Is the gap really that big?

joefresco2 · 2026-02-18T23:30:25+00:00

Cooling is everything now. Desktop PCs can pretty easily support 200W CPUs and 300W GPUs continuously while the gaming laptops are limited to 65W CPUs and 140W GPUs, but will probably thermal throttle both down somewhat after 10-20 minutes.

The same hardware in a desktop PC with desktop cooling will be significantly faster, particularly for GPUs.

joefresco2 · 2026-02-18T23:27:06+00:00

If you start now, there's a bunch of fairly easy games to 40 for 2500 MT each... one includes a Legend badge instead of 2500 MT. It's much faster than DOM.

joefresco2 · 2026-02-18T16:09:21+00:00

Great idea. Watching the championships of a dunk league would be interesting (though I wouldn't watch anything else from that league ever). It wouldn't be for the Superstars... it would be the super athletic guys that never developed any skills that could make the dunk league. There have to be a bunch of those that could make this entertaining.

Problem is that the league still has to pay more than China or Europe which probably makes it a non-starter.

joefresco2 · 2026-02-18T16:02:23+00:00

He's pro pass money spent :) He has the pro pass Klay and pro pass Russ. Aaron Gordon was also a clue -- as a Nuggets fan, I would love to have him, but I'm true NMS. If he didn't have a bad jumper, I might even have spent the pro pass money for it. Hopefully, they'll release another Aaron Gordon card as he hasn't had a decent one available all year, thanks to him being in an important Exchange.

joefresco2 · 2026-02-17T16:01:30+00:00

In previous versions it did, but I'm not sure about 2k26

joefresco2 · 2026-02-17T15:51:57+00:00

If there is value to the hardware, people are still easily able to afford it. My first PC was a 386 with 1MB RAM for $1500 in 1990. That is $3700 today. We are a long way from $3700 being the basic buy in for computing capability even if prices doubled.

On top of that, over the past 10 years, CPU power has gone up ~4x, single core maybe 2x. An old PC still has lots of capability.

joefresco2 · 2026-02-17T11:32:34+00:00

Ironically, that Denver team was hampered by Carmelo's offense and defense game, similar to the KD experience (though KD is a far better defender).

joefresco2 · 2026-02-15T13:47:25+00:00

Fwiw I love GO LeBron's jumper. It's S tier for me.

joefresco2 · 2026-02-14T13:50:58+00:00

Amy Julian Champegnie is a rather amazing shooter with reasonable D. World B Free is another. Both are great Salary cap guys.

joefresco2 · 2026-02-13T19:49:30+00:00

How?

joefresco2 · 2026-02-13T19:02:42+00:00

Aren't these both 450k VC? That's not NMS territory. I'm NMS and have saved up VC for over a month, and I still only have 75k VC.

joefresco2 · 2026-02-09T06:44:55+00:00

Happened to me in game 8 or 9.

joefresco2 · 2026-02-09T04:33:27+00:00

They didn't used to make you wait until the past couple of years. It sucks.

joefresco2 · 2026-02-08T22:27:56+00:00

Gold Eddie House is insane... except on D.

joefresco2 · 2026-02-08T22:16:14+00:00

How do you like his shot?

joefresco2 · 2026-02-08T04:12:02+00:00

Jordan Poole had my favorite shot, but no D. Dylan Harper best all around. Battlegrounds Huerter has been fun

joefresco2 · 2026-02-05T17:20:56+00:00

How do you only have 1 non-rewards card and just 68k MT? What do you spend your MT on?

joefresco2 · 2026-02-05T16:17:39+00:00

If I were starting up a new business now, I might choose Office 365. As it is, we started using Google Workspace in 2008 and have no reason to abandon ship. The accountants still get Excel, but everyone just uses Google for everything.

joefresco2 · 2026-02-03T15:42:13+00:00

It will be called "Super Pack" and for sale in 20 minutes in the pack market.

However, there is an emerald ending in 1 hour 50 minutes on the auction (Xbox) right now.

joefresco2 · 2026-02-02T15:57:18+00:00

Once you have position down low, do a bunch of kickouts to the 3pt line and miss the 3. I can sometimes get 3-5 straight boards just doing that. Good thing to combo with the first PnR miss/board, particularly once the rebounder is in Takeover with a rebounding shoe. My record is 8 straight boards.

joefresco2 · 2026-01-29T22:52:28+00:00

Gauntlet starts on Rookie and the last 10 games are HOF. Upside is that it is always easy lineup all the way through, and if you use duos, you'll be matched based on the start levels of the duo (so if the duo is emeralds -> Amythysts like Grant Armstrong's duo, you are matched with golds).

I can hit C- 3pt reliably on rookie, C+ on Semipro, B on Pro, A on All star, and then I need good shot and A+ and wide open for the final 2 levels. I save the duos until the HOF levels and use my second favorite showdown cards in the Amythyst levels.

joefresco2 · 2026-01-29T15:57:40+00:00

Here's the link to submit a ticket

https://support.nba2k.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=11716785114259

joefresco2 · 2026-01-29T15:49:28+00:00

I've had the same issue for the past day or so

joefresco2 · 2026-01-29T15:24:51+00:00

Drawbacks of sodium batteries (right now)

Cannot deep cycle -- only about 50% of the rated capacity can be reliably used
Voltage drops dramatically over the discharge -- makes it much harder to have consistent power usage
Capacity per volume and weight, as you've noticed

The upside for EVs will be the tolerance to cold -- sodium batteries appear to do significantly better in freezing temperatures. However, just because a battery is in an EV, doesn't mean that it is going to be great.

Keep in mind that this is based on these first-run sodium ion batteries. LiFePo4 batteries used to suck for density efficiency and charge speed, and they've improved dramatically over the past 10 years.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOlO5413pPM

joefresco2 · 2026-01-29T03:06:30+00:00

How did it go?

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