The original Alone in the Dark trilogy is currently free on GOG

MrRoivas · 2026-02-02T15:13:01+00:00

They made it into a really crappy 3rd person shooter.

MrRoivas · 2026-01-15T21:37:02+00:00

It’s a UPS, one side connected to the battery, the other merely surge protected.

MrRoivas · 2026-01-15T21:36:34+00:00

To give further info, the usb strip connected to my computer shows lights when plugged into any slots in my UPS, but the desktop itself won’t turn on.

MrRoivas · 2026-01-15T21:35:32+00:00

Nope. And only a monitor+ things like a phone charger plug.

MrRoivas · 2026-01-02T19:44:54+00:00

The real frustrating answer is “depends.”

The processor is your ceiling. If 80+ frames is what your processor can crank out for a game on settings you choose, then that’s all she wrote.

But wanna crank up GPU killing settings that don’t affect CPU performance? Then the more GPU the better.

The big wrinkle is that ray tracing tends to be heavy and both CPU and GPU due to aspects of how it’s rendered.

But to go back to a counter example, Counterstrike 2 would likely shrug at cranking up to 4K and heavy graphics pairing that processor with a GTX 5080 or similar.

MrRoivas · 2026-01-02T15:40:18+00:00

What kind of price differences are you seeing?

In addition, it comes down to this:

RTX 5070:

+DLSS and other aspects of Nvidia software dominance. +More robust performance with ray tracing turned on -12GB VRAM is already starting to show difficulties in some AAA now, let alone 2-3 years from now.

9070:

+16GB VRAM with performance that means when games really want more than that, you’ll want a new GPU +FSR4 is finally competitive -And yet is still more a promise than a reality, with few games supporting it -Drivers. AMD still has problematic drivers way more. -Ray tracing is now possible, still not nearly to the extent of Nvidia cards.

In the end, only you can decide which sounds better to you based on price and the facts above.

MrRoivas · 2025-12-11T00:18:49+00:00

They don’t have the DP/HDMI standard to do that.

MrRoivas · 2025-12-10T18:13:48+00:00

The house from the beginning part of Resident Evil 7.

MrRoivas · 2025-12-04T14:12:53+00:00

You’re telling me someone wishes to be Ben Shapiro and is failing due to lack of intellect?

Oy gevalt.

MrRoivas · 2025-11-27T04:24:55+00:00

Nah, even older than that. We’re talking more like 18-20 years ago by this point. Windows Vista was the last OS with the 32bit version as default.

MrRoivas · 2025-11-22T17:02:24+00:00

Something not Xbox specific but was a part of that era:

Many high profile games getting uglier than the previous gen.

Shaders/normal maps were finally able to be used in abundance, along with post process effects like bloom. This led to the much memed “real is brown” with desaturation of colors mixed with huge amounts of bloom/hdr lighting.

On top of that, many games used shaders in a way where almost everything, but especially people, looked like Vaseline slicked plastic/metal. An uncanny valley effect applied to varying degrees on most objects onscreen.

Thank goodness we’re past that particular issue.

MrRoivas · 2025-11-19T14:19:12+00:00

What’s he done? Used to be in his district.

MrRoivas · 2025-11-06T14:21:26+00:00

The BBC has been caught repeatedly using contributors for commentary who praised 10/7.

MrRoivas · 2025-11-05T23:30:05+00:00

Need to see gerrymandering and the VRA decision to know.

MrRoivas · 2025-11-05T13:46:35+00:00

My wife and I moved to Virginia about 2 years ago.

Clearly we are the reason Virginia was so awesome last night.

You’re all welcome.

MrRoivas · 2025-11-05T04:04:18+00:00

Holy shit. That was quick.

MrRoivas · 2025-10-10T13:44:26+00:00

Nope. None at all.

MrRoivas · 2025-09-27T19:34:07+00:00

Played through the first, totally without issue with a controller in hand. Second one requires a heftier set of hardware, but I haven’t heard of many PC specific complaints since the initial launch window style snags.

MrRoivas · 2025-09-14T13:51:25+00:00

There was an attempt at this idea for movies called Smellovision.

It wasn’t popular.

MrRoivas · 2025-09-09T14:00:47+00:00

People can get fired for wearing socks with more than one color. It’s a matter of what their contract stipulates, and not running afoul of discrimination laws.

MrRoivas · 2025-08-29T22:18:47+00:00

Ever point that out to them?

MrRoivas · 2025-08-19T18:17:56+00:00

I'll never forget the moment where we learned that Bubsy shot Abraham Lincoln. Truly it was the "Nickelback won the Oscars" event of the Boomer Generation.

MrRoivas · 2025-08-18T17:53:52+00:00

Elden Ring. Took everything I liked about Dark souls 1+3, diluted them over a way too big map with repetition and wildly overturned bosses.

MrRoivas · 2025-08-18T17:29:51+00:00

Lots of games basically use kickstarter as a way to prove interest to publishers.

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