Many years ago there was a BBS door game called Legend of the Red Dragon (LORD). My memory of the exact exploit is fuzzy, but the game was expandable and the sysop had installed some expansion where I could get gems early on and quite easily, which I could trade for potions that would increase my stats. This led to me having a level 1 character with no armor and a stick – basically starting gear – that was unstoppable. But instead of levelling I’d leave the character like that and all the other maxed out players couldn’t defeat me in duels, and they were all big mad and complained to the sysop.

Eventually he figured it out and I think changed the config for the expansion so that gems were not so easy to come by. But for a good few months I was at the top of the leaderboard.

Baldur’s Gate 3

Depends on what you’re looking for. The XM4s are some of the best on the market, especially if you want ANC. The XM5s have even better ANC but probably about the same sound quality.

But maybe you want something else. Maybe you value light weight, or super bass, or don’t even want over the ears and want some IEMs. It really depends on what you want most from a headphone before deciding what to look for.

But will they be readily available? The 5600X3D being only at Microcenter kind of sucked.

They could price it at $5000 and people will buy it. Or not and they kill all consumer gpu production and sell only data center SKUs and still make bajillions.