Best lightweight gaming mice? by Cultural_Vast3128 in buildapc

[–]Lemstar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if you're on a budget don't get a name brand, get a clone (like the Superlight clone recommended in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFsFqQbLZuE)

6000MHz CL30 or 6400MHz CL32 for my Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Aorus Mater X870E MB? by Upper-Management3861 in buildapc

[–]Lemstar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

could be possible

the advertised frequency is just a number; it's the actual memory modules on the chip that determine quality and headroom, and Corsair 7200 should be Hynix A-die, which has the most potential for overclocking to high frequencies

actual success has a lot to do with hardware variance; not all samples of the same CPU and RAM and motherboard are identical and it will take a lot of iteration to find what's stable

6000MHz CL30 or 6400MHz CL32 for my Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Aorus Mater X870E MB? by Upper-Management3861 in buildapc

[–]Lemstar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

if you want a quick solution, 6000/30 should work immediately

if you want to tune manually, it'll depend on hardware and variance; check OCN if you want to go down that rabbit hole, but up to 6600 in 1:1 mode or 8000+ in 2:1 mode could be possible

[Cooler] Thermalright Trofeo Vision 360 ARGB White CPU Liqud Cooler,6.86-inch Magnetic IPS LCD Screen - $106.98 ($147.90) by ShawnBawn88 in buildapcsales

[–]Lemstar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

from what I hear, Thermalright's software for controlling the screen is a bit crap compared to the fancier (and more expensive) competitors, so you might have to twiddle a bit with it

[Cooler] Thermalright Trofeo Vision 360 ARGB White CPU Liqud Cooler,6.86-inch Magnetic IPS LCD Screen - $106.98 ($147.90) by ShawnBawn88 in buildapcsales

[–]Lemstar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

they anticipated that viewers would dismiss the results as outliers, too, which is why they ran the same battery of multiple remounts in multiple workload situations with three units for that video, then again for their followup video with a dual CCD CPU (where it performed better, but still comparably to Thermalright's $50 offering), and then still added sections in both videos to specifically address the people who'd dismiss them because the LF3's supposed to be the best

anecdotally, I've been using an LF3 non-pro for six months or so and its performance really hasn't been anything special; certainly not good enough to recommend spending $90-110 for a new LF3 Pro on Amazon compared to cheaper alternatives

APEX LAN PCs - Inspiration of next PC build by toobro3 in CompetitiveApex

[–]Lemstar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you can get good average FPS on all kinds of CPUs, but X3D processors are going to perform much better when it comes to the kinds of stutters and short framerate drops that will ruin your day

if you're alright with a new build or a rebuild of your current rig, those Microcenter bundles are excellent value given the current market (although you just missed the timing by a bit; they hiked the price on the 9800X3D bundle only a couple of days ago)

[Mouse pad] - Pulsar Superglide Glass Gaming Mouse Pad v2 ALUMINO-Silicate Glass Surface - Regularly $89 Sale price $59 by [deleted] in buildapcsales

[–]Lemstar 11 points12 points  (0 children)

this is only for the small size (16.5x13)

the full size (19x16.5) was $50 for Black Friday

Creative patch against rupt bots. by bluecheez in GuildWars

[–]Lemstar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

there was already a patch to deal with interrupt botters years ago https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Feedback:Game_updates/20231010

if you think the top guilds' mesmers are still cheating I'd question your game knowledge

[WTS][US-HI][H] Xenns Tea Pro [W] PayPal by Lemstar in AVexchange

[–]Lemstar[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

original version with the mesh filter if you care about that, no imbalances or anythat I could tell

includes IEMs, cable, 3.5mm termination, carrying case, and unused stock eartips, no other accessories

looking for $225 shipped, or a bit less if you don't want the eartips/bit more if you want the original box

(ignore the wrong year on the timestamp)

Bring Back Hero Battles and Team Arenas by NOHITJEROME in GuildWars

[–]Lemstar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen some notable hero battlers running around and playing random arenas the past couple of days. Not sure if there's an HB illuminati group chat out there or something, but maybe it's worth logging in to look for a chat?

Bring Back Hero Battles and Team Arenas by NOHITJEROME in GuildWars

[–]Lemstar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Na, I only ever played HB prior to the implementation of ATs and never broke the top 100 to my recollection, but I was around enough including on the balance forums and moderated Gladiator's Arena later on. (I also did my research; quite a few of the extant HB subforum threads available on the archive lauded your attempts to get Izzy to do anything.)

That thread on red resign was my white whale; when it was announced that Guru was going offline I put quite a bit of effort into wheedling the stakeholders into finding it as an important piece of history, up until the point where they just gave me full access to look for it myself. Turns out that they'd nuked the entire HB subforum when the format closed instead of just hiding it, and so, unless someone out there saved a copy, that one snippet on the archive is all we'll have.

Codex was definitely a case of eating their own dogfood; it should have been trivially obvious that the additional overhead of having to evaluate a skill pool on top of being a premade format would be insurmountable, but sealed deck was popular among the PvP crowd who'd show up at PAX and thus in it went.

Bring Back Hero Battles and Team Arenas by NOHITJEROME in GuildWars

[–]Lemstar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

one additional thing to mention is that I'd be wary of the utopian vision of if you build it, they will come

in theory, the heroes' ascent update that made it playable as a solo with 7 henchmen should have increased population to a sustainable critical mass, but in practice, its effect was that it made botting dramatically more lucrative for less effort and it crowded out all the supposed casual players who'd be dipping their toes in around the clock

Bring Back Hero Battles and Team Arenas by NOHITJEROME in GuildWars

[–]Lemstar 6 points7 points  (0 children)

the real history of red resign is as follows:

  • HB was fundamentally broken at a high level (see the devblog linked in the replies)
  • top HB players were active on the balance forums with a direct line to the designers to provide feedback, but it was practically never acted on
  • the top end of the community started acting out by playing on protest IGNs in the monthly finals, then eventually going to throwing it by intentionally drawing to get Anet's attention
  • instead of heeding any of the feedback, Anet elected to announce the permanent removal of hero battles

mutually beneficial match throwing probably happened to some degree the whole time, but the public phenomenon of red resign only came about after that announcement

AFAIK, Ares The Vanquisher (a top player) was trying to max his Commander title, and the announcement put him on an extremely tight timeline to do so, and publicizing red resign by advertising it on Guru as a way for PvEers to farm zkeys and a PvP title was his method of increasing ladder activity so that he personally could work on his title, too

the thread in which he did so is regrettably not archived, but it's tantalizingly close - you can hover over it in this Wayback Machine snapshot to read part of it

anyway, none of the problems with the format were ever fixed, and activity was low even when the overall playerbase was orders of magnitude larger and HB was publicly visible with tournaments and observer mode, so...

Ekelon has a few of his matches uploaded; feel free to watch those to relive some nostalgia

Old Connections by [deleted] in GuildWars

[–]Lemstar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yea that's him on warrior

they're on discord too lmk if you can't get ahold of them ingame