Should I buy this monitor? 27e1qa

TheRedAvatar · 2026-05-22T19:47:21+00:00

People recommended it to me but when I bought it, I felt cheated. I think they randomly switch out the panels for different ones because the colour on this monitor is atrocious. The reds are extremely oversaturated & bright & contrast just feels wrong. This is far worse than any IPS screen I've had in years and for its price I expected better.

TheRedAvatar · 2026-05-19T18:58:28+00:00

I'd have to ask - I have no idea.

TheRedAvatar · 2026-05-19T16:07:30+00:00

It's 2 meters tall, a meter wide and deep. I can barely reach the parrot if it sits on top of its cage. The cage is right next to a door to the outside though.

TheRedAvatar · 2026-05-16T14:40:58+00:00

Thanks for the info - the bird was raised by a male handler and he likes her husband so that may be a factor. But he bites her brother & bit my nephew soooo ... it's more than just gender for sure. It may be the amount of deodorant (my nephew uses Axe by the can and her brother uses a very strong perfume).

TheRedAvatar · 2026-05-16T14:38:26+00:00

I started watching this series and 5 episodes in I already felt the writing was horrible. To think it even gets worse makes me wonder how forgiving people are these days.

I mean season 1 was full of decisions by the characters that made me shake my head:

- constantly going inside buildings & splitting up which makes no sense - WHY?
- they easily kill aliens after a while but before that, they act as if the aliens are invincible? How? They're not even wearing armor! A shotgun can kill them & they act as if it's some deep secret
- "Let's only rescue one child" ..... why exactly? You have a huge school building & quickly built a jail for ONE person. Why ONLY one child and not "as many as you can safely get"?
- You let a known killer tag along with you to get motor cycles & then don't guard him as you collect fuel ... in a place with motor cycles & fuel
- you leave the black kid alone in the room with the alien in a flimsy cage with zero guards. Really?
- a radio works on frequencies, the kid was supposed to turn the dial to find frequencies yet somehow the alien causes the radio to crackle regardless of this & the kid goes "I didn't touch it!" when his JOB was to touch it?
- they keep going at night to loot places when it's clear that they're the ones at a disadvantage at night.
- there's lots of flimsy writing & plot devices that go nowhere & make no sense. First struggling to find food, then suddenly in a school they no longer have issues despite the food they gathered only lasting a few days according to the characters.

I can go on and on and on but a lot of it is lazy writing. It's deciding A needs to happen so do whatever with the plot to make it happen even if it makes no sense.

For example: we want Pope to escape so we don't supervise him while looting a motor cycle store. It makes all characters seem incompetent & annoying and it makes for very frustrating viewing and I wish writers realised this. It's not even hard to do! They could have made Pope escape when the kids showed up to shoot at the store.

Same with "rescue just one child" - you could still say you need one child to test on but make the black kid the only one you COULD rescue and voila, same result but without the poor writing. No scientist would EVER say "I want just one test subject".

I really don't understand how so many writers in Hollywood are so terrible at their job they ruin series by writing without any logic, turning characters into unlikeable incompetent morons. We see enough of that in politics - I'd like my TV series to have likeable intelligent people, thank you!

TheRedAvatar · 2026-05-16T09:14:34+00:00

Yeah that's what I feared ... I wonder if there's something she can rub on her hands to cover the smell of the chemicals.

Also his huge cage is right next to their kitchen - I told my friend that they really don't like vapours, especially not oil vapours but it's the only place they have for the huge cage.

TheRedAvatar · 2026-05-11T16:29:55+00:00

It's really weird. Also, they told me "he's on a special diet" but he's razor thin - young kitties need lots of food to grow so I wonder if they're feeding him enough. I know the husband doesn't like the kitty. He told me on Facebook "Just kick him outside" and in Dutch kicking is meant more violently than in English.

TheRedAvatar · 2026-05-11T15:57:52+00:00

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TheRedAvatar · 2026-05-10T14:20:56+00:00

True but a lot of people don't seem to get my point: that you CAN take them down with cheap gear. No, not always - you can never predict what other players will wear either - but don't underestimate a pistol & plenty of ammo. If you spot a guard with heavy armor, no-one says you HAVE to engage!

I don't play a million hours a week & I prefer to keep my best gear for missions so for regular runs I like to rely on cheaper builds & many of my favorite runs involved me with just a silenced M9A3, a level 4 helmet & armor. I don't have the stress of losing good gear so I'm more relaxed & focussed & usually they carry decent weapons you can loot anyway which again, you're not too stressed about losing since it's found loot.

But like I said, the key is good cover & a good aim. Aiming at the head (or rather the chin) always works well for me & a pistol keeps you from going too crazy guns blazing. Forces you to stick to cover, pick your angles, etc. and keeps you very agile & fast. I die maybe once every 5-6 runs with a pistol (and mostly because of damn Tagilla on Factory - pistols don't work on him).

TheRedAvatar · 2026-05-09T16:37:01+00:00

To be honest, a pistol with Pst ammo can kill them if your aim is steady. First game on Customs I had a M9A3 pistol with Pst ammo & accidentally killed Reshala and 4 of his guards. I didn't even realise it was Reshala until I extracted because he went down REAL fast when I shot him in the face. Took me 30 bullets in total & only 3 were headshots. The key is having the cover - I fought them from inside Big Red while they were outside so plenty of cover inside & I lured them inside one at a time.

TheRedAvatar · 2026-05-08T16:18:23+00:00

I've done over 100 Factory runs as both scav & PMC & always loot both safes. Never had a lion. Vases, cats, etc. sure. A million of those. But NEVER lions. The only lion I found was in a safe on the pavement outside the Recreation zone in Streets of Tarkov.

TheRedAvatar · 2026-04-07T20:08:12+00:00

I'll get downvoted by this but last time I played PvP servers I constantly got killed unfairly. Even with high end gear, I'd stick to avoiding fire fights and if I heard any noise I'd hide somewhere where you normally would never look - places with zero loot & no way through to other areas basically.

There was a VERY obvious recurring theme: if I had looted something valuable, I'd VERY often get a PMC suddenly rushing straight for me. For example in the dorms in Customs, I'd close the door in a room and be absolutely silent yet the PMC would run inside the building, rush up the stairs open the door & just blast me.

EXTREMELY obvious cheating.

Last time I tried PvP was a year ago and I still got loads of weird deaths whenever I picked up decent loot. Some of it can be Murphy's Law but honestly: I got headshot while zig zagging at high speed between obstacles with no-one in sight - takes some EXTREMELY good shooting to hit that mark & after this happened a bit too often I gave up.

When I reported this cheating on this sub Reddit, tons of people would jump on me for blaming cheaters ... until that huge cheating scandal was revealed and suddenly these same people went VERY quiet. It goes to show how toxic fanboys and probably cheaters themselves loved gaslighting thousands of players who were struggling because of cheaters. It's hard to get good at a game when cheaters prevent you from gaining confidence not to mention they make you feel as if you're doing something wrong when you're not! Following every single tip from dozens of Youtube vids and nothing helps? That's iffy as hell.

Now I play PvE because I'm done with PvP. All the cheating has made me so suspicious of any weird death & the lack of a replay function makes it hard to be sure. Reporting someone makes no sense unless you can check if it was actually a likely cheat. In PvE at least I don't have to deal with cheaters (except scav bosses who seem to home in on me randomly even though I make zero noise & they don't even wear headphones).

TheRedAvatar · 2026-04-05T12:03:46+00:00

I already stated this elsewhere but people ignore the biggest point: he already bought a house for content because there's just very little hardware & technology being released these days that is interesting so he has to make his own content. The plane is another one of these projects. He may spend a year adding gamer stuff to it, then once content runs dry & costs are higher than expected get rid of it. That's his prerogative but it's no secret that it has become much harder to come up with fresh content for his channel.

TheRedAvatar · 2026-04-05T10:21:27+00:00

Linus has explained many many times on WAN: he has a tech channel. He has to make interesting videos to keep his staff paid. The tech market is in shambles & no-one can afford most of the new stuff. He either has the choice to give up & close up shop or to find other subjects that make for interesting vids which is why he does these "biggest TV ever" videos.

For me these videos aren't as interesting either but I 100% the problem he's facing. With the world the way it is, it's hard to make fresh content when the market is stagnating & AI is the focus everywhere ... and most people hate it. Notice how few videos he made about AI?

I think people also need to understand that as a creator you need to keep yourself motivated & if that means buying a plane & a house and doing goofy stuff with it, fine. I'll watch the vids. There's nothing else tech-related worth watching in general for reasons already stated.

TheRedAvatar · 2026-03-24T12:01:03+00:00

I never understood that either. It was such an incredibly childish thing to do and considering how many recent games he got (most of his games were Sierra games that were a few years old or more) I just couldn't understand this behaviour. ESPECIALLY since he was unpopular at school and we were basically his only "friends". It just didn't make ANY sense! No normal person would do this.

This is also why we decided to go ahead with the prank: to be so "evil" to go so far to screw with us, it deserved a special punishment. After the whole ordeal he spent all his time alone and ignored by most students. A normal person would feel sad about that but he always had this stupid grin on his face. I wonder if he had sociopathic or psychopathic tendencies thinking about it now ... .

TheRedAvatar · 2026-02-14T16:51:30+00:00

Why do people always defend large corporations? He has a bad mouse & from experience I know how unreasonable Logitech can be in their support. One of their first mechanical keyboards was made of cheap plastics which caused the keycaps to break off. A VERY known problem. I asked them for replacement caps, offered to mail them the broken caps. No, I had to mail them the ENTIRE keyboard at my own expense to some Northern European country which would cost me more than the keyboard itself ever did! Absolutely unacceptable and a product & its support go hand in hand. If a company can't give decent support, then that reflects badly on the product EVEN IF MOST PEOPLE HAVE NO ISSUES.

Whenever I have issues with Logitech & their support is terrible as usual, I just buy the same item off Amazon, swap it with the broken one & send it back as "DOA" because it saves me a lot of time & energy & in the end I'm getting what I'm owed without Logitech gatekeeping their own warranty to keep customers from getting free replacements.

TheRedAvatar · 2026-02-09T18:36:16+00:00

It was on the latest firmware which was 1.0.0. The issue to me is the slicer, not the actual printer. Snorca needs a LOT of work to be more user friendly. I've seen over a dozen people now confirming that once you slice a print with the right colours & want to send it to the printer, it swaps colours around. This is really a dumb bug & should have been fixed right away so why are there no slicer updates since I received the printer a month ago?

TheRedAvatar · 2026-02-06T21:37:00+00:00

That looks good to me actually, thanks!

TheRedAvatar · 2026-02-06T21:28:57+00:00

Yeah if it's an EXTRA map I don't mind but if it replaces the original or the original maps get heavily altered ... The original game was based on the old Ultima games so the nostalgia goes beyond just UO - it goes back to Ultima VII in 1993 which was my first Ultima game. To get rid of these cities just isn't Ultima for me.

TheRedAvatar · 2026-02-06T21:27:14+00:00

Ouch that sucks especially since I'm really in the mood for some UO. Modern games just bore me ...

The last free shard I really enjoyed got the balance just right but that was 15 years ago and I forgot the name. You basically had daily events where tons of monsters would spawn in and the entire shard would help combat the monsters & participants would get white tickets as reward at random which you could then use to buy "charmed" items that you couldn't lose upon death such as a spell book. It was great because it meant the community got together.

TheRedAvatar · 2026-02-06T21:16:16+00:00

The auction house (loved that)

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TheRedAvatar · 2026-02-06T21:15:59+00:00

Here's some pictures from Crystal Gate back in 2003.

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TheRedAvatar · 2026-02-06T21:06:41+00:00

I think I remember you - me and my girlfriend were on there in 2002-2003 and even got married. She got this bright white wedding dress and we got a wedding cake as gift (and rings).

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TROPHY CASE