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Thinking about it a little more, I believe a good bunch of people ordering it did it out of the meme. I was almost tempted to do it myself at one point but decided to watch a couple of streamers doing it instead.
The worst thing about it is that the company had the balls to make a post about them not being a scammer and then deliver this pile of shait. Seriously?
Another thing is that some are combing through the game files and finding a lot of *drumroll* bought assets while they are stating it is not an asset flip. Just looking at ANY gameplay you can see how dead the game looks. I'm not stating that assets are a bad thing though, because a lot of companies use them, so I guess it depends on how much and how you implement them to avoid making a game look as dead as this garbage.
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Sorry, forgot to answer this. Yes, when I game the TV is just serving as a gaming monitor in what's called their Game Optimizer picture mode. I'm not even sure that was an app, or just some weird advertising tool to try to get people to buy their Galaxy AO3s cell phone. I suspect maybe the latter, because ever since I got onto Samsung's website to look at their new QD OLED TVs, I think I signed up for email alerts, which was mainly to see if they would come out with a 42" OLED, like both LG and Sony had at the time. Since then they've been flooding me with emails, more often than not ones advertising their Galaxy cell phones.Now I'm lost. I take it you were playing RE4R using your TV as a monitor. The app popped up wanting to install on... what? The TV or your phone? Or maybe even your PC?
P.S. That theme song got stuck in my head as soon as I read your first line. I figured I would share.
It appears enabling that toggle on the TV to make LG stop selling my personal info did the trick though, because I've not received one email from Samsung since, and I used to get them daily. However it could also be the heated call I made to Samsung's customer service, where I told them I was interrupted by their Galaxy AO3s music streaming.
Haha. It's not as big of a deal as I was making it seem. I know a couple of people there, and I'm the type of person who, even though I'm kind of an introvert, I'm pretty good at having conversations with people. My wife is kind of in upper management, and she needs to go to stuff like this. Afterwards, we're going to shoot down to Gatlinburg for a night, so it will be cool.
Weird. It doesn't show like that for me, either. I wonder if you're zoomed in a little on this page, or something.
I don't know what it is, even Kaamos_Llama's looks that way too...
I've tried setting my new display to 1920x1080, and I've also tried lowering the Windows font zoom well below the 300% it recommends at 3840x2160, AND tried zooming the page out in Chrome. I even tried disabling my VPN, but it still looks that way.
I'll be switching to W11 on the new PC on the 12th, I'm hoping that fixes it.
I don't know what it is, even Kaamos_Llama's looks that way too...
I've tried setting my new display to 1920x1080, and I've also tried lowering the Windows font zoom well below the 300% it recommends at 3840x2160, AND tried zooming the page out in Chrome. I even tried disabling my VPN, but it still looks that way.
I'll be switching to W11 on the new PC on the 12th, I'm hoping that fixes it.
Is your font size on this website set to something bigger than Medium? That might do it as well.
Some people are just that dumb and have the money. I have a friend that will pretty much buy anything at a moments notice, play it for 45 minutes and then never touch it again. Don't get me wrong here, I have heaps of games in my Library which I've never touched, but I try to be a little more discerning about what I purchase; said friend has maybe 50% more games in their library and isn't terribly critical when it comes to stuff like this. There have to be more people like that out there.
Welp, I'm dumb and went ahead and bought a Thinkpad X1 Nano, which I've been lusting after. Seller offered me a solid deal on it and while I have to purchase a power adapter ($40), it's still cheaper than any other offer with similar specs. I feel like an idiot, but finally the demons in my head will quiet down and stop thinking about these stupid computers and I'll be excited when I finally receive it.
Good catch! I hadn't even thought of checking that. I've not changed it myself, but apparently when W10 uses 300% font size for a 3840x2160 desktop, it affects website font size as well.
Saucer and Llama's r and a are now behaving themselves. Thanks!
Common denominator in those 2 is the 12th character wraps. If that's it, my name shouldn't wrap [10 chars] but IronDeniskach should wrap the 'ch'.
I can understand why MS want to use a zoomed font by default for 4K res, but I think 300% is a bit too aggressive even for Windows desktop, and fiddling with your settings on websites you frequent is def taking it way too far. However, it could be Google doing it. Maybe when Chrome detects you are using 3840x2160 for the net, it encroaches on your website font preferences.
Decided to go a bit apeshit on the beer last night, so woke up at 4am this morning with a massive headache. That said, I was able to do a few productive things, one of which is investigate a PlayStation 2 my friend gave me.
It's already been modded, but not used in ages, so it's massively out of date. So I did some research and just like many of the old consoles these days, people are modifying them with new parts, which gets me all hot and bothered.
Looks like I'll eventually be taking it apart for a cleaning, upgrading the HDD to an SSD and upgrading the fan to a Noctua for quieter operation. Am a little excited to jump back into the PS2 library after gifting mine to my brother in law several years ago, but more excited at the prospect of the project of adding new parts and cleaning it up, which has become something of a hobby for me over the last few years.
It's already been modded, but not used in ages, so it's massively out of date. So I did some research and just like many of the old consoles these days, people are modifying them with new parts, which gets me all hot and bothered.
Looks like I'll eventually be taking it apart for a cleaning, upgrading the HDD to an SSD and upgrading the fan to a Noctua for quieter operation. Am a little excited to jump back into the PS2 library after gifting mine to my brother in law several years ago, but more excited at the prospect of the project of adding new parts and cleaning it up, which has become something of a hobby for me over the last few years.
My nephew got his hands on a PC from around the early 2000s, and he said he slapped a GTX 660 in it, which probably came out almost a decade after the PC he got. I'm surprised it worked. He's been looking for Windows 95 to Vista games to play on it. He has it set up with an old CRT monitor, and everything. Haha.
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Wish I had enough space, and spare time to grab a load of retro stuff. I bet the old high end stuff is getting really expensive again by now though.
Sounds awesome!
I've been wanting a retro machine as well, but lack space for it. Not to mention, most of what I watn to play from the late 90's pretty much still works on a modern PC, so I've debated just seeing if I could get a CRT monitor to hook up to my current PC and get the same feeling. But again, space is an issue. Alas.
I finally received my "new" laptop last night; however, it's a paperweight, unfortunately. When I opened it up, it was reformatted but had a "Test" local user account on it, which seemed odd, but ok. Figured no big deal and went ahead and reset Windows only to be prompted during the OOBE to login with a "Company ID", saying the computer belonged to some company out of California. After doing some digging, I discovered this machine was still attached to the Microsoft Autopilot program and the only way to get around it, aside from the company deprovisioning it themselves, is to a create a local account or install Linux.
Anyway, I called the seller on it (some eBay company that sells lots of computers) and mentioned that it felt a little deceptive that they had sold this and it had a local account on it already. Perhaps they didn't intend to deceive, but I could see a more lay person getting this machine, using it for a time and then ultimately needing to reinstall Windows (Even on a new drive maybe) and then running into this. Said seller says they're going to try and rectify the issue this morning (I'm assuming calling the company in question and seeing if they can deprovision?), so I'll give them a few hours and follow-up, otherwise, it's return time, which is unfortunate.
At any rate, machine seems nice and the 1.99lbs vs 2.99lbs of my current machine is a pretty substantial difference to my surprise. Keyboard definitely doesn't feel as nice with the significantly less travel it has, but I think I am probably willing to make that sacrifice for the lack of poundage, better screen, speakers, more powerful processor, etc.
Would you guys recommend me to upgrade to Windows 11, or wait until the new version of Windows is out within the next 2 or so years?
I have no problems with Windows 10, I’ve been a dedicated user as soon as it became available in summer 2015. I immediately upgraded because I felt the pressure to have the newest and latest version, and found it to be a great step up from Win7. As Win11 came along, I didn’t have that same mindset, and with news articles coming out about its poor gaming performance and system requirements upon its initial release, I stayed with Win10. That means I’ve used Win10 for nearly 9 years!
All this AI stuff in Win11 looks cool and I’d love to mess around with it, but how is it now for gaming compared to Win10?
I have no problems with Windows 10, I’ve been a dedicated user as soon as it became available in summer 2015. I immediately upgraded because I felt the pressure to have the newest and latest version, and found it to be a great step up from Win7. As Win11 came along, I didn’t have that same mindset, and with news articles coming out about its poor gaming performance and system requirements upon its initial release, I stayed with Win10. That means I’ve used Win10 for nearly 9 years!
All this AI stuff in Win11 looks cool and I’d love to mess around with it, but how is it now for gaming compared to Win10?
I finally upgraded to it a few months ago because I really wanted to be able to use the tabbed File Explorer window and so far, that hasn't disappointed. I generally have multiple folders open at any given time on any given computer and it's been a real boon for me.
I don't use Copilot, as I can't think of anything I really care to ask it and the few times I did, it didn't come up with anything useful, so I'm not sure there's much reason to upgrade just to try it out. Googling whatever I need and appending "Reddit" to the search solves my problems 90% of the time.
Other than that, it's not much different from Windows 10. It feels a little bit cleaner than 10 did and I like the move of the Start menu to the middle, aesthetically it feels more balanced. I don't care for a lot of the integrated features, such as Windows now defaulting to OneDrive for a lot of file storage so they can get you to pony up for a subscription, but I don't mind ignoring that entirely. So far Gaming performance has been no different from Windows 10 for me; I have Windows 10 still on my HTPC (i7-7700, GTX1070, 16Gb RAM), because the processor won't support 11 and I have 11 on my laptop (i7-8650u, MX150, 24Gb RAM), my Surface Go (m3-8100Y, 8Gb RAM) and my Desktop (Ryzen 5 5600, 6700XT, 32GB RAM) and it functions great on all of them, with no obvious performance differences from 10.
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I've been using 11 after holding off for a fair while for no particular reason other than I couldnt be bothered to upgrade it. I'm not someone who much cares about UIs and I only really play games and surf the web so I havent noticed any differences at all really other than slight surface changes I couldnt really point out anymore.
Thanks for the responses guys. Part of me still wants to wait for the next version of Windows. It would make sense given my version history with Windows.
Started with Win98, skipped WinNT/WinME, went to XP, skipped Vista, went to Win7, skipped Win8, went to Win10, so now I guess skip Win11 then go to 12? 😂
But there was no skip between W8 and W10, because they avoided making a W9. Thus the skip chain has already been broken and it would not be at all out of sequence were you to get W11. As Spinal Tap's Nigel says, if your on 10, where can you go from there?
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@Zloth made a point the other day about it probably being easier to UPGRADE from 10 to 11, and then from 11 to 12. He could have a point—I can't say from experience as I've never done that, but sth worth researching a bit maybe.
I wouldn't dream of UPGRADING from one OS version to another, for all kinds of reasons—left-over crud, driver exposure, bugs remaining, lots of programs never used which I won't install on new OS, etc.
I always do a FRESH NEW INSTALL from scratch—ie on a newly formatted system drive—of a new OS. I'll usually spend a weekend on it, as every ~5 years I like to spend a bit of time to familiarize with the OS & install what I need.
I had a similar path—started earlier, Win2000 in there, but skipped ME, Vista & 8. Unless you're UPGRADING instead of a fresh install, wait for 12—in tech circles, I haven't read of any strong reason to move to 11. If you're upgrading, then don't mind me
But I like all my bloat!
I do occasionally reinstall though. But these days things are relatively painless for a new install, I'm always amazed at how quickly I'm actually using the machine these days, rather than hunting down drivers and software, configuring things, etc.
I had a similar path—started earlier, Win2000 in there, but skipped ME, Vista & 8. Unless you're UPGRADING instead of a fresh install, wait for 12—in tech circles, I haven't read of any strong reason to move to 11. If you're upgrading, then don't mind me
Making me feel a little ancient and I don't think I'm much older than ya'll. I started with 3.11, even if it wasn't great for games and I'd mostly be using DOS anyway. 95 was a revelation and I was so damn excited to use it when it came out, but didn't have the proper video driver for what seemed like ages, so I only had 16-colors; couldn't run any games like that, but damn did I want to try Diablo so bad.
I think W11 has been bug fixed by now to be trustworthy. I've been using it on my new little pal, the Surface Go 2, which I was gifted via a grant our community benefitted from recently. At first it was very hard to get used to, tiny screen I had to wear my reading glasses to use, small little keyboard with no backlighting, and a pared down version of Windows because it's processing power is so weak.
At first I was just telling it to Go 2, only turning it on every once in a while to update. I mean I felt like a giant stumbling around in a kid's toy closet using it. After getting caught unexpectedly with no desktop the last few days after taking too big a leap cannibalizing parts out of my old PC to put in the new one, just before I had a problem with the new MB, I saw how invaluable it was as a backup.
Am I addicted to it, HELL NO, I've now got the SSD's that were in my old rig back in it, but at least I know this little guy can weather a storm! The ONLY slight nit pick I have about W11 is there's no longer a This PC icon in Start by default, so you have to make one. Hardly a deal breaker though.
At first I was just telling it to Go 2, only turning it on every once in a while to update. I mean I felt like a giant stumbling around in a kid's toy closet using it. After getting caught unexpectedly with no desktop the last few days after taking too big a leap cannibalizing parts out of my old PC to put in the new one, just before I had a problem with the new MB, I saw how invaluable it was as a backup.
Am I addicted to it, HELL NO, I've now got the SSD's that were in my old rig back in it, but at least I know this little guy can weather a storm! The ONLY slight nit pick I have about W11 is there's no longer a This PC icon in Start by default, so you have to make one. Hardly a deal breaker though.
I had a dream I was playing a new Black & White game, which looked really good and you could throw absolutely massive rocks. Woke up disappointed with reality.
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Careful now.
My Surface Go is what lead me down the path of obsessing over a thin and light computer. Started with a cheap Surface Go, then trying out a Lenovo X1 Tab (not recommended), then finally my Surface Go 2.
That said, even though I've bought a Thinkpad X1 Nano, I'm not getting rid of my Go 2. It's damn useful for wargaming and reading magazines from Retro mags.
Also, if you've got the Microsoft type cover, it should have a backlight.
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