RalphMoustaccio

It's hard to tell from the picture, but it appears that you have an AIO top mounted. Is it intaking or exhausting air? If it's set up to exhaust, then I'd assume there are front mounted intake fans, and it's possible you could pull in some of the exhausted hot air from the top due to the case proximity to the shelf above and wall to the side.

@brian_: My daughter's S has the new update, but my X does not. We're in the same house, so it's not region-based, either.

I agree with the general sentiment that AH seems pretty boring overall, at least in the first few hours. I really did not expect the writing to be as godawful as it is. Rarely has a game given me such thembarrassment from the writing as this. The combat seems okay--certainly better than the Bioshocks--but it feels incredibly shitty on kb/m. It seems to be a mouse acceleration issue (with no way to turn the setting off), so if you're gonna play on PC, use a controller.

Add me to the list of loyal premium subscribers who have now cancelled. Mine just renewed in December, so asshole capitalists at Fandom probably won’t care since they got my money for the year, but maybe if enough people cancel subs and autorenewals they’ll realized they fucked up something great.

Best of luck to Jason and Jess. You both deserve better!

You could check out the Razer Blackshark v2 Pro. I think the dongle it comes with works on PS5, but I don't know for sure. It was the headset I used prior to the EPOS H3 Pro. I switched primarily because while the Blackshark is very light and comfortable, I found that the earcups would frequently move slightly because of the adjustment system it has. They do sound good, but need some eq adjustments to really shine. I think the mic might be slightly better than the EPOS, and it is removable, which I find to be a requirement of any headset I use. It's down to about $120 US right now.

@spacemanspiff00: I bought the Epos H3 Pro Hybrid Wireless not long ago. I think I paid $229 for them at the time, on sale. Steep, but I really like them. Sound quality is excellent--Epos is Sennheiser's gaming line--battery life is good, uses usb-c for charging (or for wired connection), has 3.5mm connector, bluetooth, and a proprietary dongle that works with both PS5 and PC. I actually bought a second dongle so I could just connect to whichever of those is on, and it works flawlessly. Mic quality isn't terrific, but it's more than serviceable, and on PC I've been using Nvidia broadcast to further clean it up. Here's the amazon link, but you can definitely find them elsewhere:

Amazon.com: EPOS Audio H3PRO Hybrid Wireless Closed Acoustic Gaming Headset (Sebring Black) : Electronics

Honestly, I forgot the 6600 existed. That is the better option for raw gaming performance at 1080p. There seem to be a few to be had for the $230 - $250 price point right now, and a couple vendors have deals that include "up to two games," with purchase of a 6000 series card. The promotional art includes Dead Island 2 and Calisto Protocol, though I can find nothing that gives solid details on what is included, and if the number of games offered is based on the tier of card.

That budget is, unfortunately, going to be very challenging. If you can manage an extra $50ish, I'd suggest going with an RTX 3050. Relative to the 970, it's going to be a huge step up in performance, especially since you'd be able to take advantage of DLSS for resolution upscaling--on games that support it, of course. My assumption is that with your current build, you're likely targeting 1080p/60, and the 3050 will absolutely deliver that.

On a technicality, the last game I bought was Horizon Forbidden West, because a code was packed in with the PS5 that I finally was able to purchase. I didn't want it, but they don't seem to be selling the non-bundled version of the console any longer. Stray was the last game I bought for its own merits.

A free free speech lesson to anyone that wants to listen: nothing about this has anything to do with the First Amendment. Twitter has been, and will remain, a private entity (even when they are/were a publicly-traded company), and can have any terms of service that they want. They can ban anyone and everyone at their whims, or not, hence why Nazis continue to run rampant threatening the lives of others on the service while I have to approve a post telling a shitty right-wing ghoul to fuck off. Yes, I meant what I said, Twitter.

Freedom of Speech means that the government cannot prevent you from engaging in any form of speech, provided that it does not immediately cause risk of harm to others (e.g. the shouting fire in a crowded theater example). Since speech doesn't cause immediate harm in almost any case, Freedom of Speech is broad, but it does not apply to private entities in most cases.

Musk buying this is not about free speech in a generic sense. It's about his free speech, and his desire to platform the worst people on the planet without recourse under the guise of being somehow egalitarian. Remember that this is the moron who thought that he could just accuse random people of being pedophiles under the auspices that it was a "joke." The shittier and more active the user base is on twitter, the more money he'll make, I'm sure he thinks.

The only lesson to take from this is that capitalism continues to be godawful, and people who claim to understand the constitution generally have no fucking idea what any of it actually means.