Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3

Lambyr

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

Last 3D game I played was Skyrim, but embarassingly I seem to get motion sickness on that so stopped again. I could run it on maximum everything, though the computer is five years old and isn't a "gaming" computer as such, being disappointingly free of internal illumination or radiators . (self built with i7-2600K, not overclocked, and a GTX760 - the previous graphics card died which is why I have a not massively out of date one). It might not fare so well at maximum resolution now I have a "4k" screen for the main display rather than 1680x1050 though.

Aww, shame you got motion sickness in Skyrim! Oddly, only time I have motion sickness in a game is WoW, and it's with raptor mounts (they're too "bouncy"). Skyrim's a really well-optimised game overall. I can even get it running on the laptop with some custom graphics packs, not that I really bother playing it on the laptop.

My GPU is an R9 290X, which is nice and all though due to AMD's insanity, is designed to get quite hot. Actually did my regular de-dusting yesterday afternoon which has knocked it's temps down quite a bit... and made my shoulder achey cos this PC weighs a tonne. I'm still playing with 1080p monitors.

I tell people that the LEDs are so that I can easily tell if a fan has stopped working, but that's a fib. I just like glowy things. Even my laptop pad has some glowing fans on it (blue ones). And my keyboard glows. And my mouse... I may have a problem.

Anyhoo, nerdy talk aside, hope everyone is okay.

I'm sorry to hear about your father, Fly. I imagine there's a lot of mixed emotions for you at present. I think what faerielight says is very true.

codemonkey

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

No way!! He was going to be my future husband when I was a teenager and we were going to have bridemaids in all the colours of his technicolor dream coat!

I also saw him in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and met him when I was about 13!

Hey, he was meant to be my husband when he was Scott in Neighbours.

I never have forgiven Kylie for breaking his heart.

onomatopoeia99

I feel like I'm missing out, as I didn't have a crush on anybody in Neighbours! (don't think it started until I was about 16 anyway). My celebrity crush from my early teenage years was Kate Bush .

Lambyr

Don't worry, ono, I never even watched Neighbours, so no crushes to report!

calleyw

Afternoon Shipmates,

((((((Fly)))))) I agree you need to grieve for what could have be. maybe OH thought you could manage.

Melly gets the gold star. I only knew the second reason which was for burial costs.

Not much to tell plodding on like you do.

Anyway hugs, squishes and handshakes to everyone needed or not.

Yours

Calley

mellymoo74

Naval dad Calley

tea_lover

SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!!! :eek::eek:

We need details woman!

whitewing

Brilliant, melly! when do you start?

Solarjunkie

Great news Mellymoo.

Just read a book I think would be enjoyed by those who like puzzles, codes, mathematical mysteries and cryptography.
PopCo by Scarlett Thomas.
I can only imagine the research that went into it. I was fascinated even though solving obscure mathematical theorems is not usually my thing.

onomatopoeia99

Melly, yay! Well done!