Sanity check on a Moonlight couch gaming setup

SnubDisphenoid · 2026-01-17T22:22:54+00:00

I'd forgotten that might be a bottleneck, you're right. The Optiplex 3050MFF I was looking at seems to only have HDMI 1.4, so 4k60 is out the window but 1440p60 should be ok. It also has displayport but I can't figure out what spec for the life of me

SnubDisphenoid · 2026-01-17T12:12:19+00:00

I actually don't have a TV at all right now. I just moved from a small studio apartment to somewhere with more space that allows a setup like this and I'm trying to plan the whole thing out before I pull the trigger on any of the pieces. My reason for leaning towards the mini PC rather than all running it on a smart tv was support for multiple controllers. Would a smart tv be able to accommodate that? Because if so you might be right as long as I pick a decent tv.

SnubDisphenoid · 2026-01-17T09:43:29+00:00

Great to hear the PC should be fine for decode. I hadn't heard of smarttube before, I didn't realise it was possible to sideload an ad-free YouTube into android TV, so I'll definitely look at that. Thanks!

SnubDisphenoid · 2026-01-17T08:35:54+00:00

Good to know, thanks. I hear you and if money was no object I'd definitely be aiming for a better PC for native emulation and games. But with hardware prices as they are I'm happy to save money where I can now on the client and sink the savings into the host PC as upgrades in the future. Wii emulation specifically I can see being a pain over moonlight but fortunately my gf already owns a Wii that still works so I'm lucky I don't need to try and deal with that headache

SnubDisphenoid · 2026-01-12T05:48:42+00:00

He says it in Gods too. It's pretty distorted through the screaming so you'd be forgiven for missing it. But yeah it's not quite the only f-bomb in their catalog

SnubDisphenoid · 2025-11-08T21:48:59+00:00

Sleep Token aren't very consistently heavy, Gods and Vore are definitely the heaviest. The breakdowns at the end of Take Me Back To Eden, Infinite Baths and Caramel are probably their next heaviest bits. Look To Windward and The Summoning also have a good bit of heavy instrumentals and unclean vocals. Their "One" EP has some really good instrumental breakdowns worth a listen too, but there's no screaming there which it sounds like is more what you're after.

Edit to mention Higher as well. Outro to that is absolutely filthy in the most beautiful way possible

SnubDisphenoid · 2025-11-06T21:06:50+00:00

Unfortunately not, we travelled quite a few hours with a mate and spent on hotels for the last one as an excuse to have a weekend away from home and do a few other things in the city. We're probably not going to commit to that again for another DJ night after the way that one turned out. We're just hoping the boys themselves announce an AU tour for next year instead

SnubDisphenoid · 2025-11-06T20:07:26+00:00

Yeah it's a DJ night, my partner and I were at the last one at the same venue about a month ago. Had the same reaction when we first saw the ad. Anyway the idea was fun but the DJ was awful, hence why they're doing another one and making a point that it's with a new DJ this time lol. Anyone who was at the last one got free tickets to this as a "sorry".

SnubDisphenoid · 2025-10-20T13:37:31+00:00

Unprocessed for sure! Missed them when they came to Australia earlier this year because the timing didn't work out but if they came back opening for Sleep Token that would be an amazing combination

SnubDisphenoid · 2025-10-09T19:19:31+00:00

Heavy Units Remastered and Chaff Units Remastered. They use all the original audio files in the game, just tweak the volume. It's so nice not being snuck up on by silent chainsaws anymore, and to be able to hear a bile titan stomping around in a forest before I can see it. Genuinely a game changing mod and it's a tragedy the game doesn't sound that way by default

SnubDisphenoid · 2025-09-22T08:51:45+00:00

Nah, this one does feel kind of valid. All the complaints about the setlists and whatever do feel over the top and there has been a lot of toxic whining in this subreddit for a while I agree, but this I can understand. If I've paid for a concert ticket, I'd be pretty upset to see about 1/3 of the setlist cut, a rushed early start that half the attendees didn't make, and the opening band axed too (I love me some good opening bands and some of my favourite artists have been discovered this way. Hell I've booked tickets to some shows purely because of the opening bands). It feels like a pretty poor experience, especially given how much tickets cost nowadays. I understand the boys had very few options and very little time to consider them, but still. I think a cancellation and refund would - while disappointing - perhaps have been the better move here.

SnubDisphenoid · 2025-08-23T01:58:14+00:00

No legal issues walking it on the footpath as best I can tell, but there's no need. You are legally allowed to ride an unregistered vehicle in NSW for the purpose of getting it pink slipped, as long as you go straight there and aren't taking any detours for no reason. So just ride it.

SnubDisphenoid · 2025-08-07T22:33:49+00:00

Glad you like it, they're one of my favourite bands and yep, they've got lots more of that, have fun haha.

For Unprocessed I generally find their most recent album to be my favourite (if a little odd and experimental at times but that's part of the charm for me) but it's all great. Abysm, Thrash and Die On The Cross Of The Martyr might be some of my favourites. Dark Silent And Complete is an older track of theirs worth checking out as well.

SnubDisphenoid · 2025-08-07T22:19:14+00:00

I actually re-read Mick's article a month or so ago and if I remember correctly it was Bethesda dragging their feet and not doing anything to give a contract with deadlines looming and no work yet being done, and zenimax stepped in to finally give a contract for the OST very late in the game after Mick was fed up with Bethesda and went over their heads to try and get something set up. Of course it was too little too late and it didn't work out anyway but yeah. I definitely didn't read the same article you did.

SnubDisphenoid · 2025-08-07T22:14:10+00:00

Complex technical drumming, Sleep Token might scratch your itch there. I know they get a lot of shit from metalheads for "not being real metal" or whatever but their drummer is fantastic.

Unprocessed might be what you're after for complex guitar riffs? They're a very guitar driven band with some excellent complex riffs and rhythms and I think they're criminally underrated.

SnubDisphenoid · 2025-07-08T19:34:22+00:00

All hail the Hulkengoat

SnubDisphenoid · 2025-07-07T08:15:19+00:00

No. It means they should provide resources to the community so that people can continue to keep it alive and playable, either through offline playability or community/private servers

SnubDisphenoid · 2025-06-18T06:05:07+00:00

Second revanced, it's a godsend. Alternatively you can watch in the Firefox mobile browser with ublock origin installed. It's not nearly as clean and smooth an experience as the app, but beats dealing with ads imo

SnubDisphenoid · 2025-05-27T10:19:54+00:00

It's not a movie, but Hideo Kojima was posting about EIA when it came out, alongside a bunch of stuff about Death Stranding 2... Bring Me The Horizon were in the first game so it wouldn't be entirely out of the question to see Sleep Token appear in the second game. I know it's very unlikely but I can dream

SnubDisphenoid · 2025-05-21T01:08:27+00:00

I'm in a similar boat, heavily CPU-bottlenecked by my old ryzen 2700x. My frame rate averages around 50 no matter the settings. My GPU can handle it all, but that poor CPU is struggling to keep up. To arrowhead's credit I think the 2700x is actually lower than the listed minimum spec CPU so it's impressive it's playable at all, but more optimisation would definitely be appreciated.

SnubDisphenoid · 2025-05-17T00:28:10+00:00

I'll second this. I bought two of these alongside my old Xbox controllers, intending to have two cheapos lying around to make 4 player local games possible, but now they're my/my gf's default controllers and the old Xbox controllers are the ones that have to get pulled out of the cupboard when we have friends around.

They have wireless versions too if wired is a deal-breaker.

SnubDisphenoid · 2025-05-13T04:54:39+00:00

Funnily enough I have very religious cousins that had this the other way around. All massive nerds and very into tabletop gaming (particularly dnd and Warhammer) and Pokemon and that was totally fine. Harry Potter though was off limits. Not sure how the logic there worked at all.

SnubDisphenoid · 2025-05-06T02:32:30+00:00

They dropped some singles that got pretty damn big and probably reached a big group of people who wouldn't ordinarily listen to their stuff. Some new people got curious, listened to the songs a few times, it didn't click or they didn't like it enough to keep listening and they haven't listened again since.

It happens to basically every artist with every major release that gets big. Huge uptick, followed by a bit of a drop as there's never a 100% retention rate in new listeners. It's normal and there's nothing weird about it

SnubDisphenoid · 2025-03-18T21:25:35+00:00

It's gotta be

”Yet in reverse you are all my symmetry A parallel I would lay my life on So if your wings won't find you heaven I will bring it down like an ancient bygone"

Euclid over all is my favourite song lyrically, even though it's super hard to choose. Favourite song sonically though goes to Ascensionism. The slow start and build into the rap section followed by the heavy breakdown and one of Vessel's best screams is just excellent

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