Hiya, buddy. It's been a while!
Yeah, I'm good, thanks. How've you been yourself? What have I missed?
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Yeah, I'm good, thanks. How've you been yourself? What have I missed?
Geriatric hedgehog
Pokémon Master
It has indeed! Life's busier than ever with work and family but very thankfully all very good. I see you're busy on your switch and whilst I keep buying games on that (usually indie ones during the sales) I don't often get to play them and more often just play the gacha stuff on my phone on the go heh. Nintendo and Sony shuttering their old console stores has resulted in me buying games more often on steam now, for whenever I eventually buy a steam deck - have you gotten yourself one of those?
Girls with Guns
Chuunibyou
Hey, there's Neil.T, good to see you on here again, buddy! Just going to say hello and jump back out, it's after midnight here and I just spent the entire evening setting up a new PC build from scratch, mounted the memory, M.2 drive, processor and air cooler on the motherboard and installed it in the case, hooked up the PSU and SATA cables to the motherboard and Blu-ray drive, connectected an ethernet cable to the router, and powered it up, and lo and behold, I was able to get into the BIOS right off the bat with no issues. Now that that's successful, I'm a happy camper, so I'm going to head off to bed now. I have off work tomorrow, so I'll probably work on getting Windows installed on it then. My birthday is in 10 days, so this is basically a birthday present to myself, lol. Lots of fun!
Glad to hear you're doing well, buddy! Sounds pretty hectic, though. Well done for hanging in there!
I haven't, no. No plans for one either. I'm honestly really happy with the Switch and am in no danger of running out of games to play anytime soon!
I've just recently started the Switch remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. I never played the GameCube original, so I'm finally getting to find out what all the fuss has been about all these years. Yeah, it's every bit as great as I've heard. I'm not usually much of an RPG player, but I'm absolutely loving it. Can't get enough of it right now.
So, how close are you to investing in that Steam Deck? What's lined up to play on it?
Hey, my man. How's it going?
Yep, here I am. This thread was my first port of call for a little catching up!
The workings of this world continue to fascinate me: you put together an entire PC build from scratch, and I have no idea what a SATA cable even is or how to tell one end of a motherboard from the other!
Is that thing gonna be a bit of a beast when it's up and running? How are the specs?
Hope you enjoy your day off tomorrow, buddy.
Girls with Guns
Chuunibyou
Hey, my man. How's it going?
Yep, here I am. This thread was my first port of call for a little catching up!
The workings of this world continue to fascinate me: you put together an entire PC build from scratch, and I have no idea what a SATA cable even is or how to tell one end of a motherboard from the other!
Is that thing gonna be a bit of a beast when it's up and running? How are the specs?
Hope you enjoy your day off tomorrow, buddy.
Lol, I posted the parts I ordered over in the What Did You Buy thread when i first ordered them, but it sounds like you won't know half of what you are looking at anyway...
It is a fairly powerful machine, but I'm not a gamer so it's mainly just using enough current tech to keep the computer relevent for the next 10 years, hopefully. Here is the link to that post:MSI i7 PC Build
I've been sitting here in front of the new PC for about the past two hours getting Windows 11 installed and tweaked a bit, and getting my browsers installed and bookmarks/favorites moved over to them, so I could at least login to the forum. So, here I am, this is my first anime forum post on the new PC!
EDIT: Oh! my final part I was waiting for just arrived via UPS - a used MSI GEforce 3070 Ti graphics card from eBay. I've just been running off the Built-in Intel graphics on the motherboard so far, so it's time to put this sucker in and see if it works!
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I followed your link and, yup, I have absolutely no idea what the things are that I'm looking at!it sounds like you won't know half of what you are looking at anyway...
You called that absolutely right, dude.
It's all Greek to me. You have my respect for knowing how to assemble all of that.
Geriatric hedgehog
Pokémon Master
I didn't even know about this until the recent headlines on the remake, and RPGs are right up my street so I'll definitely add this one to my wishlist next.
I don't have a steamdeck but I've played my brother's and it's a fantastic bit of kit so I'll probably buy the next version whenever that is released. Regardless though, in hardware terms I rate the switch as the best console design ever, what a genius hybrid. But, given the longevity of the steam store, unless there are Nintendo exclusive games, I tend to buy my digital stuff on there now for posterity as a higher chance it won't be shut down sometime in the future and I may still be able to download the games I bought decades ago and never got to play at the time heh.
Girls with Guns
Chuunibyou
I followed your link and, yup, I have absolutely no idea what the things are that I'm looking at!
You called that absolutely right, dude.
It's all Greek to me. You have my respect for knowing how to assemble all of that.
Well, I've only been working in the computer field and IT services since 1988, and I majored in Computer Science (programming) In college back in '79-'82, but even all that historical knowledge doesn't help me much with all the new tech that has come out since I built my last PC 9 years ago, lol. I spent hours and hours watching YouTube videos on all kinds of stuff hardware related and Windows 11 related and tips and tweaks and such, before even attempting this PC Build - my ancient brain of mysticism is all but fried now, lol.
If you're already into RPGs, buddy, then I'd recommend The Thousand-Year Door even more. I was playing some more of it yesterday, and the storylines, combat system and exploration are all just soooo good.
I've got the Super Mario RPG remake for Switch as well but haven't started it yet. I first played the original on the SNES Mini a few years ago, and that's really good, too. The game was originally released on the SNES in the mid-1990s and was developed by none other than Square (now Square Enix). I'm excited about playing the remake.
Yeah, I can totally see your logic with Steam there. I've got my fingers tightly crossed that the current Switch architecture is gonna carry over onto the next Nintendo console. We already know it'll carry your Nintendo account over, but I really hope they'll also keep the current subscription system that gives access to the retro games libraries. That's my biggest hope for it.
That's a big investment in time as well as funds, then. Wow.
Like you say, though, that's gonna give you a machine that won't be going obsolete anytime soon now. I remember a guy I used to know put together his own custom PC build back in the early 2000s, and I didn't understand any of it then either.
Aeon
Student Council President
Personally I’d say that the best place for game preservation is GOG.com as they mandate DRM free and you can freely make personal backups of any game you buy there without any obstruction or consequences, so even if it did get shut down you can still play the games you bought as long as you have them downloaded and backed up, it’s managed by the guys who made The Witcher games and is IMO the best place for game preservation, the downside is that not many games are released there, due in part to the fact that publishers don’t want to remove DRM but the games that are released there can be backed up, and played for as long as you have a compatible computer and OS to play it on.
Though it is worth knowing that it’s not as robust as Steam so it is important to keep local backups of the installers but having a local version of a game that you can move between your own devices and play without going through a client that could shut down one day is well worth it if properly owning your copy is important.
Also some games on steam are DRM free but it’s not mandatory for developers like on GOG.
Geriatric hedgehog
Pokémon Master
Ah that is good to know and I do have a mini library on there just from humble bundles and freebies off of Amazon's prime games. But again, don't know if I'll ever get to play even 10% of all these libraries across various websites. I tell my brother off as he is forever downloading and backing up games but doesn't actually play any these days!
Dai
Death Scythe
At a certain point, organising your collection becomes the most time-consuming game.
Girls with Guns
Chuunibyou
Lol, worst thing for me is I have 7 shelf units full of anime, and I keep them sorted by distributor, and then in alphabetical order. Adding new Blu-rays to the shelves alphabetically becomes a nightmare of shuffling cases from one shelf down to the next to make room for the new titles, starting from the bottom shelf. I have to count how many new releases I am adding to a shelf unit, then move that amount of releases down from the next-to-bottom shelf to the bottom shelf, and add in the new titles in reverse-alphabetical order as I work my way up to the top shelf.
Lucky_Deity
Pokémon Master
Lol, worst thing for me is I have 7 shelf units full of anime, and I keep them sorted by distributor, and then in alphabetical order. Adding new Blu-rays to the shelves alphabetically becomes a nightmare of shuffling cases from one shelf down to the next to make room for the new titles, starting from the bottom shelf. I have to count how many new releases I am adding to a shelf unit, then move that amount of releases down from the next-to-bottom shelf to the bottom shelf, and add in the new titles in reverse-alphabetical order as I work my way up to the top shelf.
I don't have them split by distributor but I'm in the same boat with having to move them every time I get new titles as I have them in alphabetical order as well.
I'm really running of space now so I may do another little purge or at the very least downgrade some CE to standard editions as I do have titles I feel I really don't need a CE for and is taking up extra space.
I would also like to get a new shelving unit sometime this year but regardless I do want to sell some titles and really focus on my favourites more. I want to start saving for other things like travelling and doing up the house.
Aeon
Student Council President
TBH I don’t even bother with the alphabetical order thing, with regards to the space issue I actually came up with the idea of buying a disk bag from Amazon and getting rid of the boxes for shows or films that I might still want to watch but don’t want them taking up space, including some I haven’t seen yet, in which case, in case they end up being surprise classics later on, I keep the sleeves in a pouch so that I can put them back in a box later on if needed, I managed to clear quite a bit of space that way.
Though this is particularly a problem for collectors sets as the box is a big part of the product with those.
D1tchd1gger
Shrine Maiden
Was going to reply normally, but probably best to put it here:
I'm going to NI myself next year, but want to visit Newgrange whilst there as when we went to the Republic (5 years ago, sheesh) we stayed in the South West.
What could I bring we me that's enough to count as smuggling, but small enough to get away with? Would be cool to be breaking the dumb rules in a small way!
That sounds absurd!
I'm going to NI myself next year, but want to visit Newgrange whilst there as when we went to the Republic (5 years ago, sheesh) we stayed in the South West.
What could I bring we me that's enough to count as smuggling, but small enough to get away with? Would be cool to be breaking the dumb rules in a small way!
sniper_samurai
Railgun
It's legal to get sent or to bring items into Ireland purchased in Northern Ireland without declaring them, it's only considered smuggling if you get something purchased from the mainland reshipped via Northern Ireland and not declaring it with customs.
Gemsy-chan
Shrine Maiden
Got some duck feed so I can feed the ducks when I go for walks to my local country park.
Dai
Death Scythe
Just watch out for swans. They'll peck your kneecaps off and steal your wallet.