Instead of a spoiler-laden post about the content of patch 5.5 (it’s pretty good!), I wanted to start with the nerdy stuff I was unironically more excited… Read more “Sidenote, Sorta: The Technical Enhancements of Final Fantasy XIV Patch 5.5”
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Sidenote: My Twitch Livestreaming Setup Part 2: The Software and Settings
In my last Sidenote post, I discussed the hardware I use for livestreaming to Twitch, and made some alternative recommendations to cut cost from the silliness I… Read more “Sidenote: My Twitch Livestreaming Setup Part 2: The Software and Settings”
Sidenote: My Twitch Livestreaming Setup Part 1: The Hardware
As I’ve been mentioning a bit in posts, I’ve been doing a lot more livestreaming lately over at twitch.tv/kaylriene, and I wanted to discuss the process by… Read more “Sidenote: My Twitch Livestreaming Setup Part 1: The Hardware”
Sidenote: The Early Retail-Sample Review of the Intel Core i7-11700k and Interesting Low Results
Yesterday, I saw something really quite fascinating. Anandtech, one of my formative technology review outlets, had secured Intel’s newest 8-core via an early retail sale and benchmarked… Read more “Sidenote: The Early Retail-Sample Review of the Intel Core i7-11700k and Interesting Low Results”
Sidenote: The GeForce RTX 3060, Radeon RX 6700 XT, and The Growing Midrange Gap
When I got into PC gaming, there was something really great, almost magical about the hobby. Sure, the high-end was up with $1,000 CPUs from Intel, exponentially… Read more “Sidenote: The GeForce RTX 3060, Radeon RX 6700 XT, and The Growing Midrange Gap”
Sidenote: The Sudden and Wholly Predictable Failure of Google Stadia
Stadia is something that I think we all knew had a sort of expiration date on it from birth. For over a decade, I’ve seen services that… Read more “Sidenote: The Sudden and Wholly Predictable Failure of Google Stadia”
Sidenote: Nvidia’s Branching Product Paths of Geforce and CMP, and The Bad Precedent It Sets
Earlier this week, Nvidia, clearly tired of weeks of headlines about how the current supply shortages and cryptocurrency mining craze had made their Ampere-architecture GPUs near-impossible to… Read more “Sidenote: Nvidia’s Branching Product Paths of Geforce and CMP, and The Bad Precedent It Sets”
Sidenote: Backlog Woes
I own a lot of games. I mean, A LOT of games. Here is the storage situation on my new machine as of this very moment, with… Read more “Sidenote: Backlog Woes”
Sidenote: Observations After One Week of a Custom Loop Watercooled PC
Last week, I wrote in detail about the build and setup of my entire new rig, from the desk to the PC. With a week of use… Read more “Sidenote: Observations After One Week of a Custom Loop Watercooled PC”
Sidenote: My Long, Sometimes Frustrating Weekend of Building My New Desk and Watercooled PC
You may have (possibly!) noticed I have been rather quiet the last few days. That is simple enough to explain – as I mentioned in a post… Read more “Sidenote: My Long, Sometimes Frustrating Weekend of Building My New Desk and Watercooled PC”
