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    I can't say that in good faith. I didn't finish Delta. It sounds like a mess.
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    Please, no! Every time I manage to forget End of the Circle, you people pick that wound open again!
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    I have very little information. Wasn't particularly interested in the Robotech DVDs, was even less interested in the so-called remastered version, and know nothing of australian anime distributors.
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    Well I'm sold. How can anyone not want "Good The perfect all-time best album"?
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    I mean, they also said it only hit the 5090 and 5070Ti, then almost immediately we saw defective 5080 cards. And that it's a 5% performance difference, when it's more like 12%(and really, different for each chip since they lose a different % of total ROPs). And that it was 0.5% of chips, which I'm skeptical of given how fast defects were found. I don't trust anything nVidia says on the matter.
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    I THINK, but can't swear, that the 6-channel soundtrack is an "uncut" "remastered" feature.
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    The latest is the RTX 5K laptop chips have also been affected. I have doubts that nVidia is anywhere near as in-control of this as they claim.
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    Sure, it alloys with aluminum to form a metal with all the durability of wet tissue paper, but what does it do with hypercarbon? (Apparently gallium is used in nuclear weapon production, because a plutonium-gallium alloy is much easier to work with.)
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    Hey, I was interested in the epic saga of Sad Dana.
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    The 9070 mostly exists to make the 9070XT look like a better deal. This has sort of been part of AMD's Radeon strategy the last few years, and it is frustrating to see them do it every time. Especially since they have a track record of lowering the suggested price within a month of launch.
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    The AI bubble can't pop soon enough.
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    And that's assuming you get a fully-functional card that isn't missing raster operators.
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    I've had that problem with the toy since I got my Powermaster Optimus as a kid. Having a truck front on both sides of the robot bothered me then, and it bothers me now. It struck me as an extremely lazy design. I admit that it is both toy- and toon-accurate and it would be a major deviation from any root of authenticity(which is why even the unlicensed Thunder Manus kept it, despite being a fairly radical revision of the concept), but only grudgingly. In fiction, I think I've only seen Powermaster Optimus as the combined super-robot. Which I guess means there shouldn't be a core robot and battlestation mode for that. I'm also on record as disliking fake parts in general. I think my horror at the original Powermaster toy was more for the fake truck parts than it was the backpack, but cannot swear to it this many years later.
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    So this just passed across my screen today: https://www.videogamesage.com/blogs/entry/1132-game-boy-history-made-tonight/ Last year, the first-ever 16-player game of Faceball 2000 was played. With an asterisk because it required a slight modification to the retail release to fix a bug that caused the max playable to be fifteen, but because of that bug we know FOR A FACT that no one has ever done this before. (To make a long story short, the developers never tested more than ten players because that was all the GameBoys they had and Nintendo wasn't letting them release their adapter anyways, so they never found a couple of bugs that show up at very high player counts.)
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    Man, that's a Colonial Marines-level bug. ("teather"->"tether" to fix AI)
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    The point is to render a handful of rays for gimmick effects. All evidence suggests that raytracing a scene with dedicated raytracing hardware would require far more power than traditional rasterization, and we already "can't" bring enough power to bear for rasterization. Ooooor... you can admit you're only running the game at 640x480 and not use upscaling and frame interpolation to pretend you aren't. It's what we used to do when we couldn't render a game at our monitor's max resolution. I also believe poorly-optimized games is a large portion of the problem.
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    I don't consider upscaling or frame interpolation to be worth counting. I only acknowledge them for the sake of mocking them. While I think the amount of raytracing that a top-end nVidia card can handle counts as a toy and a gimmick, I do consider it actual performance. If they can ever bring enough power to bear to raytrace a complete scene in realtime, it WILL be a game-changer, but we have decades of rendering techniques that were all developed specifically so we don't have to pay the massive performance cost of raytracing. (I actually think nVidia started the raytracing thing specifically to put AMD on the back foot. It came out of nowhere and was something nVidia could do that AMD couldn't.) My usage is such that raytracing doesn't matter to me at all, but I do acknowledge it. My main interest in more power is VR, and it continues to irk me that multi-GPU setups were killed off right as rendering to two screens at once became a thing anyone was doing.
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    Excellent! That's what I was hoping for.
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    Are these like Hot Wheels Optimus Prime(transforming Hot Wheels cars), or are they Transformers that have a Hot Wheels design for their vehicle mode? One is much more interesting to me than the other.
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    We'll have answers to all these questions and more once the review embargos lift(allegedly on the fifth). The only "notable" thing about AMD's benchmarks is they were actual performance, not upscaled from a lower resolution and with frame interpolation turned on. That this is notable is a sad statement on the modern tech market.
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    Pr'y much. nVidia said even -5% was nothing to worry about, didn't even warrant telling manufacturers they sent out defective chips.
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    AMD hasn't set a suggested price yet. GN put up an "old man yells at cloud" video, inspired partially by people in the Radeon division asking journalists such as him what price they should be setting, because they don't have one and their homework is due on the 28th. This is weirder than nVidia's thing, where the board manufacturers learn what suggested retail is at the same time we do. nVidia knows but doesn't tell anyone, AMD just doesn't know.
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    Oh! I didn't know Discotek had picked this one up! Gonna have to pick it up for myself. I swear, Discotek just licenses what they want to watch, with no consideration for how it will sell. I don't know how they keep making money, but I'm glad they do it.
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    Don't jinx it, they might start talking about it again!
  25. JB0
    Almost a decade since the film was announced...
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