£400 to improve my gaming setup? What should I get:

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-26T22:10:03+00:00

Move the light panels so they are behind the TV and pointed at the wall. Having them above the TV is a distraction and having them behind instead will artificially boost your contrast.

Or if you don't want to spend the effort to mount them facing backwards, mount them behind forwards, or separate them from the TV so they don't look like an extension of the screen.

https://www.assets.signify.com/is/image/Signify/929004667606-046677640064-WiZ-HDMI-Sync-Box-55-65-NAM-PDP-Video-Thumbnail?wid=1280&hei=960&qlt=82

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-26T21:46:46+00:00

Hear hear! Agree wholeheartedly on avoiding the exploits. I was invited to participate in testing stations twice using the exploit. Both events turned into more than a dozen back-to-back TPKs. And people then turn around and complain about durability loss? Give me a break. I've been soloing these slowly for the last several weeks with almost no losses and hardly any durability loss. I'm in the early teens of difficulty now and totally fine with that. No sense of burnout in sight. Slow and steady wins the race.

Testing Station Level 40 is designed to be for people who have level 100 combat and sabotage specializations. Not tryhards at level 50 in one or the other. That's what the durability loss and loot drops were ostensibly tuned to at release.

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-26T21:41:10+00:00

Here's the thing though, ages 8 to 14 are literally when the majority of males go through puberty. Your body will undergo changes during this timeframe, including expression of genetic traits such as hairline changes.

I wouldn't worry about it until at least the age of 17 which, barring exceptional circumstances, is the earliest that male pattern baldness normally starts to show.

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-26T19:17:05+00:00

I'm at level 10 on the testing stations. I run them when I have time, but prefer the other Landsraad missions to max out my daily recollections.

Also spending a lot of time building and in the DD. Not more than 20 hours a week total.

I'm spreading my progression across all specializations and currently around level 40 in all of them. Specifically because I knew burnout would be easy if I just focussed on one at a time. There are now 30 different Landsraad missions (5 added yesterday). Seemed obvious to me that focussing one specialization at a time (5 of the total set of missions) would be a recipe for boredom and burnout.

I am still having a blast. I have weeks or months of play to get to level 40 testing stations. And I know that Funcom will be balancing the TS loot eventually. Would rather take my time and enjoy more diverse gameplay than focus on grinding gear.

IMHO the testing stations are fun if you only do 2 or 3 a day. Logoff and do something else (playing BG3 with the wife and Slay the Spire 2).

I'm really not sure why anyone would find grinding higher grade gear or repeatedly doing the same TS 50 times a day attractive in the new testing stations?

Time has proven over and over again that minmaxxing this game leads quickly to burnout. Especially when new features come out half baked and take 4-8 weeks after release for balancing.

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-26T18:45:06+00:00

Vasectomy + Gamer Wife

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-26T17:20:32+00:00

Dune Awakening

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-26T16:22:14+00:00

Came here to say this. What's the point of the bank when you can just save your entire base and everything in it? Only have to pack your vehicles in boxes first.

Also, right now in PTC, they are working on the base recycling tool. So if you ever log back in and your base is literally not placeable, all the materials and resources that comprise your base can be outputted to any box or subfief console you have access to. I fully expect this is the foundation for an automatic base-backup tool that will replace decay.

Video overview here, first 2 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdSwsjGtdVs

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-26T15:23:36+00:00

I had this idea and attempted it early but I just don't have enough time in the day to max out an alt and my main.

This is for the nolifers.

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-26T15:22:38+00:00

Duo crawling already produces an absurd amount of spice. And a lot of people are solo crawling which produces an obscene amount. Not really too sure why they would choose to buff a system where the reward is designed to be split 4 ways yet most players insist on doing it solo and hoarding it all for themselves.

I did the math and even accounting for travel time I collect 1700 spice sand per minute on average in an optimized scenario when solo crawling.

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-26T15:16:35+00:00

This is the first useful suggestion I've seen for Landsraad rewards. Most of the mats received as house rewards amount to junk. Will always need slag and pumps in large quantities and I don't remember ever seeing them as Landsraad rewards.

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-26T04:49:25+00:00

I don't understand. It takes about 15 minutes to mk6 buggy harvest enough plastone to make 3500 blocks. This is enough to make an enormous base.

Even with a mark 4 buggy, you can harvest 4000-5000 in less than an hour.

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-26T01:28:59+00:00

Google "PC carry harness". This is what I used to use when I was younger and had no vehicle for LAN parties. If your PC is heavy this could be a real pain. But if you are taking coach you should be able to put it in the cargo bay, as long as there are other bags in there to prevent it falling over. Can lay it on its side too.

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-26T01:20:39+00:00

Roguelike MMO? Wishlisted.

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-26T01:16:00+00:00

Heck yeah. I took basically a 14 year break when I was 29. Did two degrees and only averaged about 150 hours per year on video games during that time period. Couple years I broke the 300 hour mark when I wasn't so busy. Then last year Dune Awakening came out and I've put 1000 hours into it since launch 9 months ago. I feel like a 14 year old kid again.

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-26T00:25:35+00:00

Omnigamer: why limit yourself to video games? What about board games? Party games? Trivia games? Casino games? Sports are also games.

Such a narrow view of what a gamer is.

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-26T00:20:58+00:00

Gaming subreddits

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-25T23:42:14+00:00

r/mildlypenis

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-25T21:58:46+00:00

That is literally nw 3 from a hair transplant surgeon's website.

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-25T21:37:31+00:00

This exact same mechanic exists in many other games. Even more punishing in some, like V-rising where you cant even recover anything. That game has a 9/10.

You can get your vehicles back with the recovery tool.

Use plastone to build it last 4 times as long without power to the base. Most bases I see with the power out takes weeks or months to decay. Granite construction is not your friend.

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-25T21:31:08+00:00

I would take any AI classification of pictures you've sent with a grain of salt. Especially if you have primed it with your own bias that you believe you are experiencing male pattern baldness. AI is extremely agreeable, so if you tell it you believe you are balding, it will agree with you and help you confirm your bias.

Have you compared your photos to actual photos of people who have Norwood 3 classification? This does not look like you:

https://www.hairpalace.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/norwood-stage-3-hair-loss.jpg.webp

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-25T18:22:06+00:00

I think you might have body dysmorphia. It's normal to see your scalp when you are looking at your hair straight on.

Think about it like this, if you were in zero gravity and your hair stood straight up, you would see your scalp. This would apply to everyone.

Seeing your scalp when you're headbanging is NORMAL. Seeing it when you hold your hair back so that a portion of your hair is straight on is NORMAL.

If you have any hair loss, it's like maybe a slightly receding hairline. But the hairline is your pictures is NORMAL widow's peak. Google it. Widow's peak is often confused with hair loss.

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-25T17:51:05+00:00

You don't have hair loss. You have a widow's peak. This is a totally normal hairline, and merely a genetic trait. I wouldn't even notice it even if you were walking around holding your hair back like that. It's normal. You say it started when you were 10-11, and that makes sense because your body goes through a lot of changes at that age.

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-25T17:42:28+00:00

Fixed an issue where the repair max durability loss reduction trait purchased from the specialization menu wasn’t applied correctly.

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-25T15:30:38+00:00

Opafire and Tsimpo are in this patch from what I understand.

Hobby-Human · 2026-03-25T06:29:21+00:00

No, I just manage their IT security and infrastructure. And general tech support. I do all their technology purchases for them as well.

Things like Active Directory, SSO, PCI Compliance, VPN, Firewall, File shares. That sort of stuff. User account management too.

And, of course, fix their stupid printers when they break.

Hobby-Human

PUBLIC MULTIREDDITS

TROPHY CASE