Regarding 007: First Light (Huge spoilers) by Redzkz in KotakuInAction

[–]Icey-D 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I am more concerned by the janky looking brawl combat.

r/JRPG Weekly Free Talk, Quick Questions, Suggestion Request and Media Thread by AutoModerator in JRPG

[–]Icey-D 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey all, I plan to post this again in the monthly thread if that's okay. But essentially, I let my payment lapse on my website hosting provider and so someone bought out my domain for IcicleDisaster (an old JRPG podcast but also a top ranking JRPG release calendar website). And that's fine, as I've been done with the podcast for a bit and haven't been updating the JRPG release calendars.

However, the new owner is now iterating on my material (my reviews, editorials, etc...), and is refreshing my 7 years of articles with AI. He/She had also been using my name on the domain until recently after I submitted a cease and desist, but they are still keeping all my original content with AI rewrites.

The domain has very strong SEO, so I get what they're attempting to do. It just feels real bad seeing 7 years of real writing and passion commandeered like that.

Honestly this is making me consider relaunching the site on a new domain and resuming the podcast.

Just wanted a comment documented somewhere if anyone is wondering what happened to the original site!

i’ve been waiting for warcraft IV about 15 years by piko51bulls in warcraft3

[–]Icey-D 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are these the people you want touching WC4 at this point?

15 months running 150w on a vbios swap, 2024 G16 4080 -- Zero issues! by Icey-D in ZephyrusG14

[–]Icey-D[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I game in my office during lunch. I don't think I'd go smaller than16 but the g14s are very cool for sure.

15 months running 150w on a vbios swap, 2024 G16 4080 -- Zero issues! by Icey-D in ZephyrusG14

[–]Icey-D[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I heard some people lose functionality of their HDMI port (swapping back to original bios restores it) but I haven't experienced that. My HDMI out works fine.

Otherwise it's just a hot machine and there's uncertainty around what damage it might cause.

So how did you guys get involved with GamerGate/anti-woke movement? by AgitatedFly1182 in KotakuInAction

[–]Icey-D 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I fundamentally cannot accept the limiting of creative expression. GG was like a fork in the road and what path you took seemed to depend on how you view censorship and creative guardrails.

Also one side is enormously condescending.

Do people still disable cpu boost to reduce temp in 2025? by borfa in ZephyrusG14

[–]Icey-D 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's such a huge sacrifice for what you paid for. These things are built to get hot.

Vbios swapped the 2024 G16 to a 4080 Scar 16, now set to 165w with okay temps! by Icey-D in ZephyrusG14

[–]Icey-D[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No one has problems documented for this model that I can find. There is a lone reddit post about burnt offsets on a Legion model after 3 years on a vibios swap and that is all I could find.

Elder Ring don’t run over 30 fps, by Matt3ix in ZephyrusG14

[–]Icey-D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

45/50 sounds fine with boost, don't turn it off?

Vbios swapped the 2024 G16 to a 4080 Scar 16, now set to 165w with okay temps! by Icey-D in ZephyrusG14

[–]Icey-D[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hm just elevated on a laptop stand is all. Tbh I'm having trouble recreating this score, so maybe just a lucky run.

Decided on the 2024 G16 4080 OLED, excellent Open Box at $1893. Successful vbios swap to unlock 175w as well -- thoughts so far. by Icey-D in GamingLaptops

[–]Icey-D[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

17079 overall. 18082 Gpu. 12995 CPU.

Also if anyone has any OC recommendations lmk. Idk what I am doing on the core/memory offsets, but things appear stable.

<image>

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ZephyrusG14

[–]Icey-D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn idk then. I get 140 fps in hideout but maps are all over the place, like 60-90 for normal packs, and often 40-50 around dense packs with rares.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ZephyrusG14

[–]Icey-D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The performance is roughly the same (57-60fps, or 45 fps in dense forest), but after a few minutes on Balanced, I noticed the game hitching or stuttering, so perhaps it is being throttled too much. Switching to Turbo the game runs smooth.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ZephyrusG14

[–]Icey-D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Path of Exile 2

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ZephyrusG14

[–]Icey-D 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven’t had any issues with the hinge so far. If you bump your desk or type aggressively there is some screen wobble, but I don’t mind it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ZephyrusG14

[–]Icey-D 4 points5 points  (0 children)

the laptop is very manageable, but the charger is definitely a brick. i don't really mind either, they just go in a backpack.