ExoMonk

Wow that's a pretty steep discount. I mean it should have never been $250 to begin with, but $49 is a great price for it I think

Its a great indexer. This and nzbgeek and I need pretty much nothing else

I just started the show earlier this week and just finished season one. I really like it!

It brings back some of the flavor of TNG where it's more about exploration and diplomacy, but keeps some of the "modernness" of the Star Trek movies. Graphics, set design, wardrobe are all fantastic. I love the crew, everyone feels unique and authentic. It's been a lot of fun.

I don't have that "omg I need to watch the next episode" thing which IMO is a good thing because I can watch a couple episodes and then go to bed at a reasonable time. The episodes don't leave you on cliffhangers, each one wraps up nicely.

Final Fantasy 7 when Aeries dies. I was a teen then and it was the first RPG I ever played and the first time I experienced a main character just die and is gone from the game.

I don't think I experienced anything like that again until maybe Destiny 2 when Cayde died. Little different with that though as they should his death in a live stream about the launch of that DLC. Had a different impact but had to be done since the entire premise of that DLC was getting revenge so couldn't hide it from the promo materials.

Thanks for the recommendation!

The funny thing (or sad thing depending on how you look at it) is that at the age of 37 I'm not that young, but there's a lot of music out there I have little to no exposure to. Music hasn't been a huge part of my upbringing despite all of my brothers being musicians; I was always a movie/tv/game kid. These days I trend towards heavy metal and some rap (depending on the artist).

You're right though, that video is the most 80's thing I've ever seen. I can see a montage of 80's music flowing through my head when I was listening to it.

Read through the post, OP mentioned a few times that this isn't about a phone war. It's just one persons experience going from Android to iPhone; what worked well and what didn't.

I think a lot of folks have picked an ecosystem and never strayed from it; seeing a post like this helps fill the gaps of their curiosity. Being exposed to other people's experiences and experience a change yourself is a good thing.

At the end of the day phones are just tools to help you go about your day to day. We don't have to foam at the mouth over a discussion like this. iPhones are very good devices and have great synergy with other Apple devices and apps. Android is a very customizable experience which has many great phones at very good prices. You can't go wrong with either IMO.

On Disturb's album 10,000 Fist is a song called Land of Confusion. First listened to the album way back in the mid 2000's.

Around 2006 or so I heard the same song being played on the speakers at the Ikea I worked at but it was a lot softer than I expected. Turns out it was originally done by a band called Genesis.

Both version slap but in different ways.

I've been out of the loop on this game. I really liked the first one, it brought back a lot of team fortress 2 memories. How bad is the second one? The general sentiment is "bad".

There's some specific information that I can't quite get easily. Like recently looking for information on headphones, amps and dac. R/headphones is still the easiest way to get a lot of information.

I no longer go there recreationally but when I really need good answers it's still a part of my duckduckgo search query.

That's awesome and what a deal. I think my mother-in-law has at least another year or so before we need to think about swapping hardware, but these little guys make so much sense.

Yeah it was a headache for me in the past too, but the latest Steam Big Picture which behaves more like a Steamdeck has made it pretty easy. Since it launches right away, I can easily launch and quit steam games with 0 issue and when I'm done I used big picture to just shut the PC down.

One issue I found was if I let the PC sleep, it always brings up the login screen on wake so I just shut it down everytime. NVME's are so fast the boot up is whatevs. Non-steam games are also a little painful as sometimes it won't switch active windows, or I have to login or something.

I only use this machine for games. Like you said, HTPC was a pain. I have a different server that I have Plex setup on and I use Apple TV's / Roku's for streaming.

I wouldn't buy any consoles, I would build (though you can buy) a really powerful gaming PC to plug up to my 4k TV. I've actually recently done just that and it works amazingly well.

Things to make it a good experience:

1. Make sure you have a 4k TV with HDMI 2.1 for 120hz gaming
2. Configure Windows to bypass the login screen on boot
3. Configure Steam to launch in Big Picture mode on startup
4. Buy an Xbox Controller and the little dongle for it (it works better than just bluetooth)
5. Buy a small wireless keyboard with built in trackpad for the odd occasion you need to use a mouse and keyboard (looking at you EA Play).

With that, you've got the best console ever. Huge backlog of games, games on steep discounts, a machine that has a much better experience outputting to a 4k TV than something like a Steamdeck or a console. I've tried the Steamdeck to a 4k TV and the quality was pretty awful; 720p does not upscale to 4k well at all. And if you wanted to, you could set it up with emulators using retroarch for any games you are missing.

My TVPC specs:

1. Ryzen 7800x
2. 32GB DDR5-6000
3. 2TB NVME SSD
4. RTX 4080
5. Fractal Design Torrent Nano

I picked that case specifically for the huge 180mm fan in the front, the fact it can fit a massive cooler like the Peerless Assassin and the GPU gets fresh air from the bottom. It's not the smallest case, but it stays cool and super quiet.