I was gifted a 2080Ti about a year or so ago and I have no intention on upgrading anytime soon. The former owner of my card is a friend who had it in their primary gaming rig, back when SLI wasn’t dead, he had two.

So when he built a new main rig with a single 4090 a few years back he gifted me one and the other one he left in his old system and started using that as a spare/guest computer for having impromptu LANs. It’s still a decent system, so I don’t blame him.

In any case, that upgraded my primary computer from a 1060 3G… So it was a welcome change to have sufficient video memory again.

The cards keep getting more and more power hungry and I don’t see any benefit in upgrading… Not that I can afford it… I haven’t been in school for a long time, and lately, I barely have time to enjoy YouTube videos, nevermind a full assed game. I literally have to walk away from a game for so long between sessions that I forget the controls. So either I can beat the game in one sitting, or the controls are similar enough to the defaults I’m used to (left click to fire, right click to ADS, WASD for movement, ctrl or C for crouch, space to jump, E to interact, F for flashlight, etc etc…); that way I don’t really need to relearn anything.

This is a big reason why I haven’t finished some titles that I really wanted to, like TLoU, or Doom Eternal… Too many buttons to remember. It’s especially bad with doom, since if you don’t remember how, and when to use your specials, you’ll run out of life, armor, ammo, etc pretty fast. Remembering which special gives what and how to trigger it… Uhhh … Is it this button? Gets slaughtered by an imp … Okay, not that button. Reload let’s try this… Killed by the same imp not that either… Hmmm. Goes and looks at the key mapping ohhhhhh. Okay. Reload I got it this time… Dies anyways due to other reasons

Whelp. Quit maybe later.

That’s a hot take, I’m interested to see how that works out for you.

I always debate with myself whether it’s worthwhile to weigh in on these things because no matter what opinion you have there’s a group of very opinionated people who will disagree with you, despite not being involved in the conflict and having no personal stake in the outcome.

All I’ll say on the matter is: are we not passed the point of killing eachother for land/resources? No? Alright then.

I’m not American but, from what I’ve seen, Republicans seem to flip sides more than a quarter in a hobos pocket during an earthquake.

Having Republicans turn on eachother is about as shocking as the fact that it will be cold in winter.

Oh no!

… Anyway.

If it’s tried, it could very easily kick off the next world war.

Can we not?

IDK if it killed democracy because it can fail. Almost all systems of government have failed.

The only one that hadn’t (yet) is democracy.

Not sure why anyone would be surprised that democracy has a best before date…

Good idea.

This just makes me reflect on how many Americans, even Trump voters, are basically screaming from the rooftops that Trump is doing real harm to them, and maybe, just maybe, that message will actually be heard.

Then I remember that he’s replaced just about everyone who can get into earshot of him with an echo chamber of what-the-fuckary. Absolute useless humans, who will shield Trump from hearing about any negatives from the decisions he’s making.

Everything they’re saying to the public is spin. It might be based in fact, somewhere in the background, but it’s so far divulged from that truth that it’s difficult to even tell what true thing was spun this hard to generate the things they’re saying. There’s a nontrivial amount of it that’s just outright fabrications.

I’m not an American and I couldn’t vote in the US election. I’m your neighbor to the North and all I could do was watch, in horror, as the vote went to the orange party.

As a Canadian, we might just build a border wall… Mainly to keep the crazy out of our country.

Fuck.

Yeah, the gifted card I’m using is a 2080 Ti. My friend that gifted it, went from a dual 2080 ti SLI setup to a 4090 IIRC, he kept one for his old system so it’s still useful, but gave me one of the two since SLI is dead and he doesn’t need the extra card in a system he’s not frequently using.

11G of memory is an odd choice, but it was a huge uplift from the 3G I was using before then. I had a super budget GTX 1060 3G (I think it was made by palit?) before.

I still have to play on modest settings for anything modern, but my only real challenge has been feeding it with fresh air. My PC case puts the GPU on a riser with front to back airflow and very little space front-back and top/bottom. The card uses a side intake, which is fairly typical for GPUs, which is basically starved for air if I install the card normally. For now, I’ve got it on a riser, sitting on top of the system with the cover off, so my GPU is in open air. Not ideal. I need to work on a better solution… But it works great otherwise.

I have a 20 series card, albeit one of the higher tier ones, and I probably won’t be upgrading this year. I probably also won’t be playing any new AAA titles either.

It’s fine to have an older card, but nobody in that position should be expecting to play the latest and greatest games at reasonable framerates, if at all.

It is the way of things.

I am personally rather miffed about the fact that if you want any performance from a GPU, you basically need to spend $800+. Even though some cards are saying they’re available for less, they almost never are, either due to scalping or greed (which are kind of the same thing), or something else like idiotic tariffs. I don’t have nearly a grand I can burn every year to upgrade my GPU the last GPU I bought was a 1060, and my current card was a gift. I haven’t had a budget for a decent GPU in many, many years.

When I upgrade, I’m likely going Intel arc, because the value proposition makes sense to me. I can actually spend less than $600 and get a card that will have some reasonable level of performance.

Earlier than they thought?

How long did they think it would take before RT was a requirement? It was introduced with the GeForce 20 series more than six years ago.

For technology, six years is vintage.

The only people this should affect is people still using GTX 10 and 16 series cards. I dunno what’s happening with AMD/Radeon. Since they were purchased by AMD the banking schemes have gotten to be more and more nonsensical, so I always have a hard time knowing WTF generation a card is from by the model number.

In any case. Yeah, people using 5+ year old tech are going to be unable to play the latest AAA games. And?

Has there ever been a time when a 5+ year old system can reasonably play a modern AAA title without it being a slide show?

This is what I’m driving at.

Borderlands creates memes. Borderlands isn’t just shoveling in whatever memes are popular at the time of the creation of the game. They’re doing their own thing and letting the players decide what is meme worthy.

You have a PlayStation 10? Wowwwww

We’ll be waiting a while.

They split the original game into three parts. Remake, rebirth, and re-something? IDK.

Rebirth, aka FF 7 remake part 2 (of 3) is coming to PC soon ™. They’ve officially confirmed it and published minimum and recommended specs to play it. So it’s a waiting game for that right now, and it’s not even the end of the story.

What’s next: they’ll put out part 3 as a PlayStation exclusive in a year or two, plus or minus 1-3 years. It’ll be exclusive for about 2 years. So we might get all three parts on PC by … 2032? Maybe sooner?

Unless you own a PS 5, you’ll be waiting a while. If you do, you’ll still need to wait to get all three, but it will be less of a wait than the PC people, like me, will have.

I feel like a game like Borderlands needs to lead, not follow. They took some risks with BL3 that did not pay off, but the playability of the game was significantly improved.

Naming a character “skibidi” is moronic in the sense that, this is already a meme. If it get put in the game, they’re just trying to be cool for the sake of it. It’s a very “hello, fellow kids” kind of thing.

Borderlands, instead, should have some creativity with what’s being said and done in the game. Take a look at Tina for a second. When she’s introduced, she’s unapologetically strange. You either work with her on that level, or not at all. IMO, that’s why Tina is a fan favorite. The absurd and borderline insane statements she constantly makes is the reason that she is so well liked. She makes sense in an almost frightening and sociopathic way… And we love that about her.

Going to the length of dragging Gen Z memes into the game for no good reason isn’t going to help, and will, in all likelihood, make things very bad. It’s just, in bad taste, lazy, and a cop out IMO. With such interesting and absurd stuff already in the game, like butt stallion, CL4P-TP, BNK-3R, and more than I could possibly think of or remember that are amazing… They’re going to stoop to a pop culture meme instead?

Borderlands is about being weird and original with stuff, and some things really work, others, not so much. And that’s what made the series great IMO. They took chances, and went out on a limb for a joke, sometimes literally.

I mean, who can forget shooty mcface? That’s a footnote in a quest and it’s honestly really funny, weird and something that sticks with you. That’s what Borderlands should be. It’s not some meme pop culture reference machine.

This? This is what they have a problem with?

Gestures at 2017 to 2021, and everything that’s happened, been uncovered, and said by the orange one since… And none of that was over the line for you?

What?

Maple MAGA?

What the actual fuck. They know what “MAGA” means, right?

There’s no shortage of those kinds here in Ontario. I’m sure it’s not nearly as many, but I’m only trying to point out that, it’s not a uniquely Alberta phenomenon.

It genuinely confuses me that people can have their whole identity be defined by “Trump good, Trudeau bad”

Are people really this uninteresting? I mean, I have opinions on politics, even US politics. I don’t feel strongly enough about any of them to put a bumper sticker about it on my car, nevermind buy or fly a flag about any of it. I don’t even put political signs on my lawn (nor do I allow anyone else to). I just have so much going on that I can’t be arsed to advertise that I even have an opinion on what’s going on in politics.

I try to always vote, and show up for every election, unless there’s a very good reason why I can’t (like being very ill, injured, hospitalized, etc). But I am not my political views, and I can’t understand people that build their identity around a politician. Surely something else you do is important? No? Okay then.