@nessisonett Nice. I haven’t had an actual desktop since we had one at home as a kid and it’s not something I’ve been fussed about since, particularly as I’ve always been happy just as a console gamer.
Are you going to be shifting to more gaming on that then?
@Thrillho Sort of? It’s a 1080p setup because I don’t see the point in having a 4K monitor 2 feet away from my face, so I’ll probably still play the big games on the PS5 and the big TV. But I already used my laptop from uni loads for emulation and such until it finally died on me last month and so it’s very much on life support with a clean install of Windows, this is more going to last me years for work as well as gaming, with PS3 emulation getting a big bump compared to my last setup. There’s certain games I’d only play on PC too, the new Europa Universalis comes out soon for example.
That said, I have been out of PC gaming myself for 20 years now - although dipping my toe back in over the past year with the Steam Deck. There’s just so much to play, and for so little, on the Steam shop! If I had a PC with mouse and key board there are a few classics I would like to go back to, mind you…
Can’t believe at one point we had 4 full PCs on desks throughout our house growing up 😂 printers, scanners, router, cabled network.. the works.
@kyleforrester87 It’s only really visible to the naked eye when you have a certain screen size. On a monitor that’s not massive and up close, I don’t really see a big bump from 1080p to 4K compared to the huge difference on the TV from HD to 4K. I prefer having the high refresh rate on the PC, 165hz is super smooth.
Was having a mare struggling with countless bugs and freezes and glitches running anything on the new PC, genuinely worried I’d have to contact the family that got it for me. Turns out I’d plugged the DisplayPort cable into the motherboard instead of the GPU. I have a degree in computing.
@Hapless In my defence, the discrete ports are only visible if you bend down as they sort of blend into the case whereas the integrated ports are obviously right next to all the other gubbins. I can’t believe I spent so much time running diagnostics and the like only for it to be such an amateurish mistake 😂
@Thrillho A mix to be fair, played the PS2 titles emulated but moved to the PC native versions with ProStreet onwards rather than emulate the PS3 versions!
@JohnnyShoulder thanks for the hint! This saves me having to awkwardly ask at some point, as I f***ing suck at remembering names or who is who at the best of times, especially on t'internet where people always be changing things up 😅
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im binge watching breezing through old seasons 1-3 of Game Chasers.
darn shame that the Sights and Sounds store in Arlington permamently closed.
also Regina was kind of a nagging b**** back then. saying stuff like box of useless crap. lady, please. there's women your age that collects useless crap like dolls and precious moments and whatever else
There's an analogy to be made, about the structure of my mind and "two-headed dragon". The two heads, are, Free Jazz (in the middle, representing chaos) ,whilst the other represents order and corresponds to my Samurai-build focused video games. You could possibly add on a second "head" for psychology, with regard to the time I give volunteering a few times a week, in the field of mental health, but yeah ,probably two or three, let's say three "dragon heads", Chaos in the middle, with Order on either side. The body may encompass my other interests, Literature, Other forms of Music, Art and Film/TV, which are secondary to my primary interests and "at the back of my mind". In another sense, the Samurai-builds in games are like the "spine" or "structured support" of my being, maintaing focus in a more ordered direction, whilst the free jazz chaos swirls all about me. Keeping me grounded, whilst I plunge into the waters of free jazz guitar, in my personal playing.
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@Hapless Hey man, how're you doing? Just a thought, given that you are a self-described Manga fanatic, I wondered whether you had ever considered writing or drawing one of your own, or perhaps creating one in collaboration with someone else, such as a friend or fellow student/professional colleague?
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@Hapless No problem. No, I'm not creative in the visual sense, although I have been to a few art classes and got complimented for my 'unique' style. But, no, more of a music person when it comes to creativity, I used to write a lot when I was younger but, like you, drifted away from that and more towards music in my teens and from then onwards I have always played music in some capacity, on and off.
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
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