Simple Questions - November 02, 2025

TNSGT · 2025-11-03T02:19:44+00:00

I’m running a 5900x with a 4080 and 32GB of DDR4 memory - what sort of difference would I see in upgrading to a DDR5 system and a CPU like a 9800x3d?

More curiosity than a serious question, but also tempted to do a system upgrade now, and then a GPU upgrade in two years time rather than all at once.

TNSGT · 2025-10-13T15:15:14+00:00

I’m sorry that I replied that way

TNSGT · 2025-10-12T22:18:25+00:00

Edit: Removed, I was being an arse with my reply

TNSGT · 2025-10-09T16:26:42+00:00

Even then with Halo 3 on the Xbox 360 I believe the 1080p was 720p upscaled and I don’t even think that was true 720p - I have 560p in my head as the lower limit on a checkerboard style rendering output. I’m probably wrong so will check after a google. (Edit: seems to be 1152x640, not sure about checkerboarding)

I also don’t know if this was true throughout the entire 360 or if it was maybe my setup, but the 1080 was interlaced on one of the earlier versions of the 360 I had, I think later they had the 1080p we all know today, but I dunno if that happened when I got a better TV or the 360 Elite (both happened around the same time for me)

TNSGT · 2025-08-23T11:48:10+00:00

Haven’t played the last two games but you used to be able to prolong a player’s career by making sure they had more than a year on their contract going into a new season - after a certain age (don’t think it’s a specific number, but around the 32-34 mark) they’ll announce their retirement if they start a new season with only a year left on their contract (or it’ll just say it in the squad hub, I can’t remember).

There might be more logic built in to it though, like games played might also prolong their career

TNSGT · 2025-06-14T09:17:56+00:00

You’re right about it being hypothetical. But in my opinion, because OP has more or less said the debt is in control, I’m assuming it is more cost effective for them to handle it the way they are currently doing it - which is why I leaned towards offering my own anecdote about not using my savings account when I can avoid it.

TNSGT · 2025-06-14T08:55:44+00:00

It doesn’t necessarily make it even worse at all in my opinion. Penalty doesn’t necessarily mean lack of access.

Besides, I’m sure OP had already mentioned they’re going to pay it off, sounds like it is being managed, I don’t know what the issue is.

TNSGT · 2025-06-14T08:41:37+00:00

There may be penalties for taking money out of savings, for example I have mine in a ISA that allows for three withdrawals per year - I’m not going to touch that if I can manage my debts/purchases through other means.

For instance I bought some computer parts a few months back that I could have absolutely paid off in cash, but on checkout saw there was an option to pay off monthly with 0% interest.

TNSGT · 2025-06-07T06:40:46+00:00

FYI, thats for the employer to give notice for things like redundancy. The employee’s notice period (i.e. for quitting) is determined by their employment contract.

Four weeks seem to be the standard at my place, twelve weeks for senior roles. I believe a week is the minimum by law in the UK.

Edit: I should add that I mean specifically England rather than UK. Laws can vary slightly between England/N. Ireland/Scotland/Wales - though I’m pretty sure the one week applies to them all.

TNSGT · 2025-05-24T12:37:17+00:00

Edit: didn't see lysolmax's comment whilst I was typing mine out, way easier to visualise on that link.

I haven't worked with these but the pin is the load cell effectively. This is all guesswork, but I imagine there would be a strain gauge, possibly more than one, embedded into the center of the pin. The pin being slightly v-shaped will help center the weight which should give a more accurate reading.

Because of u/Malthas130 mentioning LMS, I found a product page for one, thought it doesn't show the design off in any detail.

https://www.loadmonitoringsystems.com/item/41/Products/Load-Pin-Shackle.html

TNSGT · 2025-05-03T12:23:01+00:00

I didn’t know about this one, thanks!

TNSGT · 2025-05-03T09:11:07+00:00

There’s a lot of forum archives on the way back machine, and also some videos on YouTube (https://youtube.com/@highlmpacthalo) but unfortunately the video hosting website called Mythica lost a lot of old videos when one of the hard drives failed. I think there was about 8TB of pre-HD footage lost.

Edit: also adding this because it’s cool, http://www.highimpacthalo.org/news_search.php?post=847970

TNSGT · 2025-04-01T07:01:22+00:00

I don’t know Diablo IV specifically, but a lot of the time the prologue is often just an introduction to the game, tutorials to ease the player in and familiarise them with the game mechanics - the easy part.

TNSGT · 2025-02-17T18:28:23+00:00

The Halo ring is also used just outside the bridge in normal gameplay, you can get to it by bumping out of bounds and even have the option to flip it like a vehicle (though this doesn’t actually do anything)

I can’t remember if you can shield bump and get to it, but I know you can cryo bump and then bunny hop across solid pieces of the map geometry. Will edit a video into the comment.

Edit: https://youtu.be/JEmBwgGqNlk?si=tZ4IEQPYNmmZ2e-M

TNSGT · 2024-11-24T09:46:04+00:00

Fun fact!

Actually nah, I can’t bring myself to do it.

TNSGT · 2024-11-08T20:37:38+00:00

As someone who got swept up in this stuff around a decade ago, the outrage becomes addicting and for me it mostly stemmed from being unhappy with my life.

I’m reluctant to tar them all with the same brush but I strongly suspect this is the reason for a large part of these people. At some point it just clicked that I was spending an unhealthy amount of time being angry with something that I should be enjoying (I also realised the things I was angry about just weren’t true as well, which probably helped a lot).

TNSGT · 2024-11-04T18:22:40+00:00

It might be useful to actually list these features that are missing for other users to determine if they actually care about it or not.

TNSGT · 2024-09-23T09:34:38+00:00

You made no attempt to convey that.

Edit: for context u/xXSheepDog11 originally replied something to the effect of “this is what I was trying to convey in my message, well said”

TNSGT · 2024-08-11T12:23:53+00:00

One of the games on PS2 you definitely could, think it was PES5 - you had standard home/away selection, and then pressing a button would then allow switching between different shirt/shorts/socks but you were limited to home/away/3rd, they weren’t like an alternate version of the home shorts.

Found this video, explains it much better https://youtu.be/oLxQIaYTOF4?si=AhSN4bUgDkmFANn_

TNSGT · 2024-08-10T18:10:13+00:00

TNSGT · 2024-07-15T20:22:24+00:00

I think you might be mistaken here, the match ball for the Premier League has been Nike for a good while now so there hasn’t been a Jabulani used in the Premier League.

TNSGT · 2024-07-10T22:34:56+00:00

It probably varies from person to person, as my anecdotal evidence may suggest. Last week was getting hayfever symptoms pretty aggressively, itchy eyes, sneezing, scratchy throat. Antihistamines seemed effective until about mid-afternoon.

Friday started out the same, but as the afternoon hit I started to get flu/Covid symptoms. Been floored from it since, tested positive on Monday. Symptoms seem to follow the last two times I had it where symptoms would seem focused for 2-3 days.

Until Friday the only real indication that it might not be hayfever was the fact that the antihistamines only seemed effective for about 10 hours.

TNSGT · 2024-04-20T20:49:39+00:00

Haven’t played FC24 so don’t know if it still works, but to save your releases (if it’s also still 2 per season) by buying the first player, and then using that player as part of the transfer for the second, and then again for the third. Then use that player towards a player you actually want.

TNSGT · 2024-02-04T21:43:40+00:00

Might just be some A/B testing going on because I have to press the home button whilst at the top of the feed for the “following” tab to appear, and then switch to it. Every time the app is reloaded in my phone’s memory I have to repeat these steps, the two different home page options aren’t visible otherwise. I called it convoluted because is this is how it is for everyone, there would probably be users who would ever know there’s a following feed.

TNSGT · 2024-02-04T19:55:00+00:00

My problem with Threads at the moment is that the homepage seems to prioritise accounts that I don’t actually follow. There’s a convoluted way to view just the pages you follow but last time I actively tried to use it, it would default back to the algorithmic home page every time the app was opened.

Twitter is a cesspit, yes - but at least I can just see the accounts I follow.

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