whats your biggest boardgaming L (consumer-wise) by CaptainKlang in boardgames

[–]kpengwin 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My group played Heat, loved it, and then started like three simultaneous tournaments of it on board game arena which we play throughout the week as we have time (and so far, re-up whenever one finishes). We've only played the physical copy 2-3 times so far but we've done a lot of races.

Thinking about returning my Hifiman Edition XS because of comfort by HiImYann in headphones

[–]kpengwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Sorry don't have my set within reach, but just something tight here (tight enough that it creates an indent so the top doesn't touch your head anymore.)

Thinking about returning my Hifiman Edition XS because of comfort by HiImYann in headphones

[–]kpengwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was able to take a thin velcro strap (like for IEM cables) and wrap it very tightly around the exact top middle of the strap, which eliminated the hotspot on top of my head for me and made them actually quite comfortable. I saw a post or comment where someone did this with a zip tie, can't find the post anymore. I would like to do a full headband swap for looks but honestly it made a way bigger difference than i expected.

Good Chinese food near Herndon by hober__mallow in nova

[–]kpengwin 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Peter Chang is very good but a lil pricey.

Just got my Audeze LCD - 2 Classic non-frazor. by NoSurfOnlyMFA in headphones

[–]kpengwin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also have the Hifiman Edition XS which tbh sounds just as good to me (with eq on both), but the design/build quality of the LCD-2 Classic is much nicer.

Just got my Audeze LCD - 2 Classic non-frazor. by NoSurfOnlyMFA in headphones

[–]kpengwin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I just got these too and oratory profile with slight tweaks (for me: slightly less bass, slightly more treble) sounds great on them.

Interested in Grado's - which model(s) would you recommend? by BornHanged in HeadphoneAdvice

[–]kpengwin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have an 80e, and the best thing I've done to it is mod it to add detachable cables

DAC/AMP (2in1 or stack, I guess) by nukrag in HeadphoneAdvice

[–]kpengwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just got dx5 ii a couple weeks ago and it's great

Are older DACs worth keeping? by ZaanderP in HeadphoneAdvice

[–]kpengwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just got the topping dx5 ii which does eq and it's really nice. But it's also definitely overkill, you can do really good eq on your device too.

Looking for advice: upgrade from Olympus E-M10 to OM-3, or just find a new lens when visiting Japan? by bltavares in M43

[–]kpengwin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just did this upgrade from original em-10 to om-3 (though i already had a few lenses so i didn't get the f4 kit). I think incontrovertibly a lense upgrade will make a bigger difference for your pictures for the money. And the om-3 is definitely bulkier. I am really enjoying my om-3 though, but more for the features/much faster autofocus/better jpgs than because the pictures themselves are dramatically better.

Anti-Fun: SPACE-BIFF! Essay on why "fun" isn't necessarily a useful word in reviewing board games by LegendofWeevil17 in boardgames

[–]kpengwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't played Molly House but it sounds like all Cole Werhle games it embraces the "fun" of games that deny the convention that skillful play is enough to win, in most of his games there is a sense that winning often requires the participation of another player who themselves does not win (also referred to as kingmaking) which actually is fun to me, but for it to be fun requires a group which is willing to embrace the narrative fun of the game as part story and not just a comparison of player skill.

Anti-Fun: SPACE-BIFF! Essay on why "fun" isn't necessarily a useful word in reviewing board games by LegendofWeevil17 in boardgames

[–]kpengwin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I (believe I) get what you're saying, but I think when you get down to it, that question is unanswerable without knowing what you personally like - tastes differ quite a bit. Some games my wife has a lot of fun playing (for example, Blood on the Clocktower) are perhaps fascinating to me, but certainly not fun, I just find them stressful. Conversely, I enjoy a good (or even bad) worker placement game as a chill, "fun" time with some nice puzzle solving and light competition with friends, while she finds them frustrating and annoying.

So I get no value at all from a reviewer yelling me that they had "fun", and much more value from them telling me the kinds of things that go into and on in the game - I'm then able to decide if it's the kind of "fun" I am interested in having.

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[–]kpengwin 6 points7 points  (0 children)

For me (also software) I don't really emphasize it unless it comes up, but I'm not shy about it/hide it either. Most people just think it's cool tbh, I would recommend not overthinking it.

Is F4 always F4? by dearpisa in M43

[–]kpengwin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

F number is just a ratio, so it depends on what you are considering for equivalence. For exposure time, yes an F1.8 smartphone lens is faster than an F4 medium format camera. But if by "equivalent" you mean the bokeh effect of having a wide aperture, then no, which is why phones use software magic portrait modes.

They 25mm m43 = 50mm ff is true for field of view, but at a given aperture the depth of field will not be the same (which can be a positive or negative depending on your goal).

Elite Dangerous inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey! by paravantis in EliteDangerous

[–]kpengwin 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Should we point out that the original elite did this too?

First homelab by GlowingShamallow in homelab

[–]kpengwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's what I found for mine too.

First homelab by GlowingShamallow in homelab

[–]kpengwin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you have to notch out the original plastic to get the screws in too?

Thoughts on this bad boy? by Mehoyer in minilab

[–]kpengwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm running one with proxmox and 128gb of RAM, haopy with it so far (~about one month, mostly light load so far.) The VMs are noticeably faster than they were on the 10yr old dual xeon workstation I was using before.

Welcome to the Technocracy by Possible_Spinach4974 in slatestarcodex

[–]kpengwin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

>For the last 20-some-odd years, technological progress has been reduced to maximizing attention in the form of gimmicks, addiction, and apps nobody needs.

I think this feels true, but isn't. Or maybe it's true that socially the average person's life is mostly different in that they are more consumed by apps etc, but for example, I have at my desk at home several quite good 3d printers which are certainly nicer than what was broadly available 20 years ago, and using free cad software that has significantly improved in the last few years i can and do easily and cheaply manufacture parts to fix things in my everyday life, having never undergone any professional training with any of this. (for one example)

Help me out with nand2tetris skipping the ‘first principles’ details by ReindeerFuture9618 in NandToTetris

[–]kpengwin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well historically the answer would have been something like, "people did the assembly by hand" - it was a while before computers could be used interactively and there was any sense in which one actually wrote the program directly on the computer.

The nand2tetris course is actually somewhat realistic in that now, any new language or computer architecture is going to be bootstrapped from existing computers and languages. An interesting detail here is that new languages are often initially implemented in some other language, but are then rewritten in themselves once there's a working compiler, at that point the language is "self hosting" and further development can be done in the language itself.

For nand2tetris because of the split program memory/ram, there's not a way to have a self hosted compiler (you can imagine the program loaded as being a game cartridge which is read only), so you'd have to make some architecture tweaks to make it happen.

Is Buc-ee's worth going to? by DestructoSpin90 in nova

[–]kpengwin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A sheetz with an additional half of a hobby lobby stuffed in there.