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Looking Ahead – Some 2021 Predictions for WoW, FFXIV, and Gaming Technology

2020 as a year is going to be the butt of jokes for a long, long time. It was a thoroughly exhausting, sometimes sad and depressing year… Read more “Looking Ahead – Some 2021 Predictions for WoW, FFXIV, and Gaming Technology”

It was a Friday like any other in the COVID-19 world. At 12:32 PM PST, one of the technology inventory tracking Discords I follow went off. An… Read more “Sidenote: The Hilariously Simple and Dumbfounding Way In Which I Now Have a Geforce RTX 3080”

This last Tuesday, I had a mission. On Monday night, I took a sleep aid, passed out at 7 PM, and waited to awaken early on Tuesday… Read more “Sidenote: My Hilarious, Awful, But Amusing Experience Trying and Failing to Get a Radeon RX 6900 XT”

As I noted in my last Sidenote post about my own system build, I am at the point a lot of builders are currently – waiting for… Read more “Sidenote: The Abysmal Supply of PC DIY Components in Late 2020”

Upgrade fever has hit, and with black November/cyber week deals, I’ve managed to snag pretty much all of my system upgrade with 3 key exceptions – the… Read more “Sidenote: My New Gaming PC For Late (Hopefully) 2020 – The Parts, The Current Build, The Wait For An In-Stock CPU/GPU”

Apple launched their first Apple Silicon-powered Mac lineups this week with new Macbooks at all parts of their stack and a Mac Mini. Apple Silicon is just… Read more “Sidenote: A Bunch of Gaming-Centered Thoughts on Apple’s M1 Chip, Amazon’s Graviton, and WoW on Apple Silicon”

So with the actual reviews out of the way, now is a good time to jump into pure, unabashed speculation, rumormongering, and looking ahead to the future… Read more “Sidenote: The Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 Review Roundup Part 2: The Future and Matching the Consoles”

AMD made a big promise at their October 28th Radeon RX 6000 series unveiling – roughly equal performance to the Nvidia Geforce RTX 3000 lineup at better… Read more “Sidenote: The Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 Review Roundup Part 1: The Current State of Play”

Let me start this post off with a simple question. Are you happy with your current PC gaming experience? I ask because before I dive into what… Read more “Sidenote: Is Now The Perfect Time for Upgrading or Building a New PC?”

I’ve been talking a lot about GPUs lately. A LOT. A big part of that is that the market is really fascinating to me for the first… Read more “Sidenote: Comparing GPU Software Kits Between Nvidia and AMD”