general-chat

[vocal gorge]

hmm, that isn't supported? Interesting since iirc the motherboard's supported a firmware level TPM and some may have had optional dedicated TPM support via a module that is installed on the motherboard (not sure what Intel call it compared to AMD though)

[obsidian kayak]

I’ve heard a lot of modern computers are ditching hdmi tho

Not that the i5-7500 is modern lol

[uncut kite]

Can melons in Minecraft grow on any block or does it have to be dirt

[obsidian kayak]

Dirt or grass only

Or farm land or path blocks

[halcyon stratus]

DisplayPort tends to be more of a computer thing and hdmi tends to be more of a consumer electronics thing. They both get the job done though

[trail harness]

those are all variants of dirt

[obsidian kayak]

Yes but there different blocks

[vocal gorge]

can't see how that is true, if anything they are getting HDMI 2.1 support but Displayport is more common on a PC and for monitors

[obsidian kayak]

I have bad hiccups right now 😦

[trail harness]

my video card doesn't support 240 hz 1080p over hdmi but does support it over DP

[uncut kite]

What’s the best level to find diamonds in Minecraft

[mellow roost]

https://tenor.com/view/peachcat-boo-cute-scare-gif-23421242

[obsidian kayak]

Deeper you go if on newest version

[uneven river]

All the way at bottom

[vocal gorge]

could be 1080p 240Hz exceeds the bandwidth of the HDMI spec. Displayport 1.4 had a trick up its sleeve in DSC that would allow lossless compression and up to a 3:1 bandwidth ratio that allowed support for higher refresh rates and resolutions on monitors. HDMI only added support for with HDMI 2.1

[uneven river]

Next update is making them more common if next to air block

[obsidian kayak]

Bedrock already has that

[drowsy pelican]

Why is takeout so expensive I’m in negative balance now 😭

[raw pollen]

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

[drowsy pelican]

👋

Since when did my name turn into splendid wolf

[obsidian kayak]

Your name was most likely inappropriate so it got changed

[drowsy pelican]

What was so bad about it was just a Arabic word

[uneven river]

Impossible to @

Makes mod commands harder to do also

[obsidian kayak]

Idk what it was but i think the system automatically changes names based on a filter

[vocal gorge]

without DSC or the newer Displayport 2.1 there is no way I'd be getting 4K 240Hz at 10 bit as that well and truly exceeded the bandwidth a standard Displayport 1.4 cable would support

[obsidian kayak]

I’m sure a i5-7500 won’t be doing 4k anyways

[drowsy pelican]

They can just @ my old username

Now it’s amusing centaur for some reason

[obsidian kayak]

1080p for server lol

[desert sonnet]

Just finished Succession. You all should watch it

[uneven river]

I wonder if it defaults to generic gamertags

[obsidian kayak]

It’s a random name generator

[soft lake]

Just came back from the gym, showed, and got my clean bedsheets from the dryer, feels so good to lay down when both me and my sheets are freshly clean

[drowsy pelican]

Best feeling

Especially after leg day

[normal cypress]

crazy question does anyone have a xbox gamepass code from nitro, 1 or 3 months?

[stone sable]

Hi, guys.

[vocal gorge]

btw I double checked Windows 11's supported processors and yeah, Kaby Lake (7th gen) and older just missed out. Though I do see Intel's Skylake-X is supported so that's interesting...

[obsidian kayak]

I’m sure it’s still installable tho lol

[queen lotus]

No one does. The promo offer ended like in Spring.

[obsidian kayak]

Just not upgradable lol

[atomic sail]

We need to be able to gift 360 games

[obsidian kayak]

Gift them a gift card

[atomic sail]

Yeah but like wish you could gift them the game directly.

[soft lake]

Ima try and hit legs tomorrow, I got massive calves and thighs from being over 280lbs some years back, but no real strength in them… I don’t really exercise them enough, I did do a minute on the stair master before leaving though, I feel weak though because I didn’t manage 2 minutes like I did a few days ago

[hollow hawk]

Finally used my Microsoft points lmao
6000 for Roblox credit for my brother (and a cosmetic he wanted)

[atomic sail]

I’m gonna use mine to get a $25 Xbox Gift Gard

[versed swan]

im gonna remember to get more one of these days

[obsidian kayak]

Wish I knew where my hiccup straw is lol

[hollow hawk]

I was saving for the $100 microsoft credit to put into getting the 2TB expansion card, but I decided to throw some to my brother

[naive echo]

$100?

[atomic sail]

Very thoughtful of you

[naive echo]

This here in Brazil is $400 bruh

[hollow hawk]

For 91,000 points yes.

[obsidian kayak]

https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/e70bc74f-4eaa-44ec-87c0-b1b16d5c8b74.738bc0fb0a7435341c7ef2a5ea049c19.png

Lol

[naive echo]

You have an advantage in many things, here in Brazil everything is expensive

[atomic sail]

Such a crazy amount of points.

[naive echo]

😭

I have a question, where do you live red dead redemption 2 is how many?

[rancid snow]

I gonna be saving my points for a xbox gift card on the xbox app then buy gears of war 3 season pass

[mossy ore]

I auto redeem for gamepass monthly

[rancid snow]

Nice

[versed swan]

oh yeah forgot auto redeem was a thing

[limpid flicker]

Ultimate is £26.99 on sale right now in my region.

[atomic sail]

Like $60

[mossy ore]

It's cheaper to auto redeem for gamepass than to get it for 3 months

[versed swan]

i dunno maybe one of these days I'll set a daily timer to do the searches and quizzes and stuff

[limpid flicker]

It... is? I didn't do the math... what, it's just plain better that way?

[naive echo]

That's 300 where I live, and the game costs 250, apparently I think I have an advantage

[reef sapphire]

does someone have any spare xbox gamepass codes

[weary solar]

#rules 💵 13. No buying, selling, or trading items/codes on the server. Do not ask for codes, handouts, or freebies either.

[atomic sail]

In Japan it costs ¥8785

[reef sapphire]

no

[naive echo]

I read € 💀

[atomic sail]

That’s Yen. Basically it looks like more but it isn’t

[sage ice]

Amazon has codes you can buy

[naive echo]

Starfield Will launch in 3 minutes

[reef sapphire]

!rule 13

[rancid snow]

I have a question does gamepass ultimate automatically renew after you're 14 day trial ends

[soft lake]

I haven’t been bothering with my reward points for awhile… I know I’m missing out but it’s a pain in the manure dropper

[sage ice]

that is false

[limpid flicker]

No? That's a pre-load.

[naive echo]

Y

[sage ice]

yes, unless you turn that off

[atomic sail]

You can turn off reoccurring payments

[rancid snow]

Ok

[versed swan]

ignoring rules and then spamming commands isn't the wisest move

[rancid snow]

Thank you guys

[obsidian kayak]

Why are force feedback wheels so expensive

[atomic sail]

You’re welcome my boy.

[naive echo]

5 set?

157 GB 💀

[mossy ore]

I got 33k points right now

[limpid flicker]

I don't understand the question, can you rephrase.

[hollow hawk]

Yeah, it's an open world universe game - It's gonna be big

[naive echo]

What time is it for you?

[sage ice]

8pm

[hollow hawk]

22:59 here, US-EST

[limpid flicker]

Early morning. 4 AM. I woke up too early.

[sage ice]

Actually, we are in "EDT" not "EST"

[atomic sail]

8:00PM

[rancid snow]

In starfield can't wait to meet the the characters 😍

[soft lake]

11pm here, I wish I was tired but I’m not

[naive echo]

00:01

[brave wasp]

I hope the Everspace 2 patch goes through tomorrow, the game seemed really good from the little I could play but god the stuttering is awful rn

[hollow hawk]

Looking up "EDT Time" and "EST Time" on bing bring up what would be now 11:04, so close enough for me.

[sage ice]

EDT and EST are a hour different

[rancid snow]

I never played Everspace 2 but this is gonna be my first time playing it on gamepass

[molten briar]

est and cdt are the same time!

[sage ice]

lol

That will confuse people Eris

[molten briar]

soooo

[hollow hawk]

Welp, Bing is broken then

[sage ice]

it isnt, it is telling you "Daylight" time, and that is EDT

[molten briar]

^

[sage ice]

Bing is doing that, because most people do not know the difference between S and D in the times

[molten briar]

do the what is the difference, or is it currently edt or est

it interprets just like that is tldr

[hollow hawk]

timezones are confusing

[sage ice]

this isnt a time zone issue, this is a time change issue

[limpid flicker]

Stoopid DST.

[molten briar]

spring forward = daylight time, aka damn its bright out, fall back = standard time = sleep is good

[sage ice]

Why I always say "PT" and leave out the S and D

[hollow hawk]

Fine, the concept of time is confusing.

[molten briar]

also, daylight savings in the us happens at a different date than does in europe 😛

[sage ice]

Ask @cosmic bison how much he likes the time zones 🤣

[molten briar]

time changes wreak havoc on meeting times when you're an international business

[rancid snow]

My timezone is pacific standard time

[sage ice]

it isnt though

Pacific is in PDT "Pacific Daylight Time"

[rancid snow]

Oh OK then never mind

[molten briar]

it could be pst if theyre in adt xD

[sage ice]

Stupid AZ

[hollow hawk]

Time zones, time changes, all of this is an agonizing mess to me
I think we should start counting time in unix epoch timestamps
"Meeting at 1692378000?"

[jade latch]

Any1 else’s Xbox messages banner not showing up when someone sends a message. Just broke tonight

[molten briar]

nah, az is on pacific time atm

adt is alaska!

[atomic sail]

What did you say

[sage ice]

ahh lol

[atomic sail]

Honestly gotta agree but only the weather part

[molten briar]

honestly, it's just easiest if everyone used utc

[sage ice]

yep

[molten briar]

so my name should actually be: eris, comic sans timezones

[sage ice]

if everyone was on the same time zone, it would be normal to wake up for some people at 14:00

[versed swan]

that sounds like me

[limpid flicker]

Maybe I don't customarily wake up too early, I'm just in the wrong time zone.

[rancid snow]

What's everyone's doing tomorrow

[sage ice]

work

[rancid snow]

Cool

Tomorrow I gonna play a couple of ctf & btb in Halo:The Master Chief Collection

That will be a lot of fun

[hollow hawk]

I already wake up at 14:00 in my own timezone wym

[soft lake]

Gonna be doing laundry, dishes, gym, eat

[rancid snow]

🫠

[hollow hawk]

Probably nothing, unless work decides to call me in (half hoping they do, my last check was under $300 )
Got a pile of laundry I should probably do.. and my room could use a bit of freshening up, huge pile of wires sitting where I store some extra tech and my PS2 games

I should do it, but I know I'll probably sit here all night, and wake up at like 1pm tomorrow and not do it

[limpid flicker]

I wish there was any good way to store spare cables.

[halcyon stratus]

Allow me to preach the word of our bag and savior, Ziplock

[sage ice]

cabkes suck

[hollow hawk]

I hang em up over the rungs of my bed, since that's rather high up, though if I did that with all of my cables I'd have a curtain made of wires

[halcyon stratus]

1 and 2 gallon zipper top@ziplocks are amazing for cable organization

[limpid flicker]

TBH a lot of them I should just ditch. I'm not gonna need some of these ever again.

[rancid snow]

Gonna chill all day tomorrow and eat pizza and drink soda and play skate 3

And maybe a friend's house

[hollow hawk]

I myself am a hoarder for every kind of electronic equipment, on account of "I should archive the stuff on this just in case" or "This could make a cool project" or "This could have helpful parts in it"
Something like an IRL Brotherhood of Steel member

[molten briar]

Cat toys

[mossy ore]

Mood

[limpid flicker]

I guess but... when am I ever gonna need SCART again? I'm not even talking about SCART for specific devices, just 21-pin to 21-pin...

SCART was great for the time, but the world moved on.

[molten briar]

Use them for decoys for your real cables obviously

[limpid flicker]

Wise!

[hollow hawk]

But what if you find a really cool computer that just needs a 21-pin to 21-pin SCART cable?
That's my mindset

[limpid flicker]

I feel like no computer ever took SCART, but I could be mistaken. It was entirely for connecting stuff to your TV.

[hollow hawk]

And it has come in handy for me, when I got my desktop it came with a VGA cable, which I didn't need because I was using an HDMI cable. I bought another PC for use with something else, and what do you know, computer with no HDMI or DP, just VGA.

[hollow hawk]

whoops.. I confused SCART with SCSI in my head somehow.

[limpid flicker]

Thing is, you can still buy VGA cables. I'm pretty sure you can still buy SCART. Is keeping one around on the off-chance actually worth the storage tax?

[limpid flicker]

I'm not shocked. If you're American, it is likely you've never even seen SCART.

[molten briar]

Old habits die hard. I always keep a serial cable in with my laptop

[hollow hawk]

I am indeed American.
(cue Wolfenstein "hot dog" bit)

[limpid flicker]

Haven't seen an RS232 port in a while, myself.

[inner arrow]

I haven’t seen usb-a port in a while

B and c yes. But a? That thing is extinct

[regal shell]

uh

A is the common one

I think you're thinking of B being extinct?

[limpid flicker]

Also: is it, though? Because I thought B was still pretty common on cheap printers?

[inner arrow]

Could be. I just woke up so I am sorry if I got them mixed up

[regal shell]

Most monitors that serve as USB hubs have a B port as an "in"

[halcyon stratus]

Here is the process that worked for me. Maybe it will work for others.

1. clear out large area of floor, move chairs/coffee tables if necessary
2. dump every single cable in to a single pile. literally just one pile. dump all drawers and buckets and whatever else is holding your cables.
3. sit down and start tossing (not organizing, not stacking, not wrapping, just tossing) cables in to different areas of the room based on the absolute most basic 'type' (power-at-all, networking-at-all, audio-at-all, video-at-all, anything else)
4. pick the smallest pile and move to it
5. seperate in to subpiles. (for example power cables that are the figure 8, triangle, c13, c21, pigtail extensions, etc)
6. organize the subpiles by length
7. use your 1 and 2 gallon bags, fill each bag with only 1 type of cable. This may mean that you have a bag with literally only a single cable in it. That is fine. It also means you might have more cables of a type then fit in to a bag. Decision time! Do you do 2 bags worth or just 1? Throw the rest away.
8. Congrats, you've made spac eon the floor to start subsorting the next smallest pile
9. Label the bags. Slot the bags in to drawers. If you have multiple drawers, dedicate a drawer to one or more types to help stay organized.
10. Done.

[regal shell]

Also there's the USB 3.0 B plug, which the Xbox One Kinect PC adapter used.

[molten briar]

Routers and switches

[lunar panther]

PC Adapter?

[halcyon stratus]

Pro tip for ethernet cables....
A bag can either be for a color or a length , but don't mix the two. Also don't mix your cat5e, 6, and 8s together.

[regal shell]

Yeah, that serpentine thing you originally needed to attach a Kinect to a PC (but then you also needed it to attach a Kinect to an Xbox One S or Xbox One X)

[atomic sail]

gotta love da community

[halcyon stratus]

AV Receivers / processors

[inner arrow]

I remember my old work place used those usb b cables. But haven’t seen those since then. I also remember some external harddrives used those back in the days too

[lunar panther]

Did we ever officially refer to it as a PC Adapter?

[regal shell]

There's also micro-USB 3.0 B

[inner arrow]

So many cables. So many versions of cables. Why can’t everything just be cat6 lol

[molten briar]

dump all out on floor

Nightmare fuel

[regal shell]

Bah Deek

Make me do work

[halcyon stratus]

cat6 is so incapable of so many things

[hollow dune]

anyone got good tips for pc maintenance. I can run disk defragment and disk clean up. But im not sure what else i should be doing to keep a computer running smoothly

[lunar panther]

holy smokes I had no idea

[inner arrow]

Yeah no cable is truly perfect

[regal shell]

Literally my desk right now

[lunar panther]

I remember hooking up my 360 Kinect to my PC in order to do some hackery

[halcyon stratus]

have computers needed to manually have defrag be run since like the early 2000s?

[lunar panther]

(I was... 15 at the time 😄 )

[inner arrow]

Clean install of windows again.

[regal shell]

have monitors needed to manually be degaussed?

[halcyon stratus]

WHOMP

[inner arrow]

Depends if the hdd was from before 2000s or not lol

[molten briar]

Insert gifs you can hear

[hollow dune]

what like a clean install every now and then

Maybe im also keeping too many old files too

[inner arrow]

With a new pc nowadays this isn’t actually needed. If you don’t install junk and keep the software running in the background to a minimum and have a decent sdd and cpu then you don’t need to do any of those mentioned at all

[wicked flax]

https://tenor.com/view/donkey-kong-country-super-nintendo-old-timer-cranky-new-hotness-gif-20422994

[regal shell]

ooh

[limpid flicker]

This makes me feel like I'm time-travelling.

[lunar panther]

I hear that gif

[molten briar]

Also don't copy that floppy, you don't know where it's been

[lunar panther]

wth when can I do a Staff Pick

[hollow dune]

i also thought about uninstalling programs i no longer use

[halcyon stratus]

would you download a car?

[inner arrow]

Who is that person? And why does that name ring a bell?

[molten briar]

After Ryan so you can copy it

[hollow hawk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VoUTNxcENc
oh neat new beat saber map for me to never be able to beat!

[limpid flicker]

OK so that might be the first sensible suggestion on the list. Defragging is not a thing with SSDs, you don't need to reinstall periodically, and disc clean-up is of questionable value IMO.

[hollow dune]

wish i could get a pc with a 2tb ssd but thats probably expensive

[tired hare]

There’s some good deals

[cyan quiver]

Let me guess; you started tinkering with the 360 Kinect by doing the Gangnam Style in front of it?

[inner arrow]

What would you chose tho?

[cyan quiver]

good times

[lunar panther]

I think I started tinkering with the 360 kinect so I could use it to play Halo 2

[true plinth]

I just woke up from a dream and now I realize more than ever I need a gonk droid plush in my life.

[hollow dune]

my old lappy has decent specs but it came with a laughable 256gb ssd

[hollow hawk]

2TB 870 Evo from Samsung is around 120USD, which isn't cheap but isn't the worst.

[regal shell]

skill issue

[lunar panther]

Ugh so many good games...
Maybe..
Celeste?
River City Girls?

[tired hare]

Who’s preloading starfield tomorrow

[limpid flicker]

Have you ever noticed that if you stack two storage bins together with the open sides facing each other, that's basically a Gonk droid shape?

[rancid snow]

I am

[inner arrow]

Deek will pull a ‘Can I suggest you the hidden gem celeste’ meme on the staff pick lol

[true plinth]

I have not... But like the dream was so sick. I was riding a gonk droid into battle with a flaming battle axe.... It was very slow but it was doing it's best

[tired hare]

I’m ready for starfield and fable

[regal shell]

Funny story, I saw that appear in the Store, and then noticed the Amalur DLC was 50% off on sale, so I bought it. Staff pick already paying off for the company.

[hollow dune]

im thinking looking at a good midrange pc and then maybe i could add a ssd to it

[inner arrow]

I need to sort out my games first lol. And also make space for armored core on top of that.

[molten briar]

Frozen game?

[lunar panther]

us plebs in services get nothing cool

[cyan quiver]

deek could always fall back on the greatest game known to mankind

[hollow hawk]

Add Horse Racing 2016 to staff picks

[tired hare]

I’m speedrunning most games now so I can start starfield with no games I’m working on half done

[lunar panther]

Customers talk about our code... when it doesn't work

[tired hare]

I bet Phil does

[lunar panther]

NEVER when it does

[cyan quiver]

"Horse Racing 2016"

[odd rapids]

Just got my xbox series X yesterday, my first ever console, downloading GTA is a pain 😭💀

[limpid flicker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMZeqhK1Xa4
Coincidentally, by the person who has been in the discourse today for sad reasons.

[inner arrow]

I can’t actually speedrun overwatch,mw2,fortnite and exoprimal lol

[tired hare]

What happened

[halcyon stratus]

Honestly I don't know why anyone is bothering to game at all today.
Save up your energy for tomorrow's release

[true plinth]

But sol... I need one that's small and plush..

[inner arrow]

What is releasing tomorrow?

[tired hare]

Idk

[true plinth]

I genuinely don't know

[molten briar]

I mean it's noticed during holidays when it works fine

[halcyon stratus]

Marble It Up!

[inner arrow]

Damn. Gotta drop everything

[tired hare]

I’m looking forward to the elder scrolls 6 in 2040

[tired hare]

Isn’t that Friday the 13th looking game coming out in the next few days

[limpid flicker]

She has come forwards with a a story of being treated very badly when she worked at Linus Media Group.

[tired hare]

Oh no

[limpid flicker]

I understand, I just thought you might also find this cool. 🙂

[inner arrow]

Who cares about texas chainsaw when you got marble it up. The true horror game

[tired hare]

And the outer worlds 2

[molten briar]

Also hmm what deek was that

[lunar panther]

that's pride month deek

[molten briar]

There

[lunar panther]

feel that

[tired hare]

Oh and silk song when it releases

[vast ermine]

Alright I'm off to bed

[inner arrow]

You know that feel when you just woke up and on discord but you need to work but you just wanna stay in bed and text on discord instead of getting up?

[tired hare]

I have done that

[limpid flicker]

Every day.

[obsidian kayak]

Is it illegal to use non genuine windows?

[tired hare]

c

[molten briar]

Deek, would you like recognition in the form of seaweed?

[lunar panther]

didn't even get that last time!

[inner arrow]

https://tenor.com/view/sam-winchester-dean-supernatural-love-gif-13191848

[regal shell]

Here's the current staff picks, Deek

[molten briar]

You got bonus water last time

[tired hare]

Idk what game to play

[regal shell]

Tao S., Product Marketing Manager - Cult of the Lamb

Karol F., Director of E-Commerce - The Sims 4

Muralidhar M., Lead Gaming Analyst - Styx: Shards of Darkness

[hollow dune]

is it ideal to have an ssd and hdd in your machine

[true plinth]

So pirating yes that is illegal

[regal shell]

Tarah P., Product Manager - Genesis Noir

[inner arrow]

Styx? Damn! Nice choice

[regal shell]

Nicholas F., Director of Engineering - Citizen Sleeper

Ryan M., Software Engineer II - Hotshot Racing

[obsidian kayak]

You can download windows tho without a key.

[tired hare]

Em how do u know this

[lunar panther]

You had me convinced it was higher ups until you dropped a SE2 on me

🤣

[regal shell]

John S., Director, Digital Game Acquisitions - The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos - Chicken Edition

Karlton R., Business Planner - Apex Legends

Eden M., who's that

[hollow dune]

is it ideal to have both an ssd and hdd in your machine

[tired hare]

Todd Howard

[regal shell]

Bess E., Product Marketing Manager - PowerWash Simulator

Van R., Senior Product Marketing Manager - Peggle 2

[lunar panther]

I don't even recognize most of these people rofl

[limpid flicker]

I don't know this game "Who's That" which Eden recommends.

[regal shell]

Satya B., Business Planner - It Takes Two (did a double take)

[lunar panther]

(except for Nick)

[limpid flicker]

There's more than one Satya at MS?

[tired hare]

Ahhh em there’s so many

[regal shell]

Marcelo G., Senior Software Engineer - Outer Wilds

[inner arrow]

Nobody picked a really odd and funny choice

[lunar panther]

Are these all in your org? lol

[molten briar]

I recognize a few. Not that eden person though

Still waiting for Laura 😛

[inner arrow]

I would have laughed if someone picked horse racing 2016

[limpid flicker]

Laura, Engineeering Lead - Cookie Clicker

[tired hare]

Who made valheim?

[regal shell]

Nah, I recognize Nick, Tarah, Ryan (I think)

[molten briar]

I don't think those are in Phil's

Err all

[tired hare]

Yeah

Idk what to play so

[regal shell]

I got a lot of "re-"s into my blurb, I wonder if anyone noticed

What's funny is I sent that in over a year ago, they only just got to it

[lunar panther]

WOW lol

Gunna do my own staff pick by overriding the FDs of PeopleHub to return "Play Celeste - Deek" in everyone's bio /s

[mossy ore]

Well goodnight everyone it's midnight here

[rancid snow]

I gonna try out GTA V and then play online

[molten briar]

This is a splendid idea

[halcyon stratus]

The Dungeon of Naheulbeak: The Amulet of Chaos, Chicken Edition is so close to being good. They needed another 6 months to "tighten up the graphics on level 2" as it were

[rancid snow]

This chat is quiet

[cyan quiver]

Wow, Overwatch 2 is getting absolutely bombarded with negative reviews on Steam

this is crazy

[halcyon stratus]

It will take 15 minutes for valve to nuke every review originating in China over the past 2 weeks

i assume they are waiting for it to cool down before doing it

[inner arrow]

Mostly from chinese players that lost progress

Review bombing is so weird to me. Like I get why at times. To address certain issues. But most of the time it’s just used in spite cause giving a game a 0/10 just cause it doesn’t have a certain language or stuff like that feels unnecessary

[sweet cedar]

does anyone know how to fix the error on series X " you do not own this game or app"?? i was just playing siege earlier then i turn my console back on and get this error.

[winter forum]

#gamerLogic

[rancid snow]

It says overwatch 2 is added to gamepass but i don't see it

[inner arrow]

Only a perk. Game is free to play

The perk unlocks all OW2 seasons heroes as well as giving them a legendary skin

[rancid snow]

Oh I didn't know that thank you doomcraft

[tired hare]

There’s a new Xbox rule right

[inner arrow]

If you mean the new strikes system then it’s not a new rule but more a new system for enforcement

[tired hare]

Ye that’s what I meant

[quasi echo]

its a little over kill with the year ban Imo. but eh i never got enforcement action before so im gd

[tired hare]

Agreed tbh

[inner arrow]

It’s not really overkill. A year is plenty of time to give kids time to overthink their actions

[tired hare]

Good point aswell tho

[quasi echo]

better yet Snitch to the phone number linked to the xbox account

[inner arrow]

If you get a year ban then you haven’t improved at all so what’s the point in trying to keep you on the platform? The whole system is made to help people to improve

[uneven river]

A year is definitely better than 7900 years

[inner arrow]

I saw it on myself. Having a long time off of a platform gives you enough time to rethink your actions and try to improve

[winter forum]

Year makes sense to me tbh

[lunar panther]

People: Xbox should be more transparent with their enforcement system!
Xbox: Okay here is a literal system that will tells you your exact standing with enforcement, what you did, etc.
People: This is terrible!

[quasi echo]

Just my opinion that it seems like smashing eggs with a sledge hammer

[inner arrow]

Sledge hammer? Not really

[gray latch]

some eggs need smashin

[uneven river]

Sledge hammer would be the old 7900 year system

[winter forum]

It really isn't. Do the naughty 8 times and get a year ban? And you're shocked pika facing. Don't be absurd

[inner arrow]

Xbox is transparent about their system going forward. And it shows with their model that they care about improvement instead of just sorting out the bad eggs and never let them try and get better

[versed swan]

most times a new enforcement related update comes for anything, there is outrage. like what, mad you can't get in trouble anymore?

[quasi echo]

And That is the best reply of the discussion. Im adding this to my Quote note

[lunar panther]

I also feel like people didn't quite understand that certain infractions are not just worth 1 point, but multiple points.

[quasi echo]

I think Greifing should be on the list

[vague marlin]

If anyone plays brawl stars pls join my club

[versed swan]

sometimes im recommended a channel whos only content is, no joke, "ermahgerd i got banned on xbox noo!!"

that is literally all of their content

[inner arrow]

I am sure they have the data to support that this model will improve interactions and make xbox a better place

[halcyon stratus]

i've been informed that no infraction should be worth any point becuase people spend good money and therefore should be able to use the service in any way they wish!

[weary solar]

If you're looking for someone to play with, please go to #1094715375884697600

[inner arrow]

Typical entitled customer moment : I spend money so I can do what I want

[winter forum]

IMO the transparency is a good thing. The new voice reporting is a good thing.

[lunar panther]

"I should be able to call this person a slur"

Well you can, but know that there will be consequences if they don't like it.

"I should be able to call my friends a slur"

I mean... if your friend is just as terrible as you, then I guess you won't be reported??? so congrats???

[quasi echo]

who said this? lLike i cant use my car to commit a crime? so this logic is trash

[halcyon stratus]

no one ever accussed twitter of being filled with great logical minds

[gray latch]

sadly, some people do try to argue that here

[inner arrow]

I agree. Everything to make gaming on xbox more accessible for every type of person

[winter forum]

"I bought this knife I should be able to stab..."
It's a stupid arguement however you slice it

[versed swan]

i remember when minecraft introduced reporting and one big complaint was that "reports can be taken out of context"
believe it or not, moderation teams for one of the biggest games on the planet are smarter than, say, a gullible teen

[quasi echo]

by that logic i should be able to break my neighbors window with my hammer because i payed for it.

[lunar panther]

but certainly ran by great logical minds.. right?? RIGHT???

[uneven river]

True

[quasi echo]

its called X. Nothing good has ever started with anything that sounds like ex

[inner arrow]

I mean… Elon naming his kid was already the biggest red flag in the history of red flags and should have made people realise what a hag he is

[inner arrow]

Xbox? Xylophone? Come on now. Ain’t that hard either smh

[winter forum]

A hag 😂

[quasi echo]

Welp. damn sleepy hour sucks

[slow mesa]

どんな事件もそくさに解決!!
カオティクス探偵事務所

[lunar panther]

Me after I reported the toxic person in chat and got feedback from the system that enforcement action was taken

[inner arrow]

Meant hack. But both works I guess

[uneven river]

Haven't been a fan of elon since the submarine thing, and that's when I learned who he was 👀

[winter forum]

Just a very archaic phrase I haven't heard in a very long time

[inner arrow]

Deek posting kawaii anime is weird

[lunar panther]

English only, please!

[inner arrow]

Next up he gonna go uwu again

[quasi echo]

wasnt it like AEX777999 or smth

[versed swan]

platforms that do that are great, one good thing twitter (oops i mean J) actually does

[lunar panther]

https://tenor.com/view/uwu-smug-anime-stare-gif-17603924

[limber carbon]

https://tenor.com/view/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-coincidence-william-knight-grandrisingapp-grand-rising-gif-22141305

Morning 👁️

[winter forum]

Hi Simon

[inner arrow]

Simon went full Jojo

[versed swan]

if this man approached me in the woods i would stop to listen

[rancid snow]

Hi Simon

[inner arrow]

https://tenor.com/view/jojo-jojos-bizarre-adventure-good-grief-anime-gif-16726675

[winter forum]

He is very dashing
Just saying

[inner arrow]

What if it’s a tiktok?

[versed swan]

he would approach me like a fallout 3 npc

[inner arrow]

I would be more concerned if it was like oblivion… ‘Stop right there criminal scum’

[rancid snow]

Idk what to play right now should i play mass effect legendary edition or banjo koozie nuts and bolts

[brave wasp]

Have you played Mass Effect before?

[rancid snow]

Yes

[inner arrow]

All of them?

[rancid snow]

OK doomcraft good idea

[inner arrow]

Eh? What did I do? Lol

[rancid snow]

It's nothing

[winter forum]

Enjoy mass effect Andromeda 🙂

[tired hare]

No

[winter forum]

Well I did

[inner arrow]

Lowkey think it’s a good game that needed more time cooking

[winter forum]

The overall plot and ending weren't great but it wasn't a bad game

[inner arrow]

Yep

[limpid flicker]

I'm a little sad they aren't going to continue that story though. Aren't you?

[inner arrow]

I am. Maybe Mass Effect 4 will continue it in a way?

[brave wasp]

I'd give Andromeda a replay if it had 60 FPS support, ngl

[inner arrow]

The worst part about Andromeda is that it had a feeling that the mainline Mass Effect series only had in the first game. Exploration and wonder

[brave wasp]

Pretty sure Bioware confirmed that in the trailer that shows both galaxies

[winter forum]

I don't really care if ME is 60 fps. Just fix the eyes and make the frame rate stable

[inner arrow]

Speaking of bad endings… Mass Effect 3 lol

[desert sonnet]

Mass Effect 3 had that awesome multiplayer mode. I hope we get that back some day

[inner arrow]

EA at that time couldn’t make a good ending for the life of them. DS3,ME3,DA2

[limber carbon]

It can't be that bad.
I mean, I found GoT's ending good.

[limpid flicker]

The obsession with 60 FPS fascinates me. I've played so many "literally unplayable" games.

[inner arrow]

At least DS3 got a good dlc ending

[indigo blaze]

hi

[inner arrow]

I am done with you

[winter forum]

Go back a gen or 2 and it was only PC gamers that cared

[tired hare]

Some 30fps games have given me nausea lol

Like I got lightheaded and sick and had to take a break

[inner arrow]

Back in my time games running at 10fps with slowdown were still not seen as unplayable lol

[sage ice]

and the users that make noise about it cant even run 60 fps

[inner arrow]

Worse yet. They don’t see the difference between 24fps and 30 lol

[brave wasp]

30 FPS doesn't bother me til I have to move the camera, then it's choppy and makes me feel a bit naeusous 💀

[limpid flicker]

The ME3 ending was not great, but... I thought most of ME3 was a better game than ME2. Yes, I know...you want to throw things at me now.

[inner arrow]

This depends on so many factors that most of them aren’t because of 30fps

[cyan quiver]

I think the problem is more with making a consistent framerate rather than the framerate cap

Played GTA 4 on an Xbox 360...the random frame drops that you see on a lot of Xbox 360 games kind of mess up my aim, but playing the game on an Xbox One or Series X/S with no FPS enhancements make the game 10x better

[winter forum]

There's 2 ME3 endings isn't there? One is newer and "fixed* because people complained a lot

[inner arrow]

Can’t throw anything at you for speaking the truth

[brave wasp]

Never have the issue with 60 FPS games tho, lol

[winter forum]

I preferred ME2 to ME3 but glad we got an ending to the trilogy

I think when I first played Max Payne on PC the frame rate fluctuated between 25-60 FPS

Probably the old hardware but was very inconsistent and annoying

[inner arrow]

Because as said.. many factors. Some 30fps are incredible fine to play even with fast camera control while others feel weird

[rancid snow]

All right guys good night see y'all tomorrow okay bye

[indigo blaze]

[brazen adder]

north america is hosting the entirety of world cup 2026 and the finals are in the states. I'ma start saving money now lmfao

[vocal gorge]

one example I keep coming back to, tried Redfall on my brother's Series X after playing it on my PC and being able to immediately spot the difference between the two in terms of frame rate. For comparison my PC was playing the same game but 3-4x the frame rate. Didn't feel all that comfortable playing it on my brother's Series X after a few minutes. Movements clunky and I'd actually say it made the game a bit more difficult

[winter forum]

Redfall probably isn't a good example though?

[calm ether]

bro im so tired i thought u said north korea

[brazen adder]

LMFAO

[calm ether]

god i need to sleep lmao my brain acting up

[inner arrow]

Cause UE games mostly are incredible badly optimized in terms of FPS and controls.
Most great games with lower fps tend to refresh control input at a higher latency than the fps. On top of that there is a lot of things to consider about motion in terms of motion blur and their shutter speed and longevity etc

[cyan quiver]

oh, and speaking of which i'm surprised OW2 has a lower review score than Redfall...in fact, it's the lowest reviewed Steam game of all time and it's only been out for 6 days

redfall's #17 by the way

[calm ether]

good, this is a new era for gaming.

[inner arrow]

FH for example plays great in 30fps cause the controls are being refreshed at a higher rate than the fps

[inner arrow]

It's because chinese players lost their progress

[vocal gorge]

true but it is an example no less. Haven't really bothered to play it since completing it and the last patch (idk if there has been any more since) that seemed to add more to a mob might have actually made the game run worse anyway.

[winter forum]

It's a very tired argument. I was bored of it 10 years ago from PC gamers. I'm bored of it now 🥱

[inner arrow]

So many factors determine if a game is playable at 30fps perfectly well or not. A game that does most post processing effects well with low input latency can still be perfectly playable.
"Just go 60" isn't the solution

[calm ether]

RDR2 is 30 fps

[inner arrow]

All of R* games are absolutely playable at a low framerate. Even with high input lag. Cause the rendering pipeline is great despite it being spaghetti code lol

[winter forum]

Please stop monkeying around

[halcyon stratus]

chill bro

[vocal gorge]

I've tried playing games on my PC at a locked 30 FPS btw and it wasn't completely horrible. Though idk if I done things right where my monitor stayed at 240Hz while I capped in game frame rate to 30 and enabled motion blur

[winter forum]

Let me know when the monkeys stop and the topic changes

[inner arrow]

Motion blur is a weird thing. Cause "Turn it on or off" isn't the solution for the variety in fps. It needs a lot more care for it like shutter speed etc.

[gray latch]

@meager epoch quit spamming please

[granite spruce]

Lol

[meager epoch]

No

[gray latch]

@granite spruce also quit spamming

[limpid flicker]

How bold of you to imagine it remains optional.

[mint pagoda]

Bro people

[limber carbon]

Clowns in pairs, they should've been mimes instead.

[mint pagoda]

I wanna xbox date

[inner arrow]

I see the kindergarten is closed rn.

[gray latch]

this is not a dating site. don't be creepy

[limber carbon]

Crazyman, well it's stopped for now

[winter forum]

Starfield tomorrow

[vocal gorge]

yeah, outside of giving this a test I have it turned off all the time. Even those that are hidden within a game's settings.ini files I'll find them and turn them off too. That's one of many camera related settings I turn off on sight when in the settings. Bloom is maybe the only one I leave enabled

[mint pagoda]

https://tenor.com/view/cry-sad-gif-25488313

[winter forum]

Why was one of the halo saves called "bloom is awesome"?

Reach? I think

[inner arrow]

I personally don't like bloom and hdr

[winter forum]

You don't like HDR?

[inner arrow]

Cause god damn it started awful :

[winter forum]

There are bad implementations of HDR. HDR itself isn't bad

[inner arrow]

Like... this is a real ingame shot. Bloom was already over the top the second it was introduced lol

But oblivion is another example where the post process pipeline can ruin a lot lol

[tired hare]

Those group post 😭

[winter forum]

Didn't one of the metro games on Xbox get reviewed badly for "bad" HDR?

[desert sonnet]

This is definitely after casting a spell

Still, that's hilarious

[vocal gorge]

idk whether to be glad I didn't play Oblivion and missing stuff like that or be sad that I've never played it. Skyrim introduced me to the Elder Scrolls games

[inner arrow]

This is without having the light spell :

[desert sonnet]

Still looks like a spell tbh 😆

[limpid flicker]

Oblivion was pretty boring to me. I've spent more time in Morrowind AND Skyrim than Oblivion.

[inner arrow]

Nah... This isn't

[halcyon stratus]

I don’t mind bloom, but motion blur and head Bob are instant turn offs. “Perspective shift when running” is a 50/50

[inner arrow]

Also the game had some weird rendering at launch on PC where some graphics card rendered the bloom effect weirdly. Which is probably the picture from

[limpid flicker]

Not to mention the potato heads on some characters.

[inner arrow]

Shush... If kylie sees that...

[halcyon stratus]

Oh yea that’s not normal bloom in that picture. That is definitely just something broken

[winter forum]

I've suspected Xbox is just using a LUT for "HDR enhanced " most of the time. So 255,0,0 just auto remaps to WCG high intensity red

[inner arrow]

I think Oblivion was one of the first games using shader 3.0 right? What was it called again...

[brave wasp]

Oblivion is backwards compatible and 60 FPS on Series consoles, it's worth giving it a go

[inner arrow]

Ah Splinter Cell used 3.0

Back in the day we had to buy a new graphics card nearly yearly to be able to play new games cause of that pixel shader version nonsense lol

[winter forum]

Another reason for pc gaming to leave a bad taste in my mouth

[vocal gorge]

that doesn't sound like it was any fun 😦

[inner arrow]

I remember I bought a graphics card to play Prince of Persia Sands of Time cause it required Pixel Shader 2.0 or something. 2 years later there was another game I couldn't play cause I only had Pixel Shader 2.0

[winter forum]

I just bought the GameCube version lol

[inner arrow]

It simply wouldn't start. Always said it required a higher version of the pixel shader.

[winter forum]

That game has a lot of bloom

Which is nice as it's a blooming awesome game

[vocal gorge]

thanks but I'm not sure I'd play it at this point. Not in a habit of playing old games. Only way I might play it is if it was remastered (or whatever people want to call it) but I'm not sure that'll happen

[brave wasp]

I think Oblivion still looks fine tbh, the only issue is the wack character models 😆

[limpid flicker]

That looks modded to me. I don't think it looked that good outta the box.

[desert sonnet]

That's looks how I remember it

[winter forum]

Is that Darth maul?

[inner arrow]

Same

[brave wasp]

That's it on a Series X, lol

[hollow hawk]

Metal Hellsinger is hard but I love this game so much
Killing demons to death metal

[limpid flicker]

Huh. I think I just remember it worse than it was. 😛

[inner arrow]

I think you played it on ps2 😛

Morrowind tho... God damn it's ugly now lol

[vocal gorge]

wow, some things really haven't changed then 😄 Every 2 years or so new GPUs release and with it some kind of feature that is hidden behind that new shiny hardware (looking at the likes of DLSS 3 and RTX 40 series for instance)

[brave wasp]

Also on Series X
To be fair, it did get a resolution bump back when it got One X Enhanced 😆

[limpid flicker]

You can make it pretty though. So pretty.
But also it is the systems and not the looks that are the thing people remember.

[inner arrow]

Yeah but those features are now optional. You can still play newest AAA games with a graphics card from 3-4 years ago. Maybe not as good and with some missing features but it works. Back then they didn't even start if you didn't had the right features.

[vocal gorge]

if I was to try the likes of Oblivion on my PC I'd probably run into some CPU compatibility issues (I heard that is a thing with older games and newer hardware) and have to cap the frame rate as it would be in the 1000's on my system 😄

[brave wasp]

I need that meme of the guard melting in Oblivion lava trying to arrest you 🤣

[limpid flicker]

But everyone always tells me that PC is magically backwards compatible with every PC game ever released since the dawn of time. /s

[broken tusk]

Crysis and bioshock trilogies look cool

[inner arrow]

Get them then

[winter forum]

Took me an age to find this, but it seems incredibly annoying
https://youtu.be/okG0R8r_G8Q

[broken tusk]

Already do

[inner arrow]

Perfect

[calm ether]

why is the food from greggs always hot or cold, its never in the middle

[winter forum]

Greggs open at this hour?

[calm ether]

yh i got some greggs

[winter forum]

Nice

[elder oxide]

Got squeak in my right trigger when pulling in and letting out as it still works could it still be sent in for repeair?

Just annoying sound

[winter forum]

If it works I wouldn't worry about a squeak

[vocal gorge]

Greggs chicken bakes 😋

[winter forum]

Sausage and bean is my pick, with a sausage roll and triple chocolate doughnut

Six quids worth of stodge

[vocal gorge]

ooh yeah, sausage and bean bakes were nice too but haven't had one of those in a long time

[winter forum]

Chicken is my second pick, then steak

[fiery python]

I like the chicken bakes, maybe a steak bake too.

Or their pepperoni pizza slice for some greasy goodness.

[winter forum]

Yeah they're pretty good. Ain't had one in yonks though

[fiery python]

I used to love their Belgian buns, but they've really gone downhill recently.

[summer magnet]

sausage, cheese and bean melt is amazing

[quasi echo]

Playing Cayo perico heist. And after grabbing the bonds and exiting i heard Rubio on the intercom say "HOW COULD YOU FOOLS LET THIS HAPLEN AGAIN!"

[winter forum]

Always wondered how long is a yonk

[vocal gorge]

got me craving some Greggs chicken bakes now 😄

[winter forum]

Urban dictionary (so a very reputable source) says 3 months, 13 days

[fiery python]

We used to be able to get Greggs delivered here and would enjoy a bacon buttie on a Saturday morning. Then they changed building and moved literally across the street, a short enough distance I could throw a donut from the old shop to the new one, and now we're out of delivery range. 🤬

[winter forum]

I can walk to ours and it has a drive through

[vocal gorge]

wow, what?!

[fiery python]

It's about a 15 minute drive to ours, then a few minutes walk from the car park.

[hollow hawk]

this game makes me feel so cool to play

[inner arrow]

Great game

[vocal gorge]

I don't think I can get Greggs delivered where I stay, yet it is only maybe a 10 minute walk to the nearest store. Apparently delivery services for stores like Greggs only exists in the big cities and smaller towns don't exist to services like just eat etc. Limited local options, most of which around where I stay are poor 😦

[hollow hawk]

It really is! I found it through the Game Pass mission system, originally booted it for the points but once I got into it - I'm absolutely in love with it.

[inner arrow]

That's why I love the gamepass reward system. You can find some really fun games that way

[novel blaze]

Hello everyone, nice to meet you all. I am from Brazil 🖖

[fiery python]

Hi, welcome

[quasi echo]

but the process is the fun part.

im on my 8th time and no

[inner arrow]

The more I hear about GTA:O the more I think it's repetitive and grindy

[quasi echo]

also i think glitches fall into rule 12 territory

well exploiting them anyway

[inner arrow]

Damn... I want this

[hollow hawk]

I'm not even sure if it'd be able to play animal crossing in the first place though lmao, doesn't it bind the D-Pad to something other than movement?

[quasi echo]

you do know rockstar wipes ur account if you use money glitches.....

ok now THAT definitely violates rule 12

i will no longer be participating in this discussion.

[tired hare]

does anyone else go out of their way to get achievements or is it just me

[long maple]

I love the extra challenges from achievements, aiming for 900K Gamerscore this year I am just over 20K away

[limber carbon]

We won't have TrueAchievements if no one did.

[fiery python]

Well, I've earned 1.3 million gamerscore in 7 years, so I guess I do. 😄

[tired hare]

I'm getting back into Xbox after being a PC gamer for a while, was really hardcore into shooters and god damn I'm having so much more fun playing games I actually enjoy

I'm at 23,505G

playing through SpongeBob battle for bikini bottom, fun awesome platformer with some good achievements

[limber carbon]

I do recommend the indie games. They do teach you about stuff.
Spiritfarer thought me to be appreciative of life.

[long maple]

yeah I play a ton of Indie games

[tired hare]

oh yeah anything that looks fun that's an indie, I'll play

game pass though, I'll buy a game outside of game pass sometimes

oh also guys how do I get game pass for cheaper? do I have to buy Xbox live gold for 1 year then buy a month of game pass ultimate, or... how does that work

EXACTLY!!! I have a rx 5700 XT with a 12th gen core i5 and I have to downscale games to low FSR to get 144hz

I already have GPU, can I still buy a year of gold, redeem it, and have it work?

yes

will it convert to like 9 months instead of 12 or

[long maple]

its at a 3:2 ratio now, any Gold you add on with be that

[tired hare]

3:2? so 12 months of gold will be 9 months GPU?

do you have an SSD and 3200/3400MHZ RAM?

huh just fortnite being unoptimized then

[calm ether]

Damn kingdom come deliverance is testing me with patience with that loading screen, took 3 minutes to get into the main menu

[tired hare]

wait 1 year of GPU is 203 USD

1 year of gold is 60 bucks

so isn't it a good idea to just buy a year of gold anyways because even with the bad conversion rate it's still cheaper...?

[long maple]

the chart is from here :- https://support.xbox.com/en-GB/help/subscriptions-billing/manage-subscriptions/xbox-game-pass-ultimate-faq

[tired hare]

yeah 152 vs 60 usd

OH 4 MONTHS EW

wait lmao it's still worth it

because I save 7 bucks that way

I just wish game pass ultimate was cheaper or I could earn more rewards points to get it free every month

like - I'm 16 dude this sucks

yeah core is a good plan but for 6 more bucks you get like 500 games

I pay for GPU and YouTube premium, it's like 35 a month

it ends after core comes out

oh ok so just buy like 2 years of gold

[long maple]

yeah but waiting for that there is no 1:1 conversion anymore its all set to 3:2 so even waiting you still gonna end up with the same amount of time.

[tired hare]

then buy game pass ultimate

[cerulean basin]

I stopped paying for Spotify the moment Youtube Premium arrived in Denmark/Sweden. Really love the service. YT Music is a perfectly capable Spotify replacement for most cases.

[tired hare]

you're sure? so even after my GPU ends buying gold then activating GPU won't give me 1:1?

[long maple]

yeah its all changed now since the Ultimate price increase

[fiery python]

That 1:1 conversion was always only supposed to be a one-time offer any way, but it was broken in our favour.

[tired hare]

damn that sucks

once I turn 18 and can get an actual decent paying job somewhere, the price won't matter too much

YouTube premium is a must, I watch it or use it as background noise 24/7 PLUS YouTube music

I know, I just wish I was 18 so I could get a decent paying job because nobody will hire me cause I'm m not an adult yet. 2 years

how'd you get one (assuming you're meaning UNDER 18)

[atomic sail]

trust me you don't

live your kid years while you can

[midnight bison]

bruh

there chat got buged again

[cerulean basin]

My best years were definitely 22-30, had a blast during those. But I would neer have wanted to speed up my teenage years either.

[mint flare]

Thanks joker persona 5! Now i gotta defeat a mythologic god

[atomic sail]

I'm not Joker. I'm Akira Kurusu. The "Joker" you are thinking of is @trail harness (||sorry for the ping Joker||)

[inner arrow]

I can't peak when I never had "Best years" lol

[cerulean basin]

Without even having met you in person, I could already try to point to you meeting your kid and playing games with them as a highlight

[mint flare]

actually its ren amamiya

[atomic sail]

That's the anime name

Akira Kurusu is the manga name

[mint flare]

but ren is the dancing game name

screw it everything is canon

[atomic sail]

I normally go by the manga name. but both are correct. It's whichever one you prefer

[desert sonnet]

My best years I think happen every couple of years but I don't recognize them till years later 😆

And dang it's already Thursday

[atomic sail]

I’m so nervous starting college for the first time

[obsidian kayak]

Why is star field so big

[cerulean basin]

As in filesize? I'd say it's obvious

[fiery python]

It's a huge RPG with about an thousand planets.

[obsidian kayak]

These ISPs need to stop limiting download/upload to 1tb a month

[cerulean basin]

US ISP?

[obsidian kayak]

Yah 😦

[cerulean basin]

Data caps are not a thing for most of Europe (if at all? Don't know about the UK)

[fiery python]

I won't disagree with that. Data limits on home internet plans are ridiculous and the US needs to stop that (plus anywhere else that does it).

[fiery python]

Outside of mobile internet, no. I'm not aware of any UK providers that have caps now.

[obsidian kayak]

Comcast has them and Cox there is prob more

[idle spear]

1TB a month, that would get used up be me in less than a week lol

[fiery python]

They used to - although it was not so much a cap and more a case of throttling the speed once you hit a certain limit in the day.

Which really sucked. Virgin Media used to do it. I'd have a 250mb connection and once you hit a certain amount of data during their peak hours you would get throttled, but that limit was something you could hit in 10 minutes with that kind of speed and one I would hit regularly when trying to download games from Steam.

[obsidian kayak]

If you want more thin 1tb you have to pay a extra $50

[idle spear]

Yeah that sucks man

[obsidian kayak]

For unlimited

[fiery python]

When you hit the data limit with VM they would cap your speed at 10% for something like four hours. It was a joke.

[short mantle]

I have 1 GB through att and pay $100 a month. They don’t have data caps.

[idle spear]

Every deal I've had in the UK has been unlimited for like £24 a month

[short mantle]

My previous ISP did though, and it sucked.

[fiery python]

Only mobile internet in the UK applies caps now. Although that also applies to the 5G home internet they offer as that's still technically mobile.

But US ISPs are nasty. They really screw people over with limits and pricing.

[lunar tartan]

Rub it in 😛

[fiery python]

But we have way more ISPs here, so there's a lot more competition, so they can't get away with it.

[atomic sail]

im dying laughing

[short mantle]

Att is really nice. They hardly ever go down. Suddenlink constantly went down and they had data caps.

[atomic sail]

I just saw the funniest video I've seen in a long time

[obsidian kayak]

If you go over the 1tb and don’t have unlimited they charge you $10 for every extra 50gb

[idle spear]

That would suck paying for a fast connection only to be limited by such a low download amount

[fiery python]

Although we have a decent number of ISPs to choose from where we live, none of them are super fast fiber and the cable company won't supply our building so we can't get anything faster than 70mb. I had 600mb where I lived before. 😦

[obsidian kayak]

And they stop charging you after you reach $100 extra lol

[lunar tartan]

I have xfinity. $80 a month for 200mbps download and unlimited data

[short mantle]

$80 for 200 mbps is a lot

[obsidian kayak]

We pay $100 for gigabit

[lunar tartan]

I know!

[fiery python]

I pay £23/month for 70mb

[obsidian kayak]

Not including the unlimited

[idle spear]

£24 for 72mb but at least I can download as much as I want. I would take that over a faster speed tbh

[obsidian kayak]

I use to have Xfinity they did have a data cap I guess it depends on your area

[fiery python]

The building next door to us can get gigabit and we're stuck on 70mb. 😭

[idle spear]

When open reach finally does something here to get fibre to the house I can get something better though

[tired hare]

Hii

[obsidian kayak]

Hi

[short mantle]

I pay the same amount for 1 gb

[lunar tartan]

It seems like they’re overcharging my dad for internet. I am guessing being a old customer isn’t working out for him

[cerulean basin]

$30 monthly for 1 Gbps, no data caps in my case

[idle spear]

That sounds good

[obsidian kayak]

Call the rentention department

Say your thinking about leaving lol

[cerulean basin]

Unfortunately not everyone in the US has the luxury of being able to choose internet providers

[obsidian kayak]

Like me lol

Cox is only isp here.

And 150$ a month is nuts

[idle spear]

yeah that's mad

[obsidian kayak]

Electric is like $300

[idle spear]

Electric here is sky high as well 3X what it was a few years ago

[obsidian kayak]

And AC is only cooling to 75F

I just need to get me a pikachu. And put him in my circuit panel.

[young fog]

Damn people still have data caps in 2023?

[cerulean basin]

The culprit for my electricity bill last year, I found it to be the floor heating. Like, it was making my prices go 3x what would be normal.

[obsidian kayak]

Yes.

[young fog]

I pay around €52 for 1gbps, no limit

[short mantle]

My electric bill is always higher in the Summers since I blast the AC all day. In the Winter it’s lower because I’ll just put on a sweatshirt if I’m cold. I prefer being cold than hot.

[fiery python]

For us right now it's the opposite - the fan and dehumidifier.

We're in a middle floor apartment so get sandwiched between the heat of above and below, plus the sun shining at our window the whole day and a room full of tech and two OLEDs on the go. It gets hot!

We've had a fan running constant for a couple of months now and need a dehumidifier on laundry mode because otherwise we'd spend way more running the dryer constantly.

[young fog]

We barely have to use the heating, also sandwiched on all sides in our apartment. It can get pretty hot during summers (28-30 degrees when its 35 outside) but during winters it has never dropped below 18 lol

[idle spear]

UK prices for electric and heating was insane during the winter.

[young fog]

Same here, we paid 1 euro per kwh

[winter forum]

No balcony?

[fiery python]

Pretty much everything is electric in here. The only things we have running on the gas are the cooker hob and the heating. Heating is never on, so just what we use for hot water.

[fiery python]

Nope.

Just a railing across the doors.

[winter forum]

I used to dry washing on my balcony in my flat is all, cut the cost of a dehumidifier

[cerulean basin]

My only electric heating is the bathroom. So since January I have it turned off, due to the skyrocketing prices. Cold bathroom 😦

[young fog]

We have a system where hot water is heated up at a central point and then pumped to our apartment/houses around us. Not sure on the English name.

[fiery python]

When we moved in two years ago our energy bill was £75/month. Now it's just under £200. 😕

[winter forum]

£94 last month we used, but yeah the bill is like £200

[young fog]

Our energy bill went from 70 euro to 130-140ish, but I know people who use gas to heat and some went up from 200 to 800 a month during the height of the crisis

[atomic sail]

peace out guys im gonna rewatch the same video 30 more times

[short mantle]

My manager has been in Vegas for about a week. She said it’s always hot there, even at night. She said it was still in the 90’s at midnight. Every place has the AC blasting all day. I couldn’t live there.

[young fog]

Meanwhile AC is barely a thing anywhere around here

[winter forum]

I mean it is a desert

[green laurel]

I pay £30 lol

[young fog]

And for my phone subscription I pay €25 for unlimited data (normally 35 but we get a discount because we have 2 subscriptions at the same household)

[short mantle]

I pay $75 through Verizon, and that’s with their military discount.

It’s also just a single line though

[limber carbon]

Is that the monthly fee, Louie?

[short mantle]

Yeah

[green laurel]

Ouch

[limber carbon]

Oh wow.

[calm ether]

nah bro i cant go on twitter rn my feed is just speed

or should i say 'x'

[limber carbon]

Twitter doesn't exist anymore.
But you can't use that phrase here so or you have to rephrase it.

[calm ether]

?

[limber carbon]

I need to visit Stockholm's metro station.

[short mantle]

It’s actually $70, not $75

[limber carbon]

Yikes that's a lot.

I think UK has a better internet infrastructure than Austria atm.

[green laurel]

What's that plan give

[winter forum]

Probably depends on location tbh, there are remote areas still with bad internet, probably true for both countries

[short mantle]

5 GB hotspot, everything else is unlimited

[green laurel]

Unlimited rip offs sure

[limber carbon]

60 € per month lol

15 Euros for the first 12 months

[fiery python]

It really bugs me that mobile data gets faster speeds than I do at home.

[green laurel]

That's how eu gets you

Then they will put in a 2 year contract with it

[winter forum]

Once I get 5G here, I'm dropping Vodafone as long as the price is reasonable for unlimited

[limber carbon]

Nah, not really.
Anchel should have better offers than us in the DACH region.

[short mantle]

Oh, I also get a free upgrade after a year. That probably adds on to the price.

[cerulean basin]

I can't complain. Prices dramatically dropped over here during the last 10 years

[young fog]

I used to pay 35 euro for 1GB now I get unlimited+5G for 25 😄

ABout the only thing that actually got cheaper around here

[tired hare]

Wild

[long maple]

yeah £27 for 50/18 cant complain. they in the planning phase to get full fibre here though. so hopefully soon-ish I can upgrade to a better speed

[young fog]

Keep in mind that 35 for 1GB was like 12 years ago when 1GB was ''insane''

[tired hare]

FrosteR are you a pro cod player ? Your name seems familiar?

[long maple]

although I have survived for years, with 4 consoles, PC, and a ton of Wifi connected to this. upstairs gets around 25 download

[cerulean basin]

Here one of the companies has 24€ monthly for free unlimited data (+5G, all companies get it included at no extra)

[short mantle]

Att offers 5 GB, but that’s just unnecessary imo, unless you have a lot of roommates or it’s for an office.

[cerulean basin]

Cheapest I can find is 11€ monthly for 25 GB

[green laurel]

Are we talking phone plans or Internet as I got lost lol

[cerulean basin]

For smartphone plans, btw. Including unlimited calls and SMS.

[long maple]

bit of both I think lol

[young fog]

I used to play COD4 Promod professionally on PC (many years ago :D)

[limber carbon]

Meanwhile... in Singapore 😅

[lament vessel]

I pay $0.04 for 1GB

[tired hare]

Ahh I think that's where I remember your name.

[young fog]

Thats very possible! I played for eSuba/Power Gaming/TCM Gaming etc. It's been a while 🙂 game is still active though, actually went to a LAN last year 😄

[tired hare]

Nice! I'm glad to hear you're still active and competing.

[young fog]

Mostly for fun nowadays, our team average age is like 33 and we play vs 20 year olds who play 50 hours a week 😄 we win occasionally and then we can mock them for an entire year because they lost to the grandpas 😄

[green laurel]

My 1gb Internet

[idle spear]

ah I wish I could get those speeds lol

[tired hare]

Haha I love that 🤣

[young fog]

If they get arrogant after beating us I just tell them I was winning tournaments when they were still wearing diapers. I can't lose in this argument 😄

[tired hare]

🔥cod4 and mw2 were the days man.

yo

Whats an good xbox gamepass game? Shooter or something like that

[young fog]

Multiplayer? Halo Infinite is fun

BF2042 is also much better now than at launch, worth a try (if you have Ultimate)

[tired hare]

is dead sadly

[young fog]

On Steam alone it has around 3k players at any time (Halo). How is that dead when you need only a few players for a match lol

[tired hare]

I thought battlefield is dead now?

[young fog]

This is what a dead game looks like

[calm ether]

I just played battlefield 1 on gamepass, there's legit like only 1 server available + im trash at battlefield so i stopped playing after like 10 mins

[young fog]

Yes BF2042 so dead it has 8500 peak in last 24h and thats ONLY Steam, the game is crossplay with XSX/PS5 and many people just have it on Origin

[young fog]

Its still pretty active on PC if you have the option to play there

[tired hare]

Ima try bf 2042

[young fog]

It's honestly fun (2042)

[calm ether]

i am not a fan of multiplayer games

[young fog]

BF1 singleplayer is pretty cool as well

[finite basin]

which is better: og xbox or xbox 360

[calm ether]

360

[idle spear]

The server list can be buggy on that game, make sure your filters are not messed up

[finite basin]

for me 360

[calm ether]

360 has a lot of bangers

[idle spear]

OG Xbox was my favourite system overall. Best versions of 6th gen games and a lot of PC games there also that got ported over

[long maple]

oh yeah glad its Thursday wonder if we get any freeplay games till the weekend, dont know why I look forward to that every week got a ton of games to play already

[green laurel]

Because free lol

[long maple]

I enjoy when they drop racing games or motorbike. like some of the Monster Energy Supercross etc.

[idle spear]

MW3 reveal later on today, might fire up warzone to see what is going on with that

[lyric jetty]

There’s rewards so you might as well

[fallow moat]

Destiny 2 definitely feels kinda dead atm but we’ll be packing up the count with this Tuesday.

I return on that day.

[warm iris]

I wish I had my dlcs on d2 again lmao I had them on PlayStation before I moved over and then I saw how barebones the game is without em

[tired hare]

Beans

[idle spear]

Yeah I'll try and get the M13C, wonder if it will be much different from the existing M13B

[tired hare]

When they adding streaming on discord in xbox

[fiery python]

It's in insider testing now.

[obsidian kayak]

When it’s done

[tired hare]

Skyrim Dragonborn DLC has these adorable goblins that you can have as followers

[obsidian kayak]

Did a new Xbox sale start

[long maple]

yeah Tuesday

[obsidian kayak]

Because didn’t one just end tonight

[limber carbon]

No.

Unless it's the Capcom sale that ended or sth.

[obsidian kayak]

Oh a sale ends in 47mins

[tidal fable]

Guys

I got banned from roblox server, but I did not get any notice about it

[obsidian kayak]

What ever sale the escapist walking dead is in ends in 45mins

[fiery python]

That has nothing to do with us.

[tidal fable]

Huh? At least tell me something about how to rejoin

[tired hare]

…. TOS

[fiery python]

Again, it has nothing to do with Xbox.

If you were banned, you can't rejoin. Simple as that. No one here can help you with it as we've no involvement with other servers.

[tidal fable]

Epic games is better. At least they got a ban appeal

[tired hare]

I lost hope in humanity

[tidal fable]

Whatever, the new Xbox has a better cool down system

[molten briar]

https://tenor.com/view/huh-heh-interesting-confused-confusion-gif-22475884

[tired hare]

I did a long time ago

[limber carbon]

https://tenor.com/view/funny-animals-cats-take-me-with-gif-10552714

[tired hare]

Same

[fiery python]

You know what's better? Not getting banned in the first place.

[tidal fable]

It’s a art bruh, getting banned

[fiery python]

No, it really isn't.

[tidal fable]

Opinions, perspectives

[fiery python]

https://tenor.com/view/stay-in-school-kids-chuck-nice-startalk-go-to-school-dont-drop-out-from-school-gif-21957780

[tired hare]

This is wild.

[obsidian kayak]

I’ve never been banned on Xbox and I’ve been on Xbox live since the 360 days it’s not hard

[tired hare]

It’s an embarrassment

[drowsy otter]

its my bday guys🥳🥳

[tidal fable]

Cares

[tired hare]

Happy Birthday!!!

[tired hare]

Happy birthday 🎂🍰

[obsidian kayak]

Where’s the cake? Happy birthday!

[tired hare]

Don't listen to ryuk. He's battling with himself

[tidal fable]

Yea bruh, at least I have something to compare, you don’t, the difference

[tired hare]

You make no sense.

[tired hare]

Alone*

[polar wadi]

w?

[tidal fable]

Wait. Bro why are you defending the one who sent “It’s my BDay”?

[atomic sail]

Did y’all hear that SnapChat got hacked

[tired hare]

Snapchat is only used for one thing…

[tired hare]

Yes, leave him alone.

[polar wadi]

"filters"

[cinder veldt]

Wait really? Or is this a case were it was a SnapChat and not snapchat? Similar to “discord” breach yesterday

[lyric jetty]

It’s not, same animations etc and the only new attachment is a stock

[limber carbon]

SnapChat was hacked?

Guess they got snapped.

[lyric jetty]

It only has 11 weapon levels

[polar wadi]

yo yall wanna listen up i got a w playlist

[tired hare]

Or Math homework.

[polar wadi]

or we watch tiktoks idrc im bored

[tired hare]

No Thanks

I listen to Ava Max

[cinder veldt]

Got one for discord too 😛

[polar wadi]

ok Nerd

[winter forum]

I got nothing for this "Snapchat hack" from a very quick Google

[atomic sail]

Apparently a day ago the AI that they have, had a weird story on the page and if you click it you could be hacked. Me not knowing this clicked it. So here’s the weird video. It’s only like 2 seconds long

[tired hare]

Interesting

[atomic sail]

The bot was completely down too

[cinder veldt]

Oh you meant the AI, I thought you meant like something else

[atomic sail]

Honestly kinda glad I deleted SnapChat. Never used it for anything

[polar wadi]

we want arkham origins back right?!

[fiery python]

No

[tired hare]

No

[atomic sail]

Practically. They had to hack SnapChat to get to the AI

[polar wadi]

bunch of nerds

@polar wadi thats why a bunch of girls blocked you

[weary solar]

#rules 😃 1. Be cool, kind, and civil. Treat all members with respect and express your thoughts in a constructive manner.

[tired hare]

a nerd means being smart

[cinder veldt]

Well sure, but I would think the AI isn’t tied to passwords

[obsidian kayak]

Yes?

[atomic sail]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/945412690661224458/1141183346454568991/image.png

It kept saying this the entire time.

[cinder veldt]

No need to cover up on it more for me personally, was all over my tiktok this Tuesday 😆

[polar wadi]

i have no friends but WE UP!!

[atomic sail]

Oh didn’t know you have TikTok

[polar wadi]

girls dont like me but they dont know why im called bruno

[cinder veldt]

Well I don’t explicitly tell everyone I have tiktok, but it’s also a common app among many

[atomic sail]

true true. I know a few people who don’t have it so I never assume

Better safe than sorry

[cinder veldt]

That’s understandable

[cerulean basin]

I only install TikTok when I want to upload a video, then uninstall again 😂

[idle spear]

Ah fair enough, I guess still nice if anyone hasn't done that tricky DMZ extract mission to get the M13B

[tired hare]

I remember when YouTube had a feature that you can chat with your friends back in 2016. As well as Discord having a game store

[polar wadi]

anybody wanna watch tiktok?

[limber carbon]

I like a lot of her songs; The Motto is my favourite.

[hollow hawk]

I've yet to make an account, or even intentionally visit the site.

[atomic sail]

Not now I’m gonna sleep

[lyric jetty]

I think that’s literally the only reason the M13-C exists 😆

[atomic sail]

It’s 2:30 in the morning. Goodnight y’all.

[limber carbon]

Night

[tired hare]

I love that one. I also got Diamonds & Dancefloors CD

[lyric jetty]

Granted you’ll be missing quite a few attachments since it’s on the same weapon platform as the M-13B and Chimera

[idle spear]

Yeah probably

[polar wadi]

my friends are deadbeats

[tired hare]

I love her newest song Car Keys.

[idle spear]

I have the M13B varient that was available on an event a while back, the green one with the laser sight. Couldn't be bothered to get the one in DMZ solo was too much of a pain

[polar wadi]

ima prob leave this server idk

[limber carbon]

I haven't heard her latest music yet, I definitely need to take a listen to it sometime.

[polar wadi]

yo who wanna hit cayo?

[hollow hawk]

The storefront still technically exists, just hidden from the user in typical situations.
You'll see it with little joke bits like the unavailable store item "Nerd"
https://discord.com/store/skus/551844135871709184/nerd
Which you need to be if you're ever going to know about this in the first place lmao

[weary solar]

If you're looking for someone to play with, please go to #1094715375884697600

[lyric jetty]

I got the DMZ one on day 1 when you could just run him over in a car for a super easy kill

Although it’s even easier to get now. You grab a sniper with a thermal / the spotter scope. Climb a building near the biohazard zone and just snipe him

[idle spear]

I tried to stock up on plates and masks but found it tricky as he wasn't always easy to find in the area and sometimes someone else got there before me. The sniper method sounds doable though.

[obsidian kayak]

Me logging into discord

https://tenor.com/view/discord-mod-gif-24026936

[tired hare]

That makes me uncomfortable

[polar wadi]

yall must smell bad looking at yall pfp what yall smell like?

[obsidian kayak]

? U making fun of my pfp lol

[polar wadi]

NO

[tired hare]

Don't retaliate. He's fishing for attention.

[polar wadi]

im not

[obsidian kayak]

Troll in the dungeon!

[fiery python]

@polar wadi Stop with the spammy and rude behaviour.

[polar wadi]

i aint doin nun

[fiery python]

Don't try to act innocent. Knock it off.

[polar wadi]

call me 6ixn9ne ima snitch myself out

[obsidian kayak]

Is that a account that was already banned?

[hollow hawk]

[polar wadi]

no

[fiery python]

No, it's some crappy rapper who looks like he fell asleep at a party and people went wild with sharpies on his face.

[limber carbon]

Best we don't interfere now...

[winter forum]

This describes more than you think 🤔

[obsidian kayak]

Don’t really pay attention to rappers so idk if your serious or not 😂

[polar wadi]

im ryan gosling

[limber carbon]

Rhinne hit the nail on the head with the explanation.

[fiery python]

https://c.files.bbci.co.uk/116AA/production/_109083317_gettyimages-1026079268.jpg

[polar wadi]

ik bro im kenough

[astral saffron]

I'd judge from their behaviours over how they look. Post Malone has some odd tattoos too but by most accounts is a lovely person

[winter forum]

Was watching a YouTube about how rappers go bankrupt, was quite fascinating

[obsidian kayak]

Damn Ryan Gosling on Xbox discord at almost 3am

[hollow hawk]

Ryan Gosling probably wouldn't have time to be annoying in a public Discord server

[polar wadi]

call me martin luther gosling

[winter forum]

Dargh Michael Parkinson has died

[obsidian kayak]

Stop being stupid.

[fiery python]

Oobis, no need to get involved.

[tired hare]

Who’s buying stairfield and who’s playing it off game pass but buying the deluxe addon? I’m doing the latter

[tired hare]

He won't stop because that's why he joined this server today. To do exactly that.

[polar wadi]

@fiery python warn em

[winter forum]

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66411604

[fiery python]

Oh damn

[hollow hawk]

A shame to see, may he rest peacefully.