countstex

joined 2 years ago
[–] countstex 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is the Star Wars "parsecs" situation all over again!

[–] countstex 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'd go down the route of so called 'Walking Simulators'* though I use the term First Person Experiances, such as Dear Esther, Gone Home or maybe even Firewatch. Games were you can take you time and practice the feeling of movement. From there if you are looking to get into shooter style games go for something Co-Op. My wife and I started on Time-Splitters where she basically stayed back as a sniper whilst I ran in. (This was back in 98/99) From there we ended up going through Halo, Gears and eventually Borderlands as they came out. Anything where you have a bleed out / respawn mechanic is great.

*For me a walking simulator would be more like Octodad where you actually have to work at the walking! :D

[–] countstex 7 points 1 month ago

Probably not quite what you meant but two monitors for Dwarf Fortress is a god send. Game on one screen, the other for DFHack console, Announcements, SoundSense, Dward Therapist, and various other utils. Could probably use 3 actually...

[–] countstex 1 points 2 months ago

Could it be that there is no real 'catchment' area in Cities so the school has students from all over the city and so their families travel to watch their kids?

[–] countstex 4 points 2 months ago

I do enjoy City Planner Pays, such a lovely voice. But Biffa was my first, and therefore will always be my favourite. Though I haven't watched much since CS2 came out as that release was so not what I was looking for in a new Cities game.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by countstex to c/photomode@feddit.uk
 

Taken from the game Foundation, pre 1.0 release.

#Foundation #PolymorphGames

[–] countstex 3 points 5 months ago

Have Indy on the go on the XBOX, but also returned to Foundation, which is still in early access but making good progress as a more informal town builder.

[–] countstex 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yup, you can play the 'post steam' version via steam or free download and get the ASCII characters, however you are still forced to use the mouse to play it, which doesn't work for me, so I stick with the old 47 release and just play that forever I guess!

[–] countstex 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Jeg brugt tre år at lære dansk, jeg prøver at snakke danske når jeg kan, men alligevel ville folk skifte over til engelsk når de hører min accent. :D Eller nogle gange tysk!

[–] countstex 1 points 8 months ago

Excellent, we will watch your career with great interest! ;)

[–] countstex 2 points 8 months ago

I have some batch jobs on my windows machine that do it, so I guess I could go to the trouble of building my own container to run them, was just looking for an easy way out ;)

[–] countstex 13 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I'll have to check this out. By any chance can you give it a Playlist and have it monitor it for changes and auto-download any new entries?

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Stressed CPU! (thomsen-jones.co.uk)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by countstex to c/the_gamer_tavern@lemmy.world
 

Even a game as low intensity as Botany Manor is proving a bit of a test for my old cpu! :D

[–] countstex 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Make that two, been using yt-dl manually for a while, loving the idea of running it on my NAS directly. Nice.

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Sandskulpture (cdn.masto.host)
submitted 10 months ago by countstex to c/foto
 

På Nexø Havn, 2024.

 
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by countstex to c/buildapc@lemmy.world
 

Hello all, looking for a sanity check and any advice from you good folks. I've always built my own PCs, however I haven't done a build for myself in some time. For a bit of perspective my current system is an i5-3750... so yup.

Anyways, I'm thinking of hopping up to an AM5 system hoping that it will be valid for a few years (though maybe not the 10+ I've had out of this system!) while also getting in as relatively cheaply as possible, whilst still being in a fairly solid place. So my thought are as follows:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X (Cooling via a Pure Rock 2)
MoBo: ASUS TUF Gaming B650-PLUS WiFi
RAM: Kingston FURY Beast DDR5 6000Mhz 32GB
GFX: MSI RTX 3060 Ventus 2X (12GB)
NVMe: WD Black SN770 2TB
PSU: Corsair RM850e
Case: NZXT H7 Flow Midi Tower (Will be a shame to let go of my old NZXT Phantom but too many of the fans are weird sizes so awkward to replace, and wasn't designed with modern AIOs in mind, should I go that route in the future.)

A couple of extra bits of information:

It's mainly a system I will use for gaming, though these days there's not so many fast pace shooters as there are slow paced city builders and the like, so ultimate frame rates are not a super top priority for me. Edit: Gaming on a 1440P LG Ultragear

I went RTX 3060 as it seemed to be the cheapest way to get a relatively modern card (Currently using a GTX 1660 Ti) with 12GB of VRAM, as I've started playing around a lot with AI Image Generation which does like to eat up VRAM.

PSU is probably way more than this system will need, but figured it was best to leave headroom for future CPU/GPU upgrades, and the price difference for lower wattages seems negligible. (Contemplated a 1000W, but there the price jump seems to lie)

So any advice, or just "yup looks good" feedback would be welcomed before I jump back in to building.

Oh also this build is currently around the 10,000 DKK range and hoping to stick around that area. ($1,400 / £1,150 / €1,350)

 

Continuing to work on getting realistic skin tones.

 

Just moved over to using ComfyUI from Automatic1111, and been working on a theme of "Shield Maidens"

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by countstex to c/foto
 

Hmm, getting an alert the image is too large... 800x800 and 111Kb?

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submitted 2 years ago by countstex to c/foto
 

Taken on a walk in Bodilsker. Fra en gåtur i Bodilksker.

#Bornholm #Bodilsker

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