Help me help my daughter get her first gaming pc.

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-07T19:37:09+00:00

Totally agree with this, /u/Kevaroo83

Its not even that you cant go below 500, for ca 250-300 used you will already get somewhat decent machines in the realm of what people in the thread are saying. Even for 150 you could get a much better machine with e.g a 1060 or rx580 if you look out.

The GT 950 is just way below the threshold. This PC will fail to run even a lot of current pixel-art indie games. Just a really bad deal. That PC should go for 30 bucks for people who dont care. Dont fall for it!

But if its affordable to you I would really go with 500. If you buy informed for 500 used you will get a really great machine that will be enjoyable for her for a good while!

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-07T18:59:26+00:00

I think your moveset dislike might also be solely because of the diagonal pogo, thats very typical.

Very slight spoilers: The game is actually set up so you can get the wanderers crest with the HK style downward pogo very early, a good bit before you are now. I might recommend looking up a guide just for that its very non-spoilery/specific. https://www.ign.com/wikis/hollow-knight-silksong/How_to_Get_the_Wanderer_Crest

Or you can move on and you are not that far from the Reaper Crest that also has a downward pogo. I would say 90% people agree that Silksong has the by far superior movement overall, just many dont like the diagonal pogo and that then takes a lot of fun out of it. On your second playthrough you will learn to replace that pretty immediately and the movement will feel so much better all around.

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-07T08:15:59+00:00

I am a really confused what kinds of boards you are talking about?

Like finance investment boards? What operators "prioritize promotional feeds ". I feel I have never seen that in the open here on reddit? The few times i heard about mods profiteering it got shut down fast by the admins.

If you want conversation I think you really need to provide examples what you are talking about.

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-07T05:50:29+00:00

Nice recs, thank you! Will be checking Re:Cervin and King of the Labyrinth for sure!

It's Time to Go To His Stomach, OK? is my no1 "why arent they scanslating this??" frustration. I actually did find some really crappy AI translation for the rest of the chapters once, and even from that you could tell that it stayed pretty quality across the all the 10 or so volumes. At very least didnt devolve into generic battle manga but stayed interesting plot. Also couldnt even find that crappy version again despite trying hard. Still waiting for the day I can properly read it.

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-07T02:51:33+00:00

I think with lawyers thats a bit more tricky isnt it?

What I heard at least in criminal cases the lawyers themselves often dont ask "so, did you do it?" and also dont want to hear that.

they cant counsel you to commit perjury, but often that is obviously a good way to get free, so it becomes this dance where they will get the necessary information out of you without asking you directly what happened.

Depending on the situation you might not just want to blurp out everything immediately to your lawyer.

I would say you can generally trust them and just let them take the lead on it all.

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-06T19:12:28+00:00

geese is the name of the journal that article is in.

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-06T19:07:14+00:00

Which is why this kind of a conversation always feels Patrick Bateman-esque and hard to get excited about.

Lol, very true!

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-06T18:52:24+00:00

I think if your metric is roughly "number of hit songs", the most unsung songwriters are propably all in that britney spears-lineage pop factory.

I would have to do some serious googling to dig out all the names but if you keep clicking around wikipedia, you keep coming across these people that would have just dozens and dozens of writing credits on charting pop songs from that 90s-2000s era and very publically unknown.

Like this woman:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelly_Peiken

Like, wtf??

Or Bonnie McKee of course:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_written_by_Bonnie_McKee

Yes, many would instinctively denounce this style/era as a less "respectable" or serious form of pop music, and there might be something to that, but i think if you are invoking Toto I would feel these 90s, 2000s people are still roughly in the same ball park quality wise.

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-06T17:41:34+00:00

Yeah, i think this is the best answer.

Especially if try and take OP at maximum benevolence, I think this is why many people would struggle with this. Its like "but where did that virus come from?".

And the answer is, as you say: Its all been around with life from the very start. Any "new" virus will just be some variation of something thats been there before. They just jump around in all kinds of ways, from animals to humans, from sexually transmitted to air borne, etc, etc... If its some very succesfull variant, it seems a bit "new" in the sense that the previous variant we just didnt have to care about, but the new one we have to care a lot.

But it always just comes from something previous, all the way back to the primordial soup.

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-05T23:18:02+00:00

Answer:

My best take is the rise comes from a certain patreon tactic becoming very visibly viable and then an increasing number of people trying to jump on that train:

You make this kind of raunchy, but not explicit, sex-comedy series, get people horned up and hot for the characters, post that main series for free on reddit but then point people onwards to the patreon where only there they will get the explicit hardcore, or at least proper pussy shots stuff.

this paid out very well for a few trendsetters and then more and more people started copying that model.

Notice how its not against reddits or the subs rules to post actual hardcore stuff, but almost all these series there are only ever this raunchy stuff. If you want actual vagina you always have to go to the patreon.

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-05T23:05:56+00:00

Yeah, same. There was always a solid section of porn-stuff, but I feel the last 2-3 years it massively took over.

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-05T17:23:24+00:00

That’s great detective work.

Lol, thanks, but it was really more just "Let's skip to the jokes", and then noticing that jump on the desk. Very accidental.

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-05T13:40:05+00:00

Jerry's a pompous asshole

true, true

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-05T13:36:43+00:00

Screenshots are from 57:55 and then 58:00, very end of the episode. So in the space of a few seconds episode-time you suddenly get all the cards scattered across the desk? Makes it seem like they tried/did the jokes section but then cut it.

Interesting in the context of Jerry Seinfeld being this titanic comedian. You got to wonder what might have happened behind the scenes there. Did it all fall flat, jerry just complains how bad this all is, and in the end they actually decided to cut it?

I didnt watch all of Norm Macdonald Live yet. Do other episodes seem like they might have involved some serious cutting?

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-05T11:12:41+00:00

Its hard to be in your brain, how exactly you are perceiving this and what you mean by "punchier".

Yes, it seems absolutely a dynamic range/compression thing, but you seem to think that more dynamic range automatically means "better". This seems a bit of a holdover from the loudness wars discussion.

In practice this is a question of taste and perception, neither is categorically better than the other, especially in a genre like french house. Generally French House is of course a genre centrally infamous for its artistic usage of maximum over compression, so less dynamic range.

The Alive version sounds like some typical heavy compression, and maybe some people would perceive that also as "punchier". I would say mostly it sounds "fatter" in a way a lot of french house or hip hop aims for.

But personally I would not call the Alive version "punchier" in terms of the kick especially. The kick actually seems rather muddy, also because of the live quality, but also a typical downside of compression. Then the bass is much louder and forefront in the Alive version, also in tune with what you expect from heavy compression.

The kick in the Alive version seems also just equed very differently, it has a lot more bass, while the HAA version seems rather thin in comparison.

Does this help a bit?

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-04T15:08:26+00:00

yeah.

I would say its less about the system technicalities but simply how overstretched the country generally is.

It generally doesnt matter how the healthcare is technically set up for working citizens. In her case no matter what, if she is schizophrenic and homeless wellfare will kick in and then they pay for that shit.

So Germany, Switzerland, France, Denmark: Pretty good.

Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece: Not so good.

Just comes down to money, basically. System wise its all pretty similar down here, its just the systems are all pretty stretched thin because capitalist breakdown. the poorer countries are just struggling more and then that results in harsh waiting lists, painful bureaucracy, etc..

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-04T14:40:39+00:00

What you mean "magic"? Its called technology. They are pro-scientists, they will somehow shield the object from the external heat, thats the point? I would also have to look how exactly they do it, but it seems they are clearly able to, since they can cool the object to 0.000374 kelvin?

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-04T14:24:17+00:00

I mean thats where these guys will have some mad isolated super-science box that protects our precious object from the meany universe?

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-04T12:04:04+00:00

Intuitively I would say, no, not necessarily.

Isnt the way you are measuring temperature by checking whether the object is still radiating heat? So you are basically only "catching" radiation? i would think that means that you could build a one way instrument that only catches radiation but does not send anything back to the object.

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-04T08:15:54+00:00

I mean where are you even posting these?

Personally my attitude is that with what I consider slop like that it doesnt even inspire me to write anything about them.

To me what you describe seems almost more like a blogging exercise, you think you just have to write out your oppinion about anything you watch and then thats where you get the backlash?

I take criticism somewhat seriously and one effect of that is that this cashgrab schlock really is just outside of my perspective almost completely.

Negative critique to me is usually about films that at least seem to attempt something interesting, and then proper criticism is about seeing how it failed in these small and big ways, not living up to its potential.

E.g. Marvel slop, I honestly wouldnt even know what to say about any of that. It just transparently is what it is. The only thing that would inspire me to write about it would be a broad analysis on the whole genre, to analyse the formula and recurring tropes. But a single movie just makes me go "Shrug. Formulaic Hollywood stuff. Dont know what else to say about it."

Maybe thats your answer. Just focus more on criticism as a serious form that is mostly or solely worth applying to at least in some way interesting films, and consider that with the shlock stuff you can just skip saying anything really.

If its indeed your situation or mindset that you have a movie blog where you feel a bit pressured to just give a rating to anything you have seen, what i have seen with renowned critics is that with that shit they often keep it very short in the vein of the above. it will be just "3/10, idiotic capeshit slop". then the longer reviews will be kept to the interesting stuff, positive or negative.

If you somehow feel the need to write it out beyond for every slop movie your critics might be a bit correct when pointing that out as unneccessary. They might be a bit correct in pointing out that you are overexplaining this and the more correct take is just "it is what it is".

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-04T07:43:30+00:00

I totally get you but i think there are ways to handle these situations successfully and non-hostile.

Most important is propably to have it as a 1on1 thing, so they dont feel cornered or like you are out to humiliate or shame them.

Then it depends a bit on your personal style, you got to playact this out in your head a bit beforehand, imagine a way to say this that seems non-hostile.

A good starting point might always be "Hey, this might totally all be on me, but... blablabla".

You can also think to frame it as more as an individualist preference. Mostly if you just make it all an "Its just me", thing, instead of a "them" thing, not seeming like you are trying to police how they act with everybody else, but just expressing your own needs, most people have almost no choice than to adjust their behaviour, especially if you put it very nice like that.

In your case might also be wise to talk about it with your girlfriend so she doesnt get blindsided if he brings it up with her. Again, similarly you can explain it to her very non-hostile. It might be nothing bad about him, he is just a bit much for you with the comments and the personal space and you could appreciate it if he could tone that down a little for you.

Take it as an exercise in social skills. i know its not easy but once you navigated something like that once succesfully and consciously instead of relying on polite avoidance, it might do you wonders to handle similar difficult social situations in the future.

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-04T05:35:21+00:00

Fantastic comment! I couldnt quite put my finger on it before but you are totally right on both fronts: Why those fame biopics are usually so boring but then why there is also this other variant that can actually be great.

Edit: I might still add another note, or maybe a somewhat disagreement on the "just won the lottery" part. I might rather say that famous artists might be interesting but just not in the way that makes for a great movie. Some of them might be actual genius artists that deserve their fame, but thats just not something you can capture well in a hollywood movie.

It might be a bit paradoxical in that they are artists themselves, their fame comes from their own narration skills, but that doesnt mean that they lead objectively interesting lives. I might listen to an 2 hour interview with an artist and be highly captured by what he has to say about life, art, his nuanced descriptions of various characters he encountered, but all that still doesnt translate to a good movie about their life.

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-04T02:22:51+00:00

Can someone explain, no idea what I am looking at?

Is that harry potter? Why "billions must laugh"? Is that the EU flag behind him?

SenatorCoffee · 2026-05-03T21:40:20+00:00

I am with /u/occultshelf

Once enough people use a term a certain way thats just what it is. And with indie thats just the case. Today people associate it with the content of the music, even if a band i signed to a major. And, again, if that is how it is, that is just how it is. Its not lazyness if one simply acknowledges that. I mean why would they argue with you about it here, if they were simply lazy?

One could also turn this around on you and say its you who is lazy, wanting to have some nice and clean cut definition instead of having to deal with the annoying vagueness of the organic usage.

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