A selection of existential moments, in sim ☕
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Spent the evening spreading aspirational cybernetic luxury space capitalism, despite the best efforts to the contrary by my very militant neighbor to the south. ✨ Embrace the emptiness within! ✨🤑
Spent the week painting the inside of my house. Tired of ‘Heaven’s clabbered taint apartments for lease’ as a universal domestic environ. Only half done. Kitchen must be painted ‘I wish I hadn’t eat it brown’ and common areas in ‘there’s no way out of the sky.’ Legs ache after 43 hours of color’s death march. But Friday belongs to Admiral Ackbar, and thus is for video games about space, not for working. Good evening, internet.
Got my freighter on this save. Nice workin’ man’s B-Class with a Korvax first mate. Also, got my first ever Sentinel Interceptor. Just a humble C-Class, so my fighter’s better when fully fitted out. Probably just admire it in the hangar until I find a better one or upgrade it someday. The salvage quest was cool, though. Ship collecting is an addiction. I forgot how much fun this game can be. Always another hill to climb 🔭
Quite a time to be alive, to be sure. Implications and doom and collapse and all that. That’s all I gotta say about any of it. People didn’t want to hear what I had to say when it would have mattered. Punished constantly for trying to make a positive difference. I see no reason to offer comment now. Reap what you have sown and you’re all welcome to it.
So, I’m optimizing this cloud-bound corporate spaghetti monstrosity of an OS because I like for things to be ‘just so,’ and I’m looking for the basic but seemingly absent OS feature of putting a fucking clock on the fucking desktop, and I discover, to my boundless derision and unending amusement, that you apparently have to download a third-party widget app to get a simple desktop clock. The only other option is the tiny bitch in the corner squished by the giant notification panel that no one looks at like ever.
So, I bought a battery-operated wall clock. If Mars attacks and the grid goes poopsticks, I, alone, will know the time. I will be the time king and you will all make obeisance to me for the secret temporal knowledge that I possess. Don’t need no downloads. Don’t need no permissions. Don’t need no login. I can look at the wall, at my timeless plastic analog clockface, and mission accomplished. God damn the twenty first century is stupid.
I’ll leave the song there as a reminder for myself regarding the particulars of the calendar. Six hours of sleep in the last three days. Starting to see shit that ain’t there crawling around in the corners of my eyes 😆
I dunno why people keep hating on the RTX 4060 series. Sure, they’re expensive af (the 16GB Ti is like buying a Series X, basically, even though it’s the ‘budget’ enthusiast model). And, yeah, the 128-bit bus is tighter on paper, and yeah, putting 8GB of VRAM in the base model was a goof move (just get the 16GB one you’ll thank yourself in a couple years).
But I was testing No Man’s Sky on ultra at 4k60 with a bunch of other shit going on systemwide and this was the load. Smooth as butter, case quiet as can be (the disk was busy with something else, ignore that lol). Video encode performance is really nice as well, so far, at least at 1080 60fps with almost lossless quality settings.
It’s not the fastest card on the market right now, but wtf more do people need? I suppose if you wanted 120fps it wouldn’t do for any newer titles, but who cares? I always try to get into the budget tier enthusiast bracket, somewhere between an X060 Ti and an X070, but the 70s are too damned expensive nowadays. Haven’t had one of those since WoW Burning Crusade, lol. I try to buy ones that will last, usefully, for at least a few years, cause I’m poor.
Anyway, I need to test the new one with Starfield and Baldur’s Gate 3 🙂