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by Aslanna
March 7, 2024, 2:56 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Ghost of Tsushima (PS4)
Replies: 23
Views: 2723

Re: Ghost of Tsushima (PS4)

Coming to PC in May

PC features trailer thingie
by Aslanna
March 7, 2024, 2:54 pm
Forum: Everquest General Discussion
Topic: My EQ Life...
Replies: 1
Views: 136

Re: My EQ Life...

Don't do it!

EQ is going to be 25 years old this year. Let that sink in.
by Aslanna
February 15, 2024, 8:50 pm
Forum: Consoles
Topic: The Official Xbox Series X thread
Replies: 114
Views: 6868

Re: The Official Xbox Series X thread

Well there's a shock... The internet was freaking out about nothing. 4 'old' xbox games coming to Switch and PS5: Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, Sea of Thieves, and Grounded. That's it. All those xbox fanatics can stop their crying now. But it was quite entertaining for the past two weeks so I'm sad that is...
by Aslanna
February 8, 2024, 10:24 pm
Forum: Consoles
Topic: The Official PS3 thread!
Replies: 1556
Views: 318486

Re: The Official PS3 thread!

I hooked up the ole PS3 to play through Spec Ops The Line and yeah... It's hard going back to the past. Even for a game installed on the HDD the load times are lengthy. And, from what I understand, as they used a SATA 2 interface there's no real benefit to adding an SSD from the few videos I've watc...
by Aslanna
February 8, 2024, 10:02 pm
Forum: Consoles
Topic: The Official Xbox Series X thread
Replies: 114
Views: 6868

Re: The Official Xbox Series X thread

It is quite amusing seeing the absolute meltdown of the hardcore xbox fanboys at the rumors of some (not all!) previously xbox exclusive games coming to Switch and PS5. They (the xbox zealots) are losing their goddamn minds at something that may not even be true and it is rather entertaining. People...
by Aslanna
February 7, 2024, 10:14 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Hobbit Trailer
Replies: 63
Views: 15549

Re: Hobbit Trailer

I never did get around to watching the third Hobbit movie. Someone did release a 4 hour 'Tolkien Edit' of the three combined so maybe I will watch that instead. Even if the quality is a bit on the DVD side.
by Aslanna
February 7, 2024, 9:17 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: The Witcher (Netflix)
Replies: 17
Views: 3006

Re: The Witcher (Netflix)

I still haven't watched Season 3 but may get around to it someday.

And with Henry gone I probably won't bother with any other seasons that may come along.
by Aslanna
January 31, 2024, 9:53 pm
Forum: Site/Board Development
Topic: Cloudflare?
Replies: 15
Views: 22316

Re: Cloudflare?

For years Cloudflare has blocked me while on VPN from accessing this site but has recently started working.

Which is good because my work recently starting blocking this site as it's classified as 'Gaming'. Really? This site hasn't been gaming-related for years.
by Aslanna
January 25, 2024, 9:15 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Finally building a PC
Replies: 24
Views: 594

Re: Finally building a PC

Looking at previous orders I see I paid $100 for the 2 TB 980 Pro (with heatsink) and now they are $175 so I think I'll hold off on buying two of those like I was planning. I am going to gamble that those will be cheaper than that by the time intel releases their 15th generation CPUs (Arrow Lake) in...
by Aslanna
January 21, 2024, 4:23 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Finally building a PC
Replies: 24
Views: 594

Re: Finally building a PC

My only other advice is to wait two weeks and see if some of those components go on sale over Black Friday. Buy any SSD stuff soon though as Samsung said they are raising nand prices 20% per quarter over the next 2-3 quarters. At least I believe that’s what I saw reported somewhere. I guess that wa...
by Aslanna
January 14, 2024, 12:37 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Finally building a PC
Replies: 24
Views: 594

Re: Finally building a PC

There was an issue with those cables when the 4090s came out. The main cause was the connector might not give you enough feedback and people think they were plugged in all the way but they actually weren't. Which was leading to melted/burned cards. So while it was user error for the most part the po...
by Aslanna
January 3, 2024, 1:00 am
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Horizon Forbidden West (PS5/PS4)
Replies: 6
Views: 624

Re: Horizon Forbidden West (PS5/PS4)

I still haven't gotten around to playing this. I think I waited because with the first one I finished it right away and then by the time the DLC came out many months later I didn't feel like going back and try to remember how to play it. Now that the DLC is out I'll get to it someday!
by Aslanna
January 3, 2024, 12:47 am
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Google Stadia
Replies: 11
Views: 2614

Re: Google Stadia

I do get the concern about Google abandoning things but I don't see it happening here. A lot of things they give up on have been free products. Once people get into their ecosystem and start spending actual money it will be a lot harder for them to just pull the plug on the whole thing. Maybe I am ...
by Aslanna
January 3, 2024, 12:42 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Finally building a PC
Replies: 24
Views: 594

Re: Finally building a PC

If you went with the K over the KF then you can at least install Windows and get everything setup while waiting on a GPU. See.. Worth the extra $15 or whatever miniscule amount it is!
by Aslanna
December 18, 2023, 10:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I fucking did it...
Replies: 12
Views: 1890

Re: I fucking did it...

I think they have one every year these days. Sadly it's mostly just cut and paste spells with new levels and AAs. At least the last time I looked. Which to be honest has been a few years now.
by Aslanna
December 18, 2023, 9:58 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Where'd all the McCain/Palin supporters go?
Replies: 108
Views: 9464

Re: Where'd all the McCain/Palin supporters go?

<t>Look at what is happening in Texas to see why overturning Roe v Wade was a terrible decision. Luckily she had the resources to go out of state for the procedure but I'd imagine 90% of the people can't do that. And now the Supreme Court is reviewing whether to make Mifepristone illegal because, su...
by Aslanna
December 18, 2023, 9:41 pm
Forum: Audiophilia
Topic: Your Music Collection
Replies: 2
Views: 2679

Re: Your Music Collection

Mine is 100,000 files and 780 GB so not crazy huge. For a while I was only getting flac's but now I find 320k good enough.

At least half are albums that I downloaded and only listened to once. I probably should have deleted them afterwards but never got around to it.
by Aslanna
December 18, 2023, 9:28 pm
Forum: Consoles
Topic: Dragon's Dogma 360/PS3
Replies: 68
Views: 19506

Re: Dragon's Dogma 360/PS3

March 22nd so you wont have that long to wait to find out for yourself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT0rIgaiPWA

I probably won't be playing it but for those who are I hope it's good!
by Aslanna
December 18, 2023, 9:21 pm
Forum: Everquest General Discussion
Topic: Cestus Dei (Veeshan) 1999-2011
Replies: 25
Views: 9110

Re: Cestus Dei (Veeshan) 1999-2011

Last update!

I logged on maybe a year ago now only to find out that Cestus Dei has closed up shop. Sad. But it was limping along for the most part with the co-raiding they had been doing for years with.. Uh.. KoF? It's been awhile so I forgot exactly.
by Aslanna
December 18, 2023, 9:14 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: E3 - 2019
Replies: 17
Views: 3936

Re: E3 - 2019

RIP E3 (1995-2019).
by Aslanna
December 18, 2023, 9:12 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: iPhone 6, 6+
Replies: 111
Views: 50767

Re: iPhone 6, 6+

I've only had 1 iPhone, and have had no issue with it, so not really looking to switch. But other than an iPhone I'm not all the invested in the IOS ecosystem, either. Messaging weirdness doesn't matter too much to me. I'm not a fan of Android although I'm sure they work fine for what they are. I do...
by Aslanna
December 18, 2023, 9:06 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Non Forced 2019 Upgrade Edition AMD 3950x
Replies: 54
Views: 6222

Re: Non Forced 2019 Upgrade Edition AMD 3950x

Search for 870 EVO and you'll see all sorts of issues with early failures. Also, and not 870 in particular, older files are super slow when it comes to transfer rates. I don't know if that has been resolved with firmware updates but there are things you can do to update your file dates so the system...
by Aslanna
December 18, 2023, 9:03 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Everything - File Search
Replies: 5
Views: 657

Re: Everything - File Search

I didn't mean content search for Everything. I mean in general. Having an application for that could be nice. I'm sure those exist but I haven't looked into that since I am lazy.
by Aslanna
December 18, 2023, 9:02 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Windows 11 and RTX 3080ti
Replies: 12
Views: 997

Re: Windows 11 and RTX 3080ti

RIP EVGA. I've always, at least since going Nvidia, bought EVGA for my graphics card. No clue who I'll go with now. But I have a couple years before I have to think about that since I won't be upgrading anytime soon. It does seem nice that Intel hasn't killed their graphics cards yet and have been w...
by Aslanna
December 15, 2023, 8:54 pm
Forum: Consoles
Topic: PSVita
Replies: 166
Views: 35107

Re: PSVita

RIP Vita. Sony killed it with their proprietary memory cards. Well I guess the cards themselves weren’t the problem but the price was. They really should have been priced liked comparable SD cards. They also fucked up by not making a local output connector. They could have beat the Switch to market ...
by Aslanna
December 15, 2023, 8:49 pm
Forum: Consoles
Topic: Dragon's Dogma 360/PS3
Replies: 68
Views: 19506

Re: Dragon's Dogma 360/PS3

Dragon’s Dogma 2 announced for next year!

I have the first one but never got around to playing it.
by Aslanna
December 15, 2023, 8:47 pm
Forum: Consoles
Topic: Fuse (360/PS3)
Replies: 18
Views: 3608

Re: Fuse (360/PS3)

It’s funny rereading this thread seeing how much Winnow is trying to gaslight us (and himself) that Fuse was actually good.

It won’t happen but I’d really like to see Insomniac make/release Overstrike. The game they originally announced before EA got all up in their business.
by Aslanna
December 15, 2023, 8:36 pm
Forum: Consoles
Topic: Borderlands 3 (PS4 / PC / XBO)
Replies: 58
Views: 3855

Re: Borderlands 3 (PS4 / PC / XBO)

I don’t know if they ever fixed the PS4 version (terrible UI performance) but I recently went though BL3 on PS5 and had no issues. Even got the Platinum trophy for it. I did give up on the DLC but I might go back to it someday. I also want to try the Tiny Tina Wonderlands game but no real rush on th...
by Aslanna
December 15, 2023, 8:30 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Google Stadia
Replies: 11
Views: 2614

Re: Google Stadia

Update! RIP Stadia.
by Aslanna
December 15, 2023, 8:25 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Windows 11 and RTX 3080ti
Replies: 12
Views: 997

Re: Windows 11 and RTX 3080ti

Sounds like Win 12 is on the way sooner rather than later so no reason not to wait and just skip Win11. Unless Win12 ends up being even worse than Win11.
by Aslanna
December 15, 2023, 8:20 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Everything - File Search
Replies: 5
Views: 657

Re: Everything - File Search

Content search would be great as long as you can exclude (or include) certain directories. Filenames are fine but for me it’s limiting. Regardless it is better than the search in Windows Explorer which is terrible in all aspects.
by Aslanna
December 15, 2023, 8:15 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Non Forced 2019 Upgrade Edition AMD 3950x
Replies: 54
Views: 6222

Re: Non Forced 2019 Upgrade Edition AMD 3950x

My 4TB magnetic was split between ai and emulation so I designated the new SSD for ai with the magnetic only having emulation stuff. At some point I may replace that with an ssd. I have been hearing some issues with the 870 EVO though so that is a bit concerning. Hopefully those have been resolved w...
by Aslanna
December 15, 2023, 8:02 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: iPhone 6, 6+
Replies: 111
Views: 50767

Re: iPhone 6, 6+

I don’t use many apps so no real reason to upgrade. I’d say as long as batteries are available that’s the better way to go. Unless you don’t care about money then sure buy a new phone every year. Now that I work from home I’ve almost considered ditching a cellphone and going back to dialup. Although...
by Aslanna
December 15, 2023, 7:55 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Finally building a PC
Replies: 24
Views: 594

Re: Finally building a PC

I did see a single 4090 when I was at microcenter the other day. I didn’t check the price but mc isn’t really known for gouging people so I imagine it was at MSRP.
by Aslanna
December 15, 2023, 3:14 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: iPhone 6, 6+
Replies: 111
Views: 50767

Re: iPhone 6, 6+

Well I finally joined the 21st century and got a smartphone. Mostly due to a new job that will involve a lot of travel for the next few months so I figured that would be a good investment. I decided to go with the 128GB 6s for my first phone. <…> I wont be one of those people who upgrade every time...
by Aslanna
December 13, 2023, 7:42 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Non Forced 2019 Upgrade Edition AMD 3950x
Replies: 54
Views: 6222

Re: Non Forced 2019 Upgrade Edition AMD 3950x

A few recent upgrades lately but nothing too fancy. All of them have been storage related. Replaced an 8 TB drive with an 18TB. That is basically my Plex drive so I have some room to grow now as I was down to a few hundred GB free. Replaced a 250GB SSD (bought in 2014 for $110) with a 1TB SSD ($53 i...
by Aslanna
December 12, 2023, 9:46 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Retro Nostalgia
Replies: 10
Views: 640

Re: Retro Nostalgia

Jumpman Jr I actually had the cartridge for so I played that a lot. It’s one of the ones I still occasionally play now. Ultimate Wizard is another. I can’t really remember all the ones I liked but I did play Summer (and Winter) Games from Epyx a lot but never could get into Archon. I did play a bunc...
by Aslanna
December 12, 2023, 9:19 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Everything - File Search
Replies: 5
Views: 657

Re: Everything - File Search

It is alright. But super limiting unless all you care about is filenames. I’d really like to search content which I think it can do but is superslow.
by Aslanna
December 12, 2023, 9:15 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Finally building a PC
Replies: 24
Views: 594

Re: Finally building a PC

If you did go 4090 that was probably the call as they are starting to see inflated prices now. Which sucks. I thought we were over that sort of thing already. It would seem not!

As for for the power supply I couldn’t say. I’d check max power draw on the cpu and graphics card and go from there.
by Aslanna
December 12, 2023, 9:06 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
Replies: 26
Views: 1436

Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff

It seems the pedos have caused a bit of trouble over at civitai. Causing them to lose their image host or something. I can’t say that is surprising considering some of the images I have seen posted there. If you want to generate AI underage images whatever.. it beats you posting actual underage imag...
by Aslanna
November 10, 2023, 7:47 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
Replies: 26
Views: 1436

Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff

I haven’t really had time to mess with this stuff at all lately so have just been keeping things updated when newer versions. Luckily Stability Matrix makes it easy to see what packages and models have newer versions. In one of my earlier posts I think I mentioned it didn’t show which installed mode...
by Aslanna
November 10, 2023, 7:31 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Finally building a PC
Replies: 24
Views: 594

Re: Finally building a PC

Winnow will tell you go AMD but I haven’t researched their stuff enough to recommend that. At the current moment they probably are the better price/performance choice. If you go DDR5 you’ll need a different motherboard. Also that one comes with built in networking so shouldn’t need the networking ad...
by Aslanna
October 19, 2023, 1:04 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
Replies: 26
Views: 1436

Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff

I'd highly recommend Automatic1111. ComfyUI is not fun to use unless you like using nodes. Automatic1111 is by far the most used of the Stable Diffusion UIs and thus also has most support on reddit and most extensions etc work with it. I am using A1111. Apparently the official name for that is Stab...
by Aslanna
October 10, 2023, 8:52 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
Replies: 26
Views: 1436

Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff

I got bored and started messing around a bit with Stable Diffusion. I am using Stability Matrix which I don't know if that's a branch of Easy Diffusion or not but it seems to work fine. At the moment it is updated quite frequently so that is a good sign. It allows you to browse civitai and install (...
by Aslanna
July 30, 2023, 12:09 am
Forum: Consoles
Topic: The Official Xbox Series X thread
Replies: 114
Views: 6868

Re: The Official Xbox Series X thread

So many words and none of them saying you were wrong about the actual point I was responding to. But you're good at cherry picking what you choose to respond to. Microsoft should start suing Sony for random shit just like Sony does just to fuck with those whiners. Various regulatory agencies asked f...
by Aslanna
July 28, 2023, 10:11 am
Forum: Consoles
Topic: The Official Xbox Series X thread
Replies: 114
Views: 6868

Re: The Official Xbox Series X thread

You do know that it wasn't Sony suing them to block the deal, don't you? I guess not. Either way it's a terrible deal. Any company that can buy another for $70 billion is too large already. The UK was the only regulatory body out there that had any guts but we'll see if they stick to their guns on t...
by Aslanna
June 28, 2023, 11:04 am
Forum: Consoles
Topic: The Official Xbox Series X thread
Replies: 114
Views: 6868

Re: The Official Xbox Series X thread

Having said that I think most people would have been fine with it if MS came out and said "Hey, any existing multi-platform IP, even if that involves future games, will remain that way but any new IP we reserve the right to make exclusive to our platform if we want". So things like the ne...
by Aslanna
June 15, 2023, 1:48 pm
Forum: Consoles
Topic: The Official Xbox Series X thread
Replies: 114
Views: 6868

Re: The Official Xbox Series X thread

I'm not against mergers in general when they make sense. But when it comes to any large merger like this I think they are a bad idea no matter who is involved. So if it were Sony wanting to make the purchase (in a hypothetical world where they had the cash) I'd still be against it. Just as I was aga...
by Aslanna
May 10, 2023, 4:35 pm
Forum: Consoles
Topic: The Official Xbox Series X thread
Replies: 114
Views: 6868

Re: The Official Xbox Series X thread

Over a year later and this still acquisition still hasn't been finalized. I hope it is one way or the other before too long because I'm rather tired of hearing about it every other day.
by Aslanna
May 10, 2023, 4:19 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: omg like..
Replies: 48
Views: 44072

Re: omg like..

Yeah. You're old now!