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  1. azrael
    I do wish they spent more time on explaining the importance of Melange to the Dune-universe.
  2. azrael
    I think Intel and AMD really need to compete with ARM-based CPUs. We're seeing what ARM can do with Apple's M1-line on . While Alder Lake is a desktop CPU, the laptop market is more lucrative and translating to that kind of power and thermals to a laptop CPU will be a harder sell. Apple appears to have gotten that memo. Scaling up is easy. Scaling down is the hard part.
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    Intel Alder Lake CPU review embargo has lifted. Reviews are pretty positive for the new CPUs, but the concerns were on the money. The TLDR, the 12900k retakes the performance lead, but really does suck power and runs hotter. You will definitely need a better cooler (not to mention a new mounting bracket now that the CPU actually is longer) and likely a new PSU if you want to cover your bases. The big-little design, while useful, can only be taken advantage of on Windows 11. Value.....Alder Lake is worth the $$$, if you stick with DDR4. But Alder Lake supports DDR5, so keeping to DDR4 to keep the cost down puts it in a funny position. Otherwise, bravo Intel.
  4. azrael
    I'm sure he'll shoot perform layoffs of uncooperative team players.
  5. azrael
    For some reason, I hear Pedro Pascal's voice with that Ithorian at the beginning of the trailer. Also in the Mandalorian, I think they established that big-time bounties are slim in the days of the New Republic. Maybe Boba, in his time of self-reflection, has decided to branch out of the bounty business...
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    Perhaps a new perspective on life after being fed to the Sarlacc. Why bounty hunt when one can fine more lucrative ways to make a living? Little embezzlement here, little protection business there, control of numerous underworld groups...
  7. azrael
    Please tell me they will not be using many slow-motion on all the action shots? The speed of some of those fights feels like they could pick up the pace a little.
  8. azrael
    A 70-year old Sting in a speedo.... 🤢
  9. azrael
    Green light! (yes obvious pun...)
  10. azrael
    It's Hawkeye's color.
  11. azrael
    Caught this online. Was it a good point to stop? I guess. It had to pause somewhere. Guess that was as good as any point. I think Dune needs the political exposition. You kind of need it to explain why things play out the way they do. You need it to rear its ass into the story or else it makes hard to understand the "why" of it all. I know they don't like to intect it in to movies like this but Dune needs it. Plots in Dune take centuries to play out. Make it a little longer and throw it in. As for missing Shaddam Corrino IV, Irulan or others...yes they are needed in the story, just not early on/right here. They need to be in Part 2, but leaving them out of Part 1 is fine.
  12. azrael
    And this thread has outlived its entertainment value.
  13. azrael
    Fine. Meat goop.
  14. azrael
    The human body can, surprisingly, withstand 30+ Gs. Granted for no more than a few seconds. IIRC, you have to hit somewhere around a sustained 20-something Gs or ~50-75 Gs instantaneously where you will get turned into meat glue. But you'll be unconscious 1st well before that happens at that many Gs.
  15. azrael
    There is an Acer Swift 3 14" with AMD Ryzen* or Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14"* at Costco. Best Buy has a HP - Pavilion 2-in-1 14"*. *availability may vary depending on region
  16. azrael
    What is your use case? WFH(word processing/spreadsheets/email/etc)? Media consumption? Programming? Creative solution (Photoshop/Illustrator/Premiere)? HP Pavillion? Asus Vivobook?
  17. azrael
    PR headache...not technical headache. PR meaning the whole TPM-compatibility requirement. I just read the other day they put out a technical bulletin on how to disregard the TPM check via a reg fix.
  18. azrael
    SSDs have a tendency to just die when they want to die. Having it work one day then die the next is par-for-the-course for an SSD. Oh Windows 11. Microsoft's latest PR headache... I probably won't update for another year. I don't see a real need on the OS-front to move away from Windows 10. I'm more concerned with my hardware upgrades...as futile as that is right now (stupid parts shortage and supply chain issues )
  19. azrael
    Since this movie has now premiered and since this movie will not be available on home video for a while, this thread is on a 6-month spoiler lockdown. Any spoilers posted without tags will be deleted without warning. Also, if you can't read or understand Japanese, please don't try to interpret anything.
  20. azrael
    test
  21. azrael
    What else can we add to a New Macross-class carrier? http://www.macross2.net/m3/macrossf/macross-galaxy/battlegalaxy-attack.jpg http://www.macross2.net/m3/macrossf/queen-frontier/queenfrontier.jpg This movie? Yes.
  22. azrael
    Worked for me.
  23. azrael
    +1 Surprisingly, lawsuits are how a lot of things are get done/enforced in the world. We just don’t hear about all of them. And even fewer actually go to trial. Most are resolved in mediation/out-of-court.
  24. azrael
    They are filming them separately. Hence why we reluctantly hopeful this movie will do good.
  25. azrael
    More stuff from Netflix's Tudum fan-event:
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