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The battles were some of the best in the series too. Action where it was needed. Scariff is the first thing I think of now when someone mentions Star Wars.

Rogue One was the best imo. The tactful use of Vader was phenomenal. Plus I have no care for the characters in 7-9.

Republic: "A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives..." Democracy: "A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives." We elect representatives that then hold the power to create laws. We are neither a pure Democracy nor a Republic as our system of government in the US takes on aspects of both a Republic and a Democracy.

The United States is not a democracy, it is a democratic republic. Two very different forms of government.

Yes which is way I did not say IP theft from Huawei was the sole reason for its ban.

I am not arguing what is fair, not sure the point you are trying to make here. I am just saying, that China is known for stealing IP and for a long time it went unchecked. China is welcome to ban American companies, they will do what they see fit. Just like how the US saw it fit to ban Huawei. Was it fair for China to steal IP from countries for decades and when when those companies asked China to enforce copyright/patents, they refused? If it was me, I would increase the tariffs against China. We have already slowed the Chinese economy dramatically, meanwhile the US economy continued to grow despite all the anti-tariff rhetoric that was thrown. If China continues to act the way they have towards the US in the past, then you will see continued escalation of blocks against Chinese companies. There is a very large amount of Americans that truly believe China was responsible for the downfall of manufacturing in the US. There are many reasons Huawei was banned. Trade, IP Theft, National Security all played a roll.

We in the United States have a saying... "Innocent until proven guilty". Government spying insinuates that a person is guilty before it was proven. Every single person who has been spied and was innocent, was treated like a criminal when they were not.

How do you know it does not require much man power? Have you yourself caught people doing illegal acts online? I have seen investigations of people that were ongoing for years before they had concrete evidence. And usually it is because someone gave a tip to police about the suspect beforehand. You think it is acceptable for the government to go "Okay, today I think we're gonna spy on Sally. Lets get in contact with her ISP and pull all her browsing data since she opened her account." On what grounds did you have the authority to spy on Sally? You need a warrant for that kind of information. What about the Florida school shooter who was reported for going online and commenting "I am going to shoot up a school". The police were notified, the FBI was notified and nothing happened. There was hard concrete evidence that he was saying these things and the government did not prevent the attack from happening. It shows the government is horribly inefficient and stopping crime, even when people report those troubled individuals. If the government can't stop crime when there is hard evidence right in front of them, even without going through the trouble of spying... What difference will spying make.

Except for the NSA themselves reported that they were not actually being productive in their searches. Like I said, government spying CAN be used to find people committing crimes, but usually the manpower needed to catch one person generally makes it efficient. But it is also a case by case basis.

The NSA has spied on American citizens for over a decade and released that in those years it had successfully stopped 0 terrorist plots. Hence why NSA is looking to be absolved in the near future. Government spying CAN be used to stop crime, but most of the time it is not. Every once in a while you hear that a terror plot was foiled, but then you compare it to the amount of spying across millions of people to stop 2-3 assialients. There is something to be said about the 80-20 rule..

Totally correct, there are many people who buy 2080 graphics card in products and don't even know that a 2080 is a Nvidia product. I'd say a vast majority of people do not know how to overclock or even know what overclocking is.

Why does the government need to know what you are doing? It has nothing to do with the person doing something bad. It is called privacy.

Huawei has been accused many times of stealing IP and designs of products. The US does spy on it's citizens and I do not support them doing that. No government is without corruption. Pretty sure I never defended the US spying on its citizens.

There is literally a forum topic in Tech News right now about a chinese company taking Battlefield 1942 and posting it on Steam as if it was their own product. China has stolen too much IP from the US and other countries for the US to not act on it. Other countries are planning on banning Huawei or already have as well.

Check the Xbox thing first, if that isn't the issue, run the DDU utility and reinstall the AMD drivers.

Go into task manager by hitting ctrl alt delete and look through apps that are currently running. Look for Xbox and kill it if it is running, then disable the app through settings which can be accessed by going to the start menu.

Are you on windows 10? If so, make sure the Xbox app is not running in the background. It has had a very long history of locking the framerate of the PC to 60 FPS.

More like 200-1000x. I really like the raytracing but the loss of the red atmosphere does completely drain from 'feel' the game had.

The leaks were completely unrealistic. I am happy for such high IPC improvement with the massive drop in power consumption. That 3900X tho... Goddamn

I also run an MSI motherboard, although it is on the intel X99 platform. It also has network problems and other weird bugs. Wouldn't buy another one.

Refreshed 2080Ti

Riot Games had an executive that was suspended without pay after reports of him nut slapping, grabbing the butts and farting in the faces of his subordinates. There has been some weird stuff to come out of the Riot Games studio that makes this walkout seem pretty legitimate. This occured in December of 2018.

SLI has always been a mixed bag for people. I had a Lenovo Y500 that had a 750M in it, I then got the second 750M for the other side of the laptop and ran it in SLI no problems. I saw fantastic performance with SLI on the laptop. Granted, getting SLI at that time in that lapop was 125 dollars, not 1500 dollars for a 2080ti. SLI has always been like a massive gamble, especially at the pricepoint of the RTX lineup.

Final Fantasy X (Loved this game as a kid on my PS2 and have it on Steam) Final Fantasy XIII (Great game, horrible storytelling, but good story). Starcraft/BW Bioshock Series The Last of Us Kingdom Hearts 1,2, CoM, Days Diablo 2 LoD World of Warcraft Vanilla, Burning Crusade, Wrath of The Lich King Conkers Bad Fur Day Banjo Kazooie/Tooie Perfect Dark F.E.A.R

Deceptive marketing is a scam. The definition of scam is a dishonest scheme. It was dishonest for Nvidia to claim they had 28 games that supported RTX. Misleading customers is by definition a scam. They market the RTX lineup telling you that you can use all those shiney new features on 28 games. That was done so that it would entice people who play those games to go and buy the new RTX cards. I know someone who bought a 2080ti specifically for RTX features in Final Fantasy XV and Ark: Survival Evolved. That kind of marketing works and it is indeed a scam. A scam goes way beyond the pricing of a product...