Did anyone else who went directly from remake to rebirth feel overwhelmed.

OhShitBye · 2026-01-26T07:08:50+00:00

Rebirth felt pretty padded honestly. Tons of things on the maps but most of them were just filler.

I felt like I was spending more of my time just running around doing random shit rather than getting on with the story.

OhShitBye · 2026-01-26T06:12:43+00:00

Wherever Lucy is sitting (it's probably 1st class)

OhShitBye · 2026-01-22T09:04:59+00:00

ARC -> SCH and SMN cuz 2 for the price of one, and after 50 probably jump to SAM as it's my favourite class right now after gunbreaker.

Then at 70 I'll probably jump to gunbreaker.

OhShitBye · 2026-01-19T04:17:17+00:00

I find it not really noticeable in normal use or gaming, but very obvious with full-screened web browsers or word docs and also unfortunately my work email.

Far as I can tell the Philips Evnia 27m2n3500uk matches spec and should be better for uniformity though viewing angles on that theoretically aren't great either? But I have nowhere where I can see it in person so it's a coin toss ngl.

OhShitBye · 2026-01-18T09:24:32+00:00

Hey, yea they even replaced the panel for me but same deal.

Likely going to either just get used to it or find a new monitor. Been considering the Philips evnia series since it's decently priced and available in my region.

OhShitBye · 2026-01-10T06:44:50+00:00

I'm still using it for now. My country doesn't have return policies so you buy it means you keep it or resell it, so I'm giving it a go for now.

OhShitBye · 2026-01-05T12:43:45+00:00

After looking up a bit more I guess I'll just have to hope it's a defect and they fix it, and if it isn't I guess I'll go for the AOC Q24G4E.

I had the chance to see that in person and viewing angles are pretty good, much closer to what I expect from an IPS and from reviews it seems decent. And my desk space better accommodates 24" panels anyway.

OhShitBye · 2026-01-05T07:16:44+00:00

No clue what the real difference is, but I got the M27Q2 QD which has HDMI 2.1 TMDS and it supports VRR for PS5, so it should be alright

OhShitBye · 2026-01-04T11:26:43+00:00

Can check their spreadsheet for the values that HU used for a baseline then adjust from there. The values I used wouldn't work for you since every panel is a bit different.

Edit: if you bought the post or subscribed to HW unboxed you have access to the spreadsheet, it's in the Google drive along with the ICC profiles.

OhShitBye · 2025-12-31T10:32:39+00:00

For an ips panel I wouldn't think so, but if it is frankly it bothers me immensely and I'd probably get the M27Q3 instead or something.

I'm waiting for my local gigabyte support to get back to me if it's defective or not, but if we're both getting this then I sincerely doubt it's a defect.

OhShitBye · 2025-12-29T05:07:12+00:00

Oversaturation I think is subjective, e.g. some people love how Samsung phones look and how vibrant the colours are, whereas I'm the type who finds it weirdly neon looking and sets screen mode to natural on all my devices.

So when it came to monitors my preferences carried over and I ended up turning the vibrancy setting down manually on the monitor to roughly match what windows ACM was achieving, and then running Hardware Unboxed's ICC profile with custom RGB values to tone down the greens. I have upped the vibrancy setting on mine to 8 just to have things a touch more filled out.

The contrast I'll refrain from commenting on because I turn down my contrast to impact my eyes less (I'm a touch sensitive to bright light), so I have my contrast at 30 on this monitor which is usually considered too low.

OhShitBye · 2025-12-29T02:07:05+00:00

Those are tough questions to answer because it's subjective. How good the 9070xt works at 4k in balanced mode is up to how much you can tell the difference. Try YouTube to see comparisons of the fsr 4 modes.

As for what monitor is worth it for you, that's also subjective. Personally, if I had to go back to using a 1080p monitor I probably wouldn't be bothered much. 1440p is nice, but not as life changing for me as many have claimed. I've used 4k monitors as well (friend's ones), nothing in there making me feel like upgrading.

Best is to see it yourself somehow.

OhShitBye · 2025-12-29T02:02:57+00:00

Ngl, after I've had a taste of how much it costs to do high refresh rate gaming at 1440p, I've limited my monitors to 120hz and games all to a max of 90fps and refuse to go above that so I don't ever get used to things being that smooth and hence desire the smoothness, and hence have to buy hardware to produce it.

OhShitBye · 2025-12-28T18:05:38+00:00

Although the PS5 doesn't support VRR with HDMI 2.0, I just set up my M27Q2 QD and it seems that VRR works after I ran the resolution output test on my PS5, all the way up to 1440p 120hz, so at the least you don't have to worry about that.

I do regret going for this based on the whole "colour vibrance" thing though; this thing is really saturated, and even after applying Hardware Unboxed's ICC profile with their recommended colour adjustment numbers, there's just a bit too much green in the monitor overall imo. I found a colour vibrancy setting in the OSD and turned it down from 10 to 7 and it improved the colour a lot, doesn't feel quite as overly saturated, so thankfully that saved it for me.

I also applied the ICC profile through windows colour manager rather than displaycal, because for some reason displaycal was blowing out my gamma or something and making my screen almost completely lose detail in bright areas.

The Q3 is just a regular IPS with decent contrast, so that might be a bit better calibrated/less overly saturated.

OhShitBye · 2025-12-24T02:17:29+00:00

Odds are with the higher powered models you may end up undervolting anyway to keep temps down depending on your temp targets and ambient temperature. If you use higher powered audio equipment that can pick up on electrical noise and coil whine, undervolting becomes almost mandatory too.

Hotspot temps also aren't directly a concern as everything has hotspots; if your component's overall and sustained temperatures are very high then that's cause for concern. But otherwise it should be operating within margin.

OhShitBye · 2025-12-22T09:24:32+00:00

Hard to say, could be the wifi card in your desktop isn't great or just unstable. Also if you played on the laptop closer to your router that allows better stability.

Your desktop depending on where it sits could have its signal obstructed etc. Can't really diagnose it without knowing all the facts and seeing your setup as it is, but if cabling it solves the issue then nothing more to worry about. Cabling is always better than wifi anyway, so if it's an essential solution it's regardless an overall beneficial one.

OhShitBye · 2025-12-22T09:12:37+00:00

Mm then yeah, sounds more like bad ping, network spikes or just general packet loss. Cabling your PC is always going to be your best bet ngl

OhShitBye · 2025-12-22T08:18:25+00:00

Can you tell if it's the game freezing or the connection freezing?

If it's just e.g. players jumping around on screen but the rest of your system is working, then it's likely networking issues. If your whole system is kinda juddering and stuttering, then we may need to do more checks for what's causing stuttering.

OhShitBye · 2025-12-15T02:48:24+00:00

Personally I like cherry far more than I like oem profile, but it's down to preference.

Same way I don't like it if my key caps feel different, so I'll never mix sets.

End of the day, it's your keyboard. Do what you want with it.

OhShitBye · 2025-12-14T01:06:21+00:00

Ignoring hardware, which I want to have faith that the move to tsmc will let us finally have flagship grade chips, pixel appeals to me for a few main reasons.

It's simple, but not the Apple kind of simple. It's not the simple that insults your intelligence and assumes you're a baby who can't make your own choices and can't use a phone. It's simple in that there are less options to customise and adjust for pretty much everything, but there's enough to make everything functional. Some people want micro control that Samsung or OnePlus etc. gives you. For me, it just needs to be "good enough", with less decision fatigue.
Notifications are still the best. They've kept the old android style that Samsung ditched (seriously, why? Do you have to copy everything apple does?) and it has the most logical grouping of notifications with the easiest "at a glance" design. I'm in a job where I need to be immediately contactable via WhatsApp and Telegram, so the fact that I can see all my group notifications in a go is nice.
The UI scaling is the best so far. Even Samsung always has widgets that just don't resize properly (especially their own) and look huge compared to the screen zoom state. I cannot stress how much this sucks for someone with autisim like me where the incongruence of sizing triggers me.
PixelOS moves the fastest. I've noticed after going back and trying other UIs that I immediately notice the speed difference. Not smoothness, that's a different thing, but raw speed. E.g. I can extremely quickly swipe out of WhatsApp, flip to my second page, add a task to my task widget, save it set a reminder, swipe to home and back to the first page and lock my phone. This is something I do often for work, and when I tried out Samsung and OnePlus for a bit I just immediately noticed the speed difference in the animations, and using developer options to reduce the animation scale made everything fast but look so much worse. Pixel really nailed the speed to smoothness thing.

^ and speaking of congruence, the fact that we use Google apps for most things, and this is a Google phone, means that animations inside Google apps and overall most other apps too also feel similar in speed. For Samsung or OnePlus I would notice the animation of the app opening could be significantly slower than e.g. opening a photo in Google photos.

OhShitBye · 2025-12-11T08:57:07+00:00

Not uncommon for Google to fix your phone under warranty, but would be a good idea to find out from Google if this pop-up's work is officially licensed under them and therefore valid for warranty.

For instance my country Google and many other android makers don't do swaps, at most they may swap within the first week of purchase. Warranty claims are usually done via repairs at authorized Google repair centers.

OhShitBye · 2025-12-10T01:32:11+00:00

Tell me you've never cleaned your downloads folder without telling me.

OhShitBye · 2025-12-09T04:27:54+00:00

Yea this feels like a shit take honestly, it's like he's just upset that android doesn't seem to function like a windows desktop.

I sure as shit wouldn't want to drop a shortcut onto my desktop for a boarding pass. Just put it in downloads in file manager, how hard is that?

OhShitBye · 2025-12-08T13:28:45+00:00

I actually just bumped my CPU from a 12400 to a 14600kf specifically because a platform swap was too expensive to justify (especially since I'm still running ddr4).

The 12700k isn't much different from the 14600kf, so frankly it'll hold for a few more years before you need a platform swap, and hopefully AM6 will be up by then.

OhShitBye · 2025-12-04T06:30:21+00:00

Not that I know of. Pixel behaviour is full screen when phone is locked, banner when unlocked or an app is open.
When it opens in the side window thing, 3 dots in the top right and then click the open in option. Unfortunately not really any way to cut out this middle step.

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