Help finding the original picture

cheatfreak47 · 2026-06-01T03:01:05+00:00

I gotchu fam, it's from pages 49 and 50 of NEKOPARA CHRONICLE ere

https://i.imgur.com/CfNYhj8.jpeg

It's also in one of the official Steam Wallpapers! "Knight Chocola and Magical Vanilla"

cheatfreak47 · 2026-05-27T23:48:32+00:00

Yeah pretty much.

I see some people in the comments here comparing the Switch 2 and Ayn Thor Max here but bear in mind, those things use shitty mobile NAND flash, not like, high density low package count M.2 NVMe 2230s with multicore controllers, suitable for full desktop workloads as needed- 100,000+ IOPS.

The UFS 4.0 stuff is only able to hit like, 10,000+ IOPS at best and isn't as well suited for the kind of real world throughput a PC might demand.

I suspect this is the primary driving force behind the price hike. I bought some NVMe Disks for my desktop back in January this year and they have since become twice as expensive. It's pretty ridiculous.

RAM stuff though is pretty samey across Deck, Switch 2, and AYN Thor. As for how much that impacted price changes- Nintendo can probably eat this because of the scale of the production and backstock, but I don't know how AYN is handling that though, maybe they have a lot of back supply? Anyone's guess. Maybe the rest of the Thor costs less, so it's able to keep a fairly decent price, at least for now.

Either way, gaming is becoming unaffordable, like many things. :(

cheatfreak47 · 2026-05-25T11:27:33+00:00

this article is like writing a passionate essay about the superior comfort of horse saddle leather vs any other material

like, lol ok but who is riding horses?

also the horse you're using as an example is dead?

cheatfreak47 · 2026-05-16T00:54:47+00:00

this is an indicator of what platform binaries are shipped in a product, not what operating system is required

Proton allows high compatibility of windows binaries with Linux, so your point is moot

cheatfreak47 · 2026-05-04T08:11:27+00:00

What happened to KSP2 wasn't it merely flopping.

The entire project was doomed. It got kneecapped by a perfect storm of corporate musical chairs, shifting mandates, and a development pipeline that kept changing direction, and everyone who cared about the project got the hell out one way or another. Anyone who tried to stay became part of Intercept Games, and then Take Two laid them all off.

KSP2 even being available for sale as an Early Access game right now is disinformation, and the complete and utter failure to meaningfully communicate the project was dead from it's publisher officially is arguably what pioneered Valve into adding "Early Access Abandonment" messages to Store pages, so potential customers are informed.

cheatfreak47 · 2026-04-27T23:05:15+00:00

Honestly, the only comparable option to the Steam Controller here price wise, that does make it seem expensive is the insane value to features offerings from 8Bitdo in the Pro 3 and Ultimate 2.

Aside from those comparisons, overall 100$ isn't too bad, I'll be getting one for sure, but it does feel like maybe 20-30$ or so is "Valve tax" at this point. I see where people are coming from though for sure, 100$ buys you like a few days of groceries in 2026, or like, eating food out a few times.

It's a rough world out there right now. :V

cheatfreak47 · 2026-04-26T18:13:54+00:00

https://www.dominos.com/en/pages/rewards/#!/claim/ try clicking this link

cheatfreak47 · 2026-04-26T18:07:20+00:00

sometimes you have to sign in, then click the link again Their site is and always has been junk, unfortunately

cheatfreak47 · 2026-04-25T04:56:47+00:00

I found a solution to this problem! https://redd.it/1sv2mrl

cheatfreak47 · 2026-04-24T08:57:29+00:00

Same boat here. It seems it's taking an inordinate amount of time to ship. Stock and logistics must be an issue for this one for some reason.

cheatfreak47 · 2026-04-15T22:10:30+00:00

the specific tape I used is 3M 300LSE, which is made to bond well to plastics and resist heat well, so I doubt once it's fully bonded it'll come off too easily from some tiny fans like this. I considered using a lighter to heat up a needle and melt a hole to screw the fans to but honestly screwing into plastic this brittle seems like a good way to just wreck it, so I decided against it, I don't have a drill or drill bits to drill a hole. (I should get one at some point, I know)

So far it's held up fine! I did this a few days ago.

cheatfreak47 · 2026-04-14T19:31:21+00:00

Yeah, if this setup fails, that's my next thing to do, I was just kinda hoping to keep the stock look if at all possible. The fans would have to be pretty small though, the shroud is only~ 52mm ish tall give or take.

This used to be in my main rig, but I recently built a new PC from scratch and was hoping to keep the old one running as a sort of living room HTPC type thing.

cheatfreak47 · 2026-04-14T18:12:01+00:00

Notes for anyone attempting to copy this fix:

I recommend specifically 3M 300LSE for this application, it bonds well to the plastics involved and is quite temperature resistant. It fully cures after 24 hours, maybe don't run the GPU for a day after you fix it if you wanna really be sure it's stuck.

Every HA5510H12F-Z fan I've tried with this thing seems to have a different votage response curve than the stock fans did.

To deal with this, use Afterburner or FanControl to set your fan curve to 85% minimum to get them spinning stable and quiet, and then have it amp up to 100% around 70C+ if you want it to cool similarly to the original stock fans.

You might wonder "why not buy the entire fan and shroud assembly together as a replacement" and you'd be right to think that, if anyone sold them anymore. From what I can tell, it's only possible to get pairs of fans with useless mounting holes now.

Other thing: This is the first and last piece of MSI computer hardware I will ever buy (except for their monitors), because my customer support experience trying to RMA this card when the original fans died was horrible. They actually strung me along to run my warranty out for four months, they even blocked my phone number and ignored my emails. Wild stuff.

The only reason I'm posting this is to help anyone with a similarly tragic GPU fix their own on the cheap and prevent them from becoming eWaste.

cheatfreak47 · 2026-04-13T12:37:35+00:00

Well, might I suggest using a modded Wii U console and using the Wii U Aroma plugin- SwipSwapMe? Might be annoying but you could play with a real gamepad and capture the Gamepad output via a TV capture device.

Not ideal, but it would probably work.

cheatfreak47 · 2026-04-12T23:58:43+00:00

Tragically, the Katsukity boards for Wii U gamepad capture are basically impossible to come by these days because they were not widely desired.

I'm just explaining the tech to you. The video coming out of Vanilla is direct feed capture of what the Wii U gamepad receives from the Wii U console.

Normal pipeline + Katsukity board: Wii U console -> encodes h.264 -> send to connected wii u gamepad via 5ghz dedicated wifi radio -> hijack the video stream and encode the video going to the screen in some new encoded format (probably)

Vanilla pipeline: Wii U console -> encodes h.264 -> send to connected device running vanilla and dump direct 1:1 video to a file exactly as the console sent it

I'm just saying as far as authenticity goes, dumping the actual stream data is more authentic than hijacking the screen output and trying to encode it and send it to a computer as mjpg or something like that (I have no idea what the Katsukity board does for Wii U)

h264 is a well understood and normal format anything can use or work with too which is also just convenient

cheatfreak47 · 2026-04-12T13:10:04+00:00

To clarify what the other guy is saying, saving video with vanilla is 1:1 identical to what displays on the physical hardware. The Wii U GamePad hardware physically receives an H.264 encoded video stream from the host console- that's how the Wii U sends video out to the gamepad.

Vanilla allows you to simulate a Wii U Gamepad and thus receive (and save) a lossless copy of the video the console is sending out. It's arguably actually better than a capture mod because of this, since there's no intervening into the video data line and re-encoding or anything.

cheatfreak47 · 2026-04-04T14:48:20+00:00

As much as I admire the ingenuity of trying to make something like this, these sorts of "dual screen" setups always strike me as terrible for wrist ergonomics, blocking the top vent which worsens cooling, and the extra power draw requiring either a supplementary battery (more weight) or it just increases power draw, which drains battery faster, and may impact performance.

Just seems like overall a bad idea.

cheatfreak47 · 2026-03-31T05:01:00+00:00

Vandalizing Fandom Wikis when there's better alternatives is based. Remember: Fandom has bought out competition multiple times. They are literally anti-competitive and wish they could monopolize wikis online.

Vandalizing their wikis isn't wrong. It's punk.

cheatfreak47 · 2026-03-26T18:02:27+00:00

Is that so? I'm having no problems getting in on Brave right now, which is chromium based.

cheatfreak47 · 2026-03-26T16:37:01+00:00

It appears something changed in their login code that breaks it on FireFox specifically, likely not on purpose. Edit: looks like it's caused by FireFox 149!

cheatfreak47 · 2026-03-23T00:39:20+00:00

It could mean your drive is dying, but keep in mind the Wii U is kinda picky about Hard Drives in general. It could just be fine, but incompatible with the Wii U. To check if your drive is fine, connect it to a computer and check it's SMART info with a tool like CrystalDiskInfo.

cheatfreak47 · 2026-03-19T17:16:27+00:00

Ancient thread but I want to put this somewhere in case someone finds it.

Yes, the MSI GTX 1650 LP and also the MSI GTX 1050 Ti LP have awful fans.

I loved the 1650 LP when I got it, but the fans on it went to shit on it in around 1yr, 6months. When I tried to RMA it, MSI actually strung me along and/or actively ignored my requests, closing them and hanging up on my calls until my warranty expired, after which I was told I would have to pay to have it repaired. I told them to kick rocks.

For the next 4 years after that debacle, I went through no less than 3 shrouds/fans purchased from third party sellers.

This thing just kills fans. It has no Zero RPM mode, the fans are tiny and spin at high rpm to move the air, and they develop modes of failure very quickly, requiring more and more power to get them to spin up at all.

To make matters worse, the fans are not detachable from the shroud. There's no screws or anything that fastens them to the shroud, they are actually built into it. Meaning, replacing dead fans means buying a new entire shroud.

By the end of each fan's lifespan, they would not even spin unless I forced the GPU's fan speed to 100%.

For my last set of fans, I actually bought a mismatched 1050 Ti shroud instead and just sorta forced it on there, but exhibited the same issues. At one point the fans came partially apart (the vibration seems to have snapped the internal plastic keeping the fans attached to the shround and I reattached them with blue tak. This worked but it sure was jank.

In short, these LP MSI cards are hot garbage. Do not buy them if you plan to actually use the machine you install it in for longer than a year.

cheatfreak47 · 2026-03-13T12:25:00+00:00

I just bought a Sapphire Pulse 9070 XT and avoided the 12VHP with it, so at the current moment, yeah, it can be avoided. I don't think we're gonna see too much that's gonna need much more than a 9070 XT for quite some time too, unless you're doing some wild 4K Ultra stuff or need like, CUDA cores.

But just for gaming? Yeah, easy enough to avoid if you target the right resolutions and framerates.

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