TheMightyEthan

I don't have a cool gif to post, I'm just going to post a boring components list for my recent rebuild: CPU: Core i5 12600k GPU: MSI Geforce RTX 3080 10GB RAM: 32GB Kingston DDR4 4000MHz (though I haven't been able to get it higher than 3600MHz for some reason...) Mobo: ASRock Z690 Phantom Gaming 4 Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 2TB PCIe Gen 4 NVMe M.2 I did finally adjust my mouse and keyboard LEDs so they match the blue from my PC tower. *Edit - pics

I hope so. It's certainly off to a good start. They were talking on the news and said that first picture was a 12 hour exposure, and that it would have taken Hubble a several-weeks-long exposure to get a comparable image.

FAR: Lone Sails This is a neat little game, where you're basically running a landship (yes!) and cruising across a desolate wasteland. You have to collect fuel to keep it running, but that becomes pretty trivial pretty quickly, so the main challenge revolves around clearing various obstacles that you encounter so you can keep on your way. My favorite part though was the soothing, almost-but-not-quite mindless rhythm of keeping the machine running when you're on flat ground. You set the throttle, clear the steam build-up, put fuel in the engine, reset the throttle, etc. It's very satisfying, and I wish there was an infinite mode where you could just do that forever. It's pretty short, but satisfying, and I'd recommend it to anyone who's interested. Grade: A

I think it's the latter. I had no idea what was going on at the end, but I had so much no idea that it passed me caring and I was just letting it wash over me like the sea.

So cool.

It was $165 in 2019, the APC BX1500M. It's the old model now, discontinued, but they make newer equivalents that look like they're roughly the same price. It's only 900W output though, so you might want a bigger one if you were considering getting one. It also doesn't have enough capacity to run my PC for long, like maybe a minute, but it's enough to get it through those times when the power just flicks off for a second, which is the thing I've had the most issue with.

Oh I already do that, I just buy them faster than I can cull.

He is the chosen one!

I have a UPS that shows me how much power is being drawn through it. The reason I assume it was the UPS going bad was because it was like 10 years old, and it was on boot that it was causing problems, it wouldn't even post with USB devices connected, but once it was booted it worked fine, and then once I swapped out the PSU it worked fine. So I don't think it was actually a total power draw issue, but something with maybe the power coming out of the PSU being too dirty or something like that.

How old was the old PSU? I ask because while my 3080 isn't overclocked like yours, even running full out my whole system draws about 560W, and even with your OC I can't imagine yours would have been spiking almost 300W above that. My old PSU was 700W, which should have been more than plenty for the 3060Ti I initially had in here (running full out that system only peaked at like 380W) but when I had that one in the PC wouldn't boot with anything plugged into USB at all, and swapping out for the new PSU fixed that issue, so it might just been it was getting old and wonky.

How big was the power supply that was cutting out on you?

Hardspace: Shipbreaker This game held up. I really enjoyed it, though I do think it was a little too long. The plot advances as you increase your skill rating, which you get by meeting salvage goals on ships, and there's a stretch in the middle where I felt like it was taking too long to get to the next plot event. Aside from that though I loved it. Grade: A

If you had told me a world leader was going to be assassinated that is not the one I would have predicted.

I'm as much as of a potion hoarder as the next guy, but out of curiosity why do you choose to die instead of using a healing item?

Randomly found the answer to this without even looking:

Returnal for some reason doesn't feel like bullet hell to me, because I agree, those are usually not my jam. I think it might be because it's 3D the area available to the player is never as saturated with fire as it gets in 2D ones.

I have Steam codes for Monster Slayers, Shadowhand, Slain: Back from Hell, or Wayward Souls from a Fanatical bundle if anyone wants them.

Fanatical bundle, these are the three I wanted.

It's not so much that I think I couldn't do it, it's that those kinds of games are super hit or miss with me, so I don't want to buy it. If it were on Game Pass though I could try it risk-free.

I want to try Cuphead, but I've been scared away by the difficulty. It would be the perfect Game Pass game.

So is he like building himself a ladder of technology from stone age, only using what he's done before? Or is he skipping around?

Hardspace: Shipbreaker This game is great. You play as a scrap worker in an orbital drydock, breaking down ships that have reached end of life. You have to crawl inside them and cut struts to break it into manageable pieces, pull out valuable electronics before sending the bulk frame into the smelter, avoid accidentally cutting fuel lines, or piercing a still-pressurized compartment, that kind of thing. All for an evil corporation that has put you in about a billion dollars of debt just to get your training and whatnot, and now you have to work it off. It's so satisfying and cool. It's also Homeworld: Shipbreaker in all but name, all the ships are very much in the style of those games. It just adds another awesome layer on top of the already superb experience.

Neon White No shade on this game, it is exactly what it wants to be. Problem is it's not what I want it to be, but that's not the game's fault. It's just a little too repetitive for my tastes, and I'm not a fan of how there's a "correct" solution to each level. It's very well made though, and if you're someone who enjoys learning a set pattern and executing on it perfectly, then this is the game for you. And I don't want to make it sound like I hate it, I enjoyed the first several worlds, it's just not the kind of thing I want to do indefinitely. It's also stylish as all get out, like the best looking Game Cube game ever made. I definitely think it deserves all the praise it gets. Grade: A

Spoilers because I think not knowing the answer to that question is beneficial to the experience.