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Cake day: August 20th, 2023

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  • I do like 4k personally, I like the extra clarity and distant details you can see, and the crisp text and icons are nice to have as well. Especially with a big monitor, it feels quite immersive in games and gives you a lot of desktop space to use too. It’s definitely a luxury though compared to 1440p, which is a much better price/quality ratio. It’s taxing on performance too, but my 7900xt can run most anything I play at medium/high at ~90+ FPS, and I tend to be pretty picky about framerate as I’m sensitive to input latency. Certainly not a low end card, but far from a 5090 or even 5080, and games still look great since medium/high usually still has a plenty of eye candy enabled. With upscaling like FSR and DLSS, you can drop the res slightly too and still have a pretty much native experience since you’re still working with a very high quality input, but that can help give a nice performance boost.

    I’d still recommend 1440p to most, but it’s not too difficult to have a great experience with 4k, you certainly don’t need OPs level of hardware for it. I played for months with a 5700xt even, and while it sometimes struggled, it was playable enough at low/medium settings to have a nice time. I upgraded to the 7900xt mainly because I fried my 5700xt and it wouldn’t stop crashing ahaha, otherwise I would’ve waited longer most likely


  • One thing to note, the idea of running everything at max at 4k is an extremely costly endeavor with severely diminishing returns. The difference between max and high settings in most games is very minimal (especially if you spend a minute tweaking settings) but the performance hit of maxed settings is often massive. A 5090 will certainly perform the best, but even that won’t play literally everything maxed at 4k/high frame rate, and a 5080 or 9070xt for like half the price or less will get you very close visually, while also using quite a bit less power. You’d be able to save on your PSU, as well as the energy costs too. It’ll also dump less heat into the case, which makes cooling easier. So If money is no object at all, the 5090 is hard not to recommend, but otherwise something cheaper would get you 95% of the way there










  • I cannot for the life of me understand why billboards are legal in general. We’ve gone through the effort of banning distractions like even touching your phone while you’re driving, which makes sense, but yet these massive advertisements who’s literal sole intention and purpose is to get you to look at it instead of the road exist and are everywhere. They’re also complete eyesores. Why?! It surprises me there hasn’t been more campaigns like that, I can’t imagine billboards are exactly a popular idea










  • The Grudge. I saw it when I was maybe 7 or 8? I was at an Aunts house with some older brothers that had it on. Honestly I barely remember actually watching it, but good lord it scarred me until I was at least 18 or so. I could never get the image of hair growing out of random places, turning into something terrifying out of my head whenever I was showering and stuff. I still haven’t rewatched it :D I’m quite a scaredy cat when it comes to horror movies already and I could totally see it giving me nightmares again if it’s anything like I remember as a kid