Most competitive Street Fighter (mainly 5, 4, Third Strike, and Alpha 3) is fun to watch and understand the nuances of, but I have no real interest in playing fighting games myself.
I also like watching a variety of Overwatch content on Youtube like some pro stream VODs, game philosophy, update news, etc.; even though I've never played it and don't think it's my style of shooter.
Thanks for the tips, I'd previously had Galak-Z and Tales of Maj'Eyal marked as "not interested" on Steam, but I'm interested in both without permadeath.
ADOM looks like it might be a little dry for my tastes, but I'll keep it in mind.
I know permadeath is sort of one of the main points of roguelikes (or what is traditionally called a roguelike today), but the thing is, I often find myself interested in everything about some roguelike I'm looking at except the part where it has permadeath. It's just not for me, and single-handedly turns me away from most games that have it. Dungeons of Dredmor would be no different if it didn't have the option to turn off permadeath, but since it allows me to play it as simply a turn-based RPG with procedural generation (and quite a good one at that), I'm a big fan of it.
So I'm interested in any roguelike that lets me play it as not a roguelike, basically. However, I suspect there must be others like Dungeons of Dredmor out there and they just don't advertise the ability to turn off permadeath up front, so I thought I'd ask here if anyone knows of some examples.
For the record, I'm aware some roguelikes such as Rogue Legacy have elements of permanence that carry over between deaths. I'm not really looking for examples of those as a compromise, just roguelikes that let you disable permadeath completely.
It's less about brand and more about the quality of the cooler on the given model. I would try to find a model that has at least a dual-fan aftermarket cooler. With the founder's edition blower fan, both the 1080 and 1070 are known to reach the 82C threshold where they start throttling clock speeds and giving less consistent performance. You can set a higher custom fan curve to get around that, but that isn't ideal because that makes the fan more likely to fail before the end of the card's lifespan. I would avoid any single blower fan coolers.
If you go for one of the triple fan coolers (the cheapest 1070 on Newegg at the moment is a triple fan Zotac card), check the length of the card and make sure your case has room for it to fit. Triple fan coolers are usually close to if not more than a foot long and some straight-up won't fit in a lot of mid towers.
If it were me, I'd upgrade the GPU first and worry about the rest later. I recently upgraded to a GTX 1070 from a 560 Ti on a stock 3570K. With a 1070, you will see some notable bottlenecking in some CPU-intensive games, so it's definitely not accurate to say there's no reason to get a better CPU yet, but you'll be able to max out the vast majority of games at 1080p with at least the framerate you want and most at 1440p (you won't be able to max out unoptimized games like Mankind Divided or Ark, and I personally have seen Just Cause 3 use 100% on all four cores of my 3570K in certain areas with unplayable framerate regardless of my settings, despite some areas reaching 90+ FPS with max settings).
Now is not the best time to upgrade your CPU because Kaby Lake is coming out soon, and Zen soon after that. Even in the event that neither one pushes CPU performance much higher than what we have with Skylake, market prices could be affected substantially by Zen if it proves to be AMD's first competitive architecture in years (which it probably will).
By the way, this video showcases reasonably well where you'll see bottlenecking between different processors on a 1070.
Cool, I hope it's true. I only like playing shooters with a mouse, so I've always just assumed the franchise was something I would never play (though I was never really aching to play the first game, with its shortcomings). I'd definitely be interested in playing this one if the port is decent and they make good on it being a more full-featured game. I suspect that first part is a big "if," though.
I've watched them both simultaneously... best experience in my mind... <3
Agreed. That's how I did it, so it didn't feel like watching the game through twice, and getting to see the different reactions and different things each team did was great. Ryan getting fed up with Brad during the wall-lady sequence was great. And there is some batshit crazy stuff that only VJ or BR encountered. There are so many strange things in this game.
Also agreed. I simply watched the episodes from both as they came out back in the day, and I think you'd lose something by only watching one of them or even watching one to completion and then the other. Watching all episodes in the order they were uploaded is the only way I can recommend.
How fucked up is it that that was over 6 years ago?
Duuuuuder – 6 years is a loooong time! Now I suddenly remember Jeff stepping out to park his car in a different spot (did he?). They were in the Sausalito Office at that time right?
That was the tail end of their Sausalito days, yeah.
I've watched them both simultaneously... best experience in my mind... <3
Agreed. That's how I did it, so it didn't feel like watching the game through twice, and getting to see the different reactions and different things each team did was great. Ryan getting fed up with Brad during the wall-lady sequence was great. And there is some batshit crazy stuff that only VJ or BR encountered. There are so many strange things in this game.
Also agreed. I simply watched the episodes from both as they came out back in the day, and I think you'd lose something by only watching one of them or even watching one to completion and then the other. Watching all episodes in the order they were uploaded is the only way I can recommend.
How fucked up is it that that was over 6 years ago?
Just to clarify for people who don't know the specifics, the 970 does technically have 4GB of RAM on it, but the last 512MB of that is very low-performing such that it is misleading to advertise it as 4GB without any caveats.
The 970 has eight active 512MB memory chips on it; however, one of those chips has its L2 cache (and accompanying link to what's called the "crossbar," basically the connection through which data is transferred to the chip) disabled, and has to be accessed through the L2 cache of the other chip in its partition (the 970 has 4 partitions of two 512MB chips each on it). To accommodate this design, the 970 only stores data in the 7 fully functional chips until it fills them to capacity (which usually won't happen, mind you), then starts placing data in the last chip. Until that point, data is split up and transferred on the 7 normal chips through their respective lanes simultaneously, but all data stored past 3.5GB has to be pushed single-file through one lane into that last 512MB chip, making it far slower (though it's supposed to be still faster than having to offload data into system RAM).
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