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Booh, yah! Or something…
I crushed my “pie in the sky, lol no but seriously?”-bonus goal this summer of managing a 45km trip by bicycle. Managed to exceed 50km this evening. Partly due to getting lost. My legs are pretty well worn at this point, but not to the point of noodles.
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Um. I nearly did 25 km travel in Pokemon Go one week lately. Some by paw, some by vehicle. Got too exhausted to reach theclast 3 km milestone. A bicycle is better than the under powered paw step.
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Just grabbed gta 5 and days gone because I found some good deals. I’ll probably grab rdr 2 and star wars jedi fallen order next as soon as deals pop up. It’s nice to have a new current gen pc to play some of my top wishlisted games.
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The net is lagging and I’m losing my nuts. Trying again
So. Anyone September Prime Amazon games? Shadow of Mordor as GOG key for example. Let me know before October 2nd or nothing will be visible or claimable, myrr.
I’m sure there is a Twitch or Prime thread but I can’t find it and truly too frustrated with the half loading pages etc to keep trying. Plus, still restricted to tablet only, and it’s no spring chicken itself.
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Here ya go:
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It seems the Triad have heard of the old mafia tactics of hiding bodies in concrete at a building site. Unfortunately it seems the building site they chose was an overpass, not an office building.
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Thanks @blomvik. I wish Amazon just had a double confirm option since it’s apparently policy NOT to give refunds.
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Recently I got the Gothic Universe pack for free on a giveaway. It includes Gothic 1 ~ 3 which I’ve heard a lot about in the past and are considered to be classics.
Can someone tell me how good those games are ? And should I play them in order or not ?
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I am playing through the trilogy at the moment. Played the original Gothic 2 in 2004, and the Myrtana mod made me install the games and play them anew.
First thing to note is that these games are german eurojank that expects you to save regularly. They are somewhat openworld, but with handcrafted maps that are small enough to be able to walk around.
I would recommend starting with the first one, as the world is smaller and the game is much easier. The gold version of Gothic 2 also includes the “Night of the raven” expansion, witch increases the difficulty. Making it harder for a newcomer.
There are also mods available. The graphic mods are good to make it look a bit nicer. But some of the rebalancing mods make them harder and are intended for people that have played the game since release.
Never played the third game, despite owning the original boxed release. It was a really botched release, but supposedly alright today.
TL:DR: Go ahead, play them. The steam version even have the systempack pre-installed and workshop support.
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Might be time to start considering ditching chromium based browsers, I know many of you are not using direct google chrome but some sort of derivative with an alternative brand slapped across the face of it. Well that’s not going to help you much now that google decides to eliminate all Manifest V2 API support and run only with Manifest V3.
So what does that mean? I don’t know really, but one of the youtube channels I loosely follow seems to. Long (9 minutes) story short, it will remove the capabilities that Adblockers and userscripts rely on to do their thing.
The video will explain more in-depth what you can do, but I’d recommend Firefox. I ditched chrome a decent number of years back now and have been using firefox ever since and I haven’t had any issues in doing so. It’ll take a little getting used to of course, setting things up to your liking, finding alternatives to whatever plugins you used to have and such.
But you’d have to do that anyway, once they stop working on chromium because google decides what capabilities your browser will have and they’re coming for your adblockers now.
If I can help making the transition smoother in any way I’d offer what little insight and knowledge I possess.
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Yikes. I don’t need a space heater in my apartment in the summer, thanks.
Add to that I think these cpus have some Microsoft “security” jank baked into them and these are a hard pass.
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I’m yet to watch GN coverage of 7000 series but other major tech outlets seems to be pretty impressed with them. Yes TDP is up to 95W on entry chips now , but gains seems to be insane , also under normal loads chip hardly draws more than 70W , which is very reasonable.
I for one will probably upgrade to 7600x once initial craze and prices for DDR5 will drop a bit.
Unless Intel will release something even better in that time. I dont really have any ‘love’ for either of them so it is just best value to me.
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GN was showing 116 W power draw. That’s 73% more than the 5600X (67W) for ~16% CPU bound gaming performance and ~30% productivity performance IIRC. Considering I have a 5600X and it’s a complete system rebuild, it’s not worth it for me.
I’ve heard some stuff about Eco mode. If that’s a thing and unpegs the 90C temperature while maintaining good performance, then that might be more interesting.
As of right now it just seems like tech companies care very little about the power draw.
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I’m still on my 5 3600 so for me difference seems to be quite considerable ( up to 67% increase in performance ) . If 7600 will be really available for 300$ i feel like this is a reasonable upgrade choice. Ofc whole added price of entirely new platform. A lot will come down to price for MOBOs and RAM.
Also i will likely need a new cooler.
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Possible yes, plausible? Read the rest of the discussion.
And then of course
I mean of course I don’t know what your favourite chromium based browser is going to go to the effort of doing. But you could sidestep the guesswork entirely ahead of time if you wanted to.
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I have installed Firefox to check it out. But i really like Vivaldi and will probably keep using both unless i can get used to FF.
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Looks like Lunar Sale will be gone next year and be replaced by a new Spring Sale on March.
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I barely use extensions so as much as Chrome changes suck, it doesn’t bother me much. I hate Firefox from the bloated days and not keen to give it another try. Rather than Opera or something else.
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