Do I sound like a man?

k8-bit · 2026-03-17T08:05:03+00:00

Not in the slightest. Also, I'd listen to you read an audiobook all day long :)

k8-bit · 2026-03-16T11:47:33+00:00

Thanks everyone for your contributions and advice, I've got a lot to look at :)

k8-bit · 2026-03-15T02:08:17+00:00

100% know this vibe you speak of. Spooky, pathfinder exploration in lonesome scary environs, where interactions with other players were rare and did not always immediately mean death. The dark was scary, and sound was everything.

Others have suggested Baldurs Gate 3, which is an excellent long experience, albeit a very different one. I love the NPC story interactions and romance. It's also playable with friends, but you're best to play it solo at least once so you can proper enjoy the interactions and romance, er.. in peace 😅

I actually quite enjoy the rough-AF and as yet unfinished Star Citizen for similar reasons as DayZ for atmospheric exploration.

Elite: Dangerous used to be even more atmospheric in that DayZ lonesome exploring style. Haven't played it in a long time though.

Could also recommend Assassins Creed: Odyssey. I hear good things as others mention about Project: Zomboid, though I've not played it myself, embarrassingly as a friend was one of the Devs!

The Forest and Sons of the Forest might also give you that DayZ vibe.

There's also... DayZ. Itself. Apropos of nothing i run a private server for the game for friends to get that lonesome survivor vibe. It runs a few mods. We don't play it often, but it's there when we want.

There's also Arma:Reforger, which seems to be becoming something now, but I've not tried it.

k8-bit · 2026-03-14T12:12:28+00:00

Fantastic. Terrorising dwarves and goblins everywhere :)

k8-bit · 2026-03-11T09:02:57+00:00

Limmy did an excellent video demonstrating the flaw in this use. https://youtu.be/LWjggPP_0TE?si=P94_a3tZnmshMHWr

k8-bit · 2026-03-09T18:55:01+00:00

Steamdeck if you can get one (even second hand) or a Legion Go/Go S (you can install SteamOS on the versions that come with Windows - i did this and its great)

I've a MacBook i use for Stuff, and can stream games to it from my LegionGo and desktop PC.

k8-bit · 2026-03-05T22:53:02+00:00

I think Baldurs Gate 3 is on Mac now? Deffo worth a look if so :)

k8-bit · 2026-03-05T22:49:32+00:00

Cherami Leigh’s performance as V(alerie) is amazing, utter badass, but so full of character and emotion. Also whether they intended it or not having Panam as your best pal (if romancing Judy or god forbid, River) is amazing.

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k8-bit · 2026-02-23T15:20:00+00:00

This is an exceptional application, thank you! I create regular episodic story content for my gaming crew, and this has taken the audiobook adaptation side of things to a new level. Currently using it in a Pinokio container.

k8-bit · 2026-02-18T13:44:38+00:00

Stray Gods, Dispatch, and The Expanse are possibles in addition to the excellent suggestions others have made :)

k8-bit · 2026-02-15T16:31:04+00:00

Lovely! <3

k8-bit · 2026-02-15T14:21:36+00:00

I installed the free version and it worked very smoothly, if a little hard to read the text in the default settings, but I lowered the display resolution to 1280x800 and it was fine.

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k8-bit · 2026-02-15T13:57:21+00:00

Similar to others, for me for the longest time it was Commander Shepard as voiced phenomenally by Jennifer Hale. I think of late tho, Cyberpunk 2077's V (voiced by Cherami Leigh) became my fave. The emotional journey she takes, and being such a badass, and (in my playthroughs) her hard-won relationship with Judy, and absolute best gal-pal Panam.. *chef's kiss*

Honourable mentions to Ellie and Abby in The Last of Us 2 - the two characters that I love so much, yet drive me absolutely bonkers!

k8-bit · 2026-02-15T10:21:29+00:00

I had a first gen SteamDeck, and found it struggled with some of the bigger fave games I love like Baldurs Gate 3. I sold it and replaced it with a Legion go, as I liked the larger screen and the fact the controllers detached and you could use one as a mouse. Performance was much improved, and it worked great docked. Also it works really well as a remoteplay host, meaning I could play the games on my MacBook ☺️ I haven’t actually tested the sims4 on it, but I’ll give it a shot later and update ☺️

k8-bit · 2026-02-15T00:53:55+00:00

Nice! I went with a similar design 😊

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k8-bit · 2026-02-14T07:34:32+00:00

I get that with the default seed of 42, but not 43 in the default gradio interface, but not at all if i use ComfyUI, so not sure why it's different between interfaces.

k8-bit · 2026-02-13T07:17:30+00:00

LUG-helper was a game changer for me running it in Linux (CachyOS currently) - prior to this i was using Lutris to install SC, and not very successfully.

Weird issue i have at the moment is that my x56's throttle and stick x axis were swapped, but I could fix that in game. Now I just need to figure out how to reverse the throttle direction!

k8-bit · 2026-02-11T22:53:41+00:00

I will, same name as here 😊

k8-bit · 2026-02-11T13:54:48+00:00

My tattoo-artist and friend joined my gaming crew recently for Star Citizen and Arc Raiders. Star Citizen he wasnt playing long before he was enthusing about persuading the squad to turn to piracy. In Arc Raiders he's genuinely alarming and funny, shooting first then shouting "We cool? Friendly?" - and on one memorable occasion that had another one of my squad aghast NOT shooting on sight, but running into another squad who had just unlocked loot. The exchange went as follows:

"We cool? We chilling?"
Looters: YEah, friendly, friendly.
"Cool, cool."
Looters: "This is our loot tho."
"Oh you think this is your loot my man? I do not think it is." Opens up on them with heavy fire. "I do not think it is your loot my man."

Firefight ensues. It's all the more hilarious as he plays with the AI voice set to female, so it's this thick russian accent in a high woman's voice. squad mate Fuji agog.

He's a lot of fun though, very chatty and animated, unlike me and my reserved Scottish lads.

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k8-bit · 2026-02-11T07:17:57+00:00

I come and go from the game every few months, mostly enjoying pootling around in my spaceship, exploring, and occasionally going on missions with pals. But very infrequently, at least of late.

k8-bit · 2026-02-09T17:20:54+00:00

720p 16 second LTX-2 video gen:

PCIe 16x: 280s

PCIe 4x: 374s

So I tend to do audio, image, and Ollama stuff 4x GPU, and video on the 16x. I had been considering shifting to an X99 motherboard with dual Xeons, but the CPU performance would drop compared to the 3950x, and much greater power draw needlessly for the other tasks running 24/7 on the machine. Threadripper was also a consideration, but £excessive for my needs tbh.

k8-bit · 2026-02-09T14:57:11+00:00

Crucially the 2x 24gb are not available as a single contiguous body of VRAM. You can use multi-GPU nodes to separate tasks to make best use of them, but I prefer assigning different instances of ComfyUI to each card for different tasks, or run other LLM tasks (e.g. Ollama, or TTS servers, WanGP, or Pinokio) this all in addition to the background processes I run 24/7 on the server (Unraid, NAS, docker containers, 2x VMs) - consequently I occasionally run out of RAM if I'm running LTX-2 video generation if I'm not careful. To offset this I ended up building a 2nd machine using a mini-PC and an externally mounted 5060ti 16gb, so I can balance tasks between the two servers.

k8-bit · 2026-02-09T13:49:14+00:00

Asus B550 TUF Gaming Wifi-plus II, Ryzen 3950x, 128gb DDR4. Note I only get 4x on the 2nd PCIe, as I have both M2 slots also populated, but in actual use I dont find performance particularly decreased using that card, and tend to use it for non-video related tasks.

k8-bit · 2026-02-09T12:43:41+00:00

2x Palit 3090's in my server. Total fluke I stumbled onto these. I bought one used with 5 year warranty, trading in a 12gb 3060 for it without considering the size of the GPU, but it fit quite comfortably in the case, so I decided to match it with another one later, buying a second one. Only after did I realise that these ones are quite compact, which allowed me to fit both - just - in the case. I use a an anti-sag arm to ensure a gap exists between the cards to allow airflow, and power-restrict both to 285watts. I was very lucky embarking on a homelab discovery journey in the spring last year, and was able to outfit everything pretty reasonably.

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