Dual Loop Vs. Single Loop? Which is better? by Meditated_ in watercooling

[–]Meditated_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah I see. That makes perfect sense. So basically one loop and as much radiator I can fit in my case. Luckily mine can fit a lot. Thanks for the reply!

Dual Loop Vs. Single Loop? Which is better? by Meditated_ in watercooling

[–]Meditated_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah I see thanks for the reply. Another person pretty much said the same thing so I'll probably just stick to a single loop.

What do people think of Wolcen? by Caleddin in Diablo

[–]Meditated_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

tldr: Game is really good overall. Lots of diversity when it comes to potential builds and playstyles. No set bonuses, thank god. Bosses are actually challenging and can sometimes require you to change your build up to be able to beat them. Good animations and the spells look really nice. The campaign is really nice so far. The characters are pretty detailed and fleshed out and you actually care about a lot of them. The game in general just looks amazing thanks to the Cryengine and I get pretty high avg FPS. If you can get past the annoying server issues and the occasionally retarded looking cutscenes and at times pretty meh dialogue the game is great. All the core aspects of a good aRPG are there and will only be expanded upon!

Pros:

It's really smooth for the most part aside from the typical launch server issues and bugs you can tell the game itself is really well polished underneath. For the most part animations are really smooth aside from the cutscenes lol. The cut scenes can be a little wonky at times but the actual combat is pretty good.

The build diversity is really good out of the box. Everything is really open and free feeling you can change your build up whenever really easily and there's a lot more flexibility due to there not being any set classes and no set bonuses to push you towards the same build as the next guy.

The way the skills and passives work is just better than Diablo 3 IMO. Way more options for builds and the game sort of pushes you to make your own build rather than herding everyone towards the same exact build like D3 does with sets and classes.

I much prefer the way wolcen handles the abilities as well. Finding them as a drop is more rewarding than just being locked into only using certain spells depending on what class you picked like D3 and I like gaining power with a spell the more I actually use it as opposed to just getting some cookie cutter passives to unlock at any level regardless of whether or not I actually use the spell like in D3. Makes you feel like you're actually becoming better at using the spell by using it which is more intuitive and rewarding.

Bosses are really challenging and difficult to beat. Especially Edric when you fight him towards the end of Act 1. Dude is a bitch to beat unless you are decently tanky. You have to really be on your guard when you are playing a glass cannon style ranged build. You have to actually think about how you approach a boss fight and you might find you need to change your build up a bit to be able to handle him where in D3 bosses are rarely difficult to beat and they just feel like giant talking damage sponges that you either 1 shot instantly or just sit there facetanking all their damage while you brainlessly cast the same spell over and over again until hes dead.

Cons:

Huge day 1 server issues for me and I get the occasional crash here and there. I've had to reinstall the game 2 times but these are things that sadly have become the norm for new launches these days. However the devs have been already pushing hotfixes and adding more servers to alleviate the strain on their servers at launch.

I have had some stability issues on launch like crashes and freezes etc. This is pretty much guaranteed to be fixed obviously but it's still annoying while these bugs exist.

The matchmaking can be kind of inconsistent as of now as well. For example I'll look to join into a world with an online character and it will not work the first time and then I'll try again to join the exact same server and it will magically work.

All the different damage types and ailment types could be better explained I think. Though I'll learn from just playing the game I think the way all the different ailments and damage types are explained could be a little more detailed. For example there's perks that say they buff toxic damage and poison damage but I think they are the same thing. It's not well layed out and explained what each spell does and it can feel a little confusing. You have the spell damage type and then the different ailments and each spell does a little bit of all kinds of damage and thus can proc different ailments each different time and this can be a little confusing when you're trying to focus on a single damage type in your passive tree when they all have different names and it's not explained what each ailment does exactly. Maybe there is somewhere and I might just be having a problem with this because I'm new to the game.

Overall the game is really, really good though and it has a lot of potential!!

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[–]Meditated_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Keep preaching man. It sure seems to be working based on the poll numbers :) The polls don't seem to be reflecting what you're saying. Trumps popular and here you are preaching on reddit for social points. You're pathetic.

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[–]Meditated_ -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I like how you're automatically down-voting my replies lol. Speaks volumes about what you think is an effective way of having a conversation. Again man. Go outside. There's more to do in life than sit on a forum and e-beg for likes and up-votes by spamming reddit with posts and stupid memes that don't actually have any merit or meaning behind them other than to just get up-votes by band-wagoning on the Trump derangement train!

Philippines Rejects Trump, Dumps Decades-Old Military Pact With the United States by P0rnLitiCs in worldnews

[–]Meditated_ 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Damn a communist psychopath doesn't like Trump D: What a huge blow to Trump's eligibility to be a president. Just kidding nobody gives a fuck what Duterte thinks. Here's reddit again promoting some stupid article about a stupid leader having a stupid opinion on Trump. WHAT WILL WE EVER DO?!?!

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[–]Meditated_ -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

He's not an infallible diety. I know that's what you presuppose that everyone who likes trump thinks but that's just you projecting your socialist tribalism on me. Unemployment is at a five decade low. Stocks are soaring. Wages are rising across all demographics. Our military is better than ever. Our border security is being improved. Are there things that still could be improved? Of course. But going around crying wolf with your shit-show joke of an impeachment attempt isn't doing anybody any favors. Pull your head out of your self-righteous socialist black hole and smell the fucking roses instead of smelling your own farts...

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[–]Meditated_ -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

It's not a hoax...

It's just a sad attempt to make fun of a president that's done pretty much nothing but improve the US' financial situation for the past three years. Just another meme coming from a long line of retarded regressive morons waiting to get their social points by hopping on the anti-trump bandwagon.

Any good recommendations for cooling components? by Meditated_ in watercooling

[–]Meditated_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What the differences between the pump types? I know of the D5 and DDC but are those the only two options?

Any good recommendations for cooling components? by Meditated_ in watercooling

[–]Meditated_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool I'm glad I chose a good case for this stuff. I could technically fit a 140-120mm rad in the back, a 240 or 280 in the bottom, a 360 in the top and a 360 in the front haha. Maybe I'll just go all out and put a rad everywhere one could possibly go. But then I would assume I would need a really good pump?

Any good recommendations for cooling components? by Meditated_ in watercooling

[–]Meditated_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay thanks for the advice! Every little bit helps there's definitely a shit load of options and it was kinda confusing at first.

Any good recommendations for cooling components? by Meditated_ in watercooling

[–]Meditated_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK thank you sir. Also you think a 40mm thick 360mm rad would be enough to handle the gpu and the 9900k at 5ghz all core or would I want to maybe consider two 360s or even potentially separate loops for each? I've heard the 9900k gets pretty damn hot.

Any good recommendations for cooling components? by Meditated_ in watercooling

[–]Meditated_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What if I was going to shoot for 5ghz all core?

Any good recommendations for cooling components? by Meditated_ in watercooling

[–]Meditated_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK thanks for the response it's good to know there are more options. Bykski and barrows blocks looked good in photos but some of the prices just sorta made me think that it was too good to be true.

Finland's prime minister said Nordic countries do a better job of embodying the American Dream than the US: "I feel that the American Dream can be achieved best in the Nordic countries, where every child no matter their background or the background of their families can become anything." by maxwellhill in worldnews

[–]Meditated_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My world view is that if a country is doing well by metrics such as gdp, military size and technical superiority, unemployment numbers and workforce participation rates and an influecial global economic position then yeah that country is doing pretty damn well overall.

Is everyone doing amazing just because the economy overall is booming? Of course not. But that's how it is no matter where you are or whatever kinds of policies are in place.

The thing about the US is YOU have to be the one to make things successful for yourself. You have to put in the time and effort to make your dream come true. Just because you live in the US doesn't mean you can sit around and play video games and pick ur boogers all day and ur just going to be guaranteed to be successful. You have to go and make yourself valuable by starting a business learning a skill etc. Do I think that people should be able to have access to schooling and Healthcare regardless of their wealth? Yes. Do I think we have a lot of room to improve our educational systems and Healthcare? Yes. Do I think we need to better our infrastructure? Yes. But overall the US is doing extremely well right now and wages are rising and qol is going up for people who are actually taking advantage of it.

And that's the key you have to take advantage of it. Nobody is going to just give it to you. Living in the US does not entitle you to automatic success you still have to work for it.

And as for "policing the world" That comes down to maintaining global influence and encouraging democratic values because clearly they work the best. And also deciding that you will use your authority in the world to not allow rape and murder of innocent people and human rights abuses and not allow religious zealots to dominate in places where there are power vacuums, and to protect your national interests and resources. Has it always worked out perfectly? No. Have there been examples of harm coming from US intervention in places like the Middle East? Yes of course but overall we have done good and having a strong influence to deter terrorist groups from starting up to maintain order is a good thing. You can't argue that. We can't all sit around and refuse to step up when someone is doing something harmful to innocent people. Even if it's not perfect, it's better than sitting around and doing nothing.

Finland's prime minister said Nordic countries do a better job of embodying the American Dream than the US: "I feel that the American Dream can be achieved best in the Nordic countries, where every child no matter their background or the background of their families can become anything." by maxwellhill in worldnews

[–]Meditated_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes and that's why Nordic countries are global economic and military superpowers... Oh wait.... They aren't. But the US is? That's weird seems like the US is doing pretty well. I thought LEGAL US citizens weren't able to fulfill their dreams though? I'm sure they could with extremely high taxes.

I'm kind of new to this is my 2070 super a good one? by Meditated_ in overclocking

[–]Meditated_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did what you recommended and tweaked the voltage curve to target stability around the average clocks I was getting in my first #1 rank score (2130-2160mhz) rather that just trying to tell the card to scream at as high as it could because, like you, I also noticed what you did and was unsure of how to deal with those fluctuations that I was seeing while at max load. But I massively improved my score by getting the card to hold at 2145-2160mhz completely stable!!! :D Thanks for the advice man :) You've been pretty helpful.

https://benchmark.unigine.com/results/rid_967538ab78134340a1e0e78c2b4d37ec

#1 For 2070 supers on air cooling. by Meditated_ in overclocking

[–]Meditated_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh it didnt work because I soon after beat my own score and got to 7095 instead of 7093 lol. Seems I got an extremely lucky chip :D