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[remote mesa]

With gravy as sauce, and green beans, crispy onions, and cranberries as toppings? Does your pizza place do that?

[silent flame]

you can order pizza with pretty much anything you want on top of it here even gravy

[remote mesa]

Where are you, I'm moving

[silent flame]

finland

2016 we won the best pizza in the world against italy and usa

the place that won it i always take chipotle mayo on top of my pizza from there that they make inhouse its really damn good

[remote mesa]

Many many years ago back in high school I looked at the brochure for the Student Exchange Program and declared my desire to spend a semester in Finland, based almost entire on them having the most attractive women in the brochure

My parents did not consider this sufficient reason to enroll

[pliant mauve]

These were recently removed from the Steam Store...

• https://steamdb.info/app/449830/ (Muv-Luv)
• https://steamdb.info/app/224060/ (Deadpool, this is very common for this game.)
• https://steamdb.info/app/258030/ (Earthlock: Festival of Magic)
• https://steamdb.info/app/389860/ (Far-Out Selene)
• https://steamdb.info/app/537100/ (Shuffle!)
• https://steamdb.info/app/1583740/ (Suicide Guy Deluxe Edition)

[silent flame]

shouldve said we have one of the worlds best school systems

[remote mesa]

Drat

Well, if I ever make a time machine I'll add that to the list of things to change

[pliant mauve]

These seem like old App IDs, since I've had them in ignored/etc. already:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/802880/MuvLuv/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/761030/EARTHLOCK/ (I actually own this.)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2384750/ (Far Out: Selene)
Shuffle is just gone, its community page remains. (Shuffle 2 is still on the store, japanese only.)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1972820/Suicide_Guy_Deluxe_Plus/

[inner crown]

Is anyone having issues refueling at the Pyro gateway?

[umbral helm]

#star-citizen #helpdesk (kind reminder not trying to be rude)

More active chats

[inner crown]

oop- my bad

[umbral helm]

no worries

[silent flame]

@scenic field you said you would like to go pescaterian you need to try this either make it or source its but its mackerel thats been marinated in like multiple peppers then smoked with alderwood its really good to snack on and its so soft its almost like cottoncandy

[modest blaze]

I would devour that

[silent flame]

its really good one of my favorite things to snack on

[onyx flint]

I requires everyone's opinion

Which one should I go for

[modest blaze]

Rhodora

[random river]

Yes

[onyx flint]

buys all 3

[upper seal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6RcdwQbKqg

Oh no, modern art

[upper seal]

Where fat jiggly ass Ember?

[onyx flint]

B-but khora...

[scenic field]

Looks bomb af

[frozen oracle]

wtf eso LOL

https://tenor.com/view/tookanarrowtotheknee-video-game-gif-5381722

his face tho

[main grotto]

stalker 2 almost as heavy as sc xD

[scarlet swan]

at least there will be FSR 3.1

[main grotto]

dlss 3.7 :3

and those specs have counted dlss and fsr in

32gb ram recommendation tho xD

[scarlet swan]

thank windows and other software being bloated. not surprising at all

[modest blaze]

one of the games that made me go from "i should probably get a new gpu soon" to "i really need a new gpu"

[main grotto]

i got 4070ti from friend for 300bucks 😄 im ready

[modest blaze]

the low preset there is with fsr enabled btw, they don't mention it on that graphic for some reason

[scarlet swan]

I'm more scared about cpu performance, not gpu. if the game was gpu limited, at least you can lower settings. if you're cpu limited, framegen or nothing

[main grotto]

5950x go brrrr

[modest blaze]

unfortunately i have a rx570, so i can't exactly lower the graphics more than "low" because .ini file editing is dead

[scarlet swan]

haha, you think your 16 cores will help? it's gonna be the same shit as with star citizen. you're gonna be single thread limited

[main grotto]

😄 man that rx580 gonna scream in pain

[scarlet swan]

believe me I know, I have a 5900x so I'm in the same boat

[main grotto]

i mean its dx12...seen couble ue5 games to utilize 5950x well already

like bodycam

[scarlet swan]

satisfactory as well uses the cpu rather decently. it's been upgraded to UE5 as well. but statistics say that 95% of UE5 games run like shit

so I expect the worse rather than the better

[modest blaze]

4060ti is $500 here

[main grotto]

true...my first experience with ue5 was bodycam and that sht is awsome

runs extremely well

[compact granite]

UE5 is becoming more of a cinematic engine and less of a game engine. It’s great at beautiful games, but not the best when you add advanced computing processing

[scarlet swan]

I'd call it more ahead of it's time. when gpu's are actually capable of running path tracing, then it will probably be better

[main grotto]

and here im playing stalker gamma and waiting

[scarlet swan]

and I assume devs are lazy at actually trying to optimise the damn games they're making

[scarlet swan]

you know, I tried but I couldn't get into it. not really the starting project when you're first trying to dive into stalker

[modest blaze]

i'm gonna be playing flight sim
being spoiled for games here, got 2 big hitters releasing on following days

[scarlet swan]

a bit too complicated

[compact granite]

I can see that.. but a lot of gamers want more immersion and graphics more than anything else, so it makes sense that game engines are becoming more cinematic focused

[modest blaze]

definitely not a good place to jump in if you've never played stalker

[main grotto]

yeah no 😄 its really isnt

hard as hell

[compact granite]

2 more hours

[main grotto]

especially on ironman

[scarlet swan]

problem is that hardware isn't ready for it yet. it will catch up at some point

[modest blaze]

i still need to download the game cause gamepass preloading is broken

[compact granite]

Steam won’t let me download for some reason either

[scarlet swan]

it's hard as it is. I also tried bare anomaly but I also felt lost tbh. didn't try hard enough I guess

[main grotto]

and animaly is like ez mode of gamma 😄 u could always thest "anomaly custom" that is even harder than gamma

[compact granite]

Career mode is finally in MSFS, which I’ve been wanting for years. Actual things to do, not just RP

[modest blaze]

[scarlet swan]

no preload on steam for stalker

[main grotto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxSjYjxu9jQ

😄

damn good package

[scarlet swan]

oh you're talking about flight sim lmao

[scarlet swan]

you think I should try this out?

[compact granite]

Is STALKER that paranormal shooter from the early 00s

[main grotto]

yes if ur pc can handle it 😄

[scarlet swan]

5900X/7800XT/64 gigs of ram. should do fine

[main grotto]

ehhh just about

[modest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/do-you-have-any-idea-how-little-that-narrows-it-down-that-narrows-it-down-clear-now-its-clear-now-i-understand-now-gif-21256627

[scarlet swan]

that hard on the graphics huh?

[main grotto]

yeah...

with 4070ti and cpu boosted to 5.4ghz for 2 cores(cause dx11) i get like 60-70fps in 1440p

[scarlet swan]

let your imagination about irradiated monsters that live around chernobyl run wild and that's the game

and also people against people

that never goes away

[modest blaze]

though that's not necessarily a graphics thing, that's just the original stalker engine being absolutely broken

it makes the creation engine look stable

[main grotto]

well when the game looks like this after 400 + mods

its graphics thing

[compact granite]

Oh I was thinking of F.E.A.R

[modest blaze]

it's not exclusively a graphics thing

[scarlet swan]

anomaly has a pretty upgraded engine. so the mods coming from it should as well

[modest blaze]

the 2 legged table of an engine does not help

[main grotto]

anomaly is just 64bit xray

atleast its not 32bit like soc and clearsky

[scarlet swan]

it has async compute as well. which the original trilogy doesn't have, no?

[main grotto]

i think call of pripyat did have it

or got it from modding community

not sure about release 😄

[scarlet swan]

this does look pretty damn nice. will have to look it up

[main grotto]

it does 😄 for 15year old game engine

anomaly custom dosnt have all the mods that gamma does and isnt as "ballanced" but well it is hard as hell even on medium diff

[scarlet swan]

the zone is supposed to be hard

[main grotto]

i mena its hard that u get one tapped by sawd off bandit 😄

from long distance away

[scarlet swan]

that really doesn't sound balanced lmao

[main grotto]

realistic tho

[modest blaze]

i can't remember, does anomaly have the same balancing as the base games where the higher the difficulty the more damage both the enemies and you do?
it's been a while since i played stalker

[scarlet swan]

if it's a slug, you're likely to miss entirely, if it's buckshot, you're still likely to miss entirely. if it's birdshot, it ain't gonna do shit at long distance

so probably not.

[main grotto]

yes

[scarlet swan]

if it was a long barreled shotgun, then you could make a point

[modest blaze]

lovely

i always liked that
you die instantly but enemies don't become bullet sponges

[main grotto]

i mean buckshot from 380mm barrel has effective distance of 70metres

and u still get peppered from 100-120metres away enough to not wanting to walk anymore

[main grotto]

combine that with janky ai 😄

[scarlet swan]

so that's a normal barrel, sawed-off will be what, a quarter of those distances?

[main grotto]

depends

cause most guns in gamma are absolutely trashed from start 😄

[scarlet swan]

ofc, depends on how long you saw it off. but one tapping from long distance with a sawed off doesn't sound realistic

getting peppered as you said, fine

[main grotto]

i mean yeah...but long distance is also depatable ...cause on the game it can be 50m 😄

[scarlet swan]

i mean if that's long distance in the game then sure 😄

[main grotto]

stalker gamma/anomaly/trilogy dosnt really let u shoot 1km shots 😄

cause loading screen

[scarlet swan]

I was thinking long range being like 150m+, something along the lines of that

not really 1km+

[main grotto]

100m in zone feels like 1km

😄

get mauled by 7 boars or 2 controllers

while getting ganked by military and bandits from both sides

[modest blaze]

that's one of the things i'm most excited for in stalker 2. no load screens between regions and a gigantic map that's hopefully not going to be completely empty

[main grotto]

also most places are same in stalker 2 than in trilogy so map knowledge still stays 😄

[scarlet swan]

I have none of it

[modest blaze]

i would hope so, buildings don't tend to move around a lot

[main grotto]

chernobyl hasnt changed that much in couble of decades

[modest blaze]

but also it's 64km^2 so the scale is gonna be off compared to the originals
gonna be a lot of new space between landmarks that's gonna feel weird to walk in

[main grotto]

i mean u warped long distances in original 😄

there was mod once that made full map open without loading screens if i remember and its closer to stalker 2 map

[modest blaze]

you make a good point

still gonna feel weird to walk there though
"this doesn't feel right, i'm sure the rookie village isn't this far from the swamp"

[main grotto]

man i will hate swamp still in stalker 2 its horror

its cursed place in gamma...i dont want to walk there...dogs rushing tru bushes have killed me way too often or getting anomaly killed

but i have to...clearsky lives there and i want their armur 😦

[modest blaze]

I'm trying to keep my knowledge of stalker 2 to a minimum
The only things I know are the map size and that one new mutant that mimics voices or something

[main grotto]

i have my knowledge of stalker trilogy 😄

[modest blaze]

Yeah I've got plenty of that, I just refuse to look at any of the videos posted and all that. I wanna go in as blind as possible

[main grotto]

i just play gamma for now 😄

waiting...MENACINGLY

for 24h

[modest blaze]

Unfortunately no pre load so I'm gonna have to wait until Thursday for the download to finish

[main grotto]

atleast its not 400gb

😄

like somegames....

[modest blaze]

Ark?

[main grotto]

cod

[modest blaze]

Cod isn't 400gb

[main grotto]

close enough

especially if u download whole package

[modest blaze]

It's not
Bo6 is 100gb with both the campaign and multiplayer

[main grotto]

yeah if u drop all the extra off like old sht

[modest blaze]

It's ~300gb if you download mw2, mw3, wz, and bo6 which is 4 games

[main grotto]

still

way too much 😄 for cod

well dosnt really matter to me 😄 i have 10gbit link to my nas 😄

[modest blaze]

mildly jealous

[main grotto]

:3

[modest blaze]

i got 30mbit down

[main grotto]

running stalker gamma tro my nas 😄

thats 90gb package

got 2x 10gbit cards for 30bucks + 2x60mm fans for it 😄

with crossover and direct access i have like 20tb of ssd space

2x m.2 evos running for cache too so its pretty fast nas

[scarlet swan]

do you have an outside connection that can take advantage of your 10 gig cards?

or is it only for the connection between your system and NAS?

[clever bison]

I’m excited for stalker been a fan since soc, bought it on release at comp USA still have my box

[scarlet swan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaMT9u8CbZ0 little comparison realeased by nvidia. tho they have been caught dead lying on these videos

14900k taps out around 75 fps. this game is gonna run so bad

[clever bison]

Pretty good tbh

[scarlet swan]

lmao, this is verging on SC levels of bad

[main grotto]

ststem and nas

i do have 2.5gbps link to it

[main grotto]

not with latest 4k cards tho..they have been pretty clear of its performance

especially cause dlss 3.0-3.7 and frame gen is their "baby"

[modest blaze]

a 4090 getting 75fps at 1440p? no

[main grotto]

and here im waiting for ue5 vr port for it

[scarlet swan]

4080S and 4090 basically getting the same fps. it's a cpu bottleneck. if a 14900k can only get 75 fps, then you need an X3D chip for the game run any good at all

shooters at 60 fps are 🤮

[modest blaze]

well that's just not true

[main grotto]

i mean its said already that without dlss u dont get any good framerate causehow high the texture quality is

[scarlet swan]

it's a cpu bottleneck. textures or gpu's or upscaling have nothing to do with it

[main grotto]

they do ...especially in higher resolutions

but we will see what kinda performance we get 🙂

[scarlet swan]

we will see indeed

[compact granite]

1 hour!!!

[main grotto]

1hour?

[scarlet swan]

flight sim

[modest blaze]

flight sim

[main grotto]

ahh

[main grotto]

wait ant 2025 coming soon

[modest blaze]

wat

[main grotto]

😄

[compact granite]

What about ants?

[modest blaze]

what are ants doing in 2025?

[compact granite]

Maybe they're saying a game called "Wait Ant 2025" is coming soon?

[clever bison]

Typical unreal engine 5 levels of performance

[frozen oracle]

ant sim

[main grotto]

well we got squirrel game this year

so ant game would be next

[mellow forge]

this hour couldnt end any slower i swear

[frozen oracle]

im fr

there's like 3-4 ant sims lol

maybe more

rts ant sim LOL

[main grotto]

😄 dunno why u use time to search that 😄

[frozen oracle]

cuz ants homie

[main grotto]

i used to pour molten aluminium to ant nest

[frozen oracle]

tell me u wouldnt wanna ride a fkn slug

as an ant

lol

[modest blaze]

faster

[modest blaze]

woo

uh

[modest blaze]

mine is downloading at a rapid pace

[compact granite]

There it goes

[modest blaze]

holy compression

[compact granite]

I just dont want to map my HOTAS

Stuck

[modest blaze]

is there another download when the game launches? i find it hard to believe they packed 50gb into a 12gb download

[compact granite]

That’s the way 2020 was. Download the game on steam then download again in game

I can’t tell if it’s a download or the loading is just broken

[modest blaze]

loading language seems like an odd place to put a download but who knows

[compact granite]

I’m at 7% now.. I think the servers are just fucked

[modest blaze]

cant imagine why that would be

check your network usage maybe something is downloading

[compact granite]

I’m excited though. MSFS has VIP taxi before SC

Ok it's just slow for unknown reasons

[upper seal]

https://fixvx.com/PicturesFoIder/status/1858899807026254028

Mmmm parasite oyster

[upper seal]

Wait is there a new flight sim?

I assumed they'd just add content to the new one

Didn't think they'd go down the route again of releasing entire new games constantly

[modest blaze]

idk about constantly, but it's a massive upgrade over the previous one

actually has shit to do now

[upper seal]

I just fly around

[modest blaze]

there's a career mode now
now the simulator is a game instead of just a simulator

[upper seal]

Mostly flew the Icon A5 and Beechcraft King Air

I did have the thrustmaster airbus on preorder but then it got delayed so I cancelled

Xbox version oof, but yeah

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

[modest blaze]

everyone says the t16k is shit but i love mine
been using it for a few years and it's still working just fine

[upper seal]

I have an original green one still

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

honeycomb

[upper seal]

As long as you clean the ball with some alcohol and use some silicone grease every few years you're fine

[modest blaze]

ye
which isn't ideal, true. but it's not gonna be VKB or whatever tier cause it's not VKB or whatever price
you take what you can get at this tier

[upper seal]

only negative of a t16 is the snapback

[modest blaze]

woo
debugging time

i love having fatal errors on games that just released so there's zero guides on fixes

[manic wharf]

You aren't missing much. It's just another T16M with the same problem as the rest. I have the quadrant and it's the most dollar store piece of flight gear I've ever seen.

[compact granite]

@modest blaze most of the aircraft is missing and the market is missing too

[modest blaze]

yeah i heard there's no market at launch

if only i could launch

[compact granite]

Im going to test the new terrain gen by flying over my house

Would be easier if they had Helis

[modest blaze]

DXGI_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED followed by a D3D12 renderer error meaning it's saying my gpu doesn't support dx12 which makes zero sense cause it definitely does

[compact granite]

Weird

Can anyone release a game with no issues anymore?

[modest blaze]

i mean i do have a rx570 which is incredibly old i know that
but it should still launch, especially since the gtx970 is listed as a minimum requirement gpu and that's both older and marginally worse than the 570

also there is no readme

[compact granite]

I might need to try playing again later

Loading is too slow

I think the cloud services are struggling

I got my Gladiator setup at least

[modest blaze]

i'm glad i didn't pull my hotas stuff out the cupboard that would've been a waste of effort

@compact granite apparently if you leave and re-enter it has to go through that entire extensive loading screen again

[upper seal]

no

modern day game development

Didn't an ubisoft guy just reveal that ac shadows is mostly developed by kids who just finished college?

Their first game they've ever worked on

"Well you see you might think AC shadows looks shit but look at who is developing it, all things considered pretty amazing since it's their first game" I think he was saying

[compact granite]

Once the textures finally load the landscape looks amazing

[upper seal]

2020 looked pretty good

[compact granite]

It did until you got too close.. .now if you are real low it looks like more than just blobs

[modest blaze]

yep

[upper seal]

[modest blaze]

now for a game that actually works

[compact granite]

Something seems wrong

[modest blaze]

the plane is well grounded

[umbral helm]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O04RM-KCP68&pp=ygUKUHJ1c2EgY29yZQ%3D%3D

Crazy to see prusa actually compete with prices too

$950 kit, $1200 assembled. MK4S upgrade kit on the way too

Temperature controlled chamber

[compact granite]

Need to be careful with what airport you choose in career mode

[modest blaze]

just incase you're wondering the Msfs2024 server overload is affecting msfs2020 as well
i can't download shit

[scenic field]

I can’t even get into the damn game

[modest blaze]

you getting an error message?

[scenic field]

No error message, I’ll send a ss

[modest blaze]

oh the servers really are fucked

[scenic field]

yea

[lapis spear]

Have you considered waiting a few minutes or trying again later?

[scenic field]

bruh ive been trying for the last 4 and a half hours lol

[simple mason]

it asked you to wait a few minutes not hours silly

[scenic field]

Oh my mistake

[lapis spear]

Anyway

[simple mason]

erm

[lapis spear]

Oh lol

[simple mason]

[scenic field]

Screen shotted it it’s too late

[lapis spear]

I'm not deleting it because it was a mistake. I'm deleting it because it was Star Citizen related and that's what the banner says to do.

[simple mason]

i didnt have enough time to send the what the flip cat

[lapis spear]

I was like.. this games so cooked we're seeing some AWS underlay error

[compact granite]

So they don’t have helicopters in game yet, but they have the helicopter training in career mode

So the helicopter is just missing

[scenic field]

How did you even get past the Queue

[compact granite]

I got on as soon as my download was done at 11

And haven’t logged off

[modest blaze]

great
seems i'll give it another month. or 2

[scenic field]

I’ve been trying nonstop since launch lol

[modest blaze]

is your queue before or after the super long loading screen

[compact granite]

Heli missions was what I was the most excited for too

[scenic field]

After it got stuck at 97% like a lot of people I saw online.

[compact granite]

This is heli training

lol I failed my cert because the textures wont load in so it shot my plane 100 feet in the air

Ok Im done with this game until servers cool down

[modest blaze]

but do you understand, how a helicopter turns without ailerons, and speeds up, without elevator?

why are the commas like that, it annoys me

[compact granite]

My laptop needs a break anyway

[modest blaze]

oh god you were playing on a laptop?

[compact granite]

Yeah always do

[modest blaze]

that poor thing

[coarse gust]

today was gym day after a week break of no gym

today was UPPER BODY DAY at the house of iron

please hit the gym immediately!

[scenic field]

You got to wonder if they are rethinking having everything streamed from their side lol

[modest blaze]

probably not, i think they just didn't expect the sheer amount of people who would be interested in this game

[upper seal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RRKdQoXRc0 @silent flame How I play war thunder

https://tenor.com/view/rosehip-girls-und-panzer-gif-22223068

[modest blaze]

most will probably move on when the realise that it's still a flight simulator despite all the career mode stuff

[upper seal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk9ED_843lk this is the ultimate helicopter sim

[compact granite]

I did 2 missions, basically go to x location, circle, and then land

I like it so far

I think once I get more certifications it'll be better

Especailly doing commercial flights will be fun

[upper seal]

That's an airport?

cocaine dealer landing strip?

[compact granite]

For career mode you have to start at a smaller airport

[upper seal]

Ah

[compact granite]

Makes sense, just starting out in aviation you usually are flying out of a random field in your grandpa's Cessna

[upper seal]

cessna

I'm sure 2024 flight sim is still better than forza 8

[upper seal]

https://fixvx.com/chiweethedog/status/1853343008575664138

Why did this video stay hidden for so long

[dire whale]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhHs9SXBNQY&t=528s

This is very off topic

but i have a quesiton, Is Helldiver set before or after Star Citizen...?

[upper seal]

[compact granite]

Not off topic enough

[frozen oracle]

what kinda cool backgrounds do yall use?

[teal comet]

some random google background wallpaper that fits my monitors

[lean perch]

Really random but is anyone good at maths, i have 2 questioks i need help on and its due tomorrow and if i dont do it i get whipped

[silent flame]

I always use an art piece made by guweiz or wlop

[upper seal]

I had this as my desktop for a while at one point

[cloud gazelle]

Man, the actor playing Toothless in the live action How to Train your dragon looks just like the animated one. Crazy how good that makeup is.

[upper seal]

The actor playing Stoick sounds just like him

fr fr

idc though

still a fucking mistake

sick of hollywood narcissism and their belief that live action is superior, but I'm sure most people are aware the film is just some money laundering or some shit anyawys

[scenic field]

I DID MY WAITING!!! TWELVE YEARS OF IT! IN AZKABAN!

[languid kernel]

huh?

[stuck jackal]

https://tenor.com/view/catnapping-cat-kidnap-cat-steal-that-was-useful-cat-bag-gif-5865080542707714620

[silent flame]

forgot this is off topic

[stuck jackal]

lmao i was about to remind you

[silent flame]

ordered some goodies from black friday deals

[stuck jackal]

i have that mouse, great choice

[silent flame]

yeah i had 502 the og one but now i have the gpro superlight wich is nice but i missed the 502 ergonomics and quality of life stuff so i wanted to order one and luckily the blackfriday or blackweek deals just started

oh wait that ws the wrong keyboard i ordered this one

[stuck jackal]

yea i had the OG 502 then switched to some Corsair that lasted me only a couple years then went back to 502 and got that same exact model you got but in black

[silent flame]

yeah i got the white to just switch it up a bit since i always have a black mouse

[umbral helm]

very simple and rational explanation.

Goth Time Traveller

damn my discord did NOT automatically go to the latest message

[scenic field]

Did you set up msfs with your sticks?

[compact granite]

Yep

[scenic field]

Did you copy someone’s settings or just go through and do it manually? And you using VKB or ?

[compact granite]

I just did it manually

[scenic field]

Alright I guess I’ll probably just do that then too, thanks

[compact granite]

Yeah VKB

It was pretty quick to do

[scenic field]

You just do it all on one stick?

[compact granite]

Yeah I only have one stick

[scenic field]

Ah ok

[scenic field]

i just dont know what half this shit does lol

[compact granite]

Just look for “axis” for most of it.

[scenic field]

should i ignore the details stuff for now

[compact granite]

Digital is like a button click

If it didn’t take me an hour to login I’d show you mine

[scenic field]

Yea no worries haha

[compact granite]

I wouldn’t worry about trimming until you get the basics

Get your primary control surfaces, yaw, pitch, rudder

[scenic field]

Makes sense

[compact granite]

Set your brakes and parking brake

Flaps

Set your exterior and cockpit camera

And then modify the rest as you feel you need them

Oh and if a control surface doesn’t work make sure you set it to the analog or axis and not the digital

[scenic field]

Ah ok will do

[silent flame]

i have no idea if these were cheap or not but fuck it

[tender forge]

You and me both. I gave up for the evening. It may be days before they work out all these issues and people give up enough to allow others to play lol

On a better note for me, i managed to complete the NMS expedition they only gave us two weeks to complete lol

So thanks Microsoft for giving me the excuse to finish

[scenic field]

i am in now finally but there are no ground textures it just all hunter green ground and my teen is sunk knee deep in it and my plane is sunk down to its wheels

[tender forge]

Yeah with servers overloaded and the game being cloud hosted, i imagine everything bricks up

Reminds me of another game i know

🙄

[scenic field]

I actually got it working decently now I think, textures are showing up now at least.

[tender forge]

Probably because everyone gave up and went to bed

[scenic field]

Yea maybe

[modest blaze]

Servers will probably be better in a couple days when people stop playing because this is still a flight sim and I can't imagine a flight sim will be massively popular with the average person

[fierce wadi]

Gotta love my 737

Even comes with coffee ☕

[unique turtle]

LET ME IN

[coarse gust]

the new farm sim is pretty good

[silent flame]

Waiting impatiently

[unique turtle]

Playing random games, browsing random websites, cleaning up things that don't need to be cleaned up, god the wait is killing me. Made sure that today was gonna be just me and stalker and now I have to wait cause my dumb *ss didn't check what time it would be released today D:

[silent flame]

It Will release just in good Time after i have walked to grocery store and Back and made beef ragu

[fierce wadi]

I know the modding community is gonna make some cool stuff later

[silent flame]

most definately

[modest blaze]

@compact granite apparently helicopters are in it just didn't download cause the servers brok

[silent flame]

https://tenor.com/view/girl-spinning-waiting-bored-chair-gif-12572632970262008618

[unique turtle]

https://tenor.com/view/jay-skeleton-hmm-thinking-waiting-gif-17592139

Drop phase 3 so I have something to do plz

[exotic reef]

Phase 3 of what?

[exotic reef]

Alright fair enough

[silent flame]

perfect my beef ragu will be done in 4 hours

[compact granite]

Oh good

[modest blaze]

also i found out why my game doesn't work
msfs2024 requires dx12.1 but my gpu only supports 12.0

[tacit bough]

Completely forgot about this and knowing my friend he already pre ordered the game and wont stop talking about it

[modest blaze]

naturally the system requirements only say "directx 12" so you'd never realise that

[compact granite]

New GPU time?

[modest blaze]

planning on it, but cards are spensive here
looking at either a 7600 or a 6750xt if it's still in stock by the time i can afford it

[tacit bough]

Oh hey they put in the extra minute or two to say what settings they used for min and max

[silent flame]

i had that issue when dx9 or dx10 released dont remember wich one was it and it was a new game that i had been waiting for

[modest blaze]

i wish companies would stop doing this
for minimum requirements sure, but not for anything above

[tacit bough]

Real, if the card can do it sure but why would I if I can just do native outside of a few specific things

[main grotto]

:3

https://tenor.com/view/cheekibreeki-cheeki-breeki-intensifies-stalker-bandit-radio-stalker-clear-sky-gif-24295015

[tacit bough]

Only game i preordered was system shock remake and purely cause it was a few hours from release and I got the system shock 2 remake (not the enhanced edition) for free when they finish working on that

[modest blaze]

the only game i think i'll ever pre order is silksong when that releases in 18 decades, assuming they even have preorders for it

[main grotto]

system shock was so good...well the whole shock game series :3

maybe im just too old and feel nostalgic

[tacit bough]

The remake of the originalversion is like night and day tho it follows the original game objectives down tona tee, all turned 3d but still keeping some of the same early PC gaming look

They even make you do the bit if destroying I think AI cores or something to get the numbers for the reactor code

[main grotto]

i havnt played remakes yet...big og fan

[scarlet swan]

this is gonna be hell for people with bad internet. I don't understand why there is no preload

[main grotto]

cause no drm

if u preload it u could play it

🙂

ofc it will be shared instantly when released but still

[scarlet swan]

steam has a drm. which is easily worked around

[main grotto]

nope

steam just works as place to download it

same way with og stalker

u could just take files from folders and play it without steam

[scarlet swan]

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/drm

[main grotto]

only if enabled

[scarlet swan]

they could implement steam drm if they wanted to. then at least people would have to work around and just launching the exe wouldn't work

[silent flame]

yeah it feels like cheating with the results kinda like some dude achieveing a great physique saying you can do this too but forgets to add you need to use steroids to achieve it

[main grotto]

well true but remember its game from country that is on war

u cant expect them to do everything 😄

[tacit bough]

Also fun fact even though steam downloads it it has the option to not decompress it until the timer runs out in the steam page like doom did for a few releases

[main grotto]

well thats another way 😄

[scarlet swan]

they delayed it for several years. ofc I'm happy that it doesn't have a drm. no need for another layer of software dragging the performance down

[main grotto]

100%

[modest blaze]

exactly
"epic" settings at 1440p/60fps requires a rx7900xtx and a r7 7700x
but now that's with fsr enabled so is that really 1440p/60fps?

[main grotto]

• its on gamepass so no real reason to even pirate it

[tacit bough]

My friend forgot to pay his ganepass this month so no stalker for him lol

[scarlet swan]

gamepass still requires money. gamepass won't work on linux

[main grotto]

gamepass is way cheaper than games 😄

still

[manic wharf]

Sadly the overall mindset with gamers these days is that they're going to use scaling.

[scarlet swan]

gamepass is not cheaper than pirating tho. it's just morally right

[main grotto]

i cant really say its morally right ether...devs dont get much from it

[manic wharf]

Morals don't have much place in business.

[modest blaze]

unfortunately yeah
games using them as a crutch to get out of needing to do proper optimisation

[tacit bough]

Why would I as a dev put extra work in when I can just be lazy and trust users GPU to upscale a 640x480 window /s

[silent flame]

ill buy it if i like it gamepass is for testing

[modest blaze]

"why make the game work just slap FSR in there and tell the users they need a better pc"

[main grotto]

thats the reason why ubis downhill started

[main grotto]

this

[silent flame]

except with bo6 activision doesent deserve my money

[scarlet swan]

and that's the reason why piracy isn't wrong. companies will try to suck each penny possible out of you as a consumer. most poeple will just buy the game because they want to support the devs or whatever

[tacit bough]

My friend bought bo6 and all they play is zombies or small maps

[modest blaze]

same
except i didnt buy it i play through gamepass

it is not worth $70

[tacit bough]

I got my friend to buy mw3 for me cause for some reason he really wanted me to run the DMZ style zombies with em

[main grotto]

it just depends on company too...like ubi/ea/ etc ...100% just pirate it...but for companys like GSC Game World or Coffee stain...just buy and support those small companies that havnt gone bad yet

[modest blaze]

played that during a free weekend, it was pretty fun
though i heard they basically abandoned it

[scarlet swan]

I've done that plenty of times

[tacit bough]

As far as I can tell yeah, moment b06 announcement came they just decided "I think anything new will just go in the "new" cod instead of continuing to give players items like tmokayer card backgrounds and skins and making some extra money off it alongside bo6

People will still buy what's there but they could have milked it a bit longer

[unique turtle]

https://tenor.com/view/itstommylove-tommylove-tommy-stalker-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-gif-9348303416213118815

[upper seal]

99 days until monhun wilds

[unique turtle]

What weapon you maining?

[silent flame]

gib

[silent flame]

greatsword duh

[unique turtle]

Respectable choice, use charge blade myself ^^

[silent flame]

https://tenor.com/view/monster-hunter-wilds-mhw-doshaguma-greatsword-block-gif-2326436351438947665

[upper seal]

Swaxe, with HBG as my secondary

[silent flame]

propably bow as secondary or big gun

[unique turtle]

Used to play a lot of swaxe and it turned into a pipeline to my CB addiction

ngl I did not use my secondary at all in the beta

[frozen oracle]

just saw a video of "delta force" new game comin out- looks.... interesting

not sure how i feel about it- seems like a mix of tarkov+warzone+bf2042

[unique turtle]

if they are taking inspiration from bf2042 I'd be worried like hell about this game

[modest blaze]

played the demo, it's okay
nothing outstanding

generic shooter at best, god awful hitmarker sound at worst
it's got a nice gunsmith though

[frozen oracle]

was my understanding of it close to that?

ahhh okay okay

[frozen oracle]

just my opinion from a video-

[modest blaze]

pretty much, not the warzone part though
there's 2 game modes, a tarkov style extraction mode and a battlefield style large team pvp mode

[frozen oracle]

i feel like everytime there's a new game like this it feels like the previous ones - like atmosphere and environments, weirdly made me think of gray zone warfare

[modest blaze]

listen to this hitmarker goodness

[frozen oracle]

dawg- this is just reskinned bf2042

[modest blaze]

yeah
it's not bad, it's just a f2p battlefield/tarkov game

battlefield at home kinda thing

[frozen oracle]

fair fair- i appreciate ur thoughts haha, i was thinkin the same

atleast its free ig haha

[modest blaze]

yeah
can't speak for microtransactions though cause i dont think there were any during the demo. at least none that i noticed

[frozen oracle]

ah word- seems like that's the go-to these days anyways aye? like f2p then cosmetics and all that jazz

[modest blaze]

ye
gotta make money somehow i guess, servers aren't free

[frozen oracle]

u right u right

never really understood how f2p games with no micros pan out- ads maybe?

[fallow marten]

I am so ready for stalker

[silent flame]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker2-stalker-moonlight-gif-2397780957781461553

[modest blaze]

make a wish, stalker

[fallow marten]

Also happy i invested in a 4090, seeing the system req’s

Seen 150fps at 4k with dlss on quality

[modest blaze]

i'm gonna attempt to play it with my rx570
wish me luck

[silent flame]

While waiting im enjoying red wine from coca cola glass. Im classy like that

[fallow marten]

I have a friend who will play with a 1060

[modest blaze]

just like me fr

assuming it'll actually boot
didn't have much luck with flight sim

[frozen oracle]

how tf do u lose ur own shoes... im losin it

[fallow marten]

UE6 games are just hard to run

[modest blaze]

UE6, imagine

[frozen oracle]

https://tenor.com/view/ii-koo_o-gif-23689156

[fallow marten]

That released yesterday, still gotta give it a go

[silent flame]

its an ukrainian studio the game is propably made with python and duct tape

[modest blaze]

i've heard its great when it works

[fallow marten]

Slav magic

[silent flame]

sticks together with hopes and dreams

https://tenor.com/view/deadpool-logan-wolverine-vs-movie-gif-15914938700039336572

[fallow marten]

Kek

[silent flame]

no idea why but the cbd store sent my flower and edibles on different pakkcages

im gonna see the force with the obi wan indica

[terse grove]

I swear I thought this was a joystick at first

[silent flame]

i hope this is accurate that i can run max settings on ultrawide 1440p without hitches

[modest blaze]

with upscaling, but yeah

[silent flame]

i have 7900xtx and 7800x3d but im not on the 4k they use there but the 3440x1440 ultrawide is pretty close pixel count wise

[modest blaze]

ah right
well hopefully you can, a top of the range gpu should be able to get 60fps at 1440p without needing upscaling

[silent flame]

i dont mind using upscaling but if i can run the game without it well enough i aint using it and with some games i get lower frames with the upscaling than without

[modest blaze]

leading up to the stalker 2 release i'd like to ask pretty please if anyone is playing the game please mark spoilers with a spoiler tag thank you 🙏

[silent flame]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-boy-kono-subarashii-sekai-ni-shukufuku-wo-konosuba-kazuma-sato-gif-17221576

[fallow marten]

From what i seen even the 4090 somtimes has mico stutters. Wouldn’t be stalker without some jank

[silent flame]

oh man getting so hungry smelling the scent of ragu coming from my slow cooker

[fallow marten]

First reviews are coming in

For stalker

A lot of bugs and performance issues

Lets hope day one patch improves it

[silent flame]

i can deal with it if the game is enjoyable i played cyberpunk trough without the day one patch

and i had 1070 at a time

[modest blaze]

wonder if we'll ever get a game that launches without being fucked

[silent flame]

dead island 2 was pretty good on launch

[manic wharf]

Harken to the times of old.

[fallow marten]

I hope my 4090 can brute force it. Bugs… well it wouldnt be stalker without bugs

[scarlet swan]

don't worry. it won't

[fallow marten]

Well maybe it solves some bugs but i am sure it will be a buggy mess either way

Maybe less shit but still shit

[scarlet swan]

1080ti to barely hit 60 fps at 1080p. UE5 at it's best

https://youtu.be/D-npjztukr0?si=wt2VW-eUexq3PSKJ&t=344 lmao people are gonna have a lot of fun with this

[modest blaze]

UE5 walking up to the entire GPU lineup released before 2020 and kicking them off the cliff they were barely holding onto

[scarlet swan]

tbh, it depends. we like to meme on UE5 but there are games that run beautifully on UE5

it's not that UE5 = bad performance

it's more like lazy devs = bad performance

[modest blaze]

and it's out

negative compression 🙏

[umbral helm]

Yes please

[umbral helm]

Isn’t that card legit 7 years old

[scarlet swan]

yes, it's also as powerful as a 2080

[umbral helm]

2080 is 6 years old

[scarlet swan]

so what then? 90% of people should be left out because they don't have a gpu made in the last 4 years that used to cost more than $400 MSRP?

1080ti is still faster or around the same performance as a 3060/4060

[umbral helm]

Yeah that’s exactly what I said

you’re right

I totally wasn’t saying “it’s kind of getting old so it’s not a surprise” I was totally saying “I think people should be left out because they’re POOR” excellent deduction

[scarlet swan]

you're putting it down to the gpu being old and weak, like it's expected that they run so bad.

I'm saying it's lazy optimisation because most people run GPU's around the same perf as a 1080ti or even lower and if it's too weak then most people won't be able to run the game

kinda bad way to make a game when 90% of the people who want to play the game can't do it at playable framerates

don't be surprised when the steam reviews end up as mixed because the average steam player can't run it properly

that 1080ti at 60 fps was with a 13900k btw and considering that most people will have something weaker than that. also bad news

[modest blaze]

the most common pc setup according to steam hardware survey is a 3060 (non ti) with a 6 core cpu between 2.3ghz and 2.7ghz so i would guess maybe an i5 12400
gpu is more or less on par with a 1080ti but the cpu is much weaker

[scarlet swan]

you meant 10400/11400. 12400 will e cores so more than 6 cores

[modest blaze]

ah right
i dont do intel idk their stuff

but yeah, an even weaker cpu then

[scarlet swan]

or probably even 9600k/8700k

that would be the most common cpu is my guess

[modest blaze]

8700k/9600k/10400 all have a base frequency higher than 2.7ghz so it's probably the 11400

[main grotto]

:/

[silent flame]

im unpacking the files rn

[modest blaze]

steam releasing an hour later than gamepass
probably has to do with when the store updates daily

[scarlet swan]

possible

[main grotto]

possibly

well it dosnt really matter it downloads in like 20min

so no worries

[modest blaze]

same! mine's just doing it slowly so it can organise them nice and neat
wouldn't want to download too fast and get the files all jumbled

[silent flame]

its jumping to 500 every now and then

[modest blaze]

sounds nice

[main grotto]

best thing is that steam has compressed package 😄

its like 60gb download on steam

[umbral helm]

You can download rn on Steam?

man I wish I took off work today

Should’ve just done today till next Friday since I’m off tues - thurs next week

[silent flame]

Kinda wish it was a bit slower My ragu is almost done

[main grotto]

n ot yet

[silent flame]

15 more minutes of cooking and then 30minute rest

[main grotto]

yes

[umbral helm]

Imma leave work at 1 today

[main grotto]

already oppened bottle of smirnoff

[umbral helm]

Take my turnover meeting over my phone

[main grotto]

to prep for immersion

[umbral helm]

Just kidding

Doctors would kill me

[upper seal]

Sure why not

[silent flame]

Just in time

[fallow marten]

For my main pc u de a powerline that gives 100mbps

My wifi is 500mbps

[silent flame]

oooo

[umbral helm]

Smh no spoilers now I know what the splash screen looks like

15 years … and you’ve spoiled it

[modest blaze]

honestly
i had one request, come on

[silent flame]

https://tenor.com/view/racoon-stressed-study-racoon-stressed-gif-19033566

[scarlet swan]

it's the same logo that you've seen 80 times already

[umbral helm]

It were a jest

[modest blaze]

a singular comedy

[umbral helm]

Quite.

[scarlet swan]

sarcasm over text is hard

[silent flame]

https://tenor.com/view/yo-gif-26283325

https://tenor.com/view/hyper-cucumberrr-dancing-cucumber-gif-23898576

im ready

[modest blaze]

good luck

[silent flame]

did earlier stalkers have difficulty setting i do not recall

[modest blaze]

ye

stalker difficulty is the only correct option

[silent flame]

i chose the hardest i think it was called veteran or it was stalker and description said for veteran players but anyway i chose the hardest like i always do

[modest blaze]

it was called stalker in the older games i'd be slightly sad if they just called it veteran now
it used to increase all damage values, from both you and your enemies. so you'd die quick but so would the bandit you're fighting

idk if it still does though

[silent flame]

so far the fps seems real decent

man i hate when the game sensitivity is always too high when you start it for the first time

[modest blaze]

it's always either too high or too low

or heaven forbid, they enable mouse acceleration

[silent flame]

and on some games where it too high you cant make it low enough (mostly some older titles)

one bad thing is i did not find a setting to turn motion blur off

[modest blaze]

what

oh god
try turning down post processing?

[silent flame]

oh wait its just done weirdly

[modest blaze]

maybe they shoved it in there for some reason

[silent flame]

you have a seperate slider to turn it to zero

[modest blaze]

wha

[silent flame]

yeah motion blur itself has just the quality settings of it and then there is a seperate slider to adjust the strength thatyou can put to zero

ah much better

[modest blaze]

oh weird
could be worse i guess, there's definitely games that just shove all of those settings under post processing and call it a day

[silent flame]

i keep pressing c to crouch but thats lean to right

[modest blaze]

c??

why is that the lean key

[silent flame]

yea z and c are lean

[modest blaze]

noting that down so i know to change it

[languid glen]

what

[silent flame]

i think thats an oldschool keybind like old games used to do it like that

[languid glen]

my c key is crouch

in any game

[modest blaze]

did they make the shift key sprint or is it still x like in the old stalker games

[languid glen]

its always crouch, and tab is usually inventory

[silent flame]

shift is sprint

[modest blaze]

okay good

[silent flame]

and thank god they have toggle sprint i need that for my fucked up joints

[modest blaze]

one of the stranger parts of the older games, putting sprint on x

toggle sprint is an instant enable for me

[silent flame]

now i pressed e to lean and drank a soda

yeah im swapping those over

[modest blaze]

oh actually, are there animations for using consumables or is it instant?

[silent flame]

there are animations and seemed decent

[modest blaze]

oh shit nice

[silent flame]

and x is to toggle walk speed

[main grotto]

or maybe they added "endgame diff" 😄

[main grotto]

thats normal stalker thing

crouch + walking speed = prone

[modest blaze]

pretty sure shift is the walk button in the older games

could be wrong though

[umbral helm]

It was

[main grotto]

dunno i always swapped shift and x

😄

[umbral helm]

I just got done a XRMPE playerthru

[modest blaze]

yeah thought so

shift to walk, x to sprint, fuken something to crouch idr

[umbral helm]

C

[modest blaze]

a button that sort of makes sense, a rarity in the stalker games

[exotic reef]

X is for Xtra Fast

[modest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/ladno-gif-20837499

[silent flame]

i beat the game

[main grotto]

u walk a lot 😄

[main grotto]

already got bred anomaly?

[modest blaze]

that coffee mug is in the floor

[silent flame]

thats just a piece of a mug i broke it

[modest blaze]

aw
that's a lot less funny

[umbral helm]

Damn I’m jealous

@silent flame what are your current initial impressions

[silent flame]

its great

[silent flame]

and performance for me atlest is really solid no drops or anything '

[umbral helm]

You think I’ll be fine with a 6950XT + 5800X3D

Or am I cooked

[silent flame]

cant see the exact fps number since microsoft hates overlays but its well above 144

[modest blaze]

xbox game bar an overlay you can enable, though i've never had issues with other overlays before

[main grotto]

1080p?

[silent flame]

3440x1440

[main grotto]

maxed?

[silent flame]

yes all on epic

[main grotto]

so not maxed isnt there next option after epic

the bar is only 4/5th there

[silent flame]

thats maxed

[main grotto]

bad UI...refund

[silent flame]

all the sliders just look like that

[modest blaze]

if you press win+g then click the pin on that the overlay stays open when you close game bar
it's very obtrusive but it's good for quickly checking your fps

[silent flame]

and yea it was called veteran

[modest blaze]

lame

[silent flame]

166 it says

[modest blaze]

very nice

without upscaling?

[main grotto]

hell no 😄

[silent flame]

i have it on for now let me check without

[silent flame]

110 without upscaling

[simple night]

Just realised the Jesta is taller then the rx78

[modest blaze]

still pretty good

[main grotto]

in open area?

[simple night]

And the Gustav Karl is a chonky boi

[silent flame]

Yea

She holding up good

[simple night]

Man's got the Obi Wan light saber in the case

[silent flame]

of cource and obi wan weed on the way on mail

[simple night]

Sad the lights arent blue

[silent flame]

gpu is blue

others are pink

[simple night]

True

[silent flame]

i didint remember they had difficulty option its been ages since i played any stalker

[simple night]

Not the best pics I got big bar in the way lol

[silent flame]

yeah now that lian li is affordable its the way to go for cases before that i used to go with inwin

well the game has a death counter when you die wich is nice xd

[simple night]

I need to eventually upgrade my case. I went with the nzxt mid tower for aesthetics, from my old nzxt phantom but having a 3090 I need more airflow

I have a pretty decent fan setup for flow through the case it's just a bit small and can only fit so many fans

3090 is a space heater

[silent flame]

i swapped from my inwin because i got off from liquid back to aircooling and the case i had was made for liquid cooling basicly no airflow at all so i got lianli case that had the best airflow on the market

[modest blaze]

i should get a new case at some point, but she's still doing just fine for now
phanteks p350x

[simple night]

How's the temps compared?

[modest blaze]

got more important things to upgrade first

[simple night]

That's the thing, it always feels like case is last priority xD

[modest blaze]

i want a new case, but like
that's $60 that could go to a new GPU or more storage or a new cpu or or or or

[silent flame]

i had aircooling with the current setup on inwin and temps were like 76 for cpu when gaming with lianli they are at 50c when gaming

[simple night]

Especially more storage

I feel like I always could use another ssd

[silent flame]

the lianli case i got was 89,90

[modest blaze]

i've been looking at this case
i've heard good things about it and the front dust filter popping out of the top of the case is kinda neat
it's also only $55

[silent flame]

looking at my latest orders from jimms pc store

[silent flame]

thats a good deal but i cant go any other than lian li after experiencing all the qol stuff they have in their cases its just so handy

[simple night]

Me but with toys

Lmao

[silent flame]

my todays orders

there was a blackfriday sale ok

or black week they call it because they keep sales all week

[modest blaze]

Lian-Li's cool, i love the O11, pretty basic opinion i know, everyone seems to have one these days but there's a good reason for it so
they're just too spensive down here

[simple night]

I actually wanna get a new keyboard

I wanna get a wireless version of my razer

So I can move it around

[exotic reef]

I've heard Tech Jesus say good things about montech cases that's good enough for me

[silent flame]

yeah i usually go with whats best in my price range

[simple night]

And a wireless naga

[modest blaze]

also i just dont trust my cat with a fishbowl case
especially the O11 models with the glass top

[silent flame]

i have a perfectly good gpro superlight mouse but i missed the qol of 502 and its ergonomics

[modest blaze]

my cat has a habit of sitting on top of my pc because of the exhaust fans, and i know damn well she'd still sit on top of this thing even though there's no fans

[silent flame]

yea when my dog was still alive and i had the inwin case built for watercooling it was a negative airpressure case so it was constantly full of dog hair

[modest blaze]

Look at this little shit, I love her

[silent flame]

https://tenor.com/view/scream-dragging-drag-away-kidnapped-gif-26770631

[modest blaze]

yeah same
i had a husky, so when her midyear shedding started it became a mild nightmare

[silent flame]

yeah manta was half karelian beardog wich is quite similiar to husky but slightly bigger and the amount of fur she shed i swear was more than she even had

[modest blaze]

yep i know that feeling

[simple night]

One of my cats specifically loves to go under my desk and rub his face on my cables

[modest blaze]

do you have my cat, is that where she runs off to when i can't find her

[simple night]

I try to stop him and build forts to block him lol

[modest blaze]

i gave up on that, as long as she doesn't try biting the cables i don't bother

[silent flame]

nooo let me be a lootgoblin

[modest blaze]

i give it about 5 hours before a mod gets released to change the weight limit to 9999

[silent flame]

i sacrificed fully automatic weapon so i can carry my double barrel shotgun

[modest blaze]

based

[simple night]

the cable man himself

[silent flame]

oh man i forgot the procedural teeth tech they made for stalker 2

[scarlet swan]

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

looking at this review, it feels like a bethesda game

[silent flame]

fuck the reviews pay 10 euros and test it

its running great and only bug ive seen is a dude walked trough a door

[scarlet swan]

I don't even have the xbox app. not gonna download it either

[silent flame]

its pre installed

[scarlet swan]

lmao. only on the bloated edition of windows

[silent flame]

then be sad without an awesome game dealers choise

[scarlet swan]

I'll buy it once it's actually finished

right now, it's far from finished. seems like they ran out of money and just decided to push it

[barren vigil]

https://tenor.com/view/paddling-gif-7623907

[frozen oracle]

SHIT

my bad haha

[manic wharf]

https://tenor.com/view/sinner-cat-kitty-cute-kitten-gif-17576170

[frozen oracle]

have bob ross nursing a racoon as my dearest apologies 🦝

[barren vigil]

https://tenor.com/view/parks-and-rec-ron-swanson-nick-offerman-yikes-cringe-gif-15153127

Have this silly photo of my cat

[silent flame]

this random npc looks exactly like one of my friends even the beard is same

[barren vigil]

I should buy an airbrush….

[modest blaze]

that is unmistakably stalker
even in a new engine, that face is just 100% stalker

[modest blaze]

you should

[manic wharf]

Looks like every guy who drank Natty Ice and stole cigs in the 90's.

[modest blaze]

they're very fun

[barren vigil]

But I need studio monitors and a chair for my studio as I just setup a new desk last night

[silent flame]

have a goofy dog

[barren vigil]

And all I got is a crappy stool and a drum throne

My gaming pc setup is in another room

So this is “music battlestation”

[manic wharf]

The bass is relegated to holding the ski goggles. 😦

[frozen oracle]

awh kitty

[barren vigil]

Yeah. Old stuff from my past. The bass and the goggles. No where else to hang em rn.

[frozen oracle]

this is pretty sick, what do ya do with it all?

[manic wharf]

I've been kind of looking at getting back into playing bass.

[barren vigil]

The rest of this room has my home dj booth, a lot more guitars, and a little sitting/hangout spot for listening to music on vinyl or cassette.

[frozen oracle]

ah dj, nice

[frozen oracle]

what's your fav vinyl u have?

[modest blaze]

At a guess probably music

[frozen oracle]

well duhhhh

id imagine producing music, but didnt know to what extent

[silent flame]

really loving the game

[umbral helm]

Lmk if you want help finding one

I have researched it to death

And then never used it much bc of moving

[barren vigil]

I’d put it between my Blank Banshee records (I’m not choosing just one) my Sewerslvt vinyls, or Napoleon XIV.

My profile here has a link to me Discogs to see more in depth about my collection. I collect a lot of vaporwave, punk trash, electrogarbage.

[barren vigil]

I’m into warhammer painting. So that’d be its main function. I was just going to save up and choose the squidmar recommended kit but idk. Tryna be more thrifty.

[umbral helm]

Ya mine is for Warhammer stuff. Your previous models have inspired me to get out and paint

[barren vigil]

Ooo also all my deaths dynamic shroud albums. Those are 10/10.

[umbral helm]

I dug out my airbrush setup

I have a lot of unpainted grey models and I’m ashamed

[barren vigil]

It’s all good tho!

[lime dove]

the perfect cargo ship if you listen to min maxers

[barren vigil]

Paint when it’s fun

I hadn’t painted for maybe 8 months? And prior to that very sparse. I’m just back on it rn.

[umbral helm]

Ive got my resin printer up now so my anxieties around printing are far less

Also FDM for vehicles

[frozen oracle]

i assumed u were going to name a picture disk hahah

[barren vigil]

I paint everything with like 8 clapped tf out citadel and Amazon brushes

[umbral helm]

I always feel like I’m gonna mess up a model

So I get anxious

[barren vigil]

Fuck picture disks

[umbral helm]

But now I can just reprint

[barren vigil]

I like uniquely coloured vinyls

But not photoplates

Those are for wall decor, I listen to and dj with my records.

[frozen oracle]

lololol fs- i think the only vinyl i even have anymore is a old bob marley one

[frozen oracle]

like real old

[barren vigil]

Working on this git rn, and doing it all with clapped out scuzzy brushes. Speedpaints are doing all the heavy lifting here.

[frozen oracle]

dont know what that is but nifty

[barren vigil]

Sec

Speedpaints

Black prime model, white zenithal from above, maybe a little gradient drybrushing from the black to white with ever lightening greys. Use this in smooth even slow coats.

[frozen oracle]

oh i guess the whole damn statement confused me LOL what are u paintin?

like what is that

[barren vigil]

Warhammer I keep forgetting who’s into that and who’s interacting with me about it

I don’t like bob marley myself but I have some old records from the 50-70’s usually stuff like rock/metal but not listed on my Discogs.

[frozen oracle]

i may have- i also have dogshit memory

[barren vigil]

It was sparyto I was talking wh about im just at work and scatterbrained

Same

You can see most of my record collection in the bottom two cubbies of my home booth

Also apparently that amp on the floor is worth like $12k or something? Idk

[silent flame]

i watched the video now and thats nowhere near the experience ive had that literally looks like he is playing on a potato with heaps of system errors seems like the review copies were running on really old build

[modest blaze]

That's what I heard as well, the reviewers got an earlier build than the release build

[scarlet swan]

possible. if it's true then it's GSC shooting themselves in the foot. people will base their buying decision on these videos

[silent flame]

like this is with all maxed out settings 3440x1440 resolution without upscaling in open area

[modest blaze]

My pc is going to hope that the game won't launch
I'm gonna push it harder than it has any right to be pushed

[silent flame]

whole image so you know i aint bulshitting

[barren vigil]

I need a new cpu mobo and ram soon

[modest blaze]

I need a new gestures vaguely at entire pc

[barren vigil]

My $200 3080 is doing great but I feel my mobo and stuff is holding it back

[scarlet swan]

if it runs good then good. what about bugs tho?

[barren vigil]

I mostly just play dark tide ffxiv baldurs gate 3 and other stuff

[silent flame]

i was really lucky when i was told i can also get disability on top of my retirement so they back paid it from last 6 months so i bought a new gpu

[scarlet swan]

oh and specs? @silent flame

[modest blaze]

If I need to play this game at 720p so be it
But I will play

[silent flame]

literally only bug for me so far has been dude walking trough a door and i saw it happen twice thats it

[silent flame]

7900xtx, 7800x3d, 32gigs of ddr5 at 6000mhz

[modest blaze]

Oh nice
I'll hopefully be able to afford a new gpu by end of holiday season if all goes well. It won't be a super high end card but an rx7600 will do me just fine
Or a 6750xt if I get lucky with stock

[scarlet swan]

ah. top of the line basically

[unique turtle]

That's the spirit, we only waited 15 years for this game

[silent flame]

the 7900gre can also be found reasonable price my friend got that one on his lower budget

[silent flame]

basicly

[silent flame]

evga god tier

[barren vigil]

$200 for it too

USD

[modest blaze]

Yeah that's like triple the price of a 7600 here that's not happening

[silent flame]

when i used nvidia i always went with evga

[barren vigil]

Same

[silent flame]

oh damn

[barren vigil]

I’d have gone red team but my brother in law got me this hookup

[silent flame]

but yeah pretty much all the 7000 series amd cards are pretty capeable

[barren vigil]

He got rid of his 4090 and did cash+ 3090 + 3080 for the guy that took it from him and gave me the 3080 for $200 buckerinos.

[silent flame]

yeah i went team red when the 40 series was pretty much a scam so i said fuck it im going amd

[barren vigil]

I won’t get lucky on a deal for a long while

[modest blaze]

Everything I've read about the 7600 is people going "Oh its shit don't buy it" but we don't really have much choice down here
It's either that or the one single 6750xt that's in stock, or a 7700xt for near double the price

[barren vigil]

But rn I’m just hoping to find something good at a goodwill. My 2nd monitor I got from a goodwill last year for $45 cash.

Ultrawide in portrait mode= perfect.

[silent flame]

yeah usually those people just compare it to something more recent and say its shit because it provides small performance increase but if you have an older card nothing wrong with upgrading

[barren vigil]

I just hope to find some random krk speakers or something nice at a goodwill near me. You gotta get there early in the day and know what to look for tho. Weekends I’m a lazy sod.

[silent flame]

thats a really good deal the best deal ive gotten is my monitor for 400 when normally the price was 800

[barren vigil]

The main monitor I paid full price for

I just got luck with random shit. I’ve got 14 guitars and basses and paid cash for 4 of them total…things just find their way to me somehow.

[modest blaze]

Yeah if you're in like America or something then I'm sure there's plenty of better options
The only "bad" thing I can really find about the 7600 is that it only has 8gb of vram, but I play 1080p and I've never had a game use more than that yet

[barren vigil]

Anyone see any USA speaker deals on the web for Black Friday/etc please @ me.

[silent flame]

yeah with 1080p you dont need much more like i went with 7900xtx because it has the 24gigs of vram to future proof myself for 4k when i save money for one and some recent titles really start hogging the vram when going above 1440p

[silent flame]

we had blackfriday deals start here today and i bought a mouse, a mic and a keyboard saved like bit over 200

[barren vigil]

Eh I don’t need a new keeb or mouse rn. Buying 2x more of my current so I can have a backup and give one to the wife.

[modest blaze]

Yeah, resolution and ray tracing kill vram
Good thing mid range cards can't do either
But yeah even if there were reasonably priced higher end cards here, my power supply wouldn't be good enough for them so that's another $100+ I'd need to spend on upgrading

[silent flame]

the psu prices are kinda crazy these days

[barren vigil]

I’ll pester my sweetwater rep

[frozen oracle]

looks like alot of fun

[modest blaze]

They're actually not that bad here, but it's just extra money to spend on something I already can't really afford
A pretty decent quality 850w psu here is ~$70

[barren vigil]

The rest of my stage gear isn’t on there rn. I’ll do that after work tonight. I had to move all the stuff on here to the new desk so finally my production and performance spaces are separated

[modest blaze]

1000w one is ~$90 iirc

[silent flame]

the "cheap" 850 i ordered with my gpu

[modest blaze]

[silent flame]

cheapest 1000w is 209

[frozen oracle]

when i was much younger i had some dj equipment and was doin some beginner stuff- it's one of those things that fascinated me, then all my stuff got stolen and i just never got back into it but hope u enjoy it lots!

gez i think it was around like 2009

lol

[silent flame]

and if you want a passive cooling one

[modest blaze]

Here's the 2 cards I'm looking at
6750xt is €400, 7600 is €300
There's nothing between them and the next one up is a 7700xt for €550

[silent flame]

yeah id say go with 7600 unless you get a lucky break to go for more expensive

[modest blaze]

Yeah that's my plan
The 6750 is undeniably the better choice, but I doubt I'll get the money for it

[silent flame]

yea