Random Thoughts

[Andalusian girls]

With Clair Obscur done I'm back on the Rogue Trader grind, probably gonna hold off any new games other then fighting game updates until I get done with it

I can absolutely see how this game supposedly takes 130 hours+ considering I'm still getting tutorials at 25 hours in, but so far it's so damn good

(God awful performance aside, but that's the Unity + Owlcar special)

Rogue Trader is the tits but i'm waiting for Lex Imperialis DLC to drop for a full playthrough. Owlcat games are nuts as they drop an 80 hour base game then stack on 30 hours of DLC by the time they're through.

[Salodin]

played balatro a bit last night. very addictive but i have one complaint:

The perfect cell phone game.

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[kuronosan]

Stuck wondering if the time invested into building a new board would be better invested into a steam deck.

[Mertron]

The perfect cell phone game.

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i was actually thinking last night that this would be great to download on my cell phone if I wasn’t worried I would get nothing done at work today

[Salodin]

i was actually thinking last night that this would be great to download on my cell phone if I wasn’t worried I would get nothing done at work today

Oh trust your boy was playing that shit all the time on test days when the students couldn't see what I was doing on my phone haha

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[Xno Kappa]

Oh didn't bother to look for a VA location. Here's the link for that one Xno - https://www.microcenter.com/search/s...ec&storeid=081

My man! Fairfax is a hell of a lot closer lol

[Xno Kappa]

Gamers Nexus has some prebuilt reviews on their site.

If you have a Micro Center near you, I'll help you price something and they'll build it. #1 issue with most of the prebuilt computers is absolutely horrible thermals causing your system to throttle hard under basic loads. #2 issue is just poor part to cost.

My problem is I wouldn't even know where to start, both equipment and price. Last time I built a PC I was a single 20something year old private living in the barracks lol. So I'm willing to pay the lazy tax for a prebuilt.

[Krandor]

This one is a pretty solid deal, at the upper end of your price range

https://www.microcenter.com/product/...g752-gaming-pc

Not really wasting any money on stuff you don't need and that CPU will likely be a good option for years to come

[Xno Kappa]

This one is a pretty solid deal, at the upper end of your price range

https://www.microcenter.com/product/...g752-gaming-pc

Not really wasting any money on stuff you don't need and that CPU will likely be a good option for years to come

Nice! Hopefully it's still in stock by the end of the week when I get a chance to head up there.

[synistar]

Bonus - the Microcenter Powerspec PCs have no bloatware on it.

It's a $100 diff between the G753 (AMD RX 9700 XT) vs G752 (5070 Ti).

Performance wise they will be neck and neck with Nvidia slightly ahead - 6% according to Gamers Nexus.

[Melena]

Yeah, if going the prebuilt, can't really beat the powerspec pc's from Micro Center. no bloatware as Synistar said, and unlike when I worked at Fry's and they sold their own brand PC's, they aren't using bottom of the barrel parts for it. I still have PTSD from having to use ECS brand motherboards for any and all repairs.

[Demosthenes]

I'm sort of amazed you guys don't just cycle parts. I haven't built a "new" computer since like 2006ish? The most I've ever done is buy 3 parts at once, mobo, cpu, ram. Most times it's two. Last one was mobo and cpu about a year and a half ago, next one's gonna be GPU and PSU within the next year or two.

[Demosthenes]

I take it back, last one was an SSD to cycle out an ancient 500GB one.

[Krandor]

I travel for work a lot so I stick to laptops. I'll re-use ram and SSDs if I can tho over the cheap OEM ones usually put in there.

[Salodin]

If I get a new mobo, I get mostly new everything except vcard and storage. Then the following upgrade is vcard, rinse and repeat.

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[kuronosan]

I'm sort of amazed you guys don't just cycle parts. I haven't built a "new" computer since like 2006ish? The most I've ever done is buy 3 parts at once, mobo, cpu, ram. Most times it's two. Last one was mobo and cpu about a year and a half ago, next one's gonna be GPU and PSU within the next year or two.

I do cycle parts, I just haven't done it since like 2020.

[Melena]

I'm sort of amazed you guys don't just cycle parts. I haven't built a "new" computer since like 2006ish? The most I've ever done is buy 3 parts at once, mobo, cpu, ram. Most times it's two. Last one was mobo and cpu about a year and a half ago, next one's gonna be GPU and PSU within the next year or two.

I just work my computer to the point of everything being obsolete. I went I think 9 or 10 years between builds. Went from an I5 4690, with 8gb ram, a 256gb SATA SSD, and ATI Radeon R290A graphics card to a Ryzen 5900x, 32gb Ram, 2x 2TB NVME (got a second as I had to RMA my first due to Samsung Firmware bug and didn't want to be down a computer for a couple of weeks), and a 3080TI.

Only thing I kept out of my old computer was a 2TB SATA drive I had for storage so I could get stuff off of it, and I've now had to retire it as it's started to click and slow down.

[Milkster]

Black exhaustion is the new conservative buzzword/dog whistle. I'm looking forward to seeing it being used coming up

[Zealot]

Sounds like something a Roman doctor world diagnose you with.

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[Anoat]

Jerry Stiller was not cast as Frank Costanza on Seinfeld until season five. A completely different actor played George’s father in all appearances for the first four seasons. This is my new Mandela Effect moment.