Andrew

Alternative headline: MSI just invented a new form of piracy.

This is such a stupid decision. Especially for monitors that are that expensive.

What the dog doin?

9 hours ago, Alex said:

Got a passenger seat to match.

 

Still got lots more to install....

If you keep doing this kind of work on your car, soon you'll be exhausted.

I don't have FS2020 installed anymore because of how much storage it takes up, but that new aircraft does look really fun to fly.

If we're now going on 15 years + OG PS4 and Xbone, I guess I can rule out my PS4 Pro and copy of Gran Turismo 7 then

(I wasn't actually going to count GT7 as a retro game, it just came out 2 years ago)

I do occasionally still play GT3 (2001) and GT4 (2004) on an emulator though, but on modern hardware. My non-Mac sigrig to be specific.

Pizza.

If the 10 year rule is what this thread is going on, doesn't that now make the PS4 and Xbox One retro gaming consoles?

I forgot to put this in here the other day. I made some hot chocolate.

Someone told me it looks like there's mold in there, but I can assure you it's not, it's the seasoning.

My Alfa has a turbo, but it doesn't really do turbo noises. The internet told me this is because it doesn't have a blow off valve, and it turns out the internet is wrong. It does have one as shown by this video of someone else with a stock Mito, only change was the air filter.

This is what the intake system is like stock, because of the airbox and sound deadening properties of the stock airfilter, you don't hear that sound at all. It gets drowned out by the engine sound.

To make it do the turbo sounds, I have two options.

Option one is this.

The pros is that it's cheaper, the turbo sound is going to be louder. The cons is that because the pressurized air doesn't go back into the turbo, the spool time will increase slightly. I'll still have the same power and torque though.

Option two is doing this.

The pro is that it's going to be much easier to do and the spool time won't be reduced that much but the cons are it's going to be more expensive (by a significant amount actually) and the turbo sounds won't be quite as loud.

Software issue, not hardware issue. To be more specific, cost issue and them not wanting to pay for the software devs to support hardware that long. Apple manage fine with 6 years worth of feature updates and a further 2 years of security updates.

I just tried to get an insurance quote for my Lexus again.

£179/month. I'm currently paying £185/month for my Alfa. Before I bought my Alfa, I was only getting "go away" quotes of like £3K/month or just straight up denying insurance.

12 hours ago, iamjanco said:

following is what copied html from another site then pasted here  content looks like to someone using the dark theme: (suggestion: don't paste content formatted offsite here; paste it unformulated, then format it here if formatting is needed/wanted) :

 

I just copied and pasted the URL. That's likely down to Twitter being absolute garbage now.

Looks like Hammyboi isn't going to get that 8th win.

I found the new Smart Car

19 hours ago, Slaughtahouse said:

 

How's the game? 

It's pretty good. It's a little unstable though.

They have completely changed how it works compared to CS1. There are a lot of improvements, but also a lot of downgrades. It depends what you want from a city builder.

CS1 is more of a city simulator game where you have to micromanage a bunch of things.

CS2 is more of a city designer game. There's not much micromanagy things to do and it's pretty difficult to fail at it. Once you get to the Big Town (level 8), it pretty much becomes a sandbox game.

One of my cities got to Metropolis (level 15), I set taxes for all zones to 1% except offices with offices set to 2% and I was still making way more money than I could spend.

Cities Skylines 2

9 hours ago, The Pook said:

 

Should have bought a Yuasa battery for two reasons.

1. They're really good.

2 The company name is pronounced "You arse uh"

RDR2

9 hours ago, Sir Beregond said:

 

@The Pook is right. Somehow everything is upside down in this picture.

The bacon is from Australia, I think it was messing with my cameras accelerometer.

Maple bacon, eg and toast with Kerry Gold on it.

13 minutes ago, Slaughtahouse said:

 

I thought at first that was concept art.

 

I’d argue that RDR2 is one of the most beautiful games out there on PC and I’ve barely played it. I recall the first mission very well, trekking through the dense snow and seeing all the events unfold.

 

I have other priorities on my backlog (shorter games) but I need to start a new save in RDR2 and play it all the way through… 

 

I booted up RDR (1) on Xbox Series X a couple weeks ago. Still looks fantastic, even if it feels stiff compared to modern games. It scales up to 4K and has autoHDR. Still 30 fps but whatever, it’s fun and John Marston is one of my all time favourite characters with the way he interacts in this wacky but believable world.

 

My favourite moments were the hunting. Going out there and hunting and skinning prey with a bowie knife. Love it. There is also that completely absurd side quest where you meet a sasquatch and it guilt trips the crap out of you, making you feel like the monster. I felt terrible knowing I made his kind extinct. I don’t ever recall a game making me feel that way about a fictional creature.

 

Gosh, I love that game and I can play it over and over again. Sorry for derail, just RDR brings back so many good memories.

Someone keeps submitting RDR2 screenshots to an Oregon news channel for their Out & About segment and it keeps getting shown as real photos.

That's a lot of boahs.

Grand Theft Horso (RDR2)

I named the horse Paramore because it's a Missouri (Business) Fox Trotter.

1 minute ago, UltraMega said:

Why not use a drip if you're using a kettle? 

 

That still takes quite a lot of time + you have to buy filters vs just pouring boiling water on some crystals.

This is pretty good. It's 95% the flavour of some freshly made coffee with 5% the effort required to make it.

Either that, or you could buy one of those £500+ coffee machines that you just put beans in and it does everything for you with just one button.