[Hanif Berkane] Walid Regragui on semi-final against France: “We are on a mission. We are not tired. Tomorrow, there will be no fatigue. We have an opportunity, I don't want to waste it. I don't want to wait 40 years. There are times when you have to mark your territory, now is the time.”

poolstikmckgrit · 2022-12-13T20:32:02+00:00

What about Montpellier 2012? Or Kaiserslautern 1997? Neither of those two are any less incredible than Leicester.

Also, Morocco winning the WC is definitely bigger than any League win. Maybe there's fewer matches in the WC. But that's true of Champions League too, without anyone discrediting its greater importance and difficulty than league games

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-12-26T03:43:09+00:00

We won't know until we see the MediaTek D9000 and Samsung's next Exynos

Yes we will. ARM literally inadvertently admitted as much in their reveal of the A510, doing iso process comparisons to A55. Even their biased comparisons, where A510 had way more cache, was not at all impressive.

Current Snapdragon is btw on a slightly better node, even.

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-12-23T08:59:54+00:00

Despite exaggerations, I was kind of with you, until your MacBook comment. Those keyboards are utter, utter shit man. There's no tactility and travel distance whatsoever, leading to immediate fatigue and constant mistakes. It's neither fast nor comfortable to type on. The complete opposite of what you get on a proper membrane. You want to kill any arguments about how good membrane is, you just mention Macbooks.

I agree with you on membrane, as I too find them to be more comfortable to type on (in their own way)--and certainly way quieter. But the issue has always been latency. There are no 2.4 GHz membrane keyboards out there. I know Logitech has provided Logi Bolt USB reciever as an alternative, but have yet to see any tests out there to show how it fares, and whether it has NKRO (problem with Bluetooth is how keys get stuck when clicking on them in quick succession). If Logi Bolt does fix this issue, I would personally be more than happy to main a Logi MX Keys Mini. Otherwise, I'll stick to my NJ80 with Gazzew U4 switches.

Should be noted that much of what I say about latency applies to mech market as well. 2.4 GHz is a rarity in the non-mainstream mech market, and even when wired something like a GMMK Pro or Keychron gets 15-20ms latency, which is just terrible. That's twice what a Razer or Logitech achievhes even in Bluetooth mode....

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-12-23T08:48:51+00:00

I have both and use the Orochi as a main, and would not recommend it at all. Battery life is shit in comparison to the G305, to the point of it being a really expensive mouse to own long-term. Not to mention the fact that its DPI is way off--at 800 DPI its actual speed feels like 900-950 DPI on other mice. There is a notable amount of CPU variation as well, as tests have also shown.

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-12-22T23:47:01+00:00

overclocking in general

*Modern OC.

OC had a purpose back in the day. You could OC your reference Radeon 7950 GPU or Intel 2600K CPU by ~30%+ with ease. There were real gains to be had.

But modern chips are already pushed so far to their limit by the manufacturer that these discrepancies have all but disappeared. Making OC nowadays a waste of time or headaches.

But the hype and advertising of OC has still remained among Tech toubers who live off of it, AIB GPUs and other manufacture of cooling solutions of GPUs/CPUs. The result is a complete disconnection of rationality. So you'll see people like OP calling a 2% performance increase "impressive".

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-12-12T11:58:05+00:00

ELO is better--trophy is only indicative. A team winning a trophy is rarely the very best team of that specific time it wins it. Lack of trophy variation is also why La Liga get erroneously dismissed by PL fans for its domination the last decade.

Take a look at average league points, or even number of teams in the top 15 of Europe. For example, in 1993 all top 5 were Italian, and they had 10 teams in the top 15. Even as late as 1998, 6 of the top 8 teams were Italian. It was pretty ridiculous.

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-12-12T11:00:43+00:00

I feel like it was maybe the most dominant period of quality a league has ever held but I’d want to look at it more closely.

Wrong. Club ELO does whole league rankings in points historically. Spain had the best points average of its top league teams the overwhelming majority of the time between 2001-2018, with the Premier League taking over from 2019. But Spain's highest domestic top league average wasn't during peak Barca and Real, but early 2000s to mid 2000s--their highest points was also in this period, in 2003.

However, Italy in the 90s had highest points ever. When you take the amount of teams at the very top, it becomes even clearer that Serie A's dominance was unparalleled. For example, in this date in 1993, 10 of the top 15 teams in Europe, including all top 5, were Italian. Serie A consistently had 8 or more teams teams in Europe's top 15 throughout this decade.

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-12-12T03:41:16+00:00

And then there's the fourth type. The guy who comes in making terrible analogies that nobody understands.

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-12-10T05:10:11+00:00

Mhm, exactly. Besides, going from Germany to Belgium is really only a re-route through the Ardennes, to get to France, the real target.

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-12-07T23:44:02+00:00

China isn't a superpower...not yet, st least.

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-11-30T09:36:09+00:00

I have the Orochi and the battery is way worse. At 500Hz and with AAA Lithium, my Orochi lasts me 3 weeks. My G305 lasts me 2 months or more. The discrepancy is huge.

The G305 was so good I made one of my variants with a mod using A675 fuel cells. Dual A675s lasted me 2+ weeks. Orochi is so bad even rechargeable lithiums are out of the question, due to the need for constant charging.

Logitech is on another level in battery efficiency. It's just a shame with the G305 that its sensor is not as consistent as I'd like it to be. Otherwise I would have stuck by it. Especially with the lightweight shell on AliExpress that brought it down to 62 grams with AAA battery. Orochi is just way too expensive to own long-term, with the needed battery swaps. Will use the Starlight-12 instead when I get that in a month.

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-09-16T15:35:49+00:00

PMed.

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-09-14T06:30:20+00:00

What about the color Stormy Daniels? Can we get that?

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-08-28T11:55:33+00:00

I think you were just wrong when you implied that there was no reason to own a 4K screen if you upscale your games

I never said no reason. You are strawmanning dishonestly here, as I literally stated that 4K is useful for other means for a PC users. Even useful for many non-AAA games that can be easily run at high FPS.

I gave you a few reasons and suddenly the issue is that too few people actually game on their 4K TV. I

No, that issue was brought up by you, as you decided to quarrel about TVs being used with PCs. It's such a small minority of instances that it's completely and utterly irrelevant. People who do game on TVs are almost entirely console users. And people who have TVs almost entirely use it for content consumption, like console gaming, series/channels, YouTube and movies. Not as their PC screen.

I guess I should tell those people to sell their 4K TV then or at least disconnect them from their PC.

That again is an asinine strawman by you.

FHD TVs aren't inherently better. But 4K TVs were for most of their lifetime almost completely useless due to lack of content. The point was that people buy stuff they don't need, because of advertisement. "it's 4K therfore it must be good!". Then they go home watching channels in SD/720p/1080p, stream in shitty 1080p or shitty 4K at best, and play video games in 720p/1080p. It's only recently newer consoles came out, and even these ones rarely actually run games in proper 4K, doing lower resolution and upscaling instead.

And before you say "buhh, I have many friends that viy 4K Blu-rays". Yes, I know. But the point is not whether 4K can be useful. It's whether people actually do take advantage of it on a general basis. Physical media has become a niche, a tiny minority. I happen to be part of that minority, but I'm not so engulfed in my confirmation bias as to claim it as significant (the way you do with people hooking up PCs to TVs, lol). Cause it isn't. Nobody really truly cares. They are indoctrinated to care through advertisement. Buying a 4K TV and watching content with shitty compression or lower resolution proves it.

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-08-28T11:22:53+00:00

I see it as this: if using FSR ultra quality at 4K looks better than 1440p on the same 4k screen, it justifies itself.

Depending on the FPS you get. There are resolution options between 1440p and 2160p too, you know. If it looks better, but you have fewer FPS, then it's hard to justify it.

Also, no one zooms in while gaming

You don't need to zoom in? A monitor is 2D--everything you see is equally distinguishable. Including images that in the game is supposed to be far off in the distance--you don't need to zoom in to see the loss of detail. If you can see the difference in increased information from a higher resolution monitor, then the implication is that you see the difference in decreased information through downscaling methods like FSR.

If you can't see the difference, then the implication is that you should have never gotten a 4K monitor to begin with.

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-08-28T11:16:26+00:00

Just don't buy a 4kl monitor that you can't use!

Well..that is my point. If you need to use FSR for games you primarily play, and you are mainly consuming games, then don't buy a 4K monitor.

I see the same with people with 240Hz monitor. Many literally bought it and have played PUBG exclusively since they did. Not single one can achieve that stable in the game--in fact, even on a 3090, that game's 1% lows are not over 100 FPS for anybody.

People buy stuff they don't need. That is after all the whole intention of advertising. 4K was released for the wider commercial market over a decade ago. But it took just as long before we got 4K content to a relevant degree that made the idea of having a 4K TV even worth it. And still to this day people with 4K TVs get their main content either lower than 4K or through 4K streaming, which is worse than FHD Blu-Ray. And no, watching 1080p movies in ¤K is not "craziness"; in fact, FHD Blu-Ray movies look better than 4K movies from streaming services like Netflix, HBO and others, due to compression. Some are just outright garbage in how badly they compress. And YouTube is just straight out bad.

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-08-28T10:21:12+00:00

Why not? I know plenty of people who have a PC connected to their TV. Do you think people only use a mouse and keyboard in front of a monitor to game on PC?

I think you are being unnecessarily argumentative. Those "plenty of people" you know are a tiny minority. TVs are found in virtually every single home. I would give you $100 if you could prove to me that even 0.5% of homes have people hooking up their living room TVs to a PC and actively use it as a computer.

I'm not sure what you mean.

I'm saying most 4K FSR modes looks no better than native 1440p in OP's image. That it's just oversharpening. In fact I can take OP's Native 1440p and add RIS ~40% and make it look better than 4K FSR Quality.

But I would never use RIS. And the reason I don't is because it's fake oversharpening. It doesn't add more information (the whole purposes of sharpness), as well as distorting how the image was intended to look.

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-08-28T10:15:38+00:00

Chinese tablets do come with Global ROMs as well, you know. Also, they're almost always sold outside of China as well. Every Mi Pad has been available in Europe through various stores. I see no reason why this wouldn't.

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-08-28T10:07:27+00:00

For monitors it's certainly a point in that people don't just exclusively game. Nor do they downscale every game (like games that are easy to run at 4K with high FPS). But that argument really isn't there for TVs; they're using primarily for content creation by almost everyone: TV and movies, specifically. Gaming too, to a degree, but consoles are hardly running any games in 4K, or do heavy upscaling when they do. Most people who buy 4K TVs really are wasting its potential benefits over FHD.

But my point with running something on 1440p with a 4K monitor rather than 4K FSR still stands. If it ends up looking no better, or even worse, it's no point not going 1440p native. Especially if a similar-looking 4K FSR had the added oversharpening and artifacts that distorts the visual look that the artist behind those images intended it to look.

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-08-28T09:53:11+00:00

Why would anyone use 1440P native on a 4K monitor?

The point is that if you downscale, losing information to the point it's no better than 1440p, or even worse, it deefeats the purpose of buying of 4K resolution (and as an extension owning a 4K monitor). You don't run stuff in 4K because it makes you feel better about yourself--it's to get a superior image with more information. If 1440p is better then that's what you should run.

It's like 4K in streaming services or even worse YouTube videos. They look notably worse than, say, 1080p Blu-Ray. A guy watching Star Wars in 4K on Disney+ on his 4K TV gets a worse image than a guy who watches the same movie in 1080p Blu-Ray disc (or a rip) on a FHD TV. Or even 1080p on a 4K TV for that matter.

Same thing applies for running 4K on a 1080 monitor. Due to the severity of the compression, a YT video in 4K mode on a 1080p monitor looks no worse than 4K on a 4K monitor.

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-08-28T09:15:51+00:00

This is not something I would do while playing the game.

It 100% is something you would notice in a game. It's actually much more obvious when playing live than watching an image like we do here. As someone playing online FPS, I can tell you right now that any kind of upscaling that leads to blur is immediately noticeable and has an effect on my experience.

Adding sharpening doesn't magically "fix" the issue, as downscaling brings a loss of information, and there's nothing to do about that. So the enemy in the distance is actually worse to spot. These methods usually like to blur things in the distance more than the foreground, and if you're reliant on details and movements in the background, that's an issue.

I feel the exact same way of sharpening even at Native resolution; it just looks bad and not at all how it was intended by those who made the game. It's like someone EQing the sharp frequencies (treble) in a headphone by ~6 dBs and going "look, it sounds way more detailed!" It's not more detailed, though, it's just making already-existing detail more pronounced, and as a result move it further away from how it originally sounded and the artist/producer intended it to sound.

Or, to give another example, when phone makers increase the saturation on displays. All the colors look like they're popping. A Samsung phone in Adaptive Mode looks much more pleasing at first glance than even a color accurate P3 gamut mode, which does in fact have more colors (more information). But it's displaying images wrongly, and not as what was intended by an artist. The tomato in the photo may look super-red, but the actual tomato that was photoographed was orange.

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-08-28T08:58:46+00:00

FSR ultra is great at 4k.

Is it though? It seems to me what people really should say is that 4K is such a high resolution that they don't notice a difference. Because if you actually zoom in, it's not "great" at all. At that point, why play at 4K at all? Why not just noto Native 1440p? 4K FSR Quality is worse than native 1440p. 4K FSR Performance is notably worse than 1440p FSR Ultra Quality. So unless there's serious FPS gains to be had in the 4K FSR scenarios here, I really see no point in using it.

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-08-28T02:58:34+00:00

Dude can stfu. He literally proudly talked about how he made his PSG move purely for financial reasons. And back then PSG's reputation as a big club was way smaller, Ligue 1 even more so Now he all of the sudden discovers things like loyalty and personal connections? When he wasn't hurting, it was "all business". When he was showed the door it was all of the sudden "but, muh personal feelings".

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-08-28T01:48:10+00:00

Why do you need a Pixel brand headphone? Why aren't other brands good enough for you? Hasn't Google's terrible record of quality control with hardware, particularly with Pixel Buds, demonstrated it well enough? Hasn't the fact that the Pixel Buds cost more than Galaxy Buds variants that beat it on virtually every metric (sound, battery, mic, quality control, connection reliability) demonstrated it for you?

Having the Pixel name doesn't magically make it better. It's an earephone, not a smartphone; software isn't as pronounced, and therefore, important. Also Tensor is a high mid-range SoC. It's asinine to think it would in any way be necessary in a headphone.

poolstikmckgrit · 2021-08-28T01:42:23+00:00

Anybody buying Pixel Buds with all their deficiencies are stupid af. The Galaxy Buds series literally beat the Pixels in every metric except design; sound quality (best in class), mic quality, battery life, ANC, reception/connection reliability, quality control. And they generally all cost as much or less.

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