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BabyYoda71

Ninfan wrote:

@Dark_Magician I say it's good, I didn't bother to buy it. I saw gameplay on you tube. I know it has some good gameplay. But it is a bit like older Mario bros games.

It’s harder though, @Dark_Magician. 😉

Heigh Ho Heigh Ho. It’s off to work (from home) I go.

Dark_Magician

Oh ok @BabyYoshi12 @Ninfan So out of Super Smash Bros Ultimate dlc, Animal Crossing, and Super Mario Bros U. Deluxe, which one should I get? Thanks!

Mancer_X

Tyranexx

@BruceCM I was actually making decent progress on Xenoblade Chronicles while I was on furlough early last month, but that only lasted a couple of weeks. XD I'm now back to work full-time, plus some activities have resumed in my state. This week shouldn't be too bad, but last week and the one before that....Why am I an adult again? X_X

I'll grab Origami King eventually. Despite its flaws, ESPECIALLY with the battle system, I did enjoy my time with Color Splash. Same with the superior Super Paper Mario. I haven't played the earlier PM games yet, but do plan to. I'm even mildly curious about Sticker Star and might pick that up if I find it in a bargain bin somewhere.

@MarioLover92 I admittedly still haven't rewatched the Treehouse livestream. XD Hopefully when I have some evening downtime this week. You've hit on why I want to rewatch it; I want to fully grasp how the battle system will work.

@Heavyarms55 Oh yes, I know the basic gist of how cars became king of transportation. While I'm not against them and bear no ill towards those who have one, I also dislike the necessity of them. I think there's a lot to be said about the benefits of public transportation, though it isn't something I'm too used to using outside of the occasional trip. I think the biggest problem for me would be if I were packed in with many other people at once; I highly dislike crowds and people invading my space. Even if there's some sort of separation, like a bar or seat, I'm generally okay. Not to mention...Well, I'm not a germaphobe per se, but even before this pandemic, I was a hand-washer. Believe me when I say that's increased even more. XD

Agreed on all points with "legalized bribery". I feel like politicians should work to serve the people, not their own pockets. Not that I think they don't deserve to be paid for what they do, as I do believe many of them are truly in it to try to foster changes - but many of them are hamstrung in various ways by money changing hands.

Also generally agreed on the public/community matters here. I think a lot of the stigmas come from the minority of people who unlawfully take advantage of such systems. Such stories are publicized and add to the stigma, reinforcing peoples' thoughts on the matter. A lot of these things are underfunded. I can definitely speak on the public education; my own mother is a teacher and has paid for many things for her students out of her own pocket once she went over her spending allotment. Especially after her elementary school temporarily killed their art program.

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Ninfan

@Dark_Magician I would still get that super Mario bros U deluxe. I don't mean to put your search for a game in a state, Telling you not to get it then to get it. It's like a 70% out of
100% score game. Where I would still get around to buying it.

Ninfan

BabyYoda71

@Dark_Magician I’d go New Horizons, because it’s just so good. They’re all good though... I wouldn’t go Smash, but that’s because I don’t generally like DLC.

Heigh Ho Heigh Ho. It’s off to work (from home) I go.

Anti-Matter

@Dark_Magician
Animal Crossing New Horizons.
I have never played video games for straight 5 - 6 hours in a day.
In weekend i can play ACNH for 11 -12 hours by accumulate.
ACNH was the first time i played more gameplay hours than the other games.
ACNH was soooo addicting to continue the progress.
I have been playing ACNH for 120 hours just in 2 weeks. 😉

@BabyYoshi12
How is your ACNH island progress ?

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Anti-Matter

Eel

Hm looking around Amazon, I found a premade PC that looks promising:

Dell Vostro 3471.

Says it has an Intel core I5-9400, 8gb of ram, and 1tb hd.

I checked and you can install a solid state drive, so I could get one and move the operative system there if I got this, I assume.

Any of you know about specs? How does this one sound?

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Bloop.

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Heavyarms55

@Tyranexx My solution for making politicians work for the voters, though not really "mine", would be simple - when running for office, all candidates who raise a sufficient number of signatures are allotted the same amount of funding for their campaign from a publicly funded pool of campaign money and only citizens, not corporations, lobbys or organizations of any sort, can pay into that pool. This would force politicians to run on their own merits, on an equal playing field. They would need to convince voters through their words and actions, not endless multi-million dollar corporate financed smear campaigns.

Of course there are cases of people abusing public/community systems. But there is no data supporting that being a significant amount. You can find anecdotal cases sure but that's all. Even the harshest critics I've seen fail to show any reliable data to support their slanders. One example I've been hearing a lot lately, with the pandemic - is that companies cannot get people to come back to work because some of them were technically making more money on unemployment - but they don't even have the anecdotal cases to support that - because if you're laid off, your company calls you back, and you refuse, you lose your unemployment in most states (not 100% sure if it works that way everywhere).

@Ninfan I work at a school in Japan. At least until my 5 year contract ends at the end of this month.

@Eel Depends what you want your PC for. For everyday use that should be perfectly fine. But for gaming you need to check what kind of graphics card it has - and I'd encourage 16GB of ram.

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Eel

Well I would use it mostly for work and watching videos.

I of course would like some light gaming, since don’t really have any big demanding games on steam. The specs seem similar to what my “gaming” laptop already has, and that runs them fine.

Don’t know about the graphics card. Will try to find out.

Edit: it apparently uses integrated intel UHD graphics 630. Though I’m not sure if it’s exactly that on all models. So I guess it’s not too strong on that front.

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Bloop.

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Heavyarms55

@Eel For light gaming you should have no issues. Though I would still really encourage you to get a 16gb ram option if you can without spending too much more money. You might be surprised how quickly programs can devour ram these days.

Or you're just my roommate in university who constantly has 16 of his 32gb of ram used because he kept 30+ tabs open on his web browser...

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Eel

Sounds like my dad. The other day he almost makes his computer implode because he got into scanning pictures and didn’t notice every new scan opened a new instance of the file explorer. I had to close a few hundred one by one at like 4fps, because each one had its own process in the task manager.

I won’t really be able to get a pc until I actually have somewhere to place it, so I have time to look around and decide.

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Heavyarms55

@Eel Heh, that sounds like the time my mother had to fix her boss's porn filled work computer that he swore had no idea how it got that way. Or the time I nearly ruined my laptop by only putting it to sleep and never power cycling it for like 3 months straight or some absurd amount of time. Pro-tip, don't do that.

Anyway, yes, having a place to actually put a computer is rather important.

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Anti-Matter

@Heavyarms55
I want to ask about ACNH.
I remembered if the stones on my island could be broken by shovel on certain days.
I have removed the cliffs on my island but the problem was there were 2 stones left and couldn't be broken.
Is there any chance for them to break and replaced by other stones on different location ?

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BruceCM

Yeah, I thought it seemed to be going slower recently, @Tyranexx .... Origami King looks great, IMO & it shouldn't have anything like the disliked sticker system, etc

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Heavyarms55

@Anti-Matter You can break them whenever you want. You just need to eat a fruit first. One fruit, one stone. They will respawn, one each day, in a random location. It is technically possible to control where they will spawn, but you need to block every possible area except where you want them. It's a huge job and not really worth the effort, but it can be down.

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Eel

@Heavyarms55 Haha gotta stay vigilant for those nasty hackers that put NSFW content in your computer! Because, there’s no other way for that to get there, nuh-huh.

Thankfully windows makes sure your computer resets every time it decides it will install an update. Isn’t that nice?

About the pc. I’m humoring the idea of building one from parts. This is the list I put together for now just looking around on amazon:

  • Geforce gtx 1650 4gb graphic card (kinda pricy, could settle for something cheaper)
  • Intel core i5-9400f processor.
  • Corsair vengeance lpx 8gb ram (x2)
  • Asus Prime h310m-e motherboard.
  • 1tb mechanical + 120gb solid hard drives
  • Evga 500w power supply.
  • Corsair spec-5 case.

It all comes to around 1k dollars (including the windows license), which is a lot for me, but bit by bit I could achieve it.

Any suggestions? How does it look? I have absolutely 0 experience on this subject, so sorry if I’m being annoying I’m just a bit excited about the idea.

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BruceCM

Hmm, looks good to me but then I'm not that much of an expert on all the parts .... Do a thread about it for the PC people to look at?

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Heavyarms55

@Eel Those specs look pretty decent, and building your own machine does mean you can upgrade more easily later if you decide you want a better graphics card.

I've never built my own PC from parts. It's something I've looked at doing but just not done yet. There are people out there who know a lot more than me - my knowledge just comes from watching those people because I find it fun to watch people do that kind of thing. One thing I've seen people run into is not checking the physical size of components and buying a power supply that's physically too large, or a cooling fan that blocks access to some ports. So if you go that route, you want to make sure the parts will all fit nicely into the case you choose. Generally these things have all their sizes and such on the product listing, so you should be able to check.

Also, no disk drive? I know physical media is fading but you probably would want at least one.

Also, yeah, lovely. I "love" when windows forces me to restart when I need to do something and only have a little time... I mean, yes it is important to restart regularly, but let me choose when, gosh darn it!

And also also, yes, porn on a computer is only the result of hackers. We all know this. No one on Earth willing looks at that stuff. Far too lewd!

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Eel

The case doesn’t event have a disk drive door on the front. But I guess there’s always external ones should the need arise.
Thanks, I’ll be checking to make sure everything fits together before I purchase anything.

@BruceCM haha I’d rather just keep it here hidden in a corner. Don’t want an entire thread just for my hypothetical new pc.

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BruceCM

My PC doesn't have a disk drive, since I didn't have any suitable disks & you can hardly get games on those anymore .... Obviously, there's still cases with slots but no point getting all that if you're not going to use it What sort of games are you looking to play, that's always the question? What else do you need it to be able to do? Then, don't get something JUST good enough now, that'll be out of date in a year or 2

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