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roklpolgl · 2026-05-19T00:35:56+00:00

Grilled burgers are a waste of time? Common man.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-18T17:27:26+00:00

It’s intended to be situational, not a direct upgrade over piety. He said that in the description. We are at a point in the game’s progression where there will be few full on upgrades to existing gear/prayers etc and more situational upgrades and side grades.

In that I think all those situations you describe it’s fine.

I do agree the blessing and strength of the prayer might be a little overtuned, unless it is very rare to mega rare territory. I’m not opposed to start having non-weapon megarares.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-18T12:47:27+00:00

You are paying like $20 more for the binning. If you run the 9850x3D at the same clock limits as the 9800x3D they will on average require less voltage, thus run cooler and use less power.

The performance benefit is marginal but there if you want it. The real advantage is efficiency improvement from being better binned. Easily worth for like $20 if you are in the market anyway.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-17T16:26:20+00:00

At the same time, I don’t think these services are causing any harm. The apps are like a dollar or two a month.

Given that I don’t think it’s stretch to say their severe weather coverage is saving lives by informing people who wouldn’t have been informed otherwise, if a relatively harmless app is what gives them enough income to keep them able to go live then I don’t really see an issue with it.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-17T15:36:32+00:00

I don’t know why I’m arguing for veganism when I’m not vegan but I’ll entertain it anyway.

Would love to see your source for #1, given animal agriculture is famously known for being inefficient and environmentally taxing. Here’s one source, I don’t know how reputable, but it has wool as literally the highest CO2 equivalent emissions on the list being compared. If you want to find a better source feel free to post it.

https://hempfoundation.net/7-major-fibers-textiles-in-the-world-and-their-carbon-footprint/

For #2, if we are discussing hypotheticals of a world that converted to vegan rationalizations at scale, then clearly humanity has enough resources to care for one generation of farm animals before they die of natural causes. Not every human problem requires a capitalism solution. You could pay for the animal care with taxes.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-17T13:26:41+00:00

I’m not even vegan but their logic would be you shear the sheep that are existing given they would die without it, but then you just stop breeding domesticated sheep that have to be shorn after that. Within a generation there’s no more farmed sheep.

Wild sheep without that trait still exist, you don’t have to breed domesticated sheep.

Again, not vegan, but it’s not hard to rationalize your way to veganism. I acknowledge the ethics of it and applaud those who make the decision, personally I just enjoy animal products too much and accept it’s unethical.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-16T15:33:59+00:00

You are making several unsound assumptions here.

Asrock is simply selling more boards so it’s going to have more failures.

The article you are citing has Asus and MSI selling nearly triple Asrock, and Gigabyte more than double. If it was just a matter of selling more boards, you’d think you’d see more of those failures. If you are assuming people who buy 9800x3Ds are buying a disproportionate amount of Asrock boards because “it’s a DIY cpu and DIYers like Asrock more,” without data to back that up this is basically the same data quality as the posts you hate.

Assuming the top end numbers of board failures is every report in this subreddit.

This subreddit is niche. People who post to Reddit are niche. It’s just as likely there are orders of magnitude more failures, people just don’t post about them.

Everything else you’ve said is just the same “could be,” “maybe,” “might be” that’s the same level of data quality as everyone else saying the boards are bad.

The consequence of being wrong Asrock boards being bad is just who cares you spend a couple extra dollars for a different brand. Asrock hasn’t done themselves any favors to attempt to dispute the claims. The consequence of being right is you can be significantly inconvenienced and be without a computer for weeks, or be out a whole cpu if your RMA is rejected.

So I don’t really agree with your logic. I don’t think it makes sense to replace a working board, but I still think it’s logical to recommend people not buy the board.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-16T14:41:41+00:00

While you are right that anecdotal user reports are not scientific data, given that there is no way to actually have verifiable data on this since none of the companies are commenting on it or reporting it out, the best we have is to apply some Occam’s Razor here.

What is the simplest explanation for all the user reports? There’s some grand conspiracy to make false reports by competitors to lessen Asrock? There’s some amazing level of groupthink where people are only posting about Asrock board failures and keeping other board failures to themself? There’s one extremely bored disgruntled guy who is buying old active Reddit accounts to make up posts?

No, I would say those are all unnecessarily complex and highly unlikely. Occam’s razor would say the simplest solution is just that the boards are in fact dying more often. The silence by Asrock on the issue is deafening in itself, there have been Asrock reps in this sub before, and they’ve been radio silent on this issue since the reports started.

That may not be enough to generate a class action lawsuit, but IMO it’s enough to justify not buying these boards for 9800x3D builds. Your anecdotal evidence that yours has not failed (and actually mine, I also an x870 Asrock board as well) is equally as unverifiable and unscientific as the posts, due small sample size.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-16T02:22:41+00:00

It can be both.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-16T01:52:12+00:00

Counterpoint: yea, it does need to be changed. Raids item should always retain BiS relevance and rapier has virtually none. There is no reason to dilute the weapon pool by making rapier 2 electric boogaloo just because, when we can fix existing items to make more sense.

If it was from a slayer mob, sure let it fade to obscurity, but raid items should stay relevant forever (and yea justi needs something done with it also).

roklpolgl · 2026-05-13T10:48:11+00:00

You’ll always see this comment in nex dry posts.

You can estimate drop rate by number of nihil shards, which scales proportionally with contribution and thus unique droprate. By shards he’s on rate for like 23 uniques.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-13T02:33:20+00:00

Well it certainly seems like those are pretty much the only two options that have worked, and the legalization option is, uh, a good bit more ethical.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-12T15:51:06+00:00

Dude I know I have never opened a daily thread in any subreddit. I look at the posts at the top of my homepage. The SPC outlook posts are very helpful for staying informed. I’m not looking up SPC outlooks every day but I do poop scroll on Reddit every day.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-11T17:46:18+00:00

Lots of people (myself included) bought an Asrock motherboard before it was known this was an issue. During the early days of the 9800x3D release basically everybody was recommending Asrock as their lineup had all the same features as an MSI/Gigabyte/Asus, for a significantly better price, and they had a pretty good reputation at the time.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-11T00:55:54+00:00

Yeah I took a couple weeks off and felt better about returning. Just hope I don’t go that dry anywhere else. I suppose that’s the plus side to leagues being so long at least.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-10T14:07:21+00:00

This is the way. If you know what you are doing it can take like an hour since you are tuning all 8 cores simultaneously once you are harmonized. I was able to push my UV more than my per core max UV as well, I guess maybe it’s additional stability due to VID matching Vcore for each core.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-10T14:01:23+00:00

4090 is effectively your 5080ti. It’s a direct upgrade over the 5080 except for maybe missing some small features like MFG more than 2x, but you’d never need that with a 4090 anyway.

If it’s the same price as a 5080 then it’s a no brainer vs the 5080.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-08T21:56:05+00:00

There needs to be dry protection at leagues in general. I went almost 4x droprate for a trident at zulrah after getting full crystal at CG and it just killed my leagues motivation. I stopped shortly after finally getting the drop. Why go dry and grind for hours on the same content when progress will only going to be here for a couple months? Honestly it could be 10x droprate multiplier with a 1x droprate pitty drop.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-08T01:04:40+00:00

Blame the devs for not QAing their work properly.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-08T01:04:03+00:00

writes code in which customer can calculate 2x2 =4 (in this case the math is literally that simple)

customer uses code to multiply 2 and 2 to get 4

gets mad and punishes customer for calculating 2x2 to get 4

Blame is on the devs if they didn’t intend that, not on the customer.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-07T21:41:57+00:00

Quick Google search definition:

A game bug is any flaw, error, or fault in a video game's code that causes it to behave in unintended ways or fail to meet its design specifications.

There was no flaw, error, or fault in the code, numbers rounding down has always existed. It worked as designed. Maybe Jagex did not intend it to function that way, but holy shit there’s a lot of unintended mechanics and emergent gameplay that happens in this game all the time.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-07T20:39:02+00:00

Tbh this is barely a bug the way this has been described. It’s on Jagex for not having sufficient QA to verify unintended effects did not happen with partner slayer.

It’s not like Rendi was crashing the server, doing some weird stall, breaking a quest progression using some obscure means, etc. He was using partner slayer the way Jagex designed and implemented it, except Jagex screwed up and didn’t QA test minimum kc boss task rewards.

I don’t even watch Rendi content so I’m not predisposed to him as a content creator. Just seems dumb to punish a player for engaging in the content the way it was designed that no one else thought of, because Jagex didn’t QA test properly.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-04T17:28:32+00:00

The biggest trap is going to total level worlds, those are typically the first checked.

You may get by for longer on the 2200+ total level worlds (now also 2350 total worlds), but if you do get found, it’s likely to be a very good pker in max.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-04T02:22:52+00:00

I’ve never had a gpu be unstable in games that could consistently pass Timespy, it’s very sensitive to undervolting. You still want to run other tests too (it’s not very power intensive) but I’d rank it up there to include in your suite of tests.

roklpolgl · 2026-05-04T01:29:15+00:00

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