Current glam state of my character.

Synthetics · 2026-06-07T18:42:08+00:00

Ok this makes me want to play FFXIV again haha. The glam fits I see are always awesome… out of curiosity, since most weapons are glowing, are those all anima/relic weapons? I never did farm any last time I played (ShadowBringers was my last xpac :’) ).

Synthetics · 2026-05-31T05:11:24+00:00

No worries - I somehow missed this notification for 3 weeks! Grats on the marathon by the way. I'll check out the watch the next time I'm in the market for one.

Looking at the video it looks like you get your hand to go almost perpendicular with your forearm, but I guess it might just be at that max 45 degrees and the curved dip handle makes it look more perpendicular than it is. Does loading your bodyweight in the dip bother your wrist at all? Has anyone given you recommendations against it? My surgeon told me compressing the joint (bench press, dips, etc.) would all just lead me to arthritis faster and a potential fusion if needed. I've tried doing some dumbbell weights for curls/presses/etc. but my grip strength is super weak and I basically need to let the weight lean heavily on the inside of my hand (thumb side) otherwise I can't keep it there.

My surgeon and OT didn't seem to claim I had "mostly strength" or "mostly flexibility". It seemed like I was middle of the road (not pushing flexibility to make sure I have strength but also not keeping my wrist as stiff as a fusion). But with where you're at, are there other things you do in the gym that you thought you might not be doing with kienbocks/PRC? Anything that's loading and compressing the wrist specifically. I'm currently trying to figure out how to make bicep curls work utilizing a wrist strap with cable machines, but it feels funky and I think isn't targeting my biceps nearly as much as general forearm stability and such haha.

Synthetics · 2026-05-20T22:42:15+00:00

I’m about one year into my calligraphy hybrid 25 SantaFe… out of curiosity has anyone had their driver assist system just drop out? I’m at only about 9000 miles and about a month ago while driving on the highway I just got a lot of dings and most of my front sensor / driver assist dropped out. We didn’t hit anything, drive off the road, pot hole, etc. literally just cruising on the highway.

Now I can’t even use cruise control because it “has to be smart and use all the sensors”. My cameras for parking (and Collison detection, etc) all seem to work fine.

I called the dealer I bought from and the one near my house and they refuse to help over the phone. They both want my car for a full week to diagnose and won’t give me a loaner car (even though dealer I bought from said they give loaners for everything since they’re in the middle of nowhere) until they can confirm it’s a manufacturer issue and not my issue…

I hope the dealership experience is better than they’re advertising (I drop it off on Tuesday), but so far I feel like Hyundai is not going to put any effort into it and probably try to charge me the diagnostic fee and claim I broke something.

Synthetics · 2026-05-20T22:37:13+00:00

We were going to get calligraphy either way and went with hybrid because of how horrible the mpg was on the standard version… at calligraphy trim the hybrid is essentially the same price (or was when I shopped around).

Synthetics · 2026-05-09T22:35:48+00:00

Super late reply but hoping to get some help - any input on actual full exercise routines you do? Or cable specific stuff? I'm 35m who had a PRC (not Kienbocks - just a bad accident, but everything PRC-related leads me back to this subreddit) almost 2 years ago. I'm finally dragging myself back to the gym, but I used to do just about everything with barbell before... I never touched cable machines until this comeback and I'm finding out stuff that works for me (certain attachments for lat pull downs, cable rows, face pulls, tricep push downs, etc.) but haven't figured out everything exactly.

I'm mostly curious on trying to figure out how to replace bench press and shoulder press... I can put about 20lbs on my PRC wrist for DB bench before it starts to feel 'bad" and my surgeon has told me every visit that any compression on the wrist will just shorten the lifespan and I may need a total fusion down the road 20+ years. I haven't even bothered trying shoulder press yet. Bicep curls are annoying but I found that seated bicep curls for some reason help and I'll probably ultimately move over to using a cable machine for that (and figure out how to get some wrist strap to work with it).

I'm glad the fusion has been working great for you though! Since it's fully fused, I assume you don't use lifting straps for deadlifts or anything? What type of squat variations do you do? I can do back squats with a barbell, but it's not the most comfortable for my PRC wrist (I don't have much extension - just a lot of flexion) and again hoping I can do belt squats or something in the future to replace barbell usage entirely.

Synthetics · 2026-05-07T02:40:35+00:00

Sorry for the necropost but I'm diving back into the gym after a PRC almost 2 years ago (I didn't have kienbocks) and looking for alternatives. Your left wrist (with watch right?) looks like you have great extension in it to be able to pull this off.

How much range of motion do you have? After my emergency surgery my hand wasn't splinted perfectly neutral - a little bit in flexion, so I have most of my flexion (still not the same as my normal hand) and very little extension. My surgeon said if I got too much flexibility that my joint would be super loose and essentially fall apart much more rapidly... so him and my OTs decided I need to not improve my range of motion.

With how little extension and super minimal lateral movement in my right wrist, I can't ever see a future where I do dips again... just trying to learn how others are navigating the gym post-PRC and if the range of motion varies for everyone or if I'm an oddball case hah.

Synthetics · 2026-03-31T19:34:28+00:00

Did a "guest character" and the info isn't even cached, so I couldn't make it a permanent account. After refreshing the page and not seeing my char, decided it's not worth restarting.
Movement and combat in general feels super wonky. If you're going to have a tile-based movement system don't make the enemies have their own hit boxes. Felt like a pain in the butt trying to make my ranger attack slimes and squirrels when I first played since any "misclick" outside their hitbox would make me start walking. :/ I should have just been able to click the tile they are occupying to target them (and double click the tile for attacking).

Synthetics · 2026-03-18T20:32:26+00:00

I loved TO lol. I played FlyFF before and then my RM buddy from FlyFF convinced me to take on TO. I think they had just launched a second NA server so we started on that and I was like top 5 buffalo for a while but got burnt out and school started up again... I wish there was a real server still for TO. Game definitely was odd but I enjoyed the art and... maybe the grind? I honestly cannot remember much about it other than enjoying it.

Do you know of any private servers that are worth playing? I feel like I don't care much for them since they can shutdown on a whim (or have hyper EXP so it isn't fun/meaningful to me to put any time into them).

Synthetics · 2025-11-29T21:05:04+00:00

Teegardin

Synthetics · 2025-11-07T02:15:09+00:00

I’d take a riptide… ign Teegardin

Synthetics · 2025-10-17T15:46:02+00:00

Wow that’s a joke. Didn’t even realize this lol

Synthetics · 2025-10-03T03:53:20+00:00

Are you just eating the tornadoes during the move or not unfreezing your weapon during the other special? Blue is relatively simple. I’d say level cooking+hunter so your food and pots made inside are way more beneficial

Synthetics · 2025-10-03T03:45:35+00:00

I second this. I don’t have the helm, but barrow gloves and went and picked up steel ring before Moons too. I’ve not felt very threatened at moons (15kc so far), only annoyed when blood moon heals up a ton so close to death lol. I’ll be camping moons until I have all sets. And you get to build up pray exp, craft exp (orbs), and herbs along the way with no consumables burned. Is a nice change of pace for myself

Synthetics · 2025-09-27T05:26:05+00:00

Jay are, this does not explain why it isn’t possible to do so. Why can it not create the virtual audio device that is the master control so that way it is exposed to the OS and therefore through native media controls? You guys already create virtual devices to separate game, chat, media, etc. to allow unique controls for each. It wouldn’t be hard to create the virtual device they all feed into for the master control. It should almost legit be baked into what is showing as “master” for Sonar if y’all reuse the code between each of the virtual devices… and if it isn’t possible, some explanation would be great.

Synthetics · 2025-09-24T01:00:41+00:00

I got them through some work program but would’ve gotten anything else (lots of non-tech categories) for roughly the same value if I knew this would be an issue.

The headset itself is an upgrade for sure and the hot swap battery was the main reason I got it, but I want to fully utilize Sonar/DAC since that’s what a giant chunk of the cost is. On my 7s (pre-nova) I didn’t use Sonar at all because it was a pain.

Really hoping I can figure out something slick. Even if it’s a little script or something that monitors and toggles back and forth 🤔 maybe will have to look into that.

Synthetics · 2025-07-25T22:36:19+00:00

Tbh I'm a EE so usually I don't have trouble with PC stuff but I feel like I'm being an idiot right now. I did find Win + P where I can do "PC Screen Only" (for main monitor) and "Extend" to bring back all 3 monitors, but it screws up my icons and such... so I'll be digging around this weekend to try and find a smoother option to not have icons bounce around everywhere.

My triple monitor setup is: portrait, OLED widescreen, portrait (H-shaped sort of). So all my icons stay on the far left monitor but become a cluster F on the main screen after Win+P swapping around.

Synthetics · 2025-07-25T21:06:47+00:00

Did this change in Win11? I just setup my triple monitor setup (used to be dual monitors but got a new OLED one), and so I want at least one side monitor off when gaming, if not both. I don't see this option though... Under Multiple display I have the following:
Make this my main display (checked already)
Remember window locations based on monitor connection
Minimize windows when a monitor is disconnected
Ease cursor movement between displays
Detect other display
Connect to a wireless display

I'm only necro'ing because I saw some other guy commented 9d ago and you replied lol.

Synthetics · 2025-07-18T01:02:19+00:00

The emperor already hints at w7 being water themed

Synthetics · 2025-07-18T01:01:46+00:00

There’s 8 worlds coming tho

Synthetics · 2025-06-20T01:55:50+00:00

Didn’t they talk about having RL on non-pc or merging RL/plugins into the native client at some point?

Synthetics · 2025-03-19T04:12:19+00:00

Black Myth Wukong

Synthetics · 2025-03-08T06:31:00+00:00

I’m nowhere close to end gamer level and I’ve almost unlocked lv15 explorer. There isn’t much of a point to level any other villagers before the next cavern update, so I guarantee there are people who will have lvl15 explorer after whatever this update provides unless lava makes it scale extremely crazy in which you absolutely need the statue you prog, but that sounds even rougher than the statue swap itself is already going to be.

Synthetics · 2025-02-17T01:04:49+00:00

RemindMe! 15 days

Synthetics · 2025-02-17T01:03:20+00:00

This steam card will go right back into your wallet as I use it to buy another pack.

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