Andrew

32GB does make a surprising difference over 16GB. I'd recommend 16GB as minimum. VRAM depends on resolution. I've got 8GB at 4K and it seems fine, but more would be better.

That is true, but horse armour.

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?

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.

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

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

Should have bought a Yuasa battery for two reasons. 1. They're really good. 2 The company name is pronounced "You arse uh"

RDR2

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

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

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.