My house has all the good stuff I want in it. And it’s cozy. And my cats are here. And the sounds are (mostly) soothing. And I know exactly where I can walk around naked without being seen through the windows!

Why would I want to be anywhere else?

I got the biggest case available when I bought this one, specifically so I could replace stuff down the line. I just didn’t bank on that being such a… big task. :)

Thanks for this info! I appreciate it! I’m sort of at a loss when it comes to hardware or how this shit even works, so including the build for me was super helpful!

Since I still have a GPU from a few years ago (certainly a bargain model but a standalone card nonetheless) I’m gunna try your suggestions, and just get a different video card if needed. Even a $200-300 gpu would only bring me back up to the 6-700 range so.

I stepped down to the 7600, but with everything and thermal paste, $460 for new, which is very doable (I couldn’t find the stuff used but that’s mostly because I couldn’t tell if the thing was the same as what I was looking for…). It’s all an upgrade from where I’m at now, so that works for me. And I still have the 256gb ssd installed in that old beast so I… feel like that’s probably everything that I can’t just reuse from the existing situation (like the bays and stuff). I also swapped over to this because it’s available tomorrow where the other wasn’t until mid September, and it was actually less expensive, despite apparently being better in nearly every way… hopefully that’s not a mistake.

That’s far far far better than I was planning. I’m really glad I came on here and asked, you lot have been super helpful.

Thanks that’s very helpful!

I looked up parts on pc part picker that were compatible with a gigabyte b650m which meets the am5 standard and was the first cheap one I found (old pc was also gigabyte mobo, and I was happy with it overall). For the things I know I need to replace (cpu, gpu, mobo, ram, and a new cooling system just in case) in the sort of cheapest I could find category, came to $720 with a 3060 and 2x16 ddr5. I can swing that. My max budget was $1,200 or so, but I’d have been upset with myself the whole time for it. That’s a sizeable chuck of my money. Still, I do this stuff instead of going out and spending, so it’s worth investing in.

That’s ofc looking at new parts. Used would probably be better priced, but as a rough estimate sort of thing that’s workable.

The music of the universe is a symphony, damnit. That’s inherently complex!

It’s a genuine shame the vibrating strings of reality sound like tinnitus to me.

Have you tried jumping? Sounds like that may be the ticket!

As a fellow autist, but also a cis woman person, I think there’s a genuine and clear difference between the two, but… I viscerally understand infodumps when the other person already knows…

You gas yourself up so much to share the thing and they are like… mmhmm. Deflation city. And it’s hard to stop yourself from sharing your own personal understanding of things with people, even if they can correct you, which you hope they will do if you are wrong, omg that would be amazing!

That contrasts so hard with the condescending “I know more than you” attitude. Because the things those dipshits pick to harp on are usually the more superficial aspects of the thing.

Like that’s nice, I’m glad you know the specific term for the thing, genuinely, now let’s proceed from our mutual understanding and iron out the details together!

But that’s really different from someone who talks over you, is wrong, won’t be proven wrong, don’t care or know all that much (like dunning kruger sort of thing)

Ah, see my toilets are always covered, my cats are indoor-only, and I haven’t had a dog in decades, so I don’t have weather worries except for my chicken friends (USDA hardiness zone 4, whooo we can’t do shit!) and whatever else.

And I don’t have the finances to marine a tank lol that shit is wildly expensive, and intensive, and I’m lazy as sin lol so freshwater plant water cubes are what I keep mostly. I have a 55 gal in the kitchen with like 5 live bearing small fish… I’m not a fish person, I’m a “box of water with some plants in” sort of person :)

Fwiw tho my USDA zone 4 has been getting monsoon rained the last few years too… out of season no less. Our monsoon season is winter, so we should get a ton of snow but now we just get rain all the time.

Yeah I think it just smells and tastes more like what they naturally expect.

And honestly works for me because I don’t have to deal with the shit that crops up in managed fountains. They get algae and thick blooms of slime bacteria/mold. Not amazing for health unless it’s a very easy fountain to clean (most are the opposite)

But have a 5-10 gallon tank with a half inch of topsoil an inch of sand, and a bunch of cute plants… maybe some freshwater shrimp and scuds to clean up the plant waste… you are golden for pet water because shit you can leave that for several days and they won’t dramatically reduce levels.

If you don’t have fish, a simple bubble-driven sponge filter is the way to go.

And any saliva bacteria or whatever just gets consumed by the micro and macrobiotic, rather than forming bacteria mats that offput harmful nonsense in the water.

Win-win.

For my home, no, that’s not possible. They get RO(reverse osmosis, second to distilled in purity, or third if you count lab-created) water which filters that sort of thing out. They don’t like the pure water tho, and prefer the tanks.

But in general, perhaps; that’s certainly what I taste when I drink tap water these days (have used RO for over a decade now for all my water needs except tooth brushing - what a weird term for such a weird concept…).

I have a lead pipe feeding my house so all my tanks are filled from the RO, as is all animal water (chickens, quail, cats)

Haha super dilution, but yeah I guess it would be!

I just assume they like the natural taste of it. The water I give them in a fountain is all RO, and they probably barely smell it or taste it, but the additional nice shit from plants and whatever makes the water taste fresh…?

(did you know most mammals can taste water, and it has a flavor? Humans can too if they pay attention and drink enough of it!)

Haha yeah, the tanks they can drink from are just plants an invertebrate life. Shrimp, scuds, seed shrimp. And plants.

Maybe they like shellfish 😜

I just have aquariums.

Like I also have a water fountain in the kitchen just for them made of old aquarium filter parts, but they never touch it. They drink from my bedroom or living room aquariums.

Maybe they like that the water is plant filtered, maybe they just like to be dicks, whatever the reason they only drink from aquariums

I didn’t read the post and took longer than it should have to realize that the bottom half-ish are non-Roman. (Numbers are Arabic! So half!)

I… speak Russian tho (badly, non-fluently), so I should have known…

I wish I had the patience to make my bases actually look decent, and lay them out well for efficiency. Instead I end up with dozens of people (I had 85 at one point) and just madly try to accommodate all of them by settling the -entire- base map 😅

And then I give up because of overwhelming lag (don’t really have a gaming pc) and start over.

This looks really neat.

48 million is honestly such a pathetically small number for the obscene wealth that’s going to be present… that’s like .00001% of the net worth of the attendees (guesstimate). Fucking pathetic to bend over for that.

Certainly not the point, just, like, a thing.

“Well it’s wood, it’ll survive the elements. Besides, it’s not like I can bring it inside a building or anything so what difference does it make if it stays out there for a while longer, you know?”

Well behaved women seldom make history.

- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 1976