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A wise worm has all the answers you will ever need...
Defensive Qualities: xxx - leftover placeholder?
Otherwise getting strong "Alice In Wonderland" Caterpillar vibes from this guy, guessing that's intentional. :)
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Defensive Qualities: xxx - leftover placeholder?A wise worm has all the answers you will ever need...
Yup. I forgot to delete it. Thank you.
Otherwise getting strong "Alice In Wonderland" Caterpillar vibes from this guy, guessing that's intentional. :)
Yes, with a sprinkling of Leto II's philosophical ramblings...
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A wise worm has all the answers you will ever need...
wouldn't that be a bookworm?
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wouldn't that be a bookworm?A wise worm has all the answers you will ever need...
Not that kind of answers.
Of course the Elden Ring sale is just a few dollars away of what I have on PayPal currently...
So I installed Atlas Fallen: The Reign of Sands, from one of previous Humble Choices...
At the start is asks ne if I want to run it in Vulkan or DX12. I picked DX12, and noticed it was made by the same guys as both Surges. Sounds promising...
I start setting up the game, changing the controls to my liking. One thing that caught my eye was that Auto video function set everything to High... (the description noted that it will set everything to Low if it fails to recognize GPU), weird, as there is no way that a quite recent game would run in all high setting on Intel integrated graphic card...
I start the game and see the hand-draw intro. All is fine until after the intro when screen goes black. I see the Tutorial instructions, I hear the sounds of movement and lashing around when I press buttons but there is no image. The game tells me to look at light with mouse, but there is no light, no hint of movement.
I run a YT video showing the start of the game and it definitely shouldn't look like that.
Crap.
I started tried to start the game using Vulkan instead of DX12. Nope. It crashed immediately.
Ok, trying again with DX12, making sure that everything is set to Low. This time the game crashes after the intro.
*sigh*
It seems that it will end on the pile of "waiting until dedicated graphic cards"...
It seems that it will end on the pile of "waiting until dedicated graphic cards"...
Did you ever figure out that card you have?
Because I'm cleaning the studio shed and I have a pile of graphics cards Shiro left me, including a GTX 3060 which is still a pretty solid modern graphics card.
Assuming that:
(a) It's legal to ship such things to Poland, and
(b) you can use one,
I'd be happy to send you a list of the cards I was going to eBay and you can take your pick and we can see just how stupid postage from here to Poland is. (Impus Minor has been getting dinged $80 just to ship things to his girlfriend in Fargo, so I'm thinking shipping a card to Poland might well be prohibitively expensive.)
I checked the USPS web site on restrictions for shipments to Poland and it had the very helpful, "These things are illegal" (no electronics were listed), but "many other things require licenses so check with your recipient to make sure they have the correct license".
It seems that it will end on the pile of "waiting until dedicated graphic cards"...Did you ever figure out that card you have?
It is Intel B660 motherboard with Intel UHD Graphics 730 chipset.
Because I'm cleaning the studio shed and I have a pile of graphics cards Shiro left me, including a GTX 3060 which is still a pretty solid modern graphics card.
Looks nice from what I am googling. Far above and beyond integrated gfx, but that's not high threshold to pass.
I would have to make if replacing the PSU might violate the manufacturer's warranty or not (three years, well, now two and a half year of free repairs is nothing to sneer at).
Assuming that:
(a) It's legal to ship such things to Poland, and
(b) you can use one,
I'd be happy to send you a list of the cards I was going to eBay and you can take your pick and we can see just how stupid postage from here to Poland is. (Impus Minor has been getting dinged $80 just to ship things to his girlfriend in Fargo, so I'm thinking shipping a card to Poland might well be prohibitively expensive.)I checked the USPS web site on restrictions for shipments to Poland and it had the very helpful, "These things are illegal" (no electronics were listed), but "many other things require licenses so check with your recipient to make sure they have the correct license".
It would have to have a notification of contents, probably listing estimated value (customs declaration?), and I would have to pay VAT tax (probably 23%) and tariff (ca. 10%, as far as I could find on a such short notice).
3060 12GB seems to cost around $300-350 in Poland now, though it fluctuates (both because of shifting USD:PLN exchange rates, and because the price seems to be going up and down often).
I have no faintest clue how do the customs house calculates the value of the package. Do they have some kind of list, check the current value, or simply go with what is listed in declaration.
...It would have to have a notification of contents, probably listing estimated value, and I would have to pay VAT tax (probably 23%) and tariff (ca. 10%, as far as I could find on a such short notice).
3060 12GB seems to cost around $300-350 in Poland now, though it fluctuates (both because of shifting USD:PLN exchange rates, and because the price seems to be going up and down often).
I have no faintest clue how do the customs house calculates the value of the package. Do they have some kind of list, check the current value, or simply go with what is listed in declaration.
I find it bizarre that you'd have to pay VAT and tariffs on a gift, but considering the U.S.'s horrific taxation on emigration, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that even shipped objects pay taxes.
On the bright side, the shipping looks to be about $85.85, which isn't nearly as ridiculous as I thought it'd be...
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I find it bizarre that you'd have to pay VAT and tariffs on a gift, but considering the U.S.'s horrific taxation on emigration, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that even shipped objects pay taxes....It would have to have a notification of contents, probably listing estimated value, and I would have to pay VAT tax (probably 23%) and tariff (ca. 10%, as far as I could find on a such short notice).
3060 12GB seems to cost around $300-350 in Poland now, though it fluctuates (both because of shifting USD:PLN exchange rates, and because the price seems to be going up and down often).
I have no faintest clue how do the customs house calculates the value of the package. Do they have some kind of list, check the current value, or simply go with what is listed in declaration.
Now I am not so sure about VAT, but definitely tariffs are obligatory - gifts are exempt but only to 45 EUR.
Claiming things purchased in USA as "gifts" or asking friends being in USA to buy things for you and send as "gifts" was so widespread that I am not surprised at all that EU went with hard stance on that.
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And, as our new, anti-vax, anti-fluoride, anti-nationalized-health-care leadership transitions into office with their incredibly anti-labor advisors, I have to ask:
Do they watch these movies, see the toothless, pox-ridden beggars littering the streets, and say, "Ah, those were the good old days!"?
(b) you can use one,
Uh... Is that one with two or three fans? Because from what I am seeing in specs those with three fans might be too long for my box, which is less than 30 centimeters inside. There might be things in the way that cut the practical space down to something like 25 centimeters even - I will have to measure when I open the computer to recheck the PSU for warranty and the detachability of the cables.
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** spoiler omitted **
A Christmas Carol is a psychological horror, duh! Poor-poor Scrooge going completely bonkers at the end, failing prey to gaslighting and brainwashed into a dangerous radical!
(b) you can use one,Uh... Is that one with two or three fans? Because from what I am seeing in specs those with three fans might be too long for my box, which is less than 30 centimeters inside. There might be things in the way that cut the practical space down to something like 25 centimeters even - I will have to measure when I open the computer to recheck the PSU for warranty and the detachability of the cables.
They all have three fans -- we buy full-sized cases and massive cards.
They all have three fans -- we buy full-sized cases and massive cards.(b) you can use one,Uh... Is that one with two or three fans? Because from what I am seeing in specs those with three fans might be too long for my box, which is less than 30 centimeters inside. There might be things in the way that cut the practical space down to something like 25 centimeters even - I will have to measure when I open the computer to recheck the PSU for warranty and the detachability of the cables.
That... might simplify the things. Ah, well. We'll see when I can be half-a**ed to open the computer again.
Or not, if it will be a very close match...
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I learned today it is 2 days until Christmas.
Yup!
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Speaking of graphics...
This is how Elden Ring will likely look, more or less, on my computer. This is a YouTube recording of someone playing ER on the same graphics chipset as mine, though I have a newer cpu (12th gen i5-12400), which is—allegedly—slightly-slightly better, or at least a bit newer.
This is quite typical of how a lots of games look for me.
Hmmm...
Maybe I should have check if I can actually buy Elden Ring on the current sale? The price seems to be within the margin of error of exchange rate on PayPal...
Huh... It worked?
It worked...
It's installing now...
I have 8 cents left on PayPal (and 31 Eurocents, or whatever they are called...).
50 GB? I somehow expected more...
And here I was supposed to go to sleep...
Forgive me, for I have bought a game for more than 50% of its regular price...
And the moment of truth...
Will it run like in the video?
I use a toothpaste that contains fluoride. Because of this, I don’t want my water to also be treated with fluoride. There is an MCL and a secondary MCL for fluoride.
Otherwise, the Christmas Carol point is well made and humorous.
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Elden Ring works fine so far. I would certainly appreciate better graphic quality, but it works fine. I even managed to set it to "Medium", and it works smoothly so far, though I am certain it is not real medium quality offered by this game, there are definitely some hardware functions missing that make it worse than it could be at this tier.
Rise, ye tarnished!!
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50 GB? I somehow expected more...
Yeah it's amazing how much they can fit in those 50 GBs too!
I am playing an astrologer...
Why do I feel like I picked a sort-of-easy-at-least-at-start mode?
The first-first enemy was far too resistant to my spell and quickly smacked me down (dodging feels slow). Since that time, I... Didn't die?
I run into a dragon, so I valiantly run away—I got caught in an edge of its breath, but barely survived and healed, not even stoping to look back.
I avoided the guy on horse, because, well, he had a horse and I didn't at that time.
When some big, ugly giant jumped out, I tactically retreated while spamming spells at his awful ankles. He managed to smack me with the edges of his enormous reach, but I healed through, restored my energy, kept my distance, and spammed more spells until he died.
Ok, my one complaint is that dodging is trerrible...
Ok, my one complaint is that dodging is trerrible...
do you have a heavy load? It makes dodging harder (fat rolling it's called).
Medium. Astrologer robes, short sword, small shield, meteoric staff. I might try running... Less encumbered.
You can't horos-cope with all that gear, hey?
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(Stomps through thread in muck boots, scattering snow and bits of hay).
Horses and chickens are fed, ice chipped off the trough in the pasture, now I get my coffee!
Merry Christmas, FaWtLites!
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A gran spotted in the wild! Now Timmy, don't spook it...we want to observe this for a while...
How you been?
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Whatever you celebrate or don't...*hugs*.
Continue to make your little corner of reality just a little less s**!ty.
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Continue to make your little corner of reality just a little less s!@~ty.
I'm flinging as fast as I can!
The DLC costs how much?!
(it's more than I paid for the game itself...)
I got yer downloadable content right here!
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One of Scint and my Xmas traditions is watching Muppet Christmas Carol and you can bet this was going through my head at multiple points in the story.
(The actual answer is probably something more like "they don't do anything as pedestrian as watch movies".)
The DLC costs how much?!
(it's more than I paid for the game itself...)
It's basically a whole other game.
** spoiler omitted **One of Scint and my Xmas traditions is watching Muppet Christmas Carol and you can bet this was going through my head at multiple points in the story.
(The actual answer is probably something more like "they don't do anything as pedestrian as watch movies".)
Not a tradition (yet), but we watched the top-tier Shaw Brothers film 'Battle Wizards', and ate cheese.
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Not good.A gran spotted in the wild! Now Timmy, don't spook it...we want to observe this for a while...
How you been?
The longer answer, without going too far into it, is that last November and December I had 2 hospital stays totaling about 3.5 weeks to treat a bleeding duodenal ulcer and a nasty leg infection. I spent the next 7 months trying to heal the hole in my leg the infection caused, including various treatments to try and help with my messed up veins.
Meanwhile, on January 1st, my Dad went to the ER for a kidney stone, and Mom convinced him to tell the doctors about the other problems he'd been dealing with (ie, ignoring) for the last 6 months or so. They did some tests and found out he had a cancerous 4cm diameter tumor in his colon. Cue months of intense chemo, which didn't help. So he chose to stop treatment, begin hospice at home, and passed away in August.
Add in all the normal (and not so normal) crap with work, and life in general, and it's been a s%~@ty year.
I hope everyone else's year has been better.
Holy carp. You have my sympathies. And I don't know that anyone's year could have been worse, though I hope it's not a contest.
Take care of yourself!
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Persistence of opinion is a remarkable thing. I'm sure it's hardwired into our brains to help with our survival, but it's still very interesting to see it firsthand.
As we choked down the unfortunate atrocity that was last night's Christmas dinner (a Costco turducken), everyone's response was, "What did you expect from a Costco turducken?"
And the answer, remarkably, was, "A lot."
For over 3 decades now we've purchased Costco's pre-prepared foodstuffs, from their take-n-bake salmon (excellent) to their pot pies, bulgogi, and enchiladas (good) to their other offerings (always perfectly palatable). So we have a strong positive opinion of Costco's food selections. Thus, we were quite disappointed when the turducken was, in Impus Major's terms, "Awful." It was a mass of pre-processed meats, from the sausage stuffing to the duck paste to the mashed-together turkey bits. Everything had been ground up, treated, and re-formed into a loaf, with the possible exception of the chicken. But was in no way, shape, or form, composed of the original unprocessed bird meats.
This morning I walked by our PS4 and noticed that someone had left it on standby mode, meaning that as the sun rises and I clean the house, it WILL turn on because of the horrific power system design and I realized that the PS4 was the device that completely soured me on all PlayStations forevermore. I am unlikely to ever buy a Chevrolet again because of the poor quality of our 1991 Nova and all the rental cars I got as a traveling trainer from 1999-2003. It's been 20 years since I've driven a Chevy, but I am still soured on them.
So people form opinions about a brand based on good or bad experiences, and then they're remarkably stubborn in changing those opinions. Interesting to see it in myself, to say the least.