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  1. 1 hour ago, ravenshrike said:

    With a 1300 dollar graphics card at 1080p on ultra. Unless you are a ranked player in a FPS or a fighting game (Most of which are console anyway), the difference is negligible.

    All fighting games run at 60 fps and no more.

  2. 24 minutes ago, Nowak said:

    Yeah but every gamer points that to that when talking about "politics in muh vidya" while completely ignoring actual political messages and themes in games. I guess it's fine so long as it doesn't deal with identities other than White Straight Man.

     

    By the way, did you know that absolutely no customization options in Cyberpunk 2077 are gender-locked, allowing you to create trans and non-binary characters? Guess that makes it political and therefore bad now huh?

    These people don't know that the status quo is also identity politics. It just happens to be their identity so they don't see it as that.

  3. 23 minutes ago, ravenshrike said:

    ? When exactly have there been 60+ senators, let alone politically reliable ones? I didn't say majorities in both houses, I said a supermajority, and to be more specific, a supermajority in the Senate.

    They were able to get everything they wanted in the last 2 years. What "classical liberal" policies did they want to pass but couldn't? Lol, it's so hilarious to me that you've chosen a hill with no supporting evidence to die on. What about the state level?

  4. 1 minute ago, Trik'Stari said:

    I can agree to that.

     

    But I will still point out that the left holds greater power right now because they've taken over most of our media companies as well as large swaths of the "educational" sector.

     

    I tend to focus my criticism on who is more in power and who is the larger current threat.

    MFW people think corporatist media is left wing. Go watch David Pakman's interview with Joe Rogan.

  5. 10 minutes ago, ravenshrike said:

    Political ideologies in practice are virtually never what is preached. This is especially true in a system such as the US in which super-majorities are effectively a mandatory prerequisite to cut anything significant.

    They had a supermajority from 2017 to the beginning of 2019, and no shrinkage happened except the ones I mentioned earlier. You can even look at the state level of that doesn't convince you. There is nothing individualistic about American conservatives.

  6. 8 minutes ago, Trik'Stari said:

    There is so much here that I can argue against.

     

    Suffice to say that American "liberals" are equally as totalitarian, racist, and sexist.

     

    Example: Going after a bakery for standing by their religion and not wanting to be a part of a gay wedding. That's religious intolerance. Were it any religion other than Christianity, nothing would have happened. Thankfully SCOTUS actually sees things for what they are.

    Muh both sides

  7. 37 minutes ago, ravenshrike said:

    This is an artifact of the difference between the European right wing and the US right wing. American conservatives are coming from a stance of classical liberalism. Locke, Burke, etc... From that perspective, the Nazis very much were left wing, with the only real difference to the communists being the flavor of authoritarianism one got. The European right wing political sphere however is descended from monarchy and oligarchy. From that perspective, the Nazi system was much closer to the right wing ideal. It's also a prime example of why single axis political quantification is fucking moronic.

    American conservatives are not classical liberals (this is also a right wing ideology). Words do not speak louder than actions. The only shrinkage of govt we see when they're in power is in areas that help the billionaire class (regulation and taxes). American conservatives have no issues expanding the govt when it comes to military spending and intervention, legislation of social issues or oppression of racial, religious and sexual minorities.

  8. 1 hour ago, Misanthrope said:

    As stupid as a company that is about to release 6 different fucking cards all with the same name and model number?

     

    In any case I'd like to first hear if there's any Australia based reviewers that are getting cards in a timely matter.

    Watch the video. He talked about this. Tweaktown is also AUS based and got the RTX 2060Q. The difference is that Tweaktown was giving Nvidia very high marks for RTX cards.

  9. The 7600k was never a good gaming CPU. 4c4t CPUs haven't been good gaming CPUs for a long time. I had a 6600 and had to upgrade to an 6700 because i was getting dips to 100 fps in Overwatch with all settings on low. 100 fps might seem like a lot, but it affects accuracy with a lot of hitscan characters when your fps is jumping all over the place. After the upgrade, I've never seen a dip below 144.

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