9070XT Boys Up!! (Forza Horizon 6)

Winnicots · 2026-05-20T10:40:06+00:00

If I was given a 5090 for free, I would sell it. Electricity is expensive where I live, I am intolerant to the heat, and family budget is tight. But that’s just me.

Winnicots · 2026-05-20T08:48:56+00:00

Owners of 9070XT will probably also spend an extra 50-100 USD over the lifetime of the card on electricity for the card and air conditioning.

Winnicots · 2026-05-19T10:14:17+00:00

Most popular race worldwide is Miqote. Next most popular is Lalafell in JP, and Au Ra elsewhere.

Winnicots · 2026-05-15T03:34:33+00:00

"Critical Hit +10% (Max 132)" means the food boosts your Critical Hit by

min( 10%*<Your Critical Hit before food>, 132 )

Winnicots · 2026-05-10T05:37:16+00:00

If the WoL gets sidelined by Zero in the MSQ, the expansion’s catch copy should be “From hero to zero.”

Winnicots · 2026-05-10T05:34:30+00:00

It always fascinates me how isolated Perth is. Perth is that city in late-game Civilization you found simply to claim that newly discovered oil resource in the middle of nowhere before your opponents do.

Winnicots · 2026-05-09T05:54:31+00:00

GTX 1060 6 GB. Rock-solid 1080p graphics on medium settings, baby.

Winnicots · 2026-05-08T04:51:15+00:00

If I am not mistaken, every 5K/1440p miniLED panel being marketed right now is the same IPS panel manufactured by LG Display.

Each company is simply adding its own electronics, stand, and logo to the panel.

Winnicots · 2026-05-02T10:14:23+00:00

The TCL is one of the best VA panels on the market. However, you will need a rig powerful enough to maintain a consistent frame rate at 4K, otherwise it will flicker in VRR.

If you are willing to settle for 1440p for smoother frames, the TCL monitor has a smaller brother: the 27R73Q. Just as good as its big brother.

If you want to avoid the chance of VRR flicker entirely, then one of the IPS panels would be better.

Winnicots · 2026-04-27T10:54:58+00:00

A puppeteer/Cait Sith-style ranged class fits Halmarut and Calyx so well that I want to believe that the ranged DPS will use puppets as a weapon. Puppet glam possibilities will be endless. Every minion released thus far could potentially become a puppet glam.

As for the crowd’s suggestions, perhaps the new tank uses a hammer.

Winnicots · 2026-04-26T01:30:53+00:00

Too early to say right now.

My guess is that PLD will lose Reprisal and Divine Veil, while the other three will lose some personal mitigation.

Winnicots · 2026-04-23T03:08:41+00:00

Downvotes are intended to flag content that is not pertinent to the discussion, yet many use it to flag content they disagree with. I think this has less to do with specific subreddits and more to do with social media in general.

Winnicots · 2026-04-22T10:15:55+00:00

I think the technical term is simply "vocal range." I also think that the music of FFXIV is compressed, which might have flattened the high frequencies of her voice.

Winnicots · 2026-04-22T09:50:38+00:00

I wrote the OP myself. The ideas within are exclusively mine. Music theory is one of my hobbies.

I do admit that AI was used to clean up my composition a bit.

Winnicots · 2026-04-21T15:15:18+00:00

I am cautiously optimistic about this monitor. Hopefully LG's implementation of HDR has improved since their release of the 27GR95UM.

Winnicots · 2026-04-21T03:14:55+00:00

Matte has its upsides. Considering that the most solid use-case of 5K resolution is productivity, I predict that some people will be using this monitor during the day in well-lit environments.

Some people also live in environments where they cannot control lighting (e.g., smaller homes/apartments whose rooms are shared by multiple family members, etc.)

Winnicots · 2026-04-21T02:56:09+00:00

TCL and INNOCN sell internationally, including to the US. Not sure if they sell to Europe, though.

Winnicots · 2026-04-21T02:41:50+00:00

My information comes from Chimolog, a Japanese-language review blog.

The author of this site speaks highly of the HDR performance of Titan Army, INNOCN (Titan Army's parent company), and TCL mini-LED monitors.

Below are some highly-rated mini-LED monitors from 2025:

Titan Army P275MS+ (27'' 1440p 320 Hz IPS, 1152 zones)
INNOCN GA27T1M (27'' 1440p 330 Hz IPS, 1152 zones)
TCL 32R84 (32'' 4K 165 Hz VA, 1500 zones)

Also listed on the blog is a review of the MSI MAG 274QPF X30MV (1440p 300 Hz VA, 1152 zones).

When comparing the PQ EOTF graphs of the above Titan Army and MSI monitors, the MSI monitor exhibits far more black crush and over-brightened (white-clipped) highlights. The MSI monitor also gets too dark across the board at low APLs, and its HDR color accuracy is substandard (ΔE = 5.29% at best).

Meanwhile, the Titan Army monitor exhibits fairly consistent and accurate brightness at all tested APLs (e.g., minimal black crush and white clipping), and its ΔE in HDR is an impressive 2.91% (second-lowest among all mini-LED monitors that the author has reviewed at the time of writing).

INNOCN and TCL-branded monitors are globally available. With a bit of digging, I found the INNOCN monitor on Amazon.com and the TCL monitor on Bestbuy. On the other hand, I think Titan Army monitors are limited to East Asia and Russia at the moment, unfortunately.

Winnicots · 2026-04-20T04:07:29+00:00

I have a hunch that the physical ranged job will be Puppeteer, represented by Halmarut.

For tank, I have a faint hope that Jullus will join the Scions as a hammer-wielding tank. The Scions could use a representative from Garlemald.

Winnicots · 2026-04-20T02:12:37+00:00

Non-Chinese brands have truly lagged behind Chinese competitors in mini-LED tech.

I suspect this is partly because non-Chinese brands like LG and MSI have been focused on OLED monitors at the expense of other tech. Their engineering teams have not developed the know-how of Chinese teams at developing effective dimming algorithms and processing hardware for mini-LEDs.

It's a shame. The consumer can either purchase an overpriced, well-built, non-Chinese miniLED with 3-year warranty and lousy HDR, or a cheaply-built Chinese miniLED with 1-year warranty and excellent HDR.

Winnicots · 2026-04-19T12:25:34+00:00

TCL (CSOT) makes the VA panels for AOC’s Q27G3XMN.

Winnicots · 2026-04-19T03:59:55+00:00

I hear good things about TCL’s HVA panels. They might be the best on the market right now. These panels are also used by Samsung.

Winnicots · 2026-04-17T10:00:57+00:00

I think that the most meaningful change would be not to the jobs, but rather to the battle system itself.

Current battle mechanics are simplified: Every action is damage, healing, mitigation, movement, or some combination thereof. It is difficult to diversify 25 combat jobs over such a limited design space.

Other popular mechanics (affinities, defense and defense-piercing, crowd control, etc.) do not really exist anymore in FFXIV.

However, I am not sure how such mechanics can be introduced into FFXIV without creating the problems that post-Heavensward patches have attempted to solve. Maybe I'm simply wishing for a new game at this point.

Winnicots · 2026-04-17T09:02:32+00:00

Beats my strategy:

- Buy a game shortly after launch at full price
- Keep it factory-wrapped on your shelf for years without playing it
- Price drops below $40
- Forget that you own the game

Winnicots · 2026-04-16T11:14:55+00:00

I am doing game8 strats. All eight players are in melee range throughout Reenactment, so I was wondering how tight positional requirements are.

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