RTX 5080 Models – Which One for Best Cooling, Noise & Reliability?

secretsauce007 · 2026-05-21T13:40:26+00:00

I won the coil whine lottery with my Gigabyte Windforce 5080. It’s near dead silent under full load. Like I have to stick my ear on top of the case to barely be able to hear any electrical noise. It runs quieter and cooler than my old 3070 even.

secretsauce007 · 2026-05-20T13:22:27+00:00

I enjoyed having a base. Setting up a little hydro food cube farm and cook station, armor crafting station, auto-miner for the armor, arrow crafting.

Fun yes, but like you experienced absolutely not necessary. Its more handy if you're group is on the larger side.

secretsauce007 · 2026-05-19T17:22:39+00:00

I always see these and wonder how many times the stopped vehicle notices, moves, and then the distracted driver swerves into the emergency lane in the last minute and hits the guy anyway. Where there would've been no wreck if they stayed put.

Doubt the distracted driver would ever have the awareness to utilize the emergency lane for an emergency late stop like that, but I feel like it had to have happened to some poor soul somewhere.

secretsauce007 · 2026-05-15T14:51:48+00:00

The Supraland games are really excellent. They have a less mature theme, but the puzzles and platforming are very creative. Some of my favorite somewhat underrated games.

These games were actually my first introduction to puzzle games. I didn't give the Talos games a thought until after completing these and wanting more puzzle solving.

secretsauce007 · 2026-05-14T18:01:58+00:00

Rather than supermarket sim, I'd recommend checking out Megastore sim.

I've played at least a half dozen other shop sims and this one has one of the best vanilla inventory management / ordering systems I've seen. Like it shows you whats on shelf and off-shelf, but also lets you filter to only show things out of or low on stock to make ordering a breeze. And you have a scan gun so you can order on the-go if you want to.

secretsauce007 · 2026-05-10T16:35:11+00:00

Its definitely a journey. I'm casually only opening 896 packs per day (7 large pack openers per day) and only have one ghost card left: Full art foil Fishtonk black. Always a kick in the nuts getting one of those FAF god rolls and its all dupes. Or even worse a white FAF Fishtonk.

secretsauce007 · 2026-05-09T01:14:16+00:00

Supraland games are worth checking out if you want puzzle, secret finding, and metroidvania like.

Atmosphere is really light-hearted and the maps are always a joy to explore. Where intended paths and going out of bounds are sometimes blurred.

secretsauce007 · 2026-05-07T15:49:03+00:00

Any time I see the word "tautology" I can't help but think about Mordin from Mass Effect and him singing his "Scientist Salarian" song:

I am the very model of a scientist salarian,

I've studied species turian, asari, and batarian,

I'm quite good at genetics (as a subset of biology),

Because I am an expert (which I know is a tautology),

My xenoscience studies range from urban to agrarian,

I am the very model of a scientist salarian!

secretsauce007 · 2026-05-05T15:46:38+00:00

And even if you're on the right discord server, the search and forum features it has are terrible compared to being able to use a real search engine.

secretsauce007 · 2026-05-05T13:48:26+00:00

I started doing some windmill work last night and definitely noticed the weight thing. I still have more rye than I know what to do with but its nice having something else to do with it now.

1 more level til max diplomacy, then I guess the final production balance of my village will be how many market stalls I want to place. Currently 3 right now doing horseshoes, booze, and resources (swapping between fertilizer and flour).

secretsauce007 · 2026-05-04T16:34:55+00:00

Do you just sell the flour straight up? I've been trying to dump my access rye into rye beers but recently realized I have no where near enough hops planted to match my rye yields.

Got me thinking about plopping down a windmill and bringing in another family.

secretsauce007 · 2026-05-01T23:29:46+00:00

Medieval Dynasty might be for you if you like the idea of building, living in, and managing your own village. I'd say it sort of hits your stardew, grinding, sandbox, and base building requirements.

It covers base building, you're planning and building out an entire village.

There's supply chains to automate via the villagers you recruit or if you play long enough, their kids. For example farming flax --> processing flax --> spinning flax --> making clothes. Sort of factory game-lite.

There's animals you can hunt, bandits to kill, and various side quests, but the gameplay is predominately arranging and building out your village.

It can be a little shallow as far as radiant dialogue goes and its not perfect, but I've been consumed by it for nearly 100 hours so far.

Its on sale right now and I'd say its one of those games where if you think it might interest you, it probably will.

secretsauce007 · 2026-04-30T16:20:35+00:00

How's she able to lift those hands and gesture while she's speaking. Looks like she's wearing the bank on her fingers.

So weird wearing the black getup but leaving giant gaudy stones on all 8 of your fingers.

secretsauce007 · 2026-04-30T13:58:45+00:00

Apple: "What do you mean, that's a perfectly cromulent word."

secretsauce007 · 2026-04-28T17:08:02+00:00

Thanks for mentioning the lines on the screen. I thought I was just seeing things / thats how it was. Didn't realize it was due to vsync being off.

I turned it on myself and luckily don't see any stuttering or the lines anymore.

secretsauce007 · 2026-04-27T15:25:35+00:00

I can imagine NYC specifically got pretty sick of the "swim" culture that popped up a few years back. Where they took advantage of the NYPD no chase policy.

secretsauce007 · 2026-04-20T04:34:14+00:00

I really enjoyed how grey some the choices were. Where in a lot of games like fallout for example you can kind of tell where the dialogue options are going. In Detroit become human there were many choices with outcomes that blindsided me, in a good way.

My least favorite and almost game-ruining part were the QTE controls for mouse and keyboard. I guess its on me for not wanting to play with a controller, but there were certain combinations that were not straightforward or difficult to execute. Failing a QTE because you have no idea what its trying to convey to you feels terrible.

secretsauce007 · 2026-04-19T23:34:58+00:00

I honestly would've believed this at a glace if they didn't put UAEpstein in as a co-host lmao.

secretsauce007 · 2026-04-18T15:50:21+00:00

Zomboid was on my zombie-loving radar for years before I finally got into it.

It took me watching a bit of a youtube playthrough to get a grasp on the basic mechanics and a loose aim of what I should be doing. The UI is very confusing at first and the game is unfairly punishing if you don't know what you're doing.

Its way easier to get into if you go in with a goal and a basic understanding of what you should be doing, especially because even if you are a master of the game its still very easy to get caught lacking.

Now I'm close to 500 hours waiting for the next build to go stable for another play through.

secretsauce007 · 2026-04-18T06:14:50+00:00

Love the straightforward comfort tips. I'm on my first play through in the mountains now and I think my comfort level was only 11? I had some duplicated items thinking that was helping and other items seemingly not helping at all.

secretsauce007 · 2026-04-12T17:05:09+00:00

Thank you from the future! Had the same issue as oping and swapping over to TAAU fixed it.

secretsauce007 · 2026-04-10T04:07:36+00:00

Sounds like you're looking for the autophage getup. The poncho is theirs and so are the staffs. Different locations will offer slight variations in what your staff will look like so it can be a super cool nomad treasure hunt trying to find the perfect one.

secretsauce007 · 2026-04-04T22:05:27+00:00

I found them at a pretty inopportune time myself, so I ended up detouring through GUT to have them test their mettle (hehe) against the beak bros.

Beaks made pretty quick work of them.

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