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular SFX Power Supply  ($120.00 @ Amazon) 
Total: $2012.77
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-07-21 05:56 EDT-0400

20 hours ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

So am I learning the wrong things from YouTube (probably a yes regardless)? I feel like what I should be learning is that if the only taxing purpose the PC will be used for is 1440p or 4K gaming, if you have a top tier graphics card you don’t also need a top tier CPU. The CPU needs to just be good enough to not be a bottleneck. 
 

Because I’m at a certain point in benchmarks the performance differences nearly disappear for CPUs at 1440 and 4K. Especially with a good enough graphics card. So it appears if you go all in on a graphics card the cpu will start deliver diminishing returns above a certain spec (and price point), right?  
 

or is there something in this equation I’m missing? Like other than to be ultra enthusiast to always have the best of best inside the case is there a reason for only gaming you would need a $2000 graphics card pairs with a $700-$800 CPU? 

4k is just a lot of pixels to render, and the GPU is 99% responsible for this performance attribute. The other 1% can make slight differences on occasion, as you may need a lot of bandwidth from the CPU, PCIE slot, and memory in some games.

1440p is a conundrum because of all the high speed monitors available now, up to 360Hz. If you're trying to maximize fps for Esports titles, CPU will make a difference here.

8 cores is the target right now. There are not many games that benefit beyond 8. You'd only need to spend $700-$800 on a higher core count CPU if you also do some kind of video or 3D work on the side.

We have been a luxury state of CPU performance for a while now. Even modest $150 CPUs can give you at minimum 60 fps in every game.

12 hours ago, stepee said:

 

tbf probably works about as good as mine does right now!

It just occurred to me there have been reports of 4000 cards dying because of GPU sag (from the huge heatsinks) causing stress near the PCIE x16 connector and breaking PCB circuits.  Did you happen to use a GPU support bracket?

8 hours ago, PaladinSolo said:

I find just about everything anymore is insanely quiet having to crank the volume, until the music starts then its up to 11, I don't know what the sound guys are smoking when they're doing this stuff, but these are streaming shows people are watching in their unoptimized for sound homes with cheap equipment not theaters with state of the art sound systems.  None of this would be an issue if the music didn't just explode your eardrums when it starts up with your volume cranked to hear people talking.

The bursts of loudness (which usually was just the bass) were so annoying I settled the issue by lowering the volume and turning on subtitles.

1 hour ago, stepee said:

 

It wasn’t set to integrated only and I tried setting it to hybrid just in case, no matter what it does not post if the 4090 is plugged in. I tried all sorts of combinations and yeah different ports and cables and sources. The one constant is if the 4090 is plugged in then it doesn’t post. If it was posting with the 4090 and just not showing on the display, I should be able to see it on moonlight and I do not. 
 

I cleared the bios and actually updated it to the latest bios and still nothing.

 

Pretty sure it’s the card

Did you try leaving the RAM at stock 4800 MHz, no EXPO settings?

Musk built up his image as a "genius" in the same way as Trump did building his image as a "successful businessman".

Fucking rich assholes injecting their names into the mainstream media, priming the public over the years to accept them at their word as an authority on X subject matter. I wonder how much of their exposure was outright bought out, vs. the runaway celebrity effect.

I have enjoyed the movies and find the last few movies pretty damn good.

But personally, the action will never top the Burj Khalifa scene in Ghost Protocol. I am not good with heights, and just watching that scene makes my asshole pucker and my tummy tumble every time.

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

9 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

So how long has Rhodey been a Skrull?

Obviously sometime between Iron Man 1 and 2

1 hour ago, DPCyric said:

 

Here is the thing I've been trying to hold out on a big upgrade until Star Citizen officially launches because I want to play it in VR. However at this point I doubt we get another major engine overhaul (but I wouldn't put it past them) so I could probably safely upgrade now?

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.

43 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

The 3060 Ti has been in the $275 range in the past couple days. I feel like $300 for a generally slower card isn’t a good price considering the recent pricing of the 3060 Ti unless you’re desperate to pull the trigger.

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.

11 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

Ah, so the 7600 is getting throttled compared to the others.

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

18 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

Meanwhile the whole movie of across the spider-verse is up on twitter, still not taken down after almost 2 days.

Man, they really did remix that audio.

2 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

 

It's almost a 20% performance increases for the 7700x vs the 7600 in Mario Kart Switch emu, PS3 emu is about 16%: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-7800x3d/16.html

I'm guessing it's the clock speed differences?

 

 

 

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.

9 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

 

I like the second build there a lot, but I’d consider swapping to a 7700x for an extra $80-90 for the extra two cores which will help outside of gaming, also, if you plan to do any Switch emulation the 7700x has a notable advantage over the 7600 & 7600x iirc. In normal PC gaming they’re not too far off from one another.

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.

2 hours ago, Pikachu said:

 

Yeah I need to do it from stratch?

 

What do you think of this build?

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/z3G323/magnificent-intel-gamingstreaming-build

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.

9 hours ago, Jason said:

 

Yeah it says PCIe 4.0 on the box for the drive. Restarted the PS5 and I didn't see anything about a formatting screen. Could the fact that I installed the drive before ever plugging in the PS5 be the problem here?

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.