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Paul Rudd

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  1. Streamer Life Simulator is FREE right now on Fanatical. 79% Mostly Positive reviews on Steam... Link. You have until April 23rd, 2024 to claim this freebie or when they run out of keys, so GRAB ASAP. Developed by Cheesecake, you may have heard of their other decently popular game called Internet Cafe Simulator.
  2. Nice find, transient power spikes on this model look much better at 390 watts max and averaging at around 335 watts. A 750 watt PSU is recommended by AMD for an RX 7900 XT but unless you got some high powered CPU a 650W PSU is plenty. The GPU temp should be excellent in the low 60's but hotspot in the mid 80's(still good) for this particular XFX Speedster MERC 310 model. Noise should be pretty noticeable at 37-42 dBA so be sure to balance out noise if it's too loud and since GPU temp is excellent in the low 60's you've got tons of degrees to work with for a more quiet operation.
  3. HDR is out is my expertise, all I know about HDR is that there are many forms of HDR and most of them are pretty basic and nothing special. As for contrast ratio, it's also out of my expertise. I just remember there's backlight and dim light gimmicks involved in certain types of contrasting and that native contrasting is more important than those gimmick types of contrasting. I also remember a VA monitor has a higher contrast ratio than an IPS monitor but a VA monitor also has ghosting issues when it comes to high frame rate gaming. I definitely notice things such as washed out colors or blacks not being the deepest blacks on my current TN monitor but these are not things I invest a lot of time noticing so it doesn't bother me when I spot them.
  4. It ain't goin' nowhere. $40 more and take away 2 TB? $110 for 8 TB isn't bad but $70 for 10 TB is a steal. Some reviews could be fake or lies, so this is understandable. Hell, maybe the 5 Newegg reviews are fake, who knows. I just know I've never had a single HDD mess up on me. Every single one is still alive and kicking. I dunno if it's because of how I use them or what but I love em'. And I've left a 5 star positive review for each one. The only con I've experienced from an HDD is boot time when the power goes out during an online competitive gaming session. When the power goes out and I'm forced to turn on my PC after it's been powered off from the power outage, it takes a good 4-6 minutes to get back into the game before my team loses because it's 4v5. Boot time when first turning on my PC any day of the week is not a con though because each night I just put my PC to sleep. So when I turn it on, it's the same 10 seconds an SSD is. And for this reason, my personal PC still has Windows installed on my 1 TB HDD. People tell me to get an SSD for it all the time for it, I never do.
  5. While I heavily agree with you on this, upon further glance, have you by chance looked at the pictures and reviews? I would describe both as surprisingly favorable. And even the top rated third party seller located in California known as GOHARDDRIVE STORE has a 4.5/5 star rating from 100 reviews. And if you buy this same drive on Amazon here you get a 5 year warranty for $8.88. This third party seller also located in California is known as Worldwide Product Importer with a 4.9/5 star rating from 344 reviews. I'm a huge fan of hard drives in general and I remember paying $75 for a 3 TB 7200 RPM HDD 5 years ago and seeing this price now for a 10 TB HDD very similar to mine is a super considerable deal for someone looking to obtain mass storage. I have quite a few HDD's that are still going strong in my personal PC, can't recommend them enough.
  6. Content Warning is FREE right now on Steam. 97% Overwhelmingly Positive reviews. Free to keep when you get it before Apr 2 @ 12:00pm. This game has the same Swedish publisher of Clustertruck, Stick Fight The Game, Totally Accurate Battlegrounds and Totally Accurate Battle Simulator. Surprisingly they also have two games called Landfall Archives and Air Brawl that just so happen to be FREE. P.S. You may or may not remember this post from approximately 2 years ago on April 1st, 2022... Knightfall A Daring Journey also has the same exact publisher as all the games I just mentioned. So this could mean that Clustertruck, Stick Fight The Game, Square Brawl or ROUNDS could eventually be given out for free too since Totally Accurate Battle Simulator was also given out on Christmas Day of 2019 on the Epic Games store.
  7. Yes, agreed. Been using that site for years, works wonders when running old games on modern hardware.
  8. This is a friendly reminder that this $1.00 bundle ends in 4 days, it started a couple weeks ago and I actually overlooked its pickup potential. Red Faction is just $0.33 right now on Humble. 86% Very Positive reviews on Steam. Red Faction II is just $0.33 right now on Humble. 53% Mixed reviews on Steam. Saints Row 2 is just $0.33 right now on Humble. 75% Mostly Positive reviews on Steam. All 3 games were created by Volition, a developer headquartered in Champaign, Illinois.
  9. It's an excellent game for $0.00.
  10. Bugs were squashed two years ago, what bugs have you experienced since then?
  11. Hammerting is FREE right now on GOG. 59% Mixed reviews on Steam... Link. You have until Monday, April 1st to claim and keep this freebie forever. Published by Team17 Digital, Hammerting was created by Swedish developer Warpzone Studios. It's is a vertical dwarven mining colony sim with RPG elements. You manage a clan of Dwarves, establish an epic mining operation, craft legendary swords and delve deep for riches and danger.
  12. Since you're considering to buy from a random third party, a used RTX 2060 Super is the better option and will give double the memory interface, double the memory bandwidth and around a 21.5% higher shader count. It's literally the direct equivalent to an RX 6600 in raw performance, depending on the exact game as some games favor NVIDIA while others favor AMD. Back in December and January a used RTX 2060 Super would go for as low as around $115 but as of February and March it's more around as low as $120 to $130, maybe a little over now that we're headed into April. There's also the older generation GTX 1080 Ti, which will edge them both out in performance due to the much higher VRAM, higher memory bandwidth, higher memory interface and of course, a higher shader count. The reason this older option is actually a solid option is not only for these higher specs but because the price you will find to be a lot lower. As low as literally $75 to $80 back in January, you're only looking at around as low as $100 smackers in March. Just remember that an RTX 2060 Super turns 5 years old in July while a GTX 1080 Ti just turned 7 years old a couple weeks ago. It's worth noting that some maintenance can be a good idea, fresh thermal paste is always nice. Just depends on the previous owner and everything they can tell you about what it's been through.
  13. RDR2 is understandable to wanna share but Left 4 Dead 2 hits literally $1 all the time and Warhammer Vermintide commonly sits at $2. I say have them spend $1 to $2 to play those two games with you and in the mean time I just found out that this new Family Sharing feature is still in Beta so many people are getting an error when trying to use it and this is because a lot of the BIG developers have opted OUT of this new Family Sharing feature. Which means RDR2 is most likely not on board with this new feature. I also found out that you must be in the same country as your friend for this feature to work.
  14. I'm not familiar with this new Family Sharing feature but what I can easily recommend you make sure to do is never give out any passwords to anybody, keep your passwords to yourself. I'd also think this new feature would not require anyone to give any passwords to anybody. What exactly are you trying to do?
  15. It shows as $0.99 on my end... Reviews are claiming it's fake though... "Good day. this product is not from the Logitech brand. The declared characteristics do not correspond to reality, this is ordinary garbage and not a mouse. the wireless connection does not work at a distance of 2 meters. the assembly does not correspond to the one indicated on the box of the product itself. cable and battery are missing. the official software does not work. There is no hero sensor installed, but an ordinary optical sensor that does not have an adjustment, as stated, 12,000 dpi. I feel like there are no more than 8,000. it doesn't suit me." "this is a fake. I have the real thing and when you put them next to each other, this mouse is clearly not a Logitech mouse" On a side note, have you tried the Logitech G703 yet? I went to Bestbuy a few weeks ago and tried out tons of mice there and this one sort of stood out the most. I never even knew it existed or anything but it just felt like something completely different, in a good way. Describing it is tough so I recommend going to Bestbuy whenever you get the chance to see why it stands out. I'm going to keep what stood out the most to see if someone else experiences the same thing I did from it.
  16. Book of Demons is FREE right now on GOG. 91% Very Positive reviews on Steam... Link. You have until March 25th to claim and keep this freebie forever. Developed by Thing Trunk, an indie game developer based out of Warsaw, Poland. Book of Demons is an isometric hack and slash roguelike dungeon crawler deck builder ARPG in which you decide the length of quests. You wield magic cards instead of weapons and slay the armies of darkness in the dungeons below the Old Cathedral. It features an unusual art style. All elements of the game are visualized as paper cuttings and pop-up book elements, and such style defines visual framework for the whole series. The game was in early access starting July 28th, 2016 and officially released in mid December of 2018.
  17. Wanba Warriors is FREE right now on Fanatical. 91% Very Positive reviews on Steam... Link. Initially released on May 30, 2019, it went out of early access and officially released on March 26, 2020. You have until March 20th to claim the game but GRAB ASAP, Fanatical is known to run out of keys in no time. It's a uniquely abstract 1v1 fighting game set in an ancient world with supernatural powers and unconventional weapons. Choose from a variety of characters to battle friends or AI opponents, mastering tactics in this wonderfully bizarre world. Battles are quick and satisfying, delivering joy with each hit and minimal frustration with each loss. P.S. The Sims 4 Backyard Stuff DLC is FREE right now for a limited time on several platforms, including Steam, Epic, the Microsoft store, Origin(now EA) and even Xbox. So if you own the game on any of these platforms be sure to separately claim this DLC on each platform. Also, Hearts of Iron IV has 3 expansions that are free right now as well, Death or Dishonor, Together for Victory and Waking the Tiger.
  18. Why don't you just go with this for $550? The 20GB of VRAM, 39% faster memory bandwidth, 25% bigger memory bus and 5% higher shader count is nothing special. All this does is present a 10-20% performance boost, depending on the game. Do you really need 110-120 fps in a game where you get 100 fps or 220-240 fps in a game where you get 200 fps? These extra frames are nothing special.
  19. Business Name: Haikoushiqiyansushangmaodian Business Address: 海秀西路168号金华苑B栋B1601室 秀英区海秀街道办 海口市 海南 570100 CN You're screwed. It literally shows you can order 30 of them. I'd cancel ASAP!
  20. Space Crew Legendary Edition is FREE right now on Steam. 77% Mostly Positive reviews. Free to keep when you get it before Mar 14 @ 1:00pm. Published by Curve Digitial, this game was developed by Runner Duck, which also created Bomber Crew and the upcoming title Badlands Crew. Space Crew is an RTS game and sequel to Bomber Crew. This Legendary Edition basically includes a new campaign and new gameplay features such as missions where the player's crew leave the ship to explore outposts featuring enemies and puzzles. Rock Paper Shotgun praised the game's ability to make players feel like they have skillfully averted a major catastrophe while maintaining balanced gameplay, though they criticized an occasional lack of choice in some areas. Although saying that the game is fun when played in bite-sized chunks, PCGamesN compared it negatively to Into the Breach, FTL Faster Than Light and Slay the Spire, which the reviewer felt were more fun in longer gameplay sessions. Nintendo Life criticized the game's controls for the Switch and its difficulty, but they enjoyed the in-depth gameplay, art style, and character customization.
  21. Nomads of Driftland The Forgotten Passage is FREE right now on GOG. Nomads The Forgotten Passage is the scenario pack for Nomads of Driftland(75% Mostly Positive reviews on Steam). Nomads of Driftland is an RTS game initially created as an add-on to Driftland The Magic Revival(74% Mostly Positive reviews on Steam). Since it is significantly different from the base game, the devs decided to release it as a standalone expansion and make it available as FREE TO PLAY on Dec 7, 2020. A couple weeks ago, Driftland The Magic Revival(currently $20), was given out for FREE on Fanatical. Here is that thread. I hope I explained all this so you can understand it because I doubt any of you have actually played any of these. You have time until March 8th, 2024 to claim and keep this DLC forever.
  22. FlatOut is FREE right now on GOG. 92% Very Positive reviews on Steam... Link. You have until February 17th to claim and keep this freebie forever. Created by Finnish developer Bugbear Entertainment, this company is best known for Wreckfest and Ridge Racer Unbounded. The FlatOut series actually started 20 years ago but now the original is finally free. Gameplay in FlatOut places emphasis on demolition derby-style races and features a sophisticated physics engine. The game is mostly known for car drivers flying through the windshield.
  23. Driftland The Magic Revival is FREE right now on Fanatical. 74% Mostly Positive reviews on Steam... Link. This freebie is claimable until February 20, 2024 but as always with Fanatical freebies GRAB ASAP because they are known to run out of keys quick.
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