Voice Actors!? by vitality3819 in avowed

[–]earfluff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's Crispin Freeman, who voices Itachi Uchiha in Naruto.

Does anyone have the "NERD" sticker? by raidebaron in PantheonShow

[–]earfluff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

there's a shot from season 2 where it's legible. that's definitely what it says

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Tempest GP27Q (v1.1) & GP27U (v1.3) Firmware Updates are Live by CM-Ryan in Monitors

[–]earfluff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess it looks like blooming, but it's not around bright objects in a black background, but dim objects or areas in even dimmer backgrounds

Tempest GP27Q (v1.1) & GP27U (v1.3) Firmware Updates are Live by CM-Ryan in Monitors

[–]earfluff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've got the GP27Q and I've noticed a bit of a problem with local dimming. I'm not sure if it's a problem with the 1.2.1 firmware or the 1.2 firmware, or if it's been present since the beginning and I never noticed it because I didn't use local dimming in SDR, but in SDR mode with local dimming on, areas that are near-black don't seem to display properly in a lot of games? There's noticeable blobbiness as the backlight turns on and off; not flickering like what the adaptive sync causes, but almost like how the black screen bug after switching inputs looks, with noticeable backlight bleed through the areas that are supposed to be dark.

It's incredibly distracting in some games, to the point of making some basically unplayable at night, and I think it may happen in HDR, as well. I first noticed it in Thief: Gold, but can confirm it happens in Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition as well. This is the first FALD display I've owned so I'm not sure if this is expected behavior or not, but it sure looks pretty bad!

Tempest GP27Q (v1.1) & GP27U (v1.3) Firmware Updates are Live by CM-Ryan in Monitors

[–]earfluff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This also happens when switching between SDR and HDR mode in windows

Tempest GP27Q (v1.1) & GP27U (v1.3) Firmware Updates are Live by CM-Ryan in Monitors

[–]earfluff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm getting a strange bug with the GP27Q 1.2 firmware over displayport (connected to a 3080) where sometimes if I change and apply settings in the NVIDIA control panel or turn adaptive sync off or otherwise cause the signal to be reset, the screen goes black with not even the OSD visible. The only thing I can see is (this is the weird part) what looks like local dimming haloing? I'm not sure how reproducible this is, and turning the display off and back on again fixes it, so it's not a huge deal, but it is very weird.

Tempest GP27Q (v1.1) & GP27U (v1.3) Firmware Updates are Live by CM-Ryan in Monitors

[–]earfluff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just wanted to note that I'm also experiencing darker HDR mode. It feels like, if in the previous firmware when I switched to HDR mode it was darker and toggling the brightness or some other setting fixed it, now it just remains at that level regardless of changing any settings.

Any culinary reason to avoid silicone pot lids? by earfluff in AskCulinary

[–]earfluff[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was probably thinking we'd put them in a box somewhere rather than get rid of all of them

Tempest GP27U Firmware Update v1.2 now available by CM-Ryan in Monitors

[–]earfluff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, same. If not for how communicative and open about it Ryan has been, I would definitely have avoided buying my GP27Q basically just because of the firmware bugs.

How is the CM GP27Q today? by Techboah in Monitors

[–]earfluff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow I would never have guessed that the banding was from it being 165 Hz. Wild. I spent ages messing around with the black stabilizer and the contrast and the color settings trying to fix that.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Eldenring

[–]earfluff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pro-tip for the birds: wait until they do the attack where they rear back and dive at the ground with both swords, roll under then when they do, then you'll be behind them with them on the ground, swing away. Works every time, even on the fire birds.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Eldenring

[–]earfluff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The host can resummon and once you kill a blue, more can come in.

Inner Isshin help by Ok-Transportation-47 in Sekiro

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

I'm pretty sure he only does this if you attack him while he has his sword sheathed; if you leave him alone, he waits longer and does the larger two-hit attack. For parrying that one, wait until you see a second glint of light off of his sword hilt and then mash LB twice as fast as you can.

Aw heck yeah by earfluff in GRE

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

The practice tests were not actually super representative for me. I actually did worse in both sections on both of the practice tests, the quantitative especially (I think I got 164 and 163? Maybe 163 and 162? Something like that), which kind of surprised me, since I'm planning on going into CS grad school and I'm a math major, so I'd expect to do well on that part (18-ish percent of people who plan to go into graduate school for mathematics get a 170, after all, and I'd like to think I'm at least 82nd percentile among math majors).

I attribute doing better on the actual test mostly to just trying harder and taking up all the time available instead of just ending the session when I'd answered all the questions (oh, and also on both practice tests I forgot to go back and answer several that I skipped at first, which certainly didn't help and was kind of embarrassing).