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[Stahlmann]

On 11/26/2022 at 10:45 PM, fpo said:

The best way to play Arma 3 is to join a clan... Any clan. 

 

They'll have an excellent mod list and they will play missions or use the "Zeus" tool. 

 

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You didn't hear this from me but Finland uses Arma 2 for their military training and West point uses an offshoot of Arma 3 made by bohemia interactive for their training. 

 

Or go the casual road and just join any random KOTH (king of the hill) server if you don't want to bother with mods. But overall, no one plays Arma to play Arma. Arma is more or less just a framework and most people play heavily modded versions.

[BetteBalterZen]

2 minutes ago, Stahlmann said:

Arma is more or less just a framework and most people play heavily modded versions.

Exactly why Arma Reforger is already out

[Guest]

39 minutes ago, Stahlmann said:

Or go the casual road and just join any random KOTH (king of the hill) server if you don't want to bother with mods.

Those servers are so laggy haha. 

No matter what specs you have it runs like 20 fps

39 minutes ago, Stahlmann said:

But overall, no one plays Arma to play Arma. Arma is more or less just a framework and most people play heavily modded versions.

 

[WkdPaul]

New phones and plans (all in Canadian dollars, sorry no pics of the phones!)

 

Me ; Google Pixel 7 ($216 = 9$/m for 24m) - 30GB for $35/m

Wife ; iPhone 13 ($480 = 20/m for 24m) - 30GB for $30/m

2 Walmart gift cards totaling $600

 

Previous plans were garbage and we were happy to get those plans (we used to pay $25/m for 2.5GB, plans didn't include phones)

[Kilrah]

A bunch of tiny ESP32C3 boards for a project

 

 

[atxcyclist]

MSI finally released a full stable BIOS for my B450 board to use 5000-series chips, so I bought a 5900x. Should be a bit of an upgrade over my current 2700x, and if I can talk my brother into buying a beffier PSU, he'll get an upgrade from his 2600.

 

 

[Coaxialgamer]

Ya boy has been on a roll buying used hardware these last few months. Got a full Vive kit last month (controllers and base stations not shown):

 

When my CM Nepton 240M  started making terrible pump noise (rip, one of my original parts) I replaced it with a Wraith Stealth I had lying around as an interim solution. Unfortunately this was in 2020 so hardware prices were a mess (yes, even coolers). Bought myself an NHD14 and AM4 mounting kit last week and my rig is now whisper quiet (and far cooler)!

 

 

[flibberdipper]

Bought a piece of cardboard for $162 (thank you black Friday sale that took it to ~$191 followed by my 20% associate discount at work). Now I can finally use legit Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, Premiere, Audition, and Acrobat and I don't even have to pay Adobe the usual asking price of ~$700 a year.

[sub68]

 I got a couple of movies and a game at a thrift store.

[Isuck Assimov]

had to buy a dehumidifier because i spotted mold in my house, yaaaaaaay

[Virus__]

Just got this for the girlfriend for her birthday this week.. I now kind of want it for myself..

[Radium_Angel]

An action figure I'd been chasing for a bit of time, who is standing atop another recent purchase, a 2009 Mac Pro 4,1

 

[CommanderAlex]

1 hour ago, Radium_Angel said:

another recent purchase, a 2009 Mac Pro 4,1

You planning on maxing out the Mac Pro?? 

[Guest]

21 hours ago, WkdPaul said:

New phones and plans (all in Canadian dollars, sorry no pics of the phones!)

 

Me ; Google Pixel 7 ($216 = 9$/m for 24m) - 30GB for $35/m

Wife ; iPhone 13 ($480 = 20/m for 24m) - 30GB for $30/m

2 Walmart gift cards totaling $600

 

Previous plans were garbage and we were happy to get those plans (we used to pay $25/m for 2.5GB, plans didn't include phones)

You have walmart in canada?

[SimplyChunk]

1 minute ago, fpo said:

You have walmart in canada?

Phone plans are stupid expensive in Canada.  (I know this my GF lives there) She had a shit fit when i told her i was getting 250GB + Pixel 6a for £21.60 a month

[Guest]

1 minute ago, SimplyChunk said:

Phone plans are stupid expensive in Canada.  (I know this my GF lives there) She had a shit fit when i told her i was getting 250GB + Pixel 6a for £21.60 a month

I woulda thought europe to be one of the most expensive since internet was still billed by the hour until like 2008~2010
Plus Pew Die Pie was talking about his struggles with internet in the UK which... for him to leave that in a video must've meant something.

[SimplyChunk]

7 minutes ago, fpo said:

I woulda thought europe to be one of the most expensive since internet was still billed by the hour until like 2008~2010
Plus Pew Die Pie was talking about his struggles with internet in the UK which... for him to leave that in a video must've meant something.

the only thing about home internet in the UK is speeds.  the average speed here is under 60Mb/s Source

 

And prices reflect that low broadband speed too  I pay around £60 a month for my 'Fibre to the Exchange' BT service.  I do, however, have the blessing of being told when Full Fibre will be available to me.

 

 

Edited November 29, 2022 by SimplyChunk
typed 60Gb ment 60Mb

[WkdPaul]

13 minutes ago, fpo said:

You have walmart in canada?

For decades, yes.

 

We also got Target for 2 years, but the Target story is the most idiotic corporate story ; they opened 133 stores almost all at once (bought the rental agreement of a failing retailer), but they didn't have any distribution network, had half empty stores for weeks after opening, and then after the first 18 months, decided to close because they weren't profitable yet ...

[Donut417]

1 minute ago, WkdPaul said:

We also got Target for 2 years

You're not missing anything. Never really been too impressed with Target. 

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, SimplyChunk said:

the only thing about home internet in the UK is speeds.  the average speed here is under 60Mb/s Source

 

And prices reflect that low broadband speed too  I pay around £60 a month for my 'Fibre to the Exchange' BT service.  I do, however, have the blessing of being told when Full Fibre will be available to me.

 

 

Interesting.... 

My rough estimate of GBP to USD is 100 GBP = about $150 us..

 

So $90  (maybe $75 nowadays) is quite expensive for that speed. 

Assuming I'm reading it the same as you...

 

1 minute ago, WkdPaul said:

For decades, yes.

 

We also got Target for 2 years, but the Target story is the most idiotic corporate story ; they opened 133 stores almost all at once (bought the rental agreement of a failing retailer), but they didn't have any distribution network, had half empty stores for weeks after opening, and then after the first 18 months, decided to close because they weren't profitable yet ...

Lol! 

Sounds like a Mr beast video

"I opened 133 stores with nothing in them" 

[WkdPaul]

2 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

You're not missing anything. Never really been too impressed with Target. 

100% agree, seeing how they were expecting to be profitable after the first year of ; buying 133 stores, setting up a distribution chain from the ground up, building a whole customer base, etc...

 

Not sure who runs Target now, but whoever was in charge back in 2014-2015 was a complete moron.

[sub68]

37 minutes ago, fpo said:

You have walmart in canada?

The reason why I know Walmart in Canada is werid. I knew Ghostbusters afterlife was fully shot in Canada (most productions do it for budget)

 

[Guest]

15 minutes ago, WkdPaul said:

100% agree, seeing how they were expecting to be profitable after the first year of ; buying 133 stores, setting up a distribution chain from the ground up, building a whole customer base, etc...

 

Not sure who runs Target now, but whoever was in charge back in 2014-2015 was a complete moron.

I feel like Walmart is the only company that could open hundreds of stores in canada (if they weren't there) and just have it work.

Target is like...
"We got walmart at home"

[soldier_ph]

When I purchased the Project Killswitch set from dbrand I figured I may aswell buy one of their "just for shits and giggles" items for once and thus got the Rubrics Cube with the Red Icon Stickers:

I have now applied one out of the 55 Stickers to the Cube, will probably apply the remaining 54 when watching Wan Show on the Weekend. The funny thing is that the Cube will actually not make any sense once all Stickers are applied because every Sticker is a separate Icon lol. 

 

The Killswitch Case on the other hand will be actually very useful. I'm gonna guess I'll get it by February 2023.

[Radium_Angel]

4 hours ago, CommanderAlex said:

You planning on maxing out the Mac Pro?? 

Oddly, it pretty much came that way. 48GB ram, Radeon...5870 I think? GPU, got el Capitan on it (and read how to go up further than that with trickery)

and I should have put "purchase" in quotes, as it was free. (corrupted OS prevented it from booting, so user thought it was bad)