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    ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    Bloodatonement might be fuuuuucked!

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    akajaybayakajaybay Registered User regular
    akajaybay thanks for bring steam thread battles back.

    I can't believe it's been 5 years since the Space Battle.

    Saved for posterity.
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    Nothing quite that elaborate. I think we did rock paper scissors more recently. Maybe 2 years ago...
    The space one broke my brain a bit, but I do still get a kick out of that book you sent me.

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    IoloIolo iolo Registered User regular
    akajaybay wrote: »
    akajaybay thanks for bring steam thread battles back.

    I can't believe it's been 5 years since the Space Battle.

    Saved for posterity.
    https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bwlgw_AbOUegLUd4M1VXVWxCaHc

    Nothing quite that elaborate. I think we did rock paper scissors more recently. Maybe 2 years ago...
    The space one broke my brain a bit, but I do still get a kick out of that book you sent me.

    The space one was truly epic.

    And a very different experience for me from the gladiatorial contests you'd run previously. <3

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    MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    The gladiator one is especially memorable to me because in my last round, an obstacle course, I lost all my health and then finished in first. So my lifeless body flopped through the entire course faster than all the living contestants.

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    PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    Space game was fun, yes. Has it really been that long?

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    KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    Jazz wrote: »
    When I get a new machine it's basically tradition that the first thing I play on it is Unreal Tournament. The first one (now 21 years old).

    My House has always been a House of Quake, but I respect your tradition.

    My first game played on a new rig is usually whichever one ran like dogshit on my old one and caused me to consider upgrading.

    Feels so good when you take a game that you were hobbling through at low settings and crank it to high and plants suddenly sprout up on the formerly barren landscape like it's the 4th day of creation.

    My old system couldn't even play Assassin's Creed Syndicate on low settings, and was getting maybe 20fps on medium or low settings with a lower resolution for Assassin's Creed Unity. For both games now, on my new system, I can turn everything all the way up and have oomph to spare.

    So I went and grabbed the Shadow of the Tomb Raider trial, and ran the benchmark. At what they gave me as default, which was their High settings, 90 fps. With absolutely everything turned up, 33 fps (that includes the highest anti-aliasing that apparently delivers quite the system hit). With just their baseline "Highest" settings (Which doesn't turn on raytraced shadows, level of detail to Ultra, etc), I got 80 fps. And as a final note, this isn't HDR, because my new laptop doesn't have HDR.

    Which is still, I think, more than fine.

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    bloodatonementbloodatonement Registered User regular
    Thawmus wrote: »
    Bloodatonement might be fuuuuucked!

    Nah.
    2 is for page
    9 is the post
    It's on iolo and his popcorn

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    MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    @MNC Dover
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    OK @Pixelated Pixie it is time. Please give me the following:
    1. A number between 1-3
    2. A number between 1-40
    3. A number between 5-25, ending in 5
    4. A different number between 1-40
    5. A different number between 1-40

    Hang on, I have to get my dice out...

    *insert small pause here*


    Okay. Let's do this.

    2
    9
    5
    29
    37

    (these were rolled with the newest set of dice I just got for my birthday... hopefully they were lucky!)

    The choices are made.
    Decision locked in.
    Budget confirmed.
    Targets acquired.
    The giftening has come.

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    ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    Thawmus wrote: »
    Bloodatonement might be fuuuuucked!

    Nah.
    2 is for page
    9 is the post
    It's on iolo and his popcorn

    It's good to see such smug voyeurs brought low!

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    bloodatonementbloodatonement Registered User regular
    Thawmus wrote: »
    Thawmus wrote: »
    Bloodatonement might be fuuuuucked!

    Nah.
    2 is for page
    9 is the post
    It's on iolo and his popcorn

    It's good to see such smug voyeurs brought low!

    Actually I got hit, but not for the first post.

    However, @MNC Dover was classy enough to offer a "donate to a local food bank" option, so instead of needlessly padding my backlog, he's feeding hungry bellies. Good dude.

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    Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
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    Shenanigans! Total shenanigans!

    Thanks @MNC Dover for Disaster Report 4! <3<3<3

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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    dresdenphiledresdenphile Watch out for snakes!Registered User regular
    Dang new threads; no wonder I wasn't getting notifications...

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    BetsuniBetsuni UM-R60L Talisker IVRegistered User regular
    I love @MNC Dover and his randomess.

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    destroyah87destroyah87 They/Them Preferred: She/Her - Please UseRegistered User regular
    Betsuni wrote: »
    I love @MNC Dover and his randomess.

    It’s great. Even better it was Pixie fell afoul of it.

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    MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    I do enjoy giving back to the PA community. Still waiting on the others that have been targeted.

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    Drunken BastardDrunken Bastard Registered User regular
    edited May 2020
    Ok tested the new beast with Doom on max in 4k. I have no words. The fans did not even flinch..

    Drunken Bastard on
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    Drunken BastardDrunken Bastard Registered User regular
    edited May 2020
    AND I got the fan noise down in the BIOS. Turns out it was set for always max for the CPU...Ok safe, but not what I want. It purrs like a kitten now.

    It's actually breathing..the fans come on above the threshold and instantly shut off again. Cool.

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    DixonDixon Screwed...possibly doomed CanadaRegistered User regular
    RDR2 is prob the best looking game I’ve seen and hurts my system the most.

    AC Odyssey looks great as well and Doom is very pretty.

    Can’t wait for the next gen cards, was sad they didn’t give us more info at the nvidia keynote.

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    BedlamBedlam Registered User regular
    Played Fallout 76

    Macheted some dudes.

    Found a cat, but couldn't pet it.

    -10/10

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    heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    I'm sorta tempted to get RDR2 on PC since I thought it played like garbage with a controller and think maybe it'll be better on PC. But I still dunno if I'd be able to run it that well. GPU is hands down enough, but my CPU is starting to show its age a bit. it's an i5-4690K which I think is above the minimum but I want to be sure because even on sale it's a little pricey.

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    SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    So Pixie was just picking the targets then? Dover fools us all again

    The only safe way is to never speak

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    InterpreterInterpreter Registered User regular
    Spoit wrote: »
    Madican wrote: »
    So Pixie was just picking the targets then? Dover fools us all again

    The only safe way is to never speak

    That's what I do. Never speak and don't let anyone know my Steam name. Worked so far.

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    anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    Bedlam wrote: »
    Played Fallout 76

    Macheted some dudes.

    Found a cat, but couldn't pet it.

    -10/10

    Pretty sure I played this part earlier, heard the cat, and looked everywhere for it, but eventually gave up.

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    Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
    anoffday wrote: »
    Bedlam wrote: »
    Played Fallout 76

    Macheted some dudes.

    Found a cat, but couldn't pet it.

    -10/10

    Pretty sure I played this part earlier, heard the cat, and looked everywhere for it, but eventually gave up.

    He's sitting in a window on the 2nd floor of the farmhouse most people come to shortly after leaving the vault. His name is Cheswick II. You cannot pet him. :(

    ~~ Pixie on Steam ~~
    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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    MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    OK, the last of the targets have been hit. Originally, the budget was $15 each and a variety of choices for rewards. But when I realized eShop gift cards didn't come in $15 amounts, everyone got bumped up by $5!

    And here are your lucky winners!


    @urahonky who kindly requested a Nintendo Switch gift card to get the kids some games to entertain themselves during the quarantine!
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    @bloodatonement who graciously requested a donation to a local food bank!
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    @Talus9952 who selflessly asked for a donation to Child's Play!
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    Once again, thanks to @Pixelated Pixie for unknowingly choosing your fates and for everyone in the Steam thread (and PA community) for being such fantastically generous monsters. Have a wonderful weekend and stay safe!

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    anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    Is there any benefit to running a game as borderless fullscreen window vs fullscreen? Noticing that a lot of games are defaulting to the borderless window for some reason.

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    Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
    anoffday wrote: »
    Is there any benefit to running a game as borderless fullscreen window vs fullscreen? Noticing that a lot of games are defaulting to the borderless window for some reason.

    If you like to alt-tab a lot, borderless fullscreen is better. Otherwise, I can't think of any advantage.

    ~~ Pixie on Steam ~~
    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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    destroyah87destroyah87 They/Them Preferred: She/Her - Please UseRegistered User regular
    anoffday wrote: »
    Is there any benefit to running a game as borderless fullscreen window vs fullscreen? Noticing that a lot of games are defaulting to the borderless window for some reason.

    If you like to alt-tab a lot, borderless fullscreen is better. Otherwise, I can't think of any advantage.

    Some games may run better borderless windowed vs full screen on certain display devices for some reason (granblue fantasy vs on my big tv.) otherwise, not really.

    This is assuming a single display device, if two+, borderless windowed is life.

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    Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    there are people who don't compulsively constantly alt-tab?

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    Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
    there are people who don't compulsively constantly alt-tab?

    I never do. /shrug/

    ~~ Pixie on Steam ~~
    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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    MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Borderless windowed lets me move my mouse between my two monitors so I like it when I need to look something up.

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    anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    Borderless windowed lets me move my mouse between my two monitors so I like it when I need to look something up.

    Oh, that might be handy then. I like to have youtube or twitch going on my other monitor when I'm playing games. I never made that connection before.

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    bloodatonementbloodatonement Registered User regular
    I just now alt-tabbed to look at a farming guide and browse the forums while waiting on a load screen

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    FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Spoit wrote: »
    Madican wrote: »
    So Pixie was just picking the targets then? Dover fools us all again

    The only safe way is to never speak

    That's what I do. Never speak and don't let anyone know my Steam name. Worked so far.

    Nobody speak, nobody gets choked.

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    cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    If you wanna test out a beefy new PC, I hear Control with all the ray-tracing doohickeys turned on looks pretty good.

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    cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    Ok tested the new beast with Doom on max in 4k. I have no words. The fans did not even flinch..

    This is DOOM 2016? Because from what I hear, that game can basically run shockingly well on a toaster.

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    BloodySlothBloodySloth Registered User regular
    Once the Vulkan API got up and running I became pretty confident in my ability to run DOOM 2016 on my original Gameboy, yeah. All the bells and whistles are still a little taxing, but it's an amazingly well-optimized game.

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    PoketpixiePoketpixie Siege Registered User regular
    Spoit wrote: »
    Madican wrote: »
    So Pixie was just picking the targets then? Dover fools us all again

    The only safe way is to never speak

    That's what I do. Never speak and don't let anyone know my Steam name. Worked so far.

    I tried that. I even used a different Steam name. They found me.

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    CalescentCalescent Registered User regular
    Four Kings One War is free to keep until May 19 at 12am Pacific time (so really May 18 at 11:59pm, I think).

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