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Re: Expo 2021 is online!
I am super late to the party on this because reasons but I can't wait.
Re: New PC for 1440
Here's some thoughts:
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Tushon/saved/#view=f48vjX
- case is really personal choice. I don't like seeing the inside at all, so I pick solid cases which are harder to find but typically quieter
- Motherboard has room to move down (or up lol) in price depending on features you want. e.g. no wifi drops the cost a little bit. I'm very partial to Gigabyte from years of good experiences, but MSI has a significantly cheaper version here. Gigabyte has a less expensive B550 here
- RAM: @Thrax - has inside deets on "best" usually handy down to kit recs. 2x8 or 2x16 is sorta your choice here.
- NVME: some of these boards have 1 slot only, so you might go bigger than 1TB if you want to only have one drive and keep the interior free and clear.
- monitor: @fatcat is one of the resident experts, but I think this is a pretty good option for 1440p
Re: F@h-La-La-La-La
@primesuspect said:
@Sonorous said:
@primesuspect said:
I've had to significantly slow my folding (via all-day pauses sometimes) because folding fucks with my video conferencing, which is what I do 90% of my day for work.Ate you using RTX broadcast with your camera?
Yeah. They recently patched a bunch of stuff and it seems a bit more stable
I've just noticed under heavy GPU loads that RTX voice and broadcast have major audio issues. As far as I know there isn't a way to avoid it.
Re: Opinions on new micro desktop....pls
That is an interesting option! I don't think I've ever personally seen a PC in that format. Another very small form factor PC that might fit the bill is an Intel NUC (here is a link for the "creators" builds and here for the full list of pre-built options). You could have it on the desktop or mount it to the back of a monitor.
Three years of in-home warranty is hard to beat!
Re: Wonder Woman 84
I agree with all of that. It was 'fun' to watch. It was very poppy and had a good pace and some interesting visuals, but it was not a good story.
GQ's second point: That Diana would pine after Steve for literally 70 years was the most unbelievable part to me. I could see her being happy to find him after so long, but I don't buy her just like.... not living her life at all, and still thinking about him every single day. She loved the guy, sure, but it was a whirlwind thing. She knew him for all of a few days a lifetime ago. It's a huge character flaw that she would not be over him.
Like: I fell in love with someone on a trip to London in 2004. We had a great time, and for two weeks felt like we were on top of the world spending every moment together, and had something that would last forever. I thought I had met a soulmate. Guys... I still love her, and think of her fondly, but I don't think of her every day, and right now, as I type this, I can't even remember her name.
I mean, I guess I can accept that Diana's love for Steve was deeper than that, but... based on what? Their relationship was forged in chaos and adrenaline. That's not a good foundation for love. Why do you think 007 can never keep a girlfriend?
And no matter how deep it was ... 70 years?! that's like... a symptom of some kind of mental disorder.
Re: Wonder Woman 84
I liked the film, but I definitely understand the negativity.
The scale is all off compared to the first film. We go from defeating a god during WWI to..hanging out in the 80s? Did none of the other wars matter?
*The big bad is EXTREMELY hand-wavey. Everything goes wrong and Steve is back because of...a magic rock. Which apparently works however the story wants it to. It was not a convincing or interesting plot device. Something something monkey's paw and old gods.Apparently Diana has just been...sitting around being sad about Steve for like 70 years? That's the majority of what she's about these days? She's not sad about her missing family? And her emotional journey in the movie is...to be open to heterosexual romance again? It's so reductionist from her character growth in the first movie
- Way too much CGI in the action scenes-- the fight with cheetah was so rag-dolly and fake looking.
- The first movie was SO good, this one felt like a big let down. What I would have loved to see instead was Diana searching for and then finding Themyscira, and then introducing her mom and friends to the 80s. THAT would have been hilarious and great, and it would have also been nice to have a movie with more than 3.5 characters.
Re: Wonder Woman 84
Negative reviews seem to bring up the lack of action... I agree that WW84 was a bit more story/ character development and less action. But I don't think it was unreasonably so... I am not a movie snob when dealing with an action/ hero movies. The part of my brain that analyzes and looks for deep meaning... it can take a break. I watched it on HBO Max, which I already had, so it was like it was free. I watch thin on my new 4K TV and the cinematics and audio were GREAT.