I've been trying to succumb to capitalism for a few months now - I ordered a new gaming rig from iBuyPower because that seemed to be the only way to get a 3080 and some other higher end parts. Order was placed back in early April and I was very pleasantly surprised when they shipped it out by the end of the month.
System showed up and I got it all set up and it refused to boot...the video card was dead on arrival. So okay, I RMA it and send it back to get fixed. It then sat with them for a month and I got no word at all about progress. THEN on Sunday I was visiting my dad and got a Ring notification, I check the camera and BEHOLD it's FedEX with my computer! I'd never even been told it was fixed! I had no tracking number or notification of shipping! Its memorial day weekend and everything is closed so I can't even call to try to find anything out!
Anyway. It gets dropped off again today! I open the box and the tower isn't in the box and foam I had sent it in, its just in some foam in the bigger exterior box and it isn't sitting flat...shit. I open it up and reseat the video card just in case, everything looks fine. Try to boot and the CPU debug light flares up on the motherboard. Right about then they finally call me back and I talk with customer service and get transfered to tech support. Tech says something about how, 'yeah, I don't like to ship towers with the 3080 installed, they're so big and heavy things can crack...so anyway if you want to send it back to us again we can get it fixed!' Which...fucking, what? No, I'm sorry, one DOA delivery is understandable, but now you want me to just be cool with the fact that you've sent me a broken rig twice in a row? Hell no, dog, we're past fixing this shit.
So now I get to send it back and get a refund, but I still need a computer...my old tower died a few weeks ago and I was using my work laptop, but now I don't work at that school anymore and I don't get a new work laptop until I move in August. Honestly I'm considering saying fuck it and moving over to a 27" Mac - I'll be using a MacBook Pro a lot for work and making a bunch of educational videos and it would be nice for my things to work together. The only crappy thing is my entire Steam library would basically be worthless, which sucks, and I can't even find a PS5 much less try to buy one.
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WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
I had really good luck with Xidax a few years ago.
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
I've been trying to succumb to capitalism for a few months now - I ordered a new gaming rig from iBuyPower because that seemed to be the only way to get a 3080 and some other higher end parts. Order was placed back in early April and I was very pleasantly surprised when they shipped it out by the end of the month.
System showed up and I got it all set up and it refused to boot...the video card was dead on arrival. So okay, I RMA it and send it back to get fixed. It then sat with them for a month and I got no word at all about progress. THEN on Sunday I was visiting my dad and got a Ring notification, I check the camera and BEHOLD it's FedEX with my computer! I'd never even been told it was fixed! I had no tracking number or notification of shipping! Its memorial day weekend and everything is closed so I can't even call to try to find anything out!
Anyway. It gets dropped off again today! I open the box and the tower isn't in the box and foam I had sent it in, its just in some foam in the bigger exterior box and it isn't sitting flat...shit. I open it up and reseat the video card just in case, everything looks fine. Try to boot and the CPU debug light flares up on the motherboard. Right about then they finally call me back and I talk with customer service and get transfered to tech support. Tech says something about how, 'yeah, I don't like to ship towers with the 3080 installed, they're so big and heavy things can crack...so anyway if you want to send it back to us again we can get it fixed!' Which...fucking, what? No, I'm sorry, one DOA delivery is understandable, but now you want me to just be cool with the fact that you've sent me a broken rig twice in a row? Hell no, dog, we're past fixing this shit.
So now I get to send it back and get a refund, but I still need a computer...my old tower died a few weeks ago and I was using my work laptop, but now I don't work at that school anymore and I don't get a new work laptop until I move in August. Honestly I'm considering saying fuck it and moving over to a 27" Mac - I'll be using a MacBook Pro a lot for work and making a bunch of educational videos and it would be nice for my things to work together. The only crappy thing is my entire Steam library would basically be worthless, which sucks, and I can't even find a PS5 much less try to buy one.
Yeah, I'm just really disappointed. I'd seen a couple of negative reviews and quite a few positive. I guess I was hoping angry people on the internet were wrong.
The more I think about it the more I'm leaning toward a Mac, but I'm not entirely sure. I did some looking and I guess you can still install Windows and run it no problem, so that solves most of my gaming concerns. I don't even need anything super powerful - I don't play anything super graphically intense or stream, so really the "mid range" GPU they're made with isn't a major concern, and I'm at the point where tinkering with hardware is more of a pain in the ass than it is fun. I just want something that works, that I can do my work on, and that I can sometimes play strategy games on, and I think the 27" Macs can do that.
I must have gotten lucky, when I was looking at a new pc several years ago I planned on buying a basic tower then putting in components on my own but via discounts the prebuilt one from them was pretty much the same price. it's worked fine so far, no issues
My computer's already long in the tooth, and getting more so, but I've mostly given up on upgrading replacing it anytime soon; my employment isn't stable, and there's the ongoing fuckery with parts availability and prices.
Steam, Warframe: Megajoule
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Well, hell. Once they start to breed, you officially have an infestation.
Does anyone know if you can buy some spray or like bait stations or something to deal with these?
I haven't bought a guitar in... a long time. The last one I bought was a 2007 Korina standard US made Hamer for hells of dollars. Hamer as a company no longer exists and as such their guitars are going for even more hells of dollars. What I paid $2300 for maybe 8 or 9 years ago, in better condition than mine (because I fuckin play it) is now going for upwards of 4 gees. The studios and specials all push $1500-1800 now a days, too.
My dream is to own the Korina standard, the Korina vector and a Korina Junior. The vector is basically an exact replica of a 1958 gibson flying v, I think they only made a numbered 72, and the only one I've ever seen was almost $4,500. So I've basically accepted I'm never getting one.
That said, I want a flying v real real bad, and I've found a few little Epiphones for not too much money. I've also got a $200 gift card I can redeem for a prepaid visa from work...
So I may be buying myself a flying v in the near future.
Edit: gotdamn is my Hamer an incredible guitar, tho. She's a little dinged here and there, and I've worn the gold off the hardware, but she sings like a siren. That's partly why I've never bought another guitar. It seems dumb to buy something I know won't even come close to what I've got, but since I don't have 2 grand laying around at any given time I can't just pick up another whenever I want. I don't particularly like Gibson, either and for what they sell for I could just get a used Hamer somewhere and it'd smoke it. I've got an Epiphone Les Paul and for what it is, it's a solid little guitar which is why I wouldn't mind dropping $700 or so on an Epiphone V.
Yeah and honestly like, the hundred thousand dollar case queen Gibsons you see these days probably suck. They're mint because nobody played em. I don't know if it's scientific or not and I don't care, but the more you play a guitar the better it sounds. The wood needs to resonate. Gimme a beat to shit gig horse or something before a perfect condition vintage Les Paul.
I don't ever buy anything with the purpose of getting some sort of return later on. I buy it because I want it and I want to use it. I'm never going to part with my Hamer. That's mine until I die, and when I do it's going to be worn and dinged and scratched and it's gonna outplay everybody and everything it comes across. Whoever gets it after me is gonna be a lucky son of a bitch.
Fenders are interesting if only because of Leo Fenders weird design ideologies. I can't play em tho. Too twangy and I need a stop tail piece to rest my palm.
So I'm moving this month, to a place where I can afford to have a separate home office instead of clunkily getting by with a living room PC.
I got an Uplift 4-leg desk to compliment this development and I sorely hope that I didn't make a mistake, *fingers crossed*. I'm not an especially tall person so as long as it is solid when sat and the wobble isn't crazy at my standing work height, I'll be happy.
Today is our anniversary. So I went to the store to buy a card and flowers (and a 9-Volt battery to shut up a chirping smoke detector). I gave into temptation and bought a large lemon poppy seed muffin, which is the king of the muffin family. As I'm from New England, it's now being consumed with some Dunkin coffee. The machine of capitalism tastes delightful.
So I'm moving this month, to a place where I can afford to have a separate home office instead of clunkily getting by with a living room PC.
I got an Uplift 4-leg desk to compliment this development and I sorely hope that I didn't make a mistake, *fingers crossed*. I'm not an especially tall person so as long as it is solid when sat and the wobble isn't crazy at my standing work height, I'll be happy.
My old job purchased Uplift desks for everyone ( 2 T legs ) and I had zero complaints about range or wobble, and I would have mine at near min height (25.7) while sitting, and pretty high height(43.6) while standing. The 4 leg should have even less wobble so you should have no problems!
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
Those dice are enormous so the obvious question is, are they also extremely heavy? How satisfying is the thump when you drop them on a surface to roll?
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
Those dice are enormous so the obvious question is, are they also extremely heavy? How satisfying is the thump when you drop them on a surface to roll?
they're pretty darn satisfying
not quite as hefty as the old brass set I used to have, but still some very solid resin
soo I might be doing some reverse capitalism here because I was looking in my closest at some of the old games I have and went to see what some of them sold for. I looked at 5 games; shadowhearts covenant, pokemon platinum, soul silver, and black, and my bravely default collector's edition
all 5 are selling for over $100 on ebay
I have like two thousand dollars worth of DS and ps2 games sitting in my closet
I haven't even looked at the transformers
Jars on
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
I love pretty dice so, so much. I just wish I could justify spending that much on them so my wife wouldn't kill me
I buy them for specific characters at this point. I have enough Chessex dice I don't need anymore of those. Also I might just buy a d20 here and there. It helps keep the cost down.
StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
I've never understood the dice collecting thing.
I've been playing roleplaying games for most of my life and I have a couple of specific sets for specific purposes (my Fiasco dice, some unusual material dice), but everything else has always just been a big bag of assorted dice, pulling what I need when I need it.
I guess I don't really find dice aesthetically pleasing? Like I've got dozens of decks of cards that I've accumulated over the years, but that feels different to me.
I love pretty dice so, so much. I just wish I could justify spending that much on them so my wife wouldn't kill me
I buy them for specific characters at this point. I have enough Chessex dice I don't need anymore of those. Also I might just buy a d20 here and there. It helps keep the cost down.
I recently backed a Kickstarter for a couple sets of googly-eyed dice made by the same lady that made sets of rubber ducky dice (which I also backed the Kickstarter for)
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
I've been playing roleplaying games for most of my life and I have a couple of specific sets for specific purposes (my Fiasco dice, some unusual material dice), but everything else has always just been a big bag of assorted dice, pulling what I need when I need it.
I guess I don't really find dice aesthetically pleasing? Like I've got dozens of decks of cards that I've accumulated over the years, but that feels different to me.
Non sarcastic why? For me it comes down to Dice can be art, just like a beautiful set of playing cards, or well made/painted miniatures or terrain. Certainly not to everybody's taste of course, as you said.
As far as current dice kickstarters I've got a big pledge in for the Wyrmwood/Dispel kickstarter. HOPEFULLY I'll be able to get everyone D20s in time for Christmas. As for me personally I'm currently waiting for this one to end. I love this design.
StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
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Honestly it might just be because they're plastic, that's a big fucking mark against aesthetic beauty for me
I also frequently find them quite garish in a way that I don't really like - this probably is tying in to the plastic thing, but they can feel very artificial to me
Edit: I don't play D&D anymore, which maybe factors in some too - when all your game requires is two to five d6, it's a bit different. I still have some games that use weirder dice, but even then it's less likely that I'll need the classic polyhedral set.
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
Honestly it might just be because they're plastic, that's a big fucking mark against aesthetic beauty for me
I also frequently find them quite garish in a way that I don't really like - this probably is tying in to the plastic thing, but they can feel very artificial to me
Have you ever checked out Wyrmwood's stone and wood dice? Some absolutely beautiful stuff there without being made of plastic.
Dice definitely don't have to be plastic, I don't know dick about gaming dice culture but whenever i think fancy dice i think glass, crystal, wood, minerals ...
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
If I ever find enough rubes to play tabletop games with me, you know I'm going to have some ridiculous dice hand-carved from opals or whatever stupid mineral I can get my hands on.
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
Dice definitely don't have to be plastic, I don't know dick about gaming dice culture but whenever i think fancy dice i think glass, crystal, wood, minerals ...
This exactly. The biggest downside to non-plastic is it's durability and fragility. There are some amazing crystal sets I've seen before, same with metal. Hell Wyrmwood is offering a tungsten D20 that's the size of a baseball or so for like $2k. I would love to have it.
Man imagine dying and sitting around in hell and feeling every time some idiot uses your femur to roll a critical fail seduction attempt on a make believe elf bar maid.
I follow thedicecraft on Instagram and his dice are absolutely fucking beautiful, but I can't afford $120-250 for a set of handmade, sharp-edged dice 😭😭😭
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
I have a set of polished stone polyhedrals and a handful of bone d6, which do stay separate from the standard dice bag
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System showed up and I got it all set up and it refused to boot...the video card was dead on arrival. So okay, I RMA it and send it back to get fixed. It then sat with them for a month and I got no word at all about progress. THEN on Sunday I was visiting my dad and got a Ring notification, I check the camera and BEHOLD it's FedEX with my computer! I'd never even been told it was fixed! I had no tracking number or notification of shipping! Its memorial day weekend and everything is closed so I can't even call to try to find anything out!
Anyway. It gets dropped off again today! I open the box and the tower isn't in the box and foam I had sent it in, its just in some foam in the bigger exterior box and it isn't sitting flat...shit. I open it up and reseat the video card just in case, everything looks fine. Try to boot and the CPU debug light flares up on the motherboard. Right about then they finally call me back and I talk with customer service and get transfered to tech support. Tech says something about how, 'yeah, I don't like to ship towers with the 3080 installed, they're so big and heavy things can crack...so anyway if you want to send it back to us again we can get it fixed!' Which...fucking, what? No, I'm sorry, one DOA delivery is understandable, but now you want me to just be cool with the fact that you've sent me a broken rig twice in a row? Hell no, dog, we're past fixing this shit.
So now I get to send it back and get a refund, but I still need a computer...my old tower died a few weeks ago and I was using my work laptop, but now I don't work at that school anymore and I don't get a new work laptop until I move in August. Honestly I'm considering saying fuck it and moving over to a 27" Mac - I'll be using a MacBook Pro a lot for work and making a bunch of educational videos and it would be nice for my things to work together. The only crappy thing is my entire Steam library would basically be worthless, which sucks, and I can't even find a PS5 much less try to buy one.
this seems to be... unfortunately par for the course
The more I think about it the more I'm leaning toward a Mac, but I'm not entirely sure. I did some looking and I guess you can still install Windows and run it no problem, so that solves most of my gaming concerns. I don't even need anything super powerful - I don't play anything super graphically intense or stream, so really the "mid range" GPU they're made with isn't a major concern, and I'm at the point where tinkering with hardware is more of a pain in the ass than it is fun. I just want something that works, that I can do my work on, and that I can sometimes play strategy games on, and I think the 27" Macs can do that.
Steam, Warframe: Megajoule
Well, hell. Once they start to breed, you officially have an infestation.
Does anyone know if you can buy some spray or like bait stations or something to deal with these?
My dream is to own the Korina standard, the Korina vector and a Korina Junior. The vector is basically an exact replica of a 1958 gibson flying v, I think they only made a numbered 72, and the only one I've ever seen was almost $4,500. So I've basically accepted I'm never getting one.
That said, I want a flying v real real bad, and I've found a few little Epiphones for not too much money. I've also got a $200 gift card I can redeem for a prepaid visa from work...
So I may be buying myself a flying v in the near future.
Edit: gotdamn is my Hamer an incredible guitar, tho. She's a little dinged here and there, and I've worn the gold off the hardware, but she sings like a siren. That's partly why I've never bought another guitar. It seems dumb to buy something I know won't even come close to what I've got, but since I don't have 2 grand laying around at any given time I can't just pick up another whenever I want. I don't particularly like Gibson, either and for what they sell for I could just get a used Hamer somewhere and it'd smoke it. I've got an Epiphone Les Paul and for what it is, it's a solid little guitar which is why I wouldn't mind dropping $700 or so on an Epiphone V.
I don't ever buy anything with the purpose of getting some sort of return later on. I buy it because I want it and I want to use it. I'm never going to part with my Hamer. That's mine until I die, and when I do it's going to be worn and dinged and scratched and it's gonna outplay everybody and everything it comes across. Whoever gets it after me is gonna be a lucky son of a bitch.
Goddammit the Juniors have gone up, too. The things I want are too much money.
and older Silvertones
Kays and Gretchs are nice too
Strats are about the ugliest guitars ever imo. looks like someone took an old man trucker ass and modeled the body to look just like it
my absolute favorite guitars are Zemaitis
edit: we have 4 gibsons, an Ibanez, a gretch, a yamaha 12 string, 2 custom made guitars, a no name acoustic, and a no name lap steel
This rules so hard
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I got an Uplift 4-leg desk to compliment this development and I sorely hope that I didn't make a mistake, *fingers crossed*. I'm not an especially tall person so as long as it is solid when sat and the wobble isn't crazy at my standing work height, I'll be happy.
My old job purchased Uplift desks for everyone ( 2 T legs ) and I had zero complaints about range or wobble, and I would have mine at near min height (25.7) while sitting, and pretty high height(43.6) while standing. The 4 leg should have even less wobble so you should have no problems!
my wife ordered some fancy dice for the two of us
they're pretty darn satisfying
not quite as hefty as the old brass set I used to have, but still some very solid resin
all 5 are selling for over $100 on ebay
I have like two thousand dollars worth of DS and ps2 games sitting in my closet
I haven't even looked at the transformers
I buy them for specific characters at this point. I have enough Chessex dice I don't need anymore of those. Also I might just buy a d20 here and there. It helps keep the cost down.
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I've been playing roleplaying games for most of my life and I have a couple of specific sets for specific purposes (my Fiasco dice, some unusual material dice), but everything else has always just been a big bag of assorted dice, pulling what I need when I need it.
I guess I don't really find dice aesthetically pleasing? Like I've got dozens of decks of cards that I've accumulated over the years, but that feels different to me.
I recently backed a Kickstarter for a couple sets of googly-eyed dice made by the same lady that made sets of rubber ducky dice (which I also backed the Kickstarter for)
Non sarcastic why? For me it comes down to Dice can be art, just like a beautiful set of playing cards, or well made/painted miniatures or terrain. Certainly not to everybody's taste of course, as you said.
As far as current dice kickstarters I've got a big pledge in for the Wyrmwood/Dispel kickstarter. HOPEFULLY I'll be able to get everyone D20s in time for Christmas. As for me personally I'm currently waiting for this one to end. I love this design.
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I also frequently find them quite garish in a way that I don't really like - this probably is tying in to the plastic thing, but they can feel very artificial to me
Edit: I don't play D&D anymore, which maybe factors in some too - when all your game requires is two to five d6, it's a bit different. I still have some games that use weirder dice, but even then it's less likely that I'll need the classic polyhedral set.
Have you ever checked out Wyrmwood's stone and wood dice? Some absolutely beautiful stuff there without being made of plastic.
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This exactly. The biggest downside to non-plastic is it's durability and fragility. There are some amazing crystal sets I've seen before, same with metal. Hell Wyrmwood is offering a tungsten D20 that's the size of a baseball or so for like $2k. I would love to have it.
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For that price I sure as hell hope they've had the ones pre-rolled out of them!
that site also had dice from real actual mammoth ivory and those were fucking expensive
But I also rarely use them as a result