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)
@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.
@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 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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@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...