Show Notes:

It's Saturday September 26th, 2020

you're listening to Nerds Stew

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What have we been playing

• Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 + 2
  • Fall Guys

DCU trailers

• WW1984
• Black Adam
  • WTF WAS THIS
• New suicide squad
• New batman??

Shadowlands Update

• Level squish also means drastic story squish?
• Seems like pre-BFA content is getting buried?
  • https://www.pcgamesn.com/world-of-warcraft/shadowlands-leveling?amp

Apple vs. Epic Showdown

• Microsoft warns Apple of ripple effect when blocking Epic from App Store completely
  • https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/23/microsoft-warns-court-that-apple-blocking-epic-will-hurt-games-business.html

New World Preview

Pros?

• 35GB and it seems good
• Pew pew gun is fun
• Fire fire mage is fun
  • Pointy hat is great
• Crafting is superb and useful
• Semi-large world with no mount makes world seem gigantic

Cons?

• Needs better character customization
  • No character slider for boobs
  • Are there females and males?
• Sometimes co-op and questing as a party seems awkward
• Factions lock you out of playing with friends

Nvidia release

• Leather jacket
• Stupid kitchen
• Tiny PCB
  • FE card NOT using reference PCB?
• Weird cooling setup
  • Turns out cooling doesn't impact most case designs unless airflow is already a problem
• 3070 sounding like a great value
• 3080/3090 availability issues and bots
• 3080/3090 capacitor issues
  • Nvidia's own guidelines not what they followed themselves?
  • Manufacturers trying to be cheap or just following base guidelines?
• Nvidia saving 3070 Ti and 3080 Ti for Big Navi release?
• Radeon release
  • 12GB and 16GB memory configs?
  • Set to compete with 3070 and 3080 allegedly
  • AMD also promises NOT to have availability issues at launch

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