public-chat

[night heron]

eh

maybe now, not in two years

pretty solid choice for 1440p imo

[echo ridge]

That's why I said little overkill

[wraith sonnet]

question for y'all, if Nerf made phone cases that were really good would it catch anyone by surprise?

[pliant karma]

No nerf has made some weird shit I wouldn’t be surprised

Hell they have a keyboard, mouse, headset combo once

It was shit

[wraith sonnet]

I honestly am surprised they never tried to do phone cases seriously, I mean who wouldn't trust it immediately?

[pliant karma]

[wraith sonnet]

jesus christ

[vapid smelt]

Get it

[pliant karma]

Dint need it

Seen one review to tell it’s bad

[vapid smelt]

But it's nerf or nothing

[wraith sonnet]

although if it was truly mechanical I wouldn't pass it up

the rgb is a bit much though

another random question

https://videocardz.com/newz/lenovo-geforce-rtx-4090-gpu-pictured-some-more-it-is-36-cm-long

would y'all use a lenovo gpu?

[pliant karma]

Though this is nerfs coolest thing honestly lol, strap a go pro and drive it

[wraith sonnet]

Lenovo has a much higher brand reputation than anyone else still in the game for nvidia gpu's so maybe they could be an okay replacement for evga?

fingers crossed they're not lenovo desktops only

[wraith sonnet]

I'm surprised that they killed the N-strike line

[pliant karma]

Wait really?

[wraith sonnet]

and that they never fully did a "adult" Nerf line

[wraith sonnet]

yeah the last one was the target only reissue of the longshot cs6

[white glen]

why did they kill it?

[wraith sonnet]

fortnite

[white glen]

fortnite killed the coolest product nerf has made

[wraith sonnet]

correction, Nstrike was axed in 2016 and replaced it with icon

which was discontinued last year

[pliant karma]

Reminds me when I modded their Nitefinder…..strong ass spring with reinforced catching mechanism.

Air restrictor and dart post removed too so essentially it became lethal one you load up darts in it

[white glen]

does nerf still do the thing where the guns check to see if a nerf dart is from nerf and if its not it just wont fire?

[pliant karma]

Yea it’s easily bypassed if you know what you doing

[white glen]

still stupid that they do that tho

[pliant karma]

I was a nerf gun modder back then. Turning them lethal in a sense

Thumbtack darts, darts with bb pellets in the tip and the nufarious long nail tips that penetrate skin

[errant magnet]

Weird question for you guys. For those who are 80s -,90s kids.... Like the movie hocus pocus,. Witches tries to kill kids.. there was a movie I forgot it's name,. They gave children chocolate bars which turned the kids into rats,?? Mice???

What's the name of the movie

[white glen]

im from the early 2000s but is the move called the witches ?

[errant magnet]

Yes, that's it.

Ty. I googled it.

[floral moth]

...this seems like a more fitting channel

[white glen]

also question is it just me that just found out this discord server existed?

[floral moth]

How do yall like my iPod's lineup for content?
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/381193783296917507/1021230865289854997/unknown.png

[floral moth]

na i just did as well

[errant magnet]

I despise any and all idevices. So asking me will resukt in nothing but negativity

[white glen]

like i saw it for like a few seconds on one of the lmg clips

[floral moth]

bro same

[amber canopy]

Is it worth buying a s20 Fe for 500 cad, if not is it worth buying a pixel 6a for 20 dollars more (I don't really care about software support and although I hate one UI, I'm fine with using it

[white glen]

was it the video "Forbes’ top creators list makes NO SENSE."

[floral moth]

that one yeah

[white glen]

that is very very interesting

[floral moth]

maybe they never advertised it in previous vids

[white glen]

maybe

i personally usually listen to the wan show on Spotify but since i forgot to listen to the last one saw the topic and thought it was interesting

[floral moth]

i usually watch the yt vid so...i think i just looked at the right time

[white glen]

yea lol

[floral moth]

so...thoughts on the iPod?

oh wait, wrong channel

[scarlet needle]

sup yall, getting the DDR4-RAM Vengeance RGB RT iCUE 4600 MHz

you think it's any good?

[white glen]

they brought the ipod back?

[floral moth]

#off-topic

[scarlet needle]

im getting the 16gb ones, 4 of them

[hollow citrus]

well its definitely fast

[ocean narwhal]

do usb and displayport switches have any lag?

[scarlet needle]

thats the goal, i have reaaallly slow ones right now

[hollow citrus]

same i have 2666

[scarlet needle]

i used to have the G.Skill Trident Z Neo DDR4-3600

8gb (x2) but i changed them for 32gb corsair ones because they used 4 slots out of 4 so it looked way nicer

but they're like slower by 1.5 ghz

i was stupid

[eager notch]

Y'all got any beans?

[slim yacht]

usb-c to dp = nope

thunderbolt have much higher bandwidth but type c can output dp just fine

[ocean narwhal]

ummmm

https://a.co/d/enRBlv4

Like these guys, will they be laggy?

Oh wait

[echo ridge]

What about 8k

[ocean narwhal]

That is backwards from what i need, i need 2 input 1 monitor

[slim yacht]

they wont, but thats a switch lol

[lilac sage]

buy an 8k monitor then we'll talk

[ocean narwhal]

I need the other way around

[slim yacht]

limited to 30fps / depending on your dongle bandwidth

some converter can only go up to 4k30

[ocean narwhal]

https://a.co/d/cAsYYXh
This one?

[slim yacht]

its still a switch

[graceful burrow]

That's what he was asking about

You misread the question

[ocean narwhal]

Yes this is what i need

something for my work laptop and computer to display onto the monitor

[slim yacht]

oh shit, then yes you wont have no issue

[ocean narwhal]

so i dont gotta unplug all the time

So that thing will have no visible lag?

[slim yacht]

it wont lag at all

[ocean narwhal]

ok very cool

and a similar device for USB also okay?

[slim yacht]

idk about usb, ive never used something like that for usb in the past

[ocean narwhal]

ok

[graceful burrow]

I use a usb hub without issue

[ocean narwhal]

very cool

that should be nice

[manic torrent]

ok... so you want a KVM switch

https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Monitor-Keyboard-Printer-Windows/dp/B09ZKZK7ZB/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=1P9S45IR22NEV&keywords=KVM&qid=1663554491&sprefix=k%2Caps%2C274&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzU1kxQlY4UUsyMEs3JmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNjI2MDIwNFJDRTdGRVdPS0lXJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTAwNTIwMjYxRDFFRDdGMTVNTVAxJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

like that ... not a recommendation, just the first one in the search

[slim yacht]

i meant i never used a kvm

[manic torrent]

30 years ago I sold them as a job

[hearty spear]

@manic torrent any suggestions for not overpriced dual monitor kvm that support 4k?

[manic torrent]

honestly I wouldn't use a KVM in 2022, I would use synergy.

Single mouse and keyboard, multiple monitors

[hearty spear]

Aroo?

Unfamiliar with that

[manic torrent]

https://symless.com/synergy/account-login?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fsymless.com%2Fsynergy%2Fdownload

[hearty spear]

Interesting

[heavy spruce]

Computer

👍

[vapid smelt]

dude wtf you cant say that here

[heavy spruce]

Real

[steady kelp]

hello hello

[errant magnet]

@vapid smelt. Retupmoc

[opaque mantle]

Good afternoon (for those in +GMT)

[ocean narwhal]

Surely synergy has latency tho

also prob cant install it onto my work comoter

[manic torrent]

... I mean, I wouldn't play fps on it, but it's perfectly fine for most stuff.

[ocean narwhal]

i see

[manic torrent]

and there's zero latency on the "master" computer.

[ocean narwhal]

🥹

Since when has that emoji existed????

[hollow pulsar]

Programs like synergy were banned at work because it’s seen as a keylogger.

[ocean narwhal]

I dont think i can easily install software like that easier

I also don't think they are willing to budge very much for the companies first remote work intern lol

[manic torrent]

It doesn't solve all problems, just offering options 🙂

[opaque mantle]

yeah, most orgs now days make the accounts 'user accounts' instead of admin - most apps run in a limited mode nowadays too - i'm on my work device and had to install discord portable (first run only)

KVM, or just get a USB hub and two sets of everything else

if you get Bluetooth you dont even need to worry about a HUB

[manic torrent]

I don't have that restriction, but I still have airgapped work/personal. Started when I was doing stuff that needed a higher level of sec

[tardy hinge]

lol the clouds and main male character were what gave it away most, although theres now more than before, 1 hour of straight video, lots of info about specific mechanics like rpg elements like tiredness and stuff, and the source code for 5 and part of it for 6 leaked, which is worth insane amounts and they tried to undercut the guy and buy it back for 500k, this can mean so much for them if it gets out though not just to do with 6

Developers can use the code to copy the systems for their own games but change it enough to get away with any legal issues, along with any dodgy practices in play with their online and game in general and more to do with distributing copies of the game and piracy

[dreamy rose]

It'd be fun to poke around the source code of GTA 5. But awful for GTA Online.

[tardy hinge]

Yea source code leak could lead to some amazing fan projects

RDR1 fan remake in GTA 5 RAGE when 👀 🧙‍♂️ 🤣

[dreamy rose]

Fuck that idea. RDR2 on GTA 4 RAGE Engine.

[tardy hinge]

I think the upgrades since GTA 4 in RDR2 were definitely improvements the only things that arent there are more features that just werent included such as picking up items, god i miss being able to pick up bricks in GTA 4 and smash windows and stuff like that

Expanded and Enhanced really was a let down and should have included more stuff from 4 would have been amazing, like the physics when shot, grabbing onto cars, lots of physics based things and just simple interactions

[upper olive]

half of GTA 6's production budget is probably going to be spent on the sound track

like gta 5

[dreamy rose]

A few nice things in 5 are non existent in 4. I hate the last mission to kill Pegorino because i cant heal during the shootout segment.

Shootout segment is a pain but i require being fully stocked. The boat part trips me up rn. I have to use mouse and WASD + Numpad to both fly and shoot

[tardy hinge]

true but carrying food isnt really that big of a step up tbh

[tardy hinge]

yea game was made for controller sad that pc port isnt very good

shame that rockstar will never ever ever bring RDR1 to PC though 😦

[dreamy rose]

Their PC Ports have always been iffy at best.

[tardy hinge]

GTA 5s PC port has been praised as one of the best ever, but tbh imo i dont see it

People think a good port = can run on potato hardware at acceptable levels

Same thing was said about MGSV port

[dreamy rose]

Sure it may be optimised but it doesnt mean good

[tardy hinge]

yea exactly

People play games in mid 2010s on mid to low range hardware for the time and act like its an amazing port

Its a game running on a console from 2005 id like to think itd run well but no its all just "OMG BEST PORT EVER THE DEVS ARE GODS"

[dreamy rose]

I'm not gonna pretend it performs well on my 2012 laptop but it runs

[tardy hinge]

Im trying to think of a game thats unbelievably well optimised but nothing is springing to mind lol

Maybe HL2? but then again can be kinda iffy in some ways

[dreamy rose]

Simply doesn't eixst.

[echo ridge]

Cs

[tardy hinge]

lol no

[echo ridge]

Doom the original

Pong

[dreamy rose]

Chillout VR is WAY more optimised than VR Chat. Bur then performance really depends on Worlds and Avatars.

Props too

[tardy hinge]

CS is a game with 2004 engine most of the features cut out and scaled back like physics, so if it didnt run on an potato with a charge going through it something would be weird

[tardy hinge]

I miss VRChat 😦

[dreamy rose]

Man Chillout is so fucking cool

[echo ridge]

Even older

[tardy hinge]

Im talking specifically source engine though

[echo ridge]

Source borrowed alot from the quake engine

[tardy hinge]

Yea but what engine doesnt tbf

[echo ridge]

Doom is well optimized

The newish one

[tardy hinge]

Oh yea Doom 2016 is amazing

Wish the modding community was good for the new dooms though

[echo ridge]

Doom eternal is good too

[tardy hinge]

I have a theory about VRChat, as many know the EAC could be due to them prepping the game for a buyout (Epic or smth), what if the contract made the devs have to integrate it because they knew itd sink the game and they are planning a big relaunch of their own product(probs facebook or smth) or VRChat

Basically buy out the competition but force ur own branded game out as a seperate product to get that brand recognition rather than add to the original game so that it doesnt look like some trashy corporate takeover(which it is)

[dreamy rose]

The modern doom games may be fine. They hardly compare to the original. Especially Soundtrack. IDC what people say. The original MIDI Soundtrack has a Vibe and it isn't the same without it

[tardy hinge]

Brutal Doom is amazing to play probs one of the best fps games ive ever played

[echo ridge]

Optimalion is good

[tardy hinge]

A lot of REngine games run and look amazing, they have variety in what they are so not custom made for 1 type of game like a Doom situation, and are just brilliant in general

has the capability for VR, ray tracing, DLSS and FSR, 2d games, fps, 3rd person, hack and slash etc

All while running butter smooth on fair enough hardware, top notch stuff

[dreamy rose]

Idc if the soundtrack was made masterfully on million dollar Guitars. I want my E1M1 sounding like a Printer god damn it!

[tardy hinge]

Now we are also getting fighting games on it with the next street fighter

Capcom really hit it out of the park with RE Engine, its up to date, seems like their developers know it well and it must be somewhat easy to use, versatile and not very restrictive no matter the game type.

Gotta respect it🤷

[dreamy rose]

I like Capcom for Ace Attorney.

[tardy hinge]

Im very excited for that Exoprimal game seems like a cool concept reminds me of EDF but dino lol

[dreamy rose]

Banger series.

[tardy hinge]

I just got the trilogy on my tablet

Always heard about it and played it on the DS when it came out but cant remember

[manic torrent]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNTtR6ZpUOo

[dreamy rose]

I played through on real hardware, although pirated i will buy.

[tardy hinge]

Also just got Judgment pack on steam so thats gonna be amazing love the franchise

[dreamy rose]

Not printery enough

Good version though

[manic torrent]

yeah needs to be redone on floppotron 3.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbd06i9B2wU

[tardy hinge]

Any of u ever see that documentary on John Romero nowadays lol

Weirdly funny kinda thing

[dreamy rose]

HOLD IT!, TAKE THAT!
https://youtu.be/pG8RAbWs1yo

[tardy hinge]

He lives in town in Ireland now in the city center and mixes with the local community becoming a part of them, loves the place, weird thing to hear from the same guy who was basically the first rockstar game developer and "Will Make You His Bitch"

[manic torrent]

haha yes, that very much is what it was like back in the day.

[dreamy rose]

Really funny but this sounds identical to what you hear using LibADL on GZDoom

I played both at the same time. Sounds exactly the same

[manic torrent]

OMFG the new asus OLED gaming monitor has a USB port and a 1/4 mount on the top. I am turgid.

[opaque mantle]

He started a studio in an office with a massive skylight, people had to make their cubicals into tents

oh yeah, i had the pleasure of meeting Warren Spector when I was younger - hes a really chill dude.

i also meet a reporter/editor for PCG UK (Gillen) at the same event (best games mag), he was a bit more guarded - think he was ort of out of his league with all the indy devs at the event.

[limpid fern]

I think there should be an hdmi pass through from the top for a dslr camera

Or a built in hdmi capture card

[manic torrent]

I was inspired!

[limpid fern]

Lmao

I just 3d printed a mount for the top of my screen

[grim vine]

I'm going to test everyones age here

Does anyone remember the days when Notch would post Minecraft Changelogs on his Tumblr?

[manic torrent]

does anyone remember the days when john carmack would update his .plan and you'd finger it?

[finite cloud]

I probably could have if I used tumblr

[grim vine]

Well if you remembered the old launcher that had the login in the bottom left corner and the change log at the center of the screen, that was a Tumblr account that they made seperate from Notch's specifically for patch notes

So you most likely saw a Tumblr page, just not Notch's

But that was also where we found out what the seeeeecret Friday update was

[past egret]

remember when minecraft had a browser demo

[spice dew]

what could i use a server for?

[wary glacier]

Hi

[manic torrent]

that's... not really how it works. You use a server if you need to run something on it

[past egret]

paper weight

[full fossil]

B

[vapid smelt]

a toaster

[upbeat ridge]

Ngl I kinda want a higher performance server because it forgot to count while literally playing Minecraft dropper lmao

But A. Money and B. Power costs and C. Purchasing costs

I did find a pretty solid deal for a dedicated server with a Ryzen 5 3600 in Finland for 41 euro per month

But that’s still more than what I currently pay for a VPS with a share of 6 usable vcores of a 16 core AMD Epyc 7282

(I pay 10,88 for that)

(And that’s in Germany, which is physically closer to me)

[cinder mountain]

[dreamy rose]

Remember when minecraft didn't have horses?

[manic torrent]

That's what I use my server for.

[dreamy rose]

Thats my friend in your camera

Hes cute isnt he.

[errant trellis]

Just bought some merch 👍🏼
Absolutely hate the price of shipping to Oceania though

[dreamy rose]

Aussie?

[errant trellis]

NZ

[dreamy rose]

Close enough.

[manic torrent]

Yeah shipping here sucks, but eh. Win some, you lose some.

[dreamy rose]

Neighbours

[manic torrent]

They moved into our street a few years ago. I always say hi, they are p. Cool

[dreamy rose]

They're a chill dude once you get to know em.

[wary summit]

Bro, microsoft defender flagging MS Edge as a virus

[wary summit]

facts

[wary summit]

what software is that

i just use alfred camera

[ivory wolf]

I expected nothing less

[errant trellis]

I'm undecided for what security system I want for my place yet

[upbeat ridge]

Id prefer to get a house or apartment first but the Dutch housing market is broken lmao

[manic torrent]

Frigate. It's using tensorflow and yolov4 on my quadro P400

[upbeat ridge]

I wish energy was cheaper so it would actually make sense to buy a server

[sonic barn]

It is

https://tradingeconomics.com/

[full fossil]

hmm

[blazing goblet]

In one of my nightmares last night I was just in the backgrounds of LTT videos

[upbeat ridge]

0.67 euro per kwh in July and prices have only gone up

[sonic barn]

Futures are going down

There was no shortage of nat gas as Europe has 85% collectively avg

[manic torrent]

I just ... Sleep

[sonic barn]

Expected to get to 90% by october

Germany is at 90%

[upbeat ridge]

my country has the highest nat gas prices in Europe

[sonic barn]

https://agsi.gie.eu/

Eu is way ahead of their storage average

[upbeat ridge]

yeah but gas /= power

[sonic barn]

It's the bulk of their power

[upbeat ridge]

not in the Netherlands afaik

wait no it is

now plz costs go down

[sonic barn]

It will

By october

[manic torrent]

First hit on Google was that you're wrong, kek

[upbeat ridge]

yeah

[sonic barn]

Commodities shouldn't be a free market

[upbeat ridge]

this

[sonic barn]

Look at the USA prices too

They only shoot up on Freeport news

Meanwhile States that rely on nat gas will have their electricity 3x

Commodities aren't even regulated though

At least it's very lenient

Here our gov controls the electricity company and makes it so that it's always 0.07 cad

Except if you go over like a lot of power

[woeful minnow]

wtf thats so cheap

[sonic barn]

We run on hydro

Solar and turbine too

[wary summit]

get like a few android phones for like $100nzd each and just wire them up, they have so much better image quality than like actual cctv cameras

[errant trellis]

Thats too much effort

[wary summit]

wdym

[upbeat ridge]

also battery exploding is a thing

[wary summit]

also cameras shorting is a thing

and shitty image quality

[visual frigate]

Sernando's career officially ended yesterday

[white fractal]

Sounds like much of Quebec and Ontario

[slim yacht]

ubiquiti
but that cost too much money

[dusky patrol]

You guys rock

Also....shop lttstore.com

[plush jungle]

im looking for a case that can hold at leaast 4 hdd
i need more space and my current build only can hold 2

[gentle slate]

I thought of Iceland.

The land of the water ejectors

Wait that's geothermal

Not just hydro

[dusky patrol]

Just make a cardboard case lol

Only kidding it would catch fire lol

[junior tide]

actually

if you space your motherboard out with rubber erasers or something it wouldnt

[dusky patrol]

Wouldn't the rubber burn..

[upbeat ridge]

Rubber is pretty hard to burn

melt, maybe. Burn? probably not

[dusky patrol]

I liked the mineral oil pc they did awhile back

[dreamy rose]

Wrong letter

[simple oracle]

deadass 💀

[grim vine]

Holy moly that is a throwback

What was it Indev?

They should have kept it, it was kinda cool

I miss the old minecraft.net layout, the new one is too all over the place

[vital jackal]

Does anyone still do LAN Party?

[full fossil]

u guys think geforce rtx 3050 8gb with i3 12100f and 16 gb ram worth 640$

[vital jackal]

I think so

[upbeat ridge]

Oh definitely

I like to keep it small tho

Only people with gaming laptops invited cuz ain’t nobody got the mood to drag around a full atx case

*on a bicycle

[austere forum]

Unless they’re very dedicated to Lan Parties

[upbeat ridge]

My case is the biggest lmao, i literally can’t

[dusty rune]

get rx 6600

[austere forum]

I see your point lol

Just joking around

[dusty rune]

just ask them to get the gpu, 1 cpu x gpus

[full fossil]

yeah but the deal is quite good still

and i do want an rtx card

[dusty rune]

eh, depends

[dusty rune]

for what. please enlighten me

[upbeat ridge]

Would also need something better than a 3600 and a better mobo that has space for more than 2 gpus

Seems interesting tho

[full fossil]

i always wanted to play minecraft with shaders on bedrock

[dusty rune]

do something like miners do

[full fossil]

since some look very good

[upbeat ridge]

Ah fair enough

[dusty rune]

imma be honest with you, it wont run very well

oh, shaders?

you dont need rtx for that

[full fossil]

yeah ik its the slowest rtx card i think

[full fossil]

but i want ray tracing and stuff

[dusty rune]

it wont do raytracing

[full fossil]

oh really?

[dusty rune]

i mean it will, but it wont be smooth

its really not worth it, imo

raytracing takes too many resources for too little of a visual gain

[tired glade]

What games do you play on daily basis?

[upbeat ridge]

On bedrock RTX is actually supported, but only on some maps

[dusty rune]

my 6700xt runs it in 30fps

[past egret]

minecraft with shaders dont need rtx cards

ive ran sildurs with just a 1060

[upbeat ridge]

They specifically said bedrock tho

[dusty rune]

i use complementary

[full fossil]

valorant, minecraft hypixel, apex, sometimes fortnite, and rocket league

[dusty rune]

most shaders make the game look really dark

[tired glade]

Only two games support rt in that list

[full fossil]

which one should i get

[dusty rune]

any

[full fossil]

there are some dif ones with lower boost clock

[dusty rune]

its minimal

maximum 100mhz difference, which is nothing

[full fossil]

i did have my eyes on the XFX Speedster SWFT 210

[dusty rune]

any model is fine

[tired glade]

If it 100$ difference, you know which to get

[full fossil]

but the thing is the pc im getting that rtx 3050 is that im getting it from my country

[dusty rune]

so youre getting a prebuilt?

[gilded quest]

Get the cheaper one and a screwdriver from lttstore.com

[full fossil]

yep even tho i would like to build a pc myself but things been pretty rough

[dusty rune]

shippings too expensive

[dusty rune]

ah, if you cant build your own pc its fine then

[full fossil]

i live in lithuania and its getting hard with the war and stuff

so thats the reason i cant build my own

[dusty rune]

the ukraine war really fucking up most of europe

[full fossil]

ikr

[dusty rune]

im in romania, things have been pretty rough here as well, we boutta go into an electricity crisis

[full fossil]

welp

nothing we can do

[dusty rune]

yep

[full fossil]

why is radeon rx 6600 cheaper then the rtx 3050 while being better

is it because of the rtx?

[static violet]

how can i find an apple pencil that is disconnected?

[fathom helm]

what could be the issue that
my pc with a wireless usb adapter not connecting to a network
that my phone is able to connect to

[full fossil]

what about i5-4590 with a asus radeon rx 570 4 gb for 390 euros

[dusty rune]

thats so much worse

[full fossil]

yeah but its cheaper

and howmanyfps.com says the gpu is 4% better so idk

[dusty rune]

nvidia has been heavily used for mining and stuff

[dusty rune]

which? rx 570?

[full fossil]

yes

[dusty rune]

no way its 4% better

[lilac sage]

the RX 570 is like a 1060 6GB at best

but prob closer to a 1060 3GB

meanwhile the RX 6600 is faster than a 1080

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djeL6qUTDTo&t=695s&ab_channel=HardwareUnboxed

[full fossil]

i cant upload here but this is what it says "Advantages of AMD Radeon RX 570
Performs up to 6% better in VALORANT than GeForce RTX 3050 - 427 vs 401 FPS"

[lilac sage]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTrlJ-jsDRY&ab_channel=HardwareUnboxed

[dusty rune]

closer to a gtx 1080ti

[dusty rune]

hes getting a prebuilt, cant find a rx 6600

[lilac sage]

ye makes sense

[full fossil]

i just want a decent one

i dont need a very good one

atleast 60 fps on any game is good for me

[dusty rune]

then ig the 400 euro one is enough

especially for your use case

[full fossil]

ill probably take the 3050 one

[dusty rune]

good luck to your family during these times

[full fossil]

u too bro

[jolly sleet]

does anyone know a program that shows you your exact mouse stats? like the amount of times that i've clicked my left mouse button for example.

[full fossil]

I will probably buy a rx 6600 and put it in that pc when i have the money

[lilac sage]

probably not worth it

[stoic beacon]

A google search for "track mouse clicks" yields some promising results

[lilac sage]

used 3050 isnt gonna sell for enough to recoup ur costs to buy a 6600

[full fossil]

Yeah but its not like i cant add some money of mine to it

[hot bramble]

hi

[dusty rune]

hi

[stoic beacon]

Does Linus use a case on his phone? He seems to just...throw/drop stuff a lot

And that phone looks fragile

[dusky patrol]

Sorry I keep missing things lol

[sudden tide]

I dont think so lol

[stoic beacon]

I'm surprised his phone has lasted so long then. I know Samsung phones are fairly durable, but it's a massive folding sandwich. Without a case, I figured he'd break it pretty quick.

[sudden tide]

Yea lucked out I guessed? Or maybe he gets it repaired? Or buys a whole new one lmaoo

[stoic beacon]

I doubt he buys a new one, since he's talked about being curious how long the hinge lasts him...I guess lucky/repaired

Maybe he has a skin on the back of it at least to make it grippier instead of it just slipping and sliding all over the place.

[sudden tide]

True, dbrand skin prob does help...

[stoic beacon]

I've never bought anything from DBrand, since I usually just go with Spigen. LTT sponsors them a lot, but are they good enough to justify the 5-6x price point?

[sudden tide]

Nah dbrand is a mixed bag

I love there skins, and its good quality and all I guess.
But also that price is just :o

I have one on my ipad, and its pretty sweet

[kindred tangle]

anyone got message from amazon saying prime price has increased?

[graceful burrow]

Its been known it would since july

Well, at least july

[sonic barn]

Won't be a surprise

[steep void]

What happened to the other channels

Nvm

[wet owl]

Hey, everyone! Just landed

[steep void]

Landed where

[wet owl]

Here

In this virtual jump park

[sonic barn]

Linuth coaster

[gilded quest]

you should land in the water with a floatplane.com subscription

Keep it

Plug it into a TV and play some games

Ah shoot

Do I need to replace the CMOS batteries on my PS3/PS4

🤔

[upbeat ridge]

Lmao my sister is in Czechia, instantly starts using my credit card

[gilded quest]

Like, do they still get bricked if the battery dies?

Both are connected to AC power fwiw

[full fossil]

GUYS I NEED TO TALK TO LINUS

do u guys think linus will trade booty pics with me

[cosmic minnow]

Linus Slapps Tits

[full fossil]

mine yeah

[cosmic minnow]

Yes
for a nude pic of the 3090

[full fossil]

done and dusted

[dusty rune]

smart girl, if its not your money, spend it

[upbeat ridge]

(it is actually her money)

well she can spend 2.84 euro of my money

[dusty rune]

she got 59 cents left

[eternal hearth]

fraud

[half lynx]

Anyone here ever reach out to the LTTstore staff and get a response through discord?

[stoic beacon]

Reach out through customer service

[full fossil]

I just got an email to buy a steam deck!

[stoic beacon]

Congratulations!

[full fossil]

Bro im so excited ive waited 8 months for this

[stoic beacon]

Dang...Glad the wait times are a bit lower now

[polar fern]

my macbook's battery is bloated - as is my best battery bank

rip

oh that reminds me i need to call a customer service thing in

[echo ridge]

Is it a spicy pillow

[honest horizon]

am I special now?

Hell yeah

[echo ridge]

No.

[honest horizon]

Nah I am, I am blue

[uncut wagon]

babes

i need help

[stoic beacon]

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs3110/2017fa/thoughtful.html

[uncut wagon]

Not tech

[stoic beacon]

Ooh, what is it then?

[uncut wagon]

I need help getting a girl friend

i need them linuus tech tips

[stoic beacon]

Oh, that's easy.

1. Brush your teeth.
2. Use deodorant.
3. Learn to listen well.
4. Stop playing videogames.
5. Learn to cook.
6. Improve social skills.

[uncut wagon]

I can do alll them

I can even cook

[stoic beacon]

You'll have girlfriend by the end of the week then

[uncut wagon]

no

ive been waiting

14 years

[stoic beacon]

No, you've been playing Roblox.

[gilded quest]

3D print one

[stoic beacon]

GTFO

[uncut wagon]

I dont have a 3d printer

[gilded quest]

Get a girlfriend and have her buy you one for your birthday

[uncut wagon]

Whats duuck tape

[stoic beacon]

It's what you need to fix your keyboard, since it double types U a lot

[uncut wagon]

i have the uuultra lihht keyyboas

keyb ard

keybaord

keybooard

keyboard*

[uncut wagon]

Ethan.... I have something to ask you

Ever since I met you 3 minutes ago, we clicked, will you marry me?

[distant cipher]

oh my god

rgb is such a pain

[stoic beacon]

And it looks bad on top of that!

[distant cipher]

why do i need ~200 different programs

just to have my ram and my fans in the same color

[uncut wagon]

Maligator, ever since i met you 12 seconds ago, I knew you were the one, will you marry me?

[distant cipher]

do you like rgb

[uncut wagon]

No

[distant cipher]

and the color green?

[uncut wagon]

yes

[distant cipher]

i will 👀

[stoic beacon]

Is it a white PC case with green emissive?

[uncut wagon]

YAYAYAYAYA

[distant cipher]

no it's black pc case with green lights

[uncut wagon]

Marah, ever since i met you 12 seconds ago, I knew you were the one, will you be my son?

[stoic beacon]

That also looks pretty sick

[gilded quest]

What

[distant cipher]

i'm going for a simple 133t H4x0r look

[stoic beacon]

I thought you were just doing another rainbow vomit PC like every gaaaaamer out there

[distant cipher]

because 133t H4x0r go brrrrrrrrrrrr

[distant cipher]

ewwwwww

[uncut wagon]

So

Will u be my son?

yes it doose

youu buy one

That's mean.

😦

-Cries inside-

[distant cipher]

@clear wren can we adopt you

[uncut wagon]

Yes we can

[distant cipher]

no we need permission

[uncut wagon]

I puut us a down payment for a 1 bedroom houuse

[distant cipher]

we can't just abduct Marah

[agile basin]

how did i know this wasn't going to be a good place for girls interested in tech 🙃

[uncut wagon]

we can

I have a 3900X And a 3070?

[distant cipher]

i have 3060 ti founders edition

i7 12700k

[uncut wagon]

Ryzen 9 3900X

[distant cipher]

because amds naming scheme hurts my eyes

[uncut wagon]

Nvidia GeForce RRTX 3070 Evga FTW3

[echo ridge]

This is discord

[distant cipher]

32 gb ddr4 3600 ram

2tb samsung 970 evo

[uncut wagon]

16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum CL16 3600MHZ

[echo ridge]

A potato

[errant magnet]

@echo ridge no this is sparta

[uncut wagon]

2TB Samsung 980 Pro

[uncut wagon]

Hi babe

Yeah please

[errant magnet]

@uncut wagon hai

[uncut wagon]

i got of the plane

@clear wren You are now mine

[distant cipher]

wtf i can't use all caps :(

[uncut wagon]

you are my child

[distant cipher]

no she's not

[uncut wagon]

y-e-s

[distant cipher]

:/

[uncut wagon]

I live in serisizedwilly

its in england

durrahm to be exact

but its a town

[distant cipher]

imagine doxing yourself smh

[uncut wagon]

oh

I have a cuuustoom loop

on my 3900X

@distant cipher i have 2 mins to live

[distant cipher]

sorry i'm busy figuring out rgb

[uncut wagon]

the plane, the tomato and the house is yours

also money

[distant cipher]

ok

[uncut wagon]

take good care oof marah

[distant cipher]

:/

[uncut wagon]

-dies-

[distant cipher]

ok

now back to rgb stuff

[uncut wagon]

-becomes alived-

[distant cipher]

[distant cipher]

wtf

corsiar has a way to integrate with armoury crate

but it doesn't work

[jovial depot]

plez someone donate me

a pc

[distant cipher]

:/

[jovial depot]

i have a old laptop that cant even run mc

everytime i try to open it, it crashes 😭

[distant cipher]

and so you think

[jovial depot]

no

[distant cipher]

someone will buy you a free pc

for basically no reason?

[jovial depot]

no. the world isnt kind anymore. im was joking about getting a free pc anyway

[distant cipher]

i need sleep

[jovial depot]

then sleep

it not hard. you law down in bed and then close your eyes

ez sleep

[distant cipher]

yes but i need to fix my rgb

i need to make it all green and sexy

then i can sleep

[jovial depot]

why do you wanna turn on your rgb if yo uar egoing to sleep

[distant cipher]

idk

fair point

my sleep deprived mind thought it was a good idea

hang on lemme restart my pc

[jovial depot]

do tis. splash very hot wata in ur face. its burning right? Good, now go law bed and then sleep

[distant cipher]

tf

[jovial depot]

i hope you dont see god 👍

[distant cipher]

yeah me too

[jovial depot]

rgb light not good my child

[stoic beacon]

It's okay, he's going solid color

[jovial depot]

epic

[distant cipher]

yeah

all green

[eager notch]

Ligma

[distant cipher]

1133t H4x0r mode

[jovial depot]

balls

[distant cipher]

||what's ligma||

[jovial depot]

ligma is a disease that pro gamers get by playing too much games 👍

hope you understood. ligma ultimately causes death

[distant cipher]

😳

[jovial depot]

because the pro gamers couldn't get female companions

[eager notch]

HEEEEEEEEEEY GURL

[lucid stump]

Yea that's what happened to Ninja 😦

[stoic beacon]

Hey

[jovial depot]

you are most probably going to get ligma

[distant cipher]

ugh i might have to rewire a few things when i get home from school tomorrow

[jovial depot]

surprised he had a female companion

[lucid stump]

Popular Fortnite streamer Ninja is the latest celebrity to be the center of the internet. The professional gamer was reported to have died from a disease known as ‘Ligma.’

[stoic beacon]

Do you know how much money he had?

[lucid stump]

He just bought female companion

[jovial depot]

10 figures

[jovial depot]

RIP. Fly high with no female companions gamer

[stoic beacon]

That is enough to have a female companion

[lucid stump]

Gold diggers or otherwise

[jovial depot]

but he didn't have the skills to impress m'lady

[lucid stump]

Ninja just payed a dude to lock them in his basement

And he spun the wheel to pick one to have on stream each day

[stoic beacon]

Those fingers could build at lightspeed in Fortnite, I'm sure he did will in the bedroom

[jovial depot]

"I've broken up with girls, some guys"

[jovial depot]

ah yes. the fingers

[eager notch]

I have 4 figures in my bank account

Assuming you count the decimal places

[stoic beacon]

That is a Vandal moment if I've ever seen one

[lucid stump]

Better than a few buttons and a quarter

[eager notch]

I still don't have my financial aid for this semester

[stoic beacon]

I remember my freshman year way back when, I started the year with $105.96 and ended it with $7.52. I had already paid for room/board obviously, but I stretched that out so far

[jovial depot]

i have 0 because the money i NEVER had vanished

[stoic beacon]

That's odd, it's nearly midterms

[valid siren]

I'm a millionaire in vietnam

[jovial depot]

imagine paying for college and not living with your parents

[distant cipher]

imagine not keeping all your money in crypto

[jovial depot]

if you come to america with the millionaire money, you would be considered a person who has low income

[distant cipher]

i have like 400$ worth of crypto

all my money

[valid siren]

That's the joke, I'm not vietnamese

[stoic beacon]

Yikes, guess we found the dude who actually hasn't had a female companion...and here you were, making fun of Ninja.

[valid siren]

millionaire in vietnam = fifty bucks

[distant cipher]

i literally buy stuff on amazon with crypto

[lucid stump]

He could pay for 2 gallons of gas

[valid siren]

Good for you mate, ethereum just crashed.

[lucid stump]

And maybe a small 7/11 Soda

[stoic beacon]

surprised pikachu

[eager notch]

Well 69,420 dongs only cost about 3 bucks

[distant cipher]

meh

i never used eth

[stoic beacon]

That is quite the name for a currency

[distant cipher]

gas fees way too high

[jovial depot]

im 15, i have to live with my parents. Plus, im not gonna make my dad pay 5k per year for housing when the university im gonna go to is just 44 minutes away from my apartment

[lucid echo]

BTC took a big dip with it :P

[lucid stump]

5k? It can be a lot higher

I know a dude who went through medschool to be a neurosurgeon

[valid siren]

All I'm saying is that keeping your money in crypto is like keeping your money in extra-volatile stocks.

[distant cipher]

well it builds character

[eager notch]

College is about 10 minutes from my house so I still live at home

[lucid stump]

He's over 1+m in with loans

[jovial depot]

its 5k for Florida atlantic university but it doesnt matter cause im gonna live with my parents cause FAU is only 44 minutes away from my apartment

[distant cipher]

but yeah

i'm 14

[jovial depot]

nice good, good. Don't pay for dormitory when you house is near your college

[lucid echo]

Ah it all makes sense now

[distant cipher]

crypto is literally the only way i can spend money online

without begging to my dad to buy stuff for me

[stoic beacon]

Why don't you just go and get prepaid credit cards with cash?

[lucid echo]

You can open a teen checking account at 14

[jovial depot]

you can get a job at publix at 14. Im 15 but i wanna get a job but i cant cause im not on a work visa

[distant cipher]

i don't know any nearby stores that sell em'

[eager notch]

Buy a new dad then

[stoic beacon]

All of them lol

[distant cipher]

i don't live in the us

i can't just walk into a 7/11

[stoic beacon]

I'm surprised there isn't a rack full of them at Subway

[valid siren]

then walk into a tesco

[lucid echo]

It's called being an adult

[distant cipher]

i live in Israel

[jovial depot]

there are stores in Israel that sell them

[distant cipher]

not near me

[valid siren]

doar

[lucid echo]

Teen checking accounts exist

[lucid stump]

Crypto is 2 extremes
Your money gets tripled or it gets blown away in the wind

No middle ground

[lucid echo]

Usually both

[distant cipher]

yeah but i need my parents to set that up

[stoic beacon]

Why not both?

[valid siren]

When the latter happens I buy cheap GPUs

[distant cipher]

but ngl the card looks pretty sexy

[eager notch]

Unless you buy stablecoins that aren't shit like terra

[lucid stump]

Even stablecoins don't seem to be very stable

And most places only take the big 3
Eth, BTC, Doge

[stoic beacon]

Comparing crypto graphs to ^IXIC is fun. Takes the saying "When in doubt, zoom out" to even higher meanings.

[eager notch]

USDC is decent and backed with real freedom dollars

[distant cipher]

@valid siren i might ask my parents to get me one someday

[eager notch]

Couldn't be any worse than the Euro at this point

[stoic beacon]

Is Betterment/Wealthfront supported in your country?

[distant cipher]

but atm it's funny to just buy everything with crypto

[lucid stump]

That's how I got my 3060Ti

[distant cipher]

i need sleep

[lucid echo]

That's because you're 14

[distant cipher]

it's 11:15pm

[distant cipher]

you think i can manage to get something from lttstore.com using crypto?

[stoic beacon]

Take everything you put into Crypto right now and start throwing it into things like Betterment/Wealthfront, if they're available in the area you live in.

Don't buy things at 14, buy things when you're 30 and you can buy cool things. Go to school when you're 14.

[distant cipher]

i do go to school

but school isn't 24/7

[stoic beacon]

Ah, you're set then

[distant cipher]

i've gotten a job over the summer even

[lucid echo]

I'm pretty sure there's issues with USDC too, with the "backed" freedom dollars being used as company assets elsewhere, and not just sitting as liquidity.

[distant cipher]

but that's all in my bank account

[stoic beacon]

You don't have a job through the whole year?

[fluid ridge]

crypto is a great concept

[distant cipher]

which i literally can't use

[fluid ridge]

i like the idea of anonymous, decentralized currency

[distant cipher]

yeah

[fluid ridge]

too bad it's so unstable

[distant cipher]

it's cool, but very unreliable

[stoic beacon]

You have a bank account, but no debit card to use it with?

[distant cipher]

exactly.

welcome to being 14.

[fossil frost]

i would say "dont think you know what you are doing at 14, about anything, because you dont, you think you do, and will use that thought to think im wrong... but you really dont know anything at 14, so dont waste money on things you think you understand, when you dont understand them at all"

[lucid stump]

I have a card, but I need permission to spend the money

[hoary furnace]

yeah, the lack of regulation in financial markets has always been great

[hoary furnace]

nothing bad ever happened

[lucid stump]

And usually I don't get that permission

[distant cipher]

YES YES okay

[lucid stump]

I'll ask, answer is no.

[fluid ridge]

power in the hands of the people

[distant cipher]

i'll sleep

[hoary furnace]

crypto has no way for people to punish other users by design

[fluid ridge]

good

[hoary furnace]

that's opposite of power to the people

that's power to every person to ruin everybody elses

[distant cipher]

i bought a gaming mouse yesterday

[eager notch]

I like my bank account to have freedom units in it

[distant cipher]

my parents are gonna kill me

my keyboard is really loud

[hoary furnace]

i like my bank account to have units which have value that cannot be easily manipulated by any single person on the planet

[distant cipher]

hybrid blue-brown switches

i'm about to wake up everyone in the house

[eager notch]

Kill them first, problem solved

[cosmic coyote]

You have feet in your account?

[fossil frost]

so, empty then? because there are a few people, who individually, can manipulate any value of any currency

[hoary furnace]

smaller number and harder to do than crypto

[valid siren]

aren't there cryptocurrencies that are tied to the US dollar?

[hoary furnace]

hah

[cosmic coyote]

Gold?

[distant cipher]

what does that have to do with my parents murdering me?

[eager notch]

Stablecoins yes, USDC and USDT are two of them

[lucid echo]

Funny how many crypto bros don't know how Ethereum Classic came to exist

[distant cipher]

cough cough luna

[hoary furnace]

yepp

[distant cipher]

very stable

[eager notch]

We don't talk about Luna no no no

[distant cipher]

we dont talk about lunaaaaaaa

[cosmic coyote]

I mean banks themselves are using your money

[lucid echo]

So are crypto exchanges

[cosmic coyote]

Bank goes belly up laters money

[hoary furnace]

uk government protects bank accounts up to like 85k or something

[stoic beacon]

The main difference is, if anything happens to your crypto, you aren't getting it back. Banks are at least backed by regulation up to 250k from the government.

[hoary furnace]

so if the bank goes belly up, your money is safe

[lucid echo]

200k 250k in US

[stoic beacon]

85k!? Geez

[distant cipher]

as i said, it builds character.

[cosmic coyote]

So rip if you are rich

[lucid echo]

I really hope ETH isn't one of those units, cuz if so, I got some bad news for you

[stoic beacon]

No, you just use multiple banks then

[stoic beacon]

Also, if you have over 250k just sitting in a bank, you are making a mistake anyways, you should invest that in stocks/bonds

[eager notch]

This is why you have multiple accounts at multiple institutions

[hoary furnace]

No. I have a small amount of BTC which i've had since 2015 or something and not touched, that's it

[distant cipher]

ok gn everyone

[fossil frost]

no country on earth has a currency that is backed by gold anymore

[eager notch]

I know someone who has like 8 million sitting in like 30 different accounts

Why it's not invested i have no idea

[cosmic coyote]

But I thought that’s how part of currency worked

[lucid echo]

Most economists agree that's a good thing too

[vapid smelt]

Usa money is backed by nukes

[fossil frost]

not since the 1930s, no

[stoic beacon]

Not anymore, because the value of gold is mostly irrelevant. The value is backed by whatever is deemed necessary at the time. At this point in time, the value itself is in what we say it is.

[cosmic coyote]

I thought gold was stable

[vapid smelt]

Didn't people game the system from countries backed by gold?

[stoic beacon]

That's why we were able to print more money recently than we ever have in history

[fossil frost]

lebanon is the closest, where it has about 50% of its currency in circulation could be covered by gold... but everywhere else, that drops off VERY sharply

[eager notch]

Money printer go brrrrrrrrr

[fossil frost]

UK and USA could only cover about 5-6% of their currency in circulation with gold

[lucid echo]

Fun fact - The narrative that fiat currency should always be backed by gold was created by a certain german dude with a funny mustache in the 1930's in order to antagonize a certain group of people he didn't like.

[cosmic coyote]

Is currency purely an economic thing then. Like tied to gdp or something

[stoic beacon]

It's almost a purely theoretical thing at this point.

I'm obviously oversimplifying it, but still

[fossil frost]

currency and its value is tied to the stock market, and the stock market is tied to the whim of investors who hold that imaginary currency on an excel sheet

[lucid echo]

This but unironically

[lucid stump]

I thought it was oil

[eager notch]

USA money backed by FREEDOM BISH

[vapid smelt]

Alaska does have a lot of oil

[stoic beacon]

And the Alaskan citizens have been screwed time and time again because of it...kind of unfortunate. It's one of the most beautiful states.

[eager notch]

So does Texas and north Dakota

[valid siren]

Raytheon™️

[hoary furnace]

UK sold their gold at the lowest point of gold in like 30 years or something 😄

[cosmic coyote]

How does Japan have such low purchasing power but export high quality goods

Like how does this make sense

[vapid smelt]

Hey they get paid yearly to stay there

[sharp root]

nice chick

[vapid smelt]

Your currency is only valuable if other countries like you

[stoic beacon]

That is an EXTREMELY complex question...there are thousands of things in play here. Restrictions put on them after World War 2, lack of natural resources, work ethic of the citizens, cultural focus on quality, etc.

[valid siren]

also china

[stoic beacon]

That's just 4 / 1000

[vapid smelt]

I forget that Japan lacks a lot of natural resources

[eager notch]

Hardly, it's like $1000 a year

[fossil frost]

GBP, USD, EURO, and YUAN have a monopoly on global currency too... almost all global trading is done in one of those 4 currencies

[fluid ridge]

tokyo is the world's richest city by GDP

[stoic beacon]

Yeah, they're not destitute, it's just compared to others, they have to import AND export.

[cosmic coyote]

Yea so how are they using Monopoly money to buy shit

[fluid ridge]

anime bucks

[fossil frost]

all money in global trade is monopoly money

[cosmic coyote]

Like paying thousands of yen and it’s just like $10

[vapid smelt]

Technically all money is as valuable as the monopoly board game money

[stoic beacon]

Oh, you're just asking why different currencies are worth different amounts?

Because the answer is because they are

[eager notch]

Let's be honest, when we buy Canada in 2028, the Canadian States of America has the capability to be a country that really could be totally isolationist from the rest of the world

[fluid ridge]

buy us? you couldnt afford us bro

[vapid smelt]

I'll trade 500,000,000 coopa bucks for 1,00,000 usd

[fossil frost]

it doesnt exist, countries "borrow" from other countries to buy from a 3rd country, and that is "repaid" over time, but usually in goods and services or political favours... now, thats a 3 country web... imagine that but over 200 countries all doing that with each other, and some countries paying other countries to deal with countries as a go between, because its not seen as a good thing to be dealing with the end-country in the original country

[cosmic coyote]

Happy people

[stoic beacon]

Not yet...TSMC. There are fabs in the US, including that super sweet one Samsung is building, but we need their chips

[fossil frost]

tsmc have buildings in the USA, but they are just that, buildings, they dont actually do anything there

[stoic beacon]

There just isn't a better way to put it. How many dollars is that gold bar worth?

[lucid echo]

I love watching computer nerds talk economics

[eager notch]

We'll just invade you then

[cosmic coyote]

Need to sort out finances to get 40 series gpu

[vapid smelt]

Or surround them and block all trade

[stoic beacon]

True, understanding global markets does play a part in saving money for a Minecraft power adapter.

[lucid echo]

It's working with Cuba, that's for sure

[eager notch]

We won't be the first superpower to invade another peaceful country this decade

[fossil frost]

i love watching people realise that the economy, political standing of a country, and the world as a whole, is all made up, and controlled by a few key people, and none of what seems like it should be backed up by something, is actually backed by anything and everything is just taken on trust, and that trust is constantly abused 😁 (ie. kids learning how the world works) (sometimes adults too)

[vapid smelt]

Utah will invade Idaho in 4 days

[stoic beacon]

You will lose.

[eager notch]

On the other hand, I think we'd probably actually win a war with Canada

[fossil frost]

when was the last war that the USA actually won? and didnt back out after years of dragging its feet and getting its arse handed to it?

[vapid smelt]

We out number them just with California and Texas alone

[fluid ridge]

considering america provides canada with a free military, yes

[eager notch]

With just California

[vapid smelt]

How does one win a war?

[fluid ridge]

canadas 3 planes in the airforce and 2 of them are 60 years old

[eager notch]

Doing the opposite of whatever Russia is currently doing

[lucid stump]

Vietnam wasn't a loss
Afghanistan wasn't a loss

Do your research

[stoic beacon]

The definition of winning a war has changed so much in the last hundred years. If winning a war still revolved around leveling an entire army in seconds, yeah, the US would be pretty good at it.

There's more at play here.

[fossil frost]

there is that... but afganistan, and iraq... years and trillions spent... neither country is ruled any different, and is now worse than it was when they started... vietnam.... was an absolute shitty mess

[lucid stump]

Neither are losses

[lucid echo]

Something something no politics

[eager notch]

Gulf war then

[stoic beacon]

Vietnam was actually a loss in every sense of the word...Afgh is more debatable, but still, isn't in a good spot

[lucid stump]

No, no it wasn't.

[stoic beacon]

Eh, at least it's historical politics and not current

[lucid stump]

It doesn't meet the definition of a loss

[gilded quest]

idk
i was on my way to a domination victory in Civ, but i accidentally ran into a bug that won't let me finish my turn :/

[stoic beacon]

It's easier to prove when somebody hasn't ever cracked a history book in their life

[lucid stump]

The French in Vietnam? They got their ass handed to them

[vapid smelt]

That sounds horrible all those hours

[lucid stump]

U.S.? Didn't lose. On a technicality it was a win.

[stoic beacon]

So did we. We gave up after a VERY long time of losing, losing, losing, losing, losing.

[gilded quest]

I am very upset

[fossil frost]

i have, i would ask you to to real research and not trust the glorified school child version you were told

[eager notch]

Well, the US definitely won the Gulf Wars

[gilded quest]

I was gonna nuke the fuck outta persia but now the game is stuck forever

[lucid stump]

Causalities in Vietnam on the Vietnamese side still going up

[stoic beacon]

So you win if you kill more people than the others do?

[lucid echo]

.....

[lucid stump]

Not exactly

That's a major part though

[eager notch]

Kill enough that the other side gives up

[vapid smelt]

We left and now they still use our equipment to this day we left behind and the people that fought on our side went into camps?

[stoic beacon]

Really looking forward to when this guy takes US History lol

[lucid stump]

Ha.

They can't operate U.S. equipment

It wont last

[fossil frost]

convinced that this guy is clearly a troll, or from texas

[lucid stump]

Maintaining a single M1A2 Abrams will bankrupt the entire country

[stoic beacon]

I'm going to go with troll, or has such a low IQ he meets the criteria to be considered legally disabled.

[lucid stump]

It'll end up like everything else the Taliban has

A running POS

[stoic beacon]

With them in control?

[lucid stump]

All they can do is drive them to parades

[vapid smelt]

Nam is still using our old equipment we left behind

[lucid stump]

They can barely drive them, Taliban are ditching Abrams left and right

[lucid stump]

Those aren't as expensive to maintain

[eager notch]

So is Iran

[lucid stump]

M41s are cheaper than M1A2 SEPv3 TUSK-II Abrams

And are a lot easier to maintain, and operate

[vapid smelt]

Anyone want to talk tech before we get banned?

[lucid echo]

This is a tremendous amount of copium going on

[fossil frost]

really? because there are companies like this all over the world that rent out tanks to the general public, and maintain them too, and as far as i can see, they are not going bankrupt by maintaining many different various tanks, new and old... https://tanktownusa.com/

[stoic beacon]

I don't know, we should listen to him, he's an avid gamer and a former youtuber, he might share some of his copium with us

[fossil frost]

like i said, troll, or from texas

[stoic beacon]

Yeah, let's stop engaging

[eager notch]

A new engine for an m1 Abrams is like 2 million freedom units

[lucid stump]

M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams TUSK-II are way more expensive

Than a M60A2, M41, Soviet POS, M4A3, etc

You ever seen a M1A2 SEPv3 TUSK-II Abrams MBT rented out to the public?

[lucid echo]

What is your favorite game this year guys

[stoic beacon]

Game that came out this year, or game that I played this year?

[lucid stump]

Exactly.

[lucid echo]

Both

I started Disco Elysium this year and holy shit it's amazing

[vapid smelt]

I'm now playing super Mario sunshine on my steam deck

[lucid echo]

Nice. Revisiting Super Mario Advance 2 on my deck

[fossil frost]

i was gonna say Valhalla, but then i realised that was released in 2020, and as much as it felt like 2020 lasted for 2 years, it didnt 😁

[stoic beacon]

Hmm...I recently started getting back into StarCraft and Planetside, and been thoroughly enjoying those. Of the games that came out in 2022, I think Splatoon 3 is my favorite. It's way more fun than I thought it was going to be.

[eager notch]

I think the newest game I own is cyberpunk

[stoic beacon]

Fairly unique concept for a shooter.

[fossil frost]

i enjoyed it, but was pissed off about how short it was

glad i only paid £20 for it and not £60

[echo ridge]

Vtol vr and squad

[lucid echo]

I was about to say Valheim then realized that was nearly 2 years ago

[stoic beacon]

Oh, I totally forgot about Dirt Rally 2. I got a wheel this year, and that's been endless amounts of fun

I can play that game for dangerous amounts of time

[echo ridge]

Yall play new games

[fossil frost]

dirt 2 on a 3x1080p setup, with a wheel... 😄

[hoary furnace]

cyberpunk was deservedly overshadowed by a dreadful launch of an unready game

[jovial depot]

imagine paying for games and not using 1337x

[stoic beacon]

Not really, I have way too many old games to still go through

[jovial depot]

sifu

[hoary furnace]

but the game was alright

[stoic beacon]

Ah, I've been running it on a Quest 2 myself, don't really have a good way to do triple monitor

[lucid echo]

The new mod setup sounds pretty great, can't wait to revisit in a few years

[hoary furnace]

yeah same

[fossil frost]

it needs to be at least twice as long

[eager notch]

I've been looking at buying a wheel for like 3 or 4 years, I just need to do it, I own probably a dozen sim racing games

[jovial depot]

fh5 on wheel is satisfying asf

[lucid echo]

Unironically been enjoying the updates to Star Citizen this year, lots of great new features

[stoic beacon]

Honestly, the G923 is really fun

[fossil frost]

makes games like dirt 2 loads more fun, and makes F1 2020/2021 so much more playable

[stoic beacon]

It's alright, but I definitely prefer the sim games for a wheel over arcade ones

[lucid echo]

Some insane FPS combat missions and 100-player PvE space combat

[echo ridge]

Did you need the new grand tour episode

[stoic beacon]

That does sound like fun

[jovial depot]

fh5 isnt a arcade game 💀

[echo ridge]

See

[stoic beacon]

Yes it is, it's an arcade racer

[jovial depot]

its a open world car game

[echo ridge]

Compared to others it is

[lucid echo]

It's arcade-ish at best

[jovial depot]

ig

[stoic beacon]

Arcade racers are racing games that do not have realistic physics but are designed for "fun" in mind

Open World Car Game sounds like a fun genre name lol

[lucid echo]

FH5 is No Man's Sky, Gran Turismo is Elite Dangerous

[echo ridge]

Open world and arcade isn't exclusive

[fossil frost]

stopped caring after the 2nd special, they are recycling the exact same formula over and over, in a different country, using the same jokes, same setup, same everything... they are essentially the EA FIFA franchise now

[eager notch]

Too expensive for me, I'd probably max out at about $200 total for a setup

[stoic beacon]

FH5 is Call of Duty, Simracers are Arma

[stoic beacon]

Not worth it then at all...you'd want to keep saving

[echo ridge]

James may fucked the evo

Twice

[stoic beacon]

I still know at least 50+ people that think VR is the dumbest thing ever because their first exposure to it was Google Cardboard...

[echo ridge]

Would motorsport 7 be like squad

[stoic beacon]

Yeah, I could get behind that

[fossil frost]

i disagree, i have a £75 wheel and pedals... infinitely better than a xbox 360 pad for dirt 2 and F1 2020

[stoic beacon]

Ah, maybe go more with Bizzehdee @eager notch, I guess I'm not familiar enough with the current simracing market anymore

[echo ridge]

I kinda wished they made more motorsports