Andrew

Cities Skylines:

Nice

6 minutes ago, ENTERPRISE said:

Browser ? Works ok for me on Desktop and mobile using Chrome.

Firefox, I think it's entirely on my end. I get this pretty often on other websites as well.

burger and chips

Nyck de Vries F1 contract has been killed to death. He's being replaced by Daniel Ricciardo for the next F1 race in Hungary on the 23rd.

32 minutes ago, Supercrumpet said:

So I've been following along with this thread for quite a while now, and you guys have passively made me pretty interested in flight sims lol. Couple questions: If I did pick it up during the summer sale on Steam, should I just get the base game and see how I like it, or is additional content really worth it? Additionally, do you guys use HOTAS controllers for this? I have a cheap one, but the convenience of a good 'ol Xbox controller is always tempting, and I'm used to it since that's all I had when I picked up Elite Dangerous. Never got used to HOTAS for that game.

Go for the normal version of the game imo. The planes that come up the upgrades aren't worth it. Not now with the much better third party content that's available.

Here's the planes you get:

For third party content, if you want airliners go for the Fenix A320, PMDG 737 (I recommend the 800 over the others), Just Flight BAe 146, Fly The Maddog X as far as paid for content goes. For free content, the FlyByWire A320, Headwind A330-900, Sukhoi Superjet 100 (available in the Headwind installer).

For GA planes, anything from Black Square from Carenado are good choices. These are pretty much all I know about GA planes because I don't really use GA planes all that much.

For controllers, I just use an Xbone controller. I've not really had any issues with it. I've not used actual flight controls, so I can't recommend/not recommend any specific ones.

In, andrews2547

(I set a reminder on my phone this time, unlike the last 2 times and I forgot about it until after the foldathon ended )

I hope not, their GPUs were some of the best on the market, as are their PSUs. It's already a shame they've pulled out of the GPU market. It wouldn't be good if they pulled out of PC hardware entirely.

The FBW A380 seems to be coming along nicely.

Regarding the F1 race in Austria today:

This is a great idea, but couldn't they have changed the design a bit? It's got a 2009 laptop aesthetic going on.

Not sure why they used F1 22 for benchmarking, that game is awful for this kind of thing. Red Dead Redemption 2 is probably the best game on the market right now for benchmarking.

But overall, it's pretty much where I expected it to be in terms of performance.

Yeah, it's always been a Sony thing, but if true, it's a bit rich that Sony are are involved in the complaints about this.

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Microsoft's actions following its acquisition of ZeniMax and Bethesda is "powerful evidence" in favor of preventing the company's purchase of Activision Blizzard, the Federal Trade Commission [FTC] said in a new filing ahead of the upcoming showdown over the agency's request for a preliminary injunction.

FTC: Xbox Making Starfield and Redfall Exclusive 'Powerful Evidence' Against Activision-Blizzard Merger - IGN

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The United States Federal Trade Commission has said that Microsoft's actions following its acquisition of ZeniMax and Bethesda is "powerful...

Sony is allegedly part of the complaint that lead to this.

I look forward to playing Gran Turismo 7 on Microsofts platforms.

Trailer:

That's a good channel. I want to know how they're able to get in the cockpit for these videos.

Texas.

14 hours ago, The Pook said:

friend of mine said I needed to play it and it was on sale for <$10

 

 

tried FO4 and wasn't a fan so not expecting much 

New Vegas is a very good game. It's like Skyrim with guns.

What happened to the laptop?

MSI and Asrock do seem like good brands, so it's worth checking them out as well.

$11,900. A little out of my budget, so I think I'll have to pass on this one.

I also thought AMD pulled out of the server market?

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June 12 (Reuters) - Thousands of popular Reddit communities dedicated to topics ranging from Apple Inc to gaming and music locked out their users on Monday in protest against the company's plan to charge for access to its data.

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From July 1, Reddit plans to charge developers that require higher usage limits $0.24 for every 1,000 API calls or less than $1 per user every month

Apollo said that with their current usage, the charges would cost more than $20 million a year.

 

Reddit are also claiming it's because of Ai or something.

I really doubt it. They're just being greedy. Imgur, which started off as a third party website to host images for Reddit, has a similar sized userbase and they don't charge anywhere near as much, nor are they going to. And what's even worse is I don't think this protest is going to do anything, not if it's only 2 days long. It should go on indefinitely until the higher ups at Reddit go back on what they're going to do. That's the only way there's going to be any real change. The 2 day blackout is just temper tantrum that isn't really going to do anything. If the protest goes on indefinitely, Reddit are going to lose an incredible amount of users, because without subreddits, Reddit is nothing. And given that a majority of the subreddits that went private are the huge ones, this could have potentially made a difference.

19 hours ago, Andrew said:

Nah, this is taking the piss.

 

 

Microsoft announced that 2020 is a 10 year project, they just announced this, a standalone sequel. It really should have been an update like the 40th Anniversary edition was. Even if it's a full priced update. I'd gladly pay £60-£70 for this. But not if that means the £350 I've spent on third party aircraft and airports doesn't work on it.

Update: Microsoft apologized for their poor communication when it came to announcing this.

All content purchased for FS2020 should just be drag and drop into FS2024 and it should work without issues or requiring updates from developers. I'm fine with this, but tbh I don't see why that couldn't have been a paid for update, similar to the how the Top Gun DLC was. Except,obviously paid for.

Nah, this is taking the piss.

Microsoft announced that 2020 is a 10 year project, they just announced this, a standalone sequel. It really should have been an update like the 40th Anniversary edition was. Even if it's a full priced update. I'd gladly pay £60-£70 for this. But not if that means the £350 I've spent on third party aircraft and airports doesn't work on it.

The new 15 inch MacBook Air just released 

If I were going to go for a gaming laptop, I'd probably go for the Dell G16. 13900hx, RTX 4070, 32GB RAM and a 1TB nvme SSD. It comes with a 240hz 2560x1600 screen for £1900.