general-chat

[sinful blade]

https://shop.asus.com/us/90nx05a1-m000l0-asus-chromebook-flip-cx1-cx1400.html?srsltid=AfmBOoqtf6k5DeWepg3s6xIJMPN3AUA9vUT59uAUFyhLewOMCvucVJtfZ1s

This is terrible

Do not buy it

[nocturne flicker]

Then why did you post it

[tranquil pebble]

only thing terrible about it is the price... ew

[nocturne flicker]

https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16834156587R?

If you can handle open box

Only RGB is on the keyboard backlighting and that is most likely changeable. Probably in Dragon Center or whatever MSI is doing now

Only 1080p but it is 780 before tax so...

[storm narwhal]

Great price for the specs

[dusk knot]

Explain

[nocturne flicker]

Honestly. If I was buying a laptop I'd scoop up that

[tranquil pebble]

imagine an esoteric programming language where every keyword is a food

[nocturne flicker]

The entire code is called the hamburger

[misty sparrow]

People who steal hamburger code are called hamburglars

[storm narwhal]

People who make bad code are called hambunglers

[idle nexus]

2080ti is pretty nuts when PL is 2kw lol

527w on Palworld lol

[wraith arrow]

Can someone help me with build that includes phanteks XT pro ultra atx case and that includes, an aio cooler with rgb memory, and 2 tb of storage around 1000?

[idle nexus]

OC was only +60/+150 in Afterburner

No cpu or gpu preference?

As someone who just had a 13600K be a total piece of crap, I'd ignore Intel 13/14th tbh

[wraith arrow]

Maybe intel and nvidia

[storm narwhal]

12th gen would be the only safe option

[wraith arrow]

Ight

[idle nexus]

I'm on mobile but will see what I can come up with. @mortal grail & a few others are the magicians with stuff like this

Weird the white version is $15 extra

[wraith arrow]

So uhh pc part picker build?

[wary fjord]

nice temp

[dusk knot]

.

Hmm yes.

[sinful blade]

Price

[nocturne flicker]

410 for a 2 core celeron with a 1.1ghz base clock

An Optiplex would be better than that

[tranquil pebble]

craptor lake

[opaque sedge]

Muted the lianli subreddit

Never been a happier man

[tranquil pebble]

dual core in 2024 is criminal

[opaque sedge]

Dinosaur extinction lake

The dinos are intel

Get it

Then they’re gonna rise back

But

As chickens

[nocturne flicker]

Passmark has a 4690 up 64.6% compared to that celeron

[tranquil pebble]

Celery moment

[nocturne flicker]

Even an i5-660 from 2009 outperforms that celeron on Passmark's listing

[tranquil pebble]

Yeah that Celeron is literally ewaste

[opaque sedge]

What was that benchmark hardware review website thats still glazing intel?

[tranquil pebble]

userbenchmark?

[opaque sedge]

Yup that’s the one thanks

Saw a short abt it yesterday thought it must’ve been a old video

It was not

[tranquil pebble]

ubm is a joke

once saw an i3 listed as better multicore than a Ryzen 9 on it

[nocturne flicker]

No

[velvet summit]

i have no idea which mod is on

☠️

[nocturne flicker]

I will reimburse you with a report

[light egret]

JP was just here

[velvet summit]

jp it is then @dusk knot

appear again

[light egret]

https://tenor.com/view/bergatron-appear-teleport-gif-15511828842360360255

[velvet summit]

jp hasnt appeared again

[tranquil pebble]

reported to discord too... get spam flagged

[light egret]

I did too

I just realized im not pink anymore

[tranquil pebble]

Steam updates be like

[velvet summit]

https://tenor.com/view/pink-role-gif-4954836399484216472

[tranquil pebble]

@pliant berry spammer

[velvet summit]

they're in a few channels

but not every channel

[tranquil pebble]

presumably they just get all messages wiped anyways

[velvet summit]

true

[light egret]

looks like someone handled it

[velvet summit]

though it is kinda strange since ususally spam bots shotgun into every channel

[opaque sedge]

uh what do you mean by that

[velvet summit]

while this one went into very specific channels which kinda actually made sense to be in

[opaque sedge]

oh the name

phew

[light egret]

what did you think i meant

[opaque sedge]

...

[tranquil pebble]

not sure that was a bot. Some people manually spam

[velvet summit]

true

though rarer

[opaque sedge]

you will never know

[nocturne flicker]

Or they are learning

[idle nexus]

I mean if you think about it, there are so many bad Intel LGA1700 CPUs that G7400 ends up among the best by default lol

[tranquil pebble]

lol

[idle nexus]

ya I was pretty amazed it was so low at 527w lmao

[tranquil pebble]

and at that point just go AMD

[idle nexus]

sorry just got home. opportunity knocking over at Newegg lol

I take it back

[wraith arrow]

huh

[fervent stump]

The more ssd you have would it somehow slow your computer down?

[idle nexus]

the options for combo are like Ryzen 5600, a 7900GRE, a really expensive NVMe, or a reallly expensive Windows 11 key (don't ever pay more than like $30 for windows key plz lol)

[idle nexus]

no but if your SSD is really full it slows down considerably

[dusk knot]

https://tenor.com/view/invincible-omni-man-memes-gif-21574622

[velvet summit]

you appeared too late

[dusk knot]

https://tenor.com/view/fade-away-oooooooooooo-aga-emoji-crumble-gif-20008708

[velvet summit]

you should manifest faster frfr

[fervent stump]

Ohh ok hmmm what about if I have a ssd and a hard drive and like put games and like things I want loaded fast on the ssd

[dusk knot]

will do next time

[idle nexus]

it appeared there were "combo up savings up to $65" with the purchase of the case you mentioned but the options are silly tbh

[storm narwhal]

This is usually how it works

[light egret]

That's typically the way to do it.

dammit segue you beat me

[storm narwhal]

HDD is relegation for slow or unimportant games/files

I am speed

[fervent stump]

Oh ok and like pictures would go on the hard drive too?

[storm narwhal]

Unlike an HDD

[fervent stump]

How do I decide where it downloads?

[idle nexus]

I just searched for "Phanteks" & apparently @sweet phoenix has so generously made a suggested list for a build in the Phanteks case https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WX2kxH

[light egret]

I would prioritize everything to go on a secondary HDD if thats what you have, except for like, newer high end games that you really want the quicker load times.

[idle nexus]

and windows

[your respective deity or in the case of lackthereof, uh, I dunno pick something that would offer you lots of help ig] help you if you try to run windows on an HDD nowadays lol

[light egret]

but it depends on the size of the SSD and HDD and whatnot.

[nocturne flicker]

It is fun, trust me bro, best quality of use on HDD

[light egret]

oh well yeah that's under the assumption that the SSD is your boot drive lol

[fervent stump]

At the moment idk how to do most of that so I’m just getting a ssd at the moment and just getting games and in the future after my computer id get a HDD

[nocturne flicker]

I love 10 minute boot times

[light egret]

you can run multiple SSDs instead of having an HDD as your secondary

[idle nexus]

HDDs are good for uh backing up pictures & stuff like that

yes run many SSDs

[storm narwhal]

You mean you're gonna use an external enclosure for it

[idle nexus]

fill all your NVMe slots then throw some SATAs if that doesn't cover it

[fervent stump]

How would that work?

[idle nexus]

what motherboard do you have?

[fervent stump]

Im going to get it soon let me get the pc part picker list

[idle nexus]

however, be aware that using some NVMe slots can make SATA slots become unavailable

[fervent stump]

Nvm I don’t have the list in my phone just have the pic of the mobo

[idle nexus]

e.g., on my Z590 Unify-X, if you populate M2_2 with an NVMe, SATA ports 2, 4, & 5 are no longer available

[tranquil pebble]

due to pcie lane limits presumably

[idle nexus]

you can put three of these heckin things where those red circles are

[fervent stump]

That’s what I’m getting?

[idle nexus]

I believe so lol

https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_B650-AORUS-ELITE-AX-V2-ICE_1003_e.pdf?v=4c45ab42427f63796179763a3cfbceb8

[fervent stump]

Yea

Later could I ask you questions about a few things with fans, rgb and the motherboard? I don’t know about some things

[idle nexus]

you could, for example, put three of these. I would, however, see if you can find PCIe 4.0

[fervent stump]

I am getting 2tb

[idle nexus]

that's a good idea imo

I've made the mistake over the years of buying multiple 1tb or 500gb drives

better to get a 2tb & if you want more you'll have two more slots

[rough zinc]

get 10tb of storage

[fervent stump]

Wb 4tb in the future

[fervent stump]

Also ^^

[proud jackal]

[dusk knot]

soo....

oled

[modest belfry]

There's 4TB mp34, idk about the mp44.

[sinful blade]

Anyone wanna talk about food

[light egret]

depends on the food

[velvet summit]

yeah i'm free

free fallin

[proud jackal]

30 min

[dusk knot]

😏

[idle nexus]

sorry stepped away for a little bit but 4tb NVMe or HDD?

[light egret]

30 min what

[dusk knot]

the oled club is growing

[proud jackal]

https://tenor.com/view/family-guy-peter-griffin-freefalling-gif-24041454

[idle nexus]

yes

lol feel free to just ask

[chrome mirage]

How does my phone get my thumb print from this

[proud jackal]

[light egret]

cause the print runs deeper than just the top layer of the skin

[fervent stump]

Ssd

[dusk knot]

peel off that excess skin

🤨

[chrome mirage]

It hurts when I peel it though

[dusk knot]

oh ok

[light egret]

how did your thumb get like that

[tranquil pebble]

ouch what happened? a burn?

[sweet phoenix]

Mp44q is $220

[chrome mirage]

Wearing gloves all day in a room that is 45C does that to your skin

[sweet phoenix]

Good sdd

[velvet summit]

what type of ssd

nvme or sata

[nocturne flicker]

Your hands become one with the gloves

[velvet summit]

degloved

[sweet phoenix]

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/trjRsY/teamgroup-mp44q-4-tb-m2-2280-pcie-40-x4-nvme-solid-state-drive-tm8ffd004t0c101

[velvet summit]

(do not search this up

[modest belfry]

Nooooooo, I didn't say mp44q

[tranquil pebble]

then why mention it? you know someone is going to search that now

[chrome mirage]

My dad knows a guy that got degloved by a semi truck axle

[velvet summit]

☠️

[light egret]

why are you in a 35c room

[chrome mirage]

No AC at work

[modest belfry]

This should be deleted

[velvet summit]

teaching people not to search something up when i say not to frfr

[light egret]

like the AC is broken or they just don't provide AC?

[chrome mirage]

They just don't provide it

[light egret]

what do you do?

[fervent stump]

Ummmmm

[chrome mirage]

I'm a janitor and I've been deep cleaning the school

[fervent stump]

W-whats the difference?

[velvet summit]

interface

[light egret]

a school without AC? that sounds illegal

[velvet summit]

not really? in milder climates it doesnt really matter

[fervent stump]

@velvet summit these ssd things

[velvet summit]

my elementary school didnt have ac

[chrome mirage]

It's not illegal in Ontario

[fervent stump]

Thx

[chrome mirage]

We have rules about minimum temperature but not maximum

[modest belfry]

Or britain, uk, w/e.

[velvet summit]

ok yeah nvme

[light egret]

I mean if it's getting up to 113 F degrees, I feel like that's not ok

[rough zinc]

Skill issue

[velvet summit]

climate change

[chrome mirage]

2 years ago one of the rooms I was cleaning reached 50C or 122f

[tranquil pebble]

that is dangerous levels of heat

[light egret]

what was the temp outside?

[modest belfry]

Kids are soft. They don't have to work in 105F weather

[rough zinc]

I used to live with my room constantly at a solid 5C

[velvet summit]

back when i was a child in elementary school, even the hottest days were bearable with some fans in the rooms

[rough zinc]

Good times

[chrome mirage]

30C outside

[velvet summit]

nowadays idk if classrooms would be bearable on hot sumemr days

summers have gotten a fair bit hotter

[light egret]

are the windows openable?

[chrome mirage]

Same. I ran furmark on my PC to prevent hypothermia

[tranquil pebble]

and that heat is causing almost non stop storms in parts of NYS

[chrome mirage]

They were open but there wasn't enough airflow

[modest belfry]

There's definitely some heatwaves the past few years

[nocturne flicker]

My beloved North Country

Flooding is much more common there now

[light egret]

I mean don't get me wrong I used to work in construction in texas and the attics where I spent most of my time could easily surpass 120 F

but for kids, I'm not ok with that lol

[tranquil pebble]

I decided to heck with it and rode my bike despite the thunder

[chrome mirage]

When it was 50C in my workplace I just drank all the water in the water cooler that day to keep my body temperature down

[velvet summit]

to be fair

lightning doesnt care if you're on a bike or just running

[tranquil pebble]

because It has reached a point where there is thunder many times a week here

[velvet summit]

it strikes where it wants to

[fervent stump]

Could I get like 2tb then next a 4tb

[nocturne flicker]

Snow doesn't last the winter there anymore so the excess water causes floods

[velvet summit]

doesnt matter honestly

[light egret]

I think the hottest attic I ever had to work in was just over 140 F and we couldn't stay up there for more than like 15 minutes at a time lol. It was awful. They floored the whole attic with no windows and no ventilation (yet) so the heat just gathered there and built up.

[nocturne flicker]

And the snow doesn't come down throughout the winter anymore, but usually comes down all at once in big storms

[velvet summit]

sounds like their ac had to work overtime then lmao

[light egret]

it was an unfinished house

[idle nexus]

well, just pay attention to the price difference. 2.5" SSDs have kind of reached the point where they're not going to get any cheaper because of the cost to make them & iirc an SSD is going to read/write somewhere around 400mb/s v. an NVMe with PCIe 4.0 should be 6500mb/s+. 4tb NVMes are very expensive tho. You miiight do better getting two 2tb but you just gotta see when it comes time to get it

[light egret]

I was doing new construction

[velvet summit]

oh

i see

[chrome mirage]

I miss not having AC in my car because I got used to hot temperatures a lot quicker

[velvet summit]

what were you doing up there? electrician?

[light egret]

Low Voltage electrical

[velvet summit]

i see

[light egret]

so alarms, TV Ethernet lines, home theater stuff, cameras, etc

[velvet summit]

damn fancy home theater

[fervent stump]

Alright so I will get a couple 2tb instead of 4 and 2 then thank you also could you check dms?

[velvet summit]

lmao we didnt bother with putting the cables in walls so there's just speaker wire all over my living room

[idle nexus]

In my sister's AirBNB the other day, they were using Ethernet cable for speaker wire. Seems like that might be too small no?

[light egret]

I worked on houses that my entire neighborhood couldn't afford if they all went in together on one house lol

most of our clients were rich af

[velvet summit]

oh

the monka emote is gone because of lack of boost

[velvet summit]

also yeah that is way too thin of a gauge lmfao

well, assuming they're using passive speakers

might be able to get away with it if it's powered speakers

[light egret]

we did some smaller houses too, but they were still expensive houses. The smallest houses we worked on were gentrifying houses in the city, so they were super small "affordable" houses that were still double the price of your average home in the area cause of location and gentrification

[velvet summit]

damn

[light egret]

I wouldn't do that even if they were powered personally

but ethernet is so much more expensive than proper 2/16 wire

[velvet summit]

the amount of current carried if they were powered speakers should be fine? especially if they used like 2 pairs for each

though terminating those cables to use it like that is

quite difficult from the thin gauge

[velvet summit]

but yeah i wonder why they used patch cables because you can often get a little spool/roll of speaker wire for like 5 bucks

which should be enough for 2 bookshelf speakers

[sinful blade]

Are there any decent cheap speakers for fiancés pc? She’s getting headaches from her headphones

[velvet summit]

how cheap

[chrome mirage]

I bought a 90s stereo for $5 and use that as my computer speakers

[velvet summit]

if you want cheap, go check out some thrift shops because they often have dirt cheap speakers for cheap that... well, arent the best audio wise but do the job

[light egret]

but iirc, if you run power wires and thin wires like ethernet next to each other, it causes interferance and therefore not reccomended. We had to keep our ethernet lines away from any power lines. I guess it depends on how much power the speakers require, but I still wouldn't do it lol

[velvet summit]

yeah lv shouldnt be run parallel to high voltage

though in the cases low voltage does need to be run with high voltage, shielded patch cable exists for that

[chrome mirage]

Old stereos can sound really good and be very affordable

Also play other media formats

[velvet summit]

speaker behind monitor ☠️

[chrome mirage]

I want to mount them on my walls soon but I'm lazy

[light egret]

I can't wait to get my own house cause ima retrofit the heck outa it with all the home theater stuff I learned how to do

[velvet summit]

vacuum florescent displays my beloved

[light egret]

ima go fancy with it

[velvet summit]

my home audio setup makes up of... thrift shop finds and old equipment my dad had

[light egret]

lol I got a few surround sound systems that were thrift finds

[chrome mirage]

One of the speakers had a tiny 1991 Chevy Caprice police car in it

[light egret]

and I got a 7.1 from a family friend from my wife's side

[velvet summit]

the av reciever is on the opposite side of the room as well so i bought a 25ft spidif cable to reach

the reciever is some old technics thing from like 1993

[chrome mirage]

My friend that sold me his stereo for cheap is now jealous of my audio setup because he bought all new and it sounds worse

[velvet summit]

lmao

yeah old audio equipment tends to age like fine wine

it's even similar in that some speaker flanges disintegrate over time
just like wine corks

i replaced mine with rubber? ones i found on ebay

[chrome mirage]

I was able to fix the cassette player on this one by buying replacement belts from a small business that sells replacement parts online

[light egret]

I don't think I've ever actually listened to a cassette album.

[velvet summit]

damn

also yeah the autostop feature on my cassette deck isnt working properly, but i havent found the motivation to fix it yet since it technically still works

[nocturne flicker]

My father had them when I was young. He had a station wagon that played them too

[velvet summit]

it just stops playing erratically

[light egret]

My dad was always a big Vinyl guy so we both have a ton of vinyl, and he has a ton of CDs.

The only tapes I can remember using is in tape recorders and answering machines

[velvet summit]

damn

[nocturne flicker]

We need wood paneled cars again

[velvet summit]

cassettes are better than vinyl since you dont have to dust them
but there is something to be said about big spinning disk with a tiny needle

[light egret]

I remember getting one from like a radio disney fare at one point, but when we tried to put it into the car radio, it didn't work, and when we ejected it, it kept all the tape so it just pulled away with the tape stuck in the slot lol

[velvet summit]

☠️

[nocturne flicker]

My dad had like four boxes of vinyls

[chrome mirage]

You can still buy them, I bought a Linkin Park album on cassette a few months ago

[nocturne flicker]

He had og Beatles vinyls

[light egret]

lmao now I kinda wanna collect some cassettes

[velvet summit]

but yeah, there is a reason why cassettes were the de-facto music medium for a few? decades

[light egret]

but I have spotify

[velvet summit]

compact, reliable, good quality audio

just dont put magnets on it

[light egret]

my phone is compact, reliable, and good quality audio at least for a deaf guy like me

[chrome mirage]

I have a couple OG beetles vinyls that my grandpa brought from England. The production and recording quality on them is amazing

[velvet summit]

also yeah phones pretty much killed physical media from the convience

but then us weirdos decided that it was too convenient and started buying physical media again

[nocturne flicker]

We haven't played any of them so we don't know how well they are conditionally.

[chrome mirage]

My grandpa kept his in a musty basement and they are still fine

I had to clean the mold off though

[nocturne flicker]

But he probably played them alot. He was a college radio guy back in the 70s so he'd be playing them very frequently over the station

[light egret]

we have ours in a box safely inside the house lol

we are gonna build a bar at some point and wanna put a whole audio system with a record player, CD player, cassette, and bluetooth in it

tbh, we will likely use bluetooth more than anything, but it would be nice to use the others

[velvet summit]

i would definitely say you should get an automatic turntable

[chrome mirage]

I was wrong he bought his when he moved to Canada

[velvet summit]

manually queuing tracks is a slight pain

[light egret]

wait what is an automatic turntable

[nocturne flicker]

He signed off every night with Rocky Raccoon, so everyone just called him that

[chrome mirage]

You press a button and it moves the arm for you

[light egret]

ah

i always did it manually

it's not that bad

[chrome mirage]

Mines a little dusty

[velvet summit]

depends
automatic is way more convenient; drop the vinyl in, press a button, enjoy

manual queuing is more like, drop the vinyl in, move the tone arm/stylus to be at the start, start the turntable, lower the tone arm, then enjoy

a few more steps

[chrome mirage]

I'm a bit clumsy and I would probably end up scratching it with the tone arm

[light egret]

yeh but I mean I grew up with what my dad had lol. I had to fix it up and stuff but I wasn't gonna go out and buy a whole new turn table

So im used to doing it manually

I have no idea where that table is tho

[velvet summit]

yeah i use a manual one; the lp120x

an automatic one is like lonewolf's which is the lp60x

iirc AT is releasing the lp70 soon though?

[nocturne flicker]

I'd need to buy one and I don't know squat about audio stuff. I'm the type of guy with cheap logitech speakers and then I'm done

[light egret]

All I remember about it is you couldn't plug it into regular speakers cause the audio was weird and very quiet, but if I hooked it up to my amp it worked fine

and idr why

[velvet summit]

phono out

not line out

[fervent stump]

Anyone else like the strix 4080S?

[velvet summit]

you need phono amp

there are some turntables with internal phono preamps, but many audio enthusiasts dont like it

[chrome mirage]

My audio technica has a built in amp that can be turned off

[velvet summit]

usually the built in ones are cheap

i also use the one built into my reciever, but technically the "audiophile" way is to have a seperate unit for the phono stage

[chrome mirage]

It sounded fine when I tested it but I use phono anyways

[velvet summit]

yeah same

[chrome mirage]

Mostly because my PC is using the other input on the stereo

[velvet summit]

honestly, for the same price as the lp120x, i could have bought a turntable without an internal amp and a really high quality tone arm and a wood deck

but oh well

it's not like this one is a bad turntable

it's just a bit plasticky

[chrome mirage]

I have the lp60x and its been pretty good. Only thing I dislike about it is the lack of adjustable weights on the tone arm.

[velvet summit]

yeah that was the main reason why i got the lp120x

[chrome mirage]

I've had a couple albums that would skip because the weight wasn't right and I had to put a dime on the tonearm to fix it

[velvet summit]

i wanted to have the freedom of changing to whatever stylus i wanted pretty much

[fervent stump]

?

[velvet summit]

if you like it then that's all that matters

it's all the same chip

[fervent stump]

Just wanted to see if anyone else liked it

[chrome mirage]

It's always nice to have some overpriced whiskey when listening to old records

[silver sparrow]

looks like a great way to burn 1200$ on a graphics card

[velvet summit]

they're doing an aesthetic build

[fervent stump]

I would have gotten the strix 4090 but everyone said don’t get the 4090

[velvet summit]

except they dont seem to be able to decide on what they want

[fervent stump]

Trust ik now

[silver sparrow]

imo totally not biased but like 7900xtx looks pretty good with their prices being quite low

[chrome mirage]

I bought a 7900xtx just because it looked better than all the Nvidia cards

[fervent stump]

Would have gotten that but people recommended an 4080S for me and I want the strix one for rgb

[velvet summit]

their varied use case did end up with a recommendation for the 4080s specifically

[silver sparrow]

this seems to be the only RGB on it

[craggy shoal]

I wish it was diffused

[velvet summit]

also yeah that looks cheap af

because it's not diffused

[fervent stump]

Ik still worth the extra 250

[velvet summit]

💀

[chrome mirage]

The looks were the only reason I went Radeon

[velvet summit]

https://tenor.com/view/white-people-reading-toilet-jermainfaisst-gif-18129237

[sinful blade]

Ah yes, gpus

[fervent stump]

Would probably be better but I like how it looks

Look what I found of it

[misty sparrow]

damn, i don't see all white builds too often but it looks nice

[silver sparrow]

I like the glass/ whatever material is used to diffuse the light on mine

[fervent stump]

I like how the rgb looks on it

[fervent stump]

I want to make mine white or light blue

[sinful blade]

Specs?

I want that colouring

Rn

[chrome mirage]

5800x3d, 7900xtx, 32GB of trident z neo

[fervent stump]

The reason I want to make a blue build my friend showed me this picture on his aio

[sinful blade]

Do you have a parts list? @chrome mirage

[misty sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/clueless-aware-twitch-forsen-emote-gif-25354609

[silver sparrow]

if you want white, the taichi looks pretty sick

[misty sparrow]

i dont even wanna know what that is

good lord

[chrome mirage]

I wouldn't recommend some of these parts because some are outdated and some broke fairly quickly

[silver sparrow]

of course its expensive cause its a nice well built card tho

[velvet summit]

Here, have some cable spaghetti to balance out this aesthetic build chat

[fervent stump]

The case I’m getting is the best case rn on the market……. The H9 flow

[misty sparrow]

this is about as bad as me honestly

[storm narwhal]

That's

[chrome mirage]

Looks like under my desk

[misty sparrow]

what i tried to do was tape all my cables to the bottom of the desk for an "invisible" setup

the tape broke

it didnt have enough strength

what was i thinkign

[chrome mirage]

I hide the cables with my stereo

[light egret]

What I did is shoved all the cables behind my monitor

[fervent stump]

Hear me out to the 2 :| reactions

It’s very nice

[light egret]

if I believe hard enouhg, they're not even there

[velvet summit]

if you're wondering, that random christmas light wire is for my headphone dac/amp because those wall warts are too huge to fit on my ups

[storm narwhal]

Its not really

[fervent stump]

:o

[storm narwhal]

The middle bracket just gets in the way

[velvet summit]

i did check what amprage they used and together they use like 2 amps

[craggy shoal]

Looks like my O11

[velvet summit]

at full load

[storm narwhal]

The toilet bowl nets minimal improvements

[silver sparrow]

At least try to put your cables near a dark flooring smh

[storm narwhal]

Its really expensive for what it is tbh

[misty sparrow]

You're probably the only person in the world that actually has an excuse to keep christmas lights up

[velvet summit]

it's under my desk barely visible

[silver sparrow]

for me its also in the void

[velvet summit]

LMFAO

[fervent stump]

But the looks

[sinful blade]

F

[craggy shoal]

Nah

[fervent stump]

THE LOOKS

[silver sparrow]

it only bothers me when i accidentally hit the power switch and kill my pc 😭

[storm narwhal]

I'd rather get a corsair 4000D instead

[craggy shoal]

Looks like my O11D Evo

[storm narwhal]

Hyte case

[velvet summit]

my gf uses christmas lights for room lighting so that the room isnt as bright as it would be if lit with the room light

[storm narwhal]

O11D

[silver sparrow]

also at what point am i suppost to take the dust from my radiator and turn it into a sweater cause i think its getting to that point

[chrome mirage]

My aio decides to not work properly at random

[fervent stump]

There is no bar blocking the stuff

[storm narwhal]

Oh

[misty sparrow]

or maybe she also wants an excuse to keep christmas lights up so she can get away with not having to remove them when it's not christmas

honestly its genius

[chrome mirage]

My motherboard has no audio and the RGB controller is broken

[misty sparrow]

putting and removing lights is a pain so

[velvet summit]

real

[light egret]

At my last apartment I lined the entire living/kitchen wall with christmas lights that had a color change remote, and when its not a holiday they were just on low white mode so we could see in the middle of the night without blinding ourselves when we needed a glass of water or somethin

[fervent stump]

Will I get made fun of for using the flow?

[velvet summit]

the problem with leaving christmas lights out on your exterior of the house though

[craggy shoal]

yes

[storm narwhal]

Yeah probably lol it's an nzxt case

[velvet summit]

asides from looking silly, squirrels and stuff would chew through the wire

[fervent stump]

Waaaaaaaaa :c

[velvet summit]

and the sun also crisps up the cheap pvc insulation

[fervent stump]

But the stuff will look nice :(

[storm narwhal]

They're notorious for being dumb expensive and not performant enough

For the price

[craggy shoal]

NZXT is a noobie's first set of parts

[nocturne flicker]

Mmm, crispy light cables

[fervent stump]

IM COOKING TRUST

[storm narwhal]

They've gotten better after finally realizing that mesh was actually a good idea all along

After how many years?

[sinful blade]

I just want the lighting parts

[misty sparrow]

You can't trust a company whose name was probably randomly made up by a guy typing in four random letters on a keyboard

[storm narwhal]

Just stuck on solid front panels only for aesthetics

Bzae

Next brand fr

[fervent stump]

Shhhhh nzxt = me happy

[storm narwhal]

Lsyr

[craggy shoal]

ehh

[velvet summit]

real

[craggy shoal]

I've never seen it tbh

[storm narwhal]

Huh

[fervent stump]

At least I’m not getting the 300 aio from nzxt

[nocturne flicker]

Even NZXT wants you to skip them and go to the next option

[velvet summit]

thank you next

[chrome mirage]

Fans are Lian Li uni fans, graphics card is sapphire nitro plus 7900XTX. I wouldn't recommend the rest of the parts for any modern build

[misty sparrow]

can't wait for the new company, previuz

take that NZXT

[fervent stump]

@craggy shoal am I cooking? https://pcpartpicker.com/list/p7FPPF

[chrome mirage]

These fans were quite expensive but they solved my overheating issues and made the PC look a lot nicer

[craggy shoal]

I was wondering how that was $1200 and then I saw the price for the GPU (there is no price)

[fervent stump]

Huh the price is there?

[craggy shoal]

Probably my filters

[fervent stump]

soooooooo is my list good?

[misty sparrow]

$1200? it shows $2.5k USD for me

[craggy shoal]

bruh

[misty sparrow]

the CPU cooler has no price

[fervent stump]

no price for aio since its outta stock but its 150

[misty sparrow]

okay

[craggy shoal]

Fixed it. Yeah $2500

walmar

[misty sparrow]

so if you got everything it'll be about $2676

[proud jackal]

@dusk knotthis monitor is so crisp

[fervent stump]

Yea thats a lot, the cheapest build that I made with a 4090 on pcpartpicker was 2700

[velvet summit]

weird

price shows for me as well

[craggy shoal]

man that's how much Thermalright fans cost? I might just get some now lol

[fervent stump]

cheap :D

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Why+am+I+so+skibidi%3F

[opaque sedge]

Are anti aliasing settings worth turning on?

Such as taa msaa fxaa?

[gilded kraken]

yes

they still smooth the image unless you are up at 4k

[opaque sedge]

I was picking settings for rdr2 cuz for some reason i’m not getting any presets

[fervent stump]

What’s that do?

[velvet summit]

just render at 8k and you dont need AA frfr

[opaque sedge]

20gigs of vram finally has some value

[chrome mirage]

Part of why I got a 7900xtx for 1440p gaming

[fervent stump]

Can’t it play 4k?

[tranquil pebble]

couldnt get soft serve ice cream because there was no parking left and couldnt even get into the parking lot... but shortly after leaving it started raining. Those people can go ahead and get rained on for it. Not worth it to me.

[opaque sedge]

Some versions use previous frames to smoothen out motion, some sharpen edges, some make the jagged stuff look more natural

[chrome mirage]

Yes but I want to run games above native resolution so they look better

[fervent stump]

Ohh ok

[fervent stump]

Alrighty

How good would you say the 4080S is for 4k like would it run smooth?

[velvet summit]

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=oDfPlIPc-Kk&si=ttCgtg-ZOSH3vJtg

[velvet summit]

if you define smooth as like 60fps, yes

[chrome mirage]

Pretty sure it's advertised as a 4k card and is better than my 7900xtx in some games

[storm narwhal]

that is smooth

[fervent stump]

How’s the 4090 in 4k

[opaque sedge]

Yh many peeps get the 4080s for 4k gaming as well plus u got dlss, but most hardcore gamers typically use even the high end gpus such as the xtx 4080s and even the 4090 for 1440p

But they’re hardcore

[velvet summit]

at some point you get cpu and/or ram limited

[chrome mirage]

I used to game at 4k on a 1060. All depends on what settings you are willing to sacrifice.

[opaque sedge]

Like they will be happy with getting 5 extra frames by turning down a crapload of settings hardcore

[storm narwhal]

fr

If i don't get 120fps it's all for nothing

[opaque sedge]

Bro was playing aaa games minecraft version

[nocturne flicker]

Hardcore you say

[opaque sedge]

Oh god

[mighty hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/gigachad-chad-gif-20773266

[opaque sedge]

Guys

Stop him

[chrome mirage]

Forza horizon 3 was running at medium settings and looked great

[nocturne flicker]

1080p gaming

[velvet summit]

nobody:
artists when they dont know how to end a song: slowly lowers faders

[opaque sedge]

https://tenor.com/view/no-the-office-michael-scott-scream-gif-16929305

[fervent stump]

Alright so I will stick to the 4080S since I don’t think I want to go worse or buy a 4090 but how much better is it at 4k?

[velvet summit]

depends on the game

[opaque sedge]

Those 480hz monitors need use someway or the other

[velvet summit]

but 4080s is perfectly serviceable at 4k

[nocturne flicker]

144hz

[fervent stump]

5m ummm rdr2, beamng and other stuff prob

[velvet summit]

theo you arent even a good gamer

[proud jackal]

https://tenor.com/view/21-gif-22012964

[opaque sedge]

Is this that fancy dual mode rog oled monitor?

[fervent stump]

I’m the best trust

[velvet summit]

what rank

[nocturne flicker]

One day I shall go to 1440p

[sinful blade]

One day I’ll go

[opaque sedge]

Its amazing trust (i’ve never seen 1080p)

[misty sparrow]

One day I'll

[opaque sedge]

I knew it

[nocturne flicker]

One day

[proud jackal]

https://tenor.com/view/crawl-crawling-anime-anime-crawl-scurry-gif-21955104

[misty sparrow]

I don't know why

[chrome mirage]

Me driving to my union job while blasting violent rap music

[opaque sedge]

Wouldn’t you be able to play 1440p rather comfortably?

[nocturne flicker]

I am broke rn

[opaque sedge]

Ah

U were just like me huh

[velvet summit]

hello broke rn i'm 343

[opaque sedge]

I too

Spend more money on the gpu

[nocturne flicker]

I had a 1080 when I bought my monitor

[fervent stump]

What game

[velvet summit]

any

[opaque sedge]

When instead i could have gotten a gre and an oled monitor

[fervent stump]

Idk

I’m a noob

[opaque sedge]

[velvet summit]

what is your highest rank in any game

oh

[fervent stump]

Let me think

[tranquil pebble]

me blasting violent touhou music

[misty sparrow]

me playing absolutely nothing

[velvet summit]

cirno's perfect math class

[fervent stump]

I’m level 115 in arsenal

[velvet summit]

☠️

[misty sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/walter-white-falling-fast-gif-18043850

[nocturne flicker]

Replaced with a 3070 when I moved pc into my room, had a problem with my SSD that seemed more like a GPU issue so after extensive troubleshooting replaced with 6950xt. I got to experience Starfield on the first day

[fervent stump]

Yea I’m the best 😂

[nocturne flicker]

Starfield with semi-constant crashes after day 3

[misty sparrow]

16 times the frustration

[chrome mirage]

I think you need to be restricted to an Xbox 360 for a few months to learn about what makes a game good

[opaque sedge]

Guys 7700x gre build with oled 1440p or 7800x3d 7900xt build with ips 1440p or 7800x3d gre build with oled but u will be spending around a 150-200 bucks extra?

[velvet summit]

real

[misty sparrow]

realer

[velvet summit]

realist

[fervent stump]

I don’t like my Xbox much

[misty sparrow]

realerer

[velvet summit]

realerist

[nocturne flicker]

Emulate the Xbox

[fervent stump]

Wdym

[misty sparrow]

real estate

https://tenor.com/view/real-estate-its-free-real-estate-gif-11276235

[velvet summit]

free

[tranquil pebble]

Halo 3

[misty sparrow]

gears of war 1

[opaque sedge]

Btw in this hypothetical situation the rest of the specs are identical cl32 6000mhz 16x2 ram and 2tb nvme

[chrome mirage]

The new Xbox is trash. I unplugged mine a year ago and have been mainly using my Xbox 360

[misty sparrow]

i will say this though

[velvet summit]

war of gears 2

[misty sparrow]

playing GTA4 on Xbox 360

oh good lord

[fervent stump]

I’m love my Xbox tho

[chrome mirage]

Started replaying that a few days ago

[fervent stump]

It’s new too

[opaque sedge]

I would like to hear your answers my good people

God i sound like a politician

Not even the first world country kind

[misty sparrow]

if you could, i'd have you come over to play halo 3 splitscreen lmao

those were the days

[nocturne flicker]

Older consoles can be emulated on PC. Emulation is basically imitating the og device on a different one

[opaque sedge]

When was that?

[velvet summit]

https://tenor.com/view/senator-armstrong-metal-gear-rising-mgr-armstrong-gif-26250693

[misty sparrow]

wdym when was that lol

[opaque sedge]

I think that game’s on sale

[velvet summit]

i own the game

[misty sparrow]

used to play splitscreen all the time back in the 2010s

[opaque sedge]

Like what year was halo 3

[fervent stump]

It’s fine I’m fine with my Xbox

[misty sparrow]

oh, it came out september 2007

[chrome mirage]

Gonna have some friends over for a split screen night this weekend

[velvet summit]

you should play metal gear rising

[opaque sedge]

What the hell, have i been living under a rock

I was born in 2004

[chrome mirage]

I hope they still have their controllers

[opaque sedge]

I only heard of halo during covid

[misty sparrow]

be glad you're probably older than Nintendo DS lol

[dusk knot]

You’ve tried out the hdr?

[nocturne flicker]

Wa

[storm narwhal]

damn

[light egret]

for what console

[chrome mirage]

360

[storm narwhal]

during arguably the worst time period for halo lmao

[opaque sedge]

Hdr’s pretty good on oleds and mini leds right?

[misty sparrow]

I had a Wii at first

[light egret]

how

[misty sparrow]

didnt have an xbox originally

[velvet summit]

https://tenor.com/view/metal-gear-rising-gif-25491269

[icy ore]

God I know I’m old when people haven’t heard of halo 3

[light egret]

thats the only console I have like, only 2 controllers for lmao

[nocturne flicker]

Man missed out on Red vs Blue

[chrome mirage]

My first Xbox game was Halo 2

[icy ore]

Game shaped me

[dusk knot]

Superior to miniled. There’s no blooming

[storm narwhal]

It's been a long 3 years for infinite to get where it is now

[misty sparrow]

that bomb scene tho

[light egret]

red vs blue was amazing

[tranquil pebble]

Forge mode was something else in those days

[chrome mirage]

Cinematic masterpiece

[misty sparrow]

"What if you miss?"

"I won't."

[storm narwhal]

mine was halo 3

[icy ore]

And unfortunately they’re pretty much done with updates now lol

They’ve got a few small ones here and there

[misty sparrow]

and a lot of people dropped the game

[storm narwhal]

and it's not like they have 90% finished content

[misty sparrow]

its a shame how badly 343 mismanaged Halo

[dusk knot]

Theo just using SDR IS BAD

[storm narwhal]

like the falcon, the grav hammer shotgun

[chrome mirage]

Halo 2 is the reason I fixed up an OG Xbox 4 years ago.

[opaque sedge]

Idk, i grew up in a different country, gaming was only accessible to rich kids or peeps

[nocturne flicker]

They put it behind a paywall on Youtube. For a company that went out of business

[misty sparrow]

four times in a row they screwed up with Halo releases LMAO

[storm narwhal]

certain maps and stuff

[icy ore]

[velvet summit]

☠️

[storm narwhal]

they have the content just sitting there nearly finished

[opaque sedge]

I think hardware is still rather expensive there

[velvet summit]

i mean to be fair, the ip is out for sale i believe?

[storm narwhal]

all they have to do is to focus on actually finishing the rest and releasing the falcon and the shotgun

[nocturne flicker]

They did it in the lead up to the movie or whatever and never undid it iirc

[tranquil pebble]

Favorite 360 game for me was probably Forza Motorsport 4

[light egret]

I swear I just watched it like a couple years ago on netflix or somethin and I feel like it was on a lot of platforms at the time

[storm narwhal]

yes, there's a much smaller team now maintaining halo but literally so many people would love a new weapon and vehicle

[light egret]

what country? and are you still in that country?

[chrome mirage]

I have an unused code for Xbox live

[opaque sedge]

US rn, nepal if ur really curious

[storm narwhal]

as for maps, if you're outsourcing everything to forge creators and subjecting them to much stricter requirements than paid map developers

[icy ore]

Man the pelican could so easily be added in

[nocturne flicker]

It was off Netflix by 2020

[misty sparrow]

Remember when game launches in general were really big

[storm narwhal]

MAYBE PAY OR FIND SOME WAY TO REIMBURSE THE LITERAL MONTHS THEY SPEND ON THE MAP

[light egret]

it's apparently on prime video rn

[misty sparrow]

and people crowded in public spaces just to get the game

[light egret]

and now i wanna watch it again

[tranquil pebble]

free trials for live no longer exist... you have to pay for them now... like $1 for 15 days or something

[sinful blade]

Inactive

[velvet summit]

will never happen again ever pretty much
Except maybe for half life 3
but likely never again

game development is too widespread

[sinful blade]

It expired in 2005

[velvet summit]

new games coming out practically everyday at this point

[misty sparrow]

rip

also

[light egret]

That makes more sense then. Welcome to the world of gaming for not rich kids

[chrome mirage]

Shh

[misty sparrow]

new HL game info just got leaked btw

[velvet summit]

yeah i saw

it wasnt confirmed to be half life, but signs point to yeah

[fervent stump]

meow~

[tranquil pebble]

and 99% are either nothing remotely noteworthy or complete trash

[misty sparrow]

dont know if its HL3 but any new HL game is good for me

[velvet summit]

fr

[chrome mirage]

Remember when you could get 2 games in a game case

[nocturne flicker]

It has all been archived on Internet Archive, just have to dig for it. Mostly in the season long takes and not individual episodes

[storm narwhal]

truly

[light egret]

I mean if it's on prime, I'ma just watch it on prime lmao

[nocturne flicker]

It isn't everything iirc

[storm narwhal]

still remember when getting a game was so cool because you could read the stuff on the back and inside the disk case

[misty sparrow]

and the manuals were colorful

and had cool pictures

[chrome mirage]

GTA V came with a huge map you could hang on your wall

[tranquil pebble]

I bought 10 PS2 games from Japan on eBay a while back and they all have manuals

[storm narwhal]

okay that's cool

[light egret]

You appear to be right. They cut a lot of jokes apparently

[storm narwhal]

I didn't know that lol

[misty sparrow]

Halo 3's came with a cool little poster you can put on a wall too

I still have it in the disc case

[storm narwhal]

true

[tranquil pebble]

GTA V came with a poster of the map iirc

[misty sparrow]

didnt someone just say that

[chrome mirage]

I never took it out of the case. I just found it

[tranquil pebble]

I missed it

[light egret]

I miss the days when games came with manuals and cool little posters and all that stuff

[misty sparrow]

ah hell yeah bro

cool poster

[chrome mirage]

I just thought it was the instruction manual

[misty sparrow]

games these days will never really capture the feeling of games released in early 2010s and the 2000s

[tranquil pebble]

Red Faction Guerilla was peak 00s

[chrome mirage]

That was the first game I got free with gold

[misty sparrow]

occasionally games released now will be god tier

[pseudo raven]

waiting for portal 3...

[misty sparrow]

but look on wikipedia of games people consider to be the greatest of all time and stuff from the 2000s and early 2010s will be mentioned more than games released mid-2010s onward

[chrome mirage]

I got most of my games used so it's hit or miss whether they have the original contents

[tranquil pebble]

I would throw my wallet at Valve for that

[nocturne flicker]

Mmm. Gamestop bargain bin

[light egret]

I used to cherry pick through the games to make sure I got the copies with the original contents

[chrome mirage]

Some guy's mom sold me 50 games for $50

[misty sparrow]

went to a best buy bargain bin a year ago and saw a 360 copy of Fallout New Vegas

i regret not picking it up

[nocturne flicker]

I wouldn't. Console New Vegas is worst New Vegas

[light egret]

I had a friend give me a box of old games he had in the attic. One of the games was $210 and another was $450 at the time lmao

[nocturne flicker]

Especially PS3

[misty sparrow]

obviously it isn't the BEST version of FNV

[light egret]

he had no idea until I told him weeks later

[misty sparrow]

but I'd want to at least have it on a shelf

[tranquil pebble]

Earth Defense Force 4.1 is peak mid 2010s

[opaque sedge]

I mean parents or even adults still gotta have a disposable income to game here on pcs , consoles seemed more accessible to me and i was really looking forward to the ps5 release but we all know how that went

[misty sparrow]

9th gen consoles have no games

welcome to the real world

[nocturne flicker]

The game files got so big it'd lag out on autosaves to the point it would be unplayable on PS3

[tranquil pebble]

I avoid Bethesda games on console period. IK NV was Obsidian but it still has that buggy engine.

[opaque sedge]

What gen are the current consoles?

[misty sparrow]

9th gen

[light egret]

wdym? Ps5 release was fine. They coulda had more games to draw you in but most consoles release with next to nothing on em

[tranquil pebble]

Cirno generation

[storm narwhal]

next xbox is last xbox

[misty sparrow]

so essentially this gen is PS5 and Xbox Series X/S

[nocturne flicker]

Literally could not walk into the strip because it'd lag so much it basically froze at the gate when at level 20

[storm narwhal]

they are becoming microsoft gaming™️ now

[misty sparrow]

switch doesn't count

[opaque sedge]

Them being out of stock? Driven up prices in stockx and resellers?

[light egret]

ahhhhh

I forgot about that part

[chrome mirage]

My mom sold a bunch of my games without permission so I wasn't able to save all of them

[storm narwhal]

but xbox games are fully backward compatible

[light egret]

She would not be my mother anymore

[storm narwhal]

ps5 only works with ps4 games

[misty sparrow]

We're four years in to 9th gen console gaming and it feels like they only JUST started

[opaque sedge]

U must love steam to bits then

[light egret]

that's why I went with the series X over the PS5

[tranquil pebble]

Series X is so silent lol

[chrome mirage]

Think I have over 200 games in steam

[nocturne flicker]

On the one hand I want a physical copy of my games. On the other hand, my Steam library is giant

[opaque sedge]

But ps5 has that white aesthetic yk, jk btw

[misty sparrow]

too bad the Xbox consoles are only backwards compatible with certain games

[storm narwhal]

fr steam library is enourmous

[misty sparrow]

not all of them lol

[light egret]

I like my mini fridge asthetic tyvm

[storm narwhal]

also fair

[light egret]

it is what it claims, it's a box.

[opaque sedge]

F the lianli subreddit has influenced my sense of humor too

[opaque sedge]

I muted that cursed place too late

[misty sparrow]

and unlike the older consoles, you can't just put the disc in and play. the damn thing has to copy off the disc and download stuff to play the game

[opaque sedge]

:PepeHands:

Huh

[chrome mirage]

Here's the 360 games I was able to save

[opaque sedge]

:PepeHands:

What de hell

[light egret]

which is why we need to go back to cartidges on every system

[nocturne flicker]

Mmm. The Seventh Gen experience

[storm narwhal]

yeahh you aren't really playing the game off the disk anymore

[light egret]

every cartridge is a mini ssd

[misty sparrow]

Skate 3 is probably the 2nd best game on this pile

[nocturne flicker]

Except Wii

[storm narwhal]

skate 3 hilarity

[chrome mirage]

My little brother still plays it

[misty sparrow]

I've never played another game like Skate 3

[nocturne flicker]

Did Wii games even get patches?

[light egret]

I think some did

but I can't confirm that

[storm narwhal]

I know the nintendo 3ds did after EOL

[sinful blade]

I need that re6 ty

[storm narwhal]

specifically just to get in the way of modders lol

[chrome mirage]

I don't really want it

[misty sparrow]

once saw a group of people dressed up like Jesus Christ just skating rapidly around the map

[sinful blade]

I broke my disk for mine on the move to my current apartment

[misty sparrow]

there really is no other game like Skate 3

[nocturne flicker]

I know the consoles themselves got patches, but I don't recall ever installing a single patch for a Wii game

[misty sparrow]

I don't think Wii games ever did get patches

[chrome mirage]

Couldn't find the GTA V map but I found oblivion's

[storm narwhal]

i do not know

[misty sparrow]

and i've had one since what, 2009?

[sinful blade]

Oblivion >>>>> any es game

[chrome mirage]

The last game my dad ever bought was Skyrim and he never even played it

[tranquil pebble]

We should celebrate Google losing a massive lawsuit ngl

[tacit geode]

I love the car so far

its a nice car

[nocturne flicker]

Man got out of Skyrim before being suckered into buying the gajillion rereleases

[velvet summit]

close call

[chrome mirage]

Instead he got me into buying a bunch of rereleases

[velvet summit]

a problem for the future generations

[chrome mirage]

I actually didn't buy the remaster. When it came out I bought the original again on PC

[nocturne flicker]

The say that in the year 2300, the robot emulating Todd shall release Skyrim 2300 Special Edition

[chrome mirage]

I also bought it for the switch but that was mostly just to test the capabilities of the hardware

[nocturne flicker]

The 2300 representing not the year, but the rerelease count

[velvet summit]

skyrim ultra deluxe

[nocturne flicker]

Ultra Deluxe Anniversary Special Re-edition

[light egret]

oh ok, so Wii games came with the latest version (at the time of release for the game) of the wii firmware. If your WII wasn't up to date, you would have to update it but could do so without internet as it was included on the disk, apparently. So it was kinda backwards

Apparently nintendo had a strict, no patch policy

[nocturne flicker]

...And the games came on standard DVD? No wonder why bigger games never touched the console

[light egret]

There were a few that were on basically a dual layered disc

Brawl was one of them. Sometimes wiis couldn't handle it and wouldn't read dual layered discs properly

[nocturne flicker]

Oh, apparently it was a DVD based Wii specific model

[light egret]

what?

[nocturne flicker]

It was a proprietary version of a DVD disc

[light egret]

oh yeah.

It was just a DVD with DRM

but normal dvd was the thing back then. Most ps2 and xbox games were just DVDs

[sinful blade]

What is you guy’s favourite looking pc part of all time?

Any part. Like it just brings you joy seeing it.

[misty sparrow]

imagine getting dominated by a guy with a hot wheels gaming setup

[light egret]

Iunno I always loved the front I/O look with the DVD/CD read/writer and all the ports for diff memory cards and USB and all that. But apparently the world disagrees with me.

[nocturne flicker]

Yeah, I remember it was a major selling point for the PS2, that it could be a dvd player on top of a game console

[misty sparrow]

i think the PS2 was a major drive for DVD adoption

[light egret]

my mom literally got me the whole PS2 DVD remote kit with the PS2 for my birthday lol

[misty sparrow]

and the death of VHS

[chrome mirage]

That was my dream setup when I was 3

Still is my dream setup

[light egret]

I wanted it so bad but I wasn't "old enough to have a PC"

[chrome mirage]

My parents let me use the PC because I was 4 and set it up myself

[light egret]

I could use the family PC

I wasn't allowed to have my own

prob cause I fed the family one food things when I was younger lmao

[nocturne flicker]

Wa

What did you feed your PC

[storm narwhal]

chips

[light egret]

well I remember putting a pbj into the VCR

[storm narwhal]

OH GOD

[light egret]

Im sure I smeared PB in the disk drive

I was a nightmare child when I was < 3

[tranquil pebble]

it was... I remember those days

[sinful blade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLGfeiMdi1Q

[nocturne flicker]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-huh-cat-huh-etr-gif-15332443943609734737

[chrome mirage]

I strictly followed the no food around electronics rule that my parents had

Now not so much

[light egret]

Back in the early 90s when cell phones were kinda rare and expensive, I flushed my dad's fancy work cell down the toilet

[tranquil pebble]

oooof

[light egret]

did you just say bad words at me

[sinful blade]

Younger you*

[chrome mirage]

I flushed my grandpa's electronic battleship game down the toilet

[sinful blade]

Not current you

[sinful blade]

OH HECK NO

[tranquil pebble]

wasnt me who swore

[nocturne flicker]

I mean, I stuck toilet paper in the open flame heater in the bathroom when I was younger because pyromania but PB&J?!?!!?

[tranquil pebble]

I remember destroying a vacuum cleaner as a kid by intentionally sucking up water with it

[light egret]

iunno I just got a @ notif and then I saw the "watch your language!"

[light egret]

but it was hungry

[tranquil pebble]

if you set kleenex on fire it makes a hissing sound (dont actually do this lol)

[chrome mirage]

He had 2 of them so I still play one when I'm over there

[nocturne flicker]

I didn't free access to tissues. But I had plenty of cheap, one ply toilet paper

I ended up sticking a marker cap in it and burning myself on molten plastic

[tranquil pebble]

Weirdest thing I ever burned as a kid was a mailbox. It smelled pretty bad.

[light egret]

I apparently had an evil laugh. My mom loves to tell me the story about her hearing my evil laugh and she ran to our carpeted kitchen where I was standing in front of the fridge wide open, had already smeared pepto bismol, ketchup, mustard, and other various liquids into the carpet, and had a carton of eggs in my hand and was just smashing them into the ground while laughing manically.

[tranquil pebble]

Well a newspaper box anyways

[light egret]

We didn't have carpet in the kitchen anymore.

[nocturne flicker]

Also apparently I am told I set a broom on fire but I reject such claims as I merely swept the burnt tp ashes with it

[tranquil pebble]

demonic

[nocturne flicker]

I have no recollections of burning a broom. Maybe

[sinful blade]

I’m gonna punch your leg

[light egret]

And now I have my own demon on the way.

[nocturne flicker]

I am having the vaguest sense of rembering singed broom bristles but that doesn't mean it was set on fire

[proud jackal]

where is his leg, B6?

[sinful blade]

I was an addict to battleship
Someone stole my little electronic version

[light egret]

Im so scared that my offspring is gonna be just as bad. We got our first scan at 14 weeks and the baby was just BOUNCING LIKE MAD. I don't think that's supposed to happen this early

[chrome mirage]

I still remember the guilt of 5 year old me after flushing it

[sinful blade]

So hearing that @chrome mirage destroyed one

Angy

Not like serious angy

But I’m gonna pinch his leg

[chrome mirage]

I hoped that the flush would just rinse it off and that I would able to grab it back out

He still has one though and it still works

[nocturne flicker]

I once clogged the toilet at my grandpa's and flooded the bathroom

[sinful blade]

You guys were all terrible children

Most I did was accidentally broke a doorknob

[proud jackal]

do you guys like gaming with sdr or hdr

[nocturne flicker]

Hey man I felt extremely bad about it and was crying in a corner of his living room over it

[light egret]

I didn't. Like I said, I was a demon child 😂

[tranquil pebble]

SDR because my monitor is trash at HDR

[sinful blade]

Buy him a new bathroom

[nocturne flicker]

He's dead

[sinful blade]

and?

[chrome mirage]

I game on sdr but only because the local dimming zones on my monitor are massive and make HDR look bad

[sinful blade]

Slap a pooper on that grave

[nocturne flicker]

[misty sparrow]

Never used HDR

[tranquil pebble]

HDR sucks unless you buy really expensive screens

[chrome mirage]

Currently gaming on CRT

[misty sparrow]

Don't think I've ever really used 4K either

or 1440p

all 1080p

[tranquil pebble]

only thing I have that can do HDR properly is my phone

its an OLED screen though

[rancid juniper]

HDR brightness is beaming like the sun

[proud jackal]

Why so many hdr

[storm narwhal]

SDR cause HDR is a pain

[nocturne flicker]

I don't think the cemetery would appreciate me leaving a toilet on a grave

[rancid juniper]

Halo

[sinful blade]

They should appreciate you giving him a heartfelt gift

[misty sparrow]

you on Quarantine Zone?

[tranquil pebble]

a crappy one though

[sinful blade]

heheh get it

[misty sparrow]

the level where you start out on a moving platform and have to defend yourself against Flood

i hate that level

[tranquil pebble]

and yes that was 100% intended

[sinful blade]

https://tenor.com/view/puns-aren-t-bad-terrible-gif-25701367

[nocturne flicker]

Its okay he forgave me and gave me a medallion

[nocturne flicker]

I dunno why but he did

It was a Marine Corp medallion on a lanyard. Except he wasn't in the Marines and I don't know where he got it from

[sinful blade]

I love that Bo burnham was active, left the internet for 10 years, came back with instant success, and just nothing again

[nocturne flicker]

Man livin his life

[idle nexus]

lol passive. 28 AWG to drive speakers? npnp

[sinful blade]

Like WTF

[misty sparrow]

He'll come back eventually

to bless us with more good content

[velvet summit]

isnt he still active in person, just not online

[nocturne flicker]

He promised to never go outside again man

[sinful blade]

8 year hiatus again

[misty sparrow]

plot twist: gman from halflife is just putting him in stasis

thats why he uploads occasionally

[rough zinc]

I did it intentionally with two modded ACs for benching

[tranquil pebble]

if I could Id go into stasis and wake up in like year 2100

[chrome mirage]

I think I'd rather go back in time than forward. I know what happened in the past and I'm afraid of the future

[rough zinc]

If I went back in time I could know to invest in bitcoin

[dusk knot]

HDR is the way it was meant to be

[rough zinc]

Gaming in 2p is the way it was meant to be

[tranquil pebble]

Youd probably somehow end up making a time paradox and killing the universe

[rough zinc]

How do you know I didn’t already?

[chrome mirage]

We're in the weasel timeline right now

[dusk knot]

I hope you turned it on in windows

[tranquil pebble]

if you played it you know, if not then shrug