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Gaming / Open Threads

Late Night Open Thread

I hope everyone had a Spooktacular Halloween! It was a chill evening, kinda quiet, very rainy… I did a small marathon of Ghostrunner, and finished off the evening with some more Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night, it was a Stabby Sunday Evening to say the least with quite a few trophies! Although there was some playtime with my new smartwatch! It arrived in the mail yesterday, and after some trial and error I did finally get my smartwatch configured! I bit the bullet and bought a pinetime — I figured for $25 was safe to blow on what is essentially a wearable science experiment. I have it running the latest firmware from Infinitime (1.6.0) and it seems to be behaving. I’ll do a write up on it after getting to know it a wee bit more. I’d also looking into properly customizing it, and what hellish rituals I’ll have to go through to get it to my liking.

All in an Overlord's day

I Return From The Surface

I’m barely halfway through the work week and I’m already tired of people. I’m glad I have one last bit of vacation starting next week, as my traditional last hoorah before descending into the apocalyptic chaos that is the holiday season. I would have written something last night, but after having a long overdue talk with a good friend I wanted nothing more than to pass out upon the bed that doesn’t try to kill me. It was nice catching up though; it’s very hard for me to meet up with anyone online or in person lately, especially when everyone is on different schedules and/or timezones.

I hope to do more of this all next week (maybe even livestream!), among getting some other overdue shit done. I need to go to the post office, but by the time I’m ever able to go there it’s closed… I also need to do a linux reinstall on my surface, though I haven’t deemed it broken enough to reinstall yet. It won’t update anymore due to an issue with the linux surface repository. Reinstalling would give me an excuse to update the tablet firmware, and the only way to do that is to install Windows 10 temporarily and run the updater. When I’m done I can put Manjaro back in place. I also have a few other “rainy day projects” I’d like to tackle over my vacay. I’m already brainstorming about 87 different things. 😛

Gaming / Hobbies / Open Threads

Evening Open Thread

Don’t have much to write… with a full day of work and plenty of to do’s I had to fulfill today there wasn’t much time for sitting down. Although, I did take a few minutes out of the evening to play a little Ghostrunner!

I plan to go into fuller detail on the game, but I want to play more before blowing my digital load of words about the epic awesomeness that is indeed Ghostrunner. I wanted to end the night with the scent of watermelon and go cybernetic parkour ninja, with a side of chamomile tea to help me get to sleep for yet another coma inducing day tomorrow.

Until then… Open Thread!

Hobbies / Technology

Live & Learn: Gaming Monitor Edition

I discovered over the weekend that my Acer VG270U P isn’t capable of HDR over DisplayPort, and if I switch to HDMI I can get HDR at the cost of the framerate. I didn’t know this at the time of researching, but this monitor has DisplayPort 1.2, which is incapable of true HDR output. I just figured since this was advertised as a 2020 gaming monitor that it would have DisplayPort 1.4, or at the very least 1.3.

It’s sad given this monitor is barely half a year old. I’m thinking I’ll put it back in its box and store it for emergency use, like if I have a monitor die and need a backup. This just gives me an excuse to go shopping for a 4K monitor I guess. 😛 Unfortunately I’m finding that the monitors are, like many other electronics at the mo, are being scalped for a profit because we live in a world of assholes with too much money. I’m not sure how long it will take me to track something down, but I figure with the 6800XT proving itself on the 4K proving grounds it would only be right to get a matching monitor. Then I can start delivering 4K content for YouTube! 😛

Gaming / Hobbies

Lazy & Rainy Sunday

We had a few inches of rain today, made for a relaxing day of breakfast tostadas, all of the tea in the universe, and couch gaming. I’m continuing to excel at Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night, and just general goofing off in anything else. I played some Hades too, and tested a bunch of other games just to see how much of a load I could put on the system. That 6800XT is a real beast of a card in 4K! I’m kinda wishing I went 4K when I replaced my monitors earlier this year, ah well… I can enjoy 1440p for now, and I can always chill in the living room for a theatrical experience!

I wonder what my next 4K adventure will be… DOSBox? 😛

Gaming / Open Threads

Plans Foiled By 4K Gaming

Go big or go… what?!

Original evening plan: Animation

What actually happened: 4K Gaming in the living room until bedtime.

DAMN YOU NEW VIDEO CARD!!!!!! We upgraded the Home Theatre PC with an AMD Taichi 6800XT, and that can’t simply go untested! It was a glorious evening of 4K Gaming, and not being limited to 60fps! I might have to do it again tomorrow night. The weekend cometh, and my limbs could stand some breathing time on the couch.

Gaming

Back 4 Blood: Will I Get It?

I’ve had a couple friends inquire if I would be grabbing it, and I probably will a sale or two from now (but inevitably it will be a yes). I don’t have time for multiplayer gaming anywhere near like I used to, mostly due to my work hours. That, and the toxic behaviour found in multiplayer games these days has encouraged me to stick to single player gaming when I have my alone time. The only thrill I get from dealing with an internet asshole is not having to hold back, other than that it just because tiring, especially after a long day of dealing with assholes in person.

I will get it though! I’ve seen gameplay of it, and from feedback I’ve read it does get good stats under Linux. It might even be fun enough to stream, when I actually stream!