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  1. That would be fine, if it's more powerful than the 1660 for around the same cost. Though adding in a few RT cores for the occasional blendering I do wouldn't hurt. I couldn't possibly begin to tell you if that's realistic or not. They claim the RT cores are specifically for ray tracing, but I don't know what that means or why it wouldn't be able to do literally anything else. Although if it's RT cores, it could do a ray traced AO potentially.
  2. Because if it was males it would feed the patriarchy. But this is going off topic.
  3. Ah shit... I'm actually not sure what pronoun they prefer, being a trans. The guy in the video said "him" so I went with it.
  4. Nah, he looks some form of pacific islander or Asian. There's this video which showcases a bunch of things, including the fact that if ND wasn't trying to push the lesbian so hard, why is the biggest part of the gameplay trailer an awkward cutscene with Ellie kissing a girl with no context to anything else? I'm at the point now where I question if one of the mods will get upset because we aren't praising lesbians in video games.
  5. I don't know if it really fits as a response, but one of the new characters in the game is named Lev, and is acted by a transgender that Neil cherry picked. So... yeah. Being trans gets you a leg up at ND with ND I guess. He also tweets about how he hates white people, which is cool.
  6. Aren't you gay? Or was that someone else? Just feels like it validates the argument a bit more. Oh. Yep. Of which I 100% agree. Whether or not you have your own biases, most of this stuff is just crammed in and it's just not needed. Sorry if I'm a little "Keep it in the bedroom." If Uncharted didn't have Elena, I would give exactly zero shits as to whether or not Nathan Drake is white, black, straight, or gay. But it does have Elena so therefore Nathan must be white and straight. (This is a joke.) Making Ellie a lesbian changes very little, and then focusing so hard on it just makes it feel forced. Even Nathan and Elena's relationship wasn't pushed this hard.
  7. I'm just going to make this a separate post showing some instances of ND and ND pushing "diversity" because... reasons? Here's an interview where ND say's he's pushing diversity as a pillar of the industry Here's a Twitter post from ND saying he will put his personal politics in the game: https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2017/01/23/the-last-of-us-part-ii-writer-wont-shy-away-including-personal-politics/ Here's ND talking about how he almost made a "misogynistic" game. This interview shows ND just changing character identities for... no real reason. He also kicked out a focus tester for being upset that a single woman kicks the absolute shit out of army destroying Nathan Drake. Here he is stating that he's going to put more "diversity" in the games (although the original comment is a dick.) Here's an interview with ND in which he sheds some light; Also of note, Druckmann says: "Fans of the first game might not like the sequel." There's more, but I'm bored.
  8. Ehhh... yeah, but also... I don't know. Again, it never seems to really add much to the story to make characters gay, yet it seems like most games have a lot of, if not exclusively gay characters now. Just doesn't really make a lot of sense. No. I never even insinuated that. It also doesn't integrate into the story. You played through the entire base game without really knowing she was lesbo, and that was fine. Again, my big gripe is that they made a DLC to show us stuff that we already knew, rather than showing something different. The DLC didn't show anything new about Ellie that wasn't present in the main game. You could stretch it and say they only made the DLC to show that Ellie was in fact, a lesbo. Which really has no effect or meaning on anything. Let's put it this way, most people aren't gay. That's normal. So when these characters are made gay, my main question is "Why?" It almost never adds anything of value, which you could argue is a pro, or a con. I'm undecided. But when they dedicate an entire DLC or story arc about it, and it adds nothing to the overall plot or structure, it's going to feel forced because they want "diversity." TLOU had many more interesting stories it could've told than the one we already knew. So you agree it wasn't great. And sure, it makes sense, but mostly because it's already been told. What did the DLC actually show? Ellie takes care of Joel. We already knew this, she made the deal with David to get medicine for Joel and had him set up in an abandoned house. The DLC is just set around her getting medicine for Joel. It adds nothing to the story. Ellie had a close friend named Riley. We already knew this, there's dialogue in the main game where Ellie mentions her. There's also optional dialogue where Ellie talks about how they would pretend to play an arcade cabinet, which was further shown in the DLC. Riley dies. We already knew this. The list goes on. It's retreading ground without actually adding anything of value. If they did a DLC focusing on Joel and Tess, they could've explored a relationship that's basically completely ignored in the base game and could've actually added some further depth and meaning to Tess's death. Or they could've done something with Sam and Henry, which had a backstory themselves, or some random character. Instead they retold what we already knew so Ellie could kiss a girl. Look at Tess and Joel, or Tommy and... his wife... or that scene where Ellie is reading a diary and says "I can't believe they gave a shit about this stuff." Why do we need dumb teenage romance shoved in? It would still be an issue if Ellie wasn't a lesbo. It's dumb. Also, that kiss looked awkward as fuck like even Ellie was uncomfortable. As far as them living in a safe zone, it's not like the first game didn't show that getting overrun with bandits. Not when some games keep trying to force it on you like AC, in a really bizarre fashion from what I've seen. Or when I can accidentally have gay sex with a skeleton man. I never stated otherwise. Although I would argue it was established in the DLC, which I think was also standalone. Doesn't really matter. Whether it was established then or not doesn't make it feel any less forced then than it does now. It also wasn't part of the big reveal. It's not a high school drama game, why is it there? And again, there's been interviews with Druckman explicitly stating that he's going to be forcing this stuff in games to "diversify." Because observations = ranting. Did I say that? Where exactly did I say that? This is the kind of thing that really gets under my skin. Absolutely nowhere did I say that, I just said a lot of games now have a lot of gay characters. That's all. These games typically have them for no reason, or specifically because they're trying to "diversify" and push an agenda. That's a separate thing I didn't really mention. It's just that I've noticed most relationships in media now are gay, even when it makes no sense or feels incredibly forced.
  9. Yeah, probably. Also seems unlikely they'll have a new ~$200 card. This is a slippery slope logical fallacy. There's not much preventing Nvidia from just inflating the price of the cards with little increase in performance. Look at Intel and their CPUs. The RTX cores aren't enough to be marketed and sold as mass market, they should've stayed in the professional cards until they could get the cost down enough to really fully utilize them. Which is how everything else they do works.
  10. Yep. I've seen a few interviews with Neil Druckman and he's pretty "similar minded" to Anita. I haven't gotten too into it yet, but I've already heard the leak was done by an employee who got real fed up with it. Anyways, the new character (the butch) shown in the early trailer has a frankly impossible physique. I just mean, think about how hard it is to get that physique, that's A LOT of working out. She's way more than just toned, she's ripped. With working out that much comes eating a lot of high quality food and protein, which shouldn't really be readily available at the end of the world. I mean, I have a buddy that goes to the gym at least once a week... well, he did... and works out for 3 or 4 hours benching 200lbs and doing a bunch of other stuff and he's not that ripped, he just looks toned. But hey, I guess if she's this ripped it's potentially possible to pull a Trevor Phillips.
  11. Yeah, probably the same ones that shamed Spiderman for beating up escaped max security inmates with assuault rifles and RPGs and claimed the cops weren't intrinsically racist enough. Not going into spoiler territory (I haven't looked at the leaks, but now I might) I was disinterested from the first trailer. I was disappointed with the DLC from the first game. I couldn't give two shits about how Ellie took care of Joel or her dumb lesbian girlfriend. The DLC added literally nothing to the story you didn't already know or couldn't surmise by Ellie's dialogue, other than I guess cement her as a lesbo, but... why is that necessary? Meanwhile the potential goldmine of "You have to feel some sort of obligation" Tess dies in the first hour and gets literally zero other mention, with very little interaction between her and Joel. When the trailer for TLOU2 dropped and it once again focused on a very awkward interaction and kiss I lost all interest. It's like... nothing about the first game was romantic, why is this shit in here? Not even getting into if the lesbian thing is an issue, (This forum would probably get... upset about it) it just seems dumb. Like, "Do you believe love can bloom on a battlefield?" in MGS4 was dumb and random, but it's a campy series full of goofy shit, so fuck it, why not? Why are they shoving in a stupid teenage #relatable relationship in a game about the harsh realities of the end of the world? Why are these characters acting like this? Going very slightly into the political side, maybe I've missed something, but I think every major game recently that's had a relationship has been of the lesbian variety. I'm not even sure about gay. Outside of Spiderman (And being completely p-whipped by MJ) and ...Persona 5? Seems like there's very little relationships and the ones that are, are lesbian. Gone Home Tacoma Life Is Strange Life Is Strange; Before the Shitstorm Life is Strange 2 Overwatch (Why in the fuck was that necessary?) TLOU TLOU2 Assassin's Creed Odyssey (along with a bunch of other gay characters in previous entries) Mass Effect Andromeda Borderlands (All of them) Divinity Original Sin 2 (I had accidental gay sex with a skeleton man. It was... weird.) All of the Dragon Age games (Despite it not making much sense) Nier: Automata has lesbian robots... because... reasons? The list goes on.
  12. I recently went on Google Docs to get a spreadsheet I just made. It didn't have the one I made, but for some reason it did have one on the dynamic range of a gramophone or something, which I guess I deleted, because it's not there now. I don't know when I read it, or why, but I did.
  13. They claim it does. I haven't tried because I don't care about either. I already have games in my library I dislike, I'm not picking up more I know I won't like.
  14. Along with Nvidia's other big selling points they never put any effort into and just let them die off. 3D vision is completely gone, despite it not being exceptionally reasonable to assume people have the hardware for it, their VR thing has gone literally nowhere, triple monitors suck, etc. Ray tracing guaranteed will come to games, but it certainly wasn't ready yet. Still seems a bit dumb to lock of parts of the GPU specifically for ray tracing and AI when they aren't strong enough to really matter. It's kind of a chicken and the egg thing. As for me, I'm on an increasingly aging 2gb 960, and I'm about ready to pull the trigger on a 1660, but I don't know if Nvidia is going to release anything new in a month or two. Probably not, but it would be nice.
  15. Eh. If EGS keeps putting out games of this quality I won't have to worry about the 2FA.
  16. I don't see how giving them an email they already have makes my account any safer, but okay. Is that a big problem? If so I don't see how providing an email they already have helps. Or I could just not deal with the hassle and not give my number.
  17. ...but they already have my email...? I guess if they just want the email they already have that's okay. I'm just not giving out my phone number. Ubi and Google ask for my phone number every time I log in. Valve wants my phone number to sell useless trading cards a week earlier. Maybe there's other options available, but it always asks for phone number first.
  18. In other news, EGS is now hard requiring 2 factor authentication (Giving your phone number) to redeem free games. I don't think EGS is spyware, and I trust them as much as Valve, Ubisoft, EA, Rockstar, and Bethesda, so I guess I'm just not nabbing any free games until the requirement lapses end of next month. Good thing I don't care about next weeks games.
  19. No, music normalization is it's own thing, and I've already done that. I'm just looking for something that will increase the master dB gain on a per program basis. As Buck mentioned, this is mostly attainable in the Windows volume mixer, each app or program has it's own slider, but it's inconsistent and doesn't run off a logical dB scale, just a percentage measure from 0-100. Typically when you have something do normalization it affects the source material, instead of just a straight gain increase and can kill dynamic range,
  20. Yeah, after messing with it, it's not what I'm looking for. It's mostly for input/output via recording and microphones, which is cool, but I'm looking for something that will independently change program volume output, like the MS mixer does, but with more control. I don't really use a microphone outside of ARMA occasionally. The closest I can get in VoiceMeeter Banana is setting my music player (MusicBee) output to VoiceMeeter Aux Input. But then everything else just goes to the standard VoiceMeeter input, so it's not really any more useful than just changing the volume in MusicBee. The only advantage is that it's in dB measures.
  21. Hmm. Seemed like it had a minimum cost on it. Yeah, I don’t know. I was definitely on a page with pricing that showed Voicemeeter being 15 euros.
  22. That's more along the lines of what I'm thinking, but I'm not big on spending $16 on it.
  23. But it's annoying and inconsistent. *Edit, I guess more specifically, I'm looking for something so I can just tell certain programs to have a +20dB boost. In my example I would need to max out the slider for Burnout while having the rest of my system around 5% (instead of DB measurements) and still need to further increase my AVR volume, and then once the game is closed I'd need to turn my AVR back down and increase my system volume to normal levels. I have this Orban Loudness Meter so I can fairly accurately measure the peak volume and perceived loudness, and it would be more convenient to do dB changes instead of random percentages that max out at 100.
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