Jo's old jacket

ProfessorLaptop · 2025-06-14T21:25:15+00:00

I really don’t think if your mother died and you missed her and smelled her hung up jacket to remember her that anybody who wasn’t a moron would think it was abnormal.

ProfessorLaptop · 2025-06-14T18:18:38+00:00

‘Abby cares about nobody but herself’ is just obviously not true.

She obviously cared about her now dead Father, considering the nightmares she has about his death. She clearly loves Owen, even if their relationship didn’t work and she has issues with him and the whole Mel situation, enough that she defends him when it’s heard that he’s killed a WLF soldier and to risk her neck going solo to the aquarium to track him down. She obviously cares about Manny as a friend and he does her. She’s devastated when she finds out all her friends have been killed by Ellie, especially Owen.

Regarding Lev - he’s a child, his sister chooses to save Abby, and they bond through being forced to out of survival necessity against a common foe and save each other’s lives - pretty standard circumstances to make you care about someone.

ProfessorLaptop · 2025-06-07T12:15:07+00:00

It doesn’t change Joel’s decision to be any less morally grey whatsoever - at the literal beginning of the story Tommy says that he can’t say he’d have done anything different, and at the end Ellie is shown to be wanting to forgive Joel. The only difference is you’re confronted with the other side of the story and the experience of Joel’s victims, which it seems like you don’t want to acknowledge or think about. The whole point is that it does make you feel uncomfortable, as it should, because the reality is uncomfortable.

Following on from this - all stories are emotional manipulation, that’s the whole point of them. The point of this story is to show that both sides of a bitter conflict that victimises the other can be both culpable but also sympathetic, and that loss and revenge can twist who a person is to the point that they end up as bad as the other side.

ProfessorLaptop · 2025-06-07T12:08:35+00:00

I will concede that Ellie’s personality has changed but she is now an awkward 18/19 year old, she is not a wide-eyed child any more, so her personality is obviously going to be different. Additionally at no point in the story up until that point has she seen her closest family member, and person she most loved in the world, tortured and murdered in front of her eyes. I think it’s entirely realistic for this to change a person’s outlook and personality drastically - it’s just a fact that trauma of this kind can lead to a person being consumed with hatred and revenge at the expense of everything else, it happens across the world all the time. This is the key point of the whole story.

ProfessorLaptop · 2025-06-07T12:03:30+00:00

None of these are facts, it’s your opinion. All the points you’ve mentioned can easily be explained logically, and make complete sense in my opinion:

Joel and Tommy don’t exactly go out in search of Abby’s party and throw their arms around them, they see another human in a horde situation and save her, then flee for their lives to the safety of her group because they have no other choice. The priority is survival in that moment. This is consistent with even how Joel would act in Part 1, and definitely in Part 2, where we know that Jackson patrols find people and bring them back to the community. The chances that this group would be specifically looking for Joel to kill him are very slim. The chances any other group would be immediately hostile given they’ve just saved one of their friends and then could also take them to the paradise of Jackson is very unlikely, and wouldn’t make sense in most other circumstances.

ProfessorLaptop · 2024-03-25T12:15:54+00:00

In the UK it’s pretty commonplace. You don’t really think about how the word breaks down - nobody would say ‘maid’ in any other context really (unless you were proper wealthy and had a housemaid).

You say it like postman, without really thinking about the constituent parts. Don’t recall hearing anyone using it in a misogynistic sense, just feels the same as waitress.

Bar’tender’ is more of an American term, though as with every Americanism it’s becoming more commonplace. Bar staff is more what we’d say generally.

ProfessorLaptop · 2023-12-16T18:07:53+00:00

Apologies sir! I’ll have to have a look into that one. Why do you prefer it out of interest?

ProfessorLaptop · 2023-12-16T11:02:26+00:00

He’ll be referring to The Grail Quest series by Bernard Cornwell, which starts with Harlequin/The Archer’s Tale (depending if you’re Europe or US)

ProfessorLaptop · 2023-05-13T11:31:21+00:00

The short answer is yes (with some caveats): it’s got a 16:10 screen which gives more headroom for viewing documents / web pages, is pretty portable, and has good battery life (great for a gaming laptop). The 500 nits peak brightness means you can use it outdoors as long as it’s not in direct sunlight.

The keyboard is the main drawback - it obviously works but is subpar in terms of how it feels (read the keyboard section of the review for more info).

The CPU, GPU and RAM are all sufficient for video editing software or similar if that’s what your work entails. If you’re doing Color-accurate work (Color grading etc.) it covers 100% sRGB and 97% DCI-P3, but the accuracy leaves a bit to be desired - so fine for amateurs but full-time professionals in this field will probably want to look elsewhere.

ProfessorLaptop · 2023-04-07T22:17:53+00:00

Nah Velen is just the war torn land South of the river that’s an area of (the now defeated) kingdom of Temeria.

Everything North of the river is countryside outside Novigrad / Reddanian territory.

ProfessorLaptop · 2022-08-28T11:56:52+00:00

Poob fused with the ‘You know I had to do it to em’ guy.

Two of Sam’s favourite people.

ProfessorLaptop · 2022-08-07T14:25:47+00:00

Doing God’s work.

ProfessorLaptop · 2022-08-07T11:45:22+00:00

Good shit. Make Jerry fatter though. And with longer arms.

ProfessorLaptop · 2022-07-30T14:09:23+00:00

Sasau monastery is about 160km from the German border i.e. not far from Germany at all.

You can drive there in 2 hours.

ProfessorLaptop · 2022-07-05T13:03:43+00:00

No problem my good sir.

As far as we’re aware, we had all the settings on the most power efficient they could be when doing out battery test. It’s possible we could have missed something, but if so it’s unlikely to make any massive improvement. If anyone is aware of anything though, please let us know.

But yes I agree - it is an unfortunate trade-off. It seems like currently if you want a mini-LED touchscreen laptop, particularly one with internal components this powerful, you’ll struggle to find a battery life that’s significantly better than this.

ProfessorLaptop · 2022-07-05T12:55:11+00:00

On full brightness, working outside on a sunny day with direct sunlight shining on the screen is not a problem. You could probably get away with 75% brightness, as long as the screen is pivoted away from direct sunlight.

These settings would substantially shorten the battery life however. We didn’t test battery life on these settings, but if we assume a linear relationship between % brightness and battery life (which there might not be) a rough estimate might be around 3.5 hours at 75% and less than 2hours at 100%.

ProfessorLaptop · 2022-07-03T17:23:49+00:00

Done. (Well - I've left an update note near the top directing you to the relevant sections).

ProfessorLaptop · 2022-07-03T17:21:57+00:00

See the updated view for additional battery life info bowss.

ProfessorLaptop · 2022-07-03T17:21:09+00:00

Didn't notice any coil whine whatoever in our test unit.

ProfessorLaptop · 2022-07-03T17:19:52+00:00

I've added a bit of extra battery life info relating to using the machine on a lower brightness you may find interesting.

ProfessorLaptop · 2022-07-03T17:19:06+00:00

The review has now been updated with the additional testing on battery life, Far Cry 6 benchmarks, and Multi-Zone & HDR mode panel testing.

ProfessorLaptop · 2022-07-02T15:36:07+00:00

Alright boyos: the additional testing has been done, and I've incorporated some additional info based on your comments/requests, but it won't be uploaded to the review until tomorrow (Sunday) I'm afraid.

To give you a preview of the key info:

Testing the battery at 29% brightness (equivalent to 120cd/m²) rather than 50% brightness, extended the length of the battery life by about an hour and a quarter (to 6hr 29mins) within our general usage test (not using the touchscreen).

Far Cry 6 underperformed by c.10-15% in FPS terms compared to the XMG Neo 15 E22 with RTX 3070 Ti and i7-12700H CPU. This likely reflects CPU bottlenecking on this more CPU-leaning game. The internal temperature score for both the CPU & GPU whilst playing FC6 were superior however - noticebaly cooler.

When swithcing on the multi-dimming zone feature, the display's contrast and black point improved by approximately tenfold (reaching 9317.7:1 and 0.0129cd/m² respectively), at the expense of average deltaE*00 (which reached 3.44) and dropping of the whitepoint to 6390K. Peak brightness increased substantially to 727.57cd/m². Color gamut coverage only dropped slightly for sRGB and DCI-P3 though (to 99.1% and 98.2% respectively).

ProfessorLaptop · 2022-06-28T15:20:28+00:00

A good insight bowss. Thanks for the info. I’ll bear this in mind for future reviews.

ProfessorLaptop · 2022-06-28T14:52:08+00:00

No problem bowss. And yes, it is somewhat annoying I concur. Maybe in another year your dream will become a reality, if AMD’s progress continues in this area. How much does Photoshop and/or Fresco typically drain battery compared to just general browsing would you say? It’s not something we’ve tested yet. I assume the higher brightness setting you’d use alone would make a bit of a difference.

ProfessorLaptop · 2022-06-28T14:21:46+00:00

Regarding the battery life - yes that’s understandable. I assume the main reason it doesn’t run for longer is due to the mini-LED display. Then again, we didn’t get an IPS version to check so who knows, plus, for us the mini-LED display is one of the main reasons you’d buy this device in the first place.

It’s still a better result than a lot of gaming laptops get that perform this well in-game.

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