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Off Topic / Re: hobby discussion thread

« on: August 15, 2020, 08:16:41 PM »

You guys got any favorite books or authors

recently got through the first few Witcher (Sapkowski) novels. definitely a fun read and would recommend, but nothing can beat the satisfying simplicity of the Hobbit for me


made this clip while playing around with OBS Studio/Adobe Premiere. lossless 1440p/240hz recording comes out to like 30GB per minute, still in awe at the size of that. somehow managed to hit front page of Reddit with 140k total views

honestly the 12.5ms advantage is one of the least important aspects of high refresh monitors, but its a nice crunchy number thats easy to showcase

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Off Topic / Re: Should I wait for Nvidia Series 3000 or just get the 2080 Super

« on: August 12, 2020, 03:35:52 AM »

get an EVGA card so you can step up to 3000 series within 90 days

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Off Topic / Re: hobby discussion thread

« on: August 11, 2020, 05:50:50 PM »

recently built this abomination


on a related note, 240hz looks lightsaber-through-butter smooth

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Off Topic / Re: Choosing Between Two PCs to Build Assist Me

« on: August 07, 2020, 03:48:35 PM »

If you're mostly gaming it might be worth it to consider Intel due to increased per core performance and clocks. Comet lake isn't as bad as their previous gens in terms of price/performance. you do lose PCIE 4.0 but that won't matter if you're running PCIE 3.0 at x16 (GTX 2080 Ti doesn't even fully saturate it).

go with ITX. IMO there's not much need for additional slots from a bigger form factor when a decent itx board will have everything built in (audio, LAN, wifi, m.2)

new nvidia cards are coming out soon (rumoured september), I would strongly recommend going EVGA so you can take advantage of their step up program to upgrade to a 3000 series card

and as said above, I strongly recommendbthe main drive is m.2 nvme

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Off Topic / Re: hobby discussion thread

« on: July 29, 2020, 07:09:23 PM »

summer in full blast here. good for shooting.

i've also made perhaps the most garbage photogrammetry data set to date

karting had pretty much been the main thing in my life from age 10 and my first race in cars is this weekend in these bad boys

how fast can one of these go?

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Off Topic / Re: hobby discussion thread

« on: July 28, 2020, 11:50:13 PM »

we live in a society

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Off Topic / Re: hobby discussion thread

« on: July 24, 2020, 10:48:58 PM »

nice bro, you used a drone there? i love drones but all i got is a stuff mini-drone

used the DJI Mavic Air 2 for that shot
trying out some photogrammetry stuff


DJI Mavic Mini is a great starting point for content creation

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Off Topic / Re: hobby discussion thread

« on: July 24, 2020, 02:17:47 PM »

i would suck colossal amount of richard for some optical zoom on this thing

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Off Topic / Re: hobby discussion thread

« on: July 22, 2020, 08:26:40 PM »

loving phenomenal photos

^

this is hot

thank

It's been a journey, I started off wanting to get the "perfect" shot of my city just to update the wiki page, ended up getting into DSLR photography and drone shenanigans. Drones still blow my mind, what an incredible technology

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Off Topic / Re: hobby discussion thread

« on: July 22, 2020, 02:17:35 PM »

i've been into cityscape photography lately, really I want to make photos that look distinctly 21st century

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Off Topic / furry megatread

« on: January 02, 2020, 04:07:24 PM »

 

discuss

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Off Topic / Re: capitalism appreciation thread

« on: February 04, 2019, 07:56:04 PM »

bro if u work xtra hard u can hav "anything"!!

my point is that it looks the same under socialism except the people on the right have even less reason to be there. see soviet "nomenklatura"

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Off Topic / Re: capitalism appreciation thread

« on: January 30, 2019, 07:35:03 PM »

king tony is a very high level meme lord.

any full-scale attempt at socialism devolves into state capitalism, a massively inefficient system which has either very poor general conditions or requires a class of slaves to combat the massive inefficiencies. every livable modern "communist" state (ussr and onward) used slave/prison labor in disproportionately larger amounts than any modern free-market capitalist society has (although america did have slavery 2 centuries ago, we literally started killing slavery supporters until they stopped and the free market was efficient enough to continue operating without slave labor). but nevertheless, though it is far smaller in scale than USSR or modern china, the US still has an enormous government-sanctioned prison-industrial complex. i see this more of a failure of the government rather than capitalism

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Off Topic / Re: capitalism appreciation thread

« on: January 28, 2019, 07:52:01 PM »

i prefer drinking brown soviet oat water when my local store stocks it biannually

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Off Topic / Re: capitalism appreciation thread

« on: January 28, 2019, 07:02:32 PM »

reminder that individual accumulation of wealth and resources is inevitable in any post-tribal human society and that capitalism provides the best and most efficient framework for the usage of accumulated wealth and resources toward the betterment of humanity, both in terms of technological progress and quality of life