That pretty much never goes away. Welcome to the club!

To be fair, the CM QFR and Filco share an OEM (Costar) so the form will be identical

probably the last part I would consider purchasing used/refurbished.

Not if you plan to overclock, but otherwise, liquid cooling is a bit overkill. I don’t overclock my CPU and I’ve gotten by with stock cooling—max temps in the 70s, which isn’t bad considering I live in a tropical country

The only part of the build that really worries me is the refurbished HDD. I’m wary of refurbished stuff in general but especially for storage I wouldn’t wanna roll the dice

Gee, wish my boss would buy me a GTX 1080. Guess she’s neither generous nor wonderful, ha-ha!

(If you’re reading this ma’am I’m so sorry pls don’t fire me)

Listen to Arnheim, Jason. Arnheim knows.

(also, isn’t the AMD Ryzen Threadripper Extreme a CPU, not a PC?)

Counterpoint: it was better than V, people just have a tendency to undervalue things that are recent (e.g. every LBJ is GOAT discussion eventually devolves into “BUT HIS FINALS RECORD”/”6 > 3")

Not to mention, when the wear and tear did eventually catch up with him, it him like a ton of bricks. KG went from DPOY in ‘08 to, well, still pretty good the next season, but pretty clearly outside the NBA’s elite

The community was actually amazing... for like a month after launch. It got exponentially more toxic once Competitive was added to the game.

I would have also loved to see Chrono Trigger, but to me the most glaring omission is NBA Jam (which probably had too expensive a license like Turtles in Time, but still)

I mean that’s true, but it also doesn’t disprove my point. Unless you’re insinuating that those two games are outliers in terms of how 2K chose to monetize them, to which I can only reply with a firm “nuh-uh!”

As someone who played both Evolve and Battleborn, I can confidently say 2K is no slouch in the customer exploitation department

I would rate soccer higher—a spot higher than golf I think—because it actually can translate fairly well, particularly with a title like Rocket League, where success or failure has little dependence on a random number generator, but more so on player skill and understanding of the game’s physics