Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@MsJubilee I'll wisely not comment on that any further, now that we're back on the positive track again...

Fair enough

And now I have to go and play some Animal Crossing, to keep that vibe going...

@MsJubilee Haha, I didn’t. It is pretty cringy.

@ThanosReXXX
I already have The Sims 4 PS4 version.
I have both different version: 2017 version and 2019 version.
2017 version was the first release (plain Vanilla version) while the 2019 version was the ReBranding version with latest update on it.
I'm planning to buy the Expansion Pack bundle on PS4 in disc next month since the games already arrived in my country.

Oh btw...

Kekekekekeke....
I have "killed" this Gulliver with poisonous apple and axe.

Just kidding. 😜
He just collapsed on the beach shore.
I put the apple in front of him to make it like he has been poisoned by apple.

@ThanosReXXX Yeah, my rigs generally cost more than the average gaming build, because it's all business/enterprise grade everything....but it's actually for business...so I'm in tune with hardware in general, but a different branch of hardware where you get less for more but it's much more robust in terms of reliability and integrity. $500+ for 1TB storage is "normal" in that realm. But when you need sustained write speeds and endurance for large volumes of data and power failure endurance on write....you just pay it and grit your teeth. But it's pretty different from what a gamer build would look like. Also, I wouldn't touch AMD with a 100ft pole, but gamers laugh at Intel and are all in on Ryzen.

Wow they say imitation is flattery. I thought I posted in a thread I knew I didn't post in for a moment only to find some other user just copied my avatar and used it for themselves. Granted, it's just Nintendo box art....but they clearly just copied and pasted the exact crop right from my posts.....lame. So I apparently have a doppelganger.

Hm so you guys would say this build is a good mid-range option?

I think I'll go for it, wish me luck.

Edit: doppelganger? Could you tell me who?

@NEStalgia What’s their username?

@Eel Just the avatar, not any other capacity (as far as I know): "Kentula"

Seems you guys joined around the same time. And found the same image on Google.

@Eel Probably, but......the EXACT same crop? After I'd already been very active?

I mean there's nothing "wrong" with copying someone's avatar, and especially when it's reasonably "generic" and on topic...but it's darned rude.

@BabyYoshi12 Thanks for flagging the early article issue. We investigated and found the cause.

Hope you enjoyed the preview! 😄

@Tyranexx Yes they do go quite in-depth with TOK's battle system. The puzzle-solving aspect looks interesting and it's similar to the battles from the first two games (ie, no stickers/battle cards).

@Dark_Magician I think you'd get the most bang for your buck with Animal Crossing: New Horizons. There's a lot to do in that game, it's fun decorating your island and home, and it's getting updates in the future. New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe is also a pretty good choice, there's two full games in it and there's challenges too. Maybe you could get that sometime after AC:NH? As for the Smash Bros. DLC, well we only know one character in the second fighters pass, and that's Min Min. Not sure if you got the first pass - I just have the first pass and Piranha Plant, and I'm waiting for like one or two more characters to show up in the second.

@Anti-Matter Yeah, I know, and I know you'll probably never get an Xbox anyway, but still: it was the Sims, so I figured you'd like it. Anyway, forget about that one, then.

Funny picture. Personally, I'm kind of disappointed at those kinds of repeating events: bird falls of ship, AGAIN, and you need to find his communicator, AGAIN, and the same goes for that one with the ghost who keeps losing his five parts. I do them every time, but unlike the first time, I don't think they're funny or enjoyable anymore.

@NEStalgia Ah, I see. Oh well, at least you'll have more of a current knowledge on the topic.

On a side note: what's with the AMD hate? I'm instantly thinking how that affects you being able to stomach all those AMD-based consoles, then...

@Eel Yes, I think it's perfectly fine for a mid-range system.

@Eel
I never heard about Doppelganger here. 😳

I think you've had a few doppelganger/parody accounts made about yourself.

At least one from what I remember.

@ThanosReXXX I don't hate AMD as a company or anything. But for "mission critical" applications their CPUs, and more importantly the mobo chipsets that support them tend to be less bulletproof than what Intel puts out. Gamers love it...usually it's more performance for cheaper. And for gaming it tends to be fine...who cares if it glitches now and then with some odd cache write that wasn't quadruple-verified? But when such an issue means spending 3 days redoing 2 weeks of work, with downtime and new work piling up.....that's not acceptable. To be fair AMD has some high end datacenter parts that certainly fit the bill, not much in that mid-level in between. If you're not running an Amazon cloud farm, but you still need bulletproof features, AMD just never really did well in that space, and the parts they have released have been overheating messes. For PC video cards, there was a time Radeon was the cat's meow...mostly after nVidia got derailed by producing XBox GPUs and abandoning their PC market. But I keep hearing how avoiding AMD GPUs is the way to go. If I were to guess, if going by decade outdated info, it has less to do with hardware problems and more to do with driver problems. Radeon drivers have always been horrendous, but nVidia intentionally "obsoletes" your hardware by pushing new drivers that intentionally reduce performance on older parts. It's kind of ugly. Not sure if they still do that, but they got caught at one point, like Apple did with "oh we cut performance on old phones to spare the battery!" shtick.

Totally random question- what’s your favourite chip flavour?

@NEStalgia Ah, yes. Driver issues. Don't even get me started. I still vividly remember when I moved to my current version of Windows, and half of my drivers weren't compatible anymore...

Oh, well. It's all running fine now, so after a while, you do tend to forget (or at least, I do), but it certainly takes some time and effort to get there sometimes.