It’s already happening

Same here. 5800x3d is great, and I’d rather not buy a new motherboard and things just yet.

The 7950 has 16 cores. I think what the article is suggesting is the very top of the line in the next gen could go potentially double, up to 32. I would imagine if that happened though that the more midline ones would still be in the 12-16 core range. I guess we’ll see when they come out though.

I feel your pain, it’s just such a popular cpu it never seems to come down as much as you’d think. Kind of the end game for anyone who doesn’t want a new motherboard.

Personally if I already had a 5800x I probably wouldn’t upgrade to the 3d, though there would likely be some gains, especially if you’re cpu bound on a game.

Here’s like 40 games where they’re compared on a nividia 3090:

https://www.techspot.com/review/2451-ryzen-5800x3d-vs-ryzen-5800x/

I upgraded from a 3700x to a 5800x3d so there was a big boost.

But a 5800x3d isn’t even much cheaper than a 7800x3d, and the socket type switched now. So if I already had a 5800x I’d probably just wait and switch to a 3d chip in the future when I was ready to upgrade my motherboard. If cost is no object and you’re not gonna swap the motherboard for a long time, then yes it’s the best gaming cpu you’re going to be able to use with that board and likely always will be.

Thanks again EU! And maybe even US department of justice this time, suppression of certain app types was listed as one aspect of their anti trust lawsuit.

These loot boxes are merely a highly artistic statement on the uncertainties in life and a run away capalitalistic society! We are as shocked as anyone that people have got addicted and lost thousands of dollars to our uhhhhh art, yeah.

I agree with you on all of the above. Also I think any successful challenge should be refunded. Silly that you can successfully challenge one play, but then not get it on the second challenge, and then not be allowed to challenge again the rest of the game. When if the order was reversed you would still have a challenge.

I agree, any penalty being over called could become a problem. If refs suddenly start hallucinating any penalty it would be an issue, doesn’t matter how good the underlying rule is. I don’t think banning hip drop tackles is the problem though. I think the anger is being misdirected to individual penalties instead of broader issues with how officiating works.

That and people just assuming they know what a hip drop tackle is without researching it more and realizing how rare it actually is. If you just go to YouTube and search hip drop tackles right now, you’ll find some good examples. But you’ll also find a lot of outraged sport podcasters posting videos of just a defender pushing or throwing a runner down onto the runner’s hips, with the defender even still standing. That’s not what hip drop tackle means, it doesn’t even refer to the runner’s hips. Just wrapping your hands around their waist from behind is not a hip drop tackle. It’s only when the defender grabs with both hands or arms, twists, often with the defender’s feet leaving the ground, and pins the runners legs to the ground with the defenders body weight, does it become a hip drop tackle.

Found the text of the rule, has all three elements just like the rugby ban:

ARTICLE 18. HIP-DROP TACKLE. It is a foul if a player uses the following technique to bring a runner to the ground:

(a) grabs the runner with both hands or wraps the runner with both arms; and

(b) unweights himself by swiveling and dropping his hips and/or lower body, landing on and trapping the runner’s leg(s) at or below the knee.

I wouldn’t be too worried, comprised only 0.4% of all tackles since 2022. It’s not like they’re taking away some vital frequently used technique or banning tackling from behind or something.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/nfl-bans-controversial-hip-drop-tackle-despite-objections/ar-BB1kvgz4

It’s banned in rugby as well. Doesn’t help that many videos being posted by people against the ban are mixing clear hip drop tackles with clearly not hip drop tackles to obfuscate what’s actually being talked about. This one is actually very informative and details all three components needed for a hip drop tackle.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5KJ9mCbS3rU

I think there’s way more subjective penalties in the game already. I would be pushing for changes to how officiating works in general if that’s the concern rather than getting too upset about banning an already extremely rarely used technique with a high injury rate. We’ll see how subjective the actual final rule will end up being, but if they restrict it to only tackles with all three of those components like rugby it’s very cut and dry.

Comment from a ublock developer on this:

There is a lot of chatter in the last days about how Youtube is slow with content blockers. Those performance issues affect only the latest version of both Adblock Plus (3.22) & AdBlock (5.17), and afflict more than just Youtube. uBO is not affected.

https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1746263759495077919

There’s a lot of problems with this. Just some include that it’s a blog and doesn’t link to the actual study so it’s impossible to see what’s going on with the this report. They also never explain what this “reliability score” even means or what’s included in that. Then they start doing things like using a percent to compare the scores saying this is percent more reliable. But we still don’t even know what this score is, and comparing as a percent may not make any sense to say depending on what the scores are and how they’re calculated. Unfortunately you can’t really draw any conclusions from what’s in this article.

It’s a tough call. Many forums have a rule against changing the title at all. People posting are often used to this and post the title as is from the article. The idea being to help prevent editorializing and clickbait on the part of the poster. Every headline these days though seems to be some variation of blatant clickbait or so and so “slams” this or “destroys” that. At this point I probably trust randos on the internet to make headlines more than publishers.