If you're looking to buy a damascus steel blade (presumably for collecting as they rust very easily), Kershaw makes some that are both affordable and good quality.

That's a really good point; I hadn't thought of the re-forging that was used to make the swords for Jamie and Joffrey! I suppose the only reasonable canonical explanation would be that valyrian steel blades are pure rather than alloy and the patterns are a result of the forging.

That's fallacious.

Based on that description (I haven't read the books), modern damascus steel isn't too different. Aside from artificially darkened blades (e.g. black oxide), damascus steel is the darkest available (to my knowledge) and has the "grey ripples", which can vary in shape and size depending on the method of manufacture. …

Well played.

I didn't intend any insult but was just trying to point out the nature of the word. It's definitely a bad "vocabulary habit" but an easy one to make (for myself included)! >.>

Anytime one uses the word "obvious", it is inherently condescending as that which is obvious needs no explanation.

Yea, Valyrian Steel is clearly based on Damascus Steel, in both appearance and history.

The Jean Grey bits weren't very good but the worst had to be the Silver Samurai climax. It was just horrible on all accounts. It's such an obvious plot development despite the film treating it as a surprise twist and the actual battle was both boring and nonsensical.

Just how many films do you think Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert made?

Ah, collecting minerals: the first date of every girl's dreams.

Don't forget the cuffs; shrinking is a great way to repair stretched-out cuffs!

No lie, Eddie Halliwell is one of my favorite DJs! There's no doubt that people can get excited for DJs (or a particular DJ), but at the end of the night, the DJ is there to "make sure the party happens".

"Basically" being the key word. The provided instructions are specific to GPU manufacturer (i.e. Nvidia & ATI) and the downsampling is specified in software. I may very well be mistaken, but I can't imagine why it would be necessary to specify the "end resolution" in software if the monitor's firmware handled…

It's important to note that downsampling is not feasible with high refresh-rates.

I believe you're mistaken about the downsampling; it is performed via software on the machine, rather than by the monitor's firmware.

Hence:

It's possible for a thing to be objectively better than another so long as there is a clear method of comparison. However, to generally say something is "better" is subjective.

Eh, a lot of the older games look horrible on a modern televisions in my experience; it's a good reason to keep an old CRT around.

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