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It was gradual throughout seasons 1,2,and BoBF, but turned logarithmic when episode 3 spent half its runtime with an F-tier character. The show is not that meta.

Turning her prior kiss incestual, classic Star Wars!

I do not like the corniness as it's presented in this season. It feels goofier than even any of the animated series (the Bad Batch takes itself more seriously), probably because it's contrasted against the live-action nature of the show and the tonal expectations they established in prior episodes. In Season 2 I could see the Clone Wars-esque trend of introducing multiple storylines and protagonists was going to be a bigger part of the series and was I all for that, but I didn't expect a drastic shift in tone for this season. I also think the writing is bad - very ham-fisted, uninspired - and the cinematography makes the CGI even more cartoon-like than it needs to be. Both of these exacerbate the other problems, and overshadow my enjoyment of the good parts.

Go over this checklist to make sure all the software was installed properly: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d/5.html In the BIOS have you tried changing the preferred CCD to "cache" instead of outright disabling the non-cache one? AMD recommends "auto", but setting it to "cache" should make it like a 7800x3D 90% of the time.

@stepee 4 sticks of RAM is not a good idea with Ryzen 7000, especially if they're not matched. They could have different latency and sub-timings and motherboards won't know what to do if you try to force EXPO. But more importantly the DDR5 memory controller will be under even more strain with 5 sticks, and you'll most likely have to run a significantly lower frequencies, maybe all the way down the 4800 MHz (or lower). I definitely advise not pushing the AMD memory controller to its limits. I have a Ryzen 5900x and manually overclocked and tuned the timings for 3866 MHz. Everything passed stress tests and extensive MemTests 1.5 years ago, but the last few months I started having weird issues mostly with horrible stutters when gaming. After troubleshooting the video card, I ran another Memtest and was getting all kinds of errors. I backed the RAM speed down and Memtest was stable again, but I've probably borked portions of my Windows install and will have to reformat to truly fix it. I haven't narrowed down the degradation being due to my CPU or isolated to just the RAM, but there are lots of reports of Ryzen chips not sustaining any kind of overclock. So I would play it safe and not push your memory controller too much. AMD recommends 6000 Hz tops and that's with just two sticks of memory.

100% brightness will probably give you eye strain. Almost all modern displays can attain brightness way higher than you need for day-to-day desktop use. 50-75% will probably be the best value. While my monitor is completely different than yours, I have it set to 60% brightness and it's still super bright.

One caveat about benching games with DLSS or any other upscaler is that you might as well just test the game at a lower resolution, since for example if you're at 1440p and test with DLSS balanced you will be getting basically the same framerate as if you were testing at 1080p native, since DLSS balanced is using 1080p render scale and then upscaling from that.

I believe I came across a claim the game was loading in assets it didn't need to, but I think a patched just dropped yesterday claiming to improve memory performance so I'm sure we'll soon see just how well they do. And don't take away my guilty pleasure of watching clickbait videos, knowing full-well the community is going to have a melt-down and engulfing myself into the chaos of maulding. Sometimes I just need a little bit more than my daily LTT laugh video. Although on a basis of principle, I agree with the claim HUB is making about Nvidia shortchanging gamers on VRAM. I still find it so silly the 3080 has less than the 1080 and 2080 Ti.

There are more new games to pushing VRAM than TLOU. Hardware Unboxed provides the most extensive and updated performance numbers, regardless of what their actual opinions are. I like GamersNexus' transparency, but their benchmarks are pretty outdated. Their choice of games to test was outdated even when they last updated it a few years ago. And NGL, every benchmarker needs to retire Shadow of the Tomb Raider in favor of newer games; we have enough data points on this one game that literally everyone uses.

Don't buy an 8GB card in 2023. Probably won't be long before the 4070s 12gb starts having issues.

The chipset driver is a separate install from the Andrenaline GPU drivers. And yes, as far as I understand you need to keep Xbox game bar on. AMDs software isn't detecting game .exe's, they are using Xbox for that.

You need to check if you have the latest AMD chipset drivers as well as the latest version of the Xbox game bar installed for max performance. And most likely anytime a new game comes out you'll have to update the game bar.

Your 4090 should be pushing air from bottom to top, so any case fans on the bottom and front of the case should be intake to feed fresh air to the video card.

I was hoping the hookshot would make a return to help manage stamina and climbing, and while still possible it seems Ascend and Fuse do the things a grappling gun would do. One of the aspects that sucked me into BotW was the quests. The little pockets of civilization were rewarding and made the world feel alive and believable (similar to Clock Town in MM), so I hope they expanded the NPCs. The video makes the game look worse than I remember BotW looking on Switch and WiiU. But after the first 10 hours, I transferred my save over to an emulator and played pretty much all of BotW in glorious 4k emulation and other graphical tweaks so my reference point is greatly skewed.

Andor spoiled me...

It turned into a bug when they spent half an episode in the POV outside of Mando with a character they barely established in a manner similar to an SNL-like skit of Andor. Elia might as well have been Keenan saying "I'm not going to double cross you" with wide-opened eyes and a silly smirk the entire time. Please stop with the X-files metaphor, you're the only one using this argument and this isn't the 90's anymore.

Second episode this season where they battle and kill a giant beast, and we all know the taming of the Mythosaur is yet to come. Only one episode in each of the previous seasons had this beast fetish, so it definitely feels like this season is really stretching that taffy. I'd say lack of focus is supermassive, glaring issue, but it's not the only one. The green screen effect was really bad this episode. These Star Wars shows have a serious problem with chase scenes looking horrible - the bikers in BoBF, little Leia in Obi-Wan, and now Coruscant escape. And Grogu jumping was weirder than the other times.

They also buffed a lot of weapons in this update, time to murder some mobs.

Bad Company 2's level design for Rush mode made it so much greater than the Rush modes in the sequels.

Condition Zero was the reason my GPA dropped half a point.

Counter Strike 2: Condition Zero

Everything on Coruscant was bad parody. Even the awesome Tie Fighter chase couldn't save this from being the worst episode of the series.

As long as there's a storage expansion port on the refreshes, they are going keep base storage at 1TB. And I am fine with that if it allows them to pack more horsepower in the price.

RDNA3 has AI acceleration hardware, which could be used for upscaling.

I'd definitely be hesitant to buy either of those unless they were cheap as hell because they were yet again another example of Nvidia cheaping out, but worthless is an exaggeration. 3080 is the first 80 class card to have less VRAM than the previous generation, big sadge. There is no "value" in the next gen cards right now. Both AMD and Nvidia are upcharging.