Zeusthecat

My get rich quick scheme that is guaranteed to work for everyone is for every person to start a get rich quick scheme.

It seems like they move pretty naturally to me and I haven't noticed that. It could just be something I'm glossing over though.

I have everything cranked up to the max and so far the dynamic shadows have looked really nice. I see some slight jagged edges if I look close enough because anti-aliasing isn't compatible with the shader but it's hardly been noticeable for me. The animation on all the grass and trees is really incredible too. It honestly looks a lot better in motion than it does in a screenshot. Yeah, even with my latest build and a GTX 980 ti this game still dips well below 60 FPS in certain places, even with the default graphics. With the shader mod installed it seems to dip slightly lower than the dips I usually see but the lowest I've seen so far is about 25 FPS which is totally fine given that it regularly dips into the 30's with the default look.

I've been getting back into this again lately. I decided to try out some graphical mods and found a good shader and resource pack that make this game look really nice.

Chris, your PC build story was amazing. Well, amazing in the sense that so much of what you described is exactly what I went through this last weekend (although in my case I'm just dumb). I just got the last of my new PC parts delivered last week and had a couple similar freak out moments while I was putting it together on Saturday, one of which I feel incredibly stupid about in retrospect. It's been several years since I've put a PC together but I've done it enough times that I was feeling pretty confident about my ability to get it all done in a couple hours. So I started going through the motions, got the cpu installed, put on the thermal paste and spread it out evenly with a credit card, and got the cooler mounted without issue. I figured the hard part was over at that point and the rest should be a breeze. But then as I pulled out my two RAM sticks and tried to set them in their slots, I found that the heatsink on my badass gamer RAM made the stick protrude out too far which resulted in my giant cpu heatsink partially blocking one of the RAM slots (if it weren't for that RAM heatsink I would have had enough room to get the RAM under the cpu heatsink pipes that were tapering out over the RAM slots). It was super close though and I could almost get it seated if I went in at a slight angle but it was still just slightly blocked. So I went ahead and removed the cpu heatsink to temporarily get it out of the way, got my RAM installed, and ever so gently mounted the heatsink back onto the cpu. It wasn't the cleanest job though and that RAM stick is being forced to sit at a slight angle because the CPU heatsink is still slightly in the way. From there everything went really smooth and I got just about everything connected to the motherboard and realized I had two problems. My first issue was just that I was down a SATA cable which wasn't a big deal and I figured I would just run down to Fry's Electronics and grab one. My other issue was that I couldn't seem to find the right connectors to get all of my little daisy chained power cables connected back to the power supply. I just kept looking at all of the power supply cables that came in the box and the three cables coming out from the power supply and could not seem to find any way to get them all connected. So I figured I would just need some kind of a molex adapter and made my trip down to Fry's to get that and my missing SATA cable. I found the SATA cable I needed no problem but I must have sat there staring at all of the power supply cables for a solid 45 minutes. I just could not find the kind of adapter that I thought I needed and in a bit of a panic, just got desperate and grabbed a few things that I hoped would magically work somehow. I got back home and sure enough, those cables didn't help. So I started frantically Googling power cable adapters and did some research on my power supply to see if there were additional cables I was supposed to purchase separately but I just couldn't come up with anything. So on a whim, I pulled up a random Youtube video with like 1,000 views of a guy un-boxing the exact power supply I had purchased to see if there was something I was missing. I was about to stop the video after a few minutes but as soon as he pulled it out of the box, I instantly saw what my problem was. Apparently, all of the connectors I needed were right there on the back of the power supply and all I had to do was plug them directly into the unit. I guess I had mounted my power supply into the case so fast and without thinking that I never even looked at the back and just assumed it was like previous power supplies I had purchased where the cables coming out of the unit itself directly connected to all of the other daisy chained cables that were hooked up to the various drives. I probably wasted a solid three hours going down this stupid stupid rabbit hole and I still feel like a big fucking idiot for never taking 5 seconds to just look at the back of the power supply (to be fair, the documentation that came with it didn't show any diagrams or anything that pointed this out, I guess it just should have been that obvious). But from there, everything was a success and it booted up right away! My wife had also surprised me just last week with a new desk that she had a friend custom make from some old barn doors. Pictures and specs below: Specs: CPU - i7 4790k RAM - 16 GB 2400Mhz DDR3 GPU - GTX 980 ti SSD - 500 GB HDD - 2 X 1 TB

I think you're looking for the math thread.

Retire immediately. Pay off all my debt. Make a few big-ish purchases like a new house and an island in international waters. Do some noble things. Invest the remaining money and decide on a somewhat frugal standard of living that I would adhere to for the rest of my life, giving me and those close to me the money we need to pursue our life dreams while still living like normal human beings that aren't completely out of touch with reality.

I haven't kept up with this thread well enough to see if there has been discussion on Making a Murderer but man that show has me so bummed out. I have so little faith in our justice system.

Chrono Trigger I just love that title so much.

I'm guessing this? And hopefully not this.

I keep mine super simple: Completed Not Completed (still empty, hurray for no Steam backlog!)

I saw the new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie with my daughter last weekend. It was terrible and Jason Lee is a terrible actor. Don't watch this. But it had the guy who plays Buster in Arrested Development doing his best Buster. I love that guy and just seeing his stupid antics almost made it worth it.

I like to think in some parallel universe, Kenny Rogers made Star Wars movies and George Lucas was a country musician who started a restaurant chain.

I got some new jammies for my birthday last month. No flamethrowers unfortunately.

I saw someone link these older articles, some of which I read previously. Palmer always sent a pretty clear message regarding what price point they were targeting. Again, I don't think it's necessarily an unfair price, they just did a shitty job managing expectations. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2602906/final-oculus-rift-pricing-hardware-teased-as-gear-vr-reveals-oculus-ready-interface.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/technology/oculus-rift-headset-aims-for-affordable-virtual-reality.html?_r=0 http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Oculus-VR-Oculus-Rift-Subsidized-Free-Brandan-Iribe,23547.html

As a quick aside, I figured this write-up about Inside Out would be appropriate to post here: http://tay.kinja.com/inside-out-the-importance-of-sadness-1751057275 Inside Out may not work for everyone, but that article does a good job articulating why it resonated so well with me.

I guess the secret to good pictures is flamethrowers and bathrobes. I've got one of those...

I think the main problem is that they have always strongly hinted at a much lower price point. I think my disappointment comes mostly from them not setting expectations appropriately.

Kind of how I feel at this point. I just finished ordering the last of my PC parts for my upgrade and would have instantly pre-ordered this if it was < $400. But I just can't justify dropping another $600 yet. If it gets a bunch of glowing reviews and has a decent ecosystem, I might reconsider but I'm holding off for now.

Ouch. That is quite a bit more than what they originally alluded to.

I just don't even get what this MRA nonsense is supposed to even be about. From their actions, it seems that their mission is to make sure that everything in the world eventually just ends up as a white penis.

Wait, why are they boycotting Star Wars exactly? I'm sure the answer is as stupid as I am expecting but I would love to actually hear what offense this movie committed to men that earned it a "boycott".

After seeing the game re-released on PC, I was reminded of one of the things that terrified me most in video games: the environment in Turok: Dinosaur Hunter. The ever present fog was super oppressive and there was an ambiance to the atmosphere that just always gave me the chills.

I try to remind myself of that when criticizing this movie. For being the first full length CGI movie ever made, this movie set a very high bar and I can't imagine it being easy to hit every note perfectly with a new technology like that.