Ayush007

I wish he recover soon asap 

Hi Linus friends sorry if I am doing this wrong, this is my first time on the forum just to ask for help. Without blasting all of my friend, Isaac's, business here is what you need to know: he's in his early 40's and is going through his second recurrence of brain cancer. The tumor is on his motor strip which has paralyzed his right side almost completely unusable and now has to relearn to live with only his left hand while still working full time to pay for his treatments. There is some good news in that I guess his cancer is a mutation so it's more susceptible to chemo which changed his prognosis from a terminal sentence to being hopeful that he'll be able to pull through again. However the doctor said he probably won't ever get his right side back and if he does it will be very limited but we can only find out after his treatment. So I've been trying to find stuff to help him to game again since he isn't left to do much else. Right now his limited to games that only need the basic point and click with mice. I bought him Frostpunk and This War of Mine but besides those all he's been able to play is Sid Civ 6 and Among Us. Sorry for the long intro but wanted you to know what I'm working with here. Right now he's been using a logitech G300s but I was hunting though some old Linus vids and showed him the Keymouse from the vid "This KEYBOARD has a BUILT IN MOUSE" which he seemed interested in but he was concerned that it might still require the right half to function properly and the $500 price tag. We live in the USA btw. So I was going to try and convince a couple friends to all pitch in and buy it but got stopped by the fact its sold out and $500 split five ways is a lot for something that might not work. So I was looking at stuff like the Razer Nastromo, Razer Orbweaver, Razer Tartarus and Delux T9 but none of them have built in mice and the ones that have the joysticks that would enable him to play other genres of games again still require a mouse in the right hand. So we managed to find this "Gaming Mouse with 5 D Rocker, TRELC Ergonomic Mouse with 10000 DPI/11 Programmable Buttons, RGB Vertical Gaming Mice Wired for PC/Laptop/E-Sports/Gamer" on Amazon which meets the joystick and the mouse, it only has 4 buttons including the standard left and right click and it's only right handed. So where my research is coming up not very helpful I'm hoping the Linus family can help my friend out. Does anyone know of anything that might help him play some of his old games again? Thanks for any help.

Pedals perhaps?

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/dell/alienware-aw3420dw
 
$1000 and doesn't have HDR, horrible contrast, poor black uniformity, sub-par factory calibration, lots of overshoot and isn't even 240hz or more.

Basically these:
https://www.rtings.com/monitor/tools/table/36835
 
And maybe this one, depending what you're looking for in a monitor.
https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/samsung/odyssey-g7
 
Rtings is also testing LG 38WN95C-W right now, so the results should be out in a few weeks, they also have already bought Samsung G9, so you might want to keep an eye for those results as well and LG 27GN950-B has already basically won the voting so once it's released they should be buying and reviewing it too.
 
Please do read the sticky, it has lots of good information about monitors.
 

The RTX 3090 is gonna work best with a 8K or 4K display. I think that a 3090 is a bad deal though if youre just gaming, i would go for a 3080 even if you want to game at 4k.

i am 95% sure the 8k Demo is BS or only possible with DLSS in supported games.
8k is over 30 Million Pixels, 4x the amount of pixels in a 4k screen. It'll suck for AAA games without DLSS. 

I'd love to get the rtx3080, but only having 10gb vram might be not enough at least in the long run. I'm a fan of buying a bit more expensive and having my stuff longer. My gtx980 was (excluding an titan class ones) the most expüensive on I could get back then and is still kicking but those 4gb vram it has really is crap now. Buying a rtx3090 might actually be the "only option" I have, if I don't want to wait till (maybe) next year. For now I still have some time till I buy something, because I'll wait for RDNA2 and the new Zen3 cpus. This should be enough time to ponder over buying one or the other card.

That's exactly how new generations are supposed to work. You get more performance at the same price point. I'd say the 2000 series was somewhat of an exception in that regard, but it seems to have really skewed people's perception. It's an impressive release for sure, but maybe wait for independent reviews before you declare victory across the board? We don't even know what the performance improvement they showed was compared to (most likely RTX only).

Yeah I've pre-ordered it.
 
Played Mafia 1 in the past but I was a bit too young for its difficulty.

Hello guys ,
 
 
I hope you all are doing well !!
 
Please stay safe and healthy !!
 
{ PLEASE DONT FORGET TO SHARE ME YOUR OPINION AS IT'S HIGHLY VALUABLE FOR ME }
 
As we all know,  the masterpiece edition of Illusion Softworks  - MAFIA 1 is back  ( with  4k stunning visual  graphics ). 
 
I know Many of you  ( especially hard-core  game lover ) don't miss any title unless it doesnt worth it. 🤞🤞🤞🤞
 
tell me how many of you are going to buy this title.
 
{PLEASE FEEL FREE TO GIVE ME YOUR OPINION }
 

I did pre order it (yeah yeah I know) however after seeing the trailer I refunded my pre order and will wait for it to release so I can gauge its reception.
 
The trailer basically looked like Mafia 3 reskinned, they made a point about Tommy not being a soldier while in the video he's reloading a clip one handed and blind firing like John McClane. There was way to many medikits, to much clutter on screen pointing out where to go and what to do, not enough guards, the cars look like they're driving at Mafia 3 speeds but the thing I hated the most was the voice acting.
 
I'm hopeful the "Classic Mode" they have teased will fix most of these issues and if it does I will buy it but if it really is Mafia 3.5 then I'm out.

What I said happens literally the second you start the game.

No, that particular scene happens about 2 hours in. 
 
Id recommend staying away from and threads or videos discussing Part II if you don’t want spoilers. 

I really liked the first part. 
 
Thank you. I try to be. 👍

Thanx  for explainig so beautifully and logically.
 
Your explanation is quite logical and practical.
 
I appreciate it 👍👍👍👍👍👍
 
Bdw I have played first part !!

Heres why I'm not buying the game. 
 
Btw I enjoyed the first game. I thought that story was really good. It showed me the story of a broken man who 15 years later becomes a father again even when he is trying to fight it the whole time. 
 
I'm not a fan of TLOU2 storyline because it just went all over the place for me. I watched a stream and I felt like I got more of Abby's story rather than Ellie's story. Theres way too many flashbacks, while I think the story between Joel and Ellie is good, I just wish they could have told in a way that didn't require flashbacks. That would allow the player to grow an even deeper relationship with Joel, making is killing even more meaningful than it already was. Then instead of playing as Abby, you can hate her even more.
 
Also I'm not a fan of sex scenes. The one with Abby and Owen made no sense to me.
 
 
All of that said, this game was a beautiful game. The characters are looking more and more real as video games evolve. The scenes Naughty Dog makes are beautiful as usual. Its a masterpiece graphically.

I wouldn't get a 4K monitor, they're a bit pointless as is and the console may not run 4K great in a few years even if it can hit 60+ at launch. Plus the PS5 looks to be significantly weaker than the XSX.

For the consoles I'd stick to 1080p 144Hz tbh.l Sure they might run games well now but in 5 years time you can't exactly swap out the GPU.

I think the story telling and pacing is really poorly done, there's lots of plot holes, the script is awful (Ellie and Co. talk like millennial California valley girls) and has a lot of very forced emotional manipulation, which only works if you're easily manipulated and gullible. There's also lot's of streamers and let's players that skipped the leaks and still hate it.
 
What happens to a lead character doesn't exactly bother me. It's the only way the story could work. What bothers me is how bad the dialogue and how stupid the plot and characters are up to that point. And then the game does a bunch of flashbacks, so characters will reference things and you have no idea what they're talking about, or they'll mention something that happened hours before that you've already forgotten about. The ironic thing is that the story would actually be much better if they told it in a straight linear fashion, so maybe you'd get to care about these characters. There's also just... the initial cause for revenge is the death of a certain person, who's just a piece of shit. Just fucking awful, and it make it feel dumber. They also took the ambiguous ending of the first game, and threw it in the trash.
 
It's hard to discuss why it's bad without spoilers. Let's just say I actually bought a PS4 for 6 games, 4 of which are on or coming to PC, and one I didn't like as much as the prequel, which is now on PC. The Last of Us 2 was my last reason to have bought a PS4, and I'm hugely disappointed. I may as well just sell my PS4 entirely at this point.
 
Did you play the first game?

I would pair the PS5 with a HDR TV that supports 60fps.  The PS5 will not go higher than 60fps.  Using a 120/144hz monitor will be a waste because developers will assume you are playing on a TV.   The consoles are generally developed with the idea you are using a TV so I do not expect developers to be creating 144hz experiences on the PS5.   I expect them to restrict to 4k HDR 30fps usually with the occasional game at 60fps.
 
However, this is just my opinion based on the years of gaming on a PS2, PS3, PS4.  
 
 

I wouldn't recommend buying it, if you really want to know the story watch someone play through it.

A common defense of the game is to attack the critics as ists, isms, and phobes. A weak argument, one used a lot by the access media and certain 'people' on social media.
 
While the Wokeness, and all that it entails, is ONE of the issues (and rightly shouldnt be ignored just because its 'problematic' to some people), the BIGGEST issues, are to do with the story and change in characteristics of the original characters. not to mention the structuring of the game & story and timing of certain sequences.... and the 'fake' choices..lack of choices of certain actions, and then being preached at by the game as to how bad those acts were.....could go on,, but its been reviewed to death at this point.

I've been looking at a decent number of reviews on Youtube and the comments there. Reddit and 4chan is always a cesspool of garbage and "memes." The only time I touch Reddit is to ask specific questions about very certain things.
*Edit, in any case, from what I have seen from that was more about Abby looking like a trans, which she does. She also has a melee move that's straight God of War, so I might just start calling her Kratos.

I thought the game was amazing, not perfect though.  
 
If people have issues with the character development, pacing or length i think that they have some valid points but i really don't understand why people are getting so pissy about the presence of gay people, like who gives a fuck?  It's not like you're running through the whole game preaching gay rights and carrying a multicolored gay pride flag or anything, it's barely discussed. 
 
It just comes off like a racist person getting angry about black people making their way into a TV show or movie series that they previously loved but now hate because it has an "agenda".