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  1. Zamfir has sold more records than the beatles. Makes better music, too.
  2. I thought they said he didnt do any drills
  3. Michael Jordan famously never was in any NBA Jam game.
  4. Just making sure everybody knows that We Own This City is secretly Season 6 of the Wire. Same cast, same writers, same city, only 20 years later, and the cast are playing new characters. But if every season of the wire has a theme, We Own This City Is about police corruption, the lens finally turns inwards. Well worth watching.
  5. 100%, by the end of the show, Marlo was straight up in checkmate and Avon ultimately won. Marlo's "victory" was something he didn't give one shit about, he was all about his name on the streets. By the end of the show, he'd achieved Stringer's victory, not Avon's. He's in the world of politics now, if he fucks up at all his ass is going to federal prison for life, and as the final scenes show, that dude just could not help but fucking up. And Avon set it all up from within prison. All his "West coast love" shit was bullshit playing marlo like a fiddle, he knew if he set Marlo against Prop Joe and the collective, they'd destroy themselves easily. And that's exactly what happened, by the end, the collective has no ties to the Greeks anymore and Marlo can't touch the streets or he's gone for good. All Avon has to do is wait out his term in jail and when he gets out, he has everything lined up to take all he lost back. Marlo was a dumb punk who got played by Avon in every scene they interacted in.
  6. they should straight up make The Wire required viewing for highschool students in america.
  7. The main limitations of the steam deck with modern games is the shader unit count. At only 512 shading units vs, say, an RTX 2080 having 2944 shading units as a mid-range card, you are mainly bound by special effects heavy vertex and fragment shaders. But in terms of pixel throughput and threading, the Steamdeck stands up to modern consoles well. The reason people like to hang around 720p resolution is because for some special effects that use the entire screen buffer as an input, you can choke your shader units because they have to work on every fragment (read: pixel) of the screen. But quite a few modern games will let you lower the resolution of special effect buffers, while the final output image of the game is still 1080p. So you might have a 1080p image, but, say, the buffer that shadows are rendered at, which uses a stencil shader, will be at a lower resolution. That get hidden in game menus as "low quality shadows." You basically have to get a feel for what options in games tend to most heavily stress your shader count, but beyond that, the resolution can be pumped up just fine. And, again, capping the framerate with the built in options on the steam deck really helps -- framerate responsiveness works on an exponential curve, so the jump from 30 fps to 40 fps feels bigger than the jump from 40 fps to 60 fps. Anything that can divide evenly by the framerate is ok, so any 120hz TV can cap at 40 fps with no screen tearing just fine, and it'll feel much more responsive than 30 fps while providing a huge performance boost. At 4k, however, things indeed do get pretty hairy because at that sort of resolution, you really are running up against the pixel throughput limit of the steamdeck. You can use FSR 2.0 if a game supports it to us ML to upscale the image to 4k in games, but not every game supports FSR 2.0, so it's sort of hit or miss (and FSR doesn't perform as well as nvidia's proprietary solution anyways). The very best thing about the Steam Deck is the individual thread performance of the APU. Only 4 cores/8 threads (SMT), but each core runs fast and is performant. So on the CPU side of things, it can keep up just fine with any CPU heavy application, especially things like emulation. The Steam deck can run Yuzu to emulate the switch pretty well, for example.
  8. I played Cyberpunk 2077 on my steamdeck at 1080p just fine. Same with Final Fantasy VII remake, same with Crash Bandicoot 4, same with God of War, same with Spider Man: Miles Morales, same with Baldur's Gate 3, same with Horizon: Zero Dawn. It is definitely not for "lower end" games, and resolution is not at all the deciding factor in how well the games run. When *NOT* docked, you have to carefully manage your graphics setting vs your TDP because if you crank it too high, you'll eat your battery in 30 minutes, but in a dock, that doesn't matter at all. Let the Steam Deck eat all the electricity it wants, and you can push it to 1080p just fine, so long as you aren't trying to run everything on ultra graphics setting. Fact is, PS5 and Xbox Series games already run in a mix of low to medium settings, matching them with the Steam Deck and capping your framerate at, say, 40 FPS on a 120hz monitor, they play just fine.
  9. Steam deck is a pc in a console form factor. Its like the nintendo switch, you dock it and it outputs to a tv. Runs steam os, which can run all windows games. Since you already have a laptop, you dont have to buy games again for a new system.
  10. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cMSEm-dbTCQ&pp=ygUeYW1lcmljYW4gdHJ1Y2sgc2ltdWxhdG9yIHRleGFz 100% worth it
  11. That game is incredible. Do you have the texas dlc? It blew my mind when nasa road 1 was in the game. Grab the texas pack, install a Ferrari mod, tune into the local texas radio over the internet, and cruise down the highways at 120 mhp. Its incredibly fun.
  12. Oh man i had joe montana 94 and it blew my mind. The best thing about sega channel is every month they would throw up every sports game they had to download, and they always had way better sports games than nintendo. My favorites were world series baseball 95, nba jam t.e., and mutant league football. Especially the last one because you could do things like bribe the ref or send in goons for dirty hits to take players out of games. The sega game announced so far that im most excited about is shinobi, its being made by the guys who made streets of rage 4 which was incredible. Im totally there day 1 for shinobi. I also put an ungodly amount of time into virtua fighter 2 in highschool, so ill be all over vf6.
  13. The steam deck is not limited to just steam games. I have lots of non-steam games running on my steam deck just fine. Steam Proton will run *anything* in linux, not just steam stuff. All you have to do is go into the steam menu and add your stuff as a non-steam game, and it'll work, complete with steam overlay and gamepad support. Aside from the usual non-steam stuff you'd expect like GoG and EA and such, you can also run windows-only indie games on the steam deck just fine. Like, I put Another Metroid 2 Remake on my Steam Deck no problem. And what's funny is it was actually even easier to just add the windows version of AM2R instead of going through the trouble of installing the linux version! I have a dock for my steam deck that does this. I got one early so it's pretty no-frills (it adds an ethernet port, 3 USB ports, and 2 video out ports - 1 HDMI and 1 DisplayPort), but they have some 3rd party ones that even embed power bricks into the dock so your dock acts as a second battery for the deck. Neat stuff. Also, if you go this route, I'd recommend buying an 8bitdo controller. The Xbox controllers connect through bluetooth and constantly drop connections in my experience. You can get around this by buying an Xbox controller dongle, which lets you connect the controller through microsoft's proprietary wireless connection instead of bluetooth and it becomes rock solid, but the downside is you have to install a driver called xone on your steam deck. And that involves quite a bit lof linux that I don't think the average person would be down for. As in, you have to go to the desktop mode, and download the driver source from github and build it from scratch using make. And before you do all that, you have to unlock the steam deck (valve locks down the rootfs in linux so the average person doesn't accidentally fuck it up and brick their deck), and every time the deck updates, you have to do the entire process again. Which brings me back to the 8bitdo controller -- it looks and feels almost exactly like the xbox controller, except it has extra buttons on the back, and hall-effect joysticks so they never drift, and it comes with it's own dongle for the dock that they made specifically to work with the steam deck, so its all plug and play. Can't recommend the 8bitdo controller enough.
  14. When I was a kid, the very first thing I was ever ride or die for was SEGA. I didn't have an NES, I had a Sega Master System, the Sega before the Genesis. I grew up playing Outrun and Altered Beast and Afterburner in a local laundry mat. My dad was huge into video games in the 80's, and he infected me with a love for Sega Blue way before it was cool. I watched them go from completely unknown to the biggest brand in video games for a while and it was cool as shit. I had a Sega CD -- it was literally the first CD player anybody in my entire family had. I had Sega Channel, which was netflix for video games back in the 90's. I preordered a Dreamcast and picked it up on 9/9/99 with NFL 2K, Power Stone, Soul Caliber, and Sonic Adventure. So for the past 22 years, Sega's absence has soured video games for me. And now, once again, they're finally swinging for the fences with this new era, new attitude, new sega branding: They're all-in on reviving their image, starting with bringing back all the games that made them such a huge part of my childhood. Already announced is: Shinobi Crazy Taxi Jet Set Radio Golden Axe Streets of Rage Rumored to be coming next is: Virtua Fighter 6 Altered Beast Eternal Champions Outrun Kid Chameleon Panzer Dragoon House of the Dead Thunder Force Super Monkey Ball Alex Kidd Afterburner Today's kids just don't know.
  15. The fastest man on earth just said that joining Sark took him to places they never thought possible with all the football world's spotlight on him. That's so insanely badass, and so completely anti-mack brown. Mack Brown's greatest season is infamous because he stopped coaching and "let vince be vince," so you never had anybody standing around praising his coaching job. The biggest stars in football right now are saying when it was all said and done, Sark made them better, and holy shit that's going to take our program places. I'm so fucking pumped up right now.
  16. That first TD catch vs Bama that opened the floodgates was beautiful. I'm so happy for Worthy, he's an awesome representative for UT. Hook em!! We're gonna look back on X in the future and realize they set the foundation for an entire new generation of Texas greatness.
  17. I got a couple of his aggy books for christmas. They're fucking hilarious.
  18. Back during NFL Quarterback Club 96, you could call a fake punt on any down, at any point on the field, and the CPU would line up for a return every time. It was quite literally an unbeatable play, and I used to have insane scores like 300-0 lol.
  19. considering the other power conferences have 0 each, absolutely.
  20. Big 12 is a religious conference. Does the church of scientology field a football team? What about heavens gate?
  21. Or gave up on the Uber geeky build your own desktop gaming rig thing 15+ years ago? I once tried to keep up with that nonsense and it was a relief going back to consoles and not having a million different things that could go wrong. Oh, and having that monster machine you spent $3k+ on being pretty much outdated for some newer games within 5 years or less. Yeah I like mods as much as anyone, but I don't have time for fiddling with all the small issues that come with PC gaming these days. I'd rather drop the cost of a good videocard on a console and games optimized (for the most part) to work with them. Boy this post certainly sounds like someone who hasnt used a pc in 15 years.
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