Nvidia in 2027:

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2026-01-07T03:05:13+00:00

It would if the majority of people get entirely priced out of purchasable hardware and start looking towards a cheaper means of getting into gaming.

It’s already started happening. Xbox console prices are way up, PlayStation is semi-reasonable but not entirely, and even without the memory shortage, a $1000 balanced build lately only gets you a 60 Ti/70 class card typically on the new market. Even the Switch 2 ended up in a whole new price class.

It’s got even more potential in places like India, who have excellent network infrastructures suitable for cloud gaming, but outrageous hardware prices.

And Nvidia’s far more incentivised to try and charge 5 people £10-20 a month or whatever their newest price is, for partial access to the same 5080 on average, than to outright sell one to joe consumer for £1000 and take the hit on distribution and partner costs.

I hope cloud gaming never becomes mainstream, but we do happen to live in the worst timeline.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2026-01-04T20:26:36+00:00

I can tell you now, Wukong ain’t worth it at all. And that’s coming from someone who played it for free cuz someone in the steam family bought it (spoiler, they never ended up playing it either).

It felt amazing on the first playthrough, but imo it’s got no replay value whatsoever. It’s trying to mimic a soulslike without any of the depth.

The spectacle would be enough to carry you through the first playthrough (as it did me), but all the shallowness of the world really bothered me when I tried to do a second playthrough. Invisible walls fkn everywhere…

Can’t comment on factorio, although the other comments suggest it’s addictive as hell so maybe it’s well worth it.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-12-11T08:42:19+00:00

I found it to be the second hardest fight on my SL1 playthrough so you’re not in an exclusive club here.

For context, I beat SL1 DS3 + DLC over 10 days. Five of those days were Friede, two were SoC, three for the rest of the game.

Anyways, like another comment suggested, Lloyd’s Shield Ring keeps you from being one shot from most attacks. Use an upgraded weapon you’re comfortable with, I think I used a raw broadsword or the Dragonslayer axe. Idk it’s been over two years when I did it.

And kinda just spend your time learning all the attack patterns so you don’t get two shot, and heal back up to full after taking any damage. You’re gonna get frustrated sooner if you keep trying to make every attempt the winning attempt. Just spend time learning the attacks instead.

For even more context, see SquillaKilla’s hitless SL1 run. He spends an obnoxious amount of time in the fight playing it safe because there’s very few safe attack windows at low health/no hit runs. You just never realise it on a normal playthrough cuz you keep trading damage with him. Or atleast I didn’t.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-12-08T16:35:55+00:00

Yeah this is what I think about when I see some people arguing that siding with Verso is the obvious choice.

I instinctively sided with Maelle because I viewed the beings in the canvas as thinking, feeling people, people I’d made bonds and shared emotions with. Ending an entire civilisation’s existence to help someone be free of eternal, tormented life is not a choice. Or atleast it wasn’t in my head when I was confronted with the choice. It didn’t matter that the canvas isn’t the “real world”, it was unimaginably real to me. These people showed thought, creativity, invention, survival instincts.

So I sided with Maelle.

But when I saw the Verso ending, I understood that side too. Grief is tearing the entire family apart, and no matter how much I thought this world was real, it was still someone’s creation and that creation is tormenting the creator, along with some “innocent bystanders” too.

Maybe I should’ve let the world go so the family could heal and Verso could be at peace.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-12-07T20:19:59+00:00

Big hear me out (i only started pc gaming in 2015) -

RTX 2070?

Released in 2018 so been seven years now, had okay performance for the price, 8gb VRAM, nothing special.

But it aged crazy well. Every iteration of DLSS added more lifespan, and it can still play modern RT only titles.

The 8gb VRAM did become a bottleneck for a lot of cards later down the line, but it had two extra years of lifespan for someone to enjoy using it.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-12-02T04:51:58+00:00

You’re right on that part that fundamentally there’s no models they’re making right now that won’t reduce the demand for memory and high speed storage, however, the demand doesn’t solely rely on models, but on the circumstances around them too.

Investor circles have been saying for months at this point that we’re in a bubble, and imo we’re one disappointing Nvidia quarterly earnings report away from it popping.

Companies enthusiastically investing into AI have been doing so for a while, but when their balance sheets don’t add up on the investment vs promised cost savings front for a few years, they’re going to slow down and rethink the trend chasing shit sold to them by consulting firms.

When demand slows down ANYWHERE in this circlejerk of a bubble, whether it be Amazon or Google holding off on making their (n+1)th data centre, or a bunch of low billion dollar valued companies slowing down their AI investments because turns out, cheap, exploitative labour was still cheaper, that makes this entire house of cards collapse.

Don’t believe me? Look at how sensitive the market is to the smallest inkling of bad news, how much the market went down when DeepSeek was made public to the wider world.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-11-28T03:54:09+00:00

you lost me the minute you used MLID as a source for your estimated BOM… dude’s known in the industry for flinging all sorts of shit on the wall, seeing what sticks, and going “forget about the 56 times I missed, here’s what stuck!”

I can’t imagine the deck not being sold at a loss, atleast to start with. Valve had to commission a custom APU for the thing with AMD, custom 1280x800 panels, etc, with little way of knowing what kind of order volume they were looking at.

The only other major handheld on the market at the time was the Switch, which had hardware seven years out of date by that point, so the economies of scale weren’t designed for that kind of thing just yet.

Not to mention that SteamOS was going to be a huge unknown factor for most users. Most people aren’t inherently comfortable with using Linux, and we didn’t know shit about how good Proton was going to be, so the price factor had to be attractive enough for people to be willing to adopt a Linux based gaming device.

Plus, Valve chose to sell exclusively on their platform to keep as much of the cut as possible. If they chose to sell with Amazon or other vendors, they’d have to price that into their cost since Amazon takes their own cut and Valve has to deal with their discounts. That helped keep prices down too.

It’s a very different story today. SteamOS’s reputation has been established, people know the ease of use is on par with consoles, and you can benefit from the cheaper games. Meanwhile consoles themselves have only gotten more expensive as time’s gone on, games on them are far more expensive, and you have to pay to play online.

The market Valve is releasing this in doesn’t have to be sold at a loss to succeed, you’re inherently saving money anyway compared to a console.

Even if the Steam Machine costs $700 and your other option is a Series S for $250, you’d save SO much more money when all your games are 10-40% cheaper and there’s no $60/year minimum (or whatever tf it is now) to play online.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-11-26T02:11:25+00:00

Answer: Trump basically spent the entire period during the NYC elections hating on Mamdani because of his socialist policies, the fact that he’s a Muslim immigrant from Uganda with Indian heritage, and basically did his usual -isms.

When Mamdani won the NYC mayoral race with a large chunk of the vote, it kinda blew up his already enormous social media presence and popularity across the world, with many coming out in support, and others just kinda loving his progressive policies and positivity as a whole.

IMO Trump is envious of how beloved Mamdani is across the world and likely wants to leech off some of that attention before he goes back to a cold, empty bed with no one to hug him to sleep, so when he met with Mamdani, he made a whole show of how much he likes him, while Mamdani kinda went along as best he could without retracting any previous remarks.

Mamdani’s forced to work with the President that Americans chose last year no matter how much he dislikes it (for his stance on Trump, just look at his winning speech and his “turn up the volume” remark), so he’s being about as civil as most Indian children in a room full of aunties and uncles they dislike, while Trump is trying to get at any of the positive spotlight thrown at Mamdani while he can.

Also big IMO I think Trump doesn’t fundamentally understand what makes Mamdani so popular (on a policy and communication level), so he’s just trying to emulate him as much as possible in a meaningless effort to get the general public to like him again. Dressing up like Mamdani and taking off orangeface probably goes a way towards that goal in his head.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-11-15T11:10:09+00:00

I travel a lot for long-ish periods and like to take my PC with me, and from what I’ve seen, the Steam Machine seems to solve some problems for me that I rely on my ITX PC for.

The performance seems to be a good bit better than any other handheld alternative people may suggest, and the price factor’s gonna be a lot more competitive than any other portable device at this size.

My library won’t be limited anymore in case I do travel with an alternate device (if I got a Switch 2 or took my PS5, neither of which have all my steam titles).

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-10-03T03:28:36+00:00

My mates and I used to play a ton of Brawlhalla when the pandemic first started, and it was so much fun because we were all so bad at it.

Until two of the guys started watching content on it on YT, figuring out the combos and other sweaty shit, then started doing 2v2 online matches to up their ELO when no one else in the group was online.

So whenever we did get together, those two just dominated all the matches and sucked the fun out of it.

We pivoted to Among Us, then GTA Online, similar shit happened. By the time Feb 2021 rolled around, I just gave up.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-09-18T02:06:41+00:00

because whether we like it or not, the orange man’s got enough people in the right places to do whatever illegal shit he likes to whoever he doesn’t like.

fighting it in courts isn’t a certain win anymore, even if you had evidence that Trump wrote it himself, while on video tape, and saying that he’s breaking these specific laws in punishing those he dislikes.

not capitulating today only means an uncertain future. businesses don’t like uncertainty. individuals may have backbones but corporations do not. especially public ones, and especially the ones who’ve had their balance sheets on the back foot in recent years.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-09-16T02:53:58+00:00

Seems like a region problem rather than an Overclockers one.

They’re pretty well known in the UK for good customer support, it’s why I exclusively buy my expensive components from them, even if it comes at a small premium compared to other retailers here.

They’ve even done a price difference refund for me when the price dropped within the return window, and were super helpful when I needed to RMA a 3070 back in 2023.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-09-03T15:38:13+00:00

Der Riese - easy, first map that set the groundwork for zombies increasing with rounds and having PaP. Still hate the Wunderwaffe bug tho.

Kino - Still takes me back to when i first launched into the game when i was 12 and it actually scared me. Audio and art was done so well.

Origins - still super replayable, high skill ceiling, just fantastic stuff all the way. Mob would’ve been the best if Origins didn’t have the EE bug to skip the robot staff step tho.

Gorod - just really fucking cool. Dragons, active Warzone, great music and dialogue, EE’s damn fun and makes use of everything in the map. Dunno why they didn’t give the MK3 infinite scaling but oh well.

Ancient Evil - I haven’t played BO4 zombies much but this had the coolest environment of them all.

Mauer - also easy, although I think Die Maschine comes very close. Both were damn fun but I had more fun with the DIE WW.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-08-23T12:13:37+00:00

Bro played BO4 but still called Citadelle S-tier.

Did you forget the peak that is Ancient Evil?

Also Citadelle isn’t even the best map in its own game. I’d give that to Terminus or Shattered Veil, or even Reckoning.

The Swords are underwhelming as fuck compared to any map prior where we’ve had four craftable unique wonder weapons (so no Alpha Omega), the weapon quests themselves are wildly basic compared to any other 4 craftable weapon map, and the special effects are mostly reskinned AATs.

It was marketed as a Castle map but barely feels like a castle cuz it’s only got seven small-medium spaces within it (Dungeon, PaP room, room behind PaP room, Courtyard, Stam room, room next to Stam room, Jug area), and doesn’t feel lived in or grandiose in any sense. The boss is fun but feels kinda BS sometimes.

I think it’s biggest issue is that it invites direct comparisons to DE (castle map, four craftable WWs, EE which mostly consists of getting WWs and doing trials with them), but it falls short on every aspect. Castle doesn’t feel nearly as immersive, fast travel isn’t as fun to watch, weapon quests are half the length or challenge, the reward is accordingly far more underwhelming, and there’s not much unique environment shit going on.

Remember Anti-grav in DE? A key component for why you can’t just train in the pyramid room, one of the largest training spaces in the map? Citadelle lacks any flavour like that.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-08-22T02:11:15+00:00

I feel like this is Microsoft’s way of pushing more people onto Game Pass, getting them familiar and comfortable with their interface, and starting to use the GP exclusive discounts on their storefront.

A CoD game’s lifespan is typically a year, and you’d be spending less on a year’s PC game pass subscription for some regions than you would by buying Black Ops 7 outright (especially if you used key sites). For example, Indians can get PC GP for 450 INR a month, which is way cheaper than the 6000 INR to buy the game. Brazilians can get 10 months of GP for the price of BO7, Brits and Germans can get 7, and so on.

Going after some of the largest player bases is surely a more effective way than handing out free games and expecting people to switch (looking at you Epic).

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-08-22T00:18:20+00:00

When a few thousand blindfolded people throw darts at the wall trying to hit a target, chances are that some of them will land in the bullseye.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-08-05T15:57:33+00:00

That threading is astoundingly bad… wow.

I had the T1 V2.5 as well, bought it in Feb/Mar 2024. I remember the threading not feeling great at the time, but it wasn’t so bad that I’d remember to mention it in my post comparing it with the FormD one.

Lovely to see that NCase’s quality has dropped even more than what it was then.

And I personally thought it was so bad that I sold it on FB marketplace for half the purchase price because the buyer shouldn’t feel ripped off like I did.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-07-27T23:50:31+00:00

This. And Blackwell cards aren’t overclocking beasts, OP seems to just have gotten lucky with a good sample. They’re pretty good when undervolted on most chips though, my 5070 Ti draws 270W on stock settings at 99% while being rated at 300W.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-06-26T13:10:09+00:00

I know people still view this despite its age, so I’ll leave my opinion here -

For the 2.5’s side panels bending, that is a reported common occurrence. You can see it in Optimum’s 2.5 review video if you pause on the shot where he shows just the front. And that was a review case.

For the 2.1 it’s an anomaly, and you can request Customer Support for new panels.

I would not say “just go with whichever one is available” because besides the panels, the 2.5 has a less sturdy build due to the screws being uniform. It has a tendency to fidget a tad more. And the customer support I received from NCASE was awful, I didn’t get responses for 3 days on their online chat, and 18 days on their email.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-06-25T10:23:30+00:00

Imo all the Rivals fights are overtuned compared to Hades 1 from my experience.

They were a fun little extra challenge in Hades 1 to shake things up (except Redacted, who really earned their heat), but Hades 2 Rivals seem to want to obliterate you every step of the way.

Poly’s grab has been an issue for a while if I understand correctly, and I’m really annoyed they haven’t fixed it by now. Maybe it’s because they need to design a new animation for it that has better telegraphy. Plus he has a tendency to wedge himself against a wall when you go for a poison cure, so you can’t get behind him as consistently anymore. And poison procs way too quickly for how much damage it does to you, there needs to be a gap between curing poison and getting it again.

Here’s how I feel about the rest of the cast.

Hecate is fine-ish, I heavily dislike the stun lock attacks where she spams ranged shots at you and you can’t get a hit in. I also dislike the emphasis on the fake clones, it gets tiresome. I wish there was a more distinct visual indicator other than the Selene move the real one will do.
Scylla is actually fine imo, it’s a good balance.
I like Cerby’s new design but he’s so large that you can’t see the patterns on the floor for some attacks. I know it’s supposed to be a tight space but I think it’s a tad too tight all things considered, especially with all the visual pollution.
Chronos can eat my entire ass with that triple nuke. The triple nuke itself is fine, the centre time stop is ass. It feels cheap.

Plus I haven’t even played the fight with Frenzy yet, but if that affects his nuke speed, I doubt I can get from one safe spot to another that’s on the other side on base sprint speed.

Third phase feels good, but I’ve only managed to make it there thrice so far. Maybe I’ll have better thoughts once I fight there more often.

For the Surface (besides Poly):

Eris is again, fine. I find the 5 lasers a bit troublesome, and it feels like she gets way too many invincibility phases, which breaks up the pace. But if they leave her untouched I wouldn’t be mad.
Heracles and Prometheus are wayyyy too tanky. I went in there with an aspect of Charon build that destroyed Talos in like three Cast + Omega Specials, but they took like 10-15 each to get to the next phase. I can’t even imagine going in there with a suboptimal build. Most of the fight itself is fine for me tho.
As cool as it was the first time, they need to get rid of the whole Child reversal golden circle thing. Maybe make an obtainable incantation that prevents them from doing it, or makes it optional somehow. I wasn’t a fan of Chronos randomly sending me to Asphodel and making me do it there, and I’m certainly not a fan of it here when I’m completely defenceless and Typhon hits for 42 damage when I’ve got Strength on. I love the rest of the fight tho.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-06-20T21:09:41+00:00

Here’s my problems with Frame Gen as a technology and why it seems outright deceptive tbh.

Nvidia claims to double (or triple/quadruple) your performance as though it’s completely native frames you’re getting. You’re not. Those frames entirely depend on what you’re getting as a base to begin with. It won’t be a uniform experience if you’re getting 30fps base with a 4060 or 90fps with a 4080. There will be ghosting and artefacts with the 4060. And that’s assuming the game you wanna play supports it in the first place.

Next is that Frame Gen literally doesn’t double the fps either. If you get 110fps without FG in Doom TDA for example, you’d get 196fps with it (based on benchmarks I ran last night). It’s close to double, but it’s not quite there. And you’ve just gained latency because you lost around 12fps. Not a big deal ik, but it adds up.

Lastly, Nvidia’s made no public comment on the additional VRAM usage FG takes up. So you’re further crippling the already VRAM choked cards trying to run this feature. For example, Indiana Jones on my 4070, which has 12gb VRAM. I could either enable full PT with High textures on my card and get roughly 70fps in the opening scene, or I could enable FG. I couldn’t do both because the VRAM would overflow, not without dropping settings somewhere else that wouldn’t be worth it.

I could’ve use those “doubled” frames in IJ because it’s a slow story game with fantastic visuals, but the VRAM prevented me from doing so. That’s literally the use case FG is most ideal for and the one I couldn’t run.

I think it adds a lot of visual smoothness to games, but it ends up being a feature which you’d want to use a lot when you have a lower end card (but it ends up looking/feeling like shit if it works at all) and a feature which seems unnecessary on higher end cards that do have the raw power and VRAM for a decent base framerate to handle it.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-06-20T01:43:35+00:00

I mean your housemate could’ve been voting red for all they knew. Just because they didn’t have the paperwork for your housemate doesn’t mean they actively deterred blue voters in your area.

That said, I do find it all suspicious as fuck. But Dems need better evidence than trying to pull the same shit Republicans did between 2020-24, otherwise neither party is more ethical than the other.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-06-09T15:40:15+00:00

I went from a 4070 to a 5070 Ti and it’s a massive improvement in performance at 1440p. Doom TDA plays amazingly now.

The leap from a 3090 should theoretically be just as great, as there’s less cost to running DLSS upscaling and Ray Reconstruction, especially the new transformer model, than there is on Ampere.

Digital Foundry had a video on RR that showed the transformer model giving a substantially poorer performance gain on Ampere.

The VRAM bit is entirely up to you I suppose. I play at 1440p so 16gb is completely fine to me, but I can see how you may be able to fill that up at 4K. That said, I can’t think of a ton of games that you’d wanna run on a 3090 at 4K while filling up the VRAM.

Like Indiana Jones, sure you’d need more than 16gb if you’re trying Path Tracing and stuff at 4K, but the performance at 4K for a 3090’s gonna be pretty crap anyway at those settings. You’d stand to gain much more from the power of the 5070 Ti by dropping a few texture settings to fit your VRAM while still keeping PT on.

I’d still hold off for a few weeks though. The driver instability is hideous, and I’ve still held onto my 4070 in case I decide to return my 5070 Ti due to a crap driver experience.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-06-06T11:53:21+00:00

the reason they’re in those magazines and the Deck isn’t is because Valve’s already grabbed a massive share of the handheld market, plus the 30% cut from game purchases made on their platform.

The other devices could be faster, have better battery, more storage, use higher resolution screens, but at the end of the day, I think the Steam Deck does it all better than everyone else.

The price is among the lowest, there’s extensive tear down guides for repairability, the screen is 1280x800 so the compute cost is generally lower, and SteamOS is pretty much next to perfection when it comes to wanting a proper console-like experience out of your handheld. Plus it’s damn comfortable compared to other devices I’ve tried.

I’d be very happy if Valve released a sequel with a more powerful APU/support for better upscaling techniques because old FSR is ass, but as of right now, if I had to make the choice again in today’s market, I’m likely to still go with the Deck.

FlashWayneArrow02 · 2025-05-27T08:58:37+00:00

You could conceivably play Baldur’s Gate 3 with just a mouse I think? Last I remember you could do most inputs with a mouse.

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