As an Intel/nVidia user when I switched (ie I already owned them). I can say that in real world gaming - ie not synthetic benchmarking, my vibes based analysis is that some games are definitely less fps, others I can’t notice, and a few i’m quite sure performed better.
If I were buying new I would probably go with AMD, but from my experience being team blue & green should be no impediment to moving.
Its hard, because they compete with Ireland, England etc - but Scotland definitely deserve a full tour, its been way too long.
I was thinking that - if it was a maul, it would have been. So why when its the only defender 5m out from a quick tap would it not also be?
(I dont think either should be penalty try + yellow - one or the other is sufficient punishment for mine).
Was a hell of a game though eh - good atmosphere, relatively evenly matched teams. I heard someone saying it was around a b/c level Scottish team with so many of the A-listers with the Lions; but it would be a struggle to call the Maori ABs even a C level NZ team at the moment. There’s a handful of starting SR players, 0 ABs squad members* and the reserve halfback wasn’t even in a SR squad this year.
In fact of the entire team the only SR starters I can think of were the two locks, TK Howden, Rivez Reihana and Bailyn Sullivan who was shunted out to right-wing as soon as Proctor came back from injury.
*Walker-Leawere was called in as injury cover for a week last year & TK Howden is close to knocking on the door.
Setting aside all the other stuff.
Are claiming that Russia was not the aggressor in this current war? If so, what’s your argument, that it was a response to provocation? If so, what was such a provocation that justified invading another sovereign nation (again)?
Force have been my Aussie team since Ozich left the Magpies to join the coaching setup (though I don’t know if he’s still there). They’re kinda like the Highlanders of the Western Island, bits and pieces team but sometimes come good.
Obviously only 2 rounds in, but so far the ball in play is only up marginally - a minute maybe. But apparently the total game length is 15 minutes shorter than the average 6 Nations match this year, so the games really fly by, no sweat at all to watch 3 games in one day.
Oh, and in response to some concerns about not allowing scrums from free-kicks. The scrum is still a massive weapon, we’ve had near push-over tries, tight-heads and everything else you’d want, without having repeated scrum reset after scrum reset.
Basically its almost come down to get it right the first time, get penalised if you don’t.
Its also a massive size jump too. I’ve stuck with my iPhone 8 in large part because I just don’t want a massive phone in my pocket. At this rate god only knows what i’ll do when the 8 finally dies, most manufacturers followed the trend and got their phones to swell.
That’s entirely on the WRU, if they’d paid any attention at all to Southern Hemisphere rugby they’d have seen what a disaster he was with the Chiefs in Super Rugby where in effect he had to be promoted out of the coaching role because the losses were so continual. And then Clayton MacMillan pretty much turned the whole thing around with basically the same squad.
They addressed the wrong problem when they ditched Pivac, and since then the top team performance has gotten worse while the underlying issues haven’t been addressed at all.
And given Gatland didn’t resign at the end of last season, and this has been termed a mutual one I imagine there’ll be a lot of scuttlebutt about whether he just held out for a payout or not, which is money WRU can ill afford given the problems still there!
Man, I don’t think the early yellow did Scotland any favours but it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. But I really thought they had a good shot at the win given the home field advantage, with England beating France at home in a bit of a shock I guess its Ireland’s to lose now already after only 2 rounds.
I had these sorts of issues too, always assumed it was something i’d goofed - but have never had similar with Caddy.
I used NPM as well, and eventually just got sick of various issues i’d had with it (probably all my fault, but…) so switched to Caddy and it was just so much easier and reliable for me. I’d heartily recommend it.
Yeah, seems like a pretty bad hot take to me.
I have dual boot available (win10 - bazzite/gnome/nvidia) and haven’t had to boot the win10 partition since the first week I set up the bazzite one.
I have very few problems, just intermittent weird graphics glitches after waking from suspend. Occasionally for whatever reason the 2 monitors I have plugged into the RTX 4070 will rapidly flip between joined (ie two separate displays) to mirroring display 1 on display 2, and sometimes flashing a black screen on display 2. The 3rd screen plugged into the mobo rarely gets involved in whatever is going on.
I think that’s possibly a Wayland / nVidia thing but is extremely rare to happen on a fresh boot so has been pretty easy to workaround.
The only Windows thing I miss is the VoiceMeeter audio mixing app from VB-Audio which was far superior to anything i’ve found so far that I can get working on bazzite. One thing about the linux audio that really annoys me is how each time some audio plays - eg every next youtube video its on a new audio stream and ignores the previous volume level I had set. But very first world problems :)
Weird to have England ahead of Scotland, and by so much. $7.50 is pretty good money for a cheeky punt.
That scratchy win by Ireland must be putting Scotland up as equal favourites for the 6N now surely?
This might sound weird - and bear in mind I only watch the internationals so domestic form I have no idea about… But in a way to me this feels like a team that’s less than the sum of its parts.
They’re all pretty good to great players but as a team they don’t feel like the individuals would do as well as they would if they were just in their home setup.
eg, Jones outside Aki doesn’t feel anywhere near as strong as Tuipulotu-Jones or Aki-Ringrose.
The new stadium in Christchurch will be a lot more like Dunedin’s covered stadium so that’s a step in the right direction. There’s a big fight in Auckland at the moment to make a rectangular football focussed ground down in the city itself.*
Cricket NZ is pushing heavily for their favoured option which is an upgrade to Eden Park so every 3-4 years when India tours they can pack out 45-50k for a couple of T20 Internationals. But nobody wants to play or watch test cricket at Eden Park and there just aren’t that many games of cricket in NZ that warrant a stadium that big. Of course that means in future we might miss out on hosting world cups but it is what it is.
Another option is for the football ground to have some expandability but in my view that inevitably ruins the whole benefit of a rectangular stadium so hopefully it doesn’t come to that.
*Ie what the Labour Government offered to build for around NZ$500m or something way back in time for the 2011 RWC, but Aucklanders thumbed their nose at the idea in favour of upgrading Eden Park again.
On the flip side, the ABs were awful for 40 minutes, ok for 20 and then good for the last 20. Scotland at home scares me.