Man
Warframe is still a hell of a drug.
@icefox tell me? Been meaning to give it a go...
@eryn I'm just revisiting it after like... three years of not playing it. And on some ways it's exactly the same. And on others it's just... a sublime extension of the general idea.
The creators are INSANE. That is basically the one constant in the setting.
@icefox i um.
That's a hell of an elevator pitch, I don't entirely know what to do with it.
What...is it, even?
@eryn Okay.
AT ROOT, it is a 4-player co-op 3rd person shooter.
IN SPIRIT, it is these gamedevs looking at the world and saying "you know what we need? SPACE NINJAS." And then doing everything in their considerable power to make SPACE NINJAS as space-ninja-y as possible.
@icefox i'm sold, can i run it on my lap-potato?
(apparently no potatOS support, gonna have to wait until I have my desktop reassembled)
@icefox i have a very good potato.
@eryn I'm a little bit jealous of that potato.
...where can I get a potato-y monitor setup like that?
@icefox i could fix you up but it'll cost ya a couple of yams and prolly like sixty or so pounds of metal?
I build these things for people and install them, this isn't even the big version...
@eryn I have access to a pipe bender and technically know how to weld (or at worst, know people who actually know how to weld).
I'd honestly never considered that as a venue for building computer-supporting hardware, but now I'm going to have to get some paper and start sketching...
@eryn That's basically all I can ask from anyone. Thank you, you are now my new best friend. ❤
@icefox yey fren!
@eryn Yay fren indeed.
@icefox DEFINITELY do this. When I started aggressively customizing my workstation, I made a lot of improvements to my health and my workflow.
Also, the importance of the correct number of monitors cannot be overstated. Get three, or one, or some other number that gives you a primary monitor that is balanced/mirrored left/right.
Otherwise, you'll end up sore from always turning one way.
@eryn I'd noticed that as a phenomenon but not really considered that as a solution to that. That's very good advice, actually. Thank you again!
And I've been meaning to get a good standing desk anyway at some point, to replace the Ikea hack-together I currently have. And it now occurs to me that my local hackerspace has both good metalworkers and good woodworkers, so really I have no reason not to build one myself.
@icefox definitely make contact with the hackerspace.
Today, if possible.
Tomorrow, if possible.
Next week, if possible.
Become a regular, if you can.
Knowledge is a living, growing thing.
Access to a learning environment allows cultivation of that.
You will never have a better opportunity than tomorrow to learn a skill for surviving the apocalypse, except for 10 years ago.
Unfortunately, none of the temporal tests have allow motion in a reverse direction...
...yet.
^_^
@eryn I've been a regular there for four years. :-p It is definitely top on my list of places to go to start rebuilding civilization after a zombie uprising.
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@icefox also the base frame is an Obutto Ozone, but that pic is outdated and only shows the first three monitors without any of the flight controls and such, or the other monitor.
@eryn Well, I am not quite THAT hardcore a gamer. It's more a matter that I code for a living, and unfortunately only get one pair of wrists that have to last me the rest of my life.
@icefox
SO MUCH THIS.
I started building mine after combo tendonitis/carpal tunnel/rsi made it impossible to move my fingers for typing for a couple of weeks.
The extra non-rsi activities helped strengthen my forearms/wrists, and an NSD gyro spinner and a vertical mouse + split keyboard did the rest.
I still have to be careful, but it's days rather than hours before the aches set in again.
Want a link to the full Amazon wishlist for "healthy full time programmer environment"?
@eryn I actually got some posture advice from another professional programmer that seemed trivial at the time but worked great. Haven't had significant problems on years.
That wish list is still something I should look at though, yes.
@eryn ... Actually good ways of strengthening my wrists is something I want anyway. Rock climbing helps but is rather one-dimensional where wrists are involved.
@icefox anything metalworking.
Also anything leather or woodworking.
The more hand-intensive bits will cause RSI if done too much, which is why I tend to alternate through a week or two of metalwork, some art, some programming, more metalwork, a bit of dynamic stretching mixed in...it's all about figuring out how to broaden the strain-load on your body.
Diversify the stresses, and your body will rebuild stronger.
At least for a bit.
Diminishing returns, watch out for em.
@eryn It's Windows-only but I managed to run it on an Intel HD 4000something at... well, 20 fps or so. It wasn't pretty though.
If you have a *pretty good* potato it's probably playable.