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[nostrildamus]

@machpants said in Gaming/VR:

Fuck me I didn;t realise how shit the ISP offerings are on the other side of the ditch. Third world shit!

Apr 11, 2021  /  Networking

Telstra throws down in the superfast NBN price wars, offers 250Mbps for the price of 50Mbps

The telcos are at it again.

Compare 950 ish (max 1000) for 85 NZ, no contract

oh you mean the NBN?

Technicians reveal the real problem with NBN

Is your NBN internet or landline not working very well?

I ran into some people on that who were looking forward to retirement rather than stay in the job..

[Tim]

[Machpants]

Go and grab it, awesome game

Jun 10, 2021  /  Gaming

Remedy’s magnificent Control is free on the Epic Games store, and you don’t want to miss it

The Epic Games Store is giving away Control for free, and you won't want to miss out. This game is fantastic on every level.

Also, cannot fucking wait. I hope knifing is back to it’s best, as BC2/BF3/BF4!

I get my money’s worth out of Beef!

[Tim]

New portable 7" pc gaming system from Valve:

Steam Deck

Available now.

[Duluth]

@tim

It's kind of ugly but the specs are great considering it doesn't have to push a high resolution. I'll probably get one

[Tim]

@duluth The LPDDR5 is a big plus for bandwidth.

[Machpants]

I'd get the second model with NVMe disk, too

[nzzp]

@tim that's a pretty cool idea. Could be tempted

[Tim]

The LPDDR5 memory is quad channel (128 bit).

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/onmj52/steam_deck_to_feature_quad_channel_lpddr5_5500mts/

[Machpants]

Although not for user replacement, the HDD is replaceable, so maybe I will buy the cheaper model and upgrade it

[Tim]

[NTA]

Righto nerds, I just grabbed an HP Omen on discount ($600 markdown) and once I finish setting it up I'm keen.

Last game I really snagged was Witcher III and a bit of COD. My previous laptop was 6 years old so it was doing ok.

What's good?

[Tim]

@nta Do you like 4X games?

[NTA]

@tim said in Gaming/VR:

@nta Do you like 4X games?

Civ 6 is mostly what I've been doing on the current lappy.

[Tim]

@nta I've played that a fair bit over the last year. Stellaris is fun, but can get a bit too into micro-management.

[NTA]

@tim said in Gaming/VR:

@nta I've played that a fair bit over the last year. Stellaris is fun, but can get a bit too into micro-management.

Recently beat it on King mode - first getting a fairly easily diplomatic culture victory as Greece (Dude Greece, not Chick Greece) and then managed a King Science win as Tomyris. I just let the random leader thing spin and see what happens.

[antipodean]

Difference between my old and new PC. Amazing how good graphics are now.

[NTA]

@antipodean said in Gaming/VR:

Difference between my old and new PC. Amazing how good graphics are now.

I'm going from i7-4720HQ to i7-10750H. Graphics from GeForce 840M (4GB DDR3) to GeForce RTX2070 (8GB DDR6).

It is a new world...

[NTA]

Jesus fuck I loaded up Witcher 3 on this new box and the lighting quality is nothing short of astonishing.

Even the boy - who rubbished my old laptop in favour of his PS4 - shut up for a second to admire it.

[antipodean]

For those who like problem solving, I should have mentioned Frostpunk was free to play over the weekend.