Yeah I mean if you just want something different and the money isn’t a big deal, then sure, why not? It’d be kind of cool.

But unless your commute is miles of washboard roads, I’d be very surprised if it made a difference in comfort compared to 29

Have you gotten a chance to test ride one?

I’m interested in 32”, but absolutely not throwing down the cash until I can at least demo one.

But I think I’m more interested in 32 for full rigid bikes. Maybe a very short travel XC? Like 60mm travel like you see on some gravel bikes. But that seems very niche.

FINALLY finished Xenoblade Chronicles 3, after 190 hours of game time. Might sound crazy, but I struggle to give it even a 5/10. It feels like Xenoblade without the magic of the first two. I really didn’t enjoy the story, and never really connected with the main cast. I did like some of the “Heroes”, but you run out of interactions with them pretty fast. None of the colonies or the city felt nearly as fantastical or even alive as some of the locales in the first two games. There was some cool geography, but it didn’t feel like the game really did anything with it, other than just having you walk through it. Again, it just doesn’t feel very alive.

Still I kept going in hopes it would redeem itself, since I loved the first two so much. But that time never came, and I found the ending deeply unsatisfying.

As for this month, I’m play Horizon Zero Dawn right now, but still planning on starting Trails of Cold Steel this month. Or maybe the FF7 remakes. We’ll see

And they still make some pretty great bicycle tires that come in a little cheaper than similar tires

I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s another spinoff like Alyx that releases with the steam frame.

Dolphin was a pretty mixed bag at the time. I got through Xenoblade Chronicles on that system, but I remember one of the regions on the mechonis(?) would only do like 7fps at best, but other areas would do 20-30. But monkeyball worked pretty well, as did some of the other GameCube games.

But I was using that system when Sandy Bridge was already out, and still using it when Haswell came out, because I was a broke student. So the software may have been a little more developed than when you were messing around with it.

Also I don’t think the e8400, or any of the core 2 duo/quad cpu’s had hyperthreading. I know the Pentium 4 had it, not sure about the Pentium D

I’m pretty sure I got through persona 3 on that core 2 system. Either an e8400 or q6600. I swapped back and forth a couple times because turns out quad core wasn’t a straight upgrade at the time.

Some great improvements!

Also, thats the first time I’ve looked at the recommended specs in a long time. They’re reasonable, but man I remember running pcsx2 on a Core 2 Duo back in the day lol

I still get flashbanged every time I see “gulf of America” on Google Maps. The list of stuff to unfuck once he’s out of office is so long, I wonder how long that’ll take to fix.

Even setting my vpn to Canada doesn’t entirely free me of that

Are you sure that’s not Nico from Love Live?

I just hope this one isn’t ray tracing only.

I still remember the disappointment of accidentally downloading the raytraced version of exodus and having to download the normal version overnight. I still don’t have a raytracing capable GPU, but it’s been absolutely fine for anything where raytracing isn’t a hard requirement.

I’ve heard Riot Rhythm by Sleigh Bells on fucking Fox News

It took a while, but seems like they eventually got it sorted?

It’s not great that it was broken trash at release, but it’s better to become a great game than to stay a broken pile of trash.

Even the ps4/xb1 version got pretty good from what I’ve heard

I don’t think I’ve ever thought of One Piece taking place in any real life locations.

But I feel like I’ve watched a lot of mid to somewhat terrible nautical/pirate themed anime from the 90s-2010s.

If you’re having a hard time getting into it, I’d skip all the side quests until you get to Novigrad. I started and dropped it a few times because I got bored of wandering around the swamp, but to me the game comes alive in Novigrad

Cool project!

Utterly unhelpful, but I swear I’ve watched some kind of pirate/nautical themed anime set in the Philippines. I know they mention, and maybe even go to the Philippines in Black Lagoon, but I think it was a different show?

Really well written, and frankly not surprising.

When everything is going to hell, why care about the future? It’s a common, though depressing sentiment. Extending your lifespan isn’t a great reason to not smoke when you have no hope for the future.

Hopefully we can start to turn it around in the next few years.

Oh yeah those things are great. Used the precision when I went back to school to finish up a degree and is still my primary laptop, a thinkpad for my 3d printers, another thinkpad as a Jellyfin server, and my dad used the other precision for a few years, but now that just sits as a backup laptop at my parents house.

Some of my coworkers sold some of the laptops, but that kind of sketched me out because they have “Property of [company I used to work at] Serial No.######” laser etched on top lol

Yeah my “new” pc is even pretty old at this point, but I have like 3 desktops from the Haswell era, and they all still work just fine.

And I have a gaggle of coffee lake era thinkpads and dell precision laptops that I dumpster dove right after my shift when I used to work in IT lol. One small plus to giant multinational companies not giving a fuck about the environment I guess. Just had to replace drives and sometimes keyboards or displays on my those.

Benefits of being a tech hoarder. I’ve got backups. And an unexpected benefit of the slowing of tech advancement is that stuff that’s 10+ years old still holds up pretty well.