#general-chat

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elfin mural
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oops, that's a modern business practice isn't it?

nocturne flicker
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Can I have free revenue plz forwardfacingpepe

queen briar
nocturne flicker
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I need mones for healthcare

elfin mural
queen briar
elfin mural
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it's annoying that i can only name one

worthy meteor
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The Costco guy

elfin mural
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oh right, costco

worthy meteor
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Or the Arizona guy

elfin mural
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1 dollar hotdogs

queen briar
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hmmm i might be able to argue costco

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arizona? i really cant.

worthy meteor
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The three horsemen of the apocalypse, Costco guy, Arizona guy, Gabe Newell

elfin mural
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costco has a very effective business model

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plus a good ceo

queen briar
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costco is literally the oppisite of walmart

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when walmart comes into town, its drivesaway competition until its left remaining. Costco actually has a proven track record of bringing local busoness in and improving their profits

elfin mural
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costco's membership system ensures a revenue stream

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so they have real money to do stuff

queen briar
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id easily pay $100 for a costco membership. they really shoudl increase it.

elfin mural
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real, stable revenue stream

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a membership isn't bad if it actually provides long term value

queen briar
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exactly

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costco is the best subcription service

elfin mural
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sadly all the other subscriptions are simply made to empty wallets

worthy meteor
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The mixed use apartment complex that Costco is attempting is very interesting too

queen briar
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costco should make a media content channel and compete with netflix and amazon

worthy meteor
elfin mural
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the convenience factor is real

queen briar
worthy meteor
elfin mural
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ah

worthy meteor
elfin mural
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yeah you just walk downstairs and you can buy your groceries lmao

worthy meteor
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One of the dozen that doesn't help anything

queen briar
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dude, i wish costco foot court was open late.

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imagine late night gamign with the bros, and instead of tacoebll raid, its costco hotdogs and pizza

elfin mural
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or not even buy groceries sometimes as they have a lot of cheap food

queen briar
worthy meteor
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I'd imagine that would eat into their costs lol

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costco has pretty limited hours as a grocery store

elfin mural
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still a good idea to pretty much live above one

worthy meteor
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yea definitely

nocturne flicker
opaque sedge
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Anybody here try out mewgenics pepehmmm

nocturne flicker
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Nobody is clean

queen briar
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Costco needs to have standalone food court locations

worthy meteor
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hard to blame what happens at one location on the company :p

worthy meteor
nocturne flicker
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To be fair they self reported. Still should never have happened to begin with

worthy meteor
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it drives more foot traffic into the store where the store makes money

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just the food court is just throwing money away

queen briar
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isnt 80% of costco revenue from subscriptions?

worthy meteor
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80% of the profits, yes

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but it's a small part of the general revenue

elfin mural
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costco is about cheap quality products, so i can imagine the apartments being affordable

lone mango
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They make so much money through memberships that it doesn't matter

nocturne flicker
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Though they also did break the Controlled Substances act at one point iirc

queen briar
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ok wait, isnt that better

elfin mural
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you'll never own the apartments i would imagine, but they would at least charge a somewhat fair rent

queen briar
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cause 80% of profit means it includes revenue

queen briar
worthy meteor
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lemme grab some actual numbers though

nocturne flicker
worthy meteor
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actually probably a lot less than 80%

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the number is probably 80% of the revenue from membership is pure profit

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looks like membership fees would come out 65% of the net profit when considering it as pure profit

elfin mural
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that's a lot of profit

worthy meteor
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but those are some real thin margins

lone mango
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I'm not the one that has the membership cards but are these clubs really worth it

queen briar
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and where does the food court come into play

worthy meteor
worthy meteor
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lemme read the thing and make sure though

queen briar
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i really cant stand behind the food court drives sales in store.

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i rarely see any person walking inside the costco with food court items, if anything, a soda. its mostly an after shopping thing.

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so id see it more as a supplimentary value

lone mango
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some things

queen briar
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" im going to costco for some toilet paper. i got get me that salad and diet coke on the way out "

nocturne flicker
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It is always better to min max pricing on everything, just nobody got the time for that

queen briar
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itsl ike the same premsis of those times hwen mcdonalds use to ask if you want to supersize your combos.

worthy meteor
queen briar
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you go in looking fopr one price, you get upsold the others

worthy meteor
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the idea isn't you eat and you shop, the idea is you shop longer because you know you'll eat there after you shop

worn wave
queen briar
worthy meteor
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tbh how good their food is doesn't matter that much, I'm just talking about store design and how the food court is about 90% of the way through the entire store

lone mango
queen briar
elfin mural
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maybe it's an asian thing but asian malls all have food courts and they're one of the reasons that make people shop there too

worthy meteor
queen briar
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my friend swear by buying his protein in bulk from costco

nocturne flicker
elfin mural
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buying groceries then sit down to eat

nocturne flicker
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You buying stuff for one person it'll be hard to make efficient use of club membership

worn wave
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I wouldn't be surprised if I make back my Costco membership in pizza alone

worthy meteor
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If you eat eggs frequently enough, the big containers of eggs at costco tends to be ~30% or so cheaper than comparable options at common grocery stores per egg for example

worn wave
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If you value the $10 pizza at more like $20

elfin mural
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the food courts here are often well populated in certain hours

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mostly lunch time

queen briar
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its usually " i wanan go get pants/outfit for the event " and then its " wre here, lets get somethign too "

worthy meteor
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Costco has a lot of items that are priced well when you buy in bulk, as is the purpose of the store, but if you're someone that lives alone and eats like an egg a day or less, the eggs will go bad before you finish it, therefore it's not going to be worth it

queen briar
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i think they last like 6 months before even starting to go bad in a fridge.

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as someone who keeps his eggs on the counter? yea, anything after a month is usually bad

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but when i make eggs, its 3x at least.

worthy meteor
worthy meteor
queen briar
nocturne flicker
worthy meteor
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I mean that idea did come from the 20+ year old malls

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costco just lived when those malls died

queen briar
nocturne flicker
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Older eggs in my experience start developing weird stringy bits when cooked

queen briar
worthy meteor
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ymmv but you can only really tell when you crack it open

queen briar
nocturne flicker
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Size has nothing to do with it?

queen briar
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and when i make them an omlette, its filled with so much mushrooms, cheese, meat and spinach, i cant even tell

worthy meteor
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over medium as in cooked on both sides until the inside isn't runny

nocturne flicker
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Oh, you mean over medium as in cooked

queen briar
worthy meteor
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I do find that older eggs tend to be more runny and the egg whites have a bit of a weirder texture

nocturne flicker
worthy meteor
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from like 3-4 weeks after first purchase

nocturne flicker
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You stick them in a fridge long enough you'll start getting eggs with giant air pockets

nocturne flicker
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We clean eggs with chemicals in the US

worthy meteor
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I'm assuming that's about how the eggs are washed on an industrial scale and that washes away some of the protective membrane

lone mango
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doesnt it get removed entirely

queen briar
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like harsh chemicals?

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i thought it was a form of soap and water

worthy meteor
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I mean it doesn't necessarily have to be harsh chemicals, it can be, but either way it washes away the layer of the protective membrane

queen briar
nocturne flicker
queen briar
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mmmmmm eggs

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the best part of the egg is 1000% the yolk

nocturne flicker
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Basically in order to prevent salmonella, we just clean every egg in such a harsh manner that we damage the shell enough to allow air and bacteria to penetrate the shell

worthy meteor
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upside of the yolk is a lot of nutrients, the downside of the yolk is that it is a lot of various nutrients that you may already be eating too much of

queen briar
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ever eat a over egg whole and it bust in your mouth? mmmmm

nocturne flicker
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Air makes the air pocket expand and slowly evaporates moisture

queen briar
lone mango
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doubt because a lot of the eggs we get are from brutal farms that yield eggs with less nutrition

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like vitamins

worthy meteor
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I'm talking about Cholesterol lol

queen briar
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PEMDAS

lone mango
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you could eat 5 eggs daily and eat 0, and have more or less the same cholesterol

worthy meteor
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you can eat 5 eggs worth of egg whites and be fine

lone mango
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the bigger issue is other factors that make your liver produce more cholesterol

lone mango
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your liver produces the majority of the cholesterol in your body

worthy meteor
queen briar
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my body produces a lot of sugar too. that doesnt mean drinking 0 sodas and 5 a day isnt the same.

nocturne flicker
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Sugarp?

lone mango
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what

worthy meteor
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because it can still be runny on the inside

nocturne flicker
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Your body doesn't produce sugar pepehmmm

queen briar
worthy meteor
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the egg white chunks get too boring otherwise

queen briar
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hmmm i get where yo ucoming from, but i prefer soft eggs.

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hmmm but i do love me some deviled eggs

worthy meteor
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you know the kind of eggs you get with ramen?

queen briar
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with bacon and fresh dill

worthy meteor
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those but homemade and whole

queen briar
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yes. thats why i said i love them

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ive made them before myself

worthy meteor
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I see them as a soft egg lol

queen briar
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mirin, soy sauce, tiny bit of brown sugar.

worthy meteor
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yep, that's all it takes, although I didn't use any brown sugar

lone mango
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but yeah the biggest factor affecting blood cholesterol is actually if you sugarmaxx or not

queen briar
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different recipe

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it was abotu cutting down the harshness of the mirin

lone mango
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if you eat more cholesterol then your liver just produces less and if you eat less then it makes more

queen briar
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ive actually had a ramen shop around here who added chili garlic to their marinated egg recipe

worthy meteor
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I mean, I also use some other seasoning that aren't usually in the recipe, stuff like star anise, but the base is the same lol

queen briar
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was pretty good, but i think it was a waste of use

lone mango
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i completely forgot about ramen stuff

queen briar
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ive used ginger, but not anise

worthy meteor
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can always add stuff for different flavor

queen briar
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fresh ginger marinated eggs omfg

lone mango
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i have never had real ramen

worthy meteor
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also the mythical bay leaf that goes in everything

queen briar
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and black sesame paste? mmmm

worthy meteor
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idk I don't think I'll ever have real ramen if I don't go to Japan

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can only assume the ramen I've had here aren't representative of what they actually taste like

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flavors inevitably change to fit a palate and fit whatever ingredients are available

random osprey
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@proud jackal lizard

sand hill
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ok this is a serious topic and need an answer asap!

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so i used to have this and it was in my kart until the price starting going high

elfin mural
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my god

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you'll wanna order a different kit

sand hill
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of course i need to find a very low one and stumble across this but are they the same and is this one that cost 249.99 worth it for 2026? please i need an honest answer and if you know the best one that is ddr5 but low then let me know

elfin mural
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3980 bucks is wild

sand hill
elfin mural
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why do you want the corsair vengeance kits specifically?

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is it the looks?

sand hill
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actually.....it's something to do about the ddr5, cause i was told that ddr4 is not good (for what i heard from) so yeah and plus i don't know the best one

elfin mural
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all ram is made the same to an extent

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do you want rgb?

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i can find a good kit for a price that isn't totally absurd

sand hill
elfin mural
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the platform you are buying into only works with ddr5, so i'm gonna look at ddr5

sand hill
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oh boy where do i begin....... before that is it for games or the parts?

elfin mural
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the parts

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the motherboard is on the AM5 socket

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which only takes ddr5

sand hill
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wait here it is and jokes on that this bad boy is am5

elfin mural
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yeah, it is AM5

sand hill
elfin mural
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Silicon Power Store (US)

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With a coupon applied, it goes down to 359

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Seems to be as low as a rgb 32gb kit is gonna get rn

sand hill
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hm.....look promising? and is this the best for 2026?

elfin mural
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Well, it's the cheapest I could find with rgb and 32gb capacity so far

sand hill
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i see and can't blame you there

elfin mural
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6000 mhz is also a good speed for AM5 cpus

sand hill
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gotcha thanks, i'll get this instead and i know i said this like two times but......i still friggin blame openai for this.......

elfin mural
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Have you decided on a cpu and a cooler for it yet?

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"It" being the cpu. You do need something to keep it cool

tropic relic
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ngl whoever told me that ddr5 wasn't really an upgrade from ddr4 is a liar

sand hill
tropic relic
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i get way more fps dips using ddr4

elfin mural
sand hill
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ye

tropic relic
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foxy can i ask for advice

elfin mural
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sure

tropic relic
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its not about laptops but desktop upgrade

elfin mural
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i'll try my best

tropic relic
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okay let me just show you this rq

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sorry these will be in buildcores because i cant be bothered to transfer all these builds to pcpp rn

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so

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this is basically the cheaper build i made with the 9070xt and ddr5

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but i felt like i could upgrade this and when i did, the price went up substantially but im still trying to figure out if it will be worth it

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so i thought maybe i could replace the 9070 in that build with a 5080 and leave it as is

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it would more expensive, quite

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about 2600$ if i did a 5080

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big jump

elfin mural
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you can save some cash by not going for a pcie gen 5 ssd

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the difference in load times is minimal once you have a pcie gen 3 drive

tropic relic
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but i also upgraded the entire build in another build instead of just the gpu

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but it comes out to a lot more

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nearly 2x the amount of the original idea

elfin mural
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lemme browse for an ssd real quick

tropic relic
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i'd expect to never have issues low fps again ideally

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freaking sitting at 60 fps with frequent 30 fps drops in minecraft with a 6750xt

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been optimizing it for like an hour

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or two

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not to mention the peripherals cost

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which would probably be another 1000$

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so maybe 4.5k for the entire setup

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either way im probably going to upgrade my setup, im using basically lost and found stuff to hobble a setup together rn

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gifted items

elfin mural
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looks like the ssd is actually pretty nicely priced

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the prices are all high across other choices

tropic relic
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p510 is a good price rn

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yeah

elfin mural
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are you running games at 1440p

tropic relic
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i could save some money on some other brands but i dont want to save like 20 bucks and buy from a random company

tropic relic
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1080p

elfin mural
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ok

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then uhh a 5080 is way overkill tbh

tropic relic
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when i upgrade, i will

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to avoid confusio

elfin mural
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i'd stick to a 9070xt at most

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even that is a very capable 1440p card

tropic relic
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im gonna use my 1080p monitor as a side monitor probably

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and buy a 1440p monitor

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hmm

elfin mural
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if money is not a problem, yeah. 5080

tropic relic
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im just worried that i will buy a 9070xt and suffer from fps drops on gpu intense games

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and mods

elfin mural
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i think that's a cpu issue, or it's minecraft being minecraft

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it never exactly runs right

tropic relic
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on the laptop you recommended me, lets say heavily modded + ultra shaderpack minecraft is like

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maybe 60 fps

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with a 5070ti card

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and it still suffers sometimes

elfin mural
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that 5070ti is like behind a 5060ti desktop

tropic relic
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but also my 6750xt is overclocked and undervolted

elfin mural
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9070xt is a lot more potent than 5070ti laptop

tropic relic
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i see

elfin mural
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seus ptgi gets like 120 fps at 1440p

deep parcel
tropic relic
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hmm

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well im also hearing people with 2080ti cards getting 120 fps with ultra BSL

elfin mural
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bsl is not exactly a heavy shader to run

tropic relic
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and yet im suffering on a more refined custom settings and optimised hardware

elfin mural
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my 4050 laptop can handle it fine

tropic relic
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yeah but im still suffering

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my gpu is at 100% usage

elfin mural
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well a laptop is power limited on its cpu

tropic relic
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last i checked

elfin mural
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which handicaps the cpu perf

tropic relic
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let me open msi and benchmark it rq

elfin mural
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9800x3d should let minecraft use as much cpu power as it'll ever need

tropic relic
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okay sorry i will do it now

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my msi settings got reset

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had to fix it

elfin mural
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begone bot

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another crypto scam type shit

tropic relic
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this is the best it has performed at all btw

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and i've optimized BSL and my minecraft, and retuned my cpu, vram, and gpu

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im using process lasso too

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i can increase my mhz

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my temps are fine

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actually im running complimentary

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let me run bsl

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i didnt show cpu usage but it usually tops out at 54%

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thats the highest ive seen it go

elfin mural
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are you sure you're running on the dgpu on the laptop?

tropic relic
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this is on my desktop

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using the 6750xt

elfin mural
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hm

tropic relic
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when it comes to the 5070ti, it does have some issues as well

elfin mural
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you should be getting like way more perf

tropic relic
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but i havent optimized it at all

elfin mural
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more than double

tropic relic
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thats what im saying

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i just went into the jvm arguements and set my minimum ram usage to 2gb and max to 7gb

elfin mural
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are your chunks maxed out?

tropic relic
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before it was 0 min 10gb max

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you mean my rendering?

elfin mural
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ya

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the distance

tropic relic
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yes

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honestly nothing really impacts my fps

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it just sucks

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in general

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no matter what settings i change

elfin mural
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hmm

tropic relic
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it will still be like this even with 2 chunks

tropic relic
elfin mural
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idk what's wrong with your minecraft experience honestly

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it being consistently trash on all systems

tropic relic
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This is the default ULTRA preset for BSL

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super bad stuttering, no more than 50 fps

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about 75% usage peak for both CPU and GPU

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hmm

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i have an idea

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i dont think it's going to help much but im gonna set my minimum gpu mhz to 2700

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oh god i was wrong

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that was like an insane performance boost

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maybe im cpu bottlenecking then

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let me run iteration T

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that will really be a test

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on ultra on iteration T which is the heaviest shader i know, i get 30-60 fps with a lot of stuttering

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BSL ULTRA is 60-90

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i think

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nvm it looks like im sitting at 60 fps, for some reason it isnt going above that, just rarely it spikes over 60 and returns back to it

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and then i have like fps spikes where i lose 30 fps but the stuttering is pretty tame

tropic relic
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I increased my power limit to my gpu and it helped a ton too

chrome mirage
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I'm getting pissed off with Linux. I can't find a way to unlock my cards full power limit. Also the power limit seems to switch between 350W and 402W when I restart my PC.

craggy shoal
tacit geode
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wwhats wwith that filename

velvet summit
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average online downloader service

tranquil pebble
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probably a hash of some kind appended to it, or multiple hashes?

tacit geode
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its funny if ai didnt take ram and lets say something else did.

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people would be making videos of that

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or if nothing was

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there was be something else they complain about

tranquil pebble
tranquil pebble
tacit geode
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eh

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i get that

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but its just funny

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if it wasnt ai

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they would blame crypto

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if it wasnt crypto they would blame game servers

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or professionals would blame gamers

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but I hate how 95% of videos use some form of ai now

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its sad

velvet summit
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the thing about crypto though, is that it barely requires any ram

tacit geode
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that wasnt the point

velvet summit
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AI requires many gigs of ram to load models

tacit geode
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just an example

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its never not gonna be ai

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so

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the rest dont matter

velvet summit
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like basically every other application asides from like scientific simulations require basically no ram in comparison to what AI needs

unreal trail
velvet summit
tacit geode
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or minecraft servers

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XD

velvet summit
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even that is barely anything

velvet summit
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minecraft you're still limited by single core performance, more than ram

tacit geode
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I know

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too bad they dont multicore it

velvet summit
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they did, but most things still rely on the main thread

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mfw minecraft servers work best on consumer grade hardware because of that

tranquil pebble
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I run a minecraft server off of a 9800x3d

velvet summit
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you could get around the single core thing by splitting the world into different sections (not minecraft chunks) for multiple servers to handle at the same time, but that has its own issues with synchronization

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it works well with skyblock servers though

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alternatively, minigame servers like hypixel has a bunch of different game worlds (and alot of custom code) to support the large playerbase, to effectively spread the load between many servers

tacit geode
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yep

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i used to to the same thing

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did it for gamdias

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3 creative servers 1 survival

velvet summit
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i do wonder if microsoft would ever make a well performing vanilla minecraft server

probably not lmao

tranquil pebble
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no

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they dont need to lol

velvet summit
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they're as likely to fix minecraft java as they are to get windows off the NT kernel

tranquil pebble
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Eventually, the NT kernel might become unmaintainable

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which would at the least need a major rewrite

velvet summit
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windows 128: still on the nt kernel frfr

tranquil pebble
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especially if they are putting vibe code into it

velvet summit
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they gonna vibe code the nt2 kernel

tacit geode
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windows 12

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itll be entirely vibecoded

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only vibecoded

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and only vibetesting

velvet summit
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made by ai, for ai 🗣️

bitter ridge
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Hopefully more transparent elements in Windows 12

tranquil pebble
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I would not count on it

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Microsoft is still fully committed to AI garbage

tacit geode
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i vibecoded my entire life

lone mango
lone mango
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I was running and playing on older 6 cores and even with my 9600x

tacit geode
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ill use my rpi

velvet summit
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depends on the amount of users

tranquil pebble
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9800x3d is good at running Minecraft because of the strong single thread

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I run a massive modpack on it

velvet summit
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if your server is popping then you'll need a better cpu

tranquil pebble
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it is not

lone mango
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I have a large random collection of mods over the year and it’s at like 140

tranquil pebble
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I have a modpack of about 500 mods

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I didn't make it though

velvet summit
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i ran a mc server for a friend group for a few months on a i5 like 6th gen or smth 💀 it handled like 4 people fine (after preloading a bunch of chunks) but with 6 people, it had a fair bit of performance issues lmao

lone mango
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I have typically 3 people on there, sometimes 4 but have the server view distance high

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We have planes and fly around fast

tranquil pebble
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I have 12 chunk distance on my server

lone mango
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That’s a lot of chunk generation

lone mango
tranquil pebble
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what's that?

lone mango
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Lets you render further than the server view distance

tranquil pebble
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no but I'll look into it

lone mango
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Not anymore though

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I don’t think my laptop can do that

tranquil pebble
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30 chunks starts to chug even my 6900 XT with a big modpack

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let alone a laptop

lone mango
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You can also put c2me on the server to make it use more threads when generating

tranquil pebble
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I like running at around 200 fps so I keep view distance to sane levels

lone mango
#

My .11 build has less than 100 mods total

tranquil pebble
lone mango
#

Think like 80

lone mango
#

Do you use zink? You can get a performance increase

lone mango
tranquil pebble
lone mango
#

Also the reason I use my laptop is because I want to keep the server up all the time

tranquil pebble
lone mango
#

Even with the overhead there is a decent increase

tacit geode
#

lol

tranquil pebble
#

Just install it like any other package?

lone mango
#

I think for me it’s like 10%

tacit geode
#

I should install linux

lone mango
lone mango
tranquil pebble
#

oh I see, just need environment var set

lone mango
#

Zink in my experience is also more stable than opengl

tranquil pebble
lone mango
tacit geode
lone mango
#

All good

tacit geode
#

only reason and 1 game is why i havent sswtiched

lone mango
#

Just if you do it’s like turning down the resolution, that’s how much you gain

tranquil pebble
#

I run at 2560x1440 resolution

tacit geode
lone mango
tranquil pebble
# tacit geode

tfw the storage space costs close to what the game does

lone mango
#

30% is the hit going from 1080-1440

tacit geode
#

i have a bot for that

lone mango
lone mango
tacit geode
#

thats current steam pricing

#

not wwhat i paid

lone mango
#

Bro

#

That’s ridiculous

tacit geode
#

not really

#

lol

#

train sim classic is worse

tall pine
tacit geode
#

missing some dlc cause steam apis dont list all

tall pine
#

What game is that?????

tacit geode
lone mango
#

Brother who is buying this

tacit geode
#

NOBODY IS

#

most people buy what you need

#

thats the damn point of the amount of dlc

#

train sim classic you wowuld only buy what you want

#

you dont need everything

lone mango
tall pine
#

Oh omay

tacit geode
#

Like train sim world 6 you dont either but i like it

icy ore
lone mango
#

Fornite

tacit geode
#

theres one even worse

lone mango
#

When fornite 2? Almost 9 years

tacit geode
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icy ore
#

Oh nice

#

Cheap

acoustic palm
#

Anddd my windows bricked

acoustic palm
#

Welp that’s the sign I needed

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Gonna sell this pc

amber aspen
#

would a 5070 paired with a 7800x3d be a bottle neck

acoustic palm
#

I don’t use it enough

acoustic palm
nocturne flicker
#

There is at least one person

#

Somewhere

#

Who was dumb enough to spend 15k

tacit geode
#

is that better

#

nobody that actually wants to play the game

acoustic palm
#

Hmmmmm

amber aspen
#

im currently running a 13900k and 5070 but my motherboards pcie slot got shorted by thermal grizzlies kryosheet so im looking to move to amd just waiting on for my paycheck to get deposited lol

acoustic palm
#

eBay or fbmp

amber aspen
#

i didnt realize a small piece of thermal grizzlies kyosheet got stuck in the pcie slot and i went to power on my system ran normal but its forced to x8

#

despite not having any gen 5 ssd in the gen 5 nvme slot HanaLULs

rancid juniper
acoustic palm
#

Well

#

That’s a first

#

My dad invited me to a discord with his boss

amber aspen
#

do u think i should buy a contact frame for am5 cpus?

#

i have a contact frame on my 13900k just not sure if its needed for am5

lone mango
#

Yes, it used to be less

velvet summit
lone mango
# rancid juniper

They undercut nvidia but push their prices as high as possible, while still undercutting them. I was talking about this in tech news but it seems like radeon is fine with having their small market

#

They have always had a small market for the past decade, and looks like they just want to make high margins off of the people that stay in their niche

#

Looks good on paper

amber aspen
#

ok thanks @lone mango ya i always used contact frames for my intel cpus and just wasnt sure since i honestly never had a amd system

lone mango
rancid juniper
#

entire team at radeon has got to be revised

lone mango
#

It encourages paste to go over the edges

#

But this is just a cosmetic thing that nobody will see, not even the user, until you take off the cooler again

rancid juniper
#

Its wild how much Ryzen and Eypc became a POWERHOUSE in the cpu market that I wished AMD radeon had that same leadership/vision

amber aspen
#

i mainly got them for intel due to the bending of the cpu over time

lone mango
#

Just to show how bad it is

rancid juniper
#

bruh

lone mango
#

Actually thats not really fair

#

It looks like it

#

but 500 and 800 million are far from each other

#

Still though they are close in the grand scheme of things

rancid juniper
#

honestly my next gpu might be intel if they lock in further

#

so far they're doing well in implementing the latest technologies for their second gen gpus and up

dusk knot
# lone mango

Almost nothing compared to NgreedAi's profits. Damn

heady plinth
#

It's the 30 billion more on data center that's the big difference. Gaming they're clearly behind but it's not that drastic of a difference.

dusk knot
#

Yeah

tacit geode
#

good

#

nvidia trash

dusk knot
#

COOKOUT IS GREAT. THEIR MILKSHAKES ARE S TIER

#

The only real problem is it's limited to a few states like North and South Carolina.

#

Also, I've never seen a Whataburger place in Florida or anywhere that I've seen.

acoustic palm
misty sparrow
#

it’s only good with the sauce

#

and pricey

acoustic palm
#

It’s the only good fast food 😭

misty sparrow
#

why don’t you make a tier list

#

really want to see how you would rank everything

acoustic palm
#

Oh actually dominos it fast food too

#

They’re good

#

I have not had a lot of fast food

nocturne flicker
#

Fast food* tier list

#

A good portion of them aren't actually fast food

rancid juniper
opaque sedge
#

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weak cedar
#

i bought the mcd new burger, it's goof for 1 time only becuase of how overpriced it is with meal at little over $13.40

weak cedar
#

so Texas Instruments announced a definitive agreement to acquire Austin-based fabless chipmaker Silicon Labs

opaque sedge
#

Wasn’t the founder of tsmc a former Texas instruments employee?

weak cedar
#

i have no idea

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o apparntly

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yes as i google

nocturne flicker
#

Bing it

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Duckduckgo for it

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Yahoo it

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Uh

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Is Ask still a thing

weak cedar
#

sorta but no

#

"rebranded to Ask.com in 2006, shifting focus to a Q&A model before ceasing its own search technology in 2010"

#

i thought it was still around just kinda like what happened to myspace

nocturne flicker
#

Sad

#

Not too sad actually Ask was trash

weak cedar
#

website is up and still has a search it looks like but probably not a search engine

opaque sedge
rancid juniper
#

no

#

just get a wheel atp

nocturne flicker
#

When you think about it benchmarking is just game racing pepehmmm

#

Or rather hardware racing using games as the race track pepehmmm

opaque sedge
#

Ultimate form of pay to win

opaque sedge
#

How much wheels anyways

rancid juniper
#

can go from very cheap to rtx 5090 prices

opaque sedge
#

Do u have a wheel?

rancid juniper
#

yea

opaque sedge
rancid juniper
#

bought this

nocturne flicker
dusk knot
opaque sedge
dusk knot
#

Yep

opaque sedge
#

That thing must be heavyyy

#

Cuz thats a big ass battery

dusk knot
lone mango
opaque sedge
#

This is pretty interesting

dusk knot
#

It is !

#

The amount of security on this one

velvet summit
# opaque sedge How much wheels anyways

if you ever decide to get a wheel, don't get a logitech one
they aren't worth the cost, unless you find one for a very steep discount

felix was correct, the gears are very noticable
(they do have a direct drive wheel but it's 1k)

velvet summit
rancid juniper
velvet summit
#

is it smooth

rancid juniper
opaque sedge
#

Sounds like a line i dont wanna cross ngl

rancid juniper
#

wheel is fine, pedals are meh

#

Im not too heavy on sim racing so i guess it makes sense that i dont use it alot

opaque sedge
velvet summit
rancid juniper
#

^^^

round acorn
#

can i also come here for help with making a mic sound better

misty sparrow
velvet summit
opaque sedge
#

Guys is there a game thats like terraria but 3d pepehmmm

#

Or am i asking for too much

velvet summit
rancid juniper
velvet summit
#

yes

rancid juniper
#

lol its nearly triple the price

#

looks good tho

velvet summit
#

it's basically the og "budget" ffb wheel, but it's... idk, i don't think i would recommend it, especially at full price

round acorn
velvet summit
#

even on sale i dont think it's worth it

velvet summit
#

i mean, it's a good mic, but most people do not benefit from it

round acorn
#

the mic i have right now is a hyperx quadacast 2 with steelseries sonar settings

#

but idk if that would be the best software to use

velvet summit
#

rather than software, you should be treating your room with sound proofing and put carpet and some thick acoustic panels on the walls to reduce reverberations

#

if you have the budget, add another layer of drywall on top of your existing drywall, which would significantly improve the soundproofing of the room

round acorn
#

mmm i see

#

thank you for that

#

do you have any reccomendations for sound proofing

#

i heard of acoustic panels before

velvet summit
#

it depends on how professional you want your audio to sound
if you're just doing calls and shit, then software would be fine, but if you're doing any professional audio work, you want to use as little noise reduction software as possible, as that affects the sound and quality of your audio

#

acoustic panels are more of an aesthetics thing, and they mostly don't do anything (especially those foam tiles)

#

on a budget, even just thick blankets or whatever hanging on the walls, and a carpet on the floor will do more than what acoustic panels would do

round acorn
#

dang really

#

well eventually

#

i would want a room with professional setup

#

but for now software

#

i play trumpet and record

#

so sometime I will need it

velvet summit
#

if you want to record the trumpet as professionally as possible with no budget, you should rent an recording booth for like a day or 2 whenever you need to record, as they'll have treated the recording booth properly for the best audio, and would have a selection of mics to use for recording your trumpet

#

sm7b is not meant as an instrument microphone, so the case of it being not ideal for you has gotten much stronger lol

opaque sedge
#

I’m abt to do smth crazy pepehmmm

round acorn
#

im glad I went here to ask first

opaque sedge
#

For science

velvet summit
#

in terms of mics you should get for general use at home, you could either go for like a sm57 which is the industry standard, or the current more popular recommendation of the sE v7

velvet summit
lone mango
lone mango
#

Those thick tiles you hang or drill into the wall are also good

velvet summit
#

if you have a nvidia gpu, nvidia broadcast/studio is probably the best option

lone mango
#

You can make your own with wood and some material inside

#

Then wrap it with some cloth

round acorn
#

i got amd

#

does amd got anything

velvet summit
#

honestly not many good options on that end, amd's option isnt as good as nvidia's

lone mango
#

Nvidia broadcast? For what?

velvet summit
#

in amd adrenaline, in "smart technology" , there's the amd noise supression feature there

nocturne flicker
opaque sedge
nocturne flicker
nocturne flicker
opaque sedge
#

I aint doping

#

Cant doping even improve nervous system performance pepehmmm

tranquil pebble
#

I'm going to get a Sodastream and put milk in it

lone mango
opaque sedge
velvet summit
# round acorn what about software

also another tip to get the least amount of external noise is to use as little gain as possible, and have the sound source (trumpet in this case) closer to the mic so the signal is louder

though i'm not entirely sure what spl the quadcast distorts at, so you want to experiment with that a bit

tranquil pebble
#

or maybe coffee

velvet summit
#

though it costs money

lone mango
#

And apply fades in case there is some noise in between, before and after

opaque sedge
velvet summit
#

my recommendation for them was for any serious audio recordings to just rent a recording booth for a day or 2 for that if they dont have the budget to treat their room properly

opaque sedge
#

Time to talk to a doctor

nocturne flicker
#

Stimulants are one of the two primary forms of PEDs

lone mango
velvet summit
#

local studios are pretty cheap
they get alot more expensive if you got an audio engineer doing your levels for you, but you'll probably be able to do it yourself

opaque sedge
#

Jkjk

lone mango
#

Curtain rack and blankets and diy panels

velvet summit
#

hardest part of treating the room is honestly the ceiling

#

most annoying part to do but one of the most important

lone mango
#

Also just having stuff in there like a sofa, chair, bed or whatever

nocturne flicker
#

Sound proof the sofa

velvet summit
#

my living room asides from the background noise is surprisingly decent acoustically ngl
there's just so much shit around and a carpet that there's basically no reverberations even if i yell

#

on god

nocturne flicker
velvet summit
#

technically you could use a sofa as sound deadening

#

hang a sofa on the ceiling ong

nocturne flicker
#

Help

nocturne flicker
#

I am suffocating

tranquil pebble
#

Cursed idea: paper sporks

proud jackal
opaque sedge
proud jackal
#

Ikr

proud jackal
#

He saw my twitch hoodie and said he watches him

dusk knot
opaque sedge
velvet summit
#

rip

opaque sedge
velvet summit
#

i forgot to extend the audio delete date on the rhel vms

#

auto*

#

my brain autocorrected 💀

opaque sedge
#

Did i show u guys this 💀

#

They make controllers btw

nocturne flicker
#

My brain autoincorrects

opaque sedge
#

Who here’s a burger connoisseur pepehmmm

#

Can you all fact check this

velvet summit
#

i've been to none of them

nocturne flicker
#

Quality of ingredients has nothing to do with a good burger

#

It is a burger

#

You can make it with the trashiest ground beef

#

You season it properly, dress it properly and cook it properly and it'll still be good

opaque sedge
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royal crow
#

If i buy discord I have change i wanna make

#
  1. Client mods will be fully supported, option to report them is still up, but it just renames the reporter to "snitch"
worn night
#

Why am I seeing peanuts everywhere

#

I’ve heard it’s the skibidi toilet equivalent of older people

royal crow
#
  1. NSFW content will be removed and the poster warned by discord itself(using a really good image reco bot). This will be to remove a need for age verification
worn night
#

But like

#

How much server beefiness you’d need

#

To run a bot

#

That scans millions of images a day

royal crow
#

Discord already does thatderpyBlob

worn night
#

oh

royal crow
#

It just doesn't delete anything

nocturne flicker
#

Discord AI

royal crow
#

Oh also under my leadership, discord will actually do things about bad servers

nocturne flicker
#

Uses your posts for AI

royal crow
#

No tracking

nocturne flicker
#

Submitting suggestion to Discord

nocturne flicker
#

Dear John Discord, I recommend you begin using user messages to train AI. That'll be $10000000 dollars please.

royal crow
#

John discord invented discord when he wanted a repeat of Skype's downfall

nocturne flicker
#

Jack Skype just couldn't cope

royal crow
#

Lmao

royal crow
#

Everyone should use them

#

They're great

#

I personally use vencord and kettu

#

BetterDiscord is good too

#

Vencord is a bit more stable tho

worn wave
rancid juniper
#

YO????

tranquil pebble
rancid juniper
#

more are in on this i see

tranquil pebble
#

The amount of disruption tariffs have cause with how they were implemented is unreal

#

including disruption to the importing of fumos

#

Hell, I've seen pics showing trades between US states getting tariffed sometimes

opaque sedge
tranquil pebble
opaque sedge
tranquil pebble
#

They're mostly known for the way their eyes look

#

There are whole communities around these.

nocturne flicker
#

Wait that wasn't the one I wanted to reply to

#

Oh well

tranquil pebble
#

lol

main loom
#

guys is it better to have 25 or 27 inch side vertical monitor also flat or curved ?

tranquil pebble
frigid stag
#

ultrawide vertical would be wild

tranquil pebble
#

and yeah dont do vertical ultrawise

main loom
#

who will get ultrawide vertical bro

tranquil pebble
#

if you want to do vertical you will want something with an adjustable stand like Acer Predators usually have

frigid stag
#

just gt a monitor arm

tranquil pebble
#

that works too

tranquil pebble
#

as long as the monitor has the standard mount thing

main loom
#

25 or 27 and flat or curved

frigid stag
#

flat, idk size prob isnt that important

tranquil pebble
#

25 vs 27 is not a big difference

#

like you won't notice it

opaque sedge
velvet summit
opaque sedge
tranquil pebble
#

The Onion is gonna go under with how crazy the world has gotten

main loom
tranquil pebble
#

almost don't need parody when the whole world is doing it for you

rancid juniper
opaque sedge
rancid juniper
#

that would be kinda funny ngl

velvet summit
#

The Onion could not come up with a headline like "Nintendo sues the United States"

#

I would not have expected this in a billion years

main loom
#

does 1080 or 2k monitor in vertical make a diff

heady plinth
tranquil pebble
opaque sedge
worn night
#

the oniony

rancid juniper
rancid juniper
#

nah, this is truly an anomaly

misty sparrow
opaque sedge
#

Somebody messed with the timelines

#

Timelines reminds me

#

U guys remember stephen hawkin’s time traveler party 💀

rancid juniper
nocturne flicker
velvet summit
#

It doesn't sound profitable

opaque sedge
#

Most of their lawsuits seem to be an ego thing tho

nocturne flicker
heady plinth
#

It depends on the clarity you want, the monitor size like 24" vs 27", and how far away.

nocturne flicker
opaque sedge
#

I wish the corsair bar monitor thing was cheaper ngl

nocturne flicker
#

Until they come up with some other excuse to slow the refund process even more as they scramble to reinstate the tariffs that is

opaque sedge
#

What are the chances of deepcool ever reviving in the US?

nocturne flicker
#

None

#

0

#

Infinitely low

rancid juniper
#

atleast we got thermalright

opaque sedge
#

They still haven’t released their good shit into the market yet

worn night
#

whys this on my fyp

worn night
nocturne flicker
#

Sore is spammer frfrfr

#

Spammed so much a joke was banned

opaque sedge
#

Deny

#

Deez

#

*uts

#

waits

opaque sedge
#

WAIT

#

Alright

nocturne flicker
#

Utz

nocturne flicker
#

I don't care for Utz

#

Tbh

#

They do the whole ultra thin chip thing and it is one of the worst ways of making chips

#

Wait or is that Wise?

#

I think it is Wise

opaque sedge
#

I like miss Vickies

#

The jalapeno ones

nocturne flicker
#

Yeah, it is Wise I'm thinking of

#

Wise isn't very good for a lot of stuff.

#

I like their Fritos knockoff

#

Really greasy, overly salted trash

opaque sedge
#

I think there was a miss vickies shortage once during covid pepehmmm

#

Couldn’t find any in any store

#

Only found the small bags at subway

nocturne flicker
#

We don't even sell those. The first time I ever had them was during college in PA

#

The company was doing free samples in the food court so I yoinked a bunch

royal crow
rancid juniper
royal crow
#

Only w this decade in fact

tranquil pebble
#

I was not wrong when I said in 2020 that I felt like this decade was going to be cursed

#

I managed to completely evade Covid though at least

velvet summit
#

I didn't get covid during the lockdown

#

I got covid in like late 2023

#

Or maybe even 2024

#

I don't even remember anymore

#

It was at least a few months after the lockdown

#

Actually yeah I'm pretty sure it was 2024

#

Yeah

#

I can confirm that I haven't coughed in a long while

#

Also damn graveyard of a bunch of old active members

misty sparrow
#

I’ve never gotten COVID or the Covid vaccine

velvet summit
#

I've gotten like 5 vaccine shots

royal crow
#

I got it 3 times

velvet summit
#

3 💀

sinful blade
#

Me tired

tranquil pebble
#

tfw your minecraft modpack equipment starts killing things so hard they die to death

worthy tapir
#

Got my 26 Ultra early

velvet summit
nocturne flicker
#

I got my early

velvet summit
#

i got my

nocturne flicker
#

I got

velvet summit
#

got

nocturne flicker
#

Go

velvet summit
#

g

nocturne flicker
#

_ _

opaque sedge
#

My new controller is being delivered by usps… after two transits across the world PepeRealizes

nocturne flicker
#

Around the world around the world

opaque sedge
nocturne flicker
opaque sedge
#

I hope the joystick and trigger calibration isnt messed up

#

I should have ordered from amazon PepeHands

nocturne flicker
#

They always come crawling back

velvet summit
opaque sedge
worn night
#

guys theres spots for display ports on this p104-100, could I solder one on and flash a 1080 vbios? would that work

frosty sinew
#

Game plan