Considering Nvidia GPUs are melting at an unusual clip thanks to its fancy trash connector that nobody asked for, AMD is the safer GPU selection, for less, for not a significant drop in performance if your application isn't some sort of 3D design productivity.

Of course their CPUs have been superior in serious multithreaded performance and efficiency for the last few years.

AMD has been pretty sus lately. idk.

Could be? Bots are rampant and now more unchecked than ever now that Elon threw out 75% of the competent engineers. Turns out, they were pretty important after all.

I'd say the exact opposite.

Imagine being a-okay with plain, old-fashioned discrimination and hiding behind freedom of speech as the excuse to execute it. Actually, given the mood and articulation of some [white] male posters here, I shouldn't be surprised. The relentless effort to march backwards in a world ever evolving and progressing forward will always be embarrassing, but no more so than the people who think it's okay to try to do so.

Funniest part about all this is posters talking about this web designer as if they had a real business when this whole case was built on a hypothetical. They don't have a business and didn't have a gay couple looking to have them build their website for them. This was not a real situation and thinking it was only highlights how out of touch and unaware some of you are with what's actually going on and why, but still attempting to speak on the subject. Blind leading the blind, I guess. This case was about arguing the principle...an idea...a hypothetical. And it was timed to take place in front of the most conservative (read: regression-friendly) court in decades by design, not by happenstance. It's the fruition of The Heritage Foundation's 40-year goals and white supremacist objectives. Hell, they hand-picked 4 of the 6 conservatives on the court right now, in large part thanks to decades of elected democrat stupidity, malaise, corruption, and inaction. And the people pay the price. And as is always the case with white supremacy, it's the minority groups that bear the heaviest weight and damage.

Perhaps Uncle Rukus aka Corrupt God King aka Clarence "show everyone my porn stash" Thomas will reject the obvious conclusion of this path when someone eventually tries to get an interracial marriage case before the court. After all, why shouldn't my freedom of speech come before making interatrial marriage cakes or serving people of color at my restaurant? My religion says it's not okay xD. Then again, maybe he'll be tired of Ginni by then and won't mind striking down Loving v Virginia too. And I have great confidence that some posters here would be a-okay with that too. Because those kinds of posters are allowed to exist and persist on this forum.

I can't tell you how disappointed I am to come back to this forum to see how far it's fallen. Genuinely.

yep

I mean, since when do Bethesda games compete graphically? Has that ever been the allure of their products?

I assume it's improved quite a bit since release, but idk.

The real question is: are you going to play it? It could be $5 but if you don't have time because you already have a massive backlog, it would be $5 wasted. There will be at least 2 more times this year that it will be the same price or less on Steam (Thanksgiving / Black Friday sales and Christmas/New Years).

If you think you'll get to it before Thanksgiving AND IF it's something you really wanted to play after the demo, I'd say go for it.

I mean of course.

well they have more money than god, so it was reasonable to consider it.

I'm not sure Sega's current output would have made that much of a splash. If we were talking about Capcom, that would be different. I know Sega has a number of fantastic IPs that would become available to Microsoft in an acquisition, but let's be real: Microsoft has more than enough IPs that they own, 90% of which aren't getting games made for them as it is. Buying Sega would just mean them having more IPs available that they don't use.

The cost of greatness.

But more than the money invested is the vision and talent at the top. That's what separates Nintendo (who seem to just occupy their own tier of distilled, consistent greatness) from Sony (who are doing great work more often than not) from Microsoft (who struggle mightily with franchise consistency and output outside of Forza and Gears).

It is remarkable, in retrospect, to consider that Microsoft's most vibrant generation of gaming output was the couple of years at the end of the Xbox's run and the first few years of the 360's run. They were putting out bangers, innovating in the space everywhere from UX and UI to custom music to indie support to achievements to online gaming. They had a genuinely really diverse catalog of games and ideas, bringing forward and/or supporting 3rd party IPs like Project Gotham Racing, Geometry Wars, Crimson Skies, Gears, Kameo, Blue Dragon, Chromehounds, Mass Effect, Mech Assault, even Viva Pinata, Crackdown, and Perfect Dark were stabs at something different, even if clearly flawed. For a brief time, they were the gold standard that everyone was struggling to catch up with. Sony's online offerings in the PS3 years were clown shoes. Nintendo's are *still* clown shoes. Microsoft regressed greatly in creativity while failing to grow and advance in execution.

I feel like Too Human was the real beginning of the end. Huge investment, huge hype, complete flop. Combined with the overall failures of Rare and relegation to Kinect games (prior to finding success with Sea of Thieves) exposed huge failures in Microsoft's structure and corporate style, which failed to get the best out of their teams. That truth continues through today with the disaster we see at 343.

Some days I feel like Turn 10, The Coalition, and Moon Studios are all they have that they can rely on and that's just not good enough. It's a good thing they have Bethesda and will eventually have Activision. They need them in the worst way. They need to just sit and learn from those organizations as much as they can.