Ep 11

Thanks for lending me your

ear.

Starting out with game news

from last week – Elden Ring won GOTY from the Game Awards and this is a big

deal swanky affair when a kid goes up with the dev team and after they finish

speaking he steps up to the mic and starts 

spouting gibberish – the only comprehensible thing is he wants to

nominate or thank bill clinton.

at this point it’s clear he’s not with the devs, the devs are all looking

bemused and the kid is escorted off the stage. Unexpected turn, he was detained

later by the police but not arrested.

Even now a week later it’s unclear if the kid was just trolling, if he’s

unbalanced perhaps. He’s an enigma, well dressed but witha  heavy accent – is the accent fake – who knows?

In other gaming news so many games recently have been getting rtx upgrades and

it was the Wticher 3’s turn last week. That’s right you can noew enjoyr Geralt’s

adventures wtih RTX on and DLSS. This is for a 7 year old game! (Witcher 3 came

out in 2015 – great game, I first played it I think 3 years ago pre pandemic,

was old already then but what a game.)

Another old but goody game to get an RTX face lift recently is Portal.

Speaking of RTX and gpus in general, the reviews for AMD”s latest flagship the

7900XTX are out

- cheap for what you get, ie. cheaper than the competition

- about the same perf as a 4080

- but still way behind in RTX perf

- reviews have been mostly positive but uniform in that if you want the best

perf at the best settings, Nvidia is still the way to go

- looking at the coverage of most major Youtubers they are happy to praise the

7900 XTX even though it’s clearly behind perf wise to nvidia’s flagship

- easy to praise the underdog, beating up on Nvidia gets views – but I bet you

the majority if not all of those guys are still using a 4090 at  home

-locally the card is still coming for a price at around 70k or so but no

confirmed price or eta yet

Two more weeks left in the

year guys – catch you Dec 23. The shop is open actually for most days, just

closed on Dec 25.

Till

next Friday ladies and gents, have a good weekend.

NB.

This

episode's script.

Dashes

are

notes where I have specific info I want to say but am comfortable to wing

it

(ie. too lazy to write out a verbatim script).

Comparing

this to the final show you notice I digress a lot.

(Apologies

for the typos, my Word doesn't have spell check for some reason.)