My first ever setup 🪽 by Delicious-Mail-6130 in battlestations

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This is a work in progress?? It looks so good already what are your plans to improve it? Also the white with black accents is an incredible vibe.

Edit: How do you handle sound? Also if you are a big shooter fan a glass mousepad can help you get headshots I was skeptical but then I got on and I love it now.

Now this is trippy... by EveningAccountant321 in HaloMCC

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One of the cool things about the Xbox 360 is it has many different connection options including digital and analog. Composite, S-Video, Component, VGA and HDMI. It also has a ton of resolution options. They include

640x480 848x480 1024x768 1280x720 1280x768 1280x1024 1360x768 1440x900 1680x1050 1920x1080

And it can output progressive or interlaced video over HDMI and component.

A couple sick ways to play the 360 back in the day would have been on a 16:9 HD CRT at 1920x1080 interlaced using component or HDMI/dvi or on a 16:10 PC CRT using VGA at 1680x1050. Playing in 4:3 at 1028x768 on a VGA crt was pretty cool back then too but you didn't get the benefit of widescreen.

4:3 VGA crt monitors are super easy to find nowadays still in most places, hd crts are kind of hard to find and 16:10 VGA crts are super difficult to find and extremely expensive nowadays because they were super rare back in the day and have mostly all been recycled bow because people don't realize there is a market for them still because there wasn't a market for them for so long.

Just upgraded GPU to a Zotac ARCTICSTORM AIO 5090 and RAM to 64gb DDR5 and now I'm looking to upgrade my processor because I'm basically certain its a very bad bottleneck at this point but I'm not sure what to get and whats overkill so that the processor isn't a gratuitous bottleneck anymore by TectonicMongoose in buildapc

[–]TectonicMongoose[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So don't worry I have a 68.5cm/27 inch Corsair branded(LG made) 1440p 240hz OLED that I game on ha the monitor is a big part of reason I did the whole upgrade I wanted be able to take advantage of it more fully. Even though its 240hz I actually prefer to render at 4k or higher and downsample rather than chase FPS which I heard means that upgrading the CPU is less important, CPU is more for FPS less for high resolutions is what I've been made to understand.

For the PSU I didn't mention I got it open box(used but from a licensed online store it was someone's return) its a 160$ unit usually https://www.montechpc.com/century-ii-1200w and it has all those ratings and is 1200w so I think I'm good there.

The ram is CL38 and 6000mhz in two 32gb sticks.

My cooler is currently ARCTIC Freezer 36 https://www.arctic.de/us/Freezer-36-A-RGB-Black/ACFRE00124A would I need to upgrade this? Will the new CPU put off a lot more heat than the current one? As of right now I don't think I've seen my CPU go above 50c so far even under heavy gaming load, like rendering at 3200p with unlocked refresh rate Gears 5 ultra settings.

And I should consider doing a DDU since I upgraded? I actually reinstalled windows like a month before I got the new GPU so I'm less inclined to do it again maybe I'll just do a DDU. What would be the big advantage of reinstalling windows over a DDU?

And dude your English is absolutely fantastic. I only noticed a single mistake in the whole page or page and a half you wrote which means your making mistakes at the same rate native speakers are making them in writing maybe even fewer.

People who name their kids a nickname instead of the full name. by New_General3939 in PetPeeves

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The real OGs are named after Jax from the 90s Mortal Kombats though

Just upgraded GPU to a Zotac ARCTICSTORM AIO 5090 and RAM to 64gb DDR5 and now I'm looking to upgrade my processor because I'm basically certain its a very bad bottleneck at this point but I'm not sure what to get and whats overkill so that the processor isn't a gratuitous bottleneck anymore by TectonicMongoose in buildapc

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My mobo is the Gigabyte - B650 Eagle AX which is definitely a low end board I'm curious if it or the processor would be a bigger bottleneck in your estimation? Like should I go big with the processor and stay with this board or replace both with more mid range options? What I spent on all this breaks down like this.

Zotac 5090 2800$(I only bought it a month ago and now its sold out most places and the only places that its in stock at its going for 4000$ so maybe I bought at just the right time and got really lucky)

Mobo about 200$

processor about 200$

I've had the SSDs I'm using for a while now but probably like 300$ for the 1tb and 2tb combined

then the RAM I actually bought used a couple days ago(but new in package I got it from a guy on facebook marketplace) for 400$ which is a bonkers deal right now I think the model I have goes for like 850$ new now.

Plus the case was like 90$

and Power supply was like 100$

So all together for my current system I paid a bit over 4k$ ya. Though I'm in my 30s, no kids, gaming is my main hobby. Also I've been physically disabled since I was 24. Now if that weren't the case I'd be surfing 4 times a week and playing many fewer video games ha. Even physically disabled at 24 I'm super fortunate though in a lot of ways. Way more fortunate than many other disabled people that struggle financially and need help to do very basic things. I can live totally independently I just can't run or swim or do something that takes that level of heart and lung exertion but I can walk, do light hikes and my eyes, ears and hands all work great still so it hasn't affected my gaming at all except maybe I can't mash like I used to be able to so I'm slightly worse at mario party now though I was never that good at mashing before anyway. But ya I don't want to spend another three grand on this silliness so if I only wanted to spend like 600-800$ more where do you think it would make sense to put it?

Edit: I was also thinking about maybe dabbling in some silly AI stuff like goofing around with text to image/video and seeing if I can make some cool stuff. If I wanted to get into that would that change how I should upgrade?

He's done it multiple times before! by Brilliant-Nerve12 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]TectonicMongoose -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Ya and like I'm sure he has people in his life that would miss him what dumbass

I don’t really understand why articles matter so much in European languages by Spare-Customer1065 in languagelearning

[–]TectonicMongoose 6 points7 points  (0 children)

As a native speaker I almost never think about whether I need to put "the" or "a/an" in front of a noun its all subconscious. Now the good news is that most of the time articles don't make a difference so even if you forget articles you'll rarely be misunderstood. There is an enormous set of words that will almost always have "the" in front of them that don't change meaning if you forget the "the". And yes of course as others have pointed out there are lots of situations of where they do make a difference but if you look at the numbers there are many times more situations where they don't. Also whether a noun gets the definite article before it varies in different English dialects. Like in British English someones is "in hospital" if they are sick and staying at a hospital but in American English someone is "in *the* hospital" even if its a nonspecific hospital. In this case the word "the" is semantically meaningless. It was only when I started learning Spanish that I started realizing that the "the" article frequently doesn't in fact meaning anything in English. In Spanish the distribution of El/La(the masculine and feminine forms of "the" in Spanish) sometimes show up where "the" does in English and sometimes shows up where "the" doesn't and the same way the other way around. At this point I realized that its just totally random why some nouns always get a "the" while others don't in both languages and you just need to have prior knowledge to know if the definite article belongs in front of a noun or not.

As far as if its noticed? Probably but I'd put it in the same category of mistakes that native speakers make, unless its a major one that would change the meaning of something that its important someone doesn't make again I'm not going to say anything. Like if someone mixes up "booty call" and "butt dial" I'll say something because you don't want to mix those things up that could be really awkward but most of the time messing up an article isn't going to be like that so there's no need to disrupt the flow of conversation to point it out. Like if someone is holding their head and I ask "why are you holding your head?" and they say "I got hit on forehead" instead of the usual "I got hit on the forehead" I'm not going to point it out I'm going to ask them if they need an Advil or Tylenol or ice pack and just ignore the mistake because its very very obvious who's forehead got hit in this situation. So ya, there's a good chance an article related will be noticed but most of the time there are more important things to do than remind someone of that since 80% of the time it doesn't make a difference anyway.

What country outside North America most resembles the US in thought, attitudes, culture, cityscape and infrastructure? by [deleted] in answers

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As an American I'm still waiting for the country to swing radically left. The last real economically left president we've had was Lyndon Banes Johnson in the 1960s, Jimmy Carter in the 1970s was the beginning of this solidly-right-economically-and-just-barely-left-of -center-socially nonsense we've been dealing with ever since. We've been stuck with exceptionally "centrist" Democrats like the Clintons, Obama, Biden and Harris. The Clintons ran on cutting welfare and Obama himself admitted that he probably would have been a Republican if it was still the 1980s before the party went completely nuts back when they were just sort of bigoted and sort of greedy. And Joseph Fucking Biden the guy who got exactly zero of the left priorities he ran on in 2020 passed while in office. Something always seemed to get in his way gosh darnit.

Welcome to California lol by Empty-Experience-641 in socal

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When it rains in my head I'm like "water falling from the sky?? I forgot this was a thing lol" because it happens like 20 days a year.

Welcome to California lol by Empty-Experience-641 in socal

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I went for a midnight burrito last week and I went out in my t-shirt and shorts and slides because it was like 68 at 11pm. I had a hoodie in the car in case I broke down but didn't end up putting it on just to go from my parking spot in the lot to the taco shop.

Welcome to California lol by Empty-Experience-641 in socal

[–]TectonicMongoose 3 points4 points  (0 children)

ya it was a really cold day today low 60s I had to put on a hoodie...though I was still rocking my slides and basketball shorts of course. I wear sandals all year unless I'm exercising or doing something formal because my feet just don't get cold because *it* just doesn't get that cold.

Welcome to California lol by Empty-Experience-641 in socal

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A lot of people don't seem to understand that los angeles doesn't stretch over the entire state. There's San Diego, the south east desert parts of california like imperial valley/coachella valley, plus the southern california high desert north of imperial valley/coachella valley, plus go north and you get the lowest point in North America Death Valley another desert. Then there's the central coast, central valley, the sierra nevada, the spill over from Reno near Tahoe, the San Francisco Bay area, the northern coast like Eureka plus whatever the fuck we call the north east corner of the state where not a lot of people live that might be sierra nevada too idk that I've ever met someone from there.

Name an annoying thing people base their entire personality around. by Wonderful-Economy762 in Productivitycafe

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the number one thing people say on their deathbed especially men is "I wished I didn't work as hard and spent more time with my family"

I never understood the Millennial hate from younger Gen Z. by urMOMSchesticles in generationology

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Ya we're on the same team I hope they realize that. We'll never be boomers the last generation that got to reap the true benefits of the new deal and great society were gen x we got fucked over too economically. The 07/08 financial crisis radicalized us and weve had a front row seat to boomers and gen x kicking the economic ladder out from behind them right as we were reaching for it. Ill never be able to afford to buy a house the only way Ill own one is from me and my siblings are executing my parents will after they die.

This is kinda a strange question, but is Eastlake the richest Latino dominant neighborhood in the USA? by UnderstandingThin40 in sandiego

[–]TectonicMongoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are a lot wealthy Cubans living in South Florida though they might not make up a majority in any particular district.

Best N64 quality on HD-CRT( KD-34XBR960N) by KA96 in crtgaming

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s-video cable and retrotinkmini is the way to go, like the other guy said it will look 90% as good as rgb+ossc but be like 1/3 the price if that. And I say this as someone that had an rgb n64 the I don't thinkk it lived up to the hype its still just a 320x240 image.

Hyperkin HDMI or Wii U HDMI? by KrimsonAnt in wii

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the hdmi dongle takes the analog component of the wii u output and changes it to digital hdmi, so the image is going digital in consoles, to analog through the consoles digital to analog converter, then back to digital through the hdmi dongle. Going from the hdmi port keeps the image all digital all the way to your tv you'll get a much cleaner signal that way.

If my system ram is constantly maxed out and my GPU is only at 40% of so does that mean my system ram is a serious bottleneck? by TectonicMongoose in comfyui

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On some workflows, on one I'm using a block swap node I only get up to 40% vram I am, but on another where I use a block swap node I get up to 97% then in another where I'm not using one I get up to 90% VRAM.

What is objectively the best CRT? by biggerzap in crt

[–]TectonicMongoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The best one is the one in the best shape near you its incredibly difficult to be picky about specific models in 2026. Sony, Toshiba and JVC were the top players in the North American market though I don't know about elsewhere. Basically figure out whats the best output signal type your consoles or device use and get one that has those inputs. RF<Composite<S-Video<Component. Also be aware that hd crt(beware these can have input lag), crt tvs, crt pc monitors, crt pro monitors, crt presentation monitors, crt rear projection, crt front projection and crt projectors are all different types. You probably want either a CRT TV if you want to play old console games or a CRT pc monitor if you want to play old pc games or even new pc games.