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    What Movie Did you Just Watch?

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    Those may be the only type of people that you know that liked the movie, but something I always read into with the comics and the film is the "fuck the douchebag" mentality. The film does a bad job of portraying this, but the comics biggest point resembles a Saturday morning cartoon G.I. Joe public announcement that asks the viewer to NOT be a dumbass (IE: Asshole, Hipster, Douchebag). Hell the evil ex's all have a dip shit quality that the movie constantly says don't follow (when the majority of the world does).

     

    Idk it's kind of hit or miss for a lot of people, but I enjoyed it a lot, not just the video game references or the jokes but the way it kinda tingles my metaphor senses. The best argument I've read for the older crowd not enjoying the film is the constant ADD attitude it has with its material. I can agree that the film does not STFU (and at times feels like a 7 year constantly pinching at you for attention), but that's something I personally enjoyed about it. Felt like an action flick with more to it.

    What Movie Did you Just Watch?

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    I got that but I didn't get it "that way". I understood it as a take on modern culture, I met kids that fell into each "evil ex" category every day in high school and they were all douche bags at the end of the day that anybody would want to see get beat down.

     

    But a lot of the stuff in the movie did get mixed with music for the sake of pace, in the books the events took place over a year and a half of time and there wasn't any "battle of the bands".

    What Movie Did you Just Watch?

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    Scott Pilgrim is hit or miss for everyone apparently. I enjoy the movie to death and consider it a must watch for anyone who does anything game related, even though they're truly just additions to its story(as is its hilarity and music, the entire point of the story is a modern take on growing up).

     

    I remember reading a review on Destructoid where the reviewer stated he was afraid that the current adults (late 20s early 30s) would understand it yet scoff it off as "trying too hard". But I felt pleased with the film, having read the series about 5 times already I found it quite pleasing to see it on the screen (part of me still feels it could have been better as a series, there is simply too much back story to satisfy my fan side of the film, but my appreciation for the film is extremely high as I consider it something that should have been explored a long time ago).

     

    Remembering one of Edgar's interviews, he asked why a video game movie with video game speech hasn't been made yet, after watching Scott I can only agree that it's a style that should be built upon.

    What Movie Did you Just Watch?

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    Scott Pilgrim.

     

    Didn't like it, as I expected. I can understand why people find it appealing, though I didn't like the obvious point the movie tried to make that rock & roll > other forms of popular music and culture. Musical arrogance, any kind of arrogance really, is lame.

     

    I'm interested as to how you came about to that conclusion?

    How can I record gameplay at full fps?

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    Question, which one of these cards would better handle the act of recording and streaming live? With my current card (Diamond 5750 HD) it pushes the game to its limits, and the stream itself is a little laggy (Windows 7 Example) (WinXP Example). I need 60 FPS in-game, and need the stream to have better quality (although I am satisfied with its current output, the issue I'm having is in-game I'm having to adjust to the FPS drop making it harder to play sometimes).

     

    So I plan on doing 2 things to help improve this, 1, get a new video card and down the line eventually crossfire it with my 5750. If the nvdia would better suit the stream however I can sell my 5750 (only 3 months old atm) and use both those monies to get two gt cards (the only problem I have with the gt series atm are the cores, with ATI and its 5XXX series hitting over 4 digits in this category I can't help but feel gooped with an nvdia, but I'm asking myself if its a worthy sacrifice for what I'm trying to do, since I know the nvdia cards still have faster ram).

     

    So my budget is $200, here were the two I found on new egg...

     

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...2-878-_-Product

     

    I figured since I'm already barely hitting the threshold of my card, I really don't need anything higher than 256 bits, it has 1120 Stream Processors and is a beast. A hefty upgrade from my current card and I'd figure it would be safer for me considering this machine was built to handle GW2 on release. I still plan on putting many hours into that game as soon as it comes out.

     

    However when I asked my friend for his opinion, he pointed me out to this.

     

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...0-433-_-Product

     

    Nearly doubles the other card in bits going at 448. However I'm unaware of the difference it is from GDDR3 to GDDR5. My friend has always been a NVDIA guy and if he ever ran into one of their PR guys he would probably get hired in the sense of selling more cards. It also only has a measly 216 stream processors.

     

    So I ask which would be my better bang for the buck? Since I have already a 5750 and can crossfire that to the other beast, right now I'm leaning towards the ATI, but I just want to hear from the other techies here that I'm making the right decision :).

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