@openmind23: It wasn't the story per se that was bad in Fallout 4--I think as a story, it was way better than Fallout 3's--but it was that the story was so personal *and* how during pretty much every early quest, someone is telling you exactly how to save your son. There's really only one way to roleplay: trying to save your son.
Apparently, it's an online game. (https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1001826335189274625) Urrrghh. I really can't stand Bethesda right now. They have IPs that people love and they don't develop genuine sequels to them and they don't hand them off to other studios. FTS.
@openmind23: We hope for exact opposite things in this then. I may pass it altogether if the building mechanics are more than they were in the last game.
@fivepercent: It's starting to come, it isn't all the way down now has stock fully replenished. Still, we're now seeing top of the line cards at 250-300 dollar markups rather than double the price. (E.g., https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Founders-Graphics-08G-P4-6180-KR/dp/B01K1JW8CW?th=1) But I think a lot of people are expecting it to drop back down soon. Nvidia has said they see demand returning to normal rates soon.q
@danaj525: Remember that time when I said "the GPU crunch is starting to decline" and you said "Lol, nope sorry" and then agreed with me that upcoming developments were "going to help a bunch." Those were good times.
@jenovaschilld: This is way over-thinking it. The GPU famine has lasted only around a year and is already starting to decline. This is largely due to the the market reacting to demand. If cryptocurrency remains profitable (anyone's guess at this point), then in all likelihood there will be specialized products designed to handle that just like NVidia Quadro's are designed for professional workstations. Indeed, we're already seeing this with ASICs.
@furiouswk: Not really. Cryptocurrency is becoming less profitable after an insane bounce last year: It jumped from a 2 or 3 grand a bitcoin to over 20 at one point but is now down to around 8 grand. Also we're starting to see the rise in "application-specific integrated circuit" or ASICs which will likely replace GPU based mining over the next year or two.
This article's pretty late to the party: the GPU crunch is already starting to decline: http://bitcoinist.com/graphics-card-based-crypto-mining-risk-extinction/
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