tech-chat-2

[frank cypress]

2005 march build date 🥀

[dense granite]

I haven't even graduated from uni, wym?

[spiral quarry]

By two years.

[merry stirrup]

my build date was aug 2006

[frank cypress]

dude i need to replace this chair

[low sorrel]

Man ennui you've locked me into amd

[spiral quarry]

And likely older then Jerry too

[turbid locust]

Does Fractal make an mATX oriented case

[merry stirrup]

aughhhhhhhhhHHHH

[frank cypress]

just waiting for someone on marketplace to put up a herman miller sayl for cheap

[merry stirrup]

yeah brother

[dense granite]

Steelcase Leap V2 is my goat.

[south shuttle]

guys in y’all experience what is an average lifespan of a modern microwave?

[merry stirrup]

whatever my sister has LOL

[low sorrel]

Non of the blocks you gave me are lga

@frank cypress I saw a leap V2 for 150 a while back

[frank cypress]

btw are we just gonna gloss over how jerry substituited "brown" for "tan"?

[low sorrel]

You should hope on that

[frank cypress]

meh

i want a sayl cause i like how it looks

[turbid locust]

This gives me no info

[low sorrel]

Yes

[south shuttle]

tried looking at the other office chairs?

[dense granite]

yoooo

[frank cypress]

ehhh it's just specific cause i like how it looks

[dense granite]

Cheap af

[turbid locust]

I already have too many cases around I should probably not buy another

[frank cypress]

i wouldn't mind a leap v2 or something realistically but

[merry stirrup]

worst computer component to store

[low sorrel]

Yeah I have some secret lab chair that my brother bought like 10 years ago

[turbid locust]

deadass

[dense granite]

Never had one die before.

[merry stirrup]

i’m fine with having a shit ton of boards because it’s like

[low sorrel]

And it's fine

[frank cypress]

secretlab 🥀

[merry stirrup]

1 sq foot of space

[low sorrel]

Afaik it's one of the only gaming chairs that don't break your back

[frank cypress]

i mean free is free tthough

[dense granite]

The herm I tried was ass.

[low sorrel]

Remember those elementary school chairs

[south shuttle]

deciding between repairing an ancient samsung microwave once it breaks or buying a new/used one

[low sorrel]

The blue ones

[merry stirrup]

i have a whole tote of boards

(boxed)

[frank cypress]

i think herman miller is just very ergnomic... just not necessarily comfortable

[dense granite]

Better have thick ass rubber gloves.

[south shuttle]

i love touching charged components though

[dense granite]

Wouldn't you prefer both though?

[frank cypress]

i tried sitting in a sayl before though, better a lot more comfortable than my mirra v1 with the hard triflex back

[frank cypress]

no i care about how the chair looks

in vain like that

[merry stirrup]

real

[low sorrel]

Bro is style over function

[frank cypress]

i mean i would ideally like something like an embody but those are like $2k

[low sorrel]

So that's why I have a custom loop now

[merry stirrup]

if it’s not giving evil villain i don’t want it

[merry stirrup]

no bro needed it at some point

[turbid locust]

the smaller fractal cases are not pretty

[turbid locust]

I have this exact chair

[frank cypress]

i really dig the shape of this chair, dunno why

[frank cypress]

WHAT

[south shuttle]

a lot of the itx ones are not small as well

[frank cypress]

did you buy it?]

[turbid locust]

Mines like a white/grey but otherwise the same

[turbid locust]

no a friend had it and gave it to me

[frank cypress]

bro has been sitting on a herman miller sayl this whole time and never knew

[turbid locust]

It’s mad comfy

[frank cypress]

yeah it's HM bro that shit is expensive

[merry stirrup]

mac what’s with the random $2000+ components

[low sorrel]

Oh yeah TIL that your not supposed to be able to see the side of your car via your mirrors

[turbid locust]

YOOOO LMAO

[frank cypress]

fully loaded

[low sorrel]

Goated friend

[south shuttle]

i want a better chair

[south shuttle]

only that much for a chair?? a steal.

[merry stirrup]

bro you have a 2k chair and didn’t know?

[turbid locust]

I think bro had two???

[merry stirrup]

waaattt

[turbid locust]

fuck no I didn’t lmfao

[frank cypress]

BRO IS RICH

[merry stirrup]

must’ve been from an office lol

[dense granite]

My only experience with them was a faulty Mirra 2.

[merry stirrup]

nah hear me out

[frank cypress]

argh

idk im not a big fan of the mirra ngl

[merry stirrup]

hella offices buy herman millers for no reason then give them away to employees when they buy more

[dense granite]

Got to return for free.

[frank cypress]

the recline on it is nice though

[dense granite]

Leap V2 was cheaper and better imo

[south shuttle]

next time i’ll look at offices that dispose stuff so i can buy herman chairs for cheep

[frank cypress]

yes this is definitely the case

[dense granite]

That was the part that was defective, lmao.

[frank cypress]

those are typically aerons though afaik

[low sorrel]

Oh yeah kirashi did you see my "new" pc

[indigo walrus]

Just get a job at an office where they use Herman Miller chairs, wait for (or cause) another pandemic, be sent home to work from home, and then be given one of the office chairs for free. Profit.

[turbid locust]

I’ll take a pic when I’m back home lmfao

[merry stirrup]

lol

[dense granite]

It had a tactile bump in the middle of reclining.

[frank cypress]

mirras are more used in like... hospital/healthcare settings to my understanding

[indigo walrus]

Yeah your photo with the minor damage? 👀

[low sorrel]

What

[frank cypress]

cause of the option to get the hard plastic back

[south shuttle]

1000% agre i’ll do it

[frank cypress]

something something, easier to clean

[indigo walrus]

Or maybe that was someone else's photo...

[low sorrel]

As you will notice it looks quite similar to @frank cypress's for no reason at all

[merry stirrup]

ennui’s rig so drier i wont lie

[indigo walrus]

I am sitting in a mesh back Mirra 2 right now. Hands down it's the best thing I got out of my last job, besides crippling imposter syndrome PTSD from being constantly performance managed. 😬

[dense granite]

For no reason at all.

[merry stirrup]

i love the tubing

[frank cypress]

now reconnect the bottom rad

[merry stirrup]

fire*

[low sorrel]

I don't have distilled water lol

[frank cypress]

oh that's what i forgot to give

[dense granite]

💀

[frank cypress]

whoops

[low sorrel]

And a water block

[frank cypress]

dude i miss the dual 2080ti with the custom loop

[frank cypress]

no i didn't have a waterblock for you

the kraken g12 is in the bag though

[dense granite]

They should bring back 2 GPU meta, but make it good this time.

[south shuttle]

aww sadge, you’re not incompetent though

[low sorrel]

Yeah wtf is this fan

[trim agate]

fan

[frank cypress]

it's a noctua redux probably

[dense granite]

I recognize it, but not name.

[frank cypress]

ah fuck if i realized that was on it i would've kept it

[low sorrel]

Why is it connected to the block

[frank cypress]

for the mem

[dense granite]

Has to be from someone big.

[trim agate]

im getting myself a used aeron

[low sorrel]

Har har

[indigo walrus]

Oh no, I know - myself and (most of) our whole team wasn't incompetent in the slightest. Twas just call center metrics / KPI crap to appease our boss's bosses' boss' bosses'sesses manager's bosses BOSS.

[frank cypress]

https://www.amazon.ca/-/fr/Noctua-NF-P12-PWM-refroidissement-1700/dp/B07CG2PGY6?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&psc=1&smid=A1Z5H6ZGWCMTNX

[dense granite]

this

[low sorrel]

Oh yeah kirashi did you see that I had a keylogger on my phone,

All my social media accounts were compromised

And I had to cancel my cards

[dense granite]

different blades tho

[low sorrel]

Yesterday

[merry stirrup]

sooo hot

wait what are you guys doing awake

[south shuttle]

my brother had spyware as well but on his pc

[frank cypress]

probably the s12 instead

[south shuttle]

he installed vega x cheats for roblox i think

[low sorrel]

Core cycler

[frank cypress]

https://www.amazon.ca/NF-S12B-redux-1200-PWM-Performance-Cooling/dp/B00KF7PPY4/ref=pd_lpo_d_sccl_1/140-8468493-2315961?pd_rd_w=eGWsZ&content-id=amzn1.sym.d3f44101-6e04-446e-916c-a6ec5616982b&pf_rd_p=d3f44101-6e04-446e-916c-a6ec5616982b&pf_rd_r=RRMQ5Y4W3GRTV32648ZF&pd_rd_wg=26low&pd_rd_r=2d5275cf-222e-4302-9f35-03a8bcac95e6&pd_rd_i=B00KF7PPY4&psc=1

[south shuttle]

every vega x cheat comes with bundled up spyware

[frank cypress]

going to sleep soon

[indigo walrus]

I saw something to that effect in the chat. Wondered when my malware would get cha; er, I mean, um... hey @south shuttle we uh, we gotta jet over to the Cayman Islands right about now, remember?

[dense granite]

Getting plastered asf.

[frank cypress]

i think mac went to bed

[dense granite]

1 and a half bottles down.

[frank cypress]

or maybe he fainted from the shock of owning an expensive ass chair

[low sorrel]

anyways finally managed to recover my facebook and why the fuck is it set here

[dense granite]

Probably more than what my LTT bottle can contain.

[south shuttle]

yes, as planned

[indigo walrus]

The attacker is US based, of course.

[merry stirrup]

geeked

[turbid locust]

doin ya mom doin doin ya mom

[low sorrel]

my instagram was logged into from north carolina as well

[indigo walrus]

Alright, settle down over there, RWJ. =3 hasn't been relevant in... 10(?) years?

[frank cypress]

another eatx board would be kinda funny....

[turbid locust]

https://tenor.com/view/george-bush-george-w-bush-george-walker-bush-george-bush-gif-4763846221746003914

[dense granite]

Sour puss red and Smirnoff Ice Creamsicle

[south shuttle]

hmmm i misspelled brother for broken

[low sorrel]

@frank cypress when buy sayl

[turbid locust]

bro unc checked me 😭

[merry stirrup]

uh idk what im geekin on

[dense granite]

LOL

[frank cypress]

waiting for one not in narnia

[merry stirrup]

candy land

[frank cypress]

also i want a black chair

[low sorrel]

langleys not even that far

[frank cypress]

im not a fan of white furniture ngl

[merry stirrup]

one could guess based off this answer

[turbid locust]

geeked up playing Xbox all day

[dense granite]

Wait, nvm. Idk if talking about that is against rules, lemme check rq.

[low sorrel]

oh right forgot you don't have a car

[merry stirrup]

its not but im not old

[frank cypress]

i don't have my own license, no

[turbid locust]

Kirashi is here they’ll lyk bro

[merry stirrup]

absolutes are not something youll particularly hear from me

at least around that

[frank cypress]

but even if i did i don't want to travel lo.... langley, for a chair

[south shuttle]

@indigo walrus sorre i misspelled brother for broken somehow hopefully that didn’t change perception of the situation much xd

[brisk jolt]

I want an AM5 white board to daily that doesnt suck balls and is at some absurd price lol

[dense granite]

I'm taking the SkyTrain to somewhere next to BC place for an audio meet.

[indigo walrus]

Nah, you're good. You're not a UNC file path.

[dense granite]

Just do it.

[turbid locust]

Off topic but BPD in your bio… borderline or bipolar? If you don’t mind me asking

[frank cypress]

yeah i'm not taking a chair back by bus and train for 2 hours 😅

[indigo walrus]

The former. Comes and goes in waves. Knocks on wood. Currently mostly docile. For now.

[dense granite]

Just sit on it when in the bus frfr

Or Uber like a normal person.

[low sorrel]

yeah uber with the 1000 bucks i just gave you

[dense granite]

450 though, so idk.

[frank cypress]

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/905867712276859/?ref=browse_tab&referral_code=marketplace_top_picks&referral_story_type=top_picks

wait this is kinda a goated deal, if only it wasnt on the island

[dense granite]

Ahhh, you're on the island.

[low sorrel]

he in not on the island

[turbid locust]

I see I see. Reason I ask is because I’m currently going through the whole mental health process again after not having a great experience as an adolescent, so re-evaluating as an adult now.

There’s a lot of overlap between a handful of things and between my recent psych eval and personal research it’s kind of up in the air but in the realm of BPD or Bipolar-1.

[frank cypress]

typo'd

[dense granite]

Wtf, istg his message just said "if only it was on the island"

[merry stirrup]

yo momma

[frank cypress]

it did, it was a typo

[brisk jolt]

my ass was looking at a gigglebutt board :/

[turbid locust]

hunned

[dense granite]

I'm just slow rn, dw.

[low sorrel]

see as a person who wants to get a PPL in the future

i am never going to therapy

[frank cypress]

wait, are those noctua industrial fans? hell noooooo

never again after owning p12 maxes

[low sorrel]

helll yes

[dense granite]

If I had money, this would be the chassis for my homelab.

[frank cypress]

that shit may have crazy static pressure but they're loud as fuck

[dense granite]

Goated deal.

[turbid locust]

Hope you never feel the need to go 🫡

[indigo walrus]

Yee I saw that mentioned earlier in chat too. Hopefully you find what you need to help manage things, cause IMO that's all we really can do: find ways to manage whatever it is our minds struggle with. Nothing I have is official in any capacity, but working from home during COVID gave me a BUCKET load of time to sit and reflect on gestures at entire life. In a way, it was liberating, but also scary, but also cathartic.

[low sorrel]

@frank cypress this case sucks

[brisk jolt]

honestly x870 tuf neo doesnt look back

[low sorrel]

the motherboard is recessed in

[dense granite]

Which one?

[low sorrel]

i can't get a good singal from my keyboard dongle

[dense granite]

Someone stole your accounts for a bit ig.

[turbid locust]

Yeah Covid was a mess. Between it, going to college, and generally like trying to figure out how to function as an independent, things spiraled fast but we locked in a little bit. Hopefully things work out but I’m not super thrilled about taking medication so it is what it is.

[dense granite]

Put it in the front usb.

[turbid locust]

But long story short I was basically misdiagnosed with adhd it seems this whole time and what I thought was hyperactivity was actually just… mania? lmfao

We ball tho

[merry stirrup]

MY GOATTTT

[turbid locust]

shout out flopper fr

[low sorrel]

.

[merry stirrup]

real shit tho you the oc pal 😭

[turbid locust]

https://tenor.com/view/tiger-tiger-woods-big-dog-salutation-what-up-gif-2478767235926945002

[merry stirrup]

we gon get asus sponsors for real

[turbid locust]

all my hobbies fade in and out so lol

[merry stirrup]

my ultimate goal is to get sent one piece of hardware

[indigo walrus]

I'ma preface this with the usual "I not qualified medical person" but also... ADHD can manifest in non-hyperactive ways. Mine is very much calm and collected on the outside, meanwhile the brain is very weird about what it is able / wants to focus on internally. If it's a game / TV show / movie or a particular work task that engages the dopamine receptors, more please. Otherwise I lose focus in as little as 30 seconds. To be fair, some of my hyperfocus is also high-functioning ASD so... 🤷

[turbid locust]

I haven’t OCd or benched anything in like a month and a half and then immediately went for 8400 daily attempts

[merry stirrup]

i am the same way its ok

i just wanna go to a meet and geek out with people who have the same hobby as me

[low sorrel]

Side note @wise bear I still deny having ADHD

[turbid locust]

It’s always been 99% mental for me anyways. The only physical hyperactivity I get is like bouncing my leg constantly or doing my little finger tap thing I do

Brain just goes 700,000mph

[dense granite]

Too real.

[turbid locust]

Yeah same like have you ever seen me type messages here

I literally skip words by accident sometimes

[indigo walrus]

Wow, "see"? "SEE"? How rude!! You KNOW I don't have eyes after the accident. /s

But also, yep - thinking 4 miles ahead of what you're typing can mean lots of missing words.

[low sorrel]

I've also seen you talk to people in valorant and CS

[turbid locust]

do you blame me

I exercise a lot of patience with randoms actually

[low sorrel]

My brother in Christ no the fuck you dont

[turbid locust]

it’s just after about 15 rounds of your teammates doing the most braindead shit imaginable you start to lose it

[low sorrel]

Actually wait you talk shit to me about randoms in VC not in game

[turbid locust]

oh I’m always shit talking fs

Not in game tho lmao

[low sorrel]

I literally never shit talk randoms lol

[turbid locust]

Depends on how I’m feeling that day

[low sorrel]

I only shit talk my friends

[turbid locust]

There’s days I have to stop myself from playing more than 1 match because i know ill get too tilted and just play worse

Like if I’m pissed off by the end of my FIRST game we gotta get off bro lmfao

Honestly that’s the most exhausting part of all of it anyways. It takes genuine effort to be chill most of the time. Like actual purposeful effort to not be irritated.

[dense granite]

real

[turbid locust]

anyways too serious EMINEM COULD HAVE NEVER MADE D ROSE

[low sorrel]

TBf I am marginally less annoyed at random when I play with you lol

Sometimes I'm like WTF is this dumbass doing

[dense granite]

He's tilting for you.

[turbid locust]

That’s because I’m already telling you off

[low sorrel]

And then you say it as I'm thinking it

[turbid locust]

Nah I’m hitting dude with “Jerry wtaf are you doing” round 3

[merry stirrup]

white boy with a whole lotta swag

[low sorrel]

And then I hit you with the huh?

[dense granite]

Can't be worse at CS2 than me.

[low sorrel]

I'm watching YouTube

[dense granite]

Idk any call outs.

[merry stirrup]

unlike yall im ok at games for the mostpart

[turbid locust]

Jerry just has too much time on his hands

Bros higher rank than me typically but it’s only because I’m employed

I carry this mf every game

[dense granite]

Excuse me, I might not be the best, but I am competent if I play it.

[low sorrel]

This is factually untrue

[turbid locust]

bro

[low sorrel]

Now don't look at my tracker

[turbid locust]

don’t make me get the screenshots

[dense granite]

[low sorrel]

And question how I'm up 50 rr

And have a 121 tracker score

[dense granite]

Brother man has reciepts.

[low sorrel]

Out of a thousand

I've only played like 6 games this act

[turbid locust]

I played Valorant for the first time in like a month and a half the other day and it took TWO matches for my MMR to be obliterated

[low sorrel]

I went from plat 1 to diamond in one week

After I stopped playing with my gold friends

[turbid locust]

like why am I Plat 2 solo queuing into Ascendant 2s

[brisk jolt]

must be the 8000MTs aura

[turbid locust]

Jerry this is game 2 after not playing for two months

[low sorrel]

Yo arc raiders is so much better then I'm not playing at 60fps

[turbid locust]

We are in different MMR brackets

[low sorrel]

idk

i see green

my last game

[turbid locust]

like why am I queueing into two players 5 and 6 ranks higher than me

[low sorrel]

ignore this

[brisk jolt]

we need to talk about it

[dense granite]

BROOOOO

[turbid locust]

gang that is a single Ascendant 1 mid fragging while ur D1

I am PLAT 2 queuing into two Asc

[low sorrel]

skill issue

no rage bait

[dense granite]

[brisk jolt]

real

[low sorrel]

why is it every time i hit diamond

[trim agate]

dawg

[turbid locust]

hey man as soon as you average a decent HSP lmk

[low sorrel]

i have a steep and immedite drop in form

[low sorrel]

why need headshots when spray do trick

[frank cypress]

it does

[turbid locust]

because when you hit diamond you get into the lobbies I solo queue into while plat 2

[frank cypress]

that's why i got it for cheap

[low sorrel]

skill issue

[trim agate]

my first 2 after effectively 4 months of no val

[low sorrel]

shoulda side climbed

[brisk jolt]

i think you both should shut the f-
(odin player)

[low sorrel]

@trim agate we should play

[trim agate]

effectively cuz i played 1 in march but alt f4'd after 2 rounds

[trim agate]

im d2 we actually can

[low sorrel]

wait are you singaporian like setsuna

[trim agate]

i live in singapore yes

[low sorrel]

ah fuck

oh yeah

i should perform better now that im not dipping into sub 100 fps

[brisk jolt]

sub 100 on val skill issue

[trim agate]

did u upgrade gpu finally

[low sorrel]

well a bit more then that

[turbid locust]

I could probably get to diamond 3/Ascendant 1 pretty easy if I just full no lifed the game and played like 10 matches a day

but ain’t nobody got time for that tf

[dense granite]

True.

[low sorrel]

literally everyone can

[turbid locust]

The MMR system is dumb and is designed to force a 50% winrate

[dense granite]

Even my unemployed ass doesn't queue spam till I hit Celestial. (14 hrs this season.)

[brisk jolt]

kawasaki
cago
krico
estrippa

[turbid locust]

It doesn’t matter that I will obliterate 9/10 plat players if I have to beat ascendant players just to hit diamond lmao

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/kowalski-pointing-attitude-label-venxy-gif-7506365901492276760

[low sorrel]

imma be honest

nowadays I only que val with friends

it's a good backdrop to meme on

[turbid locust]

As you should

Val is just not in a great state rn I’ve been enjoying CS more

[indigo walrus]

This is how PUBG became for me. For the first few months back when I played, I could solo queue, but after a while, it just wasn't the same anymore. I could only queue with friends.

[trim agate]

i can solo q marvel rivals all day

[turbid locust]

I hate those kinda games

I dumped like 150 hours into Overwatch with friends genuinely trying to enjoy it and just couldn’t

I just need FH6 to officially release to keep me entertained for awhile

[dense granite]

Only qp on characters I haven't lorded for me.

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/firefly-hsr-hm-ayo-sus-hsr-gif-4399653824873886103

[trim agate]

i cant stand overwatch anymore idk why

but i love me some rivals

[dense granite]

real

[trim agate]

nah i realised if im not having fun anymore i can just switch roles and suddenly it's a new game

[low sorrel]

I'm allegedly playing the campaign

And it's allegedly pretty fun

Allegedly

[dense granite]

Exactly.

I usually play tank or support, but I play Spider-Man in quick play to freshen things up a bit.

[trim agate]

i was a groot otp till groot became meta and they started actively banning groot

[dense granite]

RIP

[trim agate]

i've now picked up a couple other tanks, but i love playing phoenix and invis

i dont really gotta think with them i just look and click

wow ok

[brisk jolt]

dude is playing with 100 max fps

[trim agate]

um 150

[brisk jolt]

shocker

[dense granite]

Bruh.

[brisk jolt]

MR is stupidly demanding like dude

[trim agate]

50% more btw

[dense granite]

We are same rank rn, wow.

[brisk jolt]

there was that 18v18 mode or smth and my guy’s 7500F all fell into oblivion

[trim agate]

yeah i've always had an issue with their optimisation since day 0

[brisk jolt]

sub 60 FPS gameplay

[trim agate]

i havent grinded comp in so long since i started my internship

i wanna get back into it though i love this game

[dense granite]

200 w upscaling.

[dense granite]

Wya I can hop on rn w you

[trim agate]

singapore

[dense granite]

rip

300ms ping is not it ngl

[trim agate]

i could queue oregon tho

[turbid locust]

I need to go to bed bruh

[dense granite]

https://klipy.com/gifs/rock-eyebrow-2--k01KRG3AG76YG8V8ENV1V43NTZD

[brisk jolt]

my 9800x3d 5090 on 1440p DLSS Perf all lowest settings was struggling for its life to even hit 300

[nova patrol]

2ms?

[brisk jolt]

pro issue

[trim agate]

yes your eyes work

[dense granite]

You live next to that datacenter, holy shit.

[nova patrol]

how

[brisk jolt]

2ms is baller because the server is in SG XDDDDDDD

[trim agate]

singapore is a small country

it's like living in the same neighborhood

[nova patrol]

everygame i get 70-100ms 2 is craxy

[dense granite]

fr me

[trim agate]

heh

if you wanna play lmk i'm 100% down to queue oregon

[dense granite]

LegendaryWizrd

[trim agate]

ping is not an issue at all on rivals under 200

[low sorrel]

@wise bear I learned something today

[turbid locust]

When I was in college living on campus we had 7ms to the Virgina CS server and 10ms to the Virgina Val server it was lit lmao

[low sorrel]

Oh yeah I forgot when I play with mac the ping is mildly annoying

Why can't we break the laws of physics

[brisk jolt]

just move to singapore we have like every game server here

[low sorrel]

Yeah because who would want to live in Malaysia

[brisk jolt]

theres been full blown arguments where my friends go “OI WHOSE SERVER U PLAYING ON THATS RIGHT”

and racist remarks at them

[low sorrel]

Ah yes the classic Asian friend group

Racist against everyone including other asians

[low sorrel]

Aren't all these servers in Asia basically just Singapore, Tokyo or Melbourne

[brisk jolt]

basically yeah

valorant its very common to get sub 10 ms

the same for like every multiplayer tbh

[low sorrel]

@frank cypress oh my God your PC actually listens to my shutdown command and doesn't go the windows log out screen 🔥 every single PC I've built has had this bug and it's actually pissed me off for so long

[brisk jolt]

💀

[low sorrel]

It literally makes no sense

Multiple PCs with completely different hardware

[brisk jolt]

must be your negative aura frfr

[low sorrel]

Nope it's back

Ffs

[brisk jolt]

“must be the water”

[turbid locust]

https://tenor.com/view/wind-meme-tswasnotme-must've-been-the-wind-the-wind-gif-736968008575912714

[dense granite]

LMAO

[frank cypress]

its a Jerry issue

[merry stirrup]

genuine am,d

me and the homies been playing the finals recently

not an amazing game but a nice switch up and super good for tracking

[barren wren]

can anyone help me with software issues

[civic reef]

#1027757333117415424

[livid flame]

Unless it’s Linux. You’ll get no real help there

[civic reef]

@merry stirrup Is the KSG-12 in EFT

If so there's a silly piece of info I have that I think you'd find comedic

[devout ridge]

Yipee!

[devout ridge]

M5 Pro upgraded spec chip with 48gb of ram, first thing i'm gonna do is play stardew

[brisk jolt]

optimal

[devout ridge]

I will also be running vectorworks, which should bring that mac GPU to it's knees

[steel stream]

good benchmark

https://videocardz.com/newz/tcl-x11l-tv-reportedly-hits-nearly-11000-nits-living-rooms-may-need-sunglasses

[brisk jolt]

“im flashed”

[steel stream]

A CS2 flashbang would go nuts

[late atlas]

We have displays that can simulate what it feels like to get flashbanged irl and we have displays which help you get out of flashbangs quicker by adjusting the contrast and other settings, what will they think of next

[steel stream]

a display that explodes when a grenade is thrown

[trim agate]

"expected today" it's never coming

[late atlas]

That'd be funky

A display that puffs out smoke and smells to replicate getting smoked

So you can't see shit in game and you can't see shit irl

Full immersion

[shell void]

Hisense 110UXN put out over 20,000 in 2024 TCL you do not impress me

[steel stream]

wait wtf I was not aware of this

[shell void]

it also had 40,000 dimming zones

[late atlas]

I think Ltt covered it

[steel stream]

biblical level specs

kind of crazy because afaik the current HDR standards only go up to 10K nits

[shell void]

yeh

the X11L sucks unfortunately

they underbuilt the cooling, it literally physically melts at 100% brightness on older firmware

on newer firmware it auto dims aggressively

even at 50% brightness it still has aggressive dimming

[steel stream]

yeah I wouldn't expect this to be an actual TV, just more a piece for TCL to show off and say "look what we can do"

[shell void]

at least it doesn’t have a permanently affixed gigantic grey frame bezel like the scamsung s95h

[steel stream]

I still can't comprehend that

[shell void]

i’m curious about how it will be received by laymen

@edgy laurel one more day until you are legally obligated to uninstall crimson desert, and dive into subnautica 2

[steel stream]

surely it won't be received well? We've spent a long time getting our bezels and frames as small as possible, and then samsung made this

my apple magsafe wallet is starting to fall apart

[edgy laurel]

not happening lol, I've still got things to do!

Sub2 will just have to wait

[steel stream]

you just get to wait till more content drops

[edgy laurel]

in EA for 2-3 years, I think i'll be ok lol

[shell void]

i’ve heard that the scamsung frame is one of their most popular TVs, but i’d imagine that it’s a separate audience than people who want to buy a $4000 OLED TV

[shell void]

[steel stream]

Idk, I think it's trying to be a frame-y thing? They want people to put it on their wall in their living room and be more of a accent piece

[south shuttle]

mb i misread

i sleepy

[edgy laurel]

@steel stream https://www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comments/1tbpyqs/forgive_me_if_this_has_been_posted_already/

https://klipy.com/gifs/absolute-cinema-24--k01KRGQC96D30CZY9750R7QWDE9

[steel stream]

whoever made this commercial is def a LoTR fan

what an awesome set

do I buy new headphones this summer or Minas Tirith

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-thinking-monkey-thinking-think-money-gif-9734025314392564509

[frank zealot]

I hate that this is alienware....

But:

5080, 285K, 32GB RAM, 2TB
for... 2400 bucks.... That's actually a really solid goddamned price

https://www.microcenter.com/product/701486/alienware-aurora-act1250-gaming-pc

[steel stream]

pretty solid

[astral apex]

Hey people who have a iPhone 17 is it a good phone

Cuz I got an iPhone 15 pro max atm but is it like a step up or not cuz I’m getting a iPhone 17 as a automatic upgrade from my phone provider

[shell void]

you lose your telephoto (zoom) lens, but otherwise the base 17 is a better phone than the 15 pro

[astral apex]

Oh I’ll lose my 25x zoom?

[shell void]

only the pro phones have the zoom lens

[astral apex]

I don’t use the zoom thaat much so it’s prob fine

[steel stream]

base iPhone 17 is a solid choice

base phones are worth it now with 120Hz

[astral apex]

I mean

The “upgrade” wasn’t a choice that much

So I mean as long as I ain’t missing that much and it’s a newer phone idm

[shell void]

it’s a very minor change overall

slightly faster phone (you won’t notice unless you play demanding games), fresh battery, no more telephoto lens

[astral apex]

Hmmm alr

[turbid locust]

Hotel showers got me fucked up

[astral apex]

Oh wait I do get the wierd button right?

The new side button everyone turns off?

[steel stream]

Margaritaville shower?

[turbid locust]

Yeah

like wdym my temperature options are Antarctica or Hell

[astral apex]

I’ve heard everyone accidentally touches it and has turned it off

[steel stream]

helps you sober up

[steel stream]

the camera button?

[astral apex]

Yeah

The iPhone camera thing

[steel stream]

i've never had an issue with it

[astral apex]

Oh Alr

My 15 pro max doesn’t have it

Is it all that useful even?

[turbid locust]

I’ve hit it by accident maybe 4 times in the year I’ve had my 16PM

[edgy laurel]

I use it to launch the camera app, and as the shutter

[astral apex]

Hmm oke

[steel stream]

it's nice for zoom and shutter when your phone is in landscape

[astral apex]

I mean I don’t use the camera app that much but it’s cool ig

And I get the wierd little camera that’s square if I remember correctly?

For better selfies or something that’s interesting ig

And the screen durability is said to be better with the 17

[steel stream]

yeah it's got ceramic shield 2

[astral apex]

Not that my 15 pro max has any big dmg

And that phone has fallen screen first on the asphalt once going like 25kmh cuz I was on my bike and the phone holder broke

So you woood expect big thick scratches but not ts just a single corner that you can’t even see

It’s like on the sides but you can’t even notice it when the phone is on

Can’t even notice it when it’s off if you don’t look for it ngl

So yeah if the screen durability is the same and or better I’ll be happy

So uh yeah it was btw cheaper to keep my iPhone 15 and get a 17 with 2 years of 5g than too keep the 5g in my phone

Like switching too a newer version costed me 100 euro with like 20 bucks less a month than I have on this phone rn

Than 120 euro to keep the 15 pro max’s 5g

It’s the same unlimited

So like 🤷🏼‍♂️ ig I’ll be getting a iPhone 17

[frank zealot]

450 for a 75" TV? Goddamn

Remember when TVs cost actual real money?

[steel stream]

TVs are like the only technology that have gotten cheaper and better over time

such rapid development

[frank zealot]

it's insane

[edgy laurel]

thats why

cheap cause they're bloody awful

[frank zealot]

I don't think anyone paying 450 for a 75 inch TV is expecting they're getting something great

[steel stream]

that too, but for 80% of people they will be happy

huge cheap mancave or living room TV

[pure garnet]

samsung crystal is the only cheap tv that made my mom (who doesn’t care about displays) say it sucks

[burnt socket]

what about the u8000f

cheapskate dad bought two unopened ones at the secondhand market, half the price

(assuming the other one is, I know one of them is)

[burnt socket]

more knowledgeable than my dad 😔

[burnt socket]

very relatable

[pure garnet]

release the rtings files

[steel stream]

basically it's just an average TV

[burnt socket]

what the hell

my phone became dark

as in colour

[burnt socket]

gamed on it, fast latency but stuck at 60hz

made me furious when the movie screen goes black and the backlight doesn't give two fs

the screen is more than bright enough

never got past 30% brightness

[pure garnet]

apex out for delivery

[steel stream]

doubt

maybe for SDR sure

[burnt socket]

ain't no fucking way im putting it in hdr

always sdr

[pure garnet]

350 nit dolby vision just to flex on s90d owners

[steel stream]

god bless

[burnt socket]

proof of tv

[pure garnet]

i don’t think anyone of us thought you’d want to larp owning a samsung crystal

[burnt socket]

why was i so hesitant to remove the peel

[burnt socket]

me neither im going to bed gn

[steel stream]

you larp about owning a samsung crystal to hide your LG G6 OLED from prying eyes

[burnt socket]

snorts

[random flame]

"Bruh, which is it then?
Loud or quiet? Make up your damn mind, man, you're a flippin' reviewers!"

[burnt socket]

to be ai bombarded

[fringe vigil]

[steel stream]

is that going to be your new TV

[cosmic gazelle]

i'm just saying i'm the only person on this list whose frequency starts with a 3

[civic reef]

Selenx:

[cosmic gazelle]

ok but that person's score is so shit they don't count

[civic reef]

Also what're you doing two spots below Floppa

[cosmic gazelle]

oh shit LMAO

@merry stirrup comin for dat ass boy

[civic reef]

:3

[cosmic gazelle]

just wait for this cooler to get here son

it's over for you

[civic reef]

Also I may buy a 100W GaN sometime within this year, purely as a backup charger

So I can keep it with my Legion

[cosmic gazelle]

i'm glad you were able to extract good performance from your laptop anyways haha

[civic reef]

Got a literal 2K improvement in multi-core

Ended up beating a 7700K X3

Anyway more than just the GaN, I am also going to repaste this thing with MX-6 that I already have

And use my Legion's laptop cooler for it

Don't know if I can squeeze any more watts out but I'll see what's possible

[cosmic gazelle]

floppa has the 3rd best score in cinebench for the i5-8250u

why

[steel stream]

cause @merry stirrup is the 🐐

[civic reef]

Probably shits and giggles

[cosmic gazelle]

how does one even improve the score on such a processor

[hoary hatch]

I completely skipped coffee lake mobile

[hoary hatch]

And desktop kek

[civic reef]

I should send him my T470s so he can have the #1 score on the 7600U

[cosmic gazelle]

i had a t480 with the i7-8550u in it... it sucked

super slow

[hoary hatch]

In what year did you have it

[civic reef]

Why desktop?

[cosmic gazelle]

like 2023

[civic reef]

I used a Dell Latitude with an 8650U for a bit.. Didn't feel much faster than my dual core 7600U

[hoary hatch]

Cause I used kaby lake on mobile until zen2 and I went Skylake to Zen+ on desktop

[cosmic gazelle]

i'm being dramatic, in all honesty it sucked because that specific t480 had some kind of bios issue where the two batteries wouldn't switch between each other seamlessly so when one died the laptop would just suddenly snap itself off

[hoary hatch]

Well, when coffee lake mobile launched it was the state of the art xD

[civic reef]

In comparison, this 4750U is like running a bloody V16

[hoary hatch]

In 2023? Yeah it's a dog

[cosmic gazelle]

did you ever experience this phantom

or did the 70s not have two batteries

[civic reef]

Yes

[late atlas]

They're so beautiful, Bugatti's v16, not even w16, a fucking v16

[civic reef]

It did
It arrived with one malfunctioning

[hoary hatch]

phantom
Their name is clearly Jim Halpert

[cosmic gazelle]

both of my batteries certainly worked, the system just couldn't figure out how to use em

[steel stream]

Identity theft is not a joke

[hoary hatch]

Millions of families suffer every year

[civic reef]

Probably would've been fine with a BIOS update

[cosmic gazelle]

i did

[hoary hatch]

https://tenor.com/view/dwight-schrute-rainn-wilson-the-office-gif-4104008

[cosmic gazelle]

didn't work

[civic reef]

Mine was shite though, around 60% or something the laptop just

Poof
Dead

It was a nice laptop though, my first ever personal one

[shell void]

i see hundreds of comments under subnautica 2 videos asking if their 1060 or 1660 will be able to play the game

maybe the pascal kids will finally upgrade

[civic reef]

It's probably why I love the ThinkPads so much tbh

Rather than it being implanted when I joined the transfem hivemind

[civic reef]

Is there a way to do a completely new, fresh BIOS on it

[cosmic gazelle]

the t480's fingerprint sensor just like never was recognized and i wasn't confident enough at the time to disassemble the laptop to find out if it wasn't plugged in or something

[hoary hatch]

I can't say I've ever used a Thinkpad

[cosmic gazelle]

that's not really a thing without a hardware programmer

and i'll be damned if i ch341a a laptop

[cosmic gazelle]

as someone who has, i dont really get the hype tbh

they're just midrange laptops that are plastic instead of aluminum

[pure garnet]

because it used to be a good value till reddit took over

[cosmic gazelle]

yeah i mean in a day where you can get alder lake laptops for like, $150 (or whatever the laptop equivalent of alder lake is idk mane)

[hoary hatch]

I think the Linux community at my university soured my opinion of thinkpads
All their praising for tiny shitty 2nd-4th gen thinkpads in 2018 really made me question the entire product line

[civic reef]

ch341a..?

[pure garnet]

at the time you could get a used thinkpad for the cost of a cheap hp in a big box store and get similar performance and considerably better build

[civic reef]

It's mostly just the price and it not being completely awful quality

[hoary hatch]

Funny enough the best value laptop I got was probably my old 17" gaming laptop during the first eth boom

[cosmic gazelle]

@pure garnet you think this would be a good value desktop pc? lmao

[hoary hatch]

The motherboard did fail mere hours before a final exam

Thanks asus

[pure garnet]

how did that happen to a laptop so new

[gentle gale]

hey same

[cosmic gazelle]

idk but they also say there's a bios lock so someone probably stole it

[gentle gale]

that happened to me last week

[civic reef]

What was it and how much

[civic reef]

Oh

Iiiiiinteresting

[cosmic gazelle]

turns out the ultra 7 265u is so power constrained it doesn't beat a 45w mobile ryzen 5

[hoary hatch]

Asus rog strix GL753VE-DS74

Quad core i7-7700H, 16gb ddr4, 17" screen, 1050ti
$900 @ Costco with Costco tech support and based warranty

Costco handled most of the RMA process for me

All I had to do was print a label and put it in a box

[civic reef]

Not bad ig, considering this was I think 2020?

[cosmic gazelle]

lol these are so strange

[civic reef]

Lmao what??

[hoary hatch]

Early 2018

[cosmic gazelle]

15w chip vs 45w chip

[civic reef]

Oh 15W

[civic reef]

Oh then the 1050 Ti was still young
Yeah ig make sense

[civic reef]

Tbh I'd buy one of these

[cosmic gazelle]

pretty bad value

not better than a 9600x

[hoary hatch]

I bought it for the full wattage CPU tbh

And non high DPI screen

[civic reef]

Oh wait there isn't any RAM

[hoary hatch]

Cause IDEs don't scale well

[civic reef]

Yeah I can get a board & CPU for less lmao

[civic reef]

The 7700H was 65W?

[cosmic gazelle]

china when a piece of hardware exists and it hasn't been forced into a God forsaken desktop form factor

[hoary hatch]

Probably 45W
But quad core and higher wattage compared to a U series dual core

[cosmic gazelle]

i would expect a 7700h perform roughly the same as like, a 3300x

nope not even close

[hoary hatch]

I think u series of that era were all 15W

[cosmic gazelle]

performs the same as a ryzen 3 1200

man intel really made ZERO progress on mobile processors until e cores started happening

i'm just gonna leave this here

new xbox ceo please look at the state of the xbox app

[hoary hatch]

I mean the first real change was 8650u

Quad core U series

Revolutionary at the time

[cosmic gazelle]

it's still pretty annoying to me that there aren't many laptops from the 2021-2024 era of intel that have the powerful gaming laptop focused cpus of that era but just use integrated graphics

that's becoming more of a thing because you can actually game on igpus now

but if you search up like 11500hx or whatever those were called, it's all like alienwares

[steel stream]

I've got a measly 11900H

[civic reef]

Oh wow

The 7700H is literally as "good" as a 4 core, non-HT, Haswell-like R3?

[edgy laurel]

has the upcoming windows CPU scheduling performance changes been discussed/argued about yet?

[civic reef]

Also GOD I really want to buy Zen+ stuff for some reason

[steel stream]

My opinion was just "cool whatever"

[civic reef]

Like, a B450 with a 2600/X or something

[steel stream]

idk why people are mad about it though

[edgy laurel]

I am enjoying Scott Hanselman going to war with haters on x over it

https://x.com/shanselman/status/2053558828558676209

Scott Hanselman 🌮 (@shanselman)

Your smartphone already does this. Constantly. Every touch wakes cores, boosts clocks, renders a frame, then drops back to idle milliseconds later. You’ve discovered dynamic frequency scaling

Welcome to modern computer science. Come on in! The water changes temperature often.

X · May 10, 2026, 7:32 PM

[cosmic gazelle]

what exactly is the issue

[hoary hatch]

No you really don't

[steel stream]

people are mad about windows now boosting CPU clocks on app open

[cosmic gazelle]

I really love when i put something into claude and it starts working and then provides no answer and says "upgrade to pro to keep chatting"

like motherfucker you gave me NOTHING!!!

[edgy laurel]

this interaction was my favorite

[steel stream]

https://videocardz.com/newz/microsoft-defends-windows-11-low-latency-profile-after-cpu-boost-criticism-its-not-cheating

[steel stream]

people are just mad because it's Windows and microslop

[edgy laurel]

Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works

gottem

[civic reef]

Why not,,,,,,

[sharp lava]

was 39K INR good deal for this pc? (407 usd)

R5 5500gt, 8x2 16gb samsung 3200mts ram, msi b550m a pro, 256gb nvme ssd, cooler master mwe 450w bronze v2

[edgy laurel]

Zen+ in 2026? lol

gave my 2700x away

[sharp lava]

yeah i hate my decisions

[cosmic gazelle]

5500 gt is quite a pull

[sharp lava]

is it?

[steel stream]

yeah people who are upset about it don't understand at all

[cosmic gazelle]

like in terms of strangeness

[edgy laurel]

I may try enabling it if I can do it through Vivetool. I enabled Xbox Mode early using that

[sharp lava]

oh wow

[hoary hatch]

Zen/+ is really not interesting in 2026
Also zen2 is so close in price for a significantly better product

[civic reef]

Idk, I just want to use that stuff

[hoary hatch]

But why

[civic reef]

At the very least it'd be better than my 4770

[cosmic gazelle]

the local sale landscape in your area might be different, but for my area this is not a good deal

[steel stream]

I mean the only issue I really have with it was intel cpus killing themselves with high single core boosts, which I think this does? So as long as my 265K won't kill myself I'll happily use this

[civic reef]

I don't know, don't ask me

[hoary hatch]

I am asking you

[sharp lava]

where are you from?

[hoary hatch]

OH SHIT

It's steam controller delivery day

[steel stream]

W

[hoary hatch]

Yeah the conservative arrow lake boosts should be pretty safe

[edgy laurel]

If this starts killing CPU's.. oof.

[steel stream]

then I'll have a problem

[proven saddle]

And high hopes

[hoary hatch]

Gonna scalp this for $400 on ebay

[late atlas]

Just don't update windows, problem solution

[proven saddle]

Bad scalper

[pure garnet]

@turbid locust im blowing this pc up

[proven saddle]

Automatically

[late atlas]

Nah you can disable it

Winaero tweaker, let's you completely turn off updates

[proven saddle]

Temporarily

[steel stream]

realistically I am not too worried about it, it's just something to be cautious about

[late atlas]

Nah I've not updated my windows for about 9 months now

0 updates, 0 automatic ones

Winaero tweaker powerful

[proven saddle]

My windows parked my cpu at Minecraft

[cosmic gazelle]

usa

[cosmic gazelle]

it’s your ram send it to me and i’ll safely dispose of it

[steel stream]

USA USA USA

[proven saddle]

Usb

[cosmic gazelle]

https://tenor.com/view/usa-the-united-states-gif-9759838253641064945

[sharp lava]

oh alr

[proven saddle]

https://tenor.com/view/america-flag-gif-13555503486812875794

[civic reef]

Well I am not the one to ask

The source of this interest is the same one that made me want to an i7 5960X and pump it with 250W

[late atlas]

Well it can't just keep driving around

It has to park eventually

Can imagine how exhausted the driver must be after driving the CPU around all day

[proven saddle]

Sure but it also parks my os

[late atlas]

That's a skill issue

[proven saddle]

Nah its a windows update from last month

[civic reef]

Like
The actual sensible solution is buying a 5600 w/ an X570 (cheaper than B550s)

[steel stream]

wait @edgy laurel are you using a windows insider build?

[edgy laurel]

No

[civic reef]

But
That's boring!!! I want "old" tech and I don't know why!!!!

[late atlas]

Which I didn't get because winaero tweaker

[steel stream]

wait how do you enable it with vivetools then

[proven saddle]

I disabled sysmain

[edgy laurel]

This feature may not be possible, still have to look it up. I was able to enable Xbox Mode with it though

[late atlas]

Just disable updates

[edgy laurel]

though I think yesterdays patch tuesday stuff gave it to everyone? maybe?

[steel stream]

was the Xbox mode any good? I think Mac is kind of excited for it

[proven saddle]

How?

[edgy laurel]

In theory, its just a bit akward to use at a desk while having other apps open at the same time. Because of how it works where Explorer is killed, you can't readily make use of it and have other apps open and be able to alt-tab (like to discord).

I would be interested in further developments of that where other apps can stay visible and be interacted with, but then that might defeat the whole purpose.

[late atlas]

Winaero tweaker

It's a software

You can download it for free

[edgy laurel]

The concept is meant to strip the experience down to just the game, in a way an Xbox does.

[late atlas]

It's very powerful

[edgy laurel]

Explorer is killed, and you're running in an "Xbox" shell

[steel stream]

yeah I was just wondering how it would work with discord and stuff

[late atlas]

https://youtu.be/_hdApSJAEEU?si=MA-Aypf9ytlgILfo @proven saddle

He walks you through winaero tweaker

[edgy laurel]

Right now when I enable it, all my windows on other monitors go away

and you're dumped into just the Xbox dashboard interface

[hoary hatch]

Now that's an interesting product
Zen/Zen+ just doesn't clock well and as poor ipc. You're getting 4.3GHz on the absolute best 2700X samples. It's kind of a dog architecture

Intel extreme edition actually did something, whereas Zen just exists

[edgy laurel]

really meant to be used with a controller and only one display

it seems, anyway

[steel stream]

if they could somehow let us use discord on a second monitor and keep the controller and Xbox mode stuff to another then that would be great

[cosmic gazelle]

damn fh6 pre install is 146gb on release

those mfs better have actually improved on literally anything

[edgy laurel]

yeah, some sort of hybrid arrangement. I just don't know if the core of the mode is meant to totally de-prioritize background apps like discord, thus defeating the purpose

[cosmic gazelle]

i have a sneaking suspicion microsoft is partially depending on this to form community sentiment about fh6

[steel stream]

i've never really interacted with xbox stuff on windows, does it have a way to do voicechat with friends?

[cosmic gazelle]

yeah but it's stupid and no one uses it

[edgy laurel]

I think I see it there but its through your Xbox/MS account I believe. I haven't really messed with it

like that friends list when you just open the Xbox app now

[steel stream]

at least they have it, but I doubt people on PC will actually switch to that

[edgy laurel]

Can discord run on normal Xboxs?

[late atlas]

Bruh, that meme isn't true for Forza horizon 6 just the soy boys who love Japan

[cosmic gazelle]

yes

[steel stream]

I know you can join Discord VCs for sure

[floral spear]

Plaxe,Japan
UK cosplayimg as Japan ✅

[steel stream]

you can join discord VCs on PS5 too

[edgy laurel]

Then in that case I wouldn't be surprised to see a discord variant meant to work inside Xbox Mode in the future

[cosmic gazelle]

there are certainly people who are going to like the game better because they have a romanticized view of japan

[pure garnet]

i put the handheld “enhanced” or whatever mode on my deck and it was fine but a bit buggy

[floral spear]

I tried the discord game pass

[steel stream]

yeah that would be ideal

[late atlas]

Yes because Japan has a strong car culture and the community has been asking for FH to be in Japan since 2017

[floral spear]

Theyre forced to play DayZ and Darktide the poor fuckers

[late atlas]

And now it finally came true

[floral spear]

And they decided to make the laziest japan possiblen

[cosmic gazelle]

there's a difference between liking the car culture of japan and liking a gutless map that is cosplaying as japan just because it is called japan

[late atlas]

Laziest? This map is the biggest map

[civic reef]

It is, but like
It's so impractical!! It's 8 cores that get beaten in multi and single by a chip that's cheaper to maintain in terms of wattage & cooling, not to mention having PCIe 4.0 (R5 5600)

[late atlas]

Lazy is such an insult, there's so much detail on the map

[floral spear]

Of course no one is willing to say anything because "Oh guys its 2x bigger!

[cosmic gazelle]

starfield has a big map too 😘

[civic reef]

Quite literally, no reason to build a machine like that for daily driving ~w~

[late atlas]

There's koi fish in the pond that interact and swim away when you drive into the pond, there's leaves falling from trees that fly away when you drive over them, there's people fixing cars along the road, every street and small street is filled with detail, there's people who will pull out there phone and record you driving

[floral spear]

Ive taken a fatter shit today than yesterday would you think its an impressive piece of shit compared to yesterday?

[late atlas]

Lazy is an insult, they put so much work into the map

[cosmic gazelle]

forza horizon players when there's fish

[hoary hatch]

We should all daily drive a MacBook neo for a year

[steel stream]

can I go fishing in forza horizon

[floral spear]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-look-side-eye-bombastic-bombastic-side-eye-gif-2838294034054004015

[steel stream]

real

[cosmic gazelle]

no. unplayable

[late atlas]

You guys are the same players that dunk on a game that you A: haven't played and B: have played and have 25 minutes in

[steel stream]

piece of shit garbage game

[cosmic gazelle]

i have 1100 hours in fh4 and 400 in fh5 and fh5 was a piece of shit

[late atlas]

Fh4 was worse than fh5 imo

[cosmic gazelle]

absolutely incorrect

next question

[late atlas]

Absolutely correct, fh5 improved on the sound design of cars and it just felt better driving them, fh4 had the map going for it and other things like that tho

[floral spear]

I have played FH1, FH2 and FH3 on the original 360 for 7 years straight I think I know how a Forza Horizon Game goes

[hoary hatch]

Will make us really appreciate our current hardware

[late atlas]

Fh6 is going to be the best Forza horizon game of all Forza horizon titles, and that's just a fact

[steel stream]

probably be a pretty similar experience to my dell xps minus the screen

[late atlas]

The effort that they've put into it is showcased very well

[floral spear]

FH6 does not deserve a grace period just because its Place, Japan

[pure garnet]

fish horizon

[hoary hatch]

I don't get the hype

[late atlas]

It's not because it's Japan

[hoary hatch]

What even is forza

[edgy laurel]

same game, different map?

[cosmic gazelle]

fh5 somewhat iterated on the sound that was still mediocre even after an entire development cycle where they claimed to have revolutionized it

the physics engine was exactly the same

smaller and less diverse car list

literally zero worthwhile feature additions compared to 4

[hoary hatch]

I assume so

[steel stream]

yeah

[hoary hatch]

I think I played 3-4 hours of FH4 and got really bored

[pure garnet]

a game for children to pretend they understand cars

forza is why people online think a 500hp car is “slow”

[late atlas]

Even if that is true, you can't judge fh6 because you haven't played it, all we're going off is early testers and YouTubers playing it

[edgy laurel]

Being into cars IRL, driving based games never seemed to interest me. Not sure why.

[late atlas]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzcVMvrh52w and this video showcases the game pretty well

[floral spear]

Basically yea,

[cosmic gazelle]

hey. it's also a game for adult men who understand cars to play with cars they can't afford because they're too busy playing video games

[steel stream]

I just like more sim racing games, Horizon is too arcade-y for me

[hoary hatch]

You'd probably be interested in a more realistic racing sim

[pure garnet]

6 will play like 5 which felt identical to 4 anyway

[late atlas]

Yeah because if they stopped playing video games they can afford cars that cost 4 million and there are less than 10 of in the world

[steel stream]

I like arcade-y driving games but I just don't want to play forza

[edgy laurel]

Probably, but I also don't want to invest in doing it right

[cosmic gazelle]

and i am expecting a developer that failed at 5 to fail at 6 and you are expecting a developer that "succeeded" at 5 to "succeed" at 6

[late atlas]

This is also such a shit argument, you can make this to literally any game which will then just boil down to what's the point of playing games

[steel stream]

PS5 + Gran Turismo + Wheel

[pure garnet]

the only time i open forza it’s to mess with the “tuning” so id rather just play automation

[floral spear]

Me when a review piece thats made to be a review piece to prevent getting removed from the Video Game Partner Program is actually focused on reviewing the game 🤯

[hoary hatch]

I do this minus the wheel

[cosmic gazelle]

you're getting rage baited

[pure garnet]

fallacy v fallacy fr fr

[steel stream]

honestly still fun

[edgy laurel]

would that really be enough

[floral spear]

Not really you'll get bored

[steel stream]

if you really want you could go PSVR2 but just sit close to a TV

[cosmic gazelle]

i've seen some pretty wild sim racing setups people do with a ps5 but idk how viable it is

[edgy laurel]

https://klipy.com/gifs/drive-simulator--k01KRGZPYECEEQCDCG7P79DEWRT

[late atlas]

I'm not that rage baited but I am slightly and if you're doing it on purpose to ragebait me then that's just childish

[edgy laurel]

I'd need that

[cosmic gazelle]

https://gif.fxtwitter.com/tweet_video/HFA3N4ObkAAC6VR.webp

[pure garnet]

you need to drop corvette money to fake drive a corvette in video games

[steel stream]

this is 5nail level I think

[late atlas]

Stole my gif as well

[hoary hatch]

When did this feature drop

[floral spear]

Forza.Horizon 6 is a video game

[late atlas]

It is

[cosmic gazelle]

no you're wrong

[hoary hatch]

Naw 5nail level is using that video wall thing LTT showed a while back

[floral spear]

Will I still play it? Yea on Ultimate to try it out

[steel stream]

oh true

[cosmic gazelle]

i don't think i'd ever buy a microcenter style sim racing setup but man, they are impressive

[floral spear]

But am j going to play it after? Probably not

[cosmic gazelle]

it actually genuinely does feel like you're driving a car

[hoary hatch]

https://youtu.be/OoU1OY9clvo

[late atlas]

Yeah I guess Xbox ultimate still has a use case, just to try games out, it's good for that

[steel stream]

fuck driving games give me subnautica 2

[steel stream]

all this just for 5nail to use a honda

[cosmic gazelle]

subnautica 2 featuring still not being able to bind a mouse button and fsr 2 implementation

[hoary hatch]

The only driving game I play is American truck simulator

[edgy laurel]

but does it have DLSS

[steel stream]

if it's just FSR2 I will do something probably

[cosmic gazelle]

dlss 1.0 take it or leave it

[pure garnet]

everyone yearns to drive a big rig

[edgy laurel]

[turbid locust]

brootal

[hoary hatch]

Naw fam
They used plouffes (now Alex's) Honda cause it's purple

It's bring your own whatever

[edgy laurel]

oh, thats right, i meant to find one of the last times Jerry pinged me

[late atlas]

What are the system requirements for Subnautica

[cosmic gazelle]

i'm going to become the world's first power supply overclocker

[steel stream]

yeah I know, it's just funny they used that honda

[late atlas]

Let me know when your funeral is so I can not go

[hoary hatch]

Oh no.....truck sim is all I need to know that I really do not want to drive a big rig

[fringe vigil]

I see fire, inside the mountians I see fireee

[edgy laurel]

I don't have a North, never have

[floral spear]

I gave up on FH6 mainly because of how Sauceleas the Touge section is, the Highway Loops are unfortunately going to be the same as when you're playing FH2, it'll just be a snoozefest

[hoary hatch]

Actually driving a 20ft U haul across the west coast was enough to know I don't want to drive a big rig

[floral spear]

Fractal North?

[edgy laurel]

I believe so

[late atlas]

Did you mean to type sauceless?

[pure garnet]

i’ve been in quite of a few of them in my lifetime

[cosmic gazelle]

?????

[pure garnet]

backup career fr

[cosmic gazelle]

what are they developing it on, fuckin unreal engine 14?

[floral spear]

I dont get the hype around it tbh

[cosmic gazelle]

subnautica runs on a core 2 duo

[steel stream]

UE5

[late atlas]

Can your pc not run it?

[floral spear]

Yea but autocorrect and cataracts

[hoary hatch]

The closest I've been is unloading a trailer when working retail

[late atlas]

You have cataracts?

[cosmic gazelle]

it certainly can i'm not worried about my pc

[floral spear]

Yes...?

[cosmic gazelle]

just because my pc can run the new lego batman doesn't mean the requirements aren't ridiculous

[nocturne jacinth]

Can Zen 4 just run above 90c all the time and be ok

[steel stream]

Subnautica 2 Path tracing by default

[cosmic gazelle]

yes

[edgy laurel]

Sub 1 is now a mobile game, it will run on anything

[steel stream]

yes

[pure garnet]

my dad runs a crew of them so i rode in one for a homecoming parade

[nocturne jacinth]

Ty

[hoary hatch]

My dad runs Microsoft Excel

[late atlas]

Its hard for me to get bored of fh6, the argument can be made for any Motorsport game I guess. Car go in circle sometimes turns and goes fast. But I love hearing the cars and seeing what the fastest time is that I can do on a track or just drifting and enjoying the satisfaction of pulling off a clean drift

[steel stream]

more like phones are just bonkers nowadays

[late atlas]

Customising cars and looking at the scenery

[cosmic gazelle]

85c at 40 something usage is pretty terrible tho so maybe check your mounting pressure or airflow pattern

[brisk jolt]

ACE nordschelife>

[edgy laurel]

yes, but at only 27w? Something doesn't seem right.

[late atlas]

Ye

[nocturne jacinth]

No it's a business laptop

[floral spear]

I used to be hyped for FH6

[nocturne jacinth]

Business laptop tiny fan

[edgy laurel]

thats fair

[cosmic gazelle]

oh well yeah laptops be laptoppin

[hoary hatch]

90° in a laptop is fine

[floral spear]

But looking at it now, im just disappointed

[late atlas]

Forza horizon will always stick close to my heart

Forza horizon 1 is where I bet some of my best friends that I still talk to and where I've had a lot of memories

[cosmic gazelle]

how the hell does one get 367 watts out of a gpu in a laptop @nocturne jacinth

[floral spear]

When the full map was revealed my excitement died and .t expectations were lowered

[nocturne jacinth]

Like this

9070 xt through m.2

[steel stream]

the fact that phones can now run resident evil and stuff is just nuts

[late atlas]

What's wrong with the map, or just because it's Japan?

[cosmic gazelle]

i can't tell if you should be in jail or the white house

[late atlas]

What the hell would the white house do with them

[hoary hatch]

Okay the steam controller has been loaded on a ups truck

Steam*

[late atlas]

Steak

[edgy laurel]

I guess it shouldn't be too surprising given the advacements in integrated graphics. Basically just a Switch

[cosmic gazelle]

mmmm steak controller

[late atlas]

No no, steak controller

[steel stream]

mmm steak

[civic reef]

@cosmic gazelle I don't know but I think that Corsair 3000 kit OC'd to 4000 may become reality

[floral spear]

If you had to add a Sauceless version of Mount Haruna in your base game map instead of looking around the Kanagawa area for mountains then im afraid that I dont have any faith for this game being unironically good

[cosmic gazelle]

4000 on what

[pure garnet]

after work is time for fun

[hoary hatch]

Leave me alone those keys are so close 😭

[nocturne jacinth]

9070 xt can fully saturate a Ryzen 8th+ gen laptop fully in 1440p through only x4 lanes is crazy

[cosmic gazelle]

inb4 7200 hard cap

[steel stream]

all that just so I can play games while shitting, life is great

[late atlas]

I like the details of the map, the fact it's the biggest map will also allow me to make some cool custom tracks and the Goliath will be even better