Statlerwaldorf

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[–] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I somehow missed you mentioning Fractal. My point still stands though. I've got the original Define XL. it's more than a decade old and has housed either one or 3 computers of Theseus, depending. So a pretty good ROI based on its lifespan.

It's not exactly what you're looking for but Fractal makes some solid, plain black cases. Most of their models can come with or without windows. The Define line is my favorite - they're very quiet, spacious, and pretty well designed.

https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/define/

[–] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you have vsync off? Probably not the culprit since it's a crash, but I frequently get odd performance issues on the OLED model with Vsync on.

[–] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago

He's always been independent but caucuses with the Democrats.

[–] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 4 points 3 months ago

I HATE playing mobile games but my wife got me hooked on Dawncaster. It's a roguelike deck builder. I think it's like $4-5 and no micro transactions but there are expansion packs to add new zones and enemies. I've since picked them all up. It's regularly updated with free content packs and balance changes. The devs are very responsive with the community.

[–] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 4 points 3 months ago

Pop! OS with an RTX 3080 has been rock solid for me.

[–] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 6 points 3 months ago

I tried a bunch of different gaming headsets over the years but as I got older and gave up on online games, I grabbed a pair of AudioTechnica ATH-M50 and have probably had them at least a decade now. They're closed ear studio monitor headphones so they sound great and are comfortable with long use. I've replaced both the cushions and the cable and they still work great.

I think the current variant is the ATH-M50x.

[–] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 3 points 5 months ago

I just started tinkering with this yesterday in Gnome on Pop! and it looked like there are options to exclude certain programs from tiling if that's what you're looking for.

[–] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I loved DA:O. It was far from perfect, but at the time it was the closest we could get to a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and Icewind Dale - dark fantasy, tactical combat, and a decent story.

Then DA 2 came along and it felt like an entirely different series. I didn't get it at the time because of how simplified and arcadey it looked. I picked it up on some deep sale and got bored of it pretty quickly.

DA:I seemed to be trending back in the right direction with a bit more tactical combat. I never finished it but it was decent enough on a sale. This looks like they doubled down on DA 2 here and...meh.

Doubtful I would have gotten it anyway since it's EA but I would have loved to have been proven wrong.

[–] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 3 points 5 months ago

Cool, thanks for that. I read John Romero's 'Doom Guy' earlier this year and it was pretty good. Not perfect, but it fed my nostalgia for the olden days of Commander Keen and Doom.

[–] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think some of the later stuff aged well if you're into point and click adventure games and some "retro" looking graphics. But the early ones might be a little janky for anyone who didn't live through that era.

You have to type in the actions you want to do and they looked like this:

 

I hope this is cool to post here. It's a Backerkit project for a documentary about Sierra On-line. I grew up playing these and figured there might be some other old farts around who would be interested.

I remember Kings Quest 6 blowing my mind when it came out and I only had the floppy disk version. I never knew until I was much older that there was a CD-ROM version with full voice over.

[–] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

We had a bootlegged copy of this on VHS when I was a kid and my mother would always make my dad fast forward through the pon farr part...

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