This is the Star Wars “parsecs” situation all over again!

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

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…

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.

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!

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

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 ;)

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?

I’m not the OP but I like how you are thinking. Might look into this idea myself.

True, true it is just a deposit, but it certainly helps. Compared to England where I lived until I was 38 there are far fewer bottles littering the streets here in Denmark, although a lot of that can be put down to general public attitude probably. Never had a bottle stab me! Sounds like a case of bad quality control.

Oh wait… PANT & pants… So was being a bit slow! 😂

Normally one or the other is enough. Wearing both is 'more than needed" but does work as a safety net. :)

Maybe they make them better here in Denmark. Plus we have “Pant” where you pay more for the bottles but get money back when you return them so it’s a “belt and braces” approach I guess!

Perhaps becuase you’ve only opened it half way, you need to lift it back over again and clip in under the rim.

At my age with my eyesight a little up-scaling is fine, especially as I’ve been having to spend the past few years playing newer games at half resolution sometimes to get decent frame-rates on the 1660 ;) I’ll certainly be keeping an eye out for any price drops when the next series of cards come out. Hoping this build will be one I can tinker with better parts as the prices drop in the future.

The 7600 vs 7600X here in Denmark is only a 100 DKK difference, (About $14) so I figured, what the hell :)

Good point, the one i have flagged right now is CL36 so I’ll have a look into the options there.

Yeah, I was thinking of going full AMD as I haven’t for a long time, and nVidia are a little, shall we say, consumer unfriendly… but like you say I’m not sure how well that will play with the AI stuff. I actually looked at getting a second hand 3060 just to save money so I could replace it sooner in the future but not a huge number of them out there locally, especially as I’m on a small island which further limits that route.

Just realised I never listed my monitor resolution, but I think either option will be good enough for 1440P?

Good info, thanks. I’ve certainly seen a few YT vids with people having issues with Expo, had hoped they would have been ironed out by now, but as you say not game ending stuff, just rather annoying I can imagine.

Model: AnalogMadness V6 LORA(s): Add Detail Steps 1-12 Euler (Normal) Steps 13-25: dpmpp_3m_sde (karras) Prompt: 35 year old English woman sitting in a library, facing away, wearing a dress and high heels, detailed skin, subsurface scattering, (wrinkles:0.5), (blemishes, folds, moles, skin imperfection, veins, freckles:0.3), muscular thigh, low angle, bookshelves,

(8k, uhd, full resolution, masterpiece, best quality, full resolution, ultra-detailed, velvia, iso 400, f/1.4, film grain, raw photo), sharp focused, bokeh, low angle

Love how, in this instance, the extra “toes” to the left of the picture actually add to the atmosphere of the creature.

Thanks, I’m spending a lot of time playing with all the skin ‘imperfections’ to try and avoid the “airbrushed model” look I seem to get by default. Which makes sense given the vat majority of content the AI has to work with I guess.