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@icefox also the base frame is an Obutto Ozone, but that pic is outdated and only shows the first three monitors without any of the flight controls and such, or the other monitor.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.