What have you purchased recently?

[Dirty Hipsters]

Tickets to the Vans Warped Tour in Long Beach.

Also a super bougie tee-shirt. It's by far the most expensive tee-shirt I own, I just wanted to know what the hype is about.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Also a super bougie tee-shirt. It's by far the most expensive tee-shirt I own, I just wanted to know what the hype is about.

And yet you do not show us what the hype is about, you utter tease!

 

[Worgen]

A 32 inch msi qd-oled monitor.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

And yet you do not show us what the hype is about, you utter tease!

You can't really see much from pictures, it's just a plain black tee-shirt. It's really more about the fit, the hand-feel, and the dying process. It's an extremely saturated black, so it supposedly won't fade after washing. It also uses extremely long length cotton fiber that is spun into extremely thin threads with an extremely tight weave, so it feels very soft and kind of glossy and should be very good at retaining its shape long term without any kind of stretching or deformation. Guess I'll see if that's the case after a few months of wear.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

A 32 inch msi qd-oled monitor.

Because of the way I've heard a few people pronounce it, I prefer to call them "cutie-OLEDs".

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

More books:

• City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Erasure by Percival Everett
• Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
• The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

 

[Bedinsis]

A new computer screen.

My old one stopped working half a year ago, and since then I've been unable to use my desktop, instead relying upon my laptop. My plan was to disassemble the screen to look at what component had gone amiss (it was a problem that looked like it was fixable) but I couldn't get past the first step of disassembly, and since using my laptop all the time was starting to give me back problems I took the easy way out.

 

[BrawlMan]

Street Fighter The Novel: Where Strength Lies (2016) - It is published by Udon, and is each chapter is more so a vignette focused on two fighters, and not an overall narrative nor plot. WSL is based off of Ultra Street Fighter IV. What sets it apart from most other game to novel adaptions is all of the artwork is done by Yusuke Murata. The manga sketches in the book are amazing! The writing style and translation is well done and engaging as if you're seeing these fight scenes being animated or played. For those interested, just get hardcover book and not the paperback. I stuck with hardcover, and it is how I prefer reading stories like this. At least the hardcover has a fold out artwork of the paperback cover, so it evens out. I normally don't do many novel adaptions of games, but I decided to take an interest and try this one out. And I ended up loving this book! You can get the hardcover for $20.

 

[Gordon_4]

A new computer screen.

My old one stopped working half a year ago, and since then I've been unable to use my desktop, instead relying upon my laptop. My plan was to disassemble the screen to look at what component had gone amiss (it was a problem that looked like it was fixable) but I couldn't get past the first step of disassembly, and since using my laptop all the time was starting to give me back problems I took the easy way out.

Or, and hear me out, you still try and fix it so you have TWO screens on your desktop. I mean at this point you have nothing to lose so giving it a go has to be a good idea.

 

[Bedinsis]

Or, and hear me out, you still try and fix it so you have TWO screens on your desktop. I mean at this point you have nothing to lose so giving it a go has to be a good idea.

My actual reasoning, actually. If I fix it I can do a multi-screen set-up, if I don't I still have a regular set-up.

But given that my track record involved having a non-functioning monitor for half a year I remain doubtful that I'll ever do it. I also went to an electronics store to ask if they had equipment for fixing and the guy at the cash register said that given how fragile monitors are nowadays he would not recommend it.

 

[Worgen]

Returned the monitor, got a switch 2 and Starfox. Haven't set it up yet.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Kickstarted a watch.

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Am I overpaying for it? Possibly. The mechanism in it isn't exactly super impressive as far as automatics go, and it only has a 40 hour power reserve, but I don't currently own an open heart watch or a red watch, and look how fucking gorgeous that is.

The dials are hand made in Japan using Urushi (traditional Japanese lacquer), sprinkled with gold dust (a traditional embellishment for Japanese lacquer), and reviews online say that the finishing on the dial and case is close in quality to Grand Seiko, which is an impressive claim.

Once the watch is ready to ship I'll need to pick out a couple of straps for it. I really like the Inden straps, both the red and the black, but I'll probably go with the black (it's a more subtle and will blend in better when wearing it as a dress watch with a suit), and then I'm on the fence between whether I want the second strap to be tatami in navy, or the braided silk in brown. Both are really interesting and unique materials.

The watch I ordered almost a year ago finally arrived.

It's very pretty.

 

[Worgen]

A carpet and 2 big ass paintings from a fancy furniture store for a fraction of their msrp.

 

[FakeSympathy]

Decided to get 5080 before it gets any more expensive.

Costed just over $1400 inc. tax; $1275 base

It still was the cheapest 5080 model at the store, with others reaching $1400-$1600 before tax

Now time to test this baby out

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Now time to test this baby out

Make sure those plugs are properly inserted!

 

[FakeSympathy]

Make sure those plugs are properly inserted!

Yep! In fact, I just tried to start it, and the pc wasn't detecting the GPU.....because I didn't plug in those bulky power cables. Silly me!

 

[Worgen]

View attachment 14780Decided to get 5080 before it gets any more expensive.

Costed just over $1400 inc. tax; $1275 base

It still was the cheapest 5080 model at the store, with others reaching $1400-$1600 before tax

Now time to test this baby out

I'm glad I managed to grab a 5070ti last year when suddenly graphics cards were going for around msrp bit a bit.

 

[Gordon_4]

View attachment 14780Decided to get 5080 before it gets any more expensive.

Costed just over $1400 inc. tax; $1275 base

It still was the cheapest 5080 model at the store, with others reaching $1400-$1600 before tax

Now time to test this baby out

I'm glad I managed to grab a 5070ti last year when suddenly graphics cards were going for around msrp bit a bit.

I keep wondering if I need to bother paying the nVidia tax these days. I'm not a bleeding edge 120@4K gamer and looking at the AMD 9070 XT which is cheaper by almost $300 than a 5070Ti and I'm wondering if its time to go full Team Red again.

 

[Worgen]

I keep wondering if I need to bother paying the nVidia tax these days. I'm not a bleeding edge 120@4K gamer and looking at the AMD 9070 XT which is cheaper by almost $300 than a 5070Ti and I'm wondering if its time to go full Team Red again.

I tried a 4k gaming monitor, it was nice, but not 800 nice. I got a qd-oled so it looked great, but had enough things that bugged me that I would rather have had the money. Plus, it did have a framerate impact, I was getting about 10-20% less going from 1440 to 4k. Unfortunately I don't really know AMD graphics cards, but they used to have a rep for being pretty comparable but cheaper to nvidia.

 

[Gordon_4]

I tried a 4k gaming monitor, it was nice, but not 800 nice. I got a qd-oled so it looked great, but had enough things that bugged me that I would rather have had the money. Plus, it did have a framerate impact, I was getting about 10-20% less going from 1440 to 4k. Unfortunately I don't really know AMD graphics cards, but they used to have a rep for being pretty comparable but cheaper to nvidia.

Yeah, there's like a 300-500 dollar delta between a 9070 XT and a 5070Ti down here.