Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

I just had a thought about a PC arcade i used to go to as a kid, they had lock-in events over the weekend when you could get there at 7 or 8pm and then stay until 7am the next day

This was amazing for me, as a kid i could play at my friend's house but I could never stay for a sleep over, because I was a girl and my friend was a boy. But at these lock-ins we actually could play games all night it was the best and one of my favorite memories.

As a kid i may have hated that i was not allowed to do the sleep overs but :/ like i get it as an adult it is still dumb life has to be like that though.

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Thanks for the perspective.

I never looked at meal services like that. I have always enjoyed cooking as has my roomie, between us we own at least 30 cookbooks.

Thorny knows how to cook.

Another error.

Sigma dogs dont bark

If a Sigma dog want to convey a message, they know fangs are more effective than sounds

https://youtu.be/UF1OdgbRLcg?si=WU6FpOjOOWubgVjG

I find it super funny that ChatGPT sees Light-aligned Panta as the bringer of chaos, and chaos-obsessed trouble maker Afania as the defender of the order and fairness.

But I wasn't sad that algorithm can't comprehend me. I find it funny that the evil is being seen as the good and the good is being seen as the evil. It's exactly like how a true villain would want. At one point I thought ChatGPT was trolling, or my evil master plan to deceive the world and punish the light side has worked.

Edit: And this is probably why we can't have AI judge/legal system ever. ChatGPT just proved what's being portrayed in Psycho-Pass/Minority Report could happen 100%.

Fantastic Four reviews are coming out, everyone likes Vanessa Kirby.

It is impossible to read reviews anymore, good or bad, it's all AI, it's all review bombs (glazing or berating)

I am certain the majority do love a cute blonde however, that's always a fact.

As certain as everyone is also really tired of Pedro.

Oh bad days, RIP Ozzy Osbourne

I received two seperate $10 deposits to my paypal with 9 hours between them from some random person I've never heard of before...

It is a con

For your own safety, I advise you to send thrice that amount to me so i can inspect if you are in danger

Buff doggies click here for treats and money

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Finance/Visa-told-by-Japan-antitrust-watchdog-to-reform-credit-info-system

Im not saying its related, but its very coincidental Japan did this just days after what Visa’s stunt.

Stone and Parker getting $1.5 BILLION (+) for continuing South Park is bananas. (5 seasons, 10 episodes per)

New Ep in just over an hour!

BTW, finished my first ever Mythic, finally.

Well, that 1.5 billion paramount spent on southpark is about to turn into 10 billion

I hate the process of getting a new laptop, all these buzzwords and numbers. Did anyone get one recently? I had one that I just got but im seeing for a little more theres better versions.

Is a 1800 dollars price difference worth 4060 graphics card to 5080? I mostly play new AAA games on PS5, but for work trips its nice to have them portable but the steam deck can't run some of them well.

Id be concerned about the laptop being able to dissipate heat from a 5080

Gaming laptops with high power graphics cards suck balls, IMO.

x060 is the most I'd go for, and it'll still be loud when gaming.

I knew. It was a galka.

I legitimately busted a gut laughing at the Mythic questline.

The part where you turn in Duties, Tasks, and Deeds, and they give you just a Gold Piece at first... dead lmao.

Then the very end where Naja cuts you in on the profits of your work... 3 Silver pieces baybbeeeeee!

Will they die quickly? or what sucks about them aside from noise

Do they still have Max-Q options for that?

NVM that was for lower power cards. Which my 1660ti lasted long times.

Typically any laptop GPU is going to be about the performance of the tier below it of the desktop version of that card. So a 5080 will perform like a 5070. That said, I absolutely would not spend $1800 more for a 5080 vs 4060. You could buy a desktop 5070 and an external GPU enclosure for less than that and get more performance.

Most people don't like the big GPU laptops because they sound like jet engines when they're running at 100% load. I haven't heard of many people having issues with them dying quickly though. Battery consumption on those big GPU laptops will be a concern too. You won't get full performance on battery and they usually come with absolute chonker power bricks to power them. I've even seen some laptops that come with 2 power bricks.

I don't game on the go very often, so I don't even have a dedicated GPU on my laptop. I do however sometimes game on my laptop via remote desktop connection to my gaming PC in my house and it's a flawless experience (unless you play fast 1st person stuff due to small latency).

every gaming laptop i've ever purchased has been a disappointment

Personally, I didn't even opt for a gaming GPU in my latest laptop. I got a quadro T1200; it's good enough for any gpu acceleration I need and has better power consumption and heat tolerance. I'd rather go without gaming when I travel. Of course, if you're forced to do work trips all the time it might be a different story.

Think the real question is if the 4060 does what you need it to. The complaints about overheating, noise, battery, and weight are all completely legitimate. However, if you're sitting in a hotel room with the laptop plugged in and a headset on, none of them mean very much.

Passmark scores are a good starting point for how strong a GPU or CPU is, and they place the laptop 5080 about 50% higher than laptop 4060. Is that worth $1800? Really depends how much of a consumer you are and whether the 4060 can meet your needs as is. I think a lot of people are more worried about whether something is better than whether it will make their life better.

Everything. It's a 80w card stuffed into an envelope that can't handle more than a couple dozen watts before overheating, underclocking, being super loud or all of the above. Also it's not mobile, needs to be plugged in to last more than an hour. And heavy af.

That's without accounting for CPU draw.

They're just not good products. Life will be okay, and it'll be fine noise wise too as long as you don't use it 100%. Which begs the question why are you buying a gaming laptop that cannot be used at 100% because of lack of thermal dissipation.

I legitimately busted a gut laughing at the Mythic choice. Poor SAM. :(



You can make all of the mythic weapons and Naja STILL says you have to keep working to pay off your debt. I know that MMOs do this to keep the quest line continuous ...but after all the years, I would have loved a quest line that sees you paying off your debt to Naja one and for all.

Possible storylines include:

1. In a case of mistaken identity, Naja gets kidnapped by the Star Onion Brigade
   

2. Naja sees your Stage 5 Prime Weapon and is just filled with jealous rage (or sees dollar signs, gotta-have-it, whatever).
   

3. Galkan/Mithran Civil War....All Galkan/Mithran NPCs undergo a cosmetic change to indicate which side of this ideological war they belong to....Naja has been called upon to mediate (or find the perfect mediator. Hint: It's us. We're the problem/solution).
   

...I could do this all day, for SE and the FF Franchise. And we'd have better merch than FF7 Remake on a Butterfinger wrapper.

SE wonders why the average FF fan is 42 years old and they struggled to find new players:

https://gamerant.com/study-reveals-the-average-age-of-final-fantasy-fans/