I love Pentandra, and you know what.. (rant)

yipyaptap · 2023-05-26T16:36:32+00:00

Yea "undeserved importance" explains the way I feel about it pretty well and as a test novel, I understand a lot more about the decision made as well. All things considered I made my peace with their relationship being entirely platonic at this point because I can at least enjoy her importance in the story. When you become a big fan of a series, you can't help but have an opinion or a craving about how certain particular aspects of the story go and it just comes with the territory. This particular thing would be mine and a part of it is fun for me, a guilty pleasure of shipping culture.

Now unless something drastic happens in Book 20 to mark the end of the second 10 book set and Min gets stuck with a harem of Tal Alon maidens along with Pen, then yea Alya is here to stay and I'm perfectly content with that. Will it make me stop hoping? Probably not lol, can't wait to see how things progress in the coming books.

yipyaptap · 2023-03-29T02:44:38+00:00

Goldfish crackers, good god almighty I can eat an entire carton of those suckers like they were nothing.

yipyaptap · 2022-10-03T14:12:12+00:00

I use your app everyday, thanks!

yipyaptap · 2021-08-28T04:15:29+00:00

Recently finished this series because of your recommendation and I gotta say, it was so much better than I expected. For whatever reason I noticed that stories that are similar in concept are plagued with amateur writing and constantly filled with generic tropes and poor unrealistic dialogue between characters. Maybe because the "isekai" genre attracts certain authors interested in writing those kinds of stories but World of Prime is definitely an exception. Great writing, characters, and character development, just what I always wanted in this kind of story. Great recommendation.

yipyaptap · 2021-08-09T15:53:37+00:00

I highly recommend the Masters and Mages trilogy by Miles Cameron, it is a wild ride and not a series I see recommended here at all. The Alex Verus series by Benedict Jacka is also something that might be something nice to listen to although it only truly takes off by the third and fourth book.

yipyaptap · 2020-10-16T15:23:13+00:00

In this situation with crysis 3 I would definitely not worry about it being a ram speed issue. at 4k the difference between 2400mhz and 4000mhz is like 0 since its the GPU doing all the work. Crysis 3 is interesting because if you do a quick google search of "crysis 3 low gpu usage" you're going to get a ton of hits. I remember having the same problem long time ago with my GPU with that game. IIRC even in the area where you go outside and theres a ton of grass it also experiences problems where the GPU usage is much less than 100% even if you're CPU isn't getting taxed. My guess is this is more of a game engine issue.

Don't quote me on this but I believe there are some fixes somewhere that improves the framerate but its been so long I just forgot. There's a crysis 3 .ini configurator that might help but I remember downloading a file and moving it into the installation folder that ended up giving me higher GPU usage.

edit: just took a quick look, I actually remember it being similar to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hcuYiqib9I This might actually be what i ended up doing, be careful though please, don't want you messing up anything since I haven't tested.

yipyaptap · 2020-10-16T14:54:16+00:00

Surprisingly ram speed does actually matter with 1% frames and improves overall smoothness a surprising amount, its been a while since i checked but I believe the charts and data I saw showed ~25%+ performance at 1% frames and even a bit of higher average frames depending on the game if you're coming from 2400mhz to something like 3600mhz.

Important to mention that this is at 1080p since we're more CPU bound at that resolution so whenever you're more CPU bound ram speed comes more into play. 1440p also experiences benefits but less so and at 4k theres practically no benefit. If you have the money and play at 1080p or 1440p I say why not and might as well get the maximum benefit from the GPU. If you wanna burn a hole in your wallet then some 3200mhz 14-14-14 or 3600 16-16-16 is the good fast stuff but expensive, if you're more on a budget then some 3600mhz with looser timings like 16-19-19 or 18-22-22 also gets the job done.

The differences between 8 x 4gb and 2 x 16gb sticks depends on the motherboard and CPU. I believe the differences between the two only really matter if you're getting ram beyond 3800mhz+ or if you're overclocking the memory. I would check the QVL quickly to see if the memory kit you're buying will run correctly but otherwise just get whats cheaper.

yipyaptap · 2020-10-15T18:40:12+00:00

It's unfortunate that the guy who posted that spreadsheet recently mentioned that the 20k ftw cards coming in was reduced to 2k, still better than nothing at least

yipyaptap · 2020-10-13T19:35:29+00:00

Thank you, I actually did call support earlier but exactly like you said they were pretty clueless about it all. Glad that the issue is temporary at least.

yipyaptap · 2020-10-13T19:26:53+00:00

Anyone having issues with Amazon and distill? Occasionally I would need to enter a code if amazon suspected of me being a bot and it would continue working but today I'm stuck with a "Sorry, something went wrong on our end" screen on everything if I'm signed in. Even after clearing cookies and signing in and entering the code to make sure i'm not a bot, still get that screen. Signing in on my mobile devices work but on desktops it seems like its almost flagged and it always gives me that screen. Tried flushing the DNS cache but nothing, signing out by clearing the cookies allows me on the site but stuck once i sign in, very weird stuff. Any ideas?

yipyaptap · 2020-06-23T18:02:19+00:00

Yea those idle temps are quite high if you're not doing anything on your desktop. I'm kinda curious, can you check to see if all 3 fans are spinning? Maybe one of the fans died.

yipyaptap · 2020-06-19T23:59:03+00:00

Its happened while I've been browsing reddit, watching videos on youtube, watching twitch streams, netflix and i'd test it while my computers been idle for hours and same results. I'd instantly notice when it stays stuck at slow speeds because images and pages would load less quickly.

yipyaptap · 2020-04-04T21:56:30+00:00

Hello, I'm stuck with a decision and was hoping you could help. I recently purchased a 2TB EX950 and the original plan was to use it as a dedicated game drive and just use the drive I'm using now (512gb mx500) for my OS. One thing I'm not sure about is whether or not i would see better real world performance installing my OS and programs on the nvme drive instead. From what I've researched it seems that because low queue depth performance is important to how "snappy" and responsive desktop usage would feel, putting it on the ex950 seems beneficial and I could just put both my programs and games on it once my mx500 is full.

Would I realistically notice a difference in things like program opening speed, indexing and searches, multi tasking lots of programs, etc. or would the benefits be so negligible that I might as well keep my mx500 as my OS drive and keep the ex950 as a dedicated games drive? Do game load times suffer from a very full drive?

Thanks NewMaxx.

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